Before you begin...

Before you start reading this fanfiction, you need to know what happened in my previous fanfiction, Aladdin Blood Trilogy- Story One: Bad Blood. If you've read it, GREAT! You can begin chapter one. Believe me, you' rather read this below if you don't want to read all Thirty-one chapters of Bad Blood (even though some chapters are about ten lines long) unless you're okay with that, then please read it :)
Though, this is a detailed run through of what happened:, so you COULD just go on ahead and pick things up as you go along :)

Chapter One: Captured

(Set 3 months after the end of King of Thieves) Iago and Cassim are lost in the desert. After discussing what to do next, Iago suddenly realizes where they have ended up: The Land of the Black Sand! Iago begins to panic, when they are attacked by Mamluks. Cassim's horse rears up, and before they can get away, Cassim is grabbed by sand, and pulled beneath the surface. Iago however, escapes, telling Cassim that he will go get Aladdin. Mozenrath however, is nearby and hears this, and happily anticipates the Street rat's arrival.

Chapter Two: Heroic Types

Iago had been flying for about three hours, and was feeling exhausted, from lack of food. He reluctantly began shouting "GENIE!", hoping his irritating blue friend would hear. Just as he gives up, Genie's pink powers scoop him up and whisk him away.
Meanwhile, up in Agrabah, Jasmine is getting ready for a day out with Aladdin, who is waiting downstairs with the guys. Aladdin questions Genie's seemingly random action of sending a jet of magic out of the window, but Genie blows him off, telling him he'd see shortly. Upstairs, Jasmine is unsure of what to wear for the day. She has a secret, which she doesn't feel ready to tell Aladdin yet. She chooses to wear a purple dress that flares out beneath her bust, with a green jewel necklace and green slippers. Before Aladdin can finish telling Jasmine how beautiful she is, Iago crashes in with the bombshell. The date is called off and the team race off for a rescue.

Chapter Three: Unwanted Questions

Cassim is stuck in a large birdcage made of tar, suspended from the ceiling. Beneath him, Mozenrath is preparing for Aladdin's arrival. Cassim- who had to endure hours of Iago ranting about how much he hates the Genie's annoying behaviour- begins to ask Mozenrath annoying questions. Finally, Cassim makes a desperate move to save Aladdin, and brings up the subject of his lost son, Mozen, after noticing the similarities between their names. Mozenrath- pretending to be uninterested, asks Cassim to tell more.
Cassim reluctantly tells Mozenrath how he and his wife- who was pregnant- went for a walk with their young son, Mozen. They met a magician, who was performing to a crowd. The magician seemed very interested in Mozen, asking him to volunteer, until finally, one spell went 'wrong' and Mozen and the magician disappeared without a trace. Cassim told Mozenrath about how he had spent all his free time looking for Mozen and the magician, but never found them, ultimately ending with him losing his job as he spent too much time searching for his lost son, causing him to leave Agrabah and join the Forty Thieves. Mozenrath- who seems to be in shock- asks Cassim what the magician's name was. Cassim reveals it to be Destane, Mozenrath's old master. Mozenrath realizes that this may be a man who hated Destane more than he did, so he orders Destane (now a mamluk) to come forward. Mozenrath sets Cassim free of the cage, but keeps his feet stuck in tar, and hands him a sword. Cassim- now knowing that this mamluk was the one who kidnapped his son- began to slice the mamluk for Mozenrath's amusement.

Chapter Four: A Forgotten Ultimatum

Aladdin and the others arrive on Carpet, and spot Cassim seemingly being attacked by a Mamluk inside the Citadel. They rush in to save him, but they are engulfed in Mozenrath's powers.
When Aladdin comes to, he is chained to the centre of the tall circular room by his right ankle. He spots Mozenrath, who promptly creates a pair of shackles that tie Aladdin's hands behind his back. Mozenrath reveals Aladdin's friends, who are all trapped: Genie and Carpet in a large bottle, Abu and Iago in a net, and Cassim and Jasmine in separate cages. All of them are unconscious. Aladdin immediately asks what Mozenrath wants in return for letting them go.
After taunting Aladdin by suggestively leaning against Jasmine's cage whilst musing over the different uses of a prisoner, Mozenrath says Aladdin can let one of his friends go, unless he picked the princess, which would count for two. Aladdin is bewildered by this comment, to which Mozenrath gleefully awakens Jasmine from her enchanted snooze, who immediately places her hands over her stomach. Aladdin realizes that Jasmine is pregnant, while a delighted Mozenrath tries to provoke Aladdin by asking him how it feels, knowing that he was second to find out about Jasmine's pregnancy. When he realizes Aladdin is trying to ignore this, he causes Jasmine to cry out in pain. Aladdin blurts out that he'd do anything if Mozenrath stopped.
Mozenrath happily awakens the group, informs them of the situation: Aladdin may choose one friend to be sent back to Agrabah, and everyone else has to stay and meet their end. He points out each of the friends ( "Your princess and your unborn child? Or one of the comic relief, or...") but pauses when he reaches Cassim.
When Aladdin reveals Cassim to be his father, Mozenrath is livid. Cassim quickly explains about the son he had before Aladdin, and how he was stolen by a magician. Aladdin still doesn't make the connection, until Mozenrath's outburst ("His son's name was Mozen. The magician's was Destane. Fill in the blank!") and realizes Cassim is Mozenrath's father. It took him a little longer to realize that Mozenrath is his brother, as it is something he would have never guessed.

Chapter Five: Tangling of Brothers

Aladdin refuses to believe it, but before Cassim can help him see the truth, Mozenrath attacks (to Cassim's horror). Aladdin however, pulls a stunt which causes Mozenrath's powers to slice through Aladdin's restraints. Aladdin quickly gets up and wrestles the gauntlet from Mozenrath, when there is a flash of light. When it clears, Mozenrath and Aladdin have swapped clothes- right down to the gauntlet. Aladdin yanks it off, only to discover his hand has now become bone, whereas Mozenrath's hand has been restored.
When Aladdin accidentally frees Genie and Carpet (then frees the others), Mozenrath snatches back the gauntlet and places it back on his wrist. After another flash, everything is seemingly restored. A relieved Jasmine runs into 'Aladdin's' arms, whilst the others are suddenly interested in Mozenrath- who is in fact Aladdin's spirit- stuck inside Mozenrath's body! Which means the man holding Jasmine is vice-versa... Mozenrath's spirit in Aladdin's body, but still wearing the gauntlet.
When Jasmine realizes her mistake, she is revolted, but Mozenrath now uses Aladdin's strength to hold Jasmine still, and prevent her from escaping. Aladdin- who can't get any closer as Mozenrath is threatening Jasmine- asks Mozenrath why he had wanted his body that first time. Mozenrath reveals that his body was weakened by the gauntlet, but after the body-sharing episode, Mozenrath's body's strength was restored.
When asked why he still wanted Aladdin's body now, Mozenrath says simply for the physical strength and twists Jasmine's arm slightly to prove the point. Aladdin dives forward, shoving Jasmine aside. Mozenrath kicks Aladdin in the chest and mocks him, telling him that there is no way Jasmine could ever want to be with him, now that he has Mozenrath's body. Jasmine is furious by this, remembering the time she had been turned into a snake-monster by Mirage, and how Aladdin had stayed with her, even when she almost killed him with her venomous barbs. She attacks Mozenrath from behind by leaping onto his back, pulling his hair, at the same time as Aladdin attacked from the front. Mozenrath finally gives in, agreeing to turn them back (saying that the more he was attacked, the worse shape Aladdin would be in when they were restored).

Chapter Six: A Deterred Exit

Using the device that Mozenrath had once used to try to switch bodies with Aladdin, Mozenrath switches the two back to their original bodies. After his soul being inside Aladdin's again, Mozenrath's right hand is restored once more. Mozenrath requests for the gauntlet back, which- after encouragement from Cassim- Aladdin returns to him.
Mozenrath then informs the Mamluks not to to attack Aladdin and his friends, then tells the group to go before he 'changes his mind'. Aladdin thanks Mozenrath and, just before they left, a Mamluk's hand seized Aladdin's ankle. Mozenrath sighs, telling them that, as usual, Destane's mamluk is always the last to obey. Xerxes is sent to get the rest of the Mamluk. When he returns, Mozenrath repairs the Mamluk, then repeats the order. As Aladdin and the others turn to leave once more, the Mamluk speaks, much to Mozenrath's horror.
Destane's mamluk began throwing potions at Mozenrath. One potion went off course and almost his Aladdin and Jasmine, but Mozenrath deflected it. Realizing Mozenrath just saved him, Aladdin leapt up and knocked Mozenrath out of the way of another potion just in time. Destane furiously throws a potion at Aladdin, catching him on the side of the face. Mozenrath vaporizes Destane's body, then checks on Aladdin, whose face and hands are covered in the potion's contents. Xerxes and Mozenrath recognize it as the potion used to create a familiar- an animal companion or servant for a person practising magical arts. Before Aladdin can wipe it away, the potion absorbs into his skin, as Destane's spirit is nearby and can now control Aladdin's transformation. Whilst they are trying to think of a cure (and Iago untactfully describes how painful transformation is) Destane swoops. Aladdin is tortured right before their eyes, his back arching in pain. He finally slumps when Destane decides to drag out his transformation. Aladdin opens his eyes and everyone backs off in horror.

Chapter Seven: Browsing for the Cure

Aladdin's eyes have changed. The reddish-brown irises have expanded to cover the whites of his eyes, and the pupils have become cat-like slits. Mozenrath and Xerxes vanish from the room and return with a spell book, revealing the cure to the potion: either Destane had to cancel the effects, or the tie between Destane and Aladdin had to be separated, using the blade of separation, found on an island, inside the Cave of Trials: a powerful cave that only ten worthy people could enter, every fifty years. All together, Aladdin, Jasmine, Cassim, Mozenrath, Xerxes, Iago, Abu, Carpet and Genie made nine, so that meant they had to find one more worthy being to enter alongside them. The group decide to go to the Cave and see the requirements before they went around grabbing randomers. Jasmine realizes why Mozenrath is offering to help: if Destane gains control of Aladdin, he could force Aladdin to mercilessly kill Mozenrath, in revenge for turning him into a Mamluk. The group settle onto Carpet, Aladdin and Mozenrath stuck side by side, glaring at each other out of the corners of their eyes.

Chapter Eight: An Elemental Encounter

Mozenrath and Aladdin are still glaring at each other as Carpet flies over a stretch of sea. Genie, who is pushing Carpet from behind, is sick of the glaring, and tries to push Aladdin back from Mozenrath- right over the edge of Carpet.
As Aladdin plummets into the sea, Carpet dives down to where he fell beneath the surface. Jasmine seizes Aladdin's hand when it sticks up out of the water. The group tug until Aladdin's head appears. Aladdin tries to warn them about something. ("It's Sa-"), but he is cut off when a purple octopus tentacle covers his mouth and he is dragged underwater once more. Moments later, a large bubble of water breaks the surface, containing Saleen, her octopus Armond and Aladdin, who Armond is restraining. Jasmine tries to break through the bubble, but it is thick and rubbery. Jasmine realizes that Aladdin is drowning, and cries out. Genie leaps at the bubble, but is catapulted out of sight. As Iago yells at Saleen not to drown Aladdin, Saleen informs them that she intends to turn Aladdin into a creature of the sea, using her repaired-starfish.
Saleen creates a bubble that allows Aladdin to breath for a moment, buying her more time to taunt Jasmine. She changes Aladdin's outfit (as he is currently wearing the one he wore when battling Sa'luk in the King of Thieves) into a blue version of his normal outfit, so she can apply the starfish. She is stopped however, when Xerxes- being a sea animal- dives into the bubble and eats the starfish, before creating a small hole in the side of the bubble. Just then, Destane decides to advance the transformation, and Aladdin suddenly goes limp, losing the last of his precious air. Mozenrath leaps into the water, and sticks his gauntlet through the hole Xerxes created, taking a shot at Saleen. Saleen and Armond are sent backwards, and the bubble dissolves. Mozenrath grabs Aladdin's limp form and pulls him to the surface.
Once everyone is aboard Carpet, and Genie has returned, Aladdin began twitching as several dark brown rings appeared on his skin, resembling those of a leopard or a jaguar. As Genie wakes Aladdin up, Destane adds some more touches: Aladdin's fingernails lengthen into small black claws and his teeth become pointed. Mozenrath bellows his fury at Destane, angry at him for torturing Aladdin. The group set off, Genie turning into a booster to help get to the Cave before the transformation is complete.
Saleen meanwhile, has just burst up from the water. She yells furiously at the disappearing speck that was Carpet while Armond celebrates her failure, as he wants Saleen to himself. Saleen then noticed the fez she conjured for Aladdin, bobbing up and down in the water. She picks it up, and plucks on of Aladdin's hairs from the inside, before gleefully diving into the sea, Armond close behind her.

Chapter Nine: Approaching the Cave of Trials

As they draw nearer to the Cave, the group become more and more concerned with Aladdin's transformation, as two tiny horns appear above his eyebrows. When they reach the island, they are greeted by Deja, a sandy-coloured unicorn with a thick, twisted, black horn. He shows them their entrances: Xerxes, Abu and Iago's entrances are the most faithful familiar, the Liberator and the vanquisher of a cruel master, Jasmine, Mozenrath and Cassim's are the Princess of Agrabah, the Lord of the Black Sand and the King of Thieves. Carpet and Genie's are the exception to the Cave of Wonders and the Genie of the Lamp. The final entrances are entitled The Diamond in the Rough and the Witch of the Sand (which causes some confusion for Aladdin, having not ever heard himself being called that). Aladdin then asks Genie to go fetch Sadira, who they assume is the next person.

Chapter Ten: Going In

Sadira is at her home, with nothing to do, so she decides to fool around with her powers: she creates an outfit for herself- a rose-pink strapless vest, with harem pants of the same colour. She makes some golden bangles appear on her right wrist, a golden band appear around her left upper forearm, and a pink square-shaped jewel appear around her neck. Just then, Genie appears and literally catapults Sadira away to the Cave of Trials, where she knocks over Mozenrath (who had been examining Aladdin, as his ears had been turned to a cat's). She is very hostile around him, until she spots Aladdin, and agrees to help him out of this predicament. She is very shocked by the news about Mozenrath, but tries not to show it. Just before the group go in, Deja tells them that they will each enter separately, and be faced by many hazards as they all try to meet up in the middle, and that they must know that if one fails, they all fail. Everyone's help will be needed at the end to retrieve the Blade of Separation. The group nervously enter.

Chapter Eleven: An Odd Grouping

The chapter opens with Carpet flying silently through the cave. The first obstacle is a large gap, which Carpet easily glides over. A nearby rock has a message on it, telling Carpet that all his friends will have to face this trial also, much to Carpet's concern. As Carpet flies around the corner, he is pinned down by rocks, and a bunch of moths close in around him...
Abu meanwhile, climbs around the gap with ease, and meets his worst fear: the room was filled with gold monkey statues, all in different poses, all holding a big, red jewel. Some were holding their jewel in their golden tails, some in their paws, and others had their arms wrapped around it. These were Abu's worst fear, as not only were all the golden statues were similar to the one from the Cave of Wonders, they also all looked like him. It was his worst nightmare- Abu, becoming the gold treasure he adored so much, having people sell him, steal him, stare at him... and Abu faints.
Genie has easily flown over the gap but was then trapped in a bottle, while Iago and Xerxes have also flown over their gaps and met their fears: Iago faced an empty room (he fears having nothing), while Xerxes meets a skeleton dressed as Mozenrath (fearing Mozenrath's death). The two then bump into each other, and find the unconscious Abu. After Iago touches a statue, the room fills with lava, and the group are almost burned, until Xerxes makes Abu realize that the lava would disappear once he wasn't scared.
The trio then find themselves in a large, circular cave. In the centre was a stone table, which had a small pyramid resting on the top. A white light shone down on to the pyramid. Deja walks out of the shadow and tells them that the group will all meet up here to be shown memories that may cause them to turn on each other: the Trial is to see if they can forgive each other. Deja then shows the three animals their memories (which mainly consist of them hurting each other), which they aren't angered by at all- in fact, they find it funny. Deja stops them from laughing by reminding them that other members of the group may not handle it as well. The three begin to worry about what happens when Mozenrath and Aladdin arrive.

Chapter Twelve: Genie's Worst Fear

Aladdin is making his way through the caves until he meets the gap, which he tries to leap across when he hears Destane's voice, threatening to complete the transformation and make him kill Mozenrath and his "pesky friends". Aladdin grabs onto a ledge, just as he is engulfed in Destane's green mist. When it clears, Aladdin had been given a forked tongue and his skin was now covered in short fur, the same colour as his skin, sill speckled with dark brown leopard spots. His hands and feet were practically paws, with longs, sharp black claws and worst of all, he has a lion's tail, with a tuft of black hair on the end. Destane threatens to continue with the transformation, but Aladdin runs away- into an apparition of Rasoul, who informs him that Aziz (an old enemy of Aladdin) has returned to Agrabah, and killed all its inhabitants, including Jasmine and his friends. When Aladdin refuses to believe him, Rasoul vanishes, and Aladdin spots a bottle on the ground- containing Genie.
As soon as Aladdin frees Genie, Genie mistakes Aladdin for a large humanoid cat-monster, and attacks him. He apologizes once he realizes his mistake, but Aladdin isn't bothered- he cares more about hurrying up, fearing that Destane would make him attack Genie and everyone else. Before the pair can leave, the see Ajed al-Gebraic- one of Genie's old masters. After using all three wishes, he sold Genie to a magician in return for eternal life. However, eternal youth wasn't included, so he continued to age into an little old man. By Aladdin's time, Ajed al-Gebraic has seen and done everything, and as a result is extremely bored. He hired a muktaar to kidnap Genie to provide him with company, but Aladdin came to the rescue. Seeing Aladdin and Genie's friendship, he let Genie go – at least, until Aladdin died.
Aladdin tries to reassure Genie that al-Gebraic is just an apparition, when al-Gebraic releases a pair of shackles, clamping down on Genie's wrists. Al-Gebraic (falsely) says this means Genie is now his servant, and had to grant wishes- his first wish being to kill Aladdin! Genie- forgetting Aladdin's warnings that al-Gebraic would vanish the moment Genie was unafraid, Genie panics when a jet of light shoots from his finger, causing Aladdin to drop to the floor.

Chapter Thirteen: Jasmine, Conqueror of All Fear

Jasmine- who had vaulted the gap with a pole she had found on the ground- conquers her fear (Agrabah and all its inhabitants destroyed- easy to pass as she knew Agrabah wouldn't be in the Cave), and she spies three figures in the room with her- a short old man, Genie, and a humanoid figure on the floor which she recognizes as Aladdin due to his hair and clothing. Once she convinces Genie not to be afraid, al-Gebraic disappears, and Aladdin is awakened.
Aladdin is horrified when he sees Jasmine, and tries to hide his face out of shame, which irritates her, and she tells him that she doesn't care what he looks like, to which Destane's invisible spirit appears once more, and tells Jasmine that he cares about Aladdin's appearance. Jasmine tries to shield Aladdin, but she is flung through a wall by Destane's magic. Aladdin leaps up to safe her, but Destane attacks him. When the smoke clears, has pretty much become a lion- a brown lion with pointed ears, leopard's rings, a forked tongue and mane resembling Aladdin's black hair. He still has his voice however, which he uses to shout for Jasmine through the wall. She calls back, saying she is okay, and that she has found Carpet. Then- at Aladdin's request- Genie creates a mirror, so Aladdin can take in his reflection.

Chapter Fourteen: A Deserved Slap

Mozenrath used his power to levitate over the gap he faced, but didn't have as much luck when entering the room containing his worst fear: he face a room full of Mamluks. Mozenrath doesn't know that this is his fear however, and orders the nearest one two move. This irritates the Mamluks, and they steal his gauntlet, and use it against him.
At the same time, Sadira (having used sand powers to build a bridge over the gap), met her worst fear- losing friendships. She hears the Mamluk's voices ("Look at his life, ebbing away..." ) and races around the corner, worried one of her friends are in danger. She instead meets an unconcious Mozenrath and a room full of Mamluks, who explain to her what Mozenrath did to them, which lowers Sadira's views on Mozenrath. She promises the Mamluks that she would make Mozenrath suffer if they let her and Mozenrath past, but they don't believe her. To wake Mozenrath up, Sadira slaps Mozenrath across the face, causing him to yelp, which amuses the Mamluks. Sadira snatches the gauntlet and she and Mozenrath escape the room.
As the pair walk along (or Sadira sprints while Mozenrath lazily floats along beside her), Sadira falls through a hole in the floor.

Chapter Fifteen: Rejection to Optimism

Mozenrath quickly saves Sadira, and she thanks him. Mozenrath, feeling a little awkward as she is standing so close to him, and he hasn't really been this close to anyone before- except Xerxes or when leering at Aladdin. He walks ahead, and Sadira smiles dreamily to herself.
Aladdin and Genie are walking down a tunnel nearby, which is filled with mirror shards, which were designed to torture Aladdin, as he is forced to look at his lion-reflection repeatedly. He rejects Genie's attempts at cheering him up, even when Genie dresses him up in his streetrat clothing. When Aladdin runs around a corner, he meets Iago, Abu and Xerxes. Iago is petrified by Aladdin, believing him to be a monster, whilst Abu is startled, but realizes its Aladdin by his clothes and voice, while Xerxes recognized him all along. Iago and Abu hug Aladdin.

Chapter Sixteen: More Memories

Cassim, who had just faced his fear, was distraught. He had watched two small boys palying a game, which was then interrupted by a shadow, which engulfed them, and when they emerged, they were familiar grown men, fighting. The problem was, Cassim's fear was true. Aladdin and Mozenrath had started fighting even after they found out they were brothers. Cassim wondered if Destane had been a better father to Mozenrath then he could have ever been. He then meets Jasmine, who is trying to prevent moths from eating Carpet (who is still pinned under the rock). Cassim moves the rocks whilst Jasmine keeps the moths at bay. Once Carpet is free, the trio quickly escape.
Further ahead, Aladdin and Genie are being shown petty arguments that had been resolved the same day they broke out, so they weren't too bothered by them. Moments later however, Jasmine falls onto Aladdin's back, having fallen off Carpet. Cassim and Carpet appear, worried about Jasmine, but she is too bust being horrified by what Destane has done to Aladdin, and demands that Deja continues ASAP. Nobody notices Sadira and Mozenrath enter at the back.
Deja shows the memory of Jasmine kissing Jafar. When Jafar refers to Jasmine as a "pussycat", Aladdin snarls furiously, shocking everyone in the room. He recovers though, and the memory continues. Despite being hurt, Aladdin tells Jasmine that he understands that she kissed Jafar to help Aladdin (even if it didn't work), and of course he forgives her.
It is here Mozenrath announces his presence, irritating everyone except Cassim and Xerxes. Deja then informs them that he has some more memories to show the group, these ones most likely affecting Aladdin, Jasmine and Sadira. When Mozenrath laughs, Deja tells him that the memories may also bother him. Deja shows the group images of Aladdin, and all the girls he had chasing him around (including Sadira), leading Mozenrath to give Sadira the silent treatment.
Deja then shows the group flashes of Mozenrath and Aladdin's main conflicts- including some of the euphemisms that Mozenrath shot at Jasmine. Aladdin and Mozenrath are staring at each other, trying to read each other's emotions, when Deja whispers something in Mozenrath's ear- apparently the next memory would be painful for him. As a result, Deja creates a large rock that Mozenrath and Xerxes can duck behind whilst the memories are shown.

Chapter Seventeen: Same Things

The memory starts off by showing a younger Cassim and his pregnant wife, Nada, making their way through the streets of Agrabah. A small boy by the name of Mozen, runs alongside them. He plays a couple of tricks with a coin, making it disappear, then pulling it out of a woman's hair. While Cassim and Nada discuss names for the baby, Mozen suggest Aladdin if its a boy (as it is a word he invented) and Sadira if it's a girl (as the family used to have a cat named Sadira. Nada reminds them of a painter that created a canvas and sold it to the palace, which he apparently modelled on Mozen and the cat playing). As they continue with their walk, Mozen is kidnapped by Destane.
The memory then jumps to Mozen, chained up in Destane's dungeon. He is injured by Destane, before being forced to read book after book on sorcery everyday, until Mozen is eleven, and he tries to escape. He uses a teleportation spell to take him to his mother. Instead, he finds himself standing in a clear blue lake, where cromated ashes are thrown. He reads an inscription on her urn, which informs him that she had given birth to a son in his absence. Mozen then requests to be taken to his father, who, true to the title "King of Theives", is robbing a nearby civillian. Mozen fleds in fear, and teleports to where his brother is. He sees a young Aladdin running away from a merchant with stolen fruit. Mozen saves him, and greets Aladdin, who has no idea who he is. Just then, Destane appears. Mozen tells Aladdin to run as Destane drags him back to the Land of the Black Sand, where he is severly punished. Destane however, becomes crueller and crueller, constantly giving Mozen a black eye, while his sister, Mirage (AHHHH!) who frequently visits, scratches a line down Mozen's pale face, from above one eyebrow, down his cheek, until it reaches the corner of his lips. Whenever Mozen disobeys Destane, he shows Mozen an image of Aladdin, with the same marks on his face, knowing that he would do anything to prevent harm falling on his brother. Mozen refuses to be beaten however, and creates Xerxes.
Mozen seems to be okay, until he turns seventeen. Destane throws Xerxes into a furnace, and hooks Mozen up to a machine, which will drain him of his power, thus turning him into a mamluk. Before they begin, Destane decides to be extra cruel, and wipes Mozen's memory of his parents and brother- and without parents, you don't have a name. Destane informs Mozen that his name is Mozenrath, which he has no choice to believe. Believing Xerxes to be dead, Mozenrath gives up, but just before the machine hits him, Mozenrath spies Xerxes crawling out of the furnace, giving him hope. He kicks the machine, causing it to hit Destane instead of him, transforming Destane into a Mamluk. Believing that after defeating the most powerful Sorceror in the Seven Deserts, Mozenrath now believes he can accomplish anything.
The memory clears, and everyone looks at Mozenrath, who refuses to accept Aladdin's "pity". Destane then breifly takes control of Aladdin, causing a now green-eyed Aladdin to pounce on Mozenrath, who grabs Aladdin's right paw.
There is a flash, and the two have switched: Aladdin is now on the floor, dressed in Mozenrath's clothing, whilst Mozenrath has become a white lion, with a black curled mane, and thin, black stripes like a tiger as apposed to Aladdin's old brown coat with leopard spots. And he also had black spikes above his eyes too, and his eyes were exactly like Aladdin's had been. Aladdin immediately offers to switch back, and after a brief arguement, they do. The group realize that the reason Aladdin and Mozenrath can keep "soul-jumping" is because they are the only two to have ever worn the gauntlet, are both closely related to each other and are obviously still connected after they were both stuck in the same body.
Genie then reminds them that they need to hurry up as they all want the same things.

Chapter Eighteen: An Outsider's Interference

The group are following a passageway, when the ground opens up. Initially, Jasmine and Abu fall through, but whilst trying to save them, Aladdin pulls Jasmine out, and begins to slide down as well. When Mozenrath tries to save him, they soul-jump again- a half-transform Aladdin falls into the hole with Abu, and a half-transformed Mozenrath falls backwards. The hole immediately seals up, and a worried Deja appears, saying that the next trial was supposed to be Jasmine and Abu in trouble, whilst the other eight had to save them- instead, Aladdin would take Jasmine's place. Mozenrath- whose face was patterend with black tiger-stripes, his teeth pointed, he had claws, two small spikes protruded from his forehead above his eyebrows, and with eyes the exact same reddish-brown cat eyes that Aladdin had, is afraid of being in Destane;s power, but doesn't show it.
Deja then shows the group what the next trial is: the group appear in a huge cave that was clearly deep underground- the cave walls were keeping the island up from the sea, but there were holes in them, showing sunlight in, and seawater, so everytime a wave hit one of the holes, water poured in. About a mile across the churning water, was a teardrop-shaped rock that was hanging from the ceiling with a small hole in the bottom. Abu and Aladdin are tied up inside, and its up to the others to rescue them by sailing a raft over to them and freeing them before the cave fills up with water and they drown.
As the group sail across the water, Saleen swims past, and realizes where Aladdin is. The group become more frantic, realizing Saleen could reach Aladdin at any second. Iago realizes that the key tied to the centre of the raft must be to free Aladdin and Abu.
Oblivious to this, Aladdin cuts himself free of his bindings using his claws. Aladdin vaguely notes that he was wearing the navy blue outfit Saleen conjured, but the fez was missing. He tries to free Abu, but can't- he needs the key fastened to the boat to free him, as he is tied up with a chain and a lock that the pair of them can't pick. Aladdin spots the others approaching through a hole in the side of the rock he and Abu are trapped in. However, Saleen uses her magic to lift herself and Armand inside the rock with Aladdin and Abu, and switches to her "human" form.
She informs Aladdin that the fez he had been wearing had a hair in it, which Saleen had turned into a string of Aladdin's memories. She had all of Aladdin's memories, and that she knows what is happening with Destane- to prove her point, she uses a spell to remove Destane's power from Aladdin, instantly turning him human. She approaches him, and refers to him as "Prince Ali", to show she has seen every one of Aladdin's memories (basically, the things we've seen from watching the movies and series) and walks over to him slowly. When he pulls away, she places him under a binding spell, so he can't move. After a few tense seconds, Aladdin breaks free of the spell and runs towards Abu. Before he can reach his friend, Saleen hits him with another spell, which transforms him into a brown shark from the waist down.
While this is happening, Mozenrath- having a soul-link with Aladdin- is also being affected by Saleen's spells: he turns back into a human, and becomes stiff when hit with the binding spell, before finally being turned into a merman as well (except with a navy-blue shark tail rather than a brown one. Like Aladdin, his clothes vanish as well, except his gauntlet). The group speed up, and finally reach the rock. A fight ensures (Sadira and Jasmine take on Saleen, causing her to accidentally turn Aladdin and thus, Mozenrath back into humans), and in a furious rage, Saleen swipes hairs/feathers/scales from everyone else, before escaping with Armand. Aladdin urgently explains that she now has everyone's memories. They realize that its too late now, and they should just move on.

Chapter Nineteen: What could have been

The next trial invloves witnessing what would have happened if each of the group didn't exist. Before the trial begins, Destane attempts to continue with they transformation, but all that happens (at first) is that Aladidn and Mozenrath collapse onto the floor. They recover soon, and Mozenrath realizes something: "He's weak. That's why he hasn't been bothering you- us, as much as before. He's been getting weaker. And thanks to that elemental undoing the transformation, Destane has to start again. We have more time." Aladdin then has an idea: he causes another soul-switch by touching the gauntlet, and when Destane attacks once more, the effects are split between Aladdin and Mozenrath, so that it will take longer for Destane to complete the transformation as the effects of the transformation would be halfed.
Deja then begins the trial- Aladdin is first up. All he has to do is stand in the middle of the group, and focus on one one of them at a time, and they will see an image of how they would look if Aladdin hadn't existed.
Aladdin first looks at Jasmine, and is horrified by what he sees: An image of Jasmine, except she was thinner, her head was hung and she looked ready to cry. She was wearing a similar version of the red slave outfit Jafar had once conjured up for her- except there was a red veil hanging from her shoulders, which completely concealed her right arm. Deja explains that without Aladdin, she would have lost her arm the first time she explored the marketplace without Aladdin to fend of the merchant who tried to amputate Jasmine's arm. Jasmine would also have been forced to marry Jafar.
Sadira notices that Mozenrath seems to be as strongly affected by this image as Aladdin was. Mozenrath realizes that this is because when he and Aladdin are sharing the affects of Destane's transformation, they also share emotions. Mozenrath convinces Aladdin to switch back, leaving Mozenrath with the full effects of Destane's transformation (at the moment, he just has cat eyes).
Aladdin carries on with the trial, revealing the fate of each of his friends: Abu would have been shut inside the Destiny Stone alongside Minos, Fatmina and Aziz. Sadira would have been a slave for Jafar, Carpet and Genie would be left inside the cave of wonders, Iago would still be Jafar's familiar and lastly, if Nada hadn't of been pregnant with Aladdin, she and Cassim would have searched for Mozen together- and they would have found him. Destane would have killed them, and Mozen had no desire to live, and died, and therefore, wouldn't have created Xerxes.
Next, Mozenrath steps up. All that matters is that if he didn't exist, Destane would have stolen Aladdin instead of Mozen that day in the Marketplace. This seems impossible, but Mozenrath explains that Destane had a spell, that could take a baby from a womb, and then he could speed up its aging. Aladdin however had very little magical talent, so Destane would have killed him. Nada and Cassim would have assumed Aladdin had been a miscarriage, and got on with their lives, until Jafar came into power, and they would have been enslaved. Everything else is the same as if Aladdin hadn't been born.
If Cassim didn't exist, it would be the same, as neither sons would exist. If Abu didn't exist, Aladdin would have been caught by the Guards years before, but Jafar would have still freed Aladdin from the dungeon and taken him to the Cave of Wonders. If Abu hadn't been there during that ordeal in the Cave of Wonders, Aladdin would have been killed by Jafar whilst trying to leave. The same thing goes with Carpet: if Carpet didn't exist, Aladdin wouldn't have made it out of the Cave alive- neither one of these outcomes would have helped the others, although Iago, Mozenrath and Xerxes would have coped well. If Iago didn't exist, Jafar would have got a different familiar- who was brutal, and persuaded Jafar to murder everyone who got in his way.
Jasmine's existence is very significant- without her, none of the group would exist: right from the age of four, she would stop the palace guards and ask them to let her out into the city. They would always say no, as the Sultan had forbidden her to leave the palace. This five-minue delay saved Aladdin, Abu and Sadira from being arrested on countless occasions, and Destane was often on the prowl for more apprentices. He would check the dungeon regularly for younger kids. If Aladdin and Sadira were in there, that would have been it. Aladdin wouldn't have lasted long at all due to his lack of magical powers, whereas Sadira would have been all right, if she hadn't acted so stroppy and independant around Destane. He would have killed her in a fit of rage, and Mozen would have died trying to save her, leaving the others in a similar situation as before.
With Sadira, her existence didn't seem significant until today- if Sadira hadn't existed, the last entrance for the Cave of Trials would have been for Saleen. She would have been eager to help, but then would have escaped the cave, along with Aladdin and Mozenrath (partly because of the soul-link, and partly because she found Mozenrath 'interesting').
The group now feel more united, and they prepare to set off. Deja asks Mozenrath and Jasmine to hang back, and tells the others to move on. Deja then swings his horn, and Jasmine and Mozenrath find themselves being sucked backwards. Aladdin hears their yells, and comes running back to find Mozenrath and Jasmine, apparently perfectly fine. The three turn and catch up with the others, although Aladdin is suspicious.

Chapter Twenty: Forgive, Never Forget

It is revealed that Jasmine and Mozenrath are actually trapped in a sealed cave, and they have been replaced by fake copies. The trial is to see if Aladdin and the others can realize that Jasmine and Mozenrath have been replaced. The real Jasmine and Mozenrath are out of contact in the cave they're stuck in, although they do have a clear bowl of water, showing them what is happening to the others. While Mozenrath searches for a way out, Jasmine watches what the others are doing using the bowl.
Mozenrath is having no luck with finding a way out, and as far as Jasmine can see, Aladdin hasn't realized she's been replaced with a fake. Mozenrath gives up on looking for a way out, and peers in the bowl. His copy has just thrown Xerxes into a wall for being irritating, and Jasmine's copy is making herself comfortable on Aladdin's arm, much to the real Jasmine's fury. Mozenrath then points out to Jasmine how uncomfortable Aladdin looks with this.
Aladdin, who knows something is wrong, and becomes almost certain of it when Jasmine's copy says "Love you.", (Although it seemed petty, Aladdin felt like there was a difference between "Love you" and "I love you") asks Jasmine why she decided to "wear that purple dress, and not the... o-orange, one I suggested?". When the fake-Jasmine replies with "Aladdin, I am not a doll for you to dress up.", Aladdin's suspicions are confirmed, as he didn't pick out Jasmine's clothes (that and Jasmine hasn't got anything orange, and she doesn't actually like the colour), and the real Jasmine is over-joyed- until the fake-Jasmine kisses Aladdin violently until he shoves her off. She storms away, offended. When Cassim and Genie are reproachful about his behaviour, Aladdin explains to them what he has realized, although they don't know what has happened (Genie suspects Jasmine is a vampire, but is obviously proven wrong).
Although Mozenrath is unimpressed with Genie's fooling, Jasmine reassures him that now that Aladdin knows she isn't there, he's sure to notice the blue bead, now hanging from the fake-Jasmine's necklace- once that is removed, the real Jasmine will be restored, and her copy will vanish. The same applies to Mozenrath and his copy, except his copy has a ring on his non-gauntlet hand, with a blue bead on it.
After being startled by Jasmine when she refers to her pregnant stomach as his future niece or nephew, Mozenrath suddenly yells at Jasmine to get back... Destane is possesing him! Jasmine backs off, but once Destane is in control of Mozenrath, he grabs Jasmine's arms, but she escapes, and holds up a rock to defend herself with. Destane abruptly leaves Mozenrath's body, and Mozenrath falls to the ground, looking so vunerable Jasmine lowers the rock. Mozenrath then tells her that if he's unconcious, Destane can't control him, and so she should knock him out with the rock. Jasmine shuts her eyes and raises the rock, and is about to bring it down, but it is to late- Destane gains control, and pulls the rock from Jasmine's hands, before pinning her against the wall by her wrists.
Whilst this is unfolding, Mozenrath's copy is being horrible to Sadira, refering to her as shallow, as her affections go from Aladdin to someone so similar- his older brother. The fake-Jasmine appears, and tells Sadira that she can have Aladdin, as they are both street-rats, and then goes on to flirt with Mozenrath. Sadira runs into Aladdin, and tells him Mozenrath and Jasmine aren't acting normally. Aladdin realizes that the pair must have been replaced when Deja called them back.
Aladdin then spots the bead on Jasmine's necklace, and pulls it away, causing the real Jasmine to appear. He immediately notices red hand-shaped marks on her wrists, and is furious when he realizes Mozenrath did them, but then Jasmine cries: "Listen! Destane came back and possessed him! Mozenrath tried to tell me to run before Destane got to him, but I didn't listen- Destane got him, and forced Mozenrath to attack me, and then- I appeared here. You have to help him!"
Aladdin, realizing his brother is in trouble, Aladdin fights with the fake-Mozenrath until he wrestles the ring from it, making the still-possessed Mozenrath appear, and begin to attack the group. Mozenrath gains control for a second, and wrenches the gauntlet from his hand, making him useless for Destane. Destane however, has no problem with this, and instead forces Mozenrath to grab Aladdin's wrist, so that Destane switches over, and now has power over Aladdin. Luckily, Destane is weak, and cannot possess Aladdin any longer, and leaves, although Mozenrath informs Aladdin that Destane- once he's recovered- can continue with Aladdin's transformation. The group hastily move on.

Chapter Twenty-One: Greater Lives

As the group walk, Deja appears, and Genie asks why back when they were looking at what could have been, he hadn't been asked, Deja tells him that genies are immortal, so his existence can't be removed (unless he is killed).
As Deja is there, Jasmine asks him what the point of the last trial had been, to which Deja explains the group needed to be united and to see how well they know each other. Aladdin says it was obvious, as the fake Jasmine acted more like Saleen than his real wife. For a laugh, Mozenrath asks how the fake Mozenrath and the fake Jasmine were constructed. Deja informs them they were made from fungi before hastily disappearing. Everyone stands back as Aladdin tries to recover from this revolting news, whilst Mozenrath laughs.
However, Mozenrath stops laughing when Destane appears, and asks what he wants. Destane replies with "You know that better than anyone." and sends a beam of green light towards Aladdin. Mozenrath seizes Aladdin's wrist with his gauntlet, but nothing happens, because Destane has disabled the connection, and turns Aladdin back into a lion slowly and painfully, just to torture Mozenrath emotionally (which works), until Aladdin is a lion- light brown like his skin-tone, with a forked tongue, pointed ears, patterns like a leopard and two small horns above his eyebrows. When Mozenrath threatens to turn Destane back into a mamluk if he tries anything again, Destane removes Aladdin's voice, and Mozenrath hits Destane's spirit with some of his power, deterring him for a while. The group move on, but not before Xerxes informs Mozenrath that he can smell something odd. Mozenrath tells the group to keep their guard up.
Later on, Aladdin saves the group when he realizes the ground ahead is thin, although they didn't understand him at first, as all he could do is growl. Once the group are safe, Aladdin- who can't fit on Carpet- suddenly runs ahead across the thin earth, almost falling through when it crumbled beneath him. Once on safe ground Aladdin- with Genie's help- tells the group that he smelt something, but he didn't know what it was, although he knew he'd come across it before. It is revealed to be a thirdac- a magic-consuming beast! Mozenrath then drops a bombshell- not only are Genie, Carpet and himself in danger, but so is Sadira and Aladdin (as he is under Destane's spell)! Aladdin manages to fend the creature off, but is knocked unconscious briefly when it throws him into a wall. While he is down, the thirdac then attacks Sadira, and removes the spell she put on her clothes, transforming them back into her street-mouse clothes. Before the thirdac can get any closer to her, Mozenrath pulls her to safety and at the same time, Aladdin recovers, and yanks the thirdac back. After Aladdin roars at it, the thirdac becomes afraid of his roar. As the group proceed, Aladdin roars every few minutes to scare the thirdac away.
Mozenrath- who is at the back of the group- notices Sadira hurrying to stay ahead of him. He yanks her back, and asks her what is wrong. He quickly sums up it is because she agrees with what his fake copy had said. He apologizes for what his fake copy had said, and (once the others are a safe distance ahead) kisses Sadira.

Chapter Twenty-Two: Finally

Mozenrath and Sadira catch up with the group who didn't notice their absence. A few seconds later, Destane appears, and tries to persuade Aladdin to kill Mozenrath, but Aladdin refuses. Destane suddenly vanishes- and the group realize it is because the thirdac has returned. It attacks Carpet, and Aladdin slams his side against it- at the same time as Destane creates two large spike, one sticking out from each of Aladdin's shoulder blades, which impales the thirdac, killing it instantly, much to Aladdin's horror. Mozenrath vaporizes the thirdac's corpse to save Aladdin's disgust.
Deja then shows up, as they have finally reached the blade, which is "very large, pointed, and slightly curved. It was shining black, resembling a large fossilized tooth".
When approaching it, threads of coloured light appear, attaching the group together. Deja appears, and describes what each thread means: "Each strand represents the connection you have. See the gold ones? That means you're related. That blue one connects you to his familiar, that purple one is related by marriage, and other ones include pink for love or a crush, but not married, black for hate, green for a magical link, orange for friendship and red for completely in love with.".
Mozenrath picks up the blade, and walks over to Aladdin, whose threads are: a red bond connected him to Jasmine, orange ones to Genie, Sadira, Carpet, Abu and even Iago, two golden ones to Mozenrath and Cassim... Mozenrath had a green one too, due to their soul-link, then one blue one that disappeared into thin air, presumably were Destane's spirit was. However, when Mozenrath raised the blade, Destane's spirit moves, and begins hovering around Jasmine, entangling their bonds... which would remove any romantic feelings they have for one another. They would no longer love each other, or be married and the unborn children they have would be wiped from existence. Mozenrath tosses the blade to Cassim, and shoves Jasmine behind him. When Destane tries to entangle himself with the others, Mozenrath puts them all behind his back- except from Sadira, who ducked into the shadows over the other side of the room without anyone noticing.
Destane- whose spirit is acting more powerful than ever- slams Mozenrath and the ones he saves behind his back into the wall, with Aladdin, Deja and the hidden Sadira on the other side of the cave. Destane then blasts Deja, who vanishes. Iago yells at Aladdin ( "He got Deja! Al, you're next! RUN!") but it is too late- Aladdin opens his now glowing green eyes, and Destane' voice comes out: "Aladdin is gone."

Chapter Twenty-Three: Return from Death

Mozenrath is absolutely horrified with his brother's fate. Destane creates an impenetrable green wall between the group and himself. Mozenrath then spots Sadira on the same side as Aladdin/Destane! Destane then creates a green sphere in front of him which will generate power. Once enough power is generated, Destane's spirit can absorb the energy, and his body will re-generate, as Aladdin keeps fighting to try to gain control. Sadira is suddenly spotted by Destane, and he begins to approach her, saying she would make a nice "snack". Aladdin gains control for a second- just enough time to scream "No!", before Destane overpowers him, and continues to approach Sadira. Mozenrath realizes that Aladdin gains control when his emotions are strong. He turns to Jasmine and says: "Jasmine- listen to me a second; what I'm about to do, will most likely make you despise me forever, but that's a simple sacrifice, and it will hopefully save Aladdin... but if it doesn't work out how I plan, would you still care for Aladdin? Even if he looked like me?". Jasmine hesitantly answers yes. Mozenrath waves his gauntlet at Genie, Cassim, Carpet, Abu, Iago and even Xerxes, and they become imprisoned in chains- and they all make a ruckus. Destane hears this and turns. Mozenrath realizes that he had Destane's and thus, Aladdin's attention, pulled Jasmine's back against his chest, like he had done earlier that day, and whispers in a voice that only Jasmine and- thanks to the large ears- Destane/Aladdin could hear: "You don't know how long I've wanted to do this, Princess." Jasmine struggles violently, and Mozenrath swings her around, pinning her against a wall. He then leans in, slowly and deliberately, giving Jasmine enough time to cry out one single word: "Aladdin!"
It works: Aladdin's anger clouds over, and he attacks Mozenrath- who seizes his right wrist. The pair switch: Aladdin becomes human, dressed in Mozenrath's clothes, and Mozenrath now looks like a tiger-striped white lion. Aladdin frees the others, and Cassim runs forward and swings the blade, cutting off the bond between Mozenrath and Destane, making Mozenrath turn back into a human. He and Aladdin create the switch again, and they are completely restored to normal- clothes and all.
They suddenly hear Sadira's cut off scream, and turn to see her being held around her neck by a tall man, with yellowed skin and long, black hair- he was wearing long, brown robes with a hood. His eyes glowed green. His hands were thin and bony. While everyone's backs were turned, Destane had been re-created. Aladdin and Mozenrath rush forward to save Sadira, who Destane releases, before blasting Mozenrath backwards, and sending Aladdin back to the Land of the Black Sand. Destane tells Mozenrath that Aladdin is hooked up to the same machine Mozenrath had been all those years ago- and will become a Mamluk shortly. Deja suddenly appears, having recovered from Destane's blast, Mozenrath vanishes in a blur of blue flames, while Jasmine and the others leap on Carpet and race off to the Land of the Black Sand, leaving Deja all alone on the Island, wondering if they'll succeed in their rescue.

Chapter Twenty-Four: First Born

Mozenrath appears in his lab back at the Citadel to find Aladdin struggling, attached to the machine. Mozenrath frees Aladdin, who suddenly remembers Mozenrath's attack on Jasmine, and is about to attack him, when Mozenrath explains why he did it. At that moment, Destane appears, and takes a shot at Mozenrath's gauntlet, turning his right hand back into bone. Aladdin headbutts Destane, who then promises to make Aladdin regret challenging him, whilst staring hard out of the window. Mozenrath teleports himself and Aladdin outside, to see Carpet approaching, loaded with passengers. Mozenrath bellows at them to turn back, when there is a bright flash, and Jasmine suddenly screams- Destane has sped up the pregnancy, and now she's gone into labor! Mozenrath swiftly removes all passengers from Carpet except Jasmine and Sadira, and instructs Carpet to return to Agrabah, and get Jasmine to a hospital. Once at Agrabah, Eden- Genie's girlfriend- appears to help, and ushers Dhandi- her master- Carpet and Sadira out of the room.
Meanwhile, Destane has suddenly imprisoned the others in the tower room by throwing them into a wall. Literally- the minute their backs impacted against the wall, it absorbed their hands. Destane then sends a spell out of the window, and Mozenrath panics. Destane asks Aladdin how soon he'd like to see his new son or daughter.

Chapter Twenty-Five: Brothers United

Over in Agrabah, Jasmine has safely delivered two babies- one boy and one girl... she had been pregnant with twins! Eden and Dhandi leave to give Jasmine, Carpet and Sadira space and time with the infants, when Destane's spell swoops in and snatches both babies.
In the tower, Destane gleefully announces the surprise to Aladdin about his babies, before hitting them with another spell to turn them into teenagers. The girl- now wearing a black and navy blue corset top with a grey skirt and a dark blue hooded cape with plum-coloured wristbands- was the perfect mix of Aladdin and Jasmine. Her eyes were definitely Jasmine's, and her nose was similar to Aladdin's, her hair was too; only longer, and less poofy, but her face was almost Jasmine's, yet not as curved, a bit more angled. The boy on the other hand -who was wearing a navy shirt, black vest, plum belt, black trousers and a cape exactly like his sisters- had Jasmine's nose and face shape, but other than that he looked exactly like Aladdin- his hair was the same, as was his mouth and eyes.
Destane watches with amusement at the look on Aladdin's face before ordering the children to step aside. Aladdin's son looks at his sister nervously, as she makes it plain she doesn't want to obey Destane's orders, so Destane simply blasts them aside. Aladdin furiously wrenches his hands out of the wall (scratching them up) and lunges at Destane who dodges, and releases the Crystal of Ix that Mozenrath once used to capture Genie. Aladdin asks Mozenrath what it is, loud enough for Destane to hear. While Destane suggests a demonstration, Mozenrath explains what the Crystal of Ix is ("A Crystal of Ix can capture a nearby magical being and can only be controlled by a magical being- wait! But you-") and suddenly remembers that Aladdin knows what the Crystal of Ix does. While everyone had been distracted, Aladdin had been tugging Mozenrath's right arm, trying to get it out of the wall. When he didn't succeed, he made a grab for the only part of the gauntlet he could reach. The resulting change left Aladdin dressed in Mozenrath's attire, with Mozenrath (still stuck in the wall) wearing Aladdin's street rat clothes. With the gauntlet in his possession, Aladdin uses his street-rat skills to hide in the shadows, and spookily walk into the light in different places in the room, before going back into the shadows and appearing in a different part of the room.
After his behavior convinces Mozenrath that the dark power of the gauntlet has changed him, Aladdin then convinces Destane that he is considering joining him, and Destane investigates a dark shadow that he believes to be Aladdin, Mozenrath notices Aladdin sneak around the back of the Crystal of Ix at the opposite end of the room. Mozenrath finally wrenches his right hand (returned to normal as Aladdin is wearing the gauntlet). Aladdin mouths "I'm going to use this to get him." (referring to Destane). Mozenrath nods, and mouths back: "Then throw the gauntlet to me."
The plan works: Aladdin utters the word "Ixtalar", and the crystal shoots a beam which grabs Destane. Aladdin peels the gauntlet off his bone hand, and throws it to Mozenrath. The minute Mozenrath puts it back on his wrist, they switch back: Aladdin is back in his street-rat attire, and his right hand regrows, and Mozenrath's right hand becomes bone, and he is back in his robes. However, just before Destane is pulled into the Crystal, he grabs Aladdin and pulls him in too.

Chapter Twenty-Six: Torn

Mozenrath realizes that Aladdin still had a small amount of magical power in his soul from wearing the gauntlet, and that was enough for him to be pulled into the Crystal. When the Crystal of Ix clears, it shows Aladdin and Destane trapped inside. Mozenrath realizes that he can't let Aladdin out without releasing Destane as well.
Aladdin sadly accepts his fate, though he struggles to ignore Destane's taunts about how they will now be preserved forever ("We'll be stuck like this forever- never hungry, unless you are now, never getting tired... or old. Can you imagine? We'd be in here, watching as your princess grows older and older, until she eventually...") until Aladdin stands up abruptly, and to annoy Mozenrath, Destane tortures him slightly (punches him in the mouth, then holds a conjured knife to his throat), to try and persuade Mozenrath to let them out, promising that he'd make his death quick, rather than torture Aladdin for eternity.
Aladdin however, tries to persuade Mozenrath to send the crystal away ("Mozenrath- maybe you'd better send the Crystal away, somewhere no one would ever find it." / "No." / "He's just trying to use me to get to you. You don't have to watch- just go to Agrabah, tell Jasmine... something happened, and then get rid of the crystal."), when Destane stabs him in the stomach, horrifying everyone. Aladdin still tries to get Mozenrath to remove the Crystal ("It's f-fine now. I-i'll die... hate him... h-hate... him for... killing me... now ba-banish the c-cryst-tal."), and just before he blacks out, Aladdin says "Torn... Between letting the one you loved die, or letting your greatest enemy die...". None of his friends were sure whether he was talking to himself or Mozenrath. Maybe he meant both.

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Opposites

Aladdin's fingertips are still twitching feebly, but is obviously close to death. After asking to be let out again, not wishing to be beside Aladdin's bloodless corpse for eternity, Destane asks to be let out once more. The stunned Mozenrath replies with: "I almost did. I almost let you out... but, now he's dead... I will never let you out. You can stay there forever." Destane had predicted this, so he uses a spell which forces Aladdin's blood back into his chest, making him recover in the most painful way possible.
After briefly controlling Aladdin and trying to get him to release them, Destane is angry at Aladdin, who suddenly asks how Destane's mamluk was brought back to life, Destane laughs and says "Your father's hatred, of course. His fury reminded me why I enjoyed being alive so much.", upsetting Cassim.
Aladdin then has an idea. He shuts his eyes, and begins muttering under his breath. The group stare as Aladdin's silhouette glows golden, and the Crystal glows white, and sudden images flash past: first of all, blurred flashes of Jasmine blew around inside the Crystal, and Destane grew thinner. Next, images of Genie, Carpet, Abu and Iago flickered around, causing Destane's hands to wither. When an image of Cassim hugging Aladdin appears, Destane lets out a screech. Finally, and image of Mozenrath managing a half-smile at Aladdin caused the final blow, and Destane became a mamluk. Aladdin explains: "He said it was hatred that brought him back to life, right? And the opposite of hatred is love. So, I thought about those I loved most, and used the remainder of magic that I had left in my soul to radiate it at him, until he became a mamluk." Mozenrath lets Aladdin out of the Crystal and destroys Destane once and for all.
After they awkwardly hug, Mozenrath tells Aladdin that he has a plan for what to do with his children: "I can't make them the age they were before. But I can make them both babies again, but only for this day, tomorrow, they will be this age again, and every year on this day, they will return to their true age. But if I turn them back into babies now, you and Jasmine will have time to explain to everyone the situation before tomorrow.".
After turning the pair back into babies, Mozenrath sends them back to Agrabah. Genie then teleports them all back to Agrabah, not hearing Aladdin's yell of "Genie, no!"

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Still Wanted

They all land in the corridor next to the throne room, where Aladdin reminds Genie that transporting two of the most wanted men in Agrabah was not the best idea. At that moment, Rasoul stalks around the corner and despite Aladdin's effort to hide them, spots Mozenrath and Cassim, and calls the guards. When Aladdin defends them, Rasoul jokingly asks if Mozenrath is Aladdin's brother. Seeing the look on Aladdin's face and consequently realizing that it is true, Rasoul is furious. Things get worse when the Sultan appears and hears what's happening. Things look bad ( "Your son in law has many interesting family connections- doesn't this mean he is technically the Prince of Thieves and the Duke of the Black Sand! As well as the Prince of Agrabah! We never had to worry about the Princess marrying royalty after all!"- Rasoul) until Jasmine herself appears along with Carpet, the two babies, Rajah and Sadira.
Jasmine has been informed of what had happened from a letter that came along with the babies: it was written by Mozenrath, explaining to Jasmine what had happened after she had left, not including the hug, yet it still included the stabbing and the torture, although the main focus was on the children. Aladdin is irritated by this, especially when Rasoul snatches it, reads it (although he doesn't believe its true) and scrunches it up in a ball, where Genie slyly gives it to Sultan. After Sultan reads it, he is concerned for Aladdin, and decides the children must have a room each. And so they set off in an odd parade: the Sultan led the way with Iago on his shoulder, followed by Jasmine on Carpet with the boy, Aladdin alongside her holding their daughter, with Mozenrath behind him, followed closely by Rasoul ("Look Guard, put hand-cuffs on me, and I'll melt them instantly." Mozenrath had spat at Rasoul when he attempted to do that), restraining Cassim behind them were two other guards, followed by Genie and Sadira. Xerxes and Abu sat on Mozenrath and Aladdin's shoulders (well, Xerxes sort of flopped on Mozenrath's shoulder).
Aladdin's daughter is very interested in the ruby in Mozenrath's turban, so Xerxes gives it to her. She giggles as she looks through it, distorting the world around her.

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Egos and Jewels

They find a bedroom for the sleeping baby boy: the room was an exact mirror image of Jasmine's old room ( as she and Aladdin now have their own room in the back of the Palace), only it was on the tower over the other side of the Palace, as the Palace was designed to look symmetrical. Genie created a deep, velvety black/purple/navy theme trimmed with gold for the boys room. The group look upon the baby, and Jasmine and Aladdin name him: as Aladdin had suspected the baby to be a girl, he hadn't thought of any boy names. Jasmine suggests "Ali", which Aladdin agrees to.
The girl stays in Jasmine's old room, with the theme kept the same. Jasmine allowed Aladdin to name her- he chooses "Ruby", as she is currently observing them all through Mozenrath's ruby, laughing at the results. Jasmine suggests that Rubith (Ruby for short), could be her name, as it was the name of an early Agrabanian Princess. Mozenrath tells Aladdin and Jasmine that he wasn't sure what they'd tell them about the past, so they have fifteen years worth of memories of living in the Palace. They frequently visit the marketplace though, but all they know about your past is that Aladdin was once a street-rat and Jasmine was always a princess.
As they leave the room, Rasoul attempts to arrest Mozenrath, who then teleports himself, Xerxes, Cassim and Iago away, wishing Aladdin and the others good luck.
The next morning, Aladdin and Jasmine awaken to their fifteen-year-old kids running around like psychos- or at least, Rubith is. Ali is trying to calm her down (or to put it bluntly, shut her up), but it isn't working. Aladdin and Jasmine learn that she often runs around, stealing things for fun. She's got Jasmine's free spirited, independent side, Aladdin's impulsiveness, fun and adventurous side, thieving skills and agility, and also is very protective of her family, even if she always squabbles with them
Ali on the other hand is often running around, apologizing to merchants on his sister's behalf, and often has to pay for the things she stole (he doesn't care too much though). He's got Jasmine's compassionate, intelligent, brave and caring side, and Aladdin's kind side. If necessary, he can be just as athletic as his father, although he doesn't often have to be, as he doesn't get into as much trouble as his sister does.
Rubith then gives her mother Mozenrath's ruby, not knowing where she got it, before her and her brother go to get breakfast.
Aladdin takes the ruby from Jasmine. Once the children are gone, Aladdin says: "I'd better give it back to Mozenrath. Maybe I can talk to him about... is he seriously my brother? Wow. Yesterday was dramatic."

Chapter Thirty: Hessa Destiny

Aladdin wanted to set off as soon as possible, but Jasmine made him wait, and eat breakfast with the kids. Rubith started a food fight, which Aladdin used as a distraction. After saying goodbye to Jasmine, he set off, wearing his "fancy" street rat attire (purple vest lined with gold and boots tucked into his trousers).
When he gets there, he finds Iago, begging to come back to Agrabah, missing Palace comforts, and Mozen(rath) -who decides to drop the name Destane gave him- is busy. He discovers that Destane had drained the people of The Land of the Black Sand of their energy, making most of the mamluks (aside from those Mozen had created, who had been his enemies- or Destane's enemies) innocent villagers. Under Cassim's influence, Mozen had decided to restore the mamluks back (unless they are potentially dangerous) to their human form.
Mozen explains that the villager's drained energy was stored inside ("Destane was probably trying to become immortal with them. But he obviously didn't research well enough, because it wouldn't work. Dark magic makes you age, and by using more power from these crystals, your power would obviously increase, but so would your age."), and that he could transfer the energy back to them. He calls a mamluk in, and one of the crystals glows- this is the one storing the mamluk's energy.
However, when Mozen restores it to it's original form, they are met with an odd sight: the mamluk was in fact a young, slender girl- about twelve years old, except she had one eye in the middle of her face. And long black hair in the style of an ancient Egyptian. She also was covered in brown fur, and had cat ears. Her eye was green, and had clawed fingers. She reveals that she was an experiment of Destane's: as each different sorcerer's magic is as unique as their DNA, Destane used power from his sister (Mirage) and her then-boyfriend, Phasir the cyclops. She has the powers of Mirage and Phasir combined (i.e: absurdly powerful). The "girl" says her name is Destiny, before dropping another bombshell: she actually was made from four people's magic, meaning she has TWO forms- her other form was created from a sand witch and a sorcerer living in the near-future, rather than a evil elemental and a prophet from her present time (as she was created a couple of decades before). The other form gos by the name Hessa (which Iago amusedly points out means "Destiny"). Aladdin asks to see her other form, and she obliges.
When Destiny turns into Hessa, the onlookers are shocked: she was now slightly shorter. Her skin was paler and her hair was curled- much like the man standing beside her. Her eyes were a similar shape to Mozen's too. Unlike Mozen, her eyes were blue, and her hair was a dusty blonde colour. A small pigtail hung in a Sadira-fashion next to her eye.
Iago hesitantly asks if the sorcerer and the sand witch's names were Mozen and Sadira. Hessa ironically replies with: "Yup. Lucky things don't know I exist!", before awkwardly realizing that Mozen is standing beside her. Upon realizing he is interested in magic, Hessa shows Mozen a silver ring on her right finger- it had four circular, smooth, red jewels on it. Mozen- who had abandoned the search for it years ago- is speechless. Xerxes informs them that it is the Genie of the Ring. Iago finds this very funny ("What- lemme see if I got this right. You used spend all ya time, tryna capture our annoyingly blue buddy, when all along, one of your Mamluks was wearing one on its finger for the world to see?").
Mozen allows Hessa to stay in a spare room, before abruptly leaving the room. Cassim- who had entered the room a little while ago- tells her: "He'll come around. It must be awkward to discover that you've had a sort-of child, all ready growing up."
Aladdin stiffens, and says he has to leave now. When Cassim asks him if he's ok, Aladdin replies: "Yes, I'm fine. I should just be back at Agrabah right now." He, Carpet and Iago all fly out of the window to Agrabah.

Chapter Thirty-One: Black and Gold

Sadira- who is back at her underground home making soup- can't stop thinking about Mozen. An inquisitive sand-worm that inhabited the sandy floor pops up and begins to talk to Sadira. Once realizing what is wrong (that she is in love with a man who was "a psycho until yesterday", who also happens to be the older brother of her previous crush), the worm muses over the fact that Mozen has powers over black sand, whilst muttering "Black and gold..." before having to leave. Sadira sings to herself, and hundreds more sand-worms pop up having realized the meaning of the song ("That was beautiful!" "Why are you still here?" "Go! You need to go find him!" "We love you!"). Sadira then plucks up the courage to go and see Mozen, but the worms stop her, as she is dressed as a street-rat.
They dress Sadira up in a light, mint-green dress. It was simple, but pretty. The dress was off-the shoulders and had long-sleeves, which flared at the wrists. The dress itself was long and straight, and the top half was a slightly lighter shade of green, and was similar to a corset, laced up at the front by silver threads. The shoes were silver, curled-toed slippers. Her hair was silky smooth, loose down her back. Nestled in her hair on the right side was a white rose, tinted mint-green at the tips of its petals. Sadira is so thankful, she tips the soup she just made onto the sand, which the worms happily eat.
Just then, Hessa appears (trying to match-make, as she wants real parents) and offers to take Sadira to the Land of the Black Sand. Sadira agrees. Hessa teleports them to the gates, and leaves Sadira to walk up to the Citadel, which she nervously does, after Hessa explains that the city has been removed of Mamluks, and now has people in it.
As Sadira walks, the villagers watch her in awe: "Who is she?" "She's beautiful!" "Is she the queen we've been waiting for?" "She can't be real..." until she reaches the Citadel. Mozen walks out, and greets her rudely after being informed by Xerxes that a witch has entered the land. Once he recognizes Sadira however, he hesitantly remarks on her beauty, before inviting her inside, which she accepts. When she isn't looking, Mozen irritably takes a shot at Hessa upon realizing her "match-making" plan, as she had been victory dancing out in the street a few feet away (obviously not hurting her- just knocking her onto her back).

Epilogue

Saleen laughed as she moulded the glowing white foam before her. "Have they forgotten about me, Armond?" She laughed. "Well, let them forget me. I haven't forgotten them."

Armond looked grumpy.

"And now, Armand, Saleen may walk the streets of Agrabah, through another." Saleen laughed, as she continued to mould the person before her out of sea foam.

It is from here you continue :)