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Iago was walking through the market, mumbling under his breath, he seemed to be unaware of the chaos around him. People were fighting and stealing off of each other, vendors tripled their prices, and even the animals seemed to be more protective of their food as people walked by. There was only one word for it, Greed.

Aladdin and the others were flying over Agrabah in hopes of finding their missing friend.

"What's going on?" Aladdin asked from his bird's eye view of all the chaos Iago seemed to be unconsciously causing. They could see the guards trying to break up all the squabbles and as much as they wanted to find their friend they had to help put an end to the commotion going on below.

Iago was perched on the rooftop of a rundown building, the scowl was still present on his face.

"Traitor? Please. I'm a demon if I wanted to I could destroy the whole of Agrabah, I mean come on I instigated the bloodiest war in Mesopotamia. Pleuh humans. I thought they were my friends. They don't know me; they don't know anything about me. Humph they think they've had it tough, don't make me laugh. All my life I've suffered and for what? For my only friends to stab me in the back, ok yeah I have my flaws, who doesn't? But considering what I am and how I should act, they're lucky after all how many people can say that they're friends with Greed of the seven deadly sins, no one that's who, at least not anymore. Ah who needs them? I survived Jafar's cruelty and I survived Demon treatment, yeah it may have changed me, and not for the better, but that doesn't mean that I can't survive on my own. I'll just find someone else who wants a demon parrot companion, and not just that. Oh no I didn't get nothing from my time with Jafar, I'm also the only familiar to fully outlive their master. I'm one of a kind," Iago said to himself as he tried to lessen his mood, but as if to mock him they sky suddenly filled with clouds blocking out the moon before it dropped another downfall on the bird.

"Thanks Thundra," was all he said before he took off to find shelter.

The gang were still searching for Iago, it wasn't going well.

"Aladdin I know you want to find him but we need to get out of the rain!" Jasmine shouted over the wind though Aladdin could tell that she was as disappointed as he was at having to give up.

"I know Jaz, but you should have seen the hurt we caused him," he protested as the image of Iago standing by the door flittered through his mind again.

"We'll carry on searching in the morning," Jasmine said trying to persuade the boy. Aladdin sighed before reluctantly agreeing, but not before he made a silent vow to search for Iago in the morning and bring him home safely.

Iago sat hidden under a wonky roof shivering. Sleep evaded him. Every time he succumbed to the sandman's whims, he would wake up ten minutes later, panting from them memories that invaded his mind causing him to wake up in fear. Memories from his entrapment with the demons to his enslavement by Jafar and the punishments that finally broke his will.

Sunlight filtered across his eyes. He was tired and grouchy, and to make things worse he still had eleven days left of this torment. He shook his head as he buried the memories back where they had come from, before he took off in search of breakfast.

Aladdin slept in front of his window, knowing that he would awaken at sunrise when the light hit his face, what he didn't count on was for the suns light to be blocked out by clouds.

Iago spat out his spoils, it seemed the apple that he had managed to procure had gone rotten from the inside. The taste was enough to chase away his appetite for the next couple of days. He sighed in annoyance as he wondered what today held in store for him. He decided to stay off of the ground; he had had enough being trampled on yesterday.

Aladdin groaned as he opened his eyes, blinking away the sleep he rolled over before the events of yesterday came crashing down on him.

"Iago!!" he shouted waking all the other residents of his hovel. Standing up he dashed out of the entrance grabbing the genie lamp as he passed it, "Come on Genie we overslept," he said as he rubbed the lamp, Abu and Carpet following behind him as they hurried to catch up. The sun shone high above telling them that morning had gone.

Iago sat on top of the vendors stand as he watched the world go by, he was interrupted by a coughing sound coming from beside him.

"Frank? Frank Machana is that you?" he asked the blue cockroach that sat beside him with a smirk.

"The one and only," the cockroach replied.

"Well what are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be guarding the orbs, by the way those three trials, ha brilliant!" the bird laughed as he patted the bug on the back.

"Hey they cursed me to guard them until I ran out, they didn't say that the trials had to be hard," Machana said smirking back, "And your dumb routine, ha Bob the jolly parrot," the two shared a laugh at the memory.

"Haha, sigh good times, anyway you still haven't told me what you're doing here, won't Fate get angry that you're shirking your duties?" Iago asked once they had calmed down.

"Ah ol' Fate gave me the day off, seems she's feeling generous after cursing a demon, and not just any demon, but Greed of the seven deadly sins," Machana replied with a knowing smirk, "Tell me what did you do to earn the Friday the 13th curse?"

"Ah the usual, I was helping Al, you remember him. The kid with poofy hair, anyway the kid tried to break a sealed fate and..." he started but Machana cut in.

"Wait I thought only Demons, Angels and Gods had the power to break a seal fate," he said, Iago gave him an annoyed look at being interrupted.

"Yeah well that's where I came in..." again Machana cut in.

"Wait, you broke the sealed Fate?"

"Stop interrupting me! Anyhow yeah I broke it, I had to otherwise Al and the others would have been stuck in the time loop," Iago finished before he scowled and added, "And did I get a thank you? Oh no! All I got was a 'come on lets head home', well I tell you that's the last time I risk my life for them," he said hiding the hurt he felt at that, but Machana knew Iago and knew that his friend was hurt by their actions so he decided to change the subject.

"Man that's harsh, by the way when does the curse end?"

"Hm oh sometime next Friday," Iago answered, Machana stiffened, "What?" Iago asked feeling a slight panic.

"Iago do you know what next Friday is?" he asked. At Iago's blank look Machana continued. "Iago it's Friday the 13th, you better be careful being under the curse on Friday the 13th.....I don't even what to imagine what that has in store for you," he said earning a groan from said bird before he started mumbling about luck. Machana laughed at his friend before standing up. "Take care of yourself Iago, I gotta be off. This is the first time I've been out of that cave in centuries; I've only got another twelve hours free, drop in anytime. I still need to win back that five hundred clams worth off of you from our last poker game," he said as he spread his wings taking off.

"Yeah see ya! And have a fun....Hey you still owe me those five hundred clams!" he shouted as he watched his friend fade away in the distance, his annoyed frown turned into a smile. Friend, he did have friends and this friend had the worst poker face the bird had ever seen, he thought as he laughed to himself, before he decided that he had sat around for long enough as he stretched his wings before flying away.