Author's Note: Ok, onto Chapter Seven, here we see Leo confronting Saki, let's hope he gets what he deserves right. Anywho, this was written differently but I knew I had to change a few things. Like the beggar, I was originally thinking about Saki, like its Jafar in the movie, but I thought, that's too predictable, plus I just couldn't see Saki acting like a beggar if you know what I mean. So I chose someone else. Not telling who it is, you are just gonna have to read it for yourselves. Now, without further ado, Chapter Seven. Don't forget to review, constrictive criticism will do just fine, no flames please.

Summary: When street turtle, Raphael frees a genie from a lamp, he finds his wishes granted. However, he soon finds that the evil has other plans for the lamp – and for Princess Leonora. But can Raphael save the Princess and his love for her after she sees that he isn't quite what he appears to be? Read to find out. AU! RaphxFem!Leo

Please Note:
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Chapter 7: Enter Old Man

A new morning has presented itself, Leonora had returned to the palace the previous night and vowed to talk with Saki first thing in the morning. Now that it is morning, she went looking for him. Within another part of the Palace, a male figure was emerging from his secret chambers. He attempts to close the door slowly and carefully, so not to notify anyone that it's there, but was soon interrupted by the princess, storming in before he finishes. She had found him. "Saki?"

"Oh, Princess," he says as he slams the secret door shut, pinning Karai's tail, lucky for her, inside the door frame as she was leaving.

"Awk! Master, my tail!" she says softly and in pain. Saki gives her no mind as he gives a bow to the princess and spreads his cape out hiding the door. She wasn't there to talk about what was behind him though. She wanted to talk to the tall, bony man about other things that has her pissed off at him, she didn't notice anything else.

"How may I be of service to you?" he asked.

"The guards just took a boy from the market, on your orders," she states making him move back a bit, startled, from her outburst.

"Your father has charged me with keeping peace in Agrabah. The boy was a criminal." Saki says with a disturbing smirk; it didn't deterred Leo though.

"What was his crime?" she asked not believing that the boy is a criminal, when he was so kind and caring to her, allowed her to see his home, saved her from the fruit seller, Tiger Claw and was gonna protect her from the guards. How could he be a criminal? In the background, Karai was trying to get the door to release her tail, she grabs her Master's cape and tries pulling herself free. He doesn't notice her attempts.

"Why, kidnapping the princess, of course" Saki said it as if it was the most obvious thing. Karai grabbed more of the man's cape, trying to pull her tail out of the wall. Unfortunately, it wasn't working. She tugged on her Master's cape, trying to get his attention.

"If you could just…" she started before the man kicked her beak to shut her up before she gives away his secret lair to the Princess. Then, where will he come up with his scheming plans of dominating the world. She mumbled her displeasure, rubbing her beak, trying to rid the pain.

"He didn't kidnap me. I ran away!" Leo stated angrily.

"Oh, dear," he starts as he walks away as if shocked. "Oh, how frightfully upsetting. Had I but known…" the princess walked behind him still angry but confused as well.

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"Sadly, the boy's sentence has already been carried out," Saki said as he towers over the female terrapin.

"What sentence?" she asked curiously with a hint of dread and not wanting to know the answer.

"Death!" Saki said with a sinister tone. Leo gasped, that was not the answer she was hoping for. She knew she didn't want to know. "By beheading."

"No." Leo said softly, clearly upset. She collapses on a stool, in disbelief.

"I am exceedingly sorry, Princess," Saki 'innocently' says.

"How could you?" Leo asked in an angry whisper, she then runs from the room crying. Karai finally frees her tail from the door, breathing heavy from trying too hard. She flies up and lands on Saki's left shoulder, gasping for air, but otherwise calm.

"So, how did it go, Master?" she asked intrigued.

"I think she took it… rather well," Saki answered with a sinister smile on his face, Karai matching one. "Now, it's time for phase two. Go and tell him to proceed." The red lory nodded her head with the same sinister smile she showed just moments ago and flew off to inform their 'friend' to go on to phase two.

DEMON~DEMON~DEMON

Now the sun has set on yet another day and it was now, night time. In the garden on the ground by the large fountain, a young female terrapin was crying. She has been there since she found out the Royal Vizier has sentenced the male terrapin she had met earlier that day to beheading. A humanoid tiger walked over to the fountain to comfort her as best she can. "Leo? Sweetie, what's wrong?" she asks softly.

"Oh, April. It's all my fault" Leo said as she lifted her head from her arms and wiped her eyes free of tears and turned to her best friend. "I didn't even know his name," she continues crying and hugs April tightly, the tiger returned the gesture.

"There, there, shh. It's ok," April comforted her. This continued on throughout the night. Leo couldn't help but think this was all her fault.

DEMON~DEMON~DEMON

Within the palace walls, or more specific, the eerie palace dungeons where normal sized rats scurry by, an emerald green turtle with leather black pants that were baggy on him and a red fez and vest, was chained up to the wall, arms above his head. He struggled but to no avail. He wasn't going anywhere, anytime soon. "She was the princess. I can't believe it. I must have sounded so stupid to her…" he murmurs to himself, feeling stupid, he didn't care if he sounded crazy right now, he felt stupid more than anything.

"Yoo-hoo! Raphie!" a distant voice sounded from above. The red clad terrapin looked up and saw a sea green monkey turtle with an orange fez and vest. "Hello!" the monkey turtle says as he lifted his fez up in greeting.

"Mikey! Down here" Raph shouted up at his friend, with a smile, who climbs down mumbling to himself, about how stupid and pigheaded he was. "Come on, help me out of these." Mikey just placed his hands on his hips on the emerald terrapin's knee.

"Why should I? You went goo-goo eyed at the princess and completely ignored me. Aren't I your friend?" the monkey turtle says angrily as he imitates the princess in disguise, he pulled his vest over his head and made his eyes big. Then returned to normal, "Why, did you save her? Besides being in trouble?"

"Because, she was in trouble and she was worth it," Raph answered. His friend could only roll his eyes.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, I said besides that dude," he grumbled out as he jumps up to the bigger terrapin's shoulders to the chains above holding Raph's hands and pulls open his orange vest to reveal a small set of tools in his pocket. He pulls out a bobby pin and attempts to free his best friend.

"Don't worry, Mike, I'll never see her again," the emerald turtle says sadly but not letting it show, "I'm a street freak, remember? And there's a law," Mikey rolled his eyes in boredom, and grumbled as he continues working at the lock. "She's gotta marry a prince. She deserves a prince…" Raph finishes sadly as the monkey turtle freed his hands, the red clad terrapin rubs his wrists and Mikey shows off his bravery to free him.

"Ta-da!" he says holding the bobby pin up. Raph didn't see, so Mikey placed the bobby pin back in his pocket and sat down in a mood for his friend was ignoring him, again.

"I'm a fool," Raph says as he leans back against the wall, I totally agree dude.

"You're only a fool if you give up, boy," an elderly voice called from the shadows, scaring Mikey who ran and hid behind Raph.

"It's a ghost," he cried out, the red clad terrapin rolled his eyes and looked back at the man.

"Who are you?" he asked.

"A lowly prisoner, like yourself," the man said as he hobbled his way to Raph with a walking stick, the terrapin noticed his cell mate to be dark skin, round glasses over green eyes and wearing blue rags, at least it covers him up well. He also had white hair, a long white beard and sandals. He was very old and hunched over, like his back gave out long ago. "But, together, perhaps we can be more," the old man said as he rubbed his fingers together, with a devilish smile.

"I'm listening," Raph says intrigued at the man's offer, but not buying it, just yet.

"There is a cave, boy, a Cave of Wonders, filled with treasures beyond your wildest dreams" the man says as he pulls from a pocket in his robe, red and blue jewels to show both terrapins as a bribing tool, the two looked at them in awe. "Treasure enough to impress even your princess, I'd wager," the beggar walked away from the pair taking the jewels with him. A familiar Red Lory sticks its head out of the old man's robe.

"Hurry it up, idiot, the Master doesn't like to be kept waiting and you reek," she says angrily, she squawked as the beggar pushes her back into the robe, so not to give themselves away, the Master definitely won't be please if he has to wait any longer. I'm glad I won't be stuck with this creep for too long. The old man looked back to Raph with a soft chuckle.

"But the law says only a prince can…" the terrapin started saying, before being interrupted by his cell mate, coming right up into his face, he so needs to clean his teeth, horrible breath.

"You've heard of the golden rule, haven't you? Whoever has the gold makes the rules," the old man said as he smiles big showing his few rotten teeth and a gold tooth, making a wheezing laugh.

"So why would you share all of this wonderful treasure with me?" Raph asked, more intrigued, as he got up and watched the man closely who looked over his body.

"I need a young pair of legs and a strong back to go in after it." The beggar said, giving Raph's legs and back a pat.

"Uh, one problem…" the monkey turtle stated. "It's out there. We're in here. How the heck are we supposed to get outside to search for this treasure?" The old man walks over to a wall and pushes open a hidden exist, with a smirk.

"Uh-uh. Things aren't always what they seem" he says. "So… do we have a deal?" the cell mate held his hand out. Raph looks at Mikey, who is still on his shoulders and shrugs his own.

"Oh, I don't know dude. How can we trust him?" the monkey turtle asked in a whisper.

"I don't know, just go along with it until we find out I guess," Raph replied, also in a whisper, didn't want to allow the man to hear what they were saying. They followed the old man out of the dungeon and proceeded on their way to the Cave of Wonders where Raphael and Michelangelo's lives will change drastically. Can they trust this old man? Only time will tell.

DEMON~DEMON~DEMON

Author's Note: Well, there is Chapter Seven, I know this is short and I'm sorry, I did try and make it a little bit longer, but there wasn't much for this chapter, just about confronting Saki and getting Raph to do his bidding somehow. And damn, Saki didn't get what he deserved. Oh, well, still have the rest of the story to go through. Hopefully he gets it soon right.

Now, as you may have noticed, there was a new character but I won't give a name yet since you wouldn't know who he is, well at least I think you wouldn't know him. But I guess I could be wrong. If you can guess, I will give you another virtual cookie, and no before you mention it, it's not Saki, I made sure of that. There should be some hints in the description of him and I'll do a little bit of background on him two chapters from now. Go ahead and give a guess. But other than that there were no new characters or definitions that needed describing in this one, which is both bad and good. So without further ado and until next week readers, this is Demon Kirara signing out for another night. See ya'll later.