Sora swirled around in his seat. "Okay, we're headed to Agrabah, which shouldn't take too long with how close it is to Radiant Garden. Maybe two hours, tops. Now it's time to get down to business. What the heck are we supposed to be doing?"
"When have you ever known what you were supposed to be doing?" Riku asked.
Sora counted on his fingers. "Times three to the fourth power, equals, never. Anybody want to do some sparring?
"I'm game," Xion said, although she wasn't the person Sora was hoping for. Nevertheless, he jumped up, summoned his keyblade, and ran at Xion with it. Instinctively, she ducked down and tripped him up with a small burst of fire. Before Sora could get back up, Xion dashed out of the cockpit, Sora following right behind.
"Wait, ain't there a fighting room here on the gummi ship?" Goofy asked.
"Seriously? Sweet," Riku said, and left to try and find it, leaving Kairi behind. Feeling a bit awkward, she left to try and join Riku.
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Agrabah was full of people. Some huge event was going on, evidently. Suddenly, a big blue thing came from out of the air and grabbed Sora, Donald, and Goofy in a bear hug.
"What's with all the hugs?" Sora said, trying to get out of Genie's arms.
"Hey, kid, what's up? Never mind that, `cause we've got bigger news! Aladdin and Jasmine are getting married!" Genie said excitedly. He looked at Riku, Kairi, and Xion. In a puff of blue smoke, he changed into a detective and started examining them closely, his one eye huge in the magnifying glass. "Well, this is your best friend-turned-worst enemy-turned-best friend with the strange colored hair," he said with a British accent. Riku looked annoyed at this. "And then this is the lovely Kairi I have heard so much about," Genie said, turning into a suave, secret agent-type with a rose in his teeth. Sora dodged the look Kairi sent his way.
"And who is this?" Genie said, back to normal, to Xion. "Haven't met before? Well, I am the one and only--" Fireworks went off behind him. "Genie! Here's my card." He handed Xion a blue card. She examined it, only for it to grow eyes, nose, and a mouth. In a puff of blue smoke, it turned into Genie. "And you are?"
"This is Xion," Sora said. "She's . . ." He trailed off, not quite sure how to describe her.
"I believe the term you're looking for is 'ally'," she said, slightly put out. "Nice to meet you, I think. But, I thought that djinn were tied to a lamp or bottle? You know, forced to grant three wishes to whoever rubbed the container?"
Donald explained with "Aladdin wished him free with his last wish."
Xion blinked. "What did he say?"
"Al wished me free!" Genie said, swirling high into the air. "Ah, I still love it all! The fresh air, wide open spaces!" He breathed in deeply, and coughed. "Camel dung!" He wheezed, before falling to the ground, little X's where his eye were. He jumped up, right as rain. "Now, who wants to be in a wedding?"
Nobody got the chance to answer his question, for a scream came up from the throngs of people. Heartless appeared, all strong ones. A young man in white jumped down from the top of a building, and sliced through a soldier. He turned around to reveal the one and only, Aladdin. "Sora! Thank goodness you're here." Spinning around again, he destroyed a neoshadow.
Sora, Riku, and Kairi summoned their keyblades, Donald took out his staff and started firing off spells, Goofy burst through the groups of heartless with his shield, and Xion covered her fists with magic sparks, blasting enemies away. None of them did quite as much damage as Genie, who was sending magic spells without a care in the world.
Ten minutes later, there was no fewer heartless than there had been when they had started. "Sora, they're attracted to our keyblades," Riku said, stabbing a Large Body. "If we leave, then they'll go away."
Sora spun around, cutting apart four bandits. "Hold on, let me try one other trick." He called up his drive energy, and focused on his strength. His clothes turned bright red, and the Fenrir appeared in his left hand. He went back into action, using his second keyblade and enhanced strength to cut through the heartless. With both of those elements on his side, the heartless stopped coming so quickly, with eventually Genie destroying the last one with a lazy thunder spell. Sora's clothes changed back to black, and the Fenrir vanished.
Through the streets came a short, plump man wearing an outfit not unlike Aladdin's, with the exception that the man's clothes were not covered with dust, who Sora guessed to be the Sultan of Agrabah. "Oh dear, oh dear, the wedding has been ruined yet again!" he said.
"Again?" Sora said to Aladdin.
"Yeah, we've been having some trouble with party crashers. I guess that you guys can head out of here. Nothing much you can do at this point."
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Back in the Gummi Ship, everybody was gathered in the cockpit, waiting until they could leave their seats. "Hey Xion," Riku said.
"Uh huh?"
"What was your name, before? I'm just sort of curious."
"Digging down deep, aren't we?" Xion sighed. "It was Oni. But I never really liked it. It was the name in my world for the heartless."
Riku clapped a hand on her shoulder. "It's not that bad. You should use it, Oni."
Xion pushed his hand away, and stood up. She crossed her arms, and shifted her weight to one leg. "My name's Xion. X-I-O-N. Got it memorized?" Just about everybody cracked up.
"Wow," Sora said, "for a second, I thought that Axel had come back from the dead and was having an identity crisis."
The Sultan of Agrabah
Jasmine's father, and effectively the king of Agrabah. He is rather rotund. He tends to get worried for his daughter, but he still is an okay father. First appeared in Aladdin.
Author's Note
First world, and a very short world at that. All I can say in my defence is that I was waiting to get to Terra, Ven, and Aqua's first world when I wrote this, so I rushed through it. I went back later to fix it up, and added all of Genie's changing around when he met Riku, Kairi, and Xion. And I'd like to say that I wrote an entire chapter last night! Normally, I only write a few paragraphs every night, but when I get on a roll, I get on a roll! I could have kept on writing, except it was ten 'o' clock and I'm only in eighth grade.
NinjaSheik--I think that Aqua's pretty too. Pretty awesome!
