CHAPTER TWO
The story began long ago, deep out into the Arabian desert, in the darkest of night. A lone unicorn is approached by two coyote thieves. The unicorn's coat is dark as a sinister blackness, fitted with armour of iron. His eyes are colored in an eerie green glow with red irises. And his horn is long with a red hue at its tip. This is Sombra, a vizier to the rulers of Agrabrah. But he has a dark plan: To overthrow his rulers and take the kingdom for himself with an iron hoof. Tonight, he is meeting with the two thieves he hired for an "errand". The coyotes climbed off their pokemon Zebstrikas and approached the unicorn.
"You...are late" said Sombra, staring at them with a glare. He is not happy due to their late arrival.
"Hey, it ain't my fault, pal. We had to make bathroom breaks because of this moron" said Charlie Coyote, pointing towards his associate Mud, which happens to be "Dum", spelled backwards, if you readers get what I meant.
"But I had to go tinkle...", Mud whimpered, already trying to hold it in.
"Zip it, you!" growled Charlie to Mud.
"You both have what I seek?", Sombra asked.
"It ain't easy, but we have it", Charlie reached into his sack and pulls out what appears to be half of a golden scarab medallion.
Sombra reaches for it, but Charlie yanks it back quickly.
"Hold it! First, give us the gold, then we'll talk!" snapped Charlie.
"Yeah, yeah!", Mud said, his tongue hanging out of his droopy mouth. But Sombra's pokemon, Meowth, leaped and scratched Charlie's hands that held the artifact. Charlie yelped in pain as he dropped it. Meowth picks it up in his mouth and scurries over to his master. Sombra takes it from him, using his magic.
"Trust me, my pungent friend. You'll get what's coming to you", Sombra smiled with sinister.
Then the pokemon Meowth, literally starts speaking in English.
"Yeah! So I would cooperate if I were you two!" smirked Meowth. Sombra pulls out the second half of the medallion and slowly connects them together. The golden scarab comes to life in a flash of golden light. It shoots up from Sombra's grasp and zooms away like a shooting star towards the dunes, leaving a golden trail behind.
"Quickly! Follow the trail!", Sombra said. He immediately gallops after it, followed by the coyotes.
"FASTER!" yelled Sombra to his coyotes. The scarab reaches a large dune and separates in two, plunging into it. All that remains are the two glowing points of light from the medallion halves. Sombra and the coyotes come to a halt, and were introduced by a shaking tremor seconds later. The dune quickly rises above them, taking shape of a tiger's head, with the glowing specks served as the eyes. The mouth opens up, and a fiery glow shines out from deep below.
"At last! After all my years of searching, the Cave of Wonders!" smiled Sombra.
"By Celestia's name..." Charlie said in awe.
Sombra yanks him and Mud by his magic and pulls them to his face.
"Now remember! Bring me the lamp! The rest of the treasure is yours once the job is done!", Sombra growled to them, his eyes glow with evil. He releases them, and the coyotes grinned with greed as they approach the cave.
"Remember! Bring us the lamp!" yelled Meowth to them. Then he whispers to Sombra.
"Jeez, where did you find these two morons?", Meowth asked. But Sombra shushes him.
The coyotes reached the mouth of the cavern, but they were stopped by the roar escaping from within. Then the cave "speaks" to them, in a deep trembling voice.
"WHO DISTURBS MY SLUMBER?", the Cave asked.
"It is us! Charlie and Mud Coyote! We seek the treasure from within!", Charlie announced, bowing before it with Mud.
"KNOW THIS: ONLY ONE MAY ENTER HERE. ONE WHOSE WORTH LIES FAR WITHIN. A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH", the Cave spoke.
Charlie and Mud looks back at Sombra with questioning looks.
"What are you two waiting for? Go on!" ordered Sombra. Charlie and Mud, following Sombra's order, approached the cave. When they reached the lips of the cave, they look down below. A long staircase awaits them, leading down to the depths of the Cave of Wonders. Mud starts to have a second thought. He turns from Greed into Fear as he starts sneaking away. Charlie frowns and yanks him back by his tail.
"We're not walking out of this, you scaredy-cat. Come on!" sneered Charlie. He pulls Mud into the cave with him. Charlie stepped into the cave, but Mud remains outside, cowering in fear.
"Mud, either you get in here, or I'm gonna DRAG you in here!", Charlie growled, frustrated by his partner's cowardice. Not wanting to make him more angry, Mud slowly raises his foot, shaking in fear. He slowly steps one foot in, and shuts his eyes, bracing for the worst. But after several seconds of nothing, nothing even happened. Mud opens his eyes, relieved afterwards.
"See? Nothing even hap-", Charlie said, before being interrupted by the roar of the cave. The whole cave began to shake violently. They quickly tried to turn back, but the cave's jaws slammed shut, swallowing them whole.
"NO!", Sombra exclaimed, seeing his chance of retrieving the lamp, ruined.
"SEEK THEE OUT, THE DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH...", the Cave echoed before sinking into the dune. All that are left are Sombra, Meowth, and the two halves of the medallion.
Meowth unburied himself from the sand, coughing out said as he does.
"I can't believe it. I just don't believe it! We're never gonna get ahold of that stupid lamp! Just forget it!", Meowth said.
He knocks the sand out of his ears.
"Look at this. Look at this. I'm so ticked off I'm SHEDDING!", Meowth said, brushing sand AND hairs off him.
"Patience, Meowth. PATIENCE. The coyotes were obviously less than worthy", Sombra assured.
"Oh, there's a surprise. That's an incred—I think I'm gonna have a heart attack and die from not surprise!", Meowth said with extreme sarcasm.
Sombra only rolled his eyes.
"What're we gonna do? We got a big problem here, a big prob-" said Meowth. Sombra quickly shuts his mouth with his magic.
"Yes, we do. Only one may enter the Cave of Wonders. I must find this one, this...Diamond in the Rough" said Sombra.
The coyotes Charlie and Mud are OCs and belong to me only.
