Emperor's Ruby Ceremony

There once was a walled city with a large Japanese palace with old brick buildings all of which were owned by an Emperor but his most prized possession was a giant ruby fixed in his throne this ruby put a protection field around his city to keep enemies out. one hazy morning he awoke to a horrendous sight the ruby had been stolen “where's my ruby” exasperated the Emperor, the entire palace was thrown into turmoil finally the ruby was turned in by Kumagaya a nearby gem dealer who had just realized what he had bought. Kumagaya stated that the man who had sold the gem to him had been wearing a hood and must have been a servant because he had the Emperor’s emblem on the side of his hood, had been quiet and was scrawny but was quick on his feet. …show more content…
That's it I'm going to steal it tonight, as for the rest of the day I´ll hide in the water closet but while he sat in one of the few places be belonged as a plan brewed in his head he send a death threat to the Emperor from a near city so more guards would be protecting the emperor and less would be protecting the Emperor’s throne room and more particularly the Emperor’s jewel would after the Emperor was asleep at the confusion of the guards changing was abroad Xiong snuck into the emperor's throne room and used his metal chopsticks to pry the large crystal out of its position where it had been fastened for hundreds of years and slipped it into his pocket and sold it to one of his friends who was a jewel dealer named Kumagaya Kiyokuni. Kumagaya was not aware of Xiong's secret and evil plan, once the jewel was in the jeweler's possession Xiong would flee the city little did he know the city's protection also kept enemies of the city in the field of protection so when Xiong Jian-hong tried to run he was denied entrance to the outside of the city's gate so he did the only thing he could, which was to go home and sleep on it, in the morning the entire city was distressed and thrown into chaos and once Kumagaya had described the culprit Xiong and his twin brother Jian-hong had been suspected and the emperor decreed that in two days the culprit would be executed and would be interrogated and imprisoned depending on whose bamboo shoot had grown by sunrise the following day. Xiong had feared getting caught so he went to cut his shoot but in the heat of the moment he cut his twins and in the morning Jian-hong was interrogated and imprisoned for it had been a test as to who would cut theirs in fear of getting caught that night well Jian-hong had been