Phantom64: okay here's chapter one! Be sure to leave a review!

Eddy: come on come on! I wanna get to my part!

Chapter 1: In the Beginning

Legend has it, that each shooting star is really an Arabian Knight riding across the heavens. And at the center of every star is an ancient story untouched by time. Long before the heroic tales of Aladdin and Ali Baba, the first Arabian Knight was chosen. But where would destiny find someone so courageous and pure of heart? Amid the swirling sand of the Great Arabian Desert was the Golden City. And at its center, an enchanted castle dedicated to reason and goodness. High atop its tallest tower were three golden balls, whose magic protected it from the evil King Nightmare and his army of darkness. According to the prophecy, if the balls were ever removed, The Golden City would be in great danger. With only it left to conquer, The Nightmares were on the march…

Far in the mountains lay what was left of the army foolish enough to attack the Nightmares, bodies were strung about in piles, arrows and spears sticking out of many. Amid it in a surrounding circle was the mighty Nightmare Army, all of them in their dark silver armor, many wielding swords, spears, crossbows, and other weapons they cheered on as their mighty leader stood on a large boulder in the center of their circle. He was truly a intimidating figure, standing tall above his men in his dark blue armor, hiding his face but showing his demonic red eyes. His right arm was not armored, due to the fact unlike his human sized left arm, his right harm was much larger with claws and a ruddy brown color, clearly he was not a human being. He was the evil King Nightmare. He raised his large, disturbing sword with a moving eye in the hilt, deemed Soul Caliber and roared at his men. " Nightmares win again!" His men cheered as he began his speech. "Now we march! We shall crush the 'golden city' like a meaningless pebble!" To demonstrate he picked up a pebble and crushed it to dust with his hand." The army roared with bloodlust, wanting to attack the Golden City.

While he continued his speech one small boy struggled to get up, apparently the only survivor of the fallen army. He was small with pink hair and wearing glasses. His name was Koby. He had many arrows sticking out of his back along with a pole that at the end held the Nightmare's flag, an eye with red thunderbolts around it. " Must…warn …. the king." He whispered, struggling to get on a nearby horse. When he finally did he galloped off into the night. Leaving the carnage behind him, hoping to warn the Golden City. Nightmare had overlooked this brave little scout and it would cost him dearly. But warned or not, who would stand up to the fearsome army? That's where are story begins…..

Far, far away from the carnage was a large and beautiful city that was known as The Golden City. It had a large palace, many housing structures and in the court yard of the palace was a tall minaret that atop it's tower was 3 golden balls, the bottom one was large, the middle one was medium sized, and the top one was small. These three golden balls protected the city from evil. But that's not where our story begins. It starts here in the lower areas of the city in this cobbler's house. Asleep on the floor was A boy of 15 with spiky brown hair, blue eyes, and wearing a black hoodie with black pants, and large yellow shoes. Around his neck was a silver crown necklace. This is Sora, a poor cobbler's apprentice. He had been working so much that even in his sleep he was hitting things with his hammer and sowing with tacks he kept at the end of his lips, sticking out like toothpicks. Could he be the one to save the city?

Anyway there is another character in this tale of fate. On the other side of the city was a thief named Eddy. He took Pride in his job, and stole anything that caught his eye, especially anything gold. " Good morning Arabia!" Eddy snickered as he stuck his head out of his hiding spot. He was short with only 3 strands of hair on his head, slicked back to look cool. He had a yellow shirt, blue pants, red shoes, and a large brown cloak which he kept all of his stolen goods. "Come on you two knuckle heads! We have work to do."

"Honestly Eddy. I really think we should just go back to school. I can't live the life of a criminal!" whimpered a scrawny teen who wore a orange shirt, pants, and had a black Ski cap with white stripes on his head, not showing his hair if he had any. He was Edd or mostly known as Double D, the brains of the group.

"Don't be silly Double D." Said another teen who was the tallest with crew cut almost thin black hair, wearing a striped shirt, green trench coat, jeans, and had a dumb look on his face. He was Ed, the workhorse of the three. " This reminds me of the comic book 'Thieves from the planet Q!' Where a band of alien thieves came and stole all the mashed potatoes on Earth! It was frightening!"

"…… right…." The one called Double D. replied uneasily, stepping away from Ed.

"Shut up! Here comes a sucker!" Eddy whispered. They looked as an old African-American woman with her white hair in poofed up pony tails, wearing a pink bathrobe and pink fuzzy slippers. She was Suga Mamma. She hummed as she walked slowly carrying something that Eddy couldn't see, but it looked gold. " That looks like Gold to me" He snickered, slowly creeping towards the old woman.

"Eddy! Now where robbing defenseless old women?!? What has this world coming to?!?" Double D sobbed quietly from their hiding spot.

Eddy continued slowly toward the old woman. 'What's that old hag have?' He thought greedily. 'Maybe a gold statue. No… it's-' He slowly reached and grabbed what the old woman had to find out it was not gold but a fruit. "Bananas?!?" He exclaimed. Before Eddy could react the old woman had grabbed his arm that was holding the bananas.

"Boy you just made a big mistake." Suga Mamma growled as she grabbed the bananas and then slammed Eddy into the pavement with her powerful arm. She put the bananas down as Eddy Groaned. Suga Mamma then began to wail on the thief with powerful punches. She then grabbed him and slammed him on the pavement many times as if he were a hammer. She then jumped on him and stomped on the thieving boy many times with her pink fuzzy loafers. Eddy screamed as the old woman grabbed him by his arms and twirled him around and around, all the while many stolen object flew out of his cloak: Some gold coins, golden statues, rugs, a clock, some playboy magazines, a plastic lawn flamingo, and a kitchen sink landed in a clutter around the two. When she stopped she then twisted Eddy into a painful pretzel shape. " That'll teach ya you ruffian!" She spat. She picked up her bananas and continued on, happily humming to herself again.

"Eddy!" Double D yelled as he and Ed ran to him. "Are you okay?"

"I think that was our old school cafeteria lady." He moaned, dazed.

"Cool! She put Eddy into a pretzel move!" Ed exclaimed dumbly. " mmmmmm, Pretzels."

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Some time later, a now mobile and un-pretzeled Eddy snuck into a cobbler's shop along with his two comrades. "Geeze, who lives in this dump?" Eddy whispered.

"Eddy we should just leave. We're lucky that old woman didn't turn us in but whoever lives here could!" Double D whimpered.

"Just a sec." He noticed the sleeping body of Sora on the floor by the top of the stairs. He walked up and inspected the teenager. "Let's see what ya got chump." Eddy said to himself while Sora continued to sleep. He slowly pulled out his wallet to find it empty with nothing but a moth flying out of it. As they were about to leave they could hear music being played outside. But Sora, still asleep, rolled over and crossed his legs, getting the trio in a headlock.

Outside near the entrance of the city a grand parade was coming through. At the front were two men playing some oddly designed horns. Behind them was a small duck named Daffy banging a gong. Behind him were several Sound ninja with whips cracking at the people yelling for them to make way. Behind the ninja were 4 shifty looking characters. One was a fat bipedal cat wearing a black and red armor with large pockets. He was Pete. Along with him was a tall bipedal whale in a black jumpsuit with red stripes. He was Gantu. Another seemed like the odd combination of a pirate and circus clown. He had on a brightly colored pirates hat that had tassels on it, a big red nose, and a coat that he wore as a cape. He was Buggy the Clown. And the last one was the smallest of them but had the biggest mouth. He was a short bipedal beagle with a black mask over his eyes, a green cap, red shirt, and a place card on his shirt that had a cell number. He was Bigtime Beagle. "Have no fear! Jafar the Magnificent is here!" They chanted over and over again.

Behind the four goons was the grand vizier of the Golden City, Jafar. He was a sorcerer of incredible power and had over the years gained the trust of king Kai, but yet to gain anyone else's. He was a smug fellow with a black goatee in black and red robes with pointed curved shoes, a cape, and a black turban with a red feather on it that hid his black hair. In his hand was a staff made of pure gold with the head of a leering cobra at the top with rubies in it's eyeholes. As he proceeded a red carpet was rolled out and when it ran out and he passed it they rolled it up and ran ahead of him and rolled it out, continuing so that he would walk on the red carpet as if he were a celebrity.

Now behind Jafar was his apprentice, Skyler. Unlike Jafar, Skyler was a more likeable person. He treated everyone equally where his teacher Jafar saw the common people as lower class. He was a boy of sixteen with messy blonde hair that curled up in some places, with blue eyes, wearing glasses, and had a smile on his face. Unlike his richly clothed teacher, Skyler wore more modest casual clothing of a red t-shit, jeans, and sneakers. But he did have a blue cape attached to him to give him a magician feel. He had a staff too, although unlike Jafar's golden cobra staff, his was just a plain old wooden staff with a dog carved at the top of it. The dog had it's ears perked up, looking attentive although it was just a statue. Now calling him an apprentice would be a little wrong. In most cases he would be considered Jafar's secretary, always keeping up with his busy agenda. The other reason would be that Jafar taught him little magic, most of his skills acquired from learning on his own, although Skyler's magic has unintended and disastrous results, since he is inexperienced. "Okay Mr. Jafar. You have a meeting with King Kai at 12 o' clock, after that you have tee time with General Barret at 3 o'clock followed by-" Skyler was cut off by his teacher. Skyler was struggling to keep up with his teacher while balancing the scrolls he held in his arm, while the other held his staff.

"Please don't bore me with that right now young pupil." Jafar sniffed. " Let me enjoy my stroll about the city."

"Erm.. Yes sir." Skyler whispered.

Back in the Cobbler shop, Sora, who was still sleep-cobbling had sown the three Ed's clothing to his pant leg. "He's sowing us up like a boot!" Double D croaked.

"Sorry Nest-head but these boots were made for walking!" Eddy hissed as he and the others tried to get free. It was then Sora awoke coming face-to-face with Eddy.

"what the-" before Sora could finish the 4 tumbled down the stairs and out into the street, Sora's cobbling equipment falling out as well. One of his tacks landed on the carpet, which Jafar stepped on by accident. Jafar screamed as he held his foot in pain and the parade stopped.

"The Vizier is down! I repeat! The vizier is down!" Buggy screamed into his earpiece. Immediately several Leaf Ninja appeared, pulling out swords. The three Eds had escaped from Sora's pant leg and had ran into an alleyway just as Jafar angrily spun around to only see Sora and his cobbling equipment.

"Take him!" Jafar screamed! "Seize him! Take him! Seize him!" He pointed at the confused Sora. The Leaf ninja apprehended him, having their blades, dangerously close to his neck.

"Take him and seize him! Take him and seize him!" Jafar's goons, Pete, Buggy, Gantu, and Bigtime sang,

"Take him to the palace!" Jafar ordered and two ninja grabbed Sora by his arms and dragged him.

"I don't know Mr. Jafar." Skyler said. "I don't think he meant any harm, I think it was just and accident…"

"Don't question me you four eyed fool!" He snapped pointing his cobra staff at the frightened teen. " I will do what I desire, you have no say in the matter!"

"y-yes sir." Skyler whispered, gulping.

In the shadows the three thieve watched them take Sora away. "That was close.!" Eddy sighed in relief.

"Eddy! We just can't let them take him away can we?" Double D said, guiltily watching them take the young cobbler to his doom. "It WAS our fault. "

"I feel as bad as a month old piece of buttered toast." Ed mumbled sadly.

"Look we can't do anything!" Eddy Snapped. "Let's just get out of here." With that they snuck off into the alley.

A man exited the cobbler shop that Sora was in. He was in the back when the whole commotion started. He was a tall, slightly middle aged man with graying black hair, a scar going across his face and one of his eyes forcibly shut for some reason. He wore a black shirt with black pants, a red jacket which he had his left arm in a sling, and carried a jug of saki.. "This is not good." He whispered as he silently followed the guards toward the grand palace.

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Phantom64: There's chapter one! We'll meet the Princesses in the next chapter!

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