Gift of the Magi (Adaptation!): The Tale of the Desolate Benefactor

A thief-prince named Amlan is in adventure and turns to seek romance and must come to terms with the humility of dance.

An unusual tale of a thief-prince who seeks magic and at least finds eventual design. 

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Amlan Satan (code-name: Storm-Shadow) is a wily infiltration-agent of blood-diamonds (warlord-gems from Africa/Europe used to fund terrorism) and subverts baron control of banks in Asia being used to store terrorism-financing gems. Satan's worked for years as Storm-Shadow and is now retiring in his private Indian mansion!

SATAN: Hopefully, as a practicing Mormon, I'll find multiple beautiful wives to take care of me in my old age!

Storm-Shadow (Amlan Satan) was considered an ultimate blood-diamond pirate/infiltrator, stealing terrorism-financing gems from major barons hiding in the East, including Goldfinger and Raimi, who'd been hiding/storing their evil diamonds in safe-boxes in major banks, all targeted by Storm-Shadow, a real thief-prince.

INTERPOL: Blood-diamond corruption threatens the worldwide diamond-exchange today.

Storm-Shadow (Amlan Satan) used various clever disguises in his theatrical heists employing various nifty tools/weapons and gadgets such as remote-controlled machinery and toy water-rifles.

He once used a toy water-rifled filled with corrosive acid, claiming he's an Interpol-lateral working against Goldfinger's metal securities in Eastern banks!

Now, Satan hopes to become a happily married Mormon man and has found 4 magnificent women to call his angel-wives, his magic-charms of retirement and love and peace. However this is not a normal tale, friends.

SATAN: I find great spiritual idealism in Commando war-comics depicting great soldiers of old on horseback with sabers.

SATAN: I shall gift each of my 4 angel-wives with ornate custom-crafted toy gems, symbolizing youth and innocence.

The sad part of this unusual tale is that Amlan Satan is not psychologically normal or dashing. In fact, he's quite insane, though not criminally-insane! He loves Mortal Kombat online combat video-game tourneys and participates, claiming he's the world-incarnate of the MK Eastern martial-arts warrior Bo Rai Cho. He actually believes this, the strange eccentric!

ASHA: I was the first woman Amlan ('Bo') married, and when I discovered his bizarre video-game hobby, I fell laughing!

ESHA: I was his second-wife, and I learned Amlan ('Bo') is a fat-cat prince with very little sanity in the area of brisk romance.

MARA: I was his third angel-wife, and when I found out about Amlan ('Bo') and his video-games and toy gems, I felt strange!

EVANGELINA: I was his third 'angel-wife' and having discovered Amlan ('Bo') is quite insane, I had to refuse his gem-gifts.

The unfortunate ending to this unusual tale is that Amlan ('Bo') died alone and lonely, though he did remember his special 'spirit-gift' of toy gems which he presented in earnest to each of his 4 beautiful angel-wives, who'd felt dry because of his highly eccentric love of video-games and toy jewelry. While being an excellent blood-diamond infiltration-agent (Storm-Shadow) in his past life, he'd failed to become a developed human being in the area of mature and focused romance/marriage. Though never unfaithful/adulterous, Amlan/Bo died alone and was buried by his butler in a cemetery in India. On his epitaph read the somber note, "The gift of the magi didn't please my sweethearts, but my adventures in detective-work gave me my special diligence."

The moral of this story is that you can never predict the outcome of any human being, regardless of how unusual, outlandish, adventurous, or earnest his attempts at constructing a fortuitous life may be, which may be a sign that the best value we may wrought from individual contemplation of our own lives reflects only what we ourselves can offer to drama-poets.

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)