Chapter 49
Jasmine walked over to Aladdin. They clasped both their hands and looked at each other.
"Aaaw." Jewel commented. Aladdin glanced at her and chuckled. Jasmine did the same. But when they looked at one another, there was sadness in their eyes.
"Jasmine, I'm sorry I lied to you about being a prince." Aladdin said
"I know why you did." Jasmine said
"Well, I guess... this... is goodbye?" Aladdin said. A giant Genie looked around the corner of the balcony, surprised at what he was hearing. So was Jewel.
"What?" she said, looking from the scene to Genie, "No! This can't be right."
"Oh, that stupid law. This isn't fair. I love you." Jasmine said
"There has to be something. A loophole, or... Something." Jewel said, before slumping her shoulders in defeat. Genie wiped a tear away.
"Al, no problem. You've still got one wish left. Just say the word and you're a prince again." Genie said
"But Genie, what about your freedom?" Aladdin asked, surprised at Genie's words.
"Hey, it's only an eternity of servitude." Genie shrugged before pushing Aladdin and Jasmine closer to each other. "This is love." He shrank down and stood by Jasmine. "Al, you're not gonna find another girl like her in a million years." He appeared at Aladdin's side. "Believe me, I know. I've looked."
"So you can travel through time, too?" Jewel asked. Genie looked over at her and nodded with a large grin on his face before turning back to Aladdin.
"Jasmine, I do love you, but I've got to stop pretending to be something I'm not." Aladdin said. Jewel tilted her head to the side and smiled a small smile.
"I understand." Jasmine said. Aladdin turned to Genie and held out the lamp.
"Genie, I wish for your freedom." Aladdin said
"One bona fide prince pedigree coming up. I-what?" Genie said, shocked. Aladdin held up the lamp.
"Genie, you're free!" Aladdin said. The lamp shined and floated out of Aladdin's hands. Smoke came out of t and whirled around Genie. He stretched his arms out and the smoke suddenly vanished. Two blue legs with red shoes were where Genie's smoke tail was. The shackles around his wrist came off and disappeared. The lamp stopped glowing and clattered to the ground. Genie picked it up and looked at it. He couldn't believe it.
"Heh, heh! I'm free. I'm free." he said, before quickly handing his lamp to Jewel. "Quick, quick, wish for something outrageous. Say 'I want the Nile.' Wish for the Nile. Try that!"
"Uh, I wish for the Nile." Jewel said
"No way!" Genie yelled in Jewel's face. He laughed hysterically before bouncing around the balcony. Whatever he hit lit up, like he was in a pinball game.
"Oh does that feel good!" He said, stopping and shaking hands with Carpet and Abu. "I'm free! I'm free at last! I'm hittin' the road. I'm off to see the world! I-" Genie flew up and began packing a suitcase. He stopped when he looked down at Aladdin.
"Genie, I'm- I'm gonna miss you." he said
"Me too, Al." Genie floated down and put his hands on Aladdin's shoulders. "No matter what anybody says, you'll always be a prince to me." the two embraced each other before Sultan stepped forward.
"That's right!" Sultan said. "You've certainly proven your worth as far as I'm concerned. It's that law that's the problem."
"I'll say." Jewel mumbled
"Father?" Jasmine asked
"Well, am I Sultan or am I Sultan? From this day forth, the princess shall marry whomever she deems worthy." Sultan said.
"Why didn't you think of that befo-" Jewel started
"Him!" Jasmine said, running into Aladdin's arms. "I choose... I choose you, Aladdin."
"Heh. Call me Al." Aladdin said. The two were about to kiss, before Genie ruined the moment. He grabbed hold of them while wearing a hawaiian shirt, a Goofy hat, with golf clubs in a sack on his back.
"Oh, all of ya. Come over here. Big group hug!" Genie grew two extra arms to pull Sultan, Rajah, Abu, Carpet, and Jewel into a hug too. "Mind if I kiss the monkey?" He kissed Abu and coughed. "Ooh, hairball! Well, I can't do any more damage around this popsicle stand. I'm outta here!" He shot off into the sky. "Bye, bye, you two crazy lovebirds. Hey, Rugman: ciao! Jewel! Seeya around, you pirate you! I'm history! No, I'm mythology! No, I don't care what I am-I'm free!"
"That crazy Genie." Jewel shook her head and laughed. She noticed Abu sitting in front of her with his arms crossed. Jewel rolled her eyes and knelt down to him.
"Alright, I take it back what I said about him. And what I thought about you." she said. He smiled and jumped up onto her shoulder. They both turned and watched Jasmine and Aladdin kissing.
"My work here is done." Jewel smiled. There was a deep resonating "gong" that reverberated in Jewel's bag, catching everyone's attention, making Abu climb off of her and running back to Aladdin. There was a second "gong" when Jewel opened her bag to find what was inside. She pulled out the large hourglass that sent her to Agrabah in the first place by the third "gong".
"How?" Jewel asked, thinking she lost it before. The sand began swirling inside, turning from gold to blue. The lid burst off, the sand twisting around her. She could barely make out the figures of Aladdin and Jasmine running to her.
"Jewel!" Aladdin yelled
"Don't worry! I'll be fine!" Jewel yelled, reaching through the blue sand. "I'll miss you all!" The sand faded around her, bringing in darkness. Jewel shakily stood before sitting down on a small wooden ship. HER small wooden ship. She was safe, but where she was, she didn't know. The fog was thick.
Jewel yelled, "Hello! Is there anybody out there?" She could barely hear something. One of the most familiar sounds she knew by heart: Water lapping against a wooden hull.
"Hey! HEY!" Jewel yelled, running to the bow and waving her hands. "Is anybody there?" She heard a faint but sudden sound. Then a rush of wind. She quickly hit the deck and covered her head when the cannonball crashed against the hull, thinking is was aimed directly at her.
"I'm alone! I'm alone! Don't shoot please!" Jewel yelled. She stood and waved her hands. She rummaged in her bag and pulled out a large white cloth before waving it over her head. "I don't want to fight! Please!" There were orders given. The large ship came into view.
It was a three masted frigate. It had gold yellow paint on it's hull that had been worn to the brown of the wood and, in some parts, a dark gray. Jewel met it's port side, a rope thrown down to her. She picked up her bag, grabbed onto the rope, and was then hauled up onto the deck. From above, her little boat looked even smaller than it was.
"Now!" came a loud yell. Cannons were suddenly all fired onto her boat. Nothing but splinters remained when they stopped, leaving a shocked Jewel. She spun on the dark skinned crew and went to the one wearing what seemed to be an african headdress and gold coins in his ears. his beard was split into four braids, almost reminding her of Jack. As interesting and slightly familiar as this man was, Jewel was too enraged to care about what he looked like.
"You rotten pirate!" She yelled at him. "That was my boat you destroyed! Now how am I to get home." She was then grabbed from the back of her neck and thrown to the deck. She shrieked in surprise. Men piled on top of her. The captain walked in front of her and knelt down.
"Who are you to be sailing in these waters?" he asked
Dark, African, pirate captain... what was his name again? Jewel thought, trying to remember.
"Well?" he asked, slapping Jewel across the face.
"Just a lone pirate girl." She said
"Why alone?" He slapped her again.
"Because I want to be." Jewel responded
"Don't you know how dangerous these waters are?" he slapped her twice.
"... I'll answer when you stop hitting me." Jewel growled, glaring up at him. He pulled out a pair of curved clippers. Seeing them sent Jewel's mind reeling. Who was this pirate?
"You'll answer now, or you won't answer ever again." he growled back. Jewel kept staring at the clippers. She had to know who this captain was, but she just couldn't place her finger on it.
"Speak girl!" He said, grabbing her hair. He pulled her out from under the pile and threw her into the mast. She saw stars when she hit it. Stars... and quite possibly, the identity of this man. Her neck was grabbed and pinned to the mast.
"I know you." Jewel said. Her words were ignored though. She was spun around. Her arms and legs were tied to the mast. The man walked forward with his clippers. One way to figure out who this man now.
"What- What are you going to do with those?" Jewel asked
"You don't talk as much as you should." he said, grabbing Jewel's face in his hand that didn't have the clippers. "Since you don't, I may as well just take your tongue."
It is him! Oh thank god. Jewel thought.
"Yowe gintlmen jacahd!" Jewel said, though her face was still scrunched up.
"What?" he asked, taking his hand off her face.
"You're Gentleman Jocard. Aren't you?" Jewel asked
"How would you know." He asked lowly.
"Because," Jewel smiled, "I'm Jack Sparrow's daughter." Jocard's eyes grew wide.
"You lie." Jocard said disbelieving.
"Only when I have to, but not now." Jewel said. "I have proof. My right hand, take the glove off." Jocard said something to one of his crew. Out of the corner of her eye Jewel could see him going to where her hand was tied. She felt her glove being taken off.
The man said something to Jocard. He stroked his beard before turning his back to her and nodding to a man with a large looking sword. He walked up to Jewel and raised it before he brought it.
