The Kou Empire - drabble series. AU. In a world where the previous emperor of the country that founded Kou, the father of Hakutoku and Koutoku, was born mute. As the emperor did not speak, no one else did either.

"In retrospect, it was like trying to tame a particularly skittish animal." Morgiana and Spartos over a period of seventy eight days.

Summary: 'Hakuryuu…? Hakuyuu… you… I had… what happened…..' When Gyokuen is finally dead, and Hakuryuu has had his revenge. (Warning: spoilers up to Magi 250)

After a war spanning four years, the alliance formed between the Seven Seas Alliance and the Reim Empire has finally managed to bring down the Kou Empire. However, Gyokuen and Al-Thamen flee, abandoning their magi and Kou to the tender mercies of the alliance in hopes of delaying them- with strange 'gifts' in the form of chokers around every prisoner's neck. AU.