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Writing Contest Entry 2

Posted by Some-Stupid-Idiot - August 21st, 2009


I wrote a second story for the contest. This one follows the Arabian theme. I don't know which one is better, so if anyone decides which one is better I will use that one.

Marik of Arabia

My name is Marik. I'm a guard at the Arabian Palace of Omar. I have a dilemma, I am in love with his daughter yet I am basically a servant. If I even shown signs of interest in Princess Aria then they would quickly chop off my testicles. Sultan Omar wants his daughter to marry a prince but all her suitors don't make her happy in the least. If only there was some way I could prove myself that I was worthy of such a beautiful woman.

Tonight I was posted to guard her bed chamber, for some reason that night I was more tired than usual. On most days I could stand up all night looking at the stone walls, just following the contours of the layout. If you were to ask me I could tell you about every single inch of the wall in the palace. I've been a guard for 8 years so I know my way around.

My vision began to fade as my eyes shut. No matter what I tried to keep myself up nothing worked, I eventually slipped off into a deep sleep. There was a poking on my side, I didn't move. Eventually someone punched me and I woke up.

"The princess, she's been kidnapped."

"Kidnapped!? How's that possible?" I asked.

"The thieves must hove broke in and took her while you were sleeping. When the sultan finds out you're in for it."

"When the sultan finds out what?" A man wearing a fancy turban and fine robes and a very solid and strong face, came from down the corridor as he spoke.

"W-w-well you see sir, th-the princess was k-kidnapped on my w-" I stuttered.

"KIDNAPPED!!" He screamed. "I sentence you to venture out into the desert and never return."

"But sir."

"I am sultan and my words are final."

He left and I was dragged off by some other guards and stripped of all my belongings.

"These belong to the sultan, not you."

We made it to the end of the city when one of them threw me a bag of wather.

"Don't drink it all at once, this is going to have to last you."

With that I was shunned from the city. Sentenced to venture out alone into the harsh and unforgiving desert. I walked for several hours drinking as little of the water as possible. I wished the sultan would have assigned me to guard a caravan once in a while, that way I could at least know the way to an oasis.

I walked over dune after dune when I saw something, I went closer to find a feeble man who looked as if he could die at any minute. I could see his cracked lips try to say something.

"Water." He said in a raspy voice.

I was almost out of water but I couldn't let my conscious bear denying a dying man his wish. I picked up his head and poured the last of my water down his throat. I could see some life come back into him. He got up and began to say something.

"Thank you for such kindness. There aren't too many people left in the world like you. I fell that you should know something before I die. About 3 miles north of here is an oasis. At the bottom of the lake is a mystic treasure. Only those with pure thoughts in their head may get it, anyone else will be drug to the bottom and held there to die. I was going to go myself but then I collapsed. I couldn't make it if I tried anyway, it's too far for a feeble old man like me to go."

"I'll take you there."

"You're too kind, you could just leave me here you know."

"No I can't. Leaving a person to die just doesn't sit right with me."

"Well if you insist."

I helped him onto my back and we made our way to the oasis. It was a hard walk but I knew that I could make it. The trees were always on the horizon, almost taunting me. After a few hours we finally made it and I let the old man down and I plunged my face in the water. I opened them and saw to my horror the remains of many men who tried to get the treasure and failed. I pulled my head out and gasped for air.

"I'm sure you could get it. Anyone one with impure thoughts would have been drug down."

"Who exactly are you?"

"Me, why I'm the last owner of the treasure at the bottom of the oasis. Long have I searched for someone worthy of it."

"Huh?"

"Just dive down and get it, then you will find out."

"I'm not so sure that's a good idea." I said.

"You were shunned from Arabia right?"

"How did you know that?" I'm positively shocked.

"Does that matter? I want you to be the new owner of the mystic treasure. So go ahead, you have nowhere to go back to anyway."

He had a point. I took in a few short breaths and one long one then dove into the water. I was going surprisingly fast. I saw a glimmer off of something. When I reached it I found just an average looking lamp. I saw nothing else and went back up with it. I got out of the water and laid down in the sand.

"This can't be that treasure you spoke of. It looks so common."

I began to dry it off by rubbing it against my shirt. The lamp began to heat up to the point where I couldn't hold it. I quickly dropped it and smoke came out of the spout. The smoke was collected in a general area and it began to materialize. A figure appeared of a large man, actually it was only his upper body, wearing fancy clothing.

"Who dares to disturb my slumber?" His voice boomed out.

"Well, it is I, Marik of Arabia."

"I see, well before I can go back to sleep I will grant you 3 wish. Before you make one there are several rules which you must follow. Rule 1, I can't kill anyone. Rule 2, You can't make anyone do anything against their free will. Rule 3, you can't wish for more wishes. And Rule 4, you can't wish to have any of the rules changed. Now, do you have anything you might want, money, power, maybe being a prince."

"A prince is nothing if he doesn't have a princess or a kingdom. Wait a minute, I wish I knew where Princess Aria is."

"As you wish."

A film of smoke covered the water and an image appeared.

"The princess is in the slums of Arabia, it appears that she is unharmed. It appears her captors are saying something."

"Man it was a good thing you slipped some sleeping powder in that guards food," said one of them.

"Yeah, and did you hear, he was shunned from Arabia for it. He's scorpion food by now."

The two began to laugh deeply.

"The boss will surely reward us for what we've done."

That was all that can be heard as a map appeared on the lake bed. It showed the exact location of where the princess is and how to get there. The image faded and the smoke cleared.

"I hope that my service has been useful."

"Trust me, it has."

I filled up my water-skin and walked back toward Arabia. The old man said he wanted to stay behind. On the way there I happened across a caravan. I was able to swift talk the caravaner to give me a new set of clothes. He was heading toward Arabia so I tagged along as well.

We finally at the walls when I looked up at them. I wasn't even gone for a day and they already seem so much bigger. The guard didn't give me a second look as we got inside. It gave the man back his clothes and began to run back toward where the princess was.

"Thank you for helping me out. I don't know how I can repay you."

I arrived. It was a pretty upscale building for it being in the slums. I realized that I couldn't just walk up in there with no weapons. I rubbed the lamp once again.

"You summoned me master?"

"You can just call be Marik." I explained.

"What is your wish Marik?"

"I could really use some weapons to defend myself. Genie, I wish that I was armed well enough to be a one man army."

"As you wish."

Two scimitars materialized on my back, two daggers on my waste, a bag of a type of dust, and a bow. I thanked the genie and put the lamp up.

I went in the front door.

"I'm looking for Princess Aria." I said.

"Well she isn't the type to come around here," someone said.

I grabbed and slammed his head on the table. I put one of my scimitars on the back of his neck.

"I have a feeling that you do know, but you're not telling me."

"What gave you that idea?" he asked.

"I got from a reliable source that she could be found somewhere around here." I picked up his sandwich and began to eat it.

"You can kill me if you want, you'll never make it out of here alive." He laughed.

I felt someones hand on my shoulder. It was a big burly man going for my face. I dodged it and saw a door in the back. I grabbed some of the powder I got from the genie and it made a burning smokescreen that didn't affect me. I made it to the door and burst my way through.

There, I saw the princess in all her beauty. She saw me.

"You're that guard that's always staring at me." she said.

"Be quiet," said one of the men as he slapped her.

I became infuriated. "If anyone lays another hand on her they will regret it for the rest of their short lives."

"Do you really think you can take us all on?"

"It's worth a shot."

I charged straight for the princess, I couldn't take all these people, I wasn't the most skilled guard at fighting.

"He's going for the girl, get him."

I was met by two men armed with scimitars. I too my daggers and threw them at their chest, they hit their target, and they fell. I was stopped by someone holding Princess Aria at knife point.

"Don't come any closer or the princess will get it." He edged his way up some stairs, until he was gone.

I ran for the stairs but I wasn't fast enough and I had to fend myself. They lined themselves up on the steps and I was high enough so they couldn't get me from the ground. I took out my scimitars and faced off against them. Luckily I only had to fight a few at a time or else I would be in trouble. A man sliced at my chest but I blocked it. He tried to stab me but I stepped to the side. He attacked me again, but this time I countered and I got him in the neck. The body got in the way of my pursuers so I took the opportunity to run up the stairs. At the top was a door to cover the steps, I locked it so they couldn't get me. The guy was still here.

"I see you have arrived. Well it's too late. More men are on their way and the ransom money will be mine." He snarled.

"Do you really think I'll let you get away with that?"

"Why are you so persistent? Weren't you the one that was shunned from the city? Oh I get it, you're in love with the princess aren't you? No way could she love her own servant."

"You have no say in the way the princess feels about others."

"Why should she care about you, she's royalty, the only person they care about is themselves."

"I still love the princess and if you hurt even a hair on her head you'll die before it can touch the ground."

He touched the princess's head and plucked out a single hair and proceeded to drop it. I charged at him and he threw the princess off of him. He dodged my sword and I stumbled and rolled off the edge. The building was several stories tall and I wouldn't survive the fall. I grabbed the edge of the building and held on as well as I could.

"You should let go love bird, maybe you can fly." He was laughing maniacally. "Here I'll help you." He stomped on my hands, they were already burning from the heat of the sun on the stone.

One of my hands came loose and it lost it's grip.

"I see our little bird is still trying not to leave the nest." All of a sudden lurched forward and fell over the edge. "You stupid whore."

"You all right?"

It was the princess, she came to my rescue. She pulled me up. I could hear the lock begin to give on the stairs. I looked around and saw a clothesline. I snapped one side and wrapped it around my arm.

"Hang on tight."

"I don't think this will work." I jumped when she said that. She was right though, the rope snapped right after we stopped a foot from the ground.

So, want to go home?" I asked her.

"I would appreciate it if you escorted me."

"My pleasure."

We walked to the palace, no one recognized her which made this a lot easier, and we made it to the gates.

"Before we go in, how did you find me?"

"With this." I took out the lamp and rubbed it. The genie came out.

"What is your final wish Marik?"

"I don't have one right now."

"Then why did you summon me?"

"To show the princess how I found her."

"Don't summon me again, unless it's your last wish." With that the genie went back into his lamp.

Aria told the guard to open the gate and we walked through. All the guards came to greet her, they were happy that their princess was home.

"How did you manage to escape princess?"

"With the help of Marik." She said.

"Marik? But he's the one who let you get kidnapped in the first place." he said.

"He was drugged with sleeping powder, no one can stay up with that stuff."

The sultan came out of the palace and greeted his daugter.

"Ah, Aria, I'm so glad your safe. Now we can arrange for your wedding with the Prince of Thebes."

"But father, I don't want to marry him. He only wishes to expand his kingdom, nothing else."

"Do you have a better idea then?"

"How about the man who rescued me?" I felt my heart jump at this.

"Actually I would like to meet him so I can properly congratulate him."

"He's right there." She pointed at me.

"Him?! But he was shunned, how did he get back into the city?"

"He came to my rescue daddy, he fought for my life and to prove his love for me."

"Love, you mean this guard was in love with you. I'll never allow it, never."

Hearing these words she began to cry and I fell silent. I grabbed the lamp and began to rub it.

The genie came out. "What is your wish Marik?"

"I wish that the Sultan would allow me to marry his daughter."

"I can't do that."

"Why not?" I asked.

"It is against his free will, I can do nothing."

"Then go back in your lamp." The genie went back in and I was discouraged.

The sultan spoke up, "So you really love my daughter? Will you promise to protect her and make sure no harm comes to her?"

"Always."

"Then... I approve, I just want to see my little girl happy."

With these words said I felt overjoyed. We were married that week. I've never been so happy in my life. I was also promoted to head of the guards, so I was the one giving the orders.

"What are you going to do about the genie and his last wish?" she asked.

"I completely forgot." I got the lamp and summoned the genie.

"Yes, Master Marik?"

" I wish you had a female genie in there to keep you busy during the time when no one summons you."

"As you wish." The genie clapped his hands and nothing happened.

"Where is she?"

"In the lamp. Now if you'll excuse me, the lamp and I are going somewhere far away."

The lamp was levitating and disappeared. Everyone had their wish granted, and everything seemed good for now.


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