Chapter One...First tell tale signs...
For many centuries that past, there was a legendary storm that terrorized the seven deserts. Nothing can stop it from it's fateful path and destruction. This was no typical sand storm. There was something about the storm Agrabah. He was there to warn the city that the storm is coming.
There was talk in the marketplace about the strange weather conditions that Agrabah's been having lately.
" What is going on with the climate?" said date farmer. " One day it was pouring down hard and the next day it's hot like a burning kettle."
" Last week, I had the papyrus sheets imported from Egypt and the gusts of wind blew away back where it came from." said the merchant.
" Did the wind really blew back to Egypt?"
" I don't know but the wind was that strong."
" Don't forget about the sand that floats around like a fog." said one of the citizens
" It was so thick that there was plenty of cart accidents and my son couldn't breath through this filthy air. His lungs aren't that strong he almost died from suffocation." said another.
Something moist was coming down and there was sun shining through the cumulous clouds. A chill went through the atmosphere.
" Brr!" The farmer shook his body. " When this going to end ?"
All these people were unaware that these were the signs of a 100 year storm is coming...
At the palace, a princess walked out her balcony and felt the relief of the weather. She smelled the fresh rain drops in the air. . It was a relief for everyone. The hot weather from yesterday wasn't good for the elderly and the children of Agrabah. Especially her father, the Sultan. Somehow, Jasmine felt that something big is coming.
Her husband came to join her to enjoy the view. He took a deep breath of the refreshing air.
" Finally! A change of weather from this humid and heat." he said.
" Aladdin, don't you think that this is strange weather? Yesterday's heat wave was. Today, it's a little chilly and wet. "
" You're right. Jasmine. In all my years living here in Agrabah, I have never experience this before."
The princess wrapped her arm around his waist and cuddled close to him.
" Mines too" she said. They stood there at the balcony and enjoyed the view together. Princess Jasmine's balcony has this outstanding view of city and the view over looking the desert horizon. The princess saw a cloud that was the color of sand that was spread across that desert horizon. There were three shades of atmosphere desert, small sandy haze, and sky. Aladdin saw it too.
" Look at that. A sand storm." he said.
" You don't think that it's coming over here. Do you?" asked Jasmine
" I don't know. But, I'll grab carpet and investigate to make sure that's not moving this way. "
" Be careful love. You don't know what we are up against."
" Don't worry. Jas." Aladdin assured, " I am ready for anything."
In the throne room, a prophet named Fasir, came to warn the Sultan about a disaster heading towards the city of Agrabah. Genie over heard the conversation.
" The 100 year Storm ? You're about a century off, man. "
" Are you sure ? The signs of 100 year storm had passed. Right now, we having a moment of peace before the destruction begins." said the Fasir.
" It can't be happening now. If it was, wouldn't I be the first one to know about it?" Genie rebuttled.
" Sultan! " a voice called from the right of the Sultan's ear. It was Aladdin coming to him
" Yes my boy." the Sultan answered
" Jasmine and I were on her balcony . We noticed that there's something conjuring up over the desert horizon. I'm going to grab carpet to investigate it.."
" What does it look like?" asked the Sultan.
" It's a sandy cloud that spread across that desert line." said Aladdin.
" You see? I wouldn't be here to warn you. " said Fasir.
" If something was going on I would know. I'm magical. " said Genie.
" Your nearly semi phenomical. I'm just a prophet. Go check in the magical records."
" Okay, Fasir. I will. Be back until the cows come home." Genie turned into a cow farmer and disappeared.
Aladdin questioned, " A magical storm ?"
" Yes, Aladdin. It's enormity of the storm and the electric currents has this magical dominance. Anyone who gets caught in it. Disappears."
" It doesn't seem like a big storm from the balcony."
" Seeing is deceiving. Don't get caught into it."
Aladdin whistled for Carpet and took off. He was speeding through the desert at high speeds. From what appears tiny from Jasmine's balcony became bigger and bigger with every mile that carpet traveled. Aladdin stopped and was staring at the mouth of it.
The storm was miles across and miles high. He could hear the winds howling, the thunders crashing and bolts of lightening were flashing. He felt the air around him moving towards the storm like a suction cup. With every minute that passed,the force was getting stronger and stronger. From the direction the storm was going. It's pathway was going straight towards Agrabah. Aladdin and Carpet needed to head out of there.
His body felt as if he was being dragged and there was a explainable force that pulled Aladdin in. " Carpet! Let's move." Carpet swept him under and picked Al up. Carpet was speeding top notch and the storm was right after it. A tsunami of a sand wave developed. Aladdin looked back and his heart seemed to skip a beat. " Punch it!"
Aladdin and Carpet both looked like a lone surfer riding a huge wave. Al looked above him and saw the wave of sand ripped. Carpet was zooming as if he was about to break the sound barrier. Al held on tightly and he felt that he was going to fly off. Just in the nick of time, the sand wave crashed behind them. Al looked behind him as he saw the wave crashed. His eyes were wide opened, and jaw dropped to the floor. He screamed in excitement. He can't believe that he had survive that thing! Al's adrenaline rushed to the max. They headed back to confirm that the rumor was true and needed a plan to save the people of Agrabah.
Back in Agrabah, the Sultan was looking out on Jasmine's balcony. Jasmine gave her father some water.
" Thank you dear." The Sultan took a sip from the glass. " It looks so small from here."
" I hope that Aladdin is okay." said Jasmine.
" Don't worry my dear. He will come back in one piece." assured the Sultan.
Genie popped into the scene with a worried look in his eyes.
" Guys, we are in serious trouble. According to the book of magical occurences .We are due for the 100 year storm. This is not your average dust devil. That thing out there is huge and coming to this city. "
Aladdin came into the room and overheard the entire conversation.
Jasmine saw him and ran into his arms. " You made it back."
" Of course I did. Being out there made me realized how much I love you and a reason to live for." said Aladdin as he embraced her back. He turned and faced everybody " We need a plan to save this city and fast."
" I believe I have the solution to our problem." said the Sultan. " Follow me and I will show you." The Sultan lead them to a stone door that was located underground of the palace. " My grandmother thought that my grandfather was crazy. He had dreams of the 100 year storm and he wasn't sure when it was coming. He thought that the storm was going to happen in his time or my father's time. So my grandfather created this." The Sultan placed his hand on the stone and the stone sunk in. There were clicks that came behind the door and the stone door slowly opened. Sultan got a torch on the wall, dipped it's tip in the bucket of oil and lighted it. The gang followed the Sultan as he descended down the stairs. With every torch that Sultan pass by, he gave the gang a light of their own. They stopped and was shock with it's incredible view. It was an underground city. Each building had the Arabian Architechure and design. It looked like as if someone carved the city through the wall. Marketplaces, alleyways,schools, storage cells, and hospital. Everything that they needed from the outside world was here.
Jasmine felt the wind breezed through her, "Where's the wind coming from?"
Aladdin pointed up to the holes up above. " Look! We are practically under the streets of Agrabah. There's the holes are the wells where they get water from up above."
There were dangling buckets and ropes hanging.
" That way, we can tell when the storm is going to be over." said Jasmine. She turned to her father, " How long this storm will last?"
The Sultan sighed, " I have no clue dearest. It will go for days. We don't know if anything up above will be destroyed when we return. Just hope and pray that the watchers up above will have mercy on us." There was a long pause with the Sultan. He continued to speak, " The reason why Agrabah's been suffering from poverty because my grandfather wasted the city's money by building this. Who knew that my grandfather's nightmares foresaw a fate that was ahead of him and his beloved city?"
It was something that Jasmine never knew and it had been a secret from her for years.
" How come father you never told me about this?"
" Because I too was an unbeliever of the storm until today. It was passed down to every man who resumes the throne. Aladdin would be next to know. "
" I hope that Cassim and Iago are going to be safe since the storm coming this way."
Jasmine assured Aladdin, " Your father is far from Agrabah. I don't think that he'll be near anytime soon."
That afternoon, the Sultan made an address to the city about the disaster coming to their beloved city. He ordered an evacuation plan and ordered every man to board up the door and windows. Prepare each household essentials that they need to survive until the storm passes over. Sadira stands among the crowd and looks up above. She saw the loving couple next to the Sultan. Her heart breaks for the man that she longed for. All these pending questions popped into her head. All these different scenarios of What ifs and situations to make Aladdin choose her over Jasmine before they were married. Sadira had made her attempts and it had always failed..
Sadira looked at Aladdin, " If only things were different then we would be together. We are so the same in so many ways. If only you could know the real me." She said to herself. Sadira shook her head to get her back into reality. " Sadira!" She shook herself up to get rid of the jitters. " Stop it! I have to accept, the way things are now. He's happy." she spoke to herself.
For the rest of the week, every one in the whole city was working together in preparation of the storm. The tiny speck of dust that appeared from Jasmine's balcony was growing. Still, they had plenty of time to save the buildings and the people of Agrabah. Every one gathered up food and belongings. Other worked on boarding up windows and doors for their homes and shops. The Sultan, Genie, Aladdin and Jasmine took part helping with the community.
Aladdin came into a building and saw someone struggling holding some wooden boards. He came to the person, " Here. Let me help you. You shouldn't carry too much that you couldn't handle."
" No, it's okay. I got it." the person responded. The person put the boards down. Aladdin was glad to see their face.
" Sadira."
" Aladdin. Oh. hi. how ... how are you?" Sadira said so nervously.
" Good. " he responded. " Looks like we're working on this building together."
" Yeah. Looks like." Sadira smiled and stared at him. For some reason she got lost into him. Sadira blushed and quickly got some boards to hammer it into the windows. Somehow, she has to avoid him so Aladdin won't tell that it was obvious that her crush for him hadn't left. Sadira knew that she had to find a way to avoid him. All day, Aladdin comes in and hammers the boards to the windows and door. Sadira would walk out to get more supplies. Aladdin walks out the door and a few minutes Sadira walks in. Aladdin sat down to take a rest from the exhausting job.
Sadira climbed down her ladder and Aladdin notion to her to come sit with him.
" Let me get something to -" Sadira offered
" Berry Juice!" a female voice called out and interrupted her.
" Drink." Sadira finished her sentence. It was Jasmine bringing a pitcher of ice cold berry juice and glasses. Aladdin jumped up and ran to Jasmine. He gave her a quick kiss on the lips. Sadira just looked away.
" I thought maybe you would be thirsty after working hard. " Jasmine saw Sadira and offered a glass to her.
" Thanks." Sadira needed to get out. " Hey! How about a snack? Hungry?" she offered.
" It wouldn't hurt. " replied Aladdin.
Sadira rushed out of the building as quickly to retrieve some snacks.
" She's been quiet all day." said Aladdin. " We barely got a chance to talk."
" Yeah, I haven't seen her that much since the wedding." said Jasmine. " Guess what?"
She cuddled closer to her husband. " We're alone."
Sadira returned with some sandwiches and saw the couple being in each other's embraces. " This kills." she said so broken heartedly. " It's like Jasmine is flaunting him in my face." She knocked on the door frame. " Hi, I brought snacks for all of us. I hope that I'm not interrupting anything."
Jasmine helped Sadira carry some of the food and they sat down to eat.
" We haven't had a chance to talk Sadira. How are you ?" Aladdin asks.
" Haven't seen you around lately. "Jasmine added.
" Well. You know. I'm trying to go clean. No more magic. Just living a normal life."
" You haven't stopped by the palace as you usually do." said Jasmine
Sadira was getting nervous and not letting Aladdin and Jasmine the real reason she haven't been visiting lately. " I got a job working with Omar in his cafe." She lied.
" Just don't forget to stop by and say, 'Hi' Once in a while." Jasmine got up and brushed the dirt off her pants. " Well, I got to go and make sure that move to the underground shelter is going smoothly." Jasmine turned to Aladdin and kissed him goodbye. " See you later?"
" Okay." Aladdin says as his smile spread across from one cheek to the other. He watched Jasmine leave and he sighed so hopelessly in love. " I married the most wonderful person in the world." Aladdin looked at Sadira and she was looking down so depressed. " What's wrong?"
Sadira smiled as if he didn't understand where she's coming from. " No, it's okay. "
" Come on. Tell me. I'm your friend right. You can tell me anything. " Aladdin offered. " You can't look sad and tell me that nothing is wrong."
" I want to have what you have. Someone to spend the rest of my life with." Sadira admitted and pouted. " What's wrong with me ?"
" Nothing is wrong with you. There's -"
Aladdin got interrupted by Sadira jumping in, " What if I'm not pretty enough ?"
" Of course you are pretty." Aladdin replied.
" Really?" Sadira smiled.
" But there's more to a person than just being pretty."
" Do you think a guy like you could ever fall for a girl like me?"
" I believe so. You are caring and smart. " Aladdin nudged her and winked at her, " You even got more street credit than I do. There's someone out there for you. He'll find you. Just like I found Jasmine."
Somehow Sadira had an ounce of hope and it was smashed when Jasmine was mentioned.
Dusk was set over the horizon and everyone went home after a long hard day of work. Sadira returned to her home. She sat on her windows ledge and looked at the palace. " If Aladdin met me first before Jasmine then he would have been with me." Sadira sighed and smiled in such happiness. " He thinks I'm pretty, caring and smart. We're so the same. He even admitted it too." She sighed again. " But what's done is done and there's nothing I can do about it. He's happily married." Sadira got off her window ledge and got a novel from her library. " Maybe if read then it will help me to get Aladdin off my mind." Sadira stubbed her toe on the bookcase and something fell out to the floor. " Ow! That smarts." She saw a page in the book talking about the 100 year storm. Sadira looked at it and refused to read it's contents. " No, I'm trying to go clean now." She tried to compromise, " Maybe If I find a way to stop it then we don't have to continue boarding the doors and windows then I don't have to be stuck with Aladdin." She picked up the book and read out loud, " 100 year storm a magical occurrence that come every 100 years. Strangest things had happen whenever the storm passes. Some say the storm can send you into a dimension, another world, or another time." Sadira stopped reading, " Interesting. Maybe if I...then I...then we..." Suddenly she changes her mind, " This is silly! How is this going to work! Everytime I tried some kind of spell, it would always blow up in my face." It was like Sadira was battling with her conscious. " But, if Aladdin met me first and Jasmine is nowhere around. It will be perfect." She quickly to her cabinet full of different variety of sands.
Sadira started making a sand spell.
" No! No! No! No! You can't do this!" a voice called out. Sadira looked where the voice is coming from. It was Venus goddess of Love. She was so beautiful that it made Sadira sick.
" It's girls like you get all the good guys and end up treating them badly."
" What makes you think that I'm like that." Venus responded
" Look at you. You get men so blinded by your beauty that you will make them do anything you want. "
" I can't help it if I am this way. This is how the way I was made."
" I don't know who are you to come here and tell me not to pursue my happiness with the man I love."
" I am Venus goddess of Love."
" Yeah right. I'm the Princess of Agrabah."
" Don't you wish you were." Sadira was quiet because Venus was right. The goddess of love continued to speak." You can't do this because Aladdin and Jasmine belong together. No matter how you try to seperate them, they will always find each other. Doesn't matter when, where, or how. Fate will bring them together. "
" He had help with a higher power to be with the princess. It wasn't natural."
" You're saying that without the Genie. You would've met him first and he would fall head over heels in love with you."
" Yes"
Venus laughed hysterically in disbelief. Sadira was folded her arms upset. The goddess of love continued to laugh. " They met even before the genie. Automatically they liked each other."
" Okay. Are you done now?" said Sadira.
Venus looked up and continued to laugh. Suddenly she stopped, " I don't think that is neccesarily true. You see I am Venus and I'm the one who decides who falls in love with one another. Aladdin is the perfect match for Jasmine. He's going to change Agrabah as Sultan. I have someone for you. I guarantee it."
Saxifrage ignored Venus gesture. " Aladdin even said it himself. He said that I'm pretty, caring, and smart."
" He was just saying that to make you feel better." Venus explained
" Why can't the person I was meant to be with is Aladdin?"
" Because he's a match for Jasmine and he's going to change Agrabah."
" What if he and I change Agrabah together?
Venus began to laugh hysterically again and sudden change of face in displease
, " No. It won't go down that way." Venus pulled a movie screen for Sadira to watch. " See this guy? His name is Jafar. Former Sultan's advisor. Evil sorcerer. Without Aladdin, he would've took over Agrabah, killed the Sultan and the Princess. Agrabah wouldn't be so lovely anymore."
Sadira knew that Venus was right and thought about Agrabah wouldn't be as wonderful if Aladdin hadn't defeated Jafar. " Well, I'm not going to change the destiny of Agrabah."
Venus sighed, " That's a good girl. I'm glad that you made the right choice."
" I'm just going to send Aladdin and I in another place, no magic or mystical beings or Jasmine to be around."
Venus slapped her forehead in disbelief, " Well I guess I had to make you learn. But I'm warning you! Fate and I are like this." She crossed her fingers and showed them to Sadira.. " They will find each other and the rest is my job."
" Believe me, the place where I am going to. They are definately not going to meet each other. He'll be so in love with me that if Jasmine were to come around then he be saying, "Jasmine who?"
Venus looked up at the heavens, " Please let me just tie her up and send her to the ends of the earth. This will be over." Suddenly a crash of lighting struck her, " Okay. I'll let her learn her lesson." Venus turned to Sadira, " I guess that there's nothing I can say or do to make you stop."
" Yep." answered Sadira as she continued to make her sand spell.
Still Venus wants to make Sadira stop this spell that she's conjuring up, " You know the power that this 100 year storm can do and it's whole entirety."
" Yep"
" Your life maybe at stake."
" I'm willing to sacrifice."
" Are you paying attention to anything I said ?"
" Nope."
The storm gets closer and closer. Every citizens prepared themselves to go to the underground city. Jasmine was at her balcony looking at the storm that was ahead. From what appears so tiny from a far last week is now huge. She could see the swirls of the sand that encircles in the brown cloud. The depth of opaqueness was dark and Jasmine couldn't see that beautiful desert horizon anymore. Crashes of thunder and bolts of lighting surges through out the storm. In another twenty four hours the storm will arrive.
Aladdin went to find Jasmine out in the balcony and she stood there almost hypnotize at the storm's greatness. " My love? Are you okay?"
Jasmine sighed, " I've read cities that have been destroyed by natural disasters. What if this is Agrabah's "
" I don't think that we'll be swiped off the map just yet."
" I'm just trying to get a last glimpse of a city that I grew up in. The beautiful architechture, the warm atmosphere, a place where weary travelers can rest, the history and the work that my family's generations had done here. What if nothing's left when we return?"
Aladdin grabbed Jasmine hands and looked Jasmine straight into her exotic eyes. His boyish smile and sincerity makes Jasmine fall in love with him again. " Even if we return and everything is destroyed. We will build a bigger and better Agrabah. A place where the homeless has a place to eat and sleep. A place where scholars can learn and get a higher education. A place for travelers can have their vacation here. A place where a family can move and get settled here. A place where we can watch our children grow and where we can grow old together."
" So my darling husband how many children are you planning to have?" says Jasmine as she wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Maybe five or six. How about enough to fill a caravan?" Aladdin smiled so deviously
Jasmine laughed. Aladdin kissed her. ' I married the most wonderful person in the world.' Jasmine thought as she was in her husbands embrace. A loud thunder crashed that startled the both of them as they parted. He took Jasmine's hand and led her inside to her room. " We have to pack up to leave."
They packed up their bags and headed for the underground shelter. Within hours, the winds started to pick up. Genie started to feel strange and looking out of the ordinary. His skin started to flash colors involuntary. " Al! Al! Al! This is so odd. I never experience this. I'm flashing like I'm a Las Vegas billboard. "
" Try to cover it. You're drawing attention to yourself."
" This storm. It's magical power is too strong for me. You know what happens if we mix magic with magic. " Unexpectedly his skin stopped changing colors." Oh! That's much better." Genie was relieved then he felt another change. He was turning into different personalities and costumes.
" Quickly get into the lamp. I'll call you when the storm's over." offered Aladdin. Genie listened to him and went into the lamp.
Jasmine recognized everyone's face except for one. " Hey, where's Sadira?"
" She's probably here and got in early before us."
Mixing magic with magic is a bad combination and it was something that Sadira never knew about. It was true, every citizen was in the underground city except for her. As she watched the citizens walk to their underground shelter. The winds was getting strong and the clarity of the sky was getting brown. The loud thunder rumbled loudly. Sadira could hear someone coming in her home. Sadira quickly hid into a secret space behind her bookcase. It was a team of royal guards making sure that nobody got left behind or stayed behind.
" Building's empty. Let's go to the next."
As the guards left, Sadira ran to the window and watched the guards walk away. She turned her head and she saw the monster storm. Fear struck her as the storm continued to move inch by inch closer to Agrabah's city limits. Sadira bravely stayed behind. She waited for an hour and looked out of her window. The storm had already touched the city's palace wall and the first part of the city's limits. Sadira grabbed her bag of magic sands and went outside. She stood in the middle of the street and her jaw dropped with shock and awe. It was nothing that she has seen ever in her life. Her heart skipped a beat and a cold brush ran through her veins. Sadira thought about the benefits this spell and that she will finally get what she wants, Aladdin. The storm was 100 yards from her and it was moving quickly to her direction.
She placed her hands into the bag and cast the incantation.
100 year storm give me all your might
Grant me my heart's delight
Change the continuum of time and space
Where everyday I can see my love's face
A place of no magical fire
so I can have my heart's desire
A place where our love can grow.
So that everyone will know
A place for us to be together.
Forever and ever.
As Sadira said her incantation the blue sand went around her and protected her. The lightening crashed on her protection bubble and shocked Sadira. Somehow at that minute, she knew that something was wrong. The rest of the wind picked up the sands in her bag and spread out. The storm sprinkled sparks through the sky like as if a child through glitter in the air. The storm engulfed her and inside Sadira saw the strangest objects. She saw a cow that was flying through the air and went by her.
" MOOOOOO! " cried the cow. Carriages, booths, cars, boat, paintings, chairs, and a bike. She couldn't really figure out what they were. Suddenly she saw portals that led to different dimensions and cities that she saw through them. A crack of lightening popped her bubble and she was filled with information about the place that she was going to. Without a warning Sadira vanished.
Back at the underground city, while Sadira was saying her incantation of her spell. Jasmine thought she heard a Tiger growl coming from the outside.
" Rajah!" Jasmine exclaimed. She started to run up the steps going to the outside world.
" Jasmine. No! They are closing the doors!" Aladdin exclaimed going after her.
" Nobody gets left behind including Rajah. He's my family." She turned to the guards, " Don't close that door."
" The storm had already begun. You're not going to have enough time." Her husband explained.
" Rajah is close by. I can hear him." Jasmine got a rope that was near the stone door. The rope was used to secure the door. " I will tie this rope around my waist and tie it on this pole. If this rope goes loose then grab carpet and go after me. I won't be far." She gave Aladdin these puppy dog eyes and he couldn't resist.
" Be careful. If you're not back when the storm gets worse then I'm going after you."
" I love you." Jasmine stepped outside to find Rajah.
Aladdin turned around to the bottom of the stairs. There was Rajah looking up the stairs. ' Something is not right here. I got to call Jasmine back. ' he thought. Aladdin turned around. The rope was loose! He whistled for carpet and went outside to go get Jasmine. The storm had picked the winds had a great force. The thickness of the dust was so thick that he couldn't see what's ahead of him. Carpet could fly forward anymore and the force was too strong. Carpet lost control and threw Aladdin backwards. He was falling endlessly. He didn't know high up he was. All the sands swirled around him. Just like a strike of lightning, everything went black.