(Hi! It's me again. Kari I'm doing yours first cause...well just because...I want to thank all who take the time to read this. Arigatou! Oh! By the way if you didn't guess this is an Aladdin parody...Don't say, "Oh no! Another Aladdin parody." It wasn't my first choice ether. I went to Hikari to ask her what Disney movie parody she would like to star in she said a gender switched Aladdin...I said as long as I get to be the genie. I know didn't Kari already do this...it's just I didn't really...=u//u= blush I didn't like Hikari Cinderella thing with me as Cinderella! Zuko and I are NOT that corny!!! Sorry Hikari had to get that off my chest...So I'm doing my own versions only...different...Remember, I'll keep to the story; HOWEVER this is my version. So I'll keep to the character's true personality! So without further ado. Here's Balance Nights.)
Chapter 1: Daimond in the Rough
In the world of the Balances there is a desert that shimmers with the golden Sands of the Hours. This desert is fierce and vast. Wickedly hot by day and frigidly cold by night. Our story begins in this fierce desert known as the Phantom Desert. In this desert a Cat-like Digimon came riding along on top of a black beast Digimon. Their names were Gatomon and Radramon. The Gatomon with a pink bandanna around her mouth rode on top of the Radramon. She sang to pass time as she wandered the desert..."~Oh I come from a land in a far away place the Caravan Digi's roam. Were they cut off your head if they don't like your face, It's barbaric but hey it's home. Where the winds from the blow the sands from the west, and the sand in the glass is right. Come on down stop on by, hop a fan and you'll fly to another Balance World night! Balance World nights, like Balance world days more often then not are hotter than hot in a lot of good ways! Balance World nights, like Balance World moons! A fool off his guard would fall and fall hard up there on the dunes...~" She finished singing. The Radramon tired out transformed back into his rookie form of Veemon. they had reached their destination...the great palace City of Time. Some one a girl with hair so black it looked like a void in space itself. Her pale skin made her look like a ghost against such dark hair. Her eyes however; were a violet so vivid they appeared to be piercing into your soul. her name was Ruka Tenturanoiske the Balance of Spirit. This was her first time visiting the great City of Time. She came to see what was so great about it, because that's the sort of person she was. Upon seeing her the Gatomon ran up to the newcomer. "It's been along time Ruka!"
Ruka looked down at her smiling. "Well I didn't expect to see you here! How ya doing Gatomon? Where's Ucha?"
"Fine to the first question. As for the second she's in the city. We're earning money for a special gem of power. So we split up to cover more ground. Not everyone is as rich as you." Said Gatomon.
"You got a point." Said Ruka a little smugly.
"Anyway...Welcome to the Great City of Time! City of mystery, and enchantment!" Said Gatomon.
"And the finest merchandise on sale today! Stop on by!" Said Veemon he had already set up the stand.
"He's new..." Said Gatomon, looking rather annoyed at her employee.
"I see..." Said Ruka as Veemon ran up to her showing her a strange contraption that was obviously the work of Ucha and her paint brush it was so outrageous.
"This is a cappuccino an coffee maker! It also makes chili and fries!" Said Veemon.
'Yup definitely a Ucha contraption' Thought Ruka.
"It will not break!" Veemon smashed it against a rock to prove his point and it broke into peaces. "Oh...it broke..."
"VEEMON! DON'T GO SMASHING MERCHANDISE AROUND!" Yelled Gatomon furious.
"Sorry!...Ooh how about this! It's the famous Glass Sea Tupplewear! Listen..." Veemon opened the corner of what appeared to be just a white box. (And it was...) Then made a raspberry to make it appear as though it were an actual tupplewear box."Aha still good!"
"Veemon! Ruka is the Balance of Spirit and is only interested in the exceptionally rare!" Said Gatomon. "She looked at Ruka and said. "Sorry about him he's buying for a raise..."
"I see...Well what do youhave for me Gatomon. It better not be something stupid." Said Ruka.
"I think you might be interested in this..."Gatomon pulled out a worn-out copper Asian style bottle. It's only appeal was the bright red and pink colored paint mixed in with the copper. "Don't be fooled by it's common place appearance. Like so many things, it is not what is outside, but inside that counts..."
"I'm leaving..." Said Ruka turning to leave. Gatomon ran in front of her.
"Ruka! This is no ordinary bottle! It once changed the coarse of a young girls life...The young girl who, like this bottle, was more than what she seemed...a diamond in the rough..." Ruka listened intently to Gatomon..."Would you like to hear the tale?"
"Well...I got nothing better to do...Luna!" Her familiar came out. A black fox with nine tails and gold crescent markings. She lay behind Ruka in her large form. Like Kirara, Luna has a small form as well as a large form. Ruka sat on the soft sand with Luna supporting her back. "Tell away kitty-cat."
"It begins on a dark night..." She began. "Were a dark girl waits, with a dark pourpose..."
Stars glittered in the skies of the Phantom Desert as the the girl with evil eyes waited with her companions. All of them road horses. As they waited on the large sand dune their horses whinnied impatiently. "Hush..." She said.
"When is she gonna come already?" Said a girl dressed in black. "I could die of boredom out here."
"Mai! Learn patients!" Said the girl with a commanding voice.
"Hey Mai! Let's play eye-spy to pass the time." Said the girl's other companion. "Eye-spy with my little eye...Something golden-brown!"
"Sand..." Said Mai unenthusiastically.
"Knock it off the two of you...She's coming..." Said the girl. A woman with a flawless face came riding toward them. She was Lera the Dark Balance of Perfection. She stopped in front of them "You are exactly 1 minute and 37 seconds late!"
"A Balance is never late...Especially one so perfect as I" Said Lera.
"No you..." But she was cut off.
"Azula! Do not presume that I am late when your watch is slow." Said Lera.
"What do you mean!" The girl with evil eyes, named Azula, pulled out a golden pocket watch. She asked her companion. "Tai-Lee give me your watch!" She obeyed. Tai-Lee had an excellent sense of time. Azula compared them...Tai-Lee's was behind hers exactly 1 minute and 37 seconds. "Damn! Well...it looks as though your right Lera..."
"As aways..." Said Lera. "I got the item you wanted. I required it perfectly."
"As always..." Said Azula rather annoyed. Lera gave the girl the item she required. It was a shining golden scarab...well half of one. Azula took the scarab half she had which was silver and fit perfectly into the other. She put the two together. At that moment the scarab came to life. Shining brightly it sped northeast leaving a trail of gold and silver dust.
"Hurry!" Azula cried as her horse reared when she tried to turn too fast. "Follow the trail!"
They followed the trail of light and dust to a point in the dessert were a hill of soft sand was layed among a flat area. They stopped in front of the hill and watched a the scarab split into two peaces again, and spun around the dune. As they found their place on both sides of the hill they gave it the appearance as though it had eyes. The sand rose and fell, moving of it's own accord, sculpting itself into a distinct shape...A great Leopard head...
"Finally!" Said Azula. "After all these years of serching! The Cave of Wonders..."
"Never thought it would look like this..." Said Mai sounding as amused as a person who was so often bored as her could sound. "I thought it would be just some round hole in the dirt..."
"You have no imagination Mai." Said Tai-Lee. "It's the Cave of Wonders! Of course it'll be a wonder on the outside as well as the inside!"
"Silence both of you..." Azula approached the cave.
"WHO DISTURBS MY SLUMBER!" The cave spoke.
"Yay it talks!" Said Tai-Lee.
"It is Azula the clever and beautiful princess!" Said Azula "And the Lera the Balance of Perfection."
"KNOW THIS! ONLY ONE MAY ENTER HERE!" Spoke the cave.
"One?" Azula asked. "What one?"
"THE ONE WHO'S WORTH LIES FAR WITHIN" The cave said. "THE DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH!"
"What does it mean..." Said Azula. "Maybe...It means you..." She said to Lera.
"No..." Said Lera.
"Why not?" Asked Azula."...Lera?"
" I may be a Dark Balance...But I'm not a fool...." Said Lera."I AM A DIAMOND IN AND OF ITSELF! WITHOUT BLEMISH OR FLAW! MY WORTH IS OBVIOUS, NOT HIDDEN WITHIN MYSELF!" She said way too dramatically and...(god-forbid)...sparkling like Armstrong..."There for it couldn't possibly be me..."
"Well...if that's the case then I the pinnacle of human perfection wouldn't be able to enter either" Said Azula."...You may leave Lera...the job I paid you for is done."
"Very well." Said Lera. She road back toward the city...
"What will we do now?" asked Tai-Lee.
"First I must find this one..." Said Azula. "This Diamond in the Rough..."