Author's Note: Hey ya'll. I'm back with a brand new story. Aladdin with your favourite Ninja Turtle characters. This story is gonna be based in Agrabah just like the movie but obviously have Ninja Turtle characters playing. And from the Turtle universe this story is based on 2k3 with bits and pieces of 2k12 and some 1987 characters like Bebop and Rocksteady although they won't be featured as much. So hope you enjoy the new story and please review.
P.S. This story was inspired by a wonderful picture featuring Raph as Aladdin, Leo as Princess Jasmine, Donnie as Genie and Mikey as Abu, done by KameBoxer over on deviantart. So all credit goes to them for the inspiration and picture. Thank you so much KameBoxer for allowing me to use your picture. Now without further-a-due here is Chapter One.
Summary: When street turtle, Raphael frees a genie from a lamp, he finds his wishes granted. However, he soon finds that the evil has other plans for the lamp – and for Princess Leonora. But can Raphael save the Princess and his love for her after she sees that he isn't quite what he appears to be? Read to find out. AU! RaphxFem!Leo
Please Note:
"Singing"
Thoughts
Chapter 1: Prologue
Our story starts out in the desert; the sun was beating down hard on the sand. Nothing was stirring in sight and no one was around but a lone figure, who was riding a camel through the desert to the next town selling its merchandise. As the duo were walking the figure, male, was singing to past the time seeing as it is taking a long while to reach their destination.
"Oh, I come from a land, from a faraway place, where the caravan camels roam~" The singing was passing the time nicely; the camel and its rider were still walking and nearing their destination quickly. "Where it's flat and immense and the heat is intense. It's barbaric, but hey, it's home."
By this time the sun was setting and the travelling pair were not far from their destination. "When the winds from the east and the sun's from the west and the sand in the glass is right. Come on down, stop on by, hop a carpet and fly, to another Arabian night." The pair have finally arrived at their destination. A small town with a gigantic palace at the end where the royal family live; Agrabah. The sun had almost set, still a little light but not much for the duo.
"Arabian nights, like Arabian days, more often not, are hotter than hot, in a lot of good ways." The pair have arrived in town, and travelled through the marketplace and found a fire swallower performer in an alley within the town. They travelled on to another part of the marketplace, trying to find the best spot.
"Arabian nights, 'neath Arabian moons. A fool off his guard could fall and fall hard, out there on the dunes." They have found the perfect spot; in the middle of the road in the dark where the camel just fell down to the ground; exhausted. The male figure jumped off of the camel and was seen as an anthropomorphic rhinoceros, (no wonder the camel was exhausted), he had grey skin and his horn cut in half on his snout, probably by an assassin or his own clumsiness, who knows.
He had a thin black goatee*, his clothing is quite simple consisting of a white robe that reaches the floor, a faded sky blue sash tied around his waist and brown sandals. The most noticeable aspect of this male's outfit is his ridiculously large, red turban*, which is twice as big as his own head. He looks up and sees his audience.
"Ah, salaam*, and good evening to you, worthy friend. I'm Gennosuke and I'm a humble traveller wanting to sell my merchandise. Please come closer." The traveller, Gennosuke, said. The audience was then changed to being close, very close, hitting him in the face close. "Too close. A little too close." The audience moved back just enough to see.
"There. Welcome to Agrabah, city of mystery, of enchantment, and the finest merchandise this side of the river Jordon, on sale today, come on down!" Gennosuke chuckled as he set his stand up very quickly. He then reached up and grabbed what looked like a vase of some sort and started advertising it. "Look at this. Yes, combination hookah* and coffeemaker. Also makes julienne fries*" he places a potato underneath the small bit and holding the longer end, he pressed down and the potato is cut finely.
"It will not break." The rhino taps it on the table, gently. "Will not…" and the combination hookah and coffeemaker fell apart making the rhino frown. "It broke." He throws that away and grabs another object. A box of some sort. "Ohh! Look at this! I have never seen one of these intact before. This is the famous Dead Sea Tupperware. Listen." He pries it open a little and blows a raspberry sound. "Ah, still good." He smiles with a chuckle at his little 'joke'.
The audience starts moving away having enough of his enthusiasm. "Wait. Don't go!" Gennosuke rushes in front of the audience, stopping them from leaving. "I can see that you're only interested in the exceptionally rare. I think, then, you would be most rewarded to consider… this." The rhino pulls out a lamp, gold in colour, out from his sleeve. "Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what is outside, but what is inside that counts." He continues as he lifts the lid a bit to have a peek inside with a smirk toward the audience. Said audience was getting bored once again and started to leave. Gennosuke then rushes to stop them once again.
"This is no ordinary lamp! It once changed the course of a young man's life. A young man who, like this lamp, was more than what he seemed." Gennosuke looked side to side to make sure that he wasn't heard. "The diamond in the rough. Perhaps you would like to hear the tale?" He pours some shiny sand from the lamp into his hand. "It begins on a dark night… where a dark man waits with a dark purpose."
Gennosuke finishes as he throws the sand into the sky, where it forms a starry nightscape.
DEMON~DEMON~DEMON
Author's Note: Ok, so how was it? I know it was short but there wasn't much to write for the prologue here. So this is the prologue, please review and tell me what you think. I tried making this chapter a little longer but like I said not much to write for it. And I would like to thank my beta reader for helping me make this story great. Thank you Halloween Witch. Ok, that is enough from me rambling on, and good day or night and I'll have a new chapter up next week. Stay tune peeps.
For those of you who don't know about Gennosuke, he is the rhino friend of Miyamoto Usagi. Usagi is Leonardo's friend in the 2003 series of Ninja Turtles. Gennosuke is a bounty hunter, and he fights like a samurai. Please note, this is the only chapter he appears.
Alrighty, next chapter is up next week. Catch ya'll then. Sayonara.
Demon Kirara out
Also, the words that have * near them, here is what they mean (I had placed julienne fries in with julienning since I couldn't find much more info on it):
Goatee – A small pointed beard like that of a goat.
Turban – A man's head covering, consisting of a long length of material wound around a cap or the head, worn especially by Sikhs and Muslims.
Salaam – Peace in Arabic
Hookah – A hookah, also known as a water pipe is a single or multi-stemmed instrument for vaporizing and smoking flavoured tobacco called shisha in which the vapour or smoke is passed through a water basin – often glass based – before inhalation. The origin of the water pipe is from the time of the Safayid dynasty in the Persian Empire which extended into India to where it also spread during that time. The word hookah is a derivative of "hugga", an Arabic term.
The pipes there often have one or two mouth pieces. The flavoured tobacco, created by marinating cuts of tobacco in a multitude of flavoured molasses, is placed above the water and covered by pierced foil with hot coals placed on top, and the smoke is drawn through cold water to cool and filter it.
Julienning – Julienne, or allumette, is a culinary knife cut in which the food item is cut into long thin strips, similar to matchsticks. Sometimes called 'shoe string', e.g. shoestring fries. Common items to be julienned are carrots for carrots julienne, celery for céléris remoulade or potatoes for julienne fries.