Chapter 25: Agrabah

"Hoo-Ha-Ha! Soon, I'll be completely free of the humiliation of serving as a lowly vizier." A man chuckled. He wore red and black robes with a Red and black Turban on his head. He was a rather older man with a slightly twirl beard and was carrying a staff with a snake head on top. "And Agrabah will forever belong to the great Jafar!" Jafar said as he laughed in delight.

"Have you captured all of the citizenry yet?" A female voice asked

"But of course, Maleficent." Jafar answered "Those fools are all huddled up underneath with that pathetic man they called a sultan." He looked around with a smirk. "I am certain that the Heartless will find the city's Keyhole soon enough.

"Very well, and the princess?" Maleficent asked.

Before Jafar could answer a red parrot flew down and landed on his shoulder with a rather annoyed look. "Bad news Jafar, Jasmine's gone! She disappeared like magic." The Parrot said.

Jafar groaned in annoyance. "That girl is more trouble than she is worth."

"You must find her! We need all seven princesses to open the final door." Maleficent informs.

"Yes, yes I know. And once that door is opened, all of the worlds will belong to us." Jafar said in glee.

Maleficent only starred at him. "Be careful not to steep too deep into darkness. The heartless feed on the careless. She warned as she left in a corridor of darkness.

"Your concern is touching, but unnecessary. Now, where is princess Jasmine?" He said as he looked around. "Agrabah has many holes for rats to hide in." Little to his knowledge, a hooded figure looked up from behind a nearby stall in fear of being seen.

Over by the entrance of the city, Sora and co were taking a look at their surroundings. The city was rather old fashion with yellow stoned houses with basic wooden doors and windows. There were also numerous stalls across the streets that carried food and some useless junk. Although the strangest thing was, the city was empty.

"Where is everyone? You'd think a city this big would be crawling with people." Corrin asked confused

"Who knows. I want to know why it's so hot out here!" Donald complained

"Well, we are in a desert." Goofy pointed out, much to Donald's irritation.

"Come on, let's see if we can find someone." Sora said as he took off with the rest following behind.

As the group walked through the city, the place was shown to be truly deserted. Not a soul in sight, but plenty of Heartless roaming around.

"The heartless!" Sora exclaimed drawing his Keyblade.

"Hold on a second!" Corrin said stopping Sora from charging.

"What is it?" Donald asked

"You guys see something strange about the heartless?" Corrin said. Sora looked at the heartless again and noticed that the heartless had yet to notice them. In fact, they seemed fixed on looking for something. Most of the heartless wore a turban on their heads with a white vest and carrying two swords. There was also a large body that was a more orange color and also wearing clothing similar to the bandit heartless.

"It looks like their searching for something." Goofy said.

"The Keyhole?" Sora asked, remembering what Leon told him about the Keyholes.

"Maybe." Corrin muttered

"Ether way, let's get rid of them." Donald said as the four ran into battle. The moment the group charged, the heartless took notice of them and dropped what they were doing to attack.

"Corrin and I will that those with the swords. Donald, take care of the of the big one. Goofy, back us up!" Sora said

"Hey, that's my job!" Corrin complained as the group entered battle.

Donald cast Blizzard spells on the fat bandits freezing them in place, while Goofy used his shield to block the fire breath that was shot at them.

"These things can sure take a hit!" Donald said seeing that they weren't going down.

"Maybe that Gravity spell we learned can help." Goofy suggested

Donald was about to retort when he realized Goofy was right. "Gravity!" He shouted A black dome appeared around the fat bandit crushing it to the ground. With the enemy immobile Donald shot one more Blizzard spell to finish it off.

Sora and Corrin locked blades with a pair of bandits. Both were holding the two islanders in place with no means of letting up.

"Any suggestions?" Sora asked.

"Yeah, Hydro shot!" Corrin shouted. Using his free hand, Corrin's arm turned claw unleashed a concentrated ball of water that hit the bandit head on that seemed to paralyze it. Corrin used the opportunity to slash the heartless into nothing.

Sora soon managed to overpower the bandit causing it to break its guard which allowed Sora to unleash a follow-up attack destroying it.

"Hydro Shot?" Sora asked

Corrin just shrugged. "I've been experimenting with my Dragon Fang trick since we were training with Phil." Their talk was interrupted by several nocturnes of different colors appearing around them.

"Oh, no. You guys aren't annoying us anymore. Ready Sora?" Corrin stated

"Ready!" Sora responded. Both brothers put their swords together.

"GRAVITY!" They both shouted. A large dome of magic sent the nocturnes hurdling straight for the ground. Once they hit, the two brothers cleaned them up, taking out every last one of them.

"That takes care of them." Corrin said. Before he could relax however, he noticed a hooded figure hiding behind a nearby stand.

"Hey, you. Who are you?" Corrin shouted. At his shout the other three also took notice of the figure watching them.

"You actually fought them off?" The figure asked surprised with her voice revealing that it was a female.

"Uh, yeah? Who are you?" Sora asked

The woman looked hesitant at first, wondering if she could trust them, but at this point there wasn't much else she could do, so she decided to risk it. The figure stood up and lowered her clock revealing a young woman maybe a few years older than Sora and Corrin. She had black hair kept well treated with a tiara on top.

"My name is Jasmine. I am the daughter of the Sultan and princess of Agrabah." Jasmine introduced herself. "May I ask who you are?"

"Oh, I'm Sora."

"My name's Corrin."

"Donald Duck."

"Names Goofy."

"So, If I may ask princess, what happened here? This place is a ghost town." Corrin said

"It's because of that Jafar." She spat.

"Jafar?" Goofy asked

"You haven't heard of him? He used to be the royal vizier to my father, but a while ago, he started to vanish for a while. When my father finally confronted him on it, he unleashed those creatures on the palace." She said sadly. "I never liked that man, but I never thought he would do something like this. He gained some evil power and now controls all of Agrabah. He's looking for something called a 'Keyhole'"

The other three looked surprised when Jasmine said that.

"So, where is everyone? Did the Heartless kill them?" Sora asked

She shook her head no. "No, Jafar has them all locked up in the castle dungeons. He's a control freak who probably wants them as his slaves after he finds this Keyhole. I was almost captured as well, but then he helped me escape."

"Whose he?" Donald asked

"Aladdin. He left a little while ago saying he was going to take care of some unfinished buisness. I hope he's okay." Jasmine said with concern.

"Ah, so there you are my princess." A voice interrupted as the group turned to its source. There stood an older man with a bird on his shoulder and two bandit heartless at his side. "Jasmine, allow me to find you more suitable company, my dear princess. These little rats won't do, you see." He said

"Jafar." Jasmine spat.

"So you're Jafar?" Sora asked

"And you're that miserable brat with the Keyblade that's been interrupting our plans." Jafar spat

"What do you mean?" Corrin asked

"Don't worry, you won't be around long enough to worry about that." Jafar said as he pointed his staff at Sora that started to glow red.

"Let's bail!" Corrin said as they grabbed Jasmine and ran.

"Annoying little street rats, after them! The rest of you, up your search for the Keyhole!" Jafar commanded as the Heartless left to obey.

Sora and co fled from the heartless that chased them all over the streets of Agrabah.

"Man, these things don't let up." Sora complained

"A little further, there is a place we can hide." Jasmine pointed out.

"Well, no other option right now." Corrin stated.

Jasmine showed them to an old house around the corner. Once inside, Sora immediately closed and barricaded the door as the heartless ran by outside. Once they were gone, the group let out a sigh of relief.

"Good thing you knew about this place Jasmine." Sora said.

"It's Aladdin's home." She answered.

"Say, what's this?" Corrin asked as everyone looked to where he was pointing. Underneath a fallen dresser was a carpet that was trying to get free.

"That carpet can move?" Donald asked in shock

"I've never seen this thing before." Jasmine said in surprise.

Sora started to push the dresser off of the carpet who jumped and flew around the room in joy before landing in front of Sora.

"Do you think it wants our help?" Goofy asked.

"Probably. Jasmine, stay here and hid while we check this out. We'll see what happened to your friend." Sora said.

Jasmine was hesitant at first but agreed in the end. "Alright, but please be careful."

With that Sora, Corrin, Donald and Goofy sneaked out with the carpet and headed out of the city quietly.

And that's a wrap. Our heroes have met Princess Jasmine and are now on the way to the desert. I know Sora is a rather simple-minded kid, (The instruction book even points that out) and he is rather naive, but he's not a complete idiot, and once and a while, he can come up with plans to. Both good and bad.

Guestwithideas: Yeah, I always liked the Final Fantasy characters being like a home base for Sora, as that's how I saw them in KH1 and KH2

Now, as I would love to talk about the recent Kingdom Hearts 3 trailer, there isn't really anything to talk about. It was just the Tangled story with Sora Donald and Goofy added to it. Nothing really new to talk about. So instead, lets talk about the new Smash trailer.

Honestly, Ken and Incineroar aren't that big of a surprise. Ken was obvious ever since the echo fighter concept was introduced and for Incineroar, they have been bringing in a most recent Pokemon since brawl so, yeah. As for the plant, yeah I don't care for it. There are some characters I wanted but I'm looking forward to a lot like the Belmont's, Daisy, and Ridley; along with some returning characters like Marth, Rosalina, and Cloud is too much for me to feel sad. But I do wish I got Issac and Shantae as well, but oh well. Spirits are interesting, but I won't know until I try it out first and that story is something...

Anyway, leave a review and I will see you guys next time.