Note: I only own Aria! And yeah, I forgot to say, if your following by the way the movies go, only the first one happened, so Jafar is alive and right where Genie tossed him! Oh and Aria is 15 when it comes to the present time in the fanfic.

15 years Earlier:

"No! I can't believe this. Not at all. I despise your kind, and if anything you should've left your identity concealed."

"But…"

"Tricky, Cruel, Sly, That's how I describe them!"

"Lebenah please…"

"No! I refuse to let this child be anywhere near you."

*Lebenah scoops up the basket holding the slumbering newborn and bolts down the stairs of the palace, into the street*

"Lebenah!" *Hurriedly scans the streets through the window but there's no trace of her*…

Chapter 1: Serene, Meet Your Dad

Present:

Serene wasn't like the others in the first place. Instead of the typical purple-black hair as many Arabians have, hers was golden. She was pale complexioned and her eyes consistently faded from coffee brown to ice-blue to amber, all depending on her mood. She'd lived with her mother all her life (supposively) and she had never talked to Serene about her father and Serene always wondered why….

Serene's mom had been sick lately and Serene had been working around the house.

"Serene!" Serene's mother called with a few coughs.

"Yes?"

There were more coughs. "The fruit basket is empty, would you be a dear and get some from the market?"

"Of course mother,"

Serene was worried about her mother. She was getting weaker and more frail by the day, and she wished there was something… anything that could help her… Serene put on her cloak, picked up some coins from the money jar and scurried out of the house. Once there she browsed the carts, looking for one containing fruit. She found it after a few minutes and hand-picked a few things. She paid for them and began to walk home.

Aladdin's pov.

If I didn't know any better I'd say that girl looks familiar, that golden hair is unmistakable… The hair of someone I've only seen once…Wait, could it be….?

Nobody's pov.'

Serene felt a tap on her shoulder. She spun around. Behind her was a man of average height, wearing a vest, and the typical puffy pants, and a cap, but barefoot.

"Um," Serene said, and began to walk away again but very quickly broke into a run.

"Aria, wait!" the guy called, and ran after her.

"My name isn't Aria!" she shouted back. "Perhaps your have the wrong person?"

"Just answer this one question," he said. "Do you know where or who your father is? That's how I'll know."

Serene stopped in her tracks at the question.

"No…" She replied cautiously. "I don't."

"Do you want to know?" he inquired.

Serene felt a sudden emptiness, like a hole had just been punched into her very soul.

"Yes…" She found herself saying.

"Then come on," the man said, motioning for her to follow as he began to run in the opposite direction.

Normally Serene would've said 'No way!' and bolted, but Serene had a hunch this guy did knew something about her father… And even though Serene's mother was sick at home, who knows? Maybe where they were going had a cure… The man and Serene came to the city limits, where a square wooden tunnel had been built between the next city (which wasn't all that far) to try and make sure traveler's were undisturbed by sandstorms. Torches were set on the walls, creating a surprisingly firm light.

"So, you know my father?" Serene asked, after they had walked through the tunnel a few minutes.

"Yeah we're good friends, I freed him awhile back," the man replied, but he seemed to want to take back some of his words.

Serene was confused. "From what?"

"Uh, nothing," the guy said rather quickly.

He then changed the subject. "So if your name isn't Aria, what is it?"

"Serene," Serene replied. "You?"

"Aladdin," Aladdin said.

'Aladdin,' Serene repeated in her head, trying out the name.

After this there was just silence for another half an hour until they reached Agrabah. Serene knew of this city though she hadn't been there. It was the city where the Sultan's palace was. Even though this was a semi-famous city, it looked much like the others. Stone flats on the top floor of a building and a small shop below, a bunch of carts grouped together in one area for display, and a few who tried to make a living by doing crazy things, like 'eating' fire and willing a cobra to come out of a woven basket with a flute. Though Serene figured they would stop at one of the flats, Aladdin kept walking in the direction of the palace, and soon, they were at its gates. Serene's jaw hung open slightly in amazement as she stared at the towering gates.

"He lives here?" Serene inquired in disbelief.

Aladdin seemed amused by her surprise. "Yup, as well as my wife and I, a monkey, the Sultan who as you may or may not know is my father-in-law, and a magic carpet, as well as a tiger and a ton of maids and servants."

Serene's eyes widened and her jaw fell about a thousand more miles. Aladdin did some weird, secret knock on the gates and they opened, revealing the palace in its full splendor. It was made of mostly marble and gold and the tops of the towers were round. Just before the stairs that led to the front door was a lush garden with a found with a dolphin spouting water as its center piece. They hurried up the steps, opened the front door, and crossed the threshold. When Serene stepped inside, she felt like her heart was going to thump right out of her chest. She was in the largest room in her entire life! It had the same material on the outside, with a whole bunch of rooms as it was on the first floor and there were at least fifteen stairwells leading in two different directions into even more rooms, two guards on the side of each one. When Serene was done glancing around, she realized Aladdin was already at the top of one of the staircases.

"Come on Ar-I mean Serene!" he called.

Serene scurried up.

"This way," Aladdin said, leading her to one of the rooms.

In the room sitting in a chair was a slender young woman, with long black hair that was in a braid, and was wearing a turquoise midriff-showing outfit with an off-the shoulder-top, puffy pants, and curly shoes, and in her hair was a ribbon of the same color, with a sapphire in the center.

"Aladdin!" the woman cried in happiness, and she kissed him briefly, and he returned the favor.

"Serene, this is my wife, Jasmine," Aladdin said after that.

"And Jasmine do you know who this is?" Aladdin asked Jasmine. "It's G's daughter!"

Jasmine's face suddenly lit up.

"Oh Aria!" Jasmine cried. "Your father's been worried sick ever since the day Lebenah took you and ran off, and how long's it been? Fifteen years?"

Serene shot the couple a puzzled look.

Aladdin shrugged. "I sort of figured you wouldn't remember, you were just a baby when it happened."

Serene's confusion remained unfazed. Aladdin turned and walked towards a satin pillow, which on it was a brass lamp. Aladdin polished the lamp on his vest and set it back on the pillow. There was a strange energy in the air- a building of pressure that pressed against Serene's eardrums. A loud, dramatic pounding rocked the room back and forth. Then the energy formed itself into a single massive being standing nearly twenty-five feet tall. Its skin was blue and ghostly. Its arms and chest were thick with stringy muscles though its lower body remained mist-like, and filled with crackling light. It had black hair pulled back into short, thin ponytail, a goatee, and a small hoop earring in one of its ears. It wore no shirt, obviously a dude. Serene stumbled backward in surprise as his lower body formed into legs wearing puffy pants and rather curly shoes.

" But- but-That's a-that's a- that's a," Serene stammered, slowly standing up again."G-g-g-g-g-genie."

The genie shrank down to a little taller than six feet and squeezed Serene in a tight embrace.

"Aria you came back!" he cried, his voice echoing off the walls. "Gosh, how old are you now? How did you get back here anyways?..."

Genie erupted with questions. Though her dad was right there in front of her she felt split in two. Genie noticed she hadn't said anything, and released her.

"Don't you recognize me?" Genie asked, happiness draining from his voice quicker by the second.

"No," Serene replied simply. "I don't."

"Aria, I'm your dad," Genie explained.

Serene was filled with mixed emotions at the words. A part of her was joyous and grateful, but the other half was anxious to just get home to her ill mother. The first half won the battle.

" Wait, you-you are?" Now that Serene thought about it, she did look like the genie.

"Yup," Genie replied and smiled, the joy flowing back to his face.

Aladdin and Jasmine gave each other satisfied grins.

"I'm just glad you didn't turn into a genie," Genie said with some relief in his tone. "But that is still an unfortunate possibility."

When Genie said that, something in Serene snapped and the information she was processing became too much. She teetered and fainted…