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There was a family, the Cages, who collected rare items of history. Their collection raked up a net worth of $100 million, but in an unfortunate happening their family got in trouble with the Rare Artifact of Value Acquirers, RAVA for short. Being jealous of the Cages' large collection they created false documents claiming that one of the Cages' artifacts was theirs. This particular artifact was of high importance, the most beautiful painting of a woman from ancient Indian culture, Sita. RAVA placed its claim and obtained Sita without the Cages even knowing what happened. This particular painting was dear to one of the thirteen children, Nicolas, as he was tasked with caring for the art collection.
Furious that RAVA had unjustly stolen the painting from him, he set out to obtain it back. As he was leaving, one of his brothers, Riley, saw him and said he would not let him leave on this adventure alone. They unfortunately had no starting point to begin their search for Sita. This was due to the secrecy of RAVA and where its headquarters was located.
They began their journey by searching every known art museum in the area, but to no avail. They then went to black market auctions known for selling high-priced paintings. They did this for the next three years until one day an arts acquirer approached them asking why they have been to so many auctions without a single purchase. They explained their situation. The mystery man said he had heard of the famous Cages and of what RAVA had done to them. He told them his friend had a run in with RAVA earlier in the year.
He saw the Sita painting, after it did not sell due to everyone knowing that RAVA had unjustly taken it from them. Then he followed her back to RAVA's headquarters where RAVA captured him and had his memory wiped. Fortunately, he knew if he was captured they would do this so he wrote himself a message of everything that had taken place.
The headquarters is located in Washington D.C.
They are hiding their paintings under important documents utilizing the security systems set up for these documents. After hearing this the two brothers devised a plan to discover which document Sita was hiding under. They asked their old friend, Hans, the son of a king who could diplomatically enter the country and ask questions without suspicion, as he was a painting collector, to help discover her location. Hans crossed the sea to the US and began asking questions, acting as though he were interested in the purchase of the Sita painting. After the museum holding Sita closed down RAVA took Hans to her. Under the Declaration of Independence, there she was as radiant as ever.
He said she was beautiful, but not as beautiful as he had imagined so as to trick RAVA into not suspecting anything. After this Hans told the two brothers where she was, while offering any help he could give. The two brothers came up with a plan to steal the Declaration of Independence in order to re-obtain their Sita. They basically followed the plot of National Treasure and got her back. After this RAVA became a known fraud to the government, which caused an investigation, leading to their demise. RAVA was no more and Sita was back with her rightful family.
Author's Note: The original story was that Ravana, a demon, stole the wife of a man, Rama. Lakshmana decided that he would help Rama with the search for Sita. They searched to get her back, but to no avail until they ran into a vulture whose brother told of the location of Ravana and Sita. The vulture's brother had gotten into a fight with Ravana attempting to get Sita back for Rama. After this the two brothers befriended a monkey god Hanuman who could leap across the ocean and search for the exact location of Sita. The reason he needed to leap over the ocean was because they learned that Lanka, the capital of the demons, is an island. After Hanuman got to Lanka he found Sita and told Rama. Then Rama and company waged war against Ravana eventually killing Ravana and getting Sita back. I decided to set up the story to be familiar, the plot of National Treasure, all while maintaining the overall plot and moral of the story. Nic Cage is Rama, Riley is Lakshmana, the vulture is the mystery man, Hans is Hanuman, and RAVA is Ravana. I wanted to keep out the violence, as well as to keep it within modern reality somewhat.
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Website: Public Domain Edition of the Ramayan
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