Magi: Armakan Love Story

Keystonland

Armakan's P.O.V.

"So since we are heading to Keystonland, what do you know about it. Sinbad?" Artemina asks

"We I read that Keystonland is from Heliophat, Artemyra, Sindria, and Imuchakk. One thing for sure is that they don't have a king or queen and is not a republican place." Sinbad says

"They do have a queen though. She is What people call her, Queen of the Gypsies. She rules over her people and doesn't care about the any other person outside of her kind of people. Though she does care for the very poor people and sometimes takes them in and they become part of her culture. She has a backstory, but the book never mentioned any of it." Ja'far says.

"So then we will have to wait and see how this town is with our own eyes." I say. Sinbad nods to me and a sailor says, "King Sinbad. We are niw arriving at Keystonland."

We all go to the side of the boat and look forward. From here, it looks like a nice place. The ship gets to the dock and we step of the ship.

"I guess we explore the town until we get to a cathedral." Sinbad says. We nod and start to walk around. Before we turn a corner, we start to hear a violin, flute, and a tambourine. We turn the corner and see four three adults playing an instrument and a child dancing with a snake.

I looked around and saw that everybody else walking around had dark clothing and these four people were wearing bright and colorful clothing. I then see a child run towards them and a mother grab the child.

"You can't go near them sweetheart. Their gypsies, they will steal from you without you even knowing it." The mother says walking off with the child. We then hear the sound of hooves hitting the pavement and the music stop. I look back at the people to see them gone.

"Where did they go?" I ask

"They ran off. Every time the guards come to this part of town, the gypsies run off." I hear. Everybody including me turn around and see a young girl.

"How do you know that?" Artemina asks the little girl kindly. She little girl looks around and motions us to follow her. She starts to walk off and we follow after her. After about three minutes of walking, we enter the cathedral. The little girl sita down and pats the seat next to her. Artemina sita next to the littlw girl and we sit around them.

"Your the people that make up the Seven Seas Alliance huh?" She asks. She asks. We nod and she says, "The queen warned us about you. After hearing what you guys plan on doing to us, we have been on guard for the past day."

"Wait... Your a gypsy? And why were you warned about us?" Sinbad asks. The little girl nods and sighs.

"We started to hear the guards talking yeaterday morning about the Seven Sea Alliance coming and forming an allinace. Not only that, but they were saying that you guys are going to try and find our home then burn the queen at the stake in from of us gypsies then hang us." She says as a couple tears fall from her eyes. Artemina grabs the little girl and rocks her.

"May we ask why she fears men?" Sinbad asks. We don't get an answer and look to see the girl asleep.

"When I was 18, I went out to buy for food for my father when the captain of the guards recognized me. He grabbed me and took me to a torture room. He chained me to a wall and tried to get me to tell him where my home was. I told him that I was never going to tell him and that I would rather die than tell him. He made a couple of the guards turn me so I was facing the wall and whipped me. After he whipped me the fifth time he asked me again I told him to go to hell. He um... He turned me around and started to rape and stangle me. After he was done, it was midnight and they placed me in front of the cathedral and left. Of course, a couple hours after I had not returned my people started to look for me. My father found me passed out and bloodied, and carried me back home. One of my people are a magician and healed me the best that she could, but the cuts from the whip were so deep that they have left permanent scars on my back and chest."

"I'm truly sorry for what happened to you, your majesty." Sinbad says.

"Why are you here and are you truly going to kill me and my people bexause we are different?" She asks

"We are here to form an alliance with Keystonland, and no none of us are not going to kill you and your people. We didn't even know that the people of Keystonland were going to kill you and your people after the alliance was formed." Sinbad says.

"You all are different from everybody else." She says relaxing a bit.

"We don't believe in killing an entire culture of people because they are different. By the way, my name is Sinbad of Sindria, these are my subordinates: Queen Artemina of Artemyra, King Armakan of Heliophat, Chief Rametoto of Imuchakk, King Darius of Sasan, and King Armakan of Heliophat. And these are my household members and companions: Hinahoho, Sharrkan, Pisti, Yamuraiha, Spartos, Masrur, Ja'far, Drakon, Aladdin, Morgiana, and Alibaba." Sinbad says.

She smiles smile slightly at us, making my,heart skip a beat and says, "My name is Queen Lavinia of Asgard, Hidden home of the Gypsies and the little girl you are holding is my only cousin, Chastity."

I guess Lavinia saw my snake because she walks up to him slowly and puts her hand out and asks me, "Who is this handsome one?"

"This is Brujas." I say. (I don't know the snakes name, I don't even know if the snake has a name.)

Brujas then surprisingly unravels himself from me me and ravels around her body in a protective manner.

"He must sense the smell of the other snakes we have at home or he has taken a liking to me." Lavinia says laughing slightly. I smile at her and say, "He indeed has taken a liking to you. He has never done this to anyone."

Lavinia looks at me smiling and then frowns.

"Do you guys and gals have a place to stay?"

"No." Sinbad says.

"You guys can stay with us in As hard, if you are alright with that." She says softly.

"Are you sure? We wouldn't want to take up more space." Ja'far says.

"Oh, you guys won't take up space, we actually have quiet a lot of space in Asgard and plenty of food to go around this entire town twice." She says .

"Alright. Lead the way your majesty." Sinbad says. Before we can even get up, Lavinia starts to glow, and once the glow is gone we see a little girl, no older than Chastity.

"Why did you just turn into a child? And how did you do that?" Aladdin asks shocked.

"You try walking around looking like I just did without trying to get caught by the guards. I basically have a bounty on my head. And how I did that. It's one of the powers I have been granted by my dijinn. Now lets go." Lavinia says.

Brujas trails behind her closely making me feel light, which was a wierd feeling. Lavinia opens the door and we leave. After a couple minutes, we appear in front of a small house that was behind the cathedral. Lavinia enters and ushers us in. Once the door is closed, Lavinia walks past us in her original form with Brujas wrappedaround her. She then goes to a bookcase and pushes the shelf to the ledt revealing an entrance. She walks in and we follow after her, and then we get to a metal gate that is openes from the other side.

"Don't worry. They're with me, they won't hurt us." Lavinia says calmly. She continues to walk down a long hallway and we follow her.