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Snowman is an Island part 1

It was freezing cold. That was the only description that this place of ice had. I shivered and hugged myself to keep warm as I trudged through the ankle high snow. Al and Genie led the way, but Genie was bounding ahead more and more, quite happy being out in this weather. I for one was not and had already verbally said so. No one else heard me though or if they did pretended I said nothing. Iago and Abu grumbled and groaned both of them shifting through the snow too. I, of course, was behind the rest of the group, having a hard time trying to stay upright. Genie had dressed us as he had when those wizards had made us go to the snow to play their game. For that I was grateful, because I was freezing.

"Hurry up, Alaric." Al called over his shoulder without bothering to turn and see if I was there. "I don't want you getting lost."

"Lost? How can you get lost in a place of pure white?" I asked sarcastically. The cold air blowing in my face wasn't helping my mood any and neither was the constant walking. I was exhausted and cold! "Get lost indeed…"

"Ooh, look at the pretty flakes!" Genie commented and I heard Al groan. "No two alike, you know. Isn't this the best shortcut? Yep, nothing like the great outdoors." I was glad to know Genie was in high spirits, but it was starting to bug Al. I wasn't really bothered by it. Genie had always tried to make things seem not as bad as they are.

"Uh, yeah, right. Are you sure we're going the right way, Genie?" Al asked slight annoyance in his voice.

"Have I ever mentioned my semi-phenomenal, nearly cosmic sense of direction?"

"We're lost." Iago muttered.

"I scream, you scream, we all scream for…frozen yoghurt!" Genie made a frozen treat cart appear. "Fat free! We're on the cusp of bikini season, ya know!" My stomach growled despite what he was offering was cold. Al, Abu, and Iago walked by him without looking.

"Another suggestion from the mind that brought us the short cut." Aladdin murmured sarcastically and I cast a look at him.

"I don't want yoghurt." I mumbled as my stomach growled again. "I want something hot. Like soup."

"Give it a rest, Alaric. I gave you something to eat." Aladdin groaned.

"Yeah like two hours ago." I snapped back.

"Boys tempers." Genie warned and I kicked the snow moodily. "I know! Let's play a game. I spy with my little eye something that starts with S!" He made a telescope appear and popped put the end before turning to normal.

"Ahh! All of this cheery prattle is making my ears go numb!" Iago screeched and he flew to sit on Genie's shoulders.

"Ears?" Genie asked and then he got a goofy look on his face. "Oh there they are!" I burst into laughter at the sight of Iago with human ears and the parrot glared at me.

"Oh, sure laugh it up." He grumbled and then turned to Al. "My sanity is dangling by a thread and the genie's not helping!"

"Well maybe if someone wasn't so grouchy then we'd all get along better!" I retorted.

"Shut up! I vote we turn back now! What's the worst thing that could happen?" Genie turned into a creepy old woman with a crystal ball then knocking Abu and Iago into the snow.

"I see tidal waves and typhoons, fevers and famines, pimples and papercuts!" Genie called out in a creepy voice and Iago looked ready to murder him as did Abu as they stalked towards him with thick icicles. I only snickered a bit.

"Calm down, guys." Al said taking the icicles away. "We're all a little edgy, but we've gotta stick together."

"That's right, guys, we're a team!" Genie cheered as he had a green shirt with a golden lamp on it and in his hands were a flag and a bicycle horn. "Team Aladdin! Whooo! Whoo! Let's hear it for the team!" Genie honked the horn as loud as possible and suddenly the ground started to shake.

"Oh, no!" Al cried as mounds of snow and ice started down towards us.

"Oops." Genie grinned sheepishly.

"Aww man!" I moaned and Genie gathered us up on a slab of ice. We slid down the hill as a large mound of ice and snow started towards us. Down and down we went and I couldn't help but have fun as we slid. Suddenly we flew off the end of a cliff and screaming we fell towards the bottom. We slammed into a rock at the bottom and crashed headfirst into the snow.

"Genie, don't do that again." Al grumbled as we popped out of the snow. I yelped as snow went down my coat and I hopped up and down.

"Cold! Cold!" I screeched and shook the snow out. Nobody noticed as I hopped up and down, typical.

"Well, so much for going back the way we came." Iago stated and we all looked at the closed up passage. Yep, it was blocked.

'Ooh!' Abu shouted and I turned to see what he was pointing at as Genie popped up from the snow under Abu.

"Cool!" Genie announced and I couldn't agree more.

"I'd say freezing!" Al stated and then he turned too. "Wow!" There was a large castle down in the valley below us and blocked the way to the other side. We'd have no choice but to go through it, though it did look really neat!

"Whoa! What a place to put a castle!" Genie shouted and he scrambled up from the snow, knocking Abu off his head. "Let's go check it out!" We went down the embankment and stopped down at the door to the castle.

"Not exactly convenient to shopping and schools." Genie murmured, pulling out a map and looking at it. We stood outside the door all of us eyeing the castle with mixtures of apprehension and awe.

"Genie, can you give us five minutes without clowning?" Al asked in annoyance. Genie didn't notice and I felt bad that Al was still getting angry at him.

"Sure! Say no more!" Genie beamed, while turning briefly into a clown with a large red circle with a red line through it, but I frowned at Al.

"Can we go five minutes without your bossiness?" I retorted back to him and he narrowed his eyes.

"Fine, you lead then." He poked me in the chest and I stumbled back.

"Fine, I will." I said snootily and pushed past him.

"We can't go around, but maybe we can go through." Al stated and we looked at the door again. Al reached up to touch the knocker and suddenly its eyes flashed.

"None may pass without the leave of the castle lord!" We all scrambled back as the large door knocker in the shape of a gargoyle head spoke to us. Its eyes flashed green again and I hid behind Al and Genie. "And the mighty yeti lord Kutato may not be in a generous mood. Enter if you dare." It spoke with a laugh and opened the door slowly. It looked dark inside.

"Uh, I have a strict rule about doing anything that ends with the words 'if you dare'!" Iago shrieked behind my head and Al scoffed.

"So we sweet talk the lord of the castle. How hard can that be? Right Mister leader?" Al looked pointedly at me and I was hiding behind him. He stepped out of the way and I gulped at the dark before clearing my throat and straighten up.

"Err, yeah of course! It'll be easy!" I stated in a brave voice and Al rolled his eyes.

"Right!" Genie cheered, sticking up for me. "Your brother dates a princess, you both hang with a sultan, you have a way with royalty!"

"Uh, let's recap the 'if you dare' thing." Iago muttered to the doorknocker.

"Relax. I can get us through." I told him and he turned to me.

"Oh, sure…NOT! We are so dead!"

"Shut up! If you were in charge we would have had to walk all the way back down that stupid mountain!" I shouted back.

"Oh, yeah? Well at least I don't ask for food thirty times a day!" He retorted and I glared at him.

"I get hungry! Besides why are you complaining? You eat like a pig!"

"Do not!" He growled at me.

"Do so!"

"Do not!"

"Do so!"

"Get in here!" Al shouted irritably and we both reluctantly called it quits as we went inside the castle.

Again I jumped as the door slammed shut. I pushed in front of Al and started down the hall, though I did make sure they were still behind me. as we walked along the hall I could feel staring and turned my head startled to find that there was gargoyle heads all along the walls! And each one we passed lit up.

"I feel like we're being watched." Al said and I nodded.

"I don't like it."

"You are." The gargoyle stated closet to me and I yelped.

"Ahh! Man, they don't look happy…like Iago." I said slyly and Iago growled at me.

"Shut up!" he snarled loudly and Aladdin glared at the both of us.

"Guys, please!"

"Does this concern anyone other than me? Don't count that kid." Iago cowered on Genie's shoulder not trusting to sit on mine.

"Iago….Shh. Is that…breathing?" Al asked quietly and we all paused to listen. There was a large door way and hesitantly we walked out.

"Think that's the castle lord?" Aladdin asked and I gulped.

"Um, maybe, it's just some really big hairy guy that lives in the castle." I guessed with a nervous laugh.

"Or he's the guy that ate him." Iago muttered.

"You are in the presence of the castle lord." Again we jumped as one of the gargoyles spoke. Al shoved me forward gently and I instantly regretted my earlier statement. I turned to look at him over my shoulder and he smirked.

"Go on. I'll be right behind you." He promised. "Very close." I gulped and taking a deep breathing, I stepped forward.

"Hello!" I bowed to the monster. "Err, greetings my lord! We, eer, um, seek…permission to pass through your…castle?" I stuttered and then looked at Aladdin. "Al?" Thankfully Al got the message and stepped up.

"Oh, um, see we were heading back home from another land and kinda got off track!" He told the yeti.

"Way off track." I offered and Al shot me a look. "Err, I mean….yeah." Slowly the yeti scratched along wall leaving four long claw indentions.

"Diddd he just cut through stone with his claws?" Al asked nervously and he grabbed the back of my coat, pulling us back a bit.

"Correct." Genie stated just as nervous.

"I feel sick." I moaned.

"You know, turning back doesn't sound too bad right now." Al spoke as we turned and fled towards the door, we didn't get far as Lord Kutato stood and roared at us menacingly.

"Genie?" Al turned to him quickly.

"Want to am-scray?" Genie guessed and Al nodded.

"Fast!" Genie poofed into a hot air balloon and we all piled inside.

"Throw the parrot overboard! He's weighing us down!" Genie shouted. I turned and looked at the yeti and it was eyeing Genie curiously.

"Genie, we aren't moving!" Al shouted and I turned to Iago.

"Iago lose some weight!" I shouted at him and he scowled.

"A fine time to start being a funny guy!" He shouted back. "Hello, get a move on!" He turned to scowl at Genie.

"No problemo!" Genie announced and we were back on the ground. Feeling something odd, I looked down and saw that we were in roller blades! Genie skates around the room and we tried to copy him.

"Ahhh!" I yelped as I flew across the room unable to stop. I hit the wall with a thud and turned falling to the floor on my bottom, wheels still rolling.

"Genie!" Al shouted in annoyance. I tried to get up and fell again. I looked up tiredly to see Kutato still looking at Genie and he is…smiling. I wanted to know what he found so amusing but Genie's voice brought me back out of my thoughts.

"Ooh! Sorry, Al!"

"Genie, hurry!" Al yelled again as Iago and Abu skated by, rolling out of control. I started up again and managed to pull myself up, in time to get pushed by Iago and Abu and I was sent sailing across the room towards Al on one foot, the other having been moved to avoid stomping the animals.

"Al!" Aladdin rolled out of the way as I continued on, failing my arms around. "Ahhh!" I bounced off the wall in front of me and landed backwards again. Kutato made a noise behind me and I saw he was looking at me funnily. Weird.

"Okay, one great escape coming right up!" Genie called. Suddenly I found myself sitting in Al's lap, Iago and Abu balancing on a stick above us. Genie was below on a unicycle and he was balancing Al and I in a wooden chair.

"Genie!" Al yelped as we fell off him. I toppled off Al and landed on the unicycle upside down my hands on the pedals.

"Whoa! Whoa!" I tried to keep my balance and started to pedal with my hands, my legs in the air. Everyone else, meanwhile had been rescued by Genie who now held him in his arms. I pedaled past them.

"Look at me!" I called to them and Al rolled his eyes. Genie grinned a little and then I turned to see that I was headed towards a ball that was in the floor! How did a ball get there? I wondered and tried to brake. I couldn't and ended up running into it and it got underneath me bouncing me high. I came back down unicycle-less and Genie made replica of himself appear and he caught me with one hand.

"Ta-da!"

Suddenly loud laughing came and I looked to see who was doing it. To my surprise it was Kutato and he was looking at me and the replica Genie.

"Genie. It's not funny!" I heard Al yell.

"He's not laughing! That guy is!" I pointed at the yeti and the replica set me down before disappearing. I felt something grab me and I was engulfed in a large hairy hand.

"Alaric!" I heard Al cry and I wiggled until my head was out of the fist. I turned to see Genie being held in the other hand and the yeti pressed his hands together transferring us to the same hand.

"Hello." Genie greeted and I couldn't help but laugh.

"What's he doing?"I asked and Genie looked up.

"Um, well…" I looked up too and saw the yeti lowering his knuckles onto our heads. He was giving us a noogie!

"He likes us! Hey, maybe we don't have to leave after all!" Genie beamed and I shook my head.

"I don't care. I want to leave." Genie ignored me, too engrossed with this newest development and he grabbed me making us disappear and reappear on a stage behind a thick curtain.

"Uh, Genie?" He zapped me into an odd outfit that was like his. It was red and white striped and he put a flat hat on my head and a cane in my other hand. And then his voice echoed across the room.

"Let's give a cool arctic welcome to the ambassador of amusement, the hardest working man in wonderment, the magistrate of magic…Genie! And his little funny buddy, Alaric!" I yelped as Genie pulled me on stage with the end of his cane. "Thank you, thank you, thank you, ladies and snowmen." Kutato sat down in amusement and I gulped. "Hey. This really wowed 'em in Babylon!" Genie made music play and then he started dancing and he pulled me along making me copy his moves. I looked up and saw a bigger Genie holding puppeteer strings. He winked at me and I looked back at Al, Iago, and Abu. They were trying not to laugh at me.

"Psst." The Genie beside me whispered and I looked at him out of the corner of my eye. "Singing time!" I barely had time to ask what that meant when words bubbled up from my mouth.

*"Oh, we are the boys of chorus! We hope you like our show! We know you're rooting for us! But now we have to go!" We sang and I smiled a bit having fun and it did seem like Kutato liked us. We ran/danced off stage and then came back again singing once more. "Oh, we are the boys of chorus! We hope you like our show! We know you're rooting for us! But now we have to go!" Genie let go of me once we ducked behind the curtain again and I laughed. Genie winked at me and pointed at Abu and Iago. In seconds they were dressed in funny jester costumes and like I had been were on strings.

"Hey, kids! It's the Punch and Moody show!" Genie announced in a goofy voice. Abu and Iago spotted the clubs in one another's hands and they started fighting. Genie poofed them away and back to normal as he set back near Al. Kutato starts laughing louder and Genie beamed. he went over to him holding out large playing cards.

"Go on, take one. I'll guess it!" Kutato picked up a card and peered at it. A replica of Genie is on the card as the king of hearts.

"King of hearts! Am I right?" The original asked.

"I'm just overflowing with love! Ooh, this'll be a mess!" The Genie on the card exclaimed and he made hearts fly everywhere. A cupid Genie flew in then and he takes out his bow and arrows.

"Not a problem!" He exclaims and hearts started going everywhere. Suddenly Kutato's gaze fell on me and he looked at me expectantly.

"Your turn." Genie whispered and I rubbed the back of my neck.

"What do I do?" I asked and took a step forward. Something moved out from under my foot and with a yelp I flew up in the air and crashed on my back.

"Oh man!" I rubbed the back of head lifting it a fraction as I spotted my falling culprit. I had stepped on the bouncy ball. Kutato laughed loudly and picked me off my feet. I shook my head to clear it and once again Genie and I were given a noogie. He liked it when I got hurt. What a weird since of humor!

"Huh, he really loves you and Genie, Alaric." Al said once Kutato finally set me down. I went and hid behind Al.

"How sad, very sad. There's no helping the comedically-challenged." Iago drawled and I frowned at him.

"Oh, you're just mad because you don't have a sense of humor."

"Oh, yeah? Well who got all stuttery back there with that hairy monster!" I gritted my teeth as I glared at him.

"Shut up! I tired!"

"Guys, stop it!" Al snapped as we headed for the exit. Iago and I glowered at each other.

"Lord Kutato has granted you leave to pass through our gates." Gargoyle stated and he gladly opened the door for us. Outside was a world new world. There was no snow at all. It looked like spring on this side of the castle. We were about to leave when I turned to Al.

"Wait, where's Genie at? He's coming isn't he?" My question was answered as Genie pulled up in a fancy car and he exited on a long red carpet, popping up on the end. he was wearing a flowery shirt and sunglasses.

"Yo, babe." He greeted us.

"Kutato's letting us cut through the castle!" Al informed him and Genie shook his head.

"Haha! Al, whoa! I can't leave yet! I've got some sure-fire material to try out on his hairy-ship!"

"I don't know, Genie." Al said reluctantly and I shook my head.

"Kid, we can't stand in the way of top-draw family entertainment!" Iago hollered and I frowned at him.

"Don't stay. Come with us!" I pleaded with Genie. This Kutato guy wasn't right at all.

"I'll catch up, shorty!" Genie promised, patting my head.

"At least the yeti guy appreciates me!"

"We do too, Genie. You know that."

'Yeah!' Abu chimed in.

"We're just not sure about him." Al continued and Genie waved us off.

"Hey, I'll catch up later! Right now, my number one fan demands an encore!"

"Wait, Genie!" I put a hand on his arm before he could leave. "I'll stay with you!"

"Alaric, are you sure?" Al asked and I nodded.

"Yeah, besides this guy likes me too doesn't he?"

"Sure he does!" Genie grinned and put an arm around me. "Don't worry, Al. We'll catch up." He leaned close to Al then. "Could be good to distance those two, eh?" He nodded at me and Iago and Al nodded back.

"You're right, Genie. Catch up soon guys!" Al told us and then he and the two animals left. The door shut as Genie lifted me off my feet.

"Come on, shorty, we have a monarch to entertain!"

"O-okay, but no more hitting. I think I've had enough." Genie chuckled.

"Sure thing kiddo."

part 2 next!