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Yugi stepped out of his palace. He looked around proudly. "What a perfect place for a perfect prince. Ha!" He remarked, smiling and lifting his head flamboyantly. He took a short step back up onto a golden throne, which was quickly lifted by two slaves and hoisted down the stairs to a private courtyard.
The courtyard was laden with a large pool of water, lilies floating this way and that, large exotic fish swimming about below. The edge was lined with palm trees, taken from faraway land and replanted at his command. The slaves set him down on a small peninsula in the pool, bowed, and left him be. He stood and stretched his arms up. It was really good to be prince of Arabia.
The vain boy walked out onto the peninsula into a gallantly decorated gazebo, wherein he leaned on the fence, staring into the minute opening to the hot desert. The heat didn't bother him at all; this to him was a gloriously cool day, unknown to him that the people of the city were suffering from the tremendous temperature.
He cast his violet gaze over the golden sands; tracing the dunes with his glare, admiring the sparkling look the small pieces of raw glass and crystal gave it. He was turning his attention to a bird on one of his palms when something a little too shiny caught his eye. He tried his hardest to pinpoint the insidious glow, but the light in his eyes grew tiresome. Stepping off the gazebo and strutting around to the gateway, he stepped out onto the hot sand. His feet were luckily protected with tough leather shoes.
He didn't need to walk far before he found the disturbance. It was a small round glass bottle, half buried in the sand. Its glass was slightly blue like, the reflection of the sun giving it an iridescent glow to it. Kneeling down, the young prince ran a finger over the decorative metal that surrounded the neck on the strange phial.
He decided it was safe, and picked up the blue flask. It was very dusty, the contents hidden from the grime that camouflaged its surface. "Must have been uncovered by last night's sandstorm." He used his hand to clean away most of the filth, the essence it suppressed still concealed. After he finished cleaning it of dirt and other such nonsense, he saw a small cork in the bottle.
Being the naive and dense boy he was, curiosity took over and he worked out the seal. Suddenly, he was thrown back into the sand with colossal force. He was knocked out instantly.
Hours later, he woke up to see a man standing not far from him. This stranger was defiantly no one he knew. He wore royal clothes, gold bracelets, and earrings. This must be the man that knocked me over! Our rather torpid friend thought, jumping straight to conclusions. He pushed himself onto his feet and strutted towards the assumed perpetrator.
The man didn't seem to notice him, for he simply kept on looking at himself and his surroundings. He was mumbling the same thing under his breath, but to our 'noble' prince it was of no importance.
"You! How dare you ignore a prince!" he accused the intruder. The man whirled around only to flick the boys head, sending him straight back onto his bottom with a muffled "Oof!". "Keep your blasphemous mouth shut boy! Or I'll turn you into a snake!" He snarled. Yugi rubbed his forehead for a moment before quickly springing to his feet in a fleet of fury. "How dare you! I'll have you're head for this!" The boy however, was obviously not smart enough to see the tattoo on the mans wrist. It was undoubtedly possible that the boy probably wouldn't have known what it was if he had seen it.
The strangely dressed man only cackled madly and raised a finger. "Your too much of a brat too rule this country in the future, your father must be so disappointed." Yugi growled. "My father is quite proud of me thank you very much! Just who do you think you are insulting me!" Again, the man only laughed at the pathetic child. "You are
far too much of a brat! You shouldn't ever run this country, let alone torment the people of your country any further! I think it's time you learned your lesson the hard way boy!" The man raised his hands and clasped them together. He began to chant in a mysterious language, a blue glow surrounding him in moments. He chanted louder with each sentence.
Yugi suddenly became quite frightened. He knew of magic, and he knew that some of it wasn't good. He back up, stepping too quickly and falling into the sand again. "Wha-What?" He cried when he saw himself glowing in blue as well. "What are you doing to me! STOP!" His cries fell on deaf ears as the mans mantra became loud enough for all to hear. Suddenly, a black smoke shot out of the earth and surrounded the screaming boy.
Moments later, he awoke to strange surroundings. Everything looked blue, and dark. He couldn't see much, and he felt uncomfortable. He tried to stand up, but slipped and fell back onto his derriere. "Where am I? What happened?" When his sight cleared, he realized he was in a small round cage of glass. He crawled over to a spot that released some light. He looked out through the glass to see the strangers face, only multiplied a thousand times larger than him. "AAAAGH!" he screamed and fell back into the darkness of his glass prison. "Although you are quite a bit of an annoyance, I must thank you my boy! Now, I am free forever! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" He smiled. It was then that our little idiot realized where he was. "No…" he crawled around looking for a way out. He looked up to see the neck blocked. "NOOO!" He banged his fists on the glass. The man only laughed.
"Let me out! LET ME OUT!" Yugi was crying now. Suddenly, the man lifted his arm up. "Goodbye boy! Enjoy your punishment!" "PUNISHMENT!" Yugi cried miserably. "Yes." The man replied, "Eternity in a bottle!"
Those words were the last little Yugi heard for thousands of years, as the newly freed genie cast the small glass flask out into the desert sands.
This story may not be the most impressive that you may have seen, but please remember my attitude towards flames: mind over matter. I don't mind, because you don't matter.