Hey! My first Aladdin fanfic. Well, first I've posted anyway. I'm starting with a short story that's actually a one-shot I made cut up into different sections because it's 23 frickin pages long. That's pretty good saying the episode is 21 minutes long and I skipped a bunch of scenes. Hope you like!
"Dagger rock. Dagger rock. Dagger Rock!" My mind chanted over and over. That stupid pebble of knives taunted my thoughts and caused me to push my head into my hands, trying to block out the sounds. But they wouldn't slow.
Normally, in a mind-numbing situation like this, I would put on some soothing music and lay in my bed, slowly releasing my thoughts. But when I tried that, only more memories of music clouded my eyes until closing them only opened windows of memories to replay through my eyelids. Memories of an hour ago were my focus of attention. Unwillingly, I had allowed myself to slip back in time.
Both Aladdin and I were soaring away from Agraba on carpet. None of these things were new, but the sense of love and that only Aladdin and I were there.
"What a perfect day!" I commented as carpet landed in a small oasis in the desert. Aladdin jumped off before me and took my hand as I exited.
"It's all in the company you keep." Aladdin complemented how much fun my company was. I allowed love to radiate from my eyes, and our lips closed the gap. Now, if we lived in a perfect world, then we would have kissed, and we would have gotten our 'perfect date'. But before any magic happened, we both look at the sound of whimpering. Sure enough, a small baby fox was caught in a ruthless jaw trap. Aladdin released me from his romantic hold and voiced my thoughts. "What kind of creep would set a trap like this?"
He released the fox from its bite and surprisingly enough, the fox was fine and running in my direction. It raced into my open arms and purred as I pet it. "Aww… he's so cute!" I closed my eyes and rubbed my face against it. When they opened, I saw Aladdin attempt, in vain, to pick up his foot. The loose sand that had once supported Aladdin had become black goo.
"Aladdin!" I called, sensing the new found danger of this place. Right before my eyes the lovable fox sneered and its fur became smooth scales of a flying eel. The ugly fish was grey, and wiggled easily from my loose grip. Where did I know that scaled ferret? I remember it, lifeless, with two small arms wrapped around it…
Losing interest in the beast, I returned my attention to Aladdin. Not able to walk up to him, I restrained myself to the end of the pond of goop. Carpet flew over to Aladdin and tried to pull him out of the pond, but before he could, a blue blast of magic blew him away and caused me to jump down.
"Aladdin, you're looking well, but trapped." This voice sent a shiver up my spine and I wanted to scream. This feeling was a feeling I got often, whenever I was given time to think about the relationship between Aladdin and I, and I hated it more than anything I have ever experienced.
But still I looked towards the echoed voice and saw a large hole rip though the thin air, and a man a little older than me slip past. My eyes widened, with an unknown emotion of horror and joy. How my heart was still beating I didn't know. But I couldn't look away, because he hadn't changed a bit.
Mozenrath was wearing a black cape and a dark blue shirt and pants. Down his outfit was a constant design, a golden S between two golden lines, with black filler. He was wearing a single brown glove, and a dark blue hat with a diamond shaped ruby in front. He appeared to be carrying out a conversation with Aladdin, but I didn't hear it. I was in complete shock.
Searing pain suddenly over took my face, and my eyes readjusted to the changed image my eyes were seeing. No longer was Mozenrath in it, Carpet had blocked my vision, and I just realized he slapped me. To ensure I didn't shout, he also clamped my mouth shut.
"Why did you do that?" I mumbled through his hand… thing. Unable to speak, he didn't answer, but did point to Aladdin and hinted we were going over to save him. I nodded, my Mozenrath trance broken. After Mozenrath had finished speaking about whatever he was talking about (I still wasn't listening…), I hissed at carpet to move, and we raced over to Aladdin. I called to his attention, and he reached for me to grab his hand. But no matter how hard I pulled, Aladdin was really stuck.
"Oh! A girl of action." Just knowing Mozenrath was talking about me perked my ears. "Where are the tears little princess? Beg me for mercy." His voice became a bitter mock, and as he spoke the word princess, I was lost in his eyes again. His cold, black eyes that sucked joy like a black hole sucked light. They were lost to me now. Soon after my state I was struck with the sting of his light blue magic and carpet and I were knocked to the ground.
The burning of my body from the magic was nothing compared to the emptiness that plagued me now. He- he didn't even… after all… I did. I always imagined what a breaking heart would feel like, but I had never experienced pain to this level before. Now, all I wanted was to scream and cry, tear things apart, and become controlled by my ripping emotional pain, like nothing I've ever felt. Nothing could have gotten me up from the dusty floor, and I wanted to lie there till I died.
But I couldn't leave Aladdin to perish.
As the black goo grew a large hand and swallowed him whole, I called to him and lifted myself off the ground. But even then I couldn't reach him before the whole pond became a small ball containing my fiancé. I jumped to grab onto him, but the ball zipped into Mozenrath's hands and he took it willingly. Without anything to stop me, I fell face first onto the ground below, and again heard his voice.
"You know, princess, pitiful is very cute on you." That phrase struck me hard, right in my chest, and I again wanted to lie down and forget everything, but I couldn't get distracted. "If you want to see your beloved Aladdin again. Have the genie delivered to me at Dagger Rock, by nightfall." He stroke me with another fireball and I fell far from him. A little too far for my taste.
"Now," He continued. "I know this won't be easy, but don't try anything royal, like sending an army! Defy me and…" His eel flew around my head.
"Aladdin pays." The Monster hissed in my ear.
"With pain." Mozenrath clarified.
"YES!" The eel cheered, and they both laughed, disappearing in a whirlwind of Mozenrath's magic. My eyes narrowed as they left, but when they fully disappeared, tears flooded my eyes. Carpet saw me and thought I was crying for Aladdin, so he comforted me. But it wasn't long before midday and carpet decided I could cry on the way back home.
By the time we reached Agraba, I had cleaned myself up, and decided to tell genie.
"Al's got nothing to fear Jas! If that warped wizard wants to take me on, let him try!" At this time he transformed into different warriors and gladiators, but by the end he was a hockey champ. I always loved the game hockey... I shook the painful memory from my mind and tried to explain the situation to genie better.
"Genie, it's an obvious trap! Mozenrath wants your magic!" Any excuse to go to Dagger Rock worked for me, even this. "I will rescue Aladdin."
"No! You will not!" Father interrupted my excuse. "It's much too dangerous!" But he couldn't talk me out of this, I was a great negotiator. I was royalty after all.
"But father-" Was that the best I could come up with?
"Don't worry, Jasmine, I'll send my finest men to rescue the boy." Finest men my ass.
"Father, that's just what Mozenrath expects!"
"Dearest," There he goes again… "Aladdin's best hope is for you to leave this matter to my guards."
"Father Listen, we-"
"Jasmine! I may- I- I may be a little out of practice at this, but" He fumbled from his 'out of practice.' "Go to your room!" I sneered at him from his lack of understanding, but stormed off to my room anyway. In my room I would be in peace. But peace isn't what I got.
"Dagger rock. Dagger rock. Dagger Rock!" My mind chanted over and over. That stupid pebble of knives taunted my thoughts and caused me to push my head into my hands, trying to block out the sounds. But they wouldn't slow.
Oh, I wish life was easy! With the thoughts of Dagger rock came thoughts of Mozenrath. And I didn't need those right now. Not when rescuing Aladdin was on the menu. But I guess thoughts of Mozenrath were natural. He is the love of my life after all.
((Did anyone notice that Jasmine already knew Mozenrath's name? I did that on purpose, not a glitch!))
Did you enjoy? I thought that was a good ending point. And don't worry, this was a short chapter. The next one should be longer.