The Story - So Far

[Meli]

‘The Truth About The Kingdom Of Animal City

King Simmon created a kingdom for his people many years ago. While the world assumed this kingdom lived in peace, the truth was yet to reveal the battle going on between two people. After many attacks of wild monkeys and the good news that those wild brown animals were finally kept in zoo’s Simmon could finally look onto his beautiful kingdom in peace.
He decided to name his two best friends, Jesus and Kenneth as royal princes of animal city.
Never did Simmon know his new chosen prince was evil by heart. The kindness of people had made Kenneth reveal only his good side. But this good side began to show cracks as his rival Matt, the captain of the secret service, took the hand in marriage of Kenneth’s childhood sweetheart Soraya.

Kenneth and Soraya met 10 years ago at a young age. It didn’t take long for Kenneth to realise how he felt for his girlfriend at the time. She was the sunshine in his dark live. Being adopted into a poor family wasn’t the easiest thing for Kenneth to deal with. His heart had been left broken by the death of his real father. His mother couldn’t deal with Kenneth’s naughty and hyperactive character and left him with a poor family who were eager to adopt a child to bring love into their empty family. Soraya and Kenneth began to grow fonder of each other as the years passed. They both had the dream of being rich and getting married to each other. But Kenneth’s anger towards Soraya’s rich family, who didn’t approve of him being around her, grew after every fight Kenneth had with Soraya’s strict father. On one dark day they both left home in search for a place to resume their love story in peace and ended up in the streets of Animal city, ruled by a king who was ready to leave his throne for his younger son Simmon.

Mike was a boy who lived on the streets ever since he was left there by his parents. The leader title of the Los Ladrones was his written destiny. Stealing and planning kidnaps were one of his daily jobs. Mike enjoyed his life as a thief, riding beautiful black horses and leaving people in tears and horror after stealing their belongings was bliss in his eyes. But his job was lonely and evil. Untill the day he met Kenneth and Soraya. Hiding away in the allies of the kingdom they were searching for the same thing Mike was looking for; Friendship. Soraya soon joined the Los Ladrones, as a side kick of the main man Mike. Kenneth’s broken heart had always blinded Soraya with evil. Her soul could only hate her family for keeping her away from Kenneth, the only guy who promised her the world and his life. But together with Kenneth, far away from her old home she was drowning away in evil and was captured in Kenneth’s heart. The story of Kenneth and Soraya seemed perfect, they were together and in love. But neither she nor Kenneth knew that one day this was going to change.

Matt, formerly known as the captain of the secret service was eager to hunt down the Los Ladrones. Mike and his gang were like a thorn in his eyesight a burden and a pain in the arse. One day, on a bright summer afternoon, he left the kingdom in search of Mike and his gang. Instead he found their homebase, a huge villa in the middle of nowhere. With his gun tightly clutched in his left hand and his heart racing with excitement he entered the house to finally end Mike’s days of stealing. But instead of finding Mike and Kenneth he found a girl in the garden. The girl was caught up stabbing a piece of wood while mumbling furiously about something she didn’t agree on. The moment Matt caught her eyes and she caught his, Matt knew this was the girl he was once going to marry. He left the challenge to end the Los Ladrones once and for all behind and took the challenge upon him to convince his parents that he wasn’t marrying the princes of evil but a nice girl from the countryside.

Matt’s goodness and his many dreams had charmed Soraya after the first second they had met and had banished all the evil from her heart. Kenneth was no longer in her thoughts as Matt had told her he had only evil and no good for her. But it was not like Kenneth would give up on her like that, now was he?

That same day of Matt’s encounter with Soraya, Kenneth came home with Mike after stealing their groceries from a supermarket. While chatting excitingly about the evil barbeque planned for that hot summer night Kenneth came to realise that Soraya had left the house leaving him nothing else but a note. With tears in his eyes and anger in his heart he read about how she left him for a good guy named ‘Matt’
Kenneth left the Los Ladrones the following day with Soraya’s words etched in his memory, ‘Matt can give me good, you only gave me evil therefore I must go, Ps. I’ll always love you’

As one year passed and the king left his throne to make his son Simmon the new king of animal city things seemed to have changed in the lives of Kenneth and Soraya.
Soraya now lived a happy live with Matt and a wedding with him was planned in the summer that same year. Kenneth on the other hand was found lost in the streets by the king 6 months ago and had charmed his way into the kingdom by faking goodness and hiding his evil. From the moment Kenneth had entered the royal house of the king he had felt love from the entire kingdom and was received as family by his new brothers Jesus and Simmon. Jesus being the younger brother of king Simmon had always enjoyed being a prince in a kingdom full of chances. Having a younger brother meant that he could finally become a role model like he had always wanted. But little did he know Kenneth soon became his role model instead of Jesus being his. The kingdom adored Kenneth and therefore Jesus was convinced to be like Kenneth and to love whatever Kenneth loved to find the same kind of fame. Kenneth enjoyed his new prince status. He had a great live and a lot of female admirers standing near the palace doors every single day. Only one of those admirers ever put foot into the kingdom, there was something special about that girl. Nett was a girl of good nature, a pretty girl with an air of happiness floating around her adorable face. Somehow she held Kenneth captivated and they were set to get married that same year, in the summer. But two weddings planned in the summer meant chaos especially because Kenneth had banned his thoughts for Soraya for ever and had never seen her again after that warm afternoon when she left her.

Marc was the proud mentor of Kenneth. He loved his job as a royal advisor and shared the same function with Mel who was a busy organiser of events and weddings in the kingdom. Kenneth visited Marc frequently and respected Marcs kindness and advice. But one day Marc had found a crack in Kenneth’s kind character. That day Kenneth had gone to Mel to ask her to plan his wedding with Nett. To his horror Mel already had a wedding to organise that same day and as Kenneth requested her to cancel that one to persuade his royal wedding, she had blatantly refused. The reason of her decision was because of the marriage of a rich family who had spend a great amount of money on Mel’s organization talents. When Kenneth had heard who’s wedding she was on about he had left her office furious and stumbled into Marcs soon after. Soraya and Matt were settled to get married on the same day as Nett and Kenneth would. While Marc had listened to Kenneth’s disgust of this matter and his memories of his childhood romance with Soraya he had sensed evil in Kenneth. An evil he had never sensed before. Marc had advised Kenneth to follow his heart. Even though Nett had helped that same heart to be happy, she had never established to keep it whole like Soraya had. So with that message Kenneth cancelled their wedding and packed his bags to steal Soraya away from Matt with the help of his old friend; Mike. Little did Kenneth know that he was chased by a jealous Nett who had all the intention to prevent Kenneth from reuniting with Soraya, and she wasn’t alone on this job. Fadi, a rich son from an Arabic oil entrepreneur had never forgotten the day that Kenneth and Soraya stole money from one of his dads companies. He had a score to settle with Kenneth and was pleased when Nett rang his doorbell.

Ever since the day Soraya had left Kenneth for Matt, Kenneth had created an enormous amount of hate towards Matt. Matt became his worse enemy since that warm afternoon and now he was set to take his bride back home even if he had to shed some of Matts blood to do so. After crashing Matt’s wedding with Soraya in the summer and kidnapping her for three days Matt had stepped into the battle ring and had promised his wife to be he’d do anything to save her from Kenneth’s evil once again. But after spending three days with Kenneth and bringing back old evil memories of their childhood days, will Soraya still want Matt? Or will she take Kenneth’s hand and leave with him into the desert on a black horse from the Los Ladrones?

[Meli]

...part II

Roddy Moreno aka Roddney Rodriges wasn’t the most loved person of the kingdom. Roddney the raving reporter of ‘the daily animal’, the kingdoms most popular newspaper, was known to bring the news to the people before the actual news event took place. The headlines these days were filled with important wedding announcements and they were beginning to bore Roddy. He was aching for some new gossip, for a riot, a filthy lie to shake up the world of journalism and the entire kingdom. Staring at the newspaper of the day before, Roddy came up with the idea that was going to ruin the wedding of the century. Regarding the front cover photo with a smile Roddy erased the headline above the picture of Kenneth holding the hand of Soraya and wrote his own headline ‘Kidnap drama evolves into a wedding; Kenneth and Soraya to wed this summer’

‘What is this???’ Matt couldn’t believe his eyes when he read the daily animal this morning during a peaceful breakfast in his mansion, one he couldn’t have in days because of the kidnapping of his fiancé. After winning her back out of the hands of Kenneth Matt could finally relax.
‘Matt you don’t have to shout at me, I’m not deaf’ Soraya said while joining Matt at the breakfast table. Even though he was happy to have her back home he didn’t like the fact his fiancé was part of the happy couple on the front cover of the daily animal
‘You and Kenneth??’
‘What about us?’ Soraya asked still sleepy. Matt chucked the copy of the paper into her hands and she began to read.
‘But this isn’t true Matt, you know it isn’t true, I told you nothing happened. You know Roddney, he makes up lies to sell newspapers’ after those words Matt stood up and walked towards the window. While staring outside he slowly explained all of his worries. ‘How did Roddney get that happy shot of you two? Well? I thought you were kidnapped! That shouldn’t be a happy event. I can’t believe you are being unfaithful to me after everything I have done for you!’
‘But Matt, it isn’t true what Roddy wrote and he obviously used Photoshop on the pictures’ Soraya explained and tried to comfort Matt by laying her hand on his shoulder, but Matt shrugged it of quickly.
‘Please leave’ he said cold while blankly looking out of the window.
‘But Matt I am in my pyjamas, I am not leaving like this’ Soraya said hoping Matt would lighten up and they could both laugh about it. Instead of laughing Matt ushered her towards the door and opened it. ‘I’m sure Kenneth won’t mind’

Meanwhile in the middle of nowhere Roddy was setting up his camera equipment just 10 metres away from the headquarters of the los ladrones. In the garden to be precise. Hidden behind a bush Roddy was planning to make a couple of camera shots of Mike and Kenneth as he had heard from a secret source (Fadi) that Kenneth was seeking help from Mike once again. Roddy specially painted his face green and dyed his hair the same colour to blend in with the bushes in his stealth mission.

‘Soraya what are you doing here??’ Mike asks surprised when he opens the door to his crib.
‘And How did you find us?’ he adds quickly, looking around for police officers that might have followed her together with that d**n fiancé secret service agent of her. Mike was determined not to have female members in his gang ever again. As they only fell in love with members of the secret service, well at least one of them did and that was enough for Mike to ban women from his business.
‘I used to live here remember’ Soraya says while barging past Mike into the living room where Kenneth was checking out his new gun. At the sight of Soraya he drops his gun and greets her with a hug. ‘I can’t believe you came back! Finally you created some sense and came back to me’ To Kenneth’s surprise Soraya didn’t receive the hug and pushes him away from her.

‘How dare you! You gave Roddney lies about a wedding between us, just to break me and Matt up!’ She yells angrily
‘I did not do that!’ Kenneth yells back ‘And why are you wearing pyjamas?’ he adds with a big smile
‘Because Matt kicked me out and I couldn’t get changed’ Soraya answers feeling slightly embarrassed. Before Kenneth could reply Mike comes running into the living room.
‘That not a very nice person fiancé of yours followed you to our head quarters’ Mike hisses and grabs Kenneth’s gun from the ground. Suddenly a noise from outside warns both Mike and Kenneth and they both stare outside. A green guy stuck in a piece of film role stumbles out of the bushes with his hands reaching in the sky, followed by none other than Matt, captain of the secret service, pointing his gun in Roddy’s direction. Before Mike can open the door to get into the garden Kenneth has knocked him out by hitting him in the head with a bottle of coke.
‘Sorry, but Matt is my problem, I will deal with him myself’ he says and picks up his gun.
‘Kenneth stop this!’ Soraya says worried and runs after him into the garden where Roddy is ranting non stop about them ruining his headline for his newspaper.
‘Soraya! I knew it!’ Matt yells slightly angry and hurt ‘So you got the girl Kenneth, congratulations, this doesn’t mean I am going to let you win’
‘Matt you can’t be serious, I came here to shout at Kenneth for teaming up with Roddney, not to get back with Kenneth’ Soraya says hoping to impress Matt for her brave action.
‘I didn’t team up with Kenneth, I saw you two with my own eyes and told the truth about Kenneth and Soraya. Matt please put away that gun! I didn’t do anything’ Roddy squeaks innocently
‘Shut up Roddy’ Matt butts in ‘This is between me and Kenneth’ he says pushing Roddy out of the way. At the same time Kenneth reaches out for his gun and holds in front of him.
‘Step back Matt or I’ll shoot’ he threatens
In the mean time Soraya makes a plan to save Matt and to keep Kenneth from being shot. In less than a second she goes over to Kenneth and tries to pull his gun from his grasp. Kenneth fights back and during the fight one of them accidentally pulls the trigger and a bullet fires into Matt’s direction.
‘OMG, Matt are you ok?’ Soraya screams. Her voice scares Kenneth who drops his gun onto the floor.
‘Of course I am you fool, you shot Roddy’ Matt says and steps away to reveal the green man lying on the floor with a gunshot wound in his shoulder.
‘At least he’s quiet now’ Kenneth says leaning over Roddy
‘That’s true, d**n that guy can talk’ Matt agrees. In a moment of weakness he quickly jumps up behind Kenneth.
‘You are under arrest’ Matt says pinning his gun into Kenneth’s back.
‘Matt you can’t arrest Kenneth!’ Soraya suddenly blurts out to her own suprise.
‘You are right, I can’t ‘only’ arrest Kenneth, Soraya and Kenneth you are both under arrest’

[Meli]

...Part III

Beep beep beeeeeeeeep
Fadi jumps away from Roddy’s hospital bed and into Netts arms. ‘NOOO Nett this isn’t true, he’s gone, he really is gone’ Fadi sobs.
‘Hold up idiots’
Fadi turns around with surprise and watches how Roddy pulls all the tubes and wires out of his arms.
‘I’m not dead, I just have to remove all the tubes they plugged in. I don’t even need intensive care. I am Roddy, I am like a cat, and this certainly isn’t my last live at all’ he says and sits up in his hospital bed.
‘Good, I was worried I was going to loose my best spy. I mean, I wasn’t crying because I actually cared about you’ Fadi says quickly wiping his tears away with his sleeves.
‘Good’ Roddy says while walking back and forth trough his hospital room to get rid of his hospital outfit and to dress into his normal clothes.
‘Can we go now boss?’ he asks Fadi who is standing in the middle of the room with Nett. To Roddy’s surprise he notices that Fadi is holding Netts hand. When both of them realise that Roddy is looking at them holding hands they both jump apart and walk towards the door. ‘Don’t tell me you two hooked up Fadi? You know she is just trying to get back with Kenneth, do you?’ Roddy asks Fadi outside the hospital when Nett has just gone out to get their pet transport; Fadi’s loyal camels.
Fadi coughs to pull the attention of the awkward moment and looks at Roddy slightly touched and annoyed.
‘Shut your mouth Roddy, I paid you to help us on this mission, I didn’t pay you to open your mouth every two seconds for an opinion’ Fadi gives Roddy one last stern look before jumping onto his camel.

After two hours of riding in the desert of animal city Fadi, Nett and Roddy have finally arrived at the city dungeon, formerly known as the old police station and prison for animal city’s worst villains. The dungeon door is heavily guarded by Officer Melanie’s police force. Melanie, known as the best but most corrupt police officer in animal city, is standing in front of the door talking loudly to her mobile phone. Fadi never had trouble with the police, his family was known for their wealth and status and a few green dollar bills could always get him out of police trouble. Fadi parks his camels next to the normal cars and gives each camel a stroke on its head as a sign of love to his loyal animals.
‘Excuse me mr.’ Melanie says on a strict tone as she approaches Fadi.
‘Haven’t you read the signs in the sand?’ she asks while pointing to a sign under one of Fadi’s feet that displays a camel on a parking spot and a big red cross going right trough it.
‘You can’t park camels on this parking spot sir, I will have to ask you to remove your living vehicles or I’d have to write out a fine’ she adds and pulls out a notebook and a pen. Before she can write down a fine Fadi has already reached into the pockets of his jeans to pull out a wad of dollar bills. ‘I’m sure you can use some of this’ he says giving her a corrupt smile.
‘Now my girl needs to use your bathroom, I’m sure you can open the door to the dungeon for her?’ Fadi adds and nods towards Nett so she’ll walk along with Melanie who had never refused bribe money in her entire police career.
‘Are you sure your plan is going to work Fadi?’ Roddy asks nervously looking at the dungeon. The bats flying around the top tower of the dungeon gave him chills.
‘Trust me, Nett is a pro’ Fadi says giving Roddy a friendly pat on his shoulder.

‘Excuse me sir, I am looking for the bathroom, can you help me?’ Nett asks one of the guards. When Melanie left for an emergency code red, Nett was finally left alone on her mission to get Kenneth out of prison. Her flirtatious attempts towards another guard had given her the chance to steal the keys to Kenneth and Soraya’s prison and now all she had to do was get this guard out of her way. ‘You know, you look really handsome’ Nett says with a big smile on her face. The guard blushes as she flicks her hand trough her locks. ‘I know an photo agency that would love to give guys like you a shot to become famous, let me just get you a card’ Nett says realising this compliment has the guard eating out of the palm of her hands. Nett reaches out for the purse around her shoulders and rummages trough her stuff. Instead of getting out a business card she fishes out a silver gun, the one Fadi had given her for her birthday. She holds it up and the guard immediately reaches for his gun in defense.
‘Be a doll and open the door for me, don’t you dare refuse, I know how to handle a gun’ she says, gives the guard a wink and tosses him the keys. Slightly frightened he opens the door to the big prison door and runs away after Nett had given him a kung fu kick in his middle area.
She enters the prison and finds Kenneth sitting on a bench, Soraya leaning against him, his arm around her waist. Both seem asleep. Nett doesn’t like the view of them this close and feels a sting of jealousy. Angrily she shoots a bullet into the ceiling which makes both Kenneth and Soraya jump up.
‘I came to claim what’s mine’ Nett says referring to Kenneth who looks at her in surprise. It’s hard to say if he’s happy to see her or annoyed.
‘Nett, how sweet of you to save me out of prison. But I’m not leaving without Soraya’ Kenneth says taking Soraya by the hand and walking out of his prison cell. After Matt had locked both Soraya and Kenneth up they had become closer than ever before. Kenneth knew she was still in love with Matt, but after Matt had told her not to come near him ever again Soraya had agreed with Kenneth’s plan to make him jealous. Kenneth and Soraya would publicly announce they were back together. Soraya hoped this would get Matt to fight for her again, she knew Matt still loved her. But little did she know Kenneth’s evil plan underneath it all. He would do everything to keep Matt away from her and make her love him again. He would have his royal wedding and nothing or no one could stop him and Soraya from taking the royal crown from king Simmon. Kenneth smiled at his thought of ruling the kingdom and having Soraya as his wife.
‘Kenneth I’m not taking her with us’ Nett says angrily while walking after him and Soraya. She pulls Soraya back and holds her silver gun against her head. ‘Kenneth you can either come with me or watch Soraya die’
Kenneth looks at Nett in shock. Kenneth didn’t know Nett had turned out this way. Jealousy and hate had turned her into an evil person. The innocent girl he once loved had vanished.
‘You are right Nett, I will come with you. Soraya never loved me, you’re the only one who ever did’ he says soft and watches how Nett lets go of Soraya. She smiles at him lovingly. Kenneth reaches out for Netts gun. ‘There is no need for this thing now’ he says while shoving it inside his jeans pocket. He runs his hand over Netts cheek and to Netts surprise he kisses her full on the lips. During the kiss Kenneth gestures Soraya to run away and she follows his lead. To Soraya’s surprise she feels a tiny bit of jealousy but instead of wasting her time watching them kiss she runs outside and waits until Kenneth joins her outside two minutes later. They both leave the dungeon on one of Fadi’s camels. Kenneth stole one after he had lied to Fadi about killing Nett and he and Roddy ran inside in horror to save Netts live.

Two hours later they both arrive in the Palace of animal city. Kenneth knew no one could harm him inside palace doors, Kenneth was royalty, evil or not they were protected by law inside the palace. Kenneth noticed Soraya acted slightly different after he had kissed Nett to get her out of prison. Maybe his little plan was working. Soraya was falling for him again and was showing signs of jealousy. Just as Kenneth entered the palace Marc, his mentor approached them. ‘If it isn’t Animals city’s own Bonny and Clyde’ he says. Kenneth doesn’t give any attention to Marcs comment. Marc silently watches Kenneth as he walks to his room along with Soraya and wonders if this behaviour was the bad he had sensed in one of their conversations. Or was Kenneth capable of more evil and chaos and was this just the beginning?