Author's Note: What's up guys? Sorry for the extremely long wait, and pretty much falling off the face of the Earth! I'm clumsy, I know. XD No, life caught up to me, what with me worrying about school and work and doing chores around the house!

So, if you see any errors or anything of that nature, it was because I typed this entire chapter on my iTouch and then went back and corrected as many errors as I could. At least, whatever my spell check thought was wrong. If you see any, let me know by telling me where exactly it is and I will fix it and then repost the chapter.

I hope you guys enjoy! Hope it is worth the wait!


Chapter Eleven: Arabian Dream

Once outside the gates, we saw that the flying carpet had been waiting for us. It looked like it wanted to take us somewhere.

"Looks like it wants us to follow it?" Donald guessed.

"I think so," I said.

"Well, all aboard, I guess," Sora said.

One by one, we climbed onto the carpet and zoomed across the desert. After about five minutes, the carpet dropped us off at the opening to a clearing. In the clearing, we saw a huge tiger head made of sand, and a whirlpool of sand. Inside the whirlpool, we saw a man and a monkey struggling to get out. The carpet flew around it three times and pointed to them.

"It must have brought us here to help these guys," I observed.

"And that's exactly what we are going to do," Sora said with firm determination.

We ran to help, but were stopped when a group of Bandits and Shadows appeared.

"They sure don't give up, do they?" I asked, in a very frustrated manner.

Everyone's answer was to begin attacking. We got rid of the Shadows first, and then aimed for the Bandits. It took a while to get rid of them, but they were gone.

Just as we were about to help the man and his monkey out, more Heartless appeared.

"Not again!" Goofy exclaimed.

I sighed heavily, wishing they would go away. Apparently, we weren't the only ones.

The man had freed himself as we were fighting the Heartless. I saw him reach behind his back and pull out a golden lamp.

That's an odd thing to be carrying around, I thought. Random.

The man started rubbing his hand on the lamp. "Genie," he said. "Get rid of these guys!"

Suddenly, blue smoke came from the spout of the lamp. Within a second of the smoke coming out, a blue man with a red waistband appeared.

"Wish Number One coming right up!" he called out.

With a snap of his fingers, the Heartless disappeared.

Sora, Donald, Goofy, and I looked around and saw that there wasn't a Heartless in sight. We sighed with relief.

"Thanks!" we said together.

"Thanks, Genie," the man said. He had taken the time to free the monkey from the quicksand. It was now sitting on his shoulder.

"No problem!" The blue guy winked at us.

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"I see...Thanks, guys."

Sora and I nodded. We told the man, who we found out was Aladdin, about what was going on and how we had found the carpet struggling for its life in the tower high above the marketplace (we found out this was also Aladdin's house).

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

"Same old thing. Hunting legendary treasure. Just paid a visit to the Cave of Wonders." he pointed to the area we had just come from. We were now back in the desert.

He pointed to the carpet. "I found that magic carpet, and this lamp." He pulled the lamp out from his back pocket.

"Legend says that whoever holds the lamp can summon the—"

Genie interrupted. "Please, kid. Leave the intros to a professional. The one and only Genie of the Lamp. Rub-a-dub-dub the lamp and have your dearest wishes granted."

He disappeared and then reappeared next to Aladdin. "Today's winner is...Aladdin. Congratulations!"

"Any wish?" Donald asked. I looked over at him.

Why does he have that weird look in his eyes?

"Patience, my fine feathered friend," Genie said. "Any three wishes. A one wish, a two wish, a three wish. And then I make like a banana and split."

He appeared next to Aladdin. "Our lucky winner just made his first wish." He leaned down next to me and Sora and said, in a low voice, "And let me tell ya what a doozey that wish was!"

He stood back up and continued. "So he has two left! So, master, what'll you have for Wish Number Two?"

A light shined down on Aladdin. He stood there thinking for a moment. "Hmmm...how about making me a fabulously wealthy prince?"

"A prince?" I asked. But no one seemed to hear me.

Genie became excited. "Ooooh! 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 will deliver it in 30 minutes or less, or your meal's free! Hey, I'll even throw in a cappuccino."

"No thanks! I think I'll put that on hold until we reach Agrabah."

"So...why a prince?" Goofy asked.

"You see," he began. "There's this girl in Agrabah named Jasmine. But she's a princess and I'm...Aw, she could never fall for a guy like me."

"Oh. Princess?" Donald wondered out loud.

"Jasmine?" Goofy did the same.

"Oh, right," Sora said. "She's in trouble, Aladdin."

"What?" Aladdin looked as though he were going to beat someone up for just saying that.

I felt daring enough to add, "Yeah, with someone real ugly!"

"Well, come on! Let's go!" The moment the guys hopped onto the carpet, I knew that Aladdin knew who I was talking about. Unfortunately, there wasn't any room for me to sit on Carpet. But Genie was kind enough to give me a lift.

After we were flying for about ten minutes, Genie did a loopty-loop that almost sent me falling into the sand below. He kept a pretty good hold on me, thankfully.

"Aw," he exclaimed. "Fresh air! The great outdoors!"

"I guess you don't get out much, huh?" I asked.

"Comes with the job. Phenomenal cosmic power, itty-bitty living space. It's three wishes and then back to my portable prison. I'm lucky if I get to see the light of day every century or two."

Poor Genie, I thought.

"Say, Genie," Aladdin began. "What if I use my third wish to free you from the lamp? What do think?"

Genie looked like he was about to do another loopty-loop. "You'd do that?"

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

We sped towards the city of Agrabah even faster than before.

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It didn't take long to find Jasmine and Jafar—Aladdin knew where he was going, and figured that they would most likely be at the palace gates. With all of the Heartless covering the ground, we took to the rooftops, which didn't really help against the Bandit Heartless. We stopped by Aladdin's house for a breather.

"So," Aladdin began. "Jafar is after Jasmine and this 'Keyhole'."

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

Donald and I looked up at Genie. "Really? Where?" we asked at the same time.

"Now, where was it? It's only been 200 years..."

"Well, anyway," Sora interrupted. "We need to stop Jafar before it's too late."

The rest of us agreed. We headed down the pole, and headed for the palace. We ran into trouble with the Bandits again, but eventually made it over to the rooftops that over saw the palace gates. There we saw Jafar and Jasmine, and we jumped down to meet them.

Jafar had the never to speak. "Setting your sights a little high, aren't you boy?"

He turned around to face us and keep himself in between Aladdin and Jasmine. I was fighting the urge to throw something at him, hoping that make him a little bit more bearable to look at. Instead, I cringed. His voice didn't make things better.

"Back to your hole now, street rat! I will not allow you to trouble the princess anymore."

"Jasmine!" Aladdin shouted.

Jasmine stepped forward, but Jafar put an arm up to stop her. "I'm so sorry, Aladdin!" she said.

I readied myself into a fighting stance. I was getting peeved. Here Jafar was, calling people names when he didn't even know them. What a jerk, I thought. No wonder no one holds him in high regards. No wonder Jasmine was running from him. I looked over towards Aladdin. He was holding the lamp behind his back, rubbing it.

"Genie, help Jasmine please!" Aladdin whispered.

We heard a poof sound. Jafar turned around and stared up in bewilderment.

Genie had appeared right behind him, holding on to Jasmine.

"One wish left!" he said. "You're making this really easy, you know."

I looked at Sora and smiled. Then I looked at Jafar, and my smile faded. It was the ugliest, twisted face I had ever seen. I think Jafar was smiling.

"So sorry, boy. I'm afraid your second wish has been denied!"

Aladdin looked at his hands. The lamp was gone. We looked around and noticed a scarlet macaw flying around. In his claws, we saw...

"Oh, the lamp!" I pointed out.

The parrot dropped the lamp into Jafar's free hand.

Genie had a sudden sullen look on his face when this happened. He slumped over in defeat, dropping Jasmine in the process.

"I'm sorry, Al!" he said sadly.

Then he disappeared in a puff of smoke. Thankfully, Jasmine landed in a pot. She was safe, for the moment.

As soon as she landed in the pot, it grew legs and hobbled over to where Jafar was standing. A pot Heartless? I wondered. What next?It was then that I wish I hadn't wondered that at all.

"And now," Jafar said calmly. "I bid you all farewell. Attack!"

Suddenly, all of the pots that were in the surrounding area grew legs and gathered together. A head and tail appeared out of nowhere and attached themselves in their corresponding places to form a centipede with the mobile pots.

"Wak!" Donald quacked. "What now?"

"We fight," I said.

Everyone summoned their weapons, and we charged. I figured destroying the pots in the middle would slow the creature down, so I aimed for the middle. I cast Fire on the very center, so that it could "break" the centipede in half. This worked, and I began to destroy all of the pot Heartless. Goofy caught on to what I was doing, and he began beating them off so the creature wouldn't bring itself back together and run off. Sora and Aladdin began attacking the head and Donald was currently casting Blizzard and Thunder spells on the tail.

When the pots in the middle were gone, Goofy and I went to help Donald. The tail was giving him a hard time.

"Fire!" I shouted. A burst of fire emitted from the end of my Keyblade and completely covered the tail. When the flames went out, the three of us attacked it. We put in a good string of combos until the tail attacked us with a Dark Thunder attack. I blocked the attack as much as I could; Donald and Goofy were knocked back. I looked towards the front to see how Sora and Aladdin were doing, but they didn't look like they were making much progress either.

As if things weren't tough enough, more Pot Heartless appeared and began to make their way towards the broken up centipede. I cast Thunder to get rid of them, which worked out how I wanted it to.

There's got to be an easier way to fight this thing, I thought. Thunder seems to only be effective on the Pots, but not the head or tail. And Fire was only effective for a few minutes. What are we going to do?

More and more Pots were appearing. I knew worrying too much about those wasn't going to accomplish anything. So I ran up to the front to help Sora and Aladdin with the head. While I was thinking about it, I threw a Mega Potion that I had everyone's way. I could feel the effects within seconds. Then I got down to business.

I cast Blizzard at the head. It looked like it did enough damage to it, so I went in for a combo. The others saw what I was doing, so they joined in as well. Donald and Goofy stopped worrying about the tail and ran up to help us. With everyone's combined effort, the Heartless was getting weaker.

"It's working!" Sora said. I just merely nodded, concentrating on what I was doing.

When I thought that the Heartless was weak enough, I said. "Sora, Donald, on the count of three, we all cast Blizzard."

Sora, Donald, and Goofy nodded, understanding where I was going with this. Aladdin looked puzzled.

I looked toward him. "Aladdin, you and Goofy just stand back for a minute. I'll let you know when to come in."

He nodded.

Sora, Donald, and I stood side by side, forming a wall in front of the Heartless. "One," I said.

The Heartless shook its head back and forth, trying to recover. Then it turned to look at us.

"Two." We raised our weapons up at the centipede's head. Some pots were gathering to make the middle of the creature. It began to inch towards us.

"THREE!" I shouted.

"BLIZZARD!" Donald and Sora shouted together.

The centipede froze where it stood, in attack mode. I ran behind it, getting ready for part two of the attack. I knew that ice wouldn't last forever.

"Aladdin, Goofy, now!"

We attacked the creature from behind, breaking the ice as we did. This isn't going to work, I thought.

"Sora, I'm gonna run to the front. When I say to, were going to throw our Keyblades at it. That will break the ice, and should do immense damage to the bug."

"Okay. Are you sure this is going to work?" he asked.

"Yes. On three." I ran to the front and began to count.

"One." The ice was breaking even more.

"Two." I could see it wriggling.

"THREE!" I threw my Keyblade like a Frisbee, as hard as I could. I saw it go all the way through the ice and the Heartless it was encasing. Sora's did the same. I heard a shrill screeching fill the air. The ice had broken, and the Heartless was wriggling in pain. After a few seconds of this, it finally fell. It disappeared in a burst of light, a heart floating away.

"We won!" Sora exclaimed. "Your plan worked, Pyn."

"I wouldn't really call it a plan." I replied. "I went mainly on instinct."

"Good instinct, then." Goofy said.

I smiled. I was surprised that we made it. It didn't seem that any of that would work, but I was happy with the results anyway.

"Jasmine!" Aladdin called out.

Our celebration ended when were heard an evil laugh vertebrate through the entire city. It reminded me of nails against a chalkboard. Jafar, I thought.

"To the desert!" Aladdin said. "Come on, let's move!"

No one hesitated. I looked at the others, and then followed Aladdin with all possible haste. I knew it wasn't good to keep somebody like Aladdin from someone they love dearly. Other than knowing it was morally wrong to do that, I wasn't exactly sure how I knew it. Maybe I've been somewhere where that happened? I wondered.

Noticing that I was lagging behind the others, I sped up to them. When we were just outside the city gates, we hopped on Carpet, and sped towards the area we had met Aladdin—the Cave of Wonders.


Cliffhanger! GRRR! Sorry guys. You can blame me because I went into so much detail with the Pot Centipede. *in small voice* I hate it when that happens...