Story 2 part 1, ten points if you can guess who the princess is played bybefore we even get to her!


Aphrodite squealed with glee,

"Okay! Okay! I'll get another one started while he's unconscious, so I will have things to do between transitions! Okay! Ready set go!"


Leo squeezed his eyes tightly shut from the blinding desert sun.

How the hell did I end up in the Middle East? He thought.

He held in his hand a loaf of bread.

"STOP THIEF!" Said a very pissed off guard and his posse coming towards him.

"All this for a loaf of bread?!" Leo said, dumbfounded, then he leaped onto the ground ten feet below him, and winced, as he landed on his knees, that was gonna hurt in the morning.

"YOU WON'T GET AWAY SO EASY!" One of the guards above him roared.

"You think that was easy?!" Leo said, shaking his fist at them. He heard some girls giggling, and he turned andsmirked at them,

"Getting into trouble a little early today Leo... Aren't you?" One of them teased.

Leo laughed.

"Trouble? Nah. You're only in trouble if ya get caught!"

"Gotcha!" Said a gruff voice, as he's lifted up by his shirt collar.

"I'm in trouble!" Leo said.

Then to his surprise a tiny monkey in an organ grinder's outfit yanked the guard'shat down over his eyes.

"Nice! Thanks little guy! Great timing! I'm Leo!"

"Abu!" Squeaked the monkey.

"Abu,huh? Okay! Now let's get going before something else happens.

Suddenly a huge crowd gathered.

Leo stood on his tiptoes to see over the crowd.

There was a young Arabian man dressed in fine clothing madeof silkriding a horse towards the palace at the end of the road.

"Another prince come to court the princess I suppose..." Said a man to Leo's left. The man to his right nodded.

Two little children rushed in front of the horse, chasing each other playfully. The horse screeched to a halt. The man glared at the children,

"Why you little brats!" He said, taking out a whip, he would have struck them if Leo hadn't snatched it as it flew through the air.

"HEY! If I was a prince like you, I think I could afford some manners!" He said

"You,young man, need to learn your place! Now get out of my way!" The prince said. As he carried on down the road, Leo smirked and said

"Well look at that Abu! It's not every day you see a horse with TWO rear ends!" The prince and his horse froze at the gates to the castle.

The prince turned and glared at Leo.

"YOU are nothing but a worthless street rat who will always be alone! You were born a street rat, you'll die a street rat! And only your fleas will mourn you!" The prince spat, then he went through the gates, and the crowd dissipated.

Leo glared at the huge wooden gates.

"I'm not worthless... And I don't have fleas!" He grumbled as he went to find shelter for the night.

As they settled down in an abandoned building and lay next to the window overlooking the whole city, he couldn't help but think about what the prince said.

Because except for the fleas part, everything he said was true.

"Riff-raff

Street rat.

I don't buy that...

If only they'd look closer...

Would they see a poor boy?

No sirree...

They'd find out...

There's so much more...

To...

Me."