The streets of Agrabah were strangely empty. Not a single soul was outside. Not even the palace guards.

It was perfect for two evil individuals such as Jafar and Maleficent to converse without being seen.

"And the keyhole?" The witch asked as they walked the streets.

"The heartless are searching for it now," The royal vizier answered, "I'm certain we'll find it somewhere else. So that just leaves—,"

A loud squawk rang through the air, and a red parrot flew down and rested on Jafar's shoulder. "Jafar! I've looked everywhere for Jasmine. She's disappeared like magic!" The parrot explained in a loud and obnoxious voice. He was Iago, Jafar's(mostly loyal) companion.

"The girl is more trouble than she's worth," Jafar sneered. He went through the trouble of imprisoning that poor excuse for a sultan and that troublesome tiger, but for what? The princess running off with no traces of where she was? He even wasted time using the heartless to get rid of all the guards.

"I thought you said you had things in control," Maleficent asked in suspicion.

"Agrabah is full of holes for rats to hide in," Jafar responded coolly. "But why worry about Princess Jasmine? With her or without her, surely this world will be ours when we find the keyhole."

"We need all seven princesses of heart to open the final door. Any fewer is useless," Maleficent explained.

"Shouldn't there be more than seven?" The royal vizier asked.

"Every world has a princess of heart but only seven are needed for opening the door. And if you say the girl Jasmine is one, then we need her," she replied.

"Well, if the princess is that important, we'll find her." Jafar looked to the side, where a crop of heartless bearing scimitars appeared. They wore bright white turbans with matching face masks, yellow vests trimmed in gold, dark red pants with silver trim that was held in place by a salmon colored sash, blue curled-toe shoes, plum and silver chokers, armbands, and gold and silver bracelets and rings.

"Find Jasmine and bring her at once," Jafar ordered. The heartless promptly ran off with the parrot, Iago, taking the lead. Jafar began to follow them when Maleficent spoke one last time. "Don't steep too far into the darkness too long. The Heartless consume the careless." Clayton was a clear reminder of that.

Jafar scoffed. "Your concern is touching but hardly necessary."

A young girl with dusky skin, dark brown eyes, thick black hair tied into a low ponytail in a blue ribbon, and a teal headband accompanied with a sapphire in the center, glanced at them from within a stall and quickly went back to hiding behind a pile of watermelons in fear.


"Ugh! Is this what sitting in an oven feels like?" May exclaimed as they descended from the gummi ship. The desert was sweltering in its brutal heat. Sand was blowing in her face, making her constantly shield her eyes.

She looked over to Sora, who was gazing at the very large palace that was visible even from where they were standing. "Wow! I've never seen something so huge!"

'Agrabah'. "It's much bigger than it looks in the movie," May noted as she shielded her eyes. She then glanced at the rest of her traveling companions.

"Yeah, and those three are definitely going to need scarves," May said to her twin as she looked at Sora, Donald, and Goofy. Goofy was sweating out buckets, Donald already looked like he was getting cooked well done, and Sora could possibly end up getting severe burns. He may have been tanned but that might not save him.

As they walked towards the city gate, a small man in a stall called to them. "Over here!"

When they walked over, he pulled out all kinds of vases, pots, and jewels. "I'm having a sale, travelers! I have the essential needs for your journey!"

"No thanks," May responded, "We have all the supplies we need."

The man pouted. "You're not running out of anything even a little bit?" The party shook their heads. "Oh come on! I haven't had any service in week! No one is coming out of their homes!"

May raised her eyebrow. "Really? How come?"

"The palace has been taken over and strange creatures have been attacking the residents so nobody is coming out, even the city bandits. The city itself has been rather…uncomfortable since the royal vizier took over for the Sultan."

It was pretty obvious who the culprit was to the twins.

"Hmm, looks like we have something to investigate," Sora said, crossing his arms.

"Something's not right about this," Goofy added with Donald nodding fiercely.


As they entered the city's plaza, they found that the city was indeed a ghost town. Not a single soul was outside, and the atmosphere was eerily calm.

"This is creepy," May said as she shuddered. When she thought of Agrabah, she thought of the bustling city from the movie, not this barren city with zero signs of life. They left the bazaar and walked along the main the street. There were still no signs of life.

"This house looks abandoned," Sora said as he looked up at a particular empty house. He walked into the entrance, where a pole was waiting. He crawled up on the pole, until he reached an upper level. The house was rather dilapidated, with large cracks in the wall and large holes all over.

He spotted a purple carpet lying on the floor, looking somewhat out of place. He went over to look at it, when the carpet suddenly jumped up.

"Woah!" Sora exclaimed, jumping back a bit. May crawled onto the floor via the pole with Donald on her back. Goofy and Serena were next.

Goofy and Donald looked at the carpet in shock. "It's alive!" They shouted at the same time.

Sora and the carpet looked hesitantly at each other for a moment. Then Sora reached to touch it, and the carpet flew out of the house as quickly as possible.

"Wait!" Sora went to follow it, but May grabbed him.

"The carpet flew off for the desert, but let's explore the city some more," Donald suggested. Sora did just that—by jumping out the large gaping hole in the house. Donald snorted at the boy's recklessness and opted to slide back down the pole instead with Goofy and Sarina right behind him.

May jumped out the hole as well and landed right on Sora.

As Sora's face met the ground and stars clouded his vision, he wondered why this kept happening to him. May got off him and chuckled. He stood up and pouted, walking away from her. She quickly followed him along with the rest of the group.

They entered an alleyway and looked around it.

"Yeesh, not even heartless are here!" May exclaimed.

"It's rather strange, don't you think? I wonder why?" Sora replied.

"Who's there? Hello?" A voice called out.

"Huh?"

Behind two barrels in the alleyway, sat Princess Jasmine. When she overheard voices that didn't sound like it came from Jafar or his goons, she decided to reveal herself.

"Jasmine?" May said out before she could stop herself. The princess smiled nervously.

"Who are you? Why are you hiding there?" Sora demanded, and May sighed at the fact that he wasn't supposed to address royalty that way. There had to be some sort of official on his island, right?

"I'm Jasmine," the older girl introduced, "My father is the sultan of Agrabah."

"Um…So that make you a princess?" Goofy responded. The princess smiled sadly. "But he's been deposed by Jafar, who now controls the city."

The twins bit their lips as Goofy tilted his head in confusion. "Jafar?"

"You haven't heard of him?" Jasmine replied in confusion.

"We're not from around here," Sora explained.

"He's the royal vizier. He's gained evil powers and seized Agrabah. He's desperately looking for something—something he calls the "Keyhole". Jafar caught me trying to escape, but he helped me. "

"Who helped you?"

"Aladdin," she smiled, "We were hiding nearby, but he left a while ago to take care of something. Oh, I hope he's alright…,"

"Why? Is he like your boyfriend or something?" Sora replied with a teasing grin. Jasmine blushed. "Uh…it's complicated."

"Don't worry, Sora's got a girl that he's worrying about too! She's all he talks about!" May remarked, earning a glare from Sora. He blushed red at the thought of Kairi, making May laugh.

"Aladdin? Where might I find this street rat?" Everybody froze at the voice.

Jafar grinned evilly from where he was standing, on a platform. "Jasmine, allow me to find you more suitable company, my dear princess. These little rats won't do, you see."

"I would never go with you!" Jasmine barked, and Sora had to admire her fierceness. He didn't expect that from a princess. Nevertheless, he had to protect her. "Jasmine, run!"

As the princess ran to safety, the rest of the group summoned their weapons.

"Ah, the children who holds the keys. Hmph." Jafar snapped his fingers, and the heartless that appeared earlier to look for Jasmine materialized. He arrogantly walked away to another area of the city.

"Heartless with scimitars? Really?" An aggravated May asked, engaging in a sword fight with one of the heartless. The creature desperately tried to stab her, but she matched it at every turn. When it went for her head, she deflected the blow and promptly sliced its head off. Good thing these monsters disappeared into thin air when they died, otherwise she knew she would be traumatized by all the blood.

She felt a presence behind her, and before she could react, another heartless was quickly incinerated by her sister. She nodded a thanks at her, and went to assist Sora with fighting another one.

After all four those Bandits were defeated; the group looked around for Jasmine, who had mysteriously disappeared.

"I'm pretty sure when you told her to run, you didn't mean for her to run off where no one could find her," May said to Sora.

"This city is dangerous right now, Jafar could kidnap her at any moment," Donald added, frowning.

"Well then we're gonna have to find her. Simple," Sora concluded simply.

"Maybe she went off to find Aladdin," Goofy rationalized.


They stood back outside the city gates in the hot boiling desert.

"So the solution is that we search this entire steaming desert and get possible heat strokes because you girls have an inkling of where Aladdin and Jasmine might be?" Donald pressed suspiciously.

Even on paper, the idea sounded pretty stupid and dangerous, but what did Sora, Donald, and Goofy know? They never saw the movie.

"Look, it may sound crazy but there really is a big scary cave out in the desert. It's very possible that Aladdin might have wound up in there," May defended.

"And how would you know about this 'Cave of Wonders'? How do you know it's real?" Donald challenged.

"Because I read it in a book once," May replied and Donald snorted. She didn't really know. The Cave of Wonders was most likely not in One Thousand and One Nights. Disney wasn't really accurate at adapting historical events and fairy tales.

The sentient carpet from earlier suddenly swept down in front of them.

"It's the carpet!" Sora exclaimed.

The carpet danced around frantically as if it was trying to tell them something. It went over and tugged on Sora's arm in a panic.

"I think it wants us to come with it," Sora suggested. It most definitely had to do with Aladdin.

"Can all five of us even fit on it?" May asked.

The carpet answered by floating upwards and stretching itself out. The group climbed on its back, and the carpet flew off.


Hours later, at night, the carpet took them to an area in front of a cave where a young man and his monkey were drowning in quicksand.

"That's Aladdin!" May shouted, jumping off the carpet and running towards them. Bandits popped up in front of her, and she immediately growled, summoning her keyblade.

A battle commenced when the rest of the group jumped off the carpet to fight with her. Sarina and Donald took no time in getting rid of the heartless with their magic, while Goofy deflected their blows and struck at them with his shield in return.

Sora and May finished the last one off together. Sora ran up to Aladdin and the monkey, and before the man could even look up, heartless appeared once again.

"Gawrsh! Not again!" Goofy protested.

The young man suddenly found the strength to pull a golden lamp out of his pocket. He held it up to the air. "Genie, get us out of here!"

The lamp shook rapidly, and a large, sky blue being with black hair tied into a topknot. His nose was small and pointed, and his ears were curved and pointed. The twins recognized him immediately. "Genie!"

"Wish Number One, coming right up!" Genie bellowed dramatically, and Sora had to admire his theatrics. The genie snapped his fingers, and the heartless disappeared instantly.

"I see…Thanks guys," Aladdin smiled.

"You're welcome…good thing we came or else you've would have been a goner," May said.

"Aladdin, what are you doing out here?" Sora asked him.

"Same old stuff. Hunting legendary treasure, Just paid a visit to the Cave of Wonders," Aladdin answered, grinning. The carpet jumped around. "I found that magic carpet, and this lamp." He pulled out the lamp, and looked down on it. "Legend has it that whoever holds the lamp can summon the—,"

"Please, kid, leave the intros to a professional," Genie cut him off, "The one and only GENIE OF THE LAMP!" He frantically took the lamp from Aladdin's hands and rubbed it. He instantly appeared in another spot. "Rub-a-dub-dub the lamp and have your dearest wishes granted," He circled Aladdin and sprinkled confetti all over him, "Today's winner is…Aladdin! Congratulations!"

"Is it me or do he sound less like Robin Williams and more like Homer Simpson?" May whispered to her twin. Sarina had to agree; something about Genie's voice sounded off.

Donald grew greedy thoughts at the words "dearest wishes granted". "Any wishes?"

Genie wagged his finger at the court wizard and spun around. "Patience, my fine, feathered, friend! Any three wishes! A one wish, a two wish, and a three wish," he held out three fingers, "Then I make like a banana and split! Our winner made his first wish," he reappeared next to Sora and whispered into his ear: "And let me tell you what a doozy that wish was…so he has two left!"

Genie popped up next to Aladdin. "So, master, what'll you have for Wish Number two?" The spotlight was on the poor boy.

Aladdin pondered it for a moment. "Hmm, how about making me a fabulously wealthy prince?"

"Oooh! Money! Royalty! Fame! Why didn't I think of that? Okay, you asked for it! A hundred servants and a hundred camels loaded with gold! Just say the word, and I'll deliver it in 30 minutes or less or the meal's free!" Genie responded. He wrapped his arm around Aladdin. "Hey, I'll even throw in a cappuccino!"

"No thanks," the young man chuckled. "Aww," was the being's response.

"I'll think I'll put that on hold until we reach Agrabah," Aladdin said.

"Uh, why a prince?" Goofy asked. The young man turned a dark red. "You see, there's this girl in Agrabah named Jasmine, but she's a princess and I'm a…Aw, she could never fall for a guy like me."

"Who could not like a guy like you?" May complimented. He was charming, hot, and adorable, like in the movie. She couldn't blame Angie for holding a rather obsessive crush on him since she was little.

"Oh. Princess?" Donald asked, an alarm going off in his mind.

"You mean Jasmine?" Goofy added.

"Oh, that's right! She's in trouble, Aladdin!" Sora informed him.

"Jafar is on a personal manhunt for her, and has taken over the entire city!" May explained.

"What? Well, c'mon, let's get going!" Aladdin ordered.

While on the entire group flew on the carpet, Genie flew around with them. "Ah, fresh air! The great outdoors!"

"I guess you don't get out much, huh?" Sora replied. The genie was acting rather excitable.

"Comes with the job," the blue being answered, "PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER….itty bitty living space. It's always three wishes, then back to my portable prison. I'm lucky to see the light of day every century or two…."

"That's really sad," May replied, "You deserve more than that."

"Say, Genie, what if I use my last wish to free you from the lamp? What do you think?" Aladdin asked him at the front.

Genie's eyes widened. "You'd do that?"

"Genie, it's a promise. After we help Jasmine."


"So Jafar is after Jasmine and this "Keyhole?" Aladdin asked the group as they gathered in his house. Turns out that the house they were in earlier was Aladdin's this entire time. Abu sat on Aladdin's shoulder.

"Keyhole, eh? I could swear I've heard that somewhere before," Genie wondered aloud.

"Really? Where?" Donald demanded.

"Now where was it? It's been only 200 years...," Genie continued on as if he hadn't heard the duck, making Donald roll his eyes.

"Well, anyway, we got to stop Jafar before it's too late!" Sora exclaimed.

Leaving the house, they walked into another area, on a high platform. From there, they could see Jafar trying to coerce the princess into going with him.

"I would rather die than to let you take me!" Jasmine spat.

"Perhaps that could be arranged," The royal vizier sneered, although he knew that it wouldn't please Maleficent. He tried to go for her, but she backed away from him.

"Leave her alone!" Aladdin barked as he jumped off the platform and took out his sword.

"Setting your sights a little high, aren't you boy?" Jafar shot at him, "Back to your hole, street rat. I will not allow you to trouble the princess any longer."

"Jasmine!" He called for her, and she tried to run towards him, but Jafar stopped her in her tracks. ""I'm so sorry, Aladdin," she said, giving up.

Rubbing the lamp behind his back, Aladdin summoned Genie, "Genie, help Jasmine, please."

"What?" The royal vizier shrieked. He turned around, only to meet the sights of Genie floating upwards with Jasmine in his arms.

"One wish left! You're making this really easy you know?" The blue prisoner of the lamp said cheerfully.

Jafar was seething. All those years of searching for that lamp, and a street rat found it. No, this will not do. "So sorry, boy. I'm afraid your second wish has been denied."

Iago flew in and snatched the lamp from the boy before he could even react. He quickly dropped it in the hands of his master, and Jafar grinned evilly towards the group.

"Uh oh," May whispered to Sora. Things were about to get really nasty.

"This isn't good isn't it?" Sora rhetorically asked.

"I'm sorry Al," Genie said in sorrow as in he disappeared in a bright pink puff. Jasmine fell in the pot below them. Spider legs busted out of the pot, and the eyes of a heartless appeared front and center. Three more pots in the area did the same.

In Jafar's mind, it was about time for these little filths to be wiped out of existence.

"And now I bid you all farewell, Attack!" Jafar commanded the heartless, him and Iago disappearing.

The four Pot Spiders in the area assembled into a body with a large blue head, resembling a centipede.

The heartless charged towards them, and Goofy quickly threw his shield at the head, knocking the heartless back. Sarina casted Thunder on the pots, and it broke open. May and Sora jumped on its body, and that's when it snapped back to its senses. Using its antennas, it electrocuted the two teens on the spot, and they fell to the ground in pain.

Aladdin retaliated by slicing another pot open, and dodging the whip of the heartless' tail.

Another pot was blown up by Donald's fire spell, and the heartless speeded off into another area. The group quickly followed it in front of the palace gates, and destroyed the last pot. The heartless evaporated into the sky, letting out a large heart.

Aladdin searched the area, desperately looking for Jasmine. "Jasmine!" He cried out.

Jafar's laugh rang through the air.

"It's sounds like it's coming from the desert!" May shouted.

"Then we need to go there!" Aladdin replied anxiously.

The rest of the party quickly nodded and headed towards the desert.


They took the Carpet through the desert once more in search of Jasmine. They ended up at the Cave of Wonders once more…or what should be the Cave of Wonders.

It was just a big pile of sand.

"Weird," Sora started, "It was just here be—,"

A violent tremor went through the area. The Cave erupted upward, however something was off. Its eyes glowed purple instead of gold, and dark tendrils surrounded the head of the cave. It roared, and bright beams shot from its eyes, aimed directly from its eyes.

May immediately dodged, pulling Sora out of the way as well while Goofy blocked the beams with his shield, protecting Sarina and Aladdin who stood behind him.

Poor Donald was the only one hit, screaming in pain. Mumbling some not-so-Disney-friendly words, he quickly shot a fire spell towards its mouth.

The cave swallowed up the fire ball with no issue.

"Oh for # &!%'s sake!" The court wizard swore loudly, making the twins gasp at hearing a Disney character curse so roughly.

"Oh he does it all the time. The king used to do it every other word when he was younger as well. Hyuck, their swear jars was filled up the brim! Hehe!" Goofy explained casually. The twins could not believe what they were hearing.

"Guys! Little help here?" Aladdin snapped as he sliced the Cave. To his aggravation, his slashes were doing no damage to the Cave due to it being made out of sand.

Sora climbed on its head and drove his keyblade into its head. Before he knew it, he was swallowed up by the sand and spat right back out. The Cave then exhaled fire out of its mouth, and Sora was immediately burned by it. Rini quickly casted Cure on the brunette, healing him.

"Thanks," he muttered.

May casted Aero on herself, and was pleased when she felt wind encircling her. She shot a fire spell into one of its eyes, and the left eye turned gold again.

"Found its weak spot!" She cheered, only for another beam to knock her keyblade out of her hand. "Ow, ow, ow!" She cried out in pain, holding her hand.

Aladdin chucked his sword into the other eye, and the heartless that possessed the Cave, dissipated into a white light. The Cave of Wonders fully returned to its normal state.

"I don't like this new version of Aladdin we're in," May hissed out to her twin, who nodded quietly.

"Jasmine's in here. I know it," Aladdin said firmly. He ran into the cave, and the rest of the party followed him inside.


"My first wish Genie, show me the Keyhole!" Jafar ordered his servant.

With severe sadness, Genie snapped his fingers, and the keyhole of Agrabah revealed itself through the walls.

He hoped Al and the others will forgive him for whatever other wishes Jafar might order him to do.


Inside the Cave was filled with large rooms decked out in traps, pillars, and jewels. There were secret passages only Aladdin or Abu could reach. Once again, they found chests filled with Dalmatian Pups, potions, or items for their Gummi Ships.

When they reached the treasure chamber, Aladdin took special precaution to keep Abu as far away from any of the gems as possible. Allah knows how disastrous that last attempt went. However, Sora found himself VERY tempted to take some jewels. Perhaps taking a ruby home with him couldn't hu—

"Don't even think about it," May said sharply, seemingly reading his thoughts.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Sora huffed. She rolled her eyes.

"Whatever you say, Babyface."

He scowled. One of these days he was gonna come up with a nickname that SHE wasn't going to like.

The second the keyhole appeared, Maleficent revealed herself. The witch snorted when Jafar told her of the issues he was facing with the group.

"Those children again?" The witch huffed.

"They're more persistent than I expected. Why not explain the situation to that boy Riku?" the royal vizier tried to explain. He didn't like answering to someone, but if he ever wanted to get what he wanted, then he would unfortunately have to do so. "Doing so may actually prove useful to our—,"

The group ran into the lamp chamber. Sora stopped when he spotted the fairy witch. "Wait a second. Are you Maleficent?"

Maleficent smirked evilly and disappeared.

"Wow, is she scared of us or something?" May asked, although she knew damn well it wasn't the answer.

"Jafar, let Jasmine go!" Aladdin demanded angrily.

"Not a chance," Jafar sneered. Since the rats came this far, he might as well tell them the truth. "You see, she's a princess, one of seven who to our knowledge hold the key to opening the door."

"Open…," Goofy trailed off.

"The door?" Donald finished for him.

"What kind of door is this?" May added.

"The kind that you fools won't live to see what lies beyond it," The royal vizier replied.

"Clever," May said in a bored tone. "Are you going to do corny magic tricks now?"

Seething, Jafar looked over to a downtrodden Genie. "Genie! My second wish. Crush them!"

"At least it isn't 'Genie, give me some fabulous but unnecessary makeover instead'," May mumbled, thinking of the scene in the movie where Jafar's clothes changed during the second wish.

"Genie, no!" Aladdin pleaded.

"Sorry, Al. The one with the lamp calls the shots. I don't have a choice," Genie lamented. He obeyed Jafar's wish and casted the spell.

Empowered by Genie, Jafar lifted up his spear and sealed off all potential exits and the Keyhole. He then floated into the air, sealing himself off in a bubble, power circling around him.

"Punkass," May grumbled, then jumped in shock at an oncoming lightning bolt Jafar shot at her. She glared at the royal vizier. "Hasty, aren't you?"

Casting Aero on herself, she tried to attack him, but a blue beam struck her side, knocking her to the ground. She immediately got up, barely in pain, and looked at the offender, and gasped. "Genie, but why?"

"I'm so sorry. I have no control of my actions," was his response.

She angrily tried to swipe another attack at Jafar, but he simply floated away. 'Grrh! I hate him! This isn't supposed to happen!'

Jafar swung his scepter around, and a brief ice storm swept across the area, hitting May and freezing Aladdin.

Sarina immediately melted the ice block with Fire, and Aladdin held himself, shivering.

Sora tried to cast Fire at Jafar in retaliation, but the latter quickly froze his fireball. Frustrated, Sora tried to jump up and slash at him, but the royal vizier simply floated out of the way.

"You little dirt rats really think you can harm me?" Jafar cackled, shooting another lightning bolt.

May deflected it with her keyblade. "Why don't you stop floating around like a chicken and fight us for real? And I'm not a dirt rat! I shower every day, thank you very much!"

Jafar broke off the bubble, and tried to swing at her with his scepter wrapped in fire, but Sora froze his scepter with Blizzard.

"Brat!" The royal vizier roared at Sora. He unfroze his scepter and shot a dark beam towards the brunette, but Sora rolled out of the way. Aladdin jumped up and slashed at him, but Jafar quickly burned the street urchin's hand. He then electrocuted Donald and Goofy simultaneously, and then burned May and Sora.

Watching all of this carnage unfold made something inside Serena snap. She wanted to end all this quickly before everybody died. However instead of a burning anger, she felt rather chilly instead. Her keyblade grew cold, even colder than usual. Holding her keyblade, she swung her keyblade around, and large ice crystals shot from her blade and spread around the field, hitting Jafar immediately. The royal vizier found himself on the ground, shivering from the sheer chills in his body. What had this girl done to him?

"That's a big too much for a Blizzard spell, isn't it?" May asked Donald as she healed herself.

"That's because she had casted Blizzara!" The court wizard replied.

"Blizzara?" The two teens said at once.

"An upgraded Blizzard spell," the duck casually replied, "You two will learn it soon enough."

'Enough of this! I will need power, more power!' Jafar thought in his mind. The royal vizier then disappeared from the chamber with a loud cackle.

"I hate him," May snapped, "Why couldn't he just get the fabulous but unnecessary makeover?"

"This is not over, isn't it?" Aladdin asked, knowing the answer.

'No, he's going to ask Genie to turn him into an all-powerful Genie,' May thought somberly. A lot of things were different from the movie, but this was not going to be one of them, she could feel it.


Aladdin and Sora hopped onto the ledge where the Keyhole and Jasmine lay, unconscious. Just when he was about to reach for her, Jafar appeared in the air.

"Genie, my final wish," Jafar began as he held the lamp up in the air, "I want you to make me an all powerful genie!"

'Dammit!' May thought.

Genie couldn't even look at Jafar as he granted his final wish. A bright beam shot from his finger, and it enveloped Jafar.

An earthquake shook throughout the room, and a large pit from down below, revealed itself through the disintegrating room. When the group jumped down, they got a real look of how bad things were.

The platform was surrounded by lava on all four sides. Lava poured out of the walls, and it was very, very hot. It was nearly suffocating.

Then Genie Jafar triumphantly rose from the river of lava, and the twins had the urge to wet themselves. Seeing him as a gigantic, scary, and murderous Genie was one thing on TV, but in real life, it was terrifying.

Like in the movie, Jafar had blood red skin, pointed ears, a golden earring on his right ear, completely yellow ears, and a ponytail tied in a top knot. He was huge, VERY huge.

"The lamp, get the lamp!" Aladdin shouted, glancing at Iago, who was flying around the field with the lamp.

Smirking evilly, Jafar swiped the field with his large hand, nearly knocking everyone into the lava.

"How are we going to do that?" May shrieked, holding onto her twin in mixture of fear and protectiveness. She didn't want to die tonight, not like this, no way. She has seen the horrifying effects of lava on in science books and documentaries. The worst part was that unless they magically gained the ability to fly, there's no way they fight Jafar WITHOUT falling to their burning death.

Donald tried to freeze Iago where he stood, but the parrot flew quickly out of the way, while Jafar shot powerful beams from his eyes in an attempt to incinerate the group. When they didn't work, he quietly submerged himself deep into the lava.

"What's he trying to do?" May wondered, and then regretted her answers about two seconds later when Jafar rose back out of the lava with a giant meteor in his hands. She looked over to Sora, who had never looked so pale. When Jafar chucked the meteor at them, everybody jumped on the lowest platform available. Jafar attempted to sweep them off of it, but everybody dodged this time. Iago was practically mocking them, as he flew very low past them, and then flew much higher when someone was an inch from grabbing him.

"This needs to end now!" May yelled out as she was nearly incinerated by another one of Jafar's beams. The Aero Spell may have lessened the damage done to her, but what could it do against Jafar's attacks? Leave her body charred completely back instead of being in ashes? She wasn't aiming to die tonight.

When Iago when to tease them again, Abu of all people, crawled out from the back of Aladdin's vest and snatched the lamp from out of Iago's hands.

"Hey! Give that back!" The parrot shrieked. The monkey tossed the lamp to Sora.

"Alright Jafar! Go back to your lamp!" Sora commanded, holding the black lamp up.

Jafar screamed in protest as he felt his power dwindling, and bright red beams encircled him as he was dragged into the constricted area that was the magic lamp.

Pure fire surged through Sora's veins as he looked at the black lamp. A deep burning flame rippled throughout his body. Something told him that a new form of Fire was within him.

A piece of paper floated through the air, and Sarina caught it just before it could hit the river.

"Ansem's Report #1", it read.


Jasmine had regained her consciousness and had observed the entire battle, worryingly. Jafar was powerful enough as a human, but his Genie form? She was shocked to see them alive and well after that ordeal.

She heard a noise behind her, and when she turned around, she was promptly knocked into unconsciousness again.


The carpet flew the group up on the platform that had the Keyhole placed in front of it.

Aladdin was expected to see Jasmine, and was horrified to see the opposite. "Jasmine? Jasmine!"

She was gone, as if she was never there in the first place.

"She's been taken! Just like Alice!" Sarina said in shock. May walked up and sealed the keyhole. It glowed gold for a moment before the Keyhole disappeared as if it was never there. Even if they failed in saving another girl, the very least she could do was wipe out the heartless hordes that Jafar infested the world with. However, everything had gone to crap once again, like in Wonderland.

May awkwardly walked up to Aladdin and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder. "I'm so sorry Aladdin, we'll find her, I sw—,"

Another earthquake shook through the room, and this time, it was clear the cave was about to collapse.

"Whoa! We better get outta here!" Goofy shouted, stating the obvious thought that ran through everyone's mind.

As everyone hopped on the Carpet and frantically left the cave in a panic, Sora and May had to restrain a distraught Aladdin, who was still calling for Jasmine.


"So, Jasmine's no longer in Agrabah," Aladdin realized with a pained look on his face. They were back in Aladdin's home, where three more Dalmatian pups were waiting to be freed. Genie was twirling around the room happily out of his own lamp, relieved to be freed from Jafar's tyranny. Aladdin rose, balling his fists. "Let's go find her."

"Sorry, we can't take you with us," Sora said in regret.

"Wh-Why not?" The street urchin stuttered in shock.

"Your place is here, in Agrabah. The city will need help adjusting, because the Sultan certainly can't do it on his own," May tried to explain, and not mentioning the Sultan was a bit of an oaf.

"I sure wish we could…," Goofy whispered to Donald.

"But we can't. If we take him to another world, we would be…," Donald trailed off.

"Muh, muh—,"

"Meddling!"

"Aladdin, we'll find Jasmine, we promise," Sora reassured.

"And you guys will have your big wedding and live happily ever after," May added. 'That is, if your lives won't be like the Aladdin sequels where you two don't married until the end of the third film…'

"Uh, earth to Al. Hello? You still have one wish left," Genie reminded the boy. "Look, just say the word. Ask me to find Jasmine for you."

The group looked at Aladdin in expectation. Was he going to free the Genie like he promised?

"I…I wish…for your freedom Genie!"

Genie froze. "Al?"

A bright purple glow enveloped him and suddenly the golden bands on Genie's wrists popped off, and he now had legs. Never had Genie felt so empowered in his life.

"A deal's a deal, Genie. Now you can go anywhere you want. You're your own master," Aladdin explained, "But if you can, it'd be great if you could go along with them and help the kids find Jasmine."

Genie huffed, turned around, and folded his arms. "Sorry, Al. I'm done taking orders from others. But…A favor, now that's something entirely different," he turned around and smiled at the group, "I guess I could give that a try," He wrapped his arm cheerfully around Aladdin, "After all, we're pals, right, Al?"

"Genie," Aladdin started in worry.

"Just leave it to me!"

Aladdin smiled warmly and rubbed the back of his head. With Genie on their side, they'll find Jasmine for sure.


Maleficent was annoyed, severely annoyed. She told that fool Jafar to not let the darkness overtake him, and now look at what happened. She, Hades, and her new pet, Riku, stood in her chamber.

Hades shared her annoyance, the God of The Underworld sighed. "That smarmy vizier could've had 'em, if someone stuck around to give him a hand," he directed accusingly at Riku.

"Hey, I did my part. I brought the princess, didn't I?" Riku snapped. He couldn't stand the god of death's snide remarks. "Capture the princess", that was his task, wasn't it?

"Jafar was beyond help, consumed by his own hatred. One should beware of letting it burn too fiercely," Maleficent responded, directing that comment towards Hades without even looking at him.

Hades caught the irony in her statement. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Lighten up. I'm as cool as they come, okay?" He glanced at Riku. "By the way, kid, have we got something special for you."

The silver-haired teen tilted his head in confusion. He looked at Maleficent, who grinned evilly at him.

"We had a deal, yes?" She reminded him. "You help us, and we grant you your wish…"

She swiped her hand across the round table, and Kairi appeared in a hologram, unconscious.

"Kairi!" Riku called out, reaching for her. All of this, all what he was doing was for her, Kairi.

"Go to her. Your vessel is waiting," Maleficent ordered.

Just then, Captain Hook walked up. He knew where Kairi was. "Just remember, this is no pleasure cruise. It won't be a pleasant voyage." He just had to throw that out there, he had no tolerance for seasick cabin boys. They were often immediately thrown overboard or had their throats slit as soon as they started whining.

Riku couldn't believe all of this. "Why are you doing all of this for me? What's the catch?"

"Catch? What catch?" Maleficent sneered at her new puppet. Time for a little emotional manipulation. She walked up to him, and with the best motherly tone she could fake, she started pulling his strings again. "Silly boy. You're like a son to me. I only want you to be happy." She reached out, and to her secret aggravation, the little puppet stepped back from her. "I seriously doubt that."

She tried to act hurt. "Believe what you wish. But lest we forget, I kept my end of the bargain."

Riku simply looked at her, and walked away. He didn't trust the fairy witch and her round table of goons, but for Kairi, he'd do anything…


They would find Jasmine. They was absolutely sure of it, but for now, Genie tagged along with as a Summon, just like Simba. However, they didn't need to go to Fairy Godmother to awaken him, since Genie's magic instantly had him on call.

Which they immediately took advantage of.

"Genie! I summon thee!" May had called, and Genie popped up immediately.

"Already? Are we in danger?" The former prisoner of the lamp asked while looking around the ship frantically.

"No, I just need you to open the cap on this soda for me," Sora replied flatly, holding up a bottle of a soda from Disney Castle.

Genie's jaw hit the floor in disbelief.


Ansem Report #1

Much of my life has been dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. That knowledge has guarded this world well. Not a soul doubts that. I am blessed with people's smiles and respect. But though I am called a sage, there are things I do not understand. I believe darkness sleeps in every heart, no matter how pure. Given the chance, the smallest drop can spread and swallow the heart. I have witnessed it many times. Darkness…Darkness of the heart. How is it born? How does it come to affect us so? As the ruler of this world, I must find the answers. I must find them before the world is lost to those taken by the darkness.