On the way back from Getzistan, Aladdin and the crew found themselves at an ancient ruin, looking down a lone well. Judging by all the sand covering the ruin and the well, it had been nearly hundreds of years since it had been buried. Iago came out of the well wearing scuba gear. "Big bucks coming through! I hope. And this suit was not my idea!" Genie followed him up wearing similar gear, and holding a black chest. "Sure was deep! Whoever buried this must have wanted it to stay put!" An ancient script was on there, carefully translated by "Genie Translate" (patent pending).
"It says something about spice, Genie. Magic spice." Indeed the chest was filled with purple spice. Iago hastily denounced that it had the Midas touch, or granted invisibility. Genie used a "magic detector" and found nothing magic about the spice. Aladdin took note of the necklace in the chest. As soon as he pulled it out, a rainstorm began to blow. "That's strange. It was clear just a moment ago."
Genie diverted the lightning from the storm, just as the wind blew the necklace out of Al's hand. The storm stopped. "I just wonder where that purple lightning came from."
Aladdin finally arrived back in the palace, jeweled necklace in hand. No sooner did Aladdin show Jasmine the necklace that she decided to show her father. Iago and Genie meanwhile were hitting the streets as part of a snake-oil sale on the magic spice. The Sultan was impressed by the necklace, thinking it to be a wedding present. A loud sounded from behind them. They turned around to see a storm cloud form coming towards them. The cloud disappeared and a gray-skinned man appeared in its place. Rajah growled at him, but the tiger was frozen by him, as if the man had an evil eye. He kissed the princess' hand.
Aladdin was not happy that some geezer was hitting on his girl. "Hey, look mister!"
"You little matchmaker, you! I like her. My name's Ayam Aghoul. Many thanks for unleashing me." "Unleashing you?" "I haven't felt so alive since... Ooh, silly me. I've never been alive." Dear lord above; Aladdin had unintentionally released a lich from the Land of the Dead! The Sultan pointed to Aghoul. "See here, sir! No one from beyond the grave kisses my daughter!"
"Oh, I'm hardly just anyone. You're talking to the duke of the undead. You see, I once possessed that enchanted necklace. Any woman who wore it became my bride. I went through a long line of wives, until the day I tried slipping my necklace onto a comely young sorceress. She trapped me within my necklace! Where I stayed... until today, when you placed it on Jasmine, betrothing her as my next bride!" Aghoul pulled out a box of chocolate covered spiders and presented it to Jasmine.
"Don't worry, Jasmine, we can unbetroth you just as easy." As Al reached for the necklace, Aghoul shot a bolt of lightning at him. Following this, he summoned an army of skeletons, who were still in the midst of their Routine #1929. Aladdin saw no threat from the four skeletons as he slid into them, only to see them reform into a sort of 4-headed centaur. The Guards rushed in hearing the commotion, only to be trapped in a bone cage. The centaur skeleton grabbed Aladdin and Abu, throwing them off of the balcony. The Carpet was lucky to catch them in time.
"Time for the fitting! Skeletons: They're creatures of destruction, they're tailors... gotta love them!" Aghoul turned to Jasmine. "Oh, so sorry about your young lad. I was going to make him my best man, you know." What Aghoul didn't see as he was talking to his "bride" was that Aladdin made a signal to the Sultan that he had a plan.
"This is all my fault. I had to give Jasmine that stupid necklace! Carpet, we need Genie!" Al, Abu, and Carpet flew off to the Marketplace at Iago's stand where, Genie was selling more of the spice. While they flew off, Aghoul was busy with his skeletal laborers making his own macabre wedding pavilion "The nice thing, 'dad', is that Jasmine will stay close. We're moving in right next door. White ribcage fence, a little carnivorous plant garden out back. Our little dream house, with you, my wife, to keep it spotless." "What?! I'll never clean your house!" "For a second there, Jasmine dear, I thought you didn't appreciate my offer of domestic bliss." Before he could advance, a pyramid fell into the balcony. The dropper was Abu riding a mechanical sphinx. A second pyramid fell onto Aghoul, destroying the balcony in the process. "The strength of a thousand Teamsters in one little finger. I love being a genie!"
Aladdin jumped down and rushed to Jasmine. "Oh, Aladdin, you won!" "So, it's a fight you want, is it, boy?" Aghoul reappeared, summoning a giant tornado with purple lightning. Genie pulled out a weathervane again, but it ended up zapping Genie. "Some advice for you, boy. Start looking for a new girlfriend. For once Jasmine enters my dream house with me, she'll be mine for eternity. Allow me to introduce you to my other brides…" The ghoul clapped his hands and three skeletons appeared behind Jasmine, giggling and holding cobweb fans. "Quite a harem, eh?"
The sight of skeletal brides creeped out the heroes. "I'm gonna lose her, Genie, and it's all my fault. How was I supposed to know giving Jasmine a gift was gonna unleash that guy?" An idea struck. "Aghoul mentioned that a sorceress once trapped him within his own necklace. We have to figure out how she did it!" "Hmm, that's a toughie. You're right, Al. You should've left that dumb spice chest buried where you found it." Inspiration struck again: It was the spice! It wasn't magic spice, it was anti-magic spice!
"So Genie, where's the spice?" Genie guiltily admitted that Iago had the idea to sell the spice. Aladdin told Genie to head back to the palace and create a distraction, while Al went to the Bazaar and get the spice back from every customer. While this was going on, Aghoul had began construction on a crypt. "Behold, the portal through which we enter our eternal home. Après vous?" Jasmine made the cliché line of "over her dead body," all while she was forced to wear Aghoul's supernatural dress. Genie arrived as "Your friendly neighborhood wedding consultant! Al says we've gotta stall. Look alive, people! Except you, of course." "No one hired you!"
Genie insisted with this charade, creating a limbo line. Meanwhile, Al found Iago and discovered that all the spice had been sold. "We have to get that spice back! Where is it?" "10%, forget the rental, and I'll throw in the genie's cut." Then they heard men talking about how the spice didn't seem to be working like before. "We have to buy it back, even if it means paying double their purchase price!"
Back at the Palace, Genie was distracting Aghoul with a pita high dive. Aghoul fell from the board an broke several bones. "Aw, too bad, Champ. Missed dead center by a hair. Good thing for you we've got lots more pita bread!"
"Enough!" This was the last straw for him as he grabbed Jasmine. "And now my dear, enter eternity with me." "I'll never love you!" "If I waited for love I'd still be a bachelor."
Aladdin arrived in the nick of time with the chest of spice. "Not that cursed spice!" "I hear ya, pal. It's brought me nothing but heartache, too."
Al threw the spice at Aghoul, but he took this chance to shove Jasmine into his infernal palace. Aladdin broke down on his knees.
"Aladdin…" It was Jasmine. "But, if you're out here, who's in there?"
Inside the house… "Well, darling, how do you like it?"
"Oh, I don't know. Maybe with some café curtains over the window. Maybe with some windows, for that matter..."
It was Genie. The infernal place exploded. Just as Aghoul was about to shoot lightning at Aladdin, the street urchin threw the spice at the necklace. Aghoul clutched his chest and was sucked back into it. Abu slammed the chest shut, after throwing the necklace in. All of Aghoul's sorcery was undone. Just to make sure this wouldn't happen again, despite Iago's protests, Genie hurled the chest away, never to be seen again.