Author's Note: After struggling in deciding which world to do next, Agrabah finally won and it will be set after the wedding of Aladdin and Jasmine, while this new story content's based on...well, let's just say, some of you might be familiar with the Disney Villianess Genie named Bizarrah. I know it's childish, but she's an oppotunity that I can't avoid and I promise that the Agrabah chapters will not be baby-like, I swear!
Anyway, let's continue on.
I don't own Kingdom Hearts, or Final Fantasy.
CH32: Another Arabian Trouble.
{AGRABAH}
Slightly off shores of the continant of Agrabah, was a huge floating Temple not to far from another island of the same world which inhabited dragons. The temple itself was shaped like a Pyramid. Within the very deep carven at the final chamber of the floating fortress, stood a small stone that acted like a table or statue top of a very unusually designed black and green Lamp. A hissing sound was heard and with it, came a Cobra Snake who had wondered onto the fortress when it was carried by a bird earlier. The Snake, curious of it's new surroundings, slithered all over the place until it came across the Lamp.
Rubbing it's body by slithering, the Snake suddenly heard an unusual sound it never heard of before and realised it was coming from the Lamp. To it's confusion and shock, red smoke billowed out with a sound of a female deepish voice groaning.
"Who dares disturb my slumber?" As soon as the smoke cleared, a red female Genie emerged, wearing a purple top, golden chains, and her hair done in a high-ponytail. She then spoke to her supposedly master, "How may I serve you Mas-"
But she cut herself off when she saw the now freaked out reptile who's eyes were widened in fear.
"A snake?" The Female-Genie asked, dumbfounded. She then groaned, "Only a human can become my master!"
She then realised something; as law, only a human can become her master. But the downside to that was that if an animal rubs her Lamp, it would only release her from her 2000 year prison. She then grinned evilly as triumpth held onto her dark heart.
"Which means...I am free!" She declared, laughing manically which scared the Snake off. "Now, I shall spread my darkness through out the world! Maybe even beyond."
She then gazed at her Lamp and thought carefully. If she ended up 'accidently' back into her lamp, she could end up imprisoned once more. She had to get rid of it to prevent that happening. But before the Female-Genie could begin, a sudden light from the only window of her prison caught her sight. Curious, she hovered over and saw, in a far distance, and with her magical powers, she saw the grand Kingdom of Agrabah, and from the sky out of nowhere, seventeen pillars of light rained down, and with her great sight, she could make out several figures; people-fourteen humans-one in his mid thirties, the rest either teenagers or young adults in their twenties, and three highly anthropomorphic animals-a mouse, a duck and a dog-while within the palace, a handsome young man, a girl whom the Genie quickly figured as the Princess...
She even caught sight of a blue, good Genie who was seemingly entertaining a stumpy short old but friendly man, obviously the Sultan, a small Monkey, a magic Carpet, and not too far from the shores of the coast, an older man who resembled to the one in the Palace and a red Parrot, both riding on a horse.
Her eyes narrowed as she eyed both the group of seventeen and the young man in the Palace; they had the powers to stop her, because if they knew of her existance and her past, they could very well trap her, the same way she'd been years ago.
"I cannot let anyone get in my way. They must be stopped!" The Female-Genie grunted.
She knew what she had to do in order to gain her goals.
Meanwhile, just at the front gates of the Kingdom, the worldly travellers had just teleported from the Gummi-Ship and landed in what most of them realised was a very familiar world as they then began walking through the marketplace, passing by every-day people who didn't seem to have noticed their unexpected arrival.
"Where are we?" Noctis asked, not recongising the place, as did Terra, Ventus, Aqua, Ignis, Kairi and Jack.
"It's Agrabah!" Sora exclaimed, happily. Finally, a world that he and the others recongised after Radiant Garden.
"Have you been here before, Sora?" Ignis inquired, curiously.
"Sure have! Me, Donald and Goofy came here lots of times in our previous adventures together." The sixteen year old answered.
"I came here a few times too...but, not in a good way." Riku admitted, mentally cringing at the idea of being here again, especially after what he did to Princess Jasmine two years ago.
"Hey, didn't you guys and Namine come here earlier too?" Kairi suddenly asked to Lea, Isa, Roxas and Xion, remembering them mention about Aladdin and Jasmine's wedding.
"Yeah. Got a last-minute invite to the royal wedding, which had to be post-poned due to the Forty Thieves." Lea replied, confirming it. "Wasn't that long ago, actually."
"Not to mention Braig too." Roxas nodded in agreement, while trying to avoid in remembering the time when, while fighting Sa'luk's Heartless, Lea briefly turned into a solid gold statue.
"Do you think Aladdin and the others might know where the Gummi-Block piece is?" Xion asked, thoughtfully.
"Welp, only one way to find out." Mickey suggested.
"And if not, then maybe it landed in the Cave of Wonders." Sora added.
"Or somewhere around here." Goofy nodded.
"Royal Wedding? Cave of Wonders?" Jack asked, puzzled.
"Long story," Sora began, before quickly saying firmly, "And no, no one's allowed to touch anything in the Cave of Wonders. Otherwise, the whole place will collaspe, unless you pass this trial."
"There's always a catch in everything, huh?" Terra teasingly asked.
"What about this wedding?" Ignis inquired. "You have me quite curious."
"Yeah, I didn't know you guys intended a wedding." Noctis added.
"Aladdin was to marry Princess Jasmine when we arrived before Xehanort was defeated." Isa explained.
"Not Prince Aladdin?" Jack asked.
"Well, the story is, and this is a bit of a back story, Al's Dad named Cassim who used to be the leader of the Forty Thieves left him and his Mom to look for this dangerous and powerful artifact to make gold to make a better life. Sad thing is, his Mom died and his Dad couldn't find them and assumed both of them were gone." Lea explained.
Sora blinked, as he and everyone else paused, before he asked, shocked, "So that's how Al' ended up living in the streets with only Abu until two years ago?"
"Oh, so that's the wedding you were talking about a while back." Jack realised with a grin, remembering that brief conversation on the Black Pearl back in his world. "I have to guess; the lad was an urchin, so to speak and did something heroic along with Sora, Donald and Goofy that made him rescue and so win the Royal Lady's heart."
"How did you guess?" Donald deadpanned.
"That's so sweet. Aladdin certainly is lucky to have done that. I'd like to meet him." Aqua said, thoughtfully.
"Me too." Ven and Skuld both said in unison, before sharing a surprised glance before looking away, awkwardly.
"Isn't this the same place where you guys met that weird Genie guy?" Myde asked, raising an eye-brow.
But before anyone could answer that, all of the sudden they all tensed when a shadow overloomed them and, to their confusion and shock, all over the city. Looking around and wondering what was going on, Goofy noticed something and alarmed his friends while pointing up. Everyone looked up to see, not black or purple clouds like most of the Keyblade wielders were expecting, but a dark red thick layer of smoke-like cloud over their heads, crackling with dark magic and lightning.
"What's going on!?" Sora exclaimed, as he and his friends stood in defense. They all then cried out when the smoke suddenly formed different kinds of pillars, which left the worldly travellers no time in reacting as they were quickly engulfed, crying out in alarm. The pillars didn't stop there, as several more spread towards the Palace, while two more spread towards into the Desert, claiming more victums.
Shortly afterwards, the cloud vanished...as did the group. Or perhaps not completely disappearing, but taken to different parts of Agrabah.
When Sora regained consciousness, he found himself laying on the pebble ground before slowly pushing himself up. But when he did, he gasped as he instantly recongised the place he found himself in. It was Agrabah; But the ruins of the town he saw earlier back at Atlantis.
Standing up and whirling around to get his bearings, Sora was stunned and confused.
"I'm...not awake, am I?" He wondered, aloud.
"You really couldn't tell the difference, could you?" A familiar voice spoke directly behind him, causing Sora to spin around and grunted as Vanitas stood there, his arms crossed against his chest as the raven-haired embodiment continued with a roll of his eyes, "Man, you really ARE slow."
"Get real! It's not my fault that bad things always happen." Sora protested, before asking suspiciously and mentally worriedly, "Are you the one who caused that red smoke to appear out of nowhere?"
Vanitas gave another roll of his eyes, "It wasn't me who did that, idiot. Though I have to admit, I don't think it was that Ardyn guy or Chaos who did that either. I'm not a psychic, but I think it's something else; a darkness that was born in that world you like so much."
"But we already beated Jafar twice, and the Forty Thieves are defeated too. Who else would be in Agrabah to cause problems?" Sora wondered, while hating to admit that Vanitas had a good point, but he didn't want to make the guy thing he was accepting him. Sora would never allow Vanitas to take over his body-even in a million years.
"What am I, a Fortune Teller?" Vanitas asked sarcastically.
"That reminds me." Sora quickly remembered and changing the subject, "You were pulled out from Ven's heart, right? Since you were with Xehanort, how much do you know about the Keyblade that came from the Master of Masters?"
Vanitas snorted, before answering, "You're full of questions today, aren't you, Sora? I can at least say that it gave him the ability to see into the future, but not everything. It also has the power to transfere one's heart into that of another dark vessel and be reclaimed by it's owner's heart in a new body."
"And it can also split the heart into pieces too to take over other people's bodies." Sora realised, shocked. "No wonder Xehanort had so many ideas and always found a way to cause trouble. All to try and get the X-Blade and start a second Keyblade War. But, if anyone else wielded it..."
"It can most likely slowly cause them to question the past and seek a Seekers life." Vanitas finished, "Guess the old saying 'Curiousity Killed the Cat' thing is true."
"Not sure if I can believe you, but I'm not gonna let history repeat itself. If I have to, I'll stop the Master of Masters from doing anything." Sora declared, before adding, "But first, I gotta figure out what that red smoke was."
"If you wanna figure the latter out, then why not wake up?" Vanitas smirked, before slowly approaching Sora who, backed off as he realised what was about to happen.
Sora quickly summoned his Keyblade only for it to shine in bright light, nearly blinding him and Vanitas who cried out in alarm and agony due to still being weak against the light...
Snapping his eyes open with a soft gasp, Sora groaned as he pushed himself up from the lying position as he soon found out, hopefully for real this time, that he was lying on a dirty ground in a dark room with some light coming from above. After standing up, Sora looked around his surroundings, and his brows furrowed in worry.
He was in a brick and empty, but not welcoming chamber like room, chains attatched and hanging from the walls with shackles ready to trap someone from escaping, windows that had bars that were too small to fit through-unless you were Abu-and a single wooden door up the stairs on another level which no doubt was locked and could only be opened by a key. It didn't take long for Sora to realise that he was somehow locked up in a Dungeon.
Possibly in the Palace. The question was, why did the smoke lock him up in here?
Suddenly gasping, Sora quickly remembered his friends and looked around, hoping to see them. To his dismay, there wasn't a single trace of any of them...Not even Kairi.
Or, so he thought.
"WAAAK!"
"YA-HOO-HOOEEE!"
Looking up suddenly, Sora cried out as a flash of deja vu hit, and before he could get out of the way, both Donald and Goofy, who had both been clinging onto the wooden beams high above on near the ceiling, lost their grip and had fallen, crashing right on top of Sora who collasped onto the ground.
"Ouch!" Donald grunted, while he and Goofy were both seeing stars, they and Sora dazed from the unexpected crash landing.
"Sora!" Donald and Goofy exclaimed, both in relief and worriedly, as they both got off their friend before helping him up.
"Just like old times, huh?" Sora half-joked.
"Sorry. Didn't mean to land on top of ya'." Goofy apologised, with Donald nodding in agreement.
Sora shook his head with a smile, "It's okay." before asking as he looked up, realising what happened, "But um...why were you guys guys up there?"
"We just appeared up there and couldn't get down safely quick enough." Donald shrugged, before grumbling as a temper tantrum began to flare up, "I'm gonna get whoever's behind this!"
"Well, it can't be Jafar. He died when his Lamp melted." Sora pointed out, folding his arms in deep thought. "And we gotta find the others too."
"I wonder how this happened?" Goofy thought, puzzled and worried.
Just then, to their dismay, Heartless appeared and surrounded the trio who saw this and quickly summoned their weapons, ready to fight. Sora quickly raised his Keyblade to block a Shadow Heartless that leaped to attack him before he slashed at it and destroyed it instantly. He then whacked and sliced at several more that came towards him before he and his two friends leaped out of the way when the Tubby Heartless appeared, leaping and crashing onto the ground to create damaging shock waves that knocked Sora, Donald and Goofy over, grunting in pain at the injuries.
After Donald and Sora both casted Curaga, the latter then tossed his Keyblade towards the Tubby Heartless's back as it's always the weak spot, hitting it twice before casting Firaga, destroying one before going after another. Donald in the meantime casted Thunderaga at the Water Heartless that appeared and then casted Blizzaga to freeze five of them. He finished them off with another Thunderaga before chanting his Fire-works Spell to eliminate several Heartless that surrounded him.
Goofy spun around and around while using his Shield to knock away the Heartless and eliminating them at the same time, though once he stopped, it left him dazed before he recovered his bearings and charged forward while hiding behind his small but very useful Shield. He was about to get attacked by another Heartless that plotted to attack him from behind, but Sora saved him by whacking the Heartless and destroying it while saving Goofy who thanked him.
The three friends then formed in a circle and then held up their weapons in the air-Musketeer style-which summoned their special Trinity Power that absorbed the Heartless that were then trapped in a ball of Light and Magic before vanishing after the trio finished their attack. But they didn't catch a break as three more Heartless appeared, shaped like Bandits with swords, ready to attack.
"Why can't the Heartless just go away!?" Donald exclaimed, irritated.
Before the Heartless could attack, though, they were immediately destroyed by three fireshots, surprising the travelling trio who stood there, before turning to their right to see where those shots came from, half-expecting Jack. Instead, it was man, about Noct's age, messy and spiky blond hair with a thin build, black vest with a black sleeveless shirt underneath, black pants and boots, black fingerless gloves with a band around his right wist, and in his hand was a hand-gun, closer to a moden day pistol. He had blue eyes as well.
"Phew! Sorry for not helping out sooner." The young man spoke up, desummoning his weapon the same way of the weapons most of the worldly travellers could do before he approached the trio who did the same, not sensing any danger from him.
"That's okay. Thanks for helping us out." Sora replied.
"Happy to help!" The man grinned, before asking, "Hey, are you guys travellers? Never seen you before."
"Uh...yeah?" Sora answered, blinking in confusion, while turning to Donald and Goofy who both shrugged before turning back to the newcommer.
"I knew it!" The young man said. "It's pretty much the same with me, 'cept I got seperated from my friends and, not sure how I ended up here in this place, but I've been stuck here and none of the Guards outside would let me out, no matter what I said."
"I guess that makes the four of us. We got seperated from our friends too, except it was some red cloud that did it." Sora responded.
"Thought I saw a weird cloud covering." The young man said, thoughtfully. He then remembered something and sheepishly said, "Oh, sorry! Forgot my manners. I'm Prompto."
"Prompto..." Sora repeated. The name was familiar. He, Donald and Goofy then all remembered and the teenager said, "Oh! So you're Noct, Gladio and Ignis' friend, right?"
Prompto's eyes widened in disbelief and somewhat hope, asking, "Wait! You know them?"
"We met Gladio in another place, and Noct and Igas, uh, um, Iggy?-those two fellers were travellin' with us so they can go meet up with 'im." Goofy answered.
"We don't know where they or our other friends are, but they should be here in the Kingdom." Donald added.
"Well, at least they're okay. I've been worried sick." Prompto sighed in relief. He then hesitatedly asked, "Um, is it okay if I go with you guys to find them and help to find your friends?"
"Sure, no problem." Sora smiled, holding out a hand, which Prompto sighed in relief for a second time and accepted Sora's hand, the two of them shaking hands.
"But how do we get outta here?" Donald asked, looking around.
"Easy. I'll just use the Keyblade." Sora responded.
Just then, something hit Sora in the chest and clinged onto his shirt and short jacket, startling him and the others before they saw that it was a familiar red Parrot who was shaking in fear.
"SORA! DONALD! GOOFY! Great timing! I thought we'd never get out!" The parrot exclaimed hysterically.
"Iago?" Sora asked, surprised to see the Parrot in the dungeon with him and the others. More importantly, where'd Iago even come from? And what did he mean by 'we'?
"Oh, not him." Donald grumbled. Despite the last time, he still didn't fully trust the annoying and noisy bird.
"Whoa...that bird just talked!" Prompto breathed, amazed.
"Gawrsh, Iago. Are you okay?" Goofy asked, worriedly.
"Do I look okay to you?" Iago replied sarcastically, before asking as he pointed at Prompto skeptically, "And who's this new kid?"
"I'm Prompto." Prompto replied instead.
"Yeah, hi, nice to meetcha." Iago quickly greeted before turning back to three of the worldly travellers, "You guys just gotta free Genie! Whatever that red smoke came from, it spread through out the area desert and Agrabah!"
"And you have nothing to do with it?" Sora asked, skeptically. He wasn't about to take any chances on getting fooled again, especially with Iago possibly about to misbehave.
"I swear, it's not me and you and I both know that Jafar disappeared! Ask the blue lout! He'll tell ya'!" Iago replied, flying over to a small stone against the wall, which the four others followed. True to Iago's word, Genie was trapped inside a small bottle, having been shrunk down unexpectedly. The bottle itself had a lock on it with a Keyhole that had a little bit of darkness covering it. "Before you ask, yes, he can't get out on his own whenever he's stuck in a bottle, yes even I tried to get him out, but this stupid lock isn't budging, and no, we haven't been in here for long."
"So it did spread out through Agrabah." Sora realised, before summoning his Keyblade and aimed it towards the lock, "Don't worry, Genie. I'll get you out."
A beam of light emerged from the Keyblade and hit the lock that trapped Genie, unlocking it before the lock disappeared without a trace. With that done, and with Prompto making a sound of awe, Sora approached the bottle before pulling the cork out. Immediately, Genie came out and returned to his normal size, stretching out in relief.
"Oh, thank goodness! I thought I'd be stuck in there forever! I was getting such a leg cramp. It's a relief to be out again!" Genie sighed in relief, before happily zooming around the area, and then he appeared behind the travelling trio and hugged them and Iago tightly, cheering, "And it's all thanks to the amazing travelling best buddies who came back at the nick of time!" though he was unknowingly making it difficult for the four of them to breathe.
Thankfully, he released them before turning into a cheerleader, with pom-poms and cheered on, "Who's the best trio with Cream? It the Sora, Donald and Goofy Team!"
Genie then turned into a Soldier Lieutenant while appearing in front of the group this time, saluting, "Awaiting your orders, sirs!" while Iago facepalmed himself in sheer annoyance and dismay. Not even back in Agrabah for more than half an hour tops and already the blue Genie was getting on his nerves. Iago didn't miss this.
Sora, Donald and Goofy couldn't help but laugh, while even Prompto grinned.
"I like this guy already." The young man commented to the trio.
Finally noticing the unfamiliar young man, Genie returned to normal and asked, "Hm? And this fun looking guy is...?"
"Oh, this is Prompto. We just met him and he's a friend to two new friends of ours that are travelling with us and our other friends." Sora answered, before adding, "Which reminds me, that red cloud seperated us and that's how me, Donald and Goofy ended up here like you and Iago."
Realising what this means while shivering in realization and worry, Genie muttered worriedly, "Then that means, considering how everyone got seperated by the red smoke, my sources tell me that Bizarrah is behind this!"
"Bizarrah?" Donald asked, skeptically.
"Who's Bizarrah?" Sora inquired, confused. Though if Genie was worried, then this Bizarrah person was really bad if he or she managed to seperate everyone with her dark powers.
"Bizarrah is an evil Genie; the meanest of all Genies! I don't know much of the story, but legend says that she always tricked her masters into doing her evil deeds. They say that her last master managed to imprison her for thousands of years." Genie replied, before shrugging cluelessly, "Though, how she escaped, I have no idea."
"So Bizarrah's the one behind all of this." Sora realised, worriedly. It makes things worse that all genies are uneffected if they're in a Lamp or set free unless the lamp is destroyed before the said genies are set free. He then asked, "Is there any way to get her back into the lamp?"
"If the lamp isn't doesn't after she was set free, then absolutely! The downside to that is if Bizarrah returns to her lamp that is unharmed, she will become trapped once more." Genie replied.
"Then let's go do that and find her Lamp!" Sora declared, before adding, "But first, we need to find our friends to make sure that they're okay."
"Reality check, Sora. First we need to get outta here!" Iago reminded while gesturing around the dungeon they were all trapped in.
"Yeah, I have to agree with him on that one." Prompto admitted.
"Not to worry! Finding a way out is a piece of cake!" Genie ensured, before turning to a wall behind the group and zoomed towards it, before magically turning himself into a construction worker, with a ground driller appearing in his hand. He then used it against the wall which crumbled instantly into a newly made hole, revealing the side of the Palace with the wall right there, but thankfully towardst he courtyard where the entrance is.
"Whoa!" Sora and Prompto exclaimed, awed.
"Wow!" Donald and Goofy exclaimed, also in awe.
"Man, if only the guys could've seen that." Prompto muttered, wishing that Noctis, Ignis and Gladio would've been here.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fantasic." Iago waved it off before flying outside, saying, "Can we just get this over with so that I can go back to travelling the world with Cassim, please?"
"What?" Sora asked, as he and the others followed the bird. "You mean you're not living here anymore?"
Iago shook his head, "With the newly weds? It's too lovey-dovey!"
Deciding to question Iago about that later, Sora, Donald, Goofy, Genie, the bird and Prompto ventured out of the dungeon before making their way towards the Streets of Agrabah to locate their friends and find a way to put a stop to Bizarrah's evil scheme.
The group ventured through the Marketplace while Sora, Donald, Goofy and Prompto fought off the Heartless that appeared while saving other people who somehow got trapped in their own houses or ended up stuck on roofs, no doubt by the power of Bizarrah's evil Magic. Eventually they arrived at a mosaic artist's shop where, to their shock, held arts of five familiar young women; Kairi, Aqua, Xion, Skuld, and Princess Jasmine, who, horrifyingly, were all now mosaic arts but movement could be seen. From within, the four Keyblade wielders tried and failed several times to use their Keyblades to escape.
Observing them, was a familar tall white female duck with black hair that went down to her shoulders, a long black dress and black high-heeled shoes, and she seemed to be enjoying the five human women's futile attempts to escape.
"These lovely mosaics are very lovely. Which one should I buy?" The female duck laughed evilly.
"They're not for sale!" An unfamiliar young man's voice snarled.
Slightly startled, the female duck turned around while saying, "Who goes there?" but as she turned around and saw Sora's group, her eyes widened as she spotted both Donald and Goofy. "You two!"
"Magica!?" Donald and Goofy exclaimed, shocked.
"King Mickey Mouse's Magican; Donald Duck! Seeing you here today is rotten luck!" The female duck, identified as Magica, snarled angrily.
"You're the one who's the rotten luck!" Donald snarled back angrily.
"Uh, who?" Prompto asked, turning to Genie and Iago who both shrugged, having no idea either.
"Let me guess; You know her, right?" Sora asked to Goofy while pointing at Magica.
Goofy nodded, "Yep. Magica is a bad Sorcereress who caused more trouble than even Pete. The King and Donald both locked her up in another dimension a long time ago before Pete was banished. But I don't know how she escaped, though."
This only made Magica laugh evilly, before she responded, "You think I will tell you how I escaped? You are still just as clueless as the last time we met. Did you think the spell would last forever? Nothing holds Magic De Spell for long!" and then laughed once again.
"Then I guess it's up to me to make a peace and take her out." Genie decided, cracking his knuckles, before adding, "And I'm not talking about dinner either."
"Mind if we join in?" Sora asked while summoning his Keyblade, while Donald, Goofy and Prompto summoned their weapons, all of them stood in fighting positions, while Iago, scared, hid behind a crate.
"What? You have a Keyblade just like the King?" Magica exclaimed after seeing Sora's Keyblade materialize. She then growled before summoning her magic, "Then I will crush you as well!"
She unleashed a powerful dark purple energy at the group who leaped out of the way and dodged before Genie zapped light at Magica who blocked it with a magical barrier, only for Donald and Sora to sneak up on her by casting Thunderaga and Blizzaraga, catching her off guard. Sora then attacked her with his Keyblade with hacking and slashing at her before she poofed and briefly disappeared before reappearing above the group, laughing evilly before casting her own Thunderaga at the group, zapping all of them who cried out and twitched, a little paralyzed.
Casting cure quickly, Sora then used his Motionflow and leaped from one building to the next to reach Magica who hovered out of the way using dark magic, but Prompto fired at her, but she managed to block his attack. So he then switched out for Ice Shots in his Gun before firing again, this time hitting her hand which briefly encasted it in ice, allowing Sora to catch her again and hit her several times which caused her to fall and crash onto the ground. But as he landed safely on the ground, she instantly recovered only to be hit and knocked on the head by Goofy who spun around and around, using his Shield.
But Magica teleported again and then raised her arms to the sky where it then began raining Black Snakes that began to slither their way towards the group who quickly had to take them down with the mixture of Sora's skills as Keyblade wielder, Donald's magic, Goofy's shield, Prompto's handgun and Genie's magic. Iago screamed before flying high to avoid in getting eaten by one of the black Snakes. Then he noticed that Magica was busy and distracted in using her magic since she was looking up to concentrate.
So Iago quickly noticed a small rock on the ground and grabbed it with his talon before flying up while making sure Magica was busy on her magic since Sora and the others were busy taking out the seemingly never ending Snakes. It was quite difficult since Iago had to avoid the falling Snakes the higher he flew before finally he tossed the rock which hit Magica on the back of the head, causing her to grunt in pain and made her lose focus of her magic which stopped and all of the Snakes vanished completely. Despite the surprise, and as Magica turned to glare at Iago who gulped nervously, Sora and the others quickly teamed up, with Genie giving Sora a boost by flinging up up into the air.
By the time Magica noticed, Sora smacked her into the stomach with his Keyblade, sending her crashing onto the ground once more and leaving Donald to quickly use his Fire-Works Spell to hit the evil Sorceress multiple times before Goofy, Prompto and Sora either attacked her, blocked her attempts or dodging her moves as she recovered, though she was beginning to quickly become exhausted due the battle of one against five who the latter was beginning to win, with a distraction done by an annoying Parrot who's only skill was speaking normal English but with an intelligent mind.
Sora then focused on using his Wisdom Form which turned his clothes blue and he then began sliding like on a surf board or something, firing multiple Water and Ice Spell at Magica who tried to counter it, but with Donald using magic of his own, it was wearing her down even further, allowing Prompto to then use some skills of martial arts of knocking her towards Goofy who whacked her with his Shield like a club, sending her towards Sora who then whacked her with his Keyblade and Donald doing the same with his Staff, and this process repeated almost like a pin-ball game until she was knocked into the air before using her magic to levitate to soften her landing, but slumped onto one knee, panting, getting more and more tired but refusing to surrender easily.
Genie then used his Magic to create a bucket with...cement and poured it down onto Magica who attempted to block this by vanishing, only for Sora to toss his Keyblade which hit her twice and distracted her enough to get completely covered in the wet cement which dried out completely in the matter of seconds due to the heat of the sun of this world. Donald quickly added a Blizzard attack to keep her stuck for the time being and then Genie created a magical Safe with a lock, trapping Magica inside.
"Well...that's one way to do it." Prompto admitted.
"Let me out, miserable rif-rafs!" Magica, trapped in many ways than one, muffled in her prison.
Goofy, despite being relieved that Magica was defeated for the time being, asked worriedly, "Gawrsh, don't you think she'll free herself?"
"Not to worry. Dark Magic Proof Safe." Genie replied, tapping the top of the metal box. "Only way to free her is to smash from the outside."
"I guess we'll have to come back to her later." Sora muttered, shaking his head. He then had an idea and turned to Genie, asking, "Hey, do you think you can lock her up in the Dungeon?"
"Swell idea, Sora!" Genie saluted, before using his magic at the safe with Magica trapped inside, before she was teleported right into one of the Palace Dungeons that didn't have a hole in it. "That should keep her busy for a little while." He said, while dusting his hands off.
"Hey, thanks for helping us out." Prompto said to Iago who landed on the perch of an abandoned shop. "We would've been done for if you hadn't distracted Magica."
"Yeah, we owe you one, Iago." Sora added as he and everyone turned to the bird who whistled, embarrassed.
"I just kinda noticed she was too busy with her spell to pay attention to anything else and I knew that you guys had to stop her somehow." Iago shrugged, waving it off.
"It was a great idea, though." Donald pointed out, smiling.
Goofy noticed this and then snickered, "Gee, Donald. I'm really glad that you and Iago are startin' to become friends now." much to the sudden embarrassment of the two birds who flinched, before sharing a shocked and slightly horrified glances before scowling at each other before turning away and folded their arms, stubborningly refusing to look at one another.
Shaking his head and deciding to worry about this later, Sora turned his attention back to the mosaic art shop that had Kairi, Aqua, Skuld, Xion and Jasmine trapped inside the artworks and approached it in hopes of finding a way to free them. To his surprise, a Keyhole rested just above their artworks that the five girls were trapped in. Thinking of an idea, he held up his Keyblade which got everyone else's attentions and just as he hoped, a beam of light shot out and into the Keyhole which then disappeared. The five mosaic art works then glowed in light and forcing Sora, Donald, Goofy, Prompto, Genie and Iago to shield their eyes before the light dimmed.
When they lowered their arms, they were greatly relieved as Kairi, Aqua, Skuld, Xion and Princess Jasmine were right there, back to normal as the five of them looked around before they realised, to their relief, that they were back in the real world.
"It worked! Sora, you did it!" Xion cried out in relief as she and the others approached.
"Are you okay?" Sora asked hurriedly, only to be caught by surprise when Kairi threw her arms around his shoulders, hugging him. Only in relief that she was okay, he returned the embrace and hugged her tightly.
Too bad the moment was ruined when Iago groaned in disgust while grumbling, "Ugh, great. Now Sora's having a mushy moment with his own new girlfriend."
This made both Sora and Kairi blush heavily before they let go of each other and looked away, completely embarrassed. They blushed even harder when Donald and Goofy snickered.
"Oh! Sora having fallen in love? He is definitely a true hero, just like Al'! Finding the girl of his dreams while saving many in need!" Genie cheered on.
"Aw, c'mon! It's not what you think!" Sora protested, even though his heart was saying otherwise, much to his surprise.
Kairi nodded in agreement, but to her surprise, the little voice in the back of her head and in her heart were telling her that she didn't agree with Sora. In fact, it was the opposite of what she was actually feeling and that only made her blush even harder.
"Genie, come on. I don't think this is the time for this." Xion giggled.
"Xion! Back already?" Genie exclaimed happily, "That means Roxas, Namine, Lea and Isa are here too!"
"Actually, Namine's not with us right now. But these are Kairi, Aqua and one of new friends, Skuld." Xion introduced.
"Nice to meet you." Kairi nodded, to Genie, Jasmine and Iago.
"Pleased to meet you." Aqua added.
"Hello." Skuld nodded.
"It's great to see you again, Sora, Donald, Goofy." Jasmine greeted to the trio who nodded, bowing to her while muttering 'Your Majesty' which made the Princess giggle. She then noticed Prompto who blushed. "Oh, and this is another new friend?"
"Oh!" Sora remembered, before introducing the others, "This is Prompto. We just met but he's a great guy."
"Hey there." Prompto waved, before quickly bowing to Jasmine, "Uh, and greetings, your Majesty."
"Prompto...Are you a friend of Noctis, Ignis and Gladio?" Aqua asked, remembering the name.
Prompto gazed at Aqua before answering, "Yup! We'd hang out together as long as I can remember."
"Hey, do any of you know where everyone else are?" Sora asked, now thinking about the safeties of Aladdin, Abu, Riku, Mickey, Lea, Isa, Roxas, Terra, Ven, Myde, Noctis, Ignis and Jack.
"After that red smoke covered everyone, none of us seen the others since." Kairi shook her head, worriedly.
"The same thing happened at the Palace too." Jasmine added, "I hope they're alright."
"OI! Get back here!" A familiar voice shouted.
The group turned to their left to see where that shout came from, and caught sight of a familiar monkey, carrying a familiar compass, being chased by one irritated Captain Jack Sparrow, who was followed by Ven and Myde who was way behind.
"Guys, catch him!" Ven called up.
Another deja vu triggering, the Monkey skid to a stop as he saw too late that Sora, Donald, Goofy and even Prompto all jumped onto him, but ended up crashing not only on top of the monkey, but also onto each other on the pile. It was Abu who shrieked while losing his grip on the Compass. Jack finally caught up and snatched his beloved Compass from the little fur ball, glaring at him.
"Ven! Thank goodness you're safe!" Aqua cried out in relief, and before her friend knew it, she nearly glomped him when she hugged him tightly.
"A-Aqua! I'm okay!" Ven muffled, feeling completely embarrassed.
"Ven?" Iago asked, dumbfounded, as was Genie who's eyes literally bulged out in shock when the two of them and Jasmine saw the 'Roxas-Look-Alike'.
"Still stealing things, huh, Abu?" Sora sighed, shaking his head after he, Donald, Goofy and Prompto got up. Abu mumbled guiltily while having his hands behind his back, whistling innocently.
Jack cringed at how friendly Sora was being at the monkey, before the pirate grumbled, "All monkeys steal, mate. They're a bloody menace."
"Finally! Someone who agrees with me!" Iago sighed in relief, much to Abu's annoyance while the latter shook an angry fist at the bird, shrieking angrily as this was not the kind of reunion he had expected. Iago just glared in return, pointing out, "What? I didn't plan on coming back here this soon! Blame Bizarrah for that, hair-ball!"
"Bizzarah? Who is that?" Jasmine asked, confused, as were everyone else who hadn't heard of the evil Genie yet.
"She's the one that's causing all of this and how we got seperated in the first place." Sora explained, as the situation got back on track. "From what Genie told us, Bizarrah is sort of like Jafar who was locked up in a Lamp for years."
"But somehow, she managed to get free and nobody knows how that happened." Goofy added, concerned.
"That would explain that red cloud that had all of us seperated into groups. Very ill tempered woman with terrifying fury." Jack muttered, cringing.
"How did you get here?" Skuld asked.
"Well, we'd somehow ended up stuck inside a pot, but then we had help in getting out." Ven explained after Aqua finally released him. "Then the monkey who was with us stole Jack's Compass."
"Who released you?" Aqua asked.
Myde, who finally caught up after lagging behind, panting before replying, "You...can thank...a weird-eared...magical...girl...pipsqueak...for that. But she's...probably just as slow as me."
"Good day, I say." An unfamiliar voice spoke before anyone else could question on who it was. They looked around to see where the voice was coming from until Abu shrieked and leaped to hide behind Sora's legs, because when the group looked down, they saw...a girl with elf ears, a black nose, about the height of both Donald and Mickey, wearing a black and gray clothes, having a staff behind her back. And she didn't look impressed by the lack of response.
"Good day, I say!" She repeated.
"Uh...Hey there." Sora greeted.
"Hi-ya." Goofy greeted.
"Uh...hello." Donald muttered, nervously.
After everyone else who weren't familiar with her shared their greetings, the girl sighed before walking past the group, saying, "Youths these days, why do they lack manners in many ways?"
"We're terribly sorry for our manners, miss." Jasmine apologised, and the others nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, uh...what she said." Prompto said awkwardly, before asking, "So um, who're you?"
"I am Shantotto. A Tarutaru, that's who." Shantotto responded. She then turned around and said, "Well, willing to say your names? Because this is no time for games."
"I'm Sora." Sora quickly replied, "And this is Kairi, Donald, Goofy, Ventus, Jack, Aqua, Skuld, Xion, Myde, Princess Jasmine, Abu, Iago, Genie and Prompto."
"You can call me Ven." Ven added, before he was startled by Genie who went up to him, apparently examining him.
"You wouldn't happen to be related to Roxas, would you?" Genie asked.
Realising what he meant, Ven shook his head, "Everyone asks me that, but no. It's a really long story."
"Interesting. A group this large, one of you must be in charge." Shantotto said, thoughtfully at Sora and the worldly travellers.
"Huh?" Donald asked, as he, Goofy, Sora, Kairi, Abu, Myde, Skuld and Xion tilted their heads slightly to the side in confusion.
"You wouldn't happen to have noticed where the rest of our friends would be, would you, Lady Shantotto?" Jack pipped up quickly before things got even more tensed, as his experiences with Tia Dalma taught him to never underestimate women with voodoo magic or any other kind of magic. "Because we would like some help and we're not leaving without it."
Thankfully, Shantotto got the message, because she replied, "As one with magic, not knowing what transpired would be tragic. While I know not of everything, I have seen what as become of another young man and the small but very brave king."
"You mean Riku and King Mickey!? Sora exclaimed in relief as he and the rest of the worldly travellers and even Jasmine and Genie came up to them, while Prompto and Abu followed, and Iago perched himself onto Genie's shoulder.
"Exactly, my dear. In fact, the two souls along with others are quite near." Shantotto replied, before she headed towards underneath an archway to another part of down. "Come along, hurry up! We do not have all day, young pups!"
"Pups?" Ven repeated, puzzled.
"We should get going." Jasmine nodded.
Jack, being the gentlemen, gestured the Princess, Kairi, Aqua, Skuld and Xion to go first, "Your Highness, ladies."
Despite feeling awkward around Jack, Jasmine took the offer gracefully, with Kairi, Aqua, Skuld and Xion following. Sora and everyone else soon followed, with Myde and Prompto walking side by side, feeling a strange sense of deja vu forming.
"Uh...do I know you?" Prompto asked to the mullet-haired young man.
"...Not sure." Myde replied.
'Riku...Your Majesty, everyone...hang in there.' Sora prayed in his mind, hoping that the rest of his friends, which included Aladdin, were all okay. Whatever Bizarrah was attempting to do, he wasn't going to let her get away with any of this.
So the new dangerous adventure in Agrabah had already began and not in the way the worldly travellers had in mind.
A/N: I know this is a completely weird chapter, but it's not easy making a new story for Agrabah since the King of Thieves story was already in "Second Life". I hope I did okay with it and sorry that this chapter was short. It'll take a while for me to finish up Agrabah.
Anyway, I'll see you in the next chapter as soon as possible.