Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Awakening

Chapter 29: Keyblades and Genies

Our heroes arrived in the desert world of Agrabah, familar to Sora, Donald, Goofy, and the Nobody trio, who showed them around the city, which was bustling with venders and buyers. Steve, however, was complaining about the weather there.

"Too HOT!" Steve whined as he crawled on the ground as sand came out of his mouth.

"Whine, whine, whine! That's all you EVER DO!" Tylor exclaimed.

"I would have a comeback for that, but I WISH I HAD WATER!"

Then a voice said, "Did somebody say WISH?"

Out of nowhere came a blue man holding a giant jar of water and placed it on the ground and Steve jumped in and started to swim AND drink it at the same time.

"Hey Genie! How's it been?" Sora asked.

"Sora, Donald, and Goofy! Never better!" He replied.

Genie then noticed Roxas and Xion.

"Hey I remember you two! How've you guys been?"

"You know Genie?" Goofy asked Roxas and Xion.

"Yeah, when Xion and I did missions for Xemnas, we met Genie and his friend Carpet." Roxas told him as he shook Genie's hand.

"And these guys?" Genie asked Sora about the rest.

"Oh, this is Lea, Ventus, Aqua, Bobby, Ansem, Steve, Sere, Tylor, Tim, Kairi, Riku, and King Mickey."

"OH, you must be the three friends you told us about!" Genie exclaimed as he shook Kairi and the King's hand.

Riku, however, looked away in sadness, remembering about how he kidnapped Jasmine when he worked for Malificent.

"No need to be sad Riku, Sora told us about why you did what you did. We forgive you for it!" Genie told the young boy as he magically called a little Genie doll to make him feel better.

"Th-thanks Genie." Riku said with a smile on his face.

"So Genie, how's Aladdin and Jasmine doing?" Donald asked.

"They are doing wonderful! In fact, you guys arrived just in time for their wedding!" He said as he exploded into fireworks that surrounded the city.

"A wedding?" Kairi said happily.

"Aw I don't have my good clothes for it!" Sere complained.

"Looks like we get invited to a wedding huh guys?" Ven asked Bobby and Aqua.

"It sounds wonderful! Right Bobby?" She asked Bobby.

"It does." He replied.

I wonder if Aqua and I will get married someday, Bobby thought to himself as he held Aqua's hand on their way to the palace.

They arrived at the gates, where they were stopped by a large man wearing a guard's uniform wielding a sword.

"What business to you have here?" He said pointing his sword at them.

"Hold it! We're friends of Aladdin and Jasmine!" Sora told him.

"So YOU'RE the friends the street rat and princess told us about. My name is Razoul, the Sultan's bodyguard. Follow me and I'll show you to him."

Razoul led Sora and the others to the throne room, where Sora and the others saw the familiar princess and hero of Agrabah, along with Iago and Abu, a man in blue, and a small man in royal uniform was with them as well.

"Aladdin, Jasmine! It's me!" Sora called out to them.

"Sora hello!" Jasmine called to him.

Then she noticed Kairi.

"How've you been Kairi?"

"I've been fine." She replied with a smile.

"So Sora, this is your girl you've been searching for?" Aladdin said to him with a sly smile.

"Yep! Oh, this is my best friend Riku."

Sora introduced Aladdin to Riku, but felt nervous around him.

"I know what you're thinking but I'm not mad. You did what you thought what was the only way to save Kairi's heart and I'm okay with it." Aladdin said as he put his and on Riku's shoulders.

"I feel better knowing that."

Aladdin then called the man in blue and the other with royal clothing.

"Guys, this is my long lost father Cassim."

"It seems I get to meet the boy who helped my son get the Princess of Agrabah?" Cassim asked as he held his hand out.

"Yeah! I'm Sora!"

Sora and Cassim shook hands.

"And this is my father, the Sultan." Jasmine added as she hugged the small elderly man.

"This is a glorious moment! I get to meet the young boy who helped saved my daughter and Agrabah from Jafar! I am truly honored!" The Sultan rejoiced as he shook Sora's hand.

"Thanks! The rest of my friends are Lea, Roxas, Xion, Ansem, Steve, Tylor, Tim, Sere, Ventus, Aqua, Bobby, and King Mickey!" Sora said as he introduced the Arabians to the rest of his friends.

"It's nice to meet you Your Majesty." Aladdin and Cassim said as they bowed to Mickey.

"It's wonderful to meet a fellow king like me!"

The Sultan and Mickey shook hands.

"So Jasmine, how've you been?" Mickey asked her.

"I've been fine. But lately there's been Heartless around Agrabah, but Aladdin and Genie has been doing their best to keep them at bay." She told the others.

"Uh-uh!" Abu chipped in as he got on Aladdin's shoulders.

"Jasmine is another Princess of Light like Aurora, Snow White, and Cinderella." Mickey told Bobby, Ven, and Aqua.

"Really?" Ven asked.

"Kairi is another Princess of Light as well." Ansem added.

"Whoa. Didn't see that coming." Tim said surprised.

"What does that mean Sora?" Sere asked.

"It means as Wielders of the Keyblade, we have to protect them from the Darkness." Sora said.

"He's right Sere, it's our job to make sure they're safe from harm." Aqua added.

"I guess that makes my future daugher-in-law more special." Cassim said.

"I just know everything will be alright once we start a family." Aladdin said as he held Jasmine's hand.

"REALLY?" Sora, Donald, and Goofy exclaimed.

"Way to go Aladdin!" Steve cheered for them.

"A baby! It sounds wonderful!" Aqua happily said.

"It certainly does." Bobby replied with a smile.

"Well then, about I tell you about my treasure hunt then huh everyone?" Cassim said.

"Treasure hunt?" Sora asked.

"Shh!" Riku and Kairi told Sora.

"Sorry."

"Well Sora, I'm searching for the Hand of Midas. Legends says it's made of solid gold and anything it touches turns to gold." Cassim told the gang as they stared in wonder.

"Anything it touches huh? That sounds like my kind of treasure!" Steve said with a greedy look on his face.

Iago then flew onto Steve's shoulder.

"Kid, you and I are gonna be the best of friends!" Iago said as he and Steve high-fived each other.

"Since the wedding's not until tomorrow, how about we search for it now?" Aladdin asked.

"Good idea Al old pal!"

Genie then called up clones of himself all in digger uniforms.

"Where's that hand?" One Genie clone said.

"I found it!" Another clone replied as he used his pickaxe and hit Steve's hand by accident.

"OWW!" Steve cried in pain.

"Whoops! My glasses are fogged up!"

The Genie clone cleaned his glasses and then bandaged Steve's hand.

"Thanks." Steve thanked as he rubbed his pickaxed hand.

Aladdin then whistled his friend Carpet and he, Aladdin, Jasmine, and Cassim got on while Sora and the others began to float.

"You know how to fly? Since when?" Aladdin asked.

"Bobby taught us how! It makes fighting the Heartless easier!" Sora told him as he showed off his flying skills, which was interrupted by him hitting his head on the ceiling in which everybody laughed.

"Hahaha." Sora mockingly laughed as he rubbed his head.

"I know where it is. Carpet take us to it!"

Hearing Cassim, Carpet dashed off to the location of the Hand of Midas.

"We'll make sure she's alright Sultan!" Ven told him.

"Thank you!"

The Sultan and Ansem waved goodbye as our heroes left Agrabah and then later arrived at a giant turtle that came up out of the sea.

"Holy crap that turtle's huge!" Steve exclaimed.

"That is the Vanishing Isle." Cassim told him.

The gang then noticed a ship near the Vanishing Isle.

"Who are they?" Sora asked.

Cassim was surprised to see who was on the ship.

"It's the Forty Thieves, but what are they doing here?" He wondered.

Just then when they saw a man with silver hair in similar clothing to Bobby, Ven, and Aqua was talking to a grey bald man with gold claws on his knuckles, Bobby summoned his Keyblade, went Kaio-Ken x5, and dashed at them.

"It's Sa'luk!" Aladdin and Cassim said.

"But how did he survive?" Iago asked.

"Never mind that Iago, Bobby's going after them!" Sora exclaimed.

Aqua and Ventus noticed who Bobby was going after and followed him.

"XEHANORT!" Bobby roared the silver haired man's name.

The two looked up and saw Bobby charge at them.

"Go and find the hand." Xehanort told Sa'luk who then went inside the temple.

Xehanort blocked Bobby's attack with his Keyblade, Dark Messenger.

"It's been too long Bobby." He said evilly.

"It seems your memories are back?" Bobby asked him.

"That and the memories as a Heartless and a Nobody." Xehanort told him.

He then noticed Aqua and Ven with their Keyblades summoned and in their battle stances.

"Aqua and Ventus, how nice to see you. Same for you Sora and Riku." Xehanort said to Sora and the rest of the gang as the landed on the ground.

"So your memories as a Heartless and as Xemnas are still there?" Riku said.

Xehanort only laughed.

"The traitors and the puppet are here too? Along with the King and his fools?"

"Why do you care?" Lea said as he summoned Eternal Flames.

"Sora! You, the others, Aladdin, and Cassim go after Sa'luk and the Hand of Midas while Ven, Aqua, the King, and I deal with Xehanort." Bobby told Sora as he and Xehanort released blades.

Sora nodded and soon he and the others went inside the temple. However, the Forty Thieves and the Heartless were in their way.

"Sora! We'll handle these guys! You, Aladdin, and Cassim can handle Sa'luk!" Riku told his friend.

"Got it!" Sora said as he led Aladdin and Cassim into the Temple of Midas.

"Why are you here Xehanort?" Aqua yelled at him.

"The Keyblade War." He only said.

Bobby, Ven, Aqua, and Mickey gasped while Xehanort laughed.

"Yes, the Keyblade War, like you idiots didn't know. Since I couldn't do it 11 years ago, I'd figure I try again, with Vanitas' help of course."

"Shut up!" Ven exclaimed as he charged at Xehanort, but was stopped by Xehanort's attack. "Damn it!"

"Try again boy!" Xehanort taunted him, laughing evilly.

"I won't let you hurt him!" Aqua yelled as she shot a small orb from her Keyblade, Bright Crest, but was taken out by Xehanort's orb and he laughed.

"You gonna fight or laugh at us?" Mickey told him.

"In due time King. But not now. Until next time." Xehanort said, with his evil laughter fade away in the dark portal he disappear to.

"That bastard! After all these years he's STILL trying to start that war over again!" Bobby yelled as he beat on the ground with his Keyblade.

"We will stop him." Aqua reasured him when she placed her hand on his shoulder.

Bobby put his Keyblade away and looked at Aqua.

"We will stop Xehanort and free Terra from his control. Now let's help the others!" Bobby told the others as he helped the half of the gang fight the Forty Thieves and knock them off the isle and back to their ship and sailed off in fear, while the Heartless were destroyed.

Meanwhile inside the temple,

"You choose Cassim! The Hand of Midas, or your son and his Keybearer friend!" Sa'luk said to Aladdin's father while he had Aladdin and Sora cornered.

"How do you know about my Keyblade?" Sora asked him.

"Malficient warned me about you and gave me the power to control the Heartless. Xehanort arrived to see if I fought you yet. I bet by now he's killed your friends!" Sa'luk told him, laughing evilly.

Cassim then had an idea.

"You want the hand? Well take it!"

He tossed the Hand of Midas towards them. The hand came close to Aladdin, but Sa'luk pushed him aside and took the hand.

"Yes it's mine at last!" Sa'luk laughed victoriously.

"Take a better look Sa'luk."

Hearing Cassim, Sa'luk look at his hand with horror. He grabbed the Hand of Midas by the gold part, which started to turn his whole body into gold. Sa'luk's final act was a cry of fear. Sa'luk was turned into a gold statue. Sora nonchalantly walked over to the statue and knocked him into the gold water below. Suddenly, everything started to shake.

"We got to get out of here now!" Aladdin told Sora and Cassim.

The three hurried outside and told the others they had to go.

"Where's Xehanort?" Sora asked the King.

"We'll tell you when we arrive in Agrabah." Riku told the spiky haired hero.

The gang flew off back to Agrabah while the Vanishing Isle disappeared into the sea once again, Sa'luk with it.

"So, we got to stop him from starting another war?" Sere said when she and the others heard what Bobby told them back at the palace.

"If we don't, Kingdom Hearts and the worlds will be in mortal danger." Mickey told her.

"Which means we start an army." Bobby added in.

"An army? You mean of Keyblade Wielders?" Sora asked.

"Bingo. But I think we may need the Princesses of Light's help as well. With their power, they can keep the darkness from spreading into Kingdom Hearts." Bobby said looking at Kairi and Jasmine. "And Disney Castle is the safe place they can be at."

Jasmine knew what Bobby said and walked over to them, but was stopped by Aladdin, who's hand grabbed her arm.

"Aladdin..." She said sadly.

"I just, I just don't want to lose you again. I'm not letting you do this alone!"

Just then a flash of light surrounded the throne room and a Keyblade had appeared in Aladdin's hand. The name Wishing Lamp was said throughout his mind.

"I have a Keyblade too now?" Aladdin said staring at his new weapon with amazement.

"Yep and now you won't have to worry about breaking the rules!" Mickey told him.

Lea, along with Roxas and Xion, walked over to Jasmine and said, "We'll take her to Disney Castle and make sure she get comfortable there and we'll meet up with you guys later."

Lea summoned the dark portal and led her through making sure she wasn't afraid, then the portal closed. Before Sora and the others could leave, Cassim wanted to speak to Aladdin.

"What is it Dad?" The son asked the father.

"I want you to take this dagger. Keep it with you and it'll be a reminder of me while you stop this Keyblade War now." The father replied to the son, giving him a small dagger and placed it in his hand.

"Thanks."

The dagger shone brightly and revealed the Keyhole of Agrabah and along with Sora and the Keybearers, Aladdin sealed it to make sure his home wasn't threatened by the Heartless.

"Let's get going everyone. It's time for the next world." Ansem announced as they were beamed up to Excalibar, after Sora recieved the Lamp Charm from Genie, who stayed to help defend Agrabah.

"Welcome to the Gummi Ship!" Sora, Donald, and Goofy welcomed Aladdin.

"I got to say, this is a nice vessel." Aladdin said impressed.

"To the next world!" Steve, Tylor, and Tim said as they flew off from Agrabah's surface.

Meanwhile in a Greek city miles away, a familiar man in royal armor was limping through the streets, battered and bruised. He then arrived at a coliseum (Olympus Coliseum that is) where Hercules, Phil, and Meg were cleaning up. Meg noticed the wounded man and got Hercules's attention.

"Hercules, he's hurt!" Meg told him, pointing to the wounded man.

Hercules saw him and ran up to him while he told Phil to get the medical supplies. He held the man in his arms.

"What's your name?" Son of Zeus and Hera asked him.

"G-Gabranth."

End of Chapter 29