Kingdom Hearts
Ch. 64
Agrabah
The Strangers of the Desert
Iago was sleeping on a soft pink pillow in a Palace venue. He was suddenly woke by the distant commotion in the city. He opened his tiny beady eyes suddenly realizing the time. He quickly flew the coup flying out to the prison near the 2nd District. Being a bird, he flew over the Palace walls heading straight for the execution platform. He looked over head seeing everything that had happened. His small bird stomach ached as he saw Jafar out in the open. He stopped midflight when he noticed Jafar in the streets with Jasmine in his hands. "Oh please no," Iago yelped.
The parrot almost began to lose control and fall from the air. From behind a fast object passed under him scaring the living feathers off the bird. Iago yelled at the fellow flyer. "Hey watch it will yeah."
The parrot looked to see it was not a bird but Sora on a Magic Carpet. Sora maneuvered the carpet in Jafar's direction He witnessed the young boy sock Jafar in the face knocking him down. Iago panicked, screaming as the current Sultan fell to the ground. "What the $%&&!" he yelled with everyone watching. He then looked back at the Magic Carpet again seeing the familiar fabric once more. "Huh Carpet, that means?" He flew towards the crowd till he spotted Aladdin and the others. "You really did it kid," he thought to himself. The parrot flew away avoiding the mess.
Sora stood over Jafar like a proud warrior. The Sultan felt his bruised chin. Sora stood over him with keyblade in hand. The crowd was astonished as everyone asked who he is. One man who witnessed Sora defeat the Pot heartless earlier stepped forward and identified the keyblade wielder. "I know that boy. His name is Sora. A stranger of the desert."
Everyone looked in awe at Sora wondering what he would do next. Jafar tilted his head up laying his eyes on the boy. "You, why?" he said remembering the boy in Maleficent's projections. Jasmine kept her hands over her mouth. The original Dust watched in confusion. The harem girls couldn't believe their eyes. The others watched from atop the scaffolding. Raoul and Jameelah couldn't put together what had happened. Aladdin and the others stepped out of the crowd coming towards Sora. Tarzan continued to watch from the rooftops. Sora turned to Jasmine and smiled at her. "I told you. I'll keep my promise."
"Sora watch out," Tarzan shouted from above the buildings. The new Immortal Dust came upon him planning on smashing Sora's head with her legs like a baseball bat. He ducked effortlessly dodging the attack. The ape man jumped from the building revealing his spear in his hand. He landed on the ground startling those who were near him. He ran after Dust trying to defend Sora. Dust lashed at Sora as her legs clashed with his keyblade. "Do you have any idea what you have just done?" she yelled to him.
"I pretty self-aware," Sora remarked maneuvering like water. Tarzan jumped over Sora while the young keyblade wielder did a back flip removing himself from Dust's assault. The ape man's energy coursed around him. He thrusted his spear at the woman. Dust used her belly dancing ability to dodge each thrust.
"What the heck are you?" she asked.
"I am Tarzan," the ape man replied. His spear and her leg clashed causing an electric encounter.
Sora kept his distance as the two individuals fought. Kurt and Zisa abandoned the harem dancers and went for Sora. Kurt swung his sword at Sora from behind. But Goofy and Donald were watching and monitoring them from the start. They both guarded Sora jumping in front of him. Goofy used his shield to block Kurt's attack. Donald took out his staff sounding, "Fira" pushing Zisa away. The two brothers backed off from the King's lackeys.
"Attacking from behind. Now that's not nice," said Goofy placing his shield and body in front of Sora.
"Yeah, what's the big idea. You want to fight dirty?" shouted Donald pointing his staff at them.
"Thanks guys, I always have you two to watch my back," Sora said. The two turned to Sora and smiled giving him a thumbs up.
Sora looked back over to Jafar who got up. He gripped his staff feeling his chin. Jafar looked to the boy in disbelief. But something else put his mind into a whirl. As the Magic Carpet flew through the corner of his eyes. The Carpet floated to Sora whirling around his waist. The Carpet seemed to be discontent looking at Jafar. The sorcerer became angry shouting at Sora, "Where did you get that thing?"
Sora smiled, "We picked him up at the Cave of Wonders. But that's not all we brought with us." Jafar nearly spit out blood as his eyes raged with fire. He screamed out loud firing a shot of magic at Sora. The keyblade wielder jumped on the Carpet flying out of the way. He took his keyblade as the Carpet flew at Jafar. He hit Jafar with it throwing him back a bit. Jafar shot more magic in the air while Sora flew off.
Dust and Tarzan continued to fight. Dust attacked with her legs, but Tarzan blocked each one with his own arms. In a change of pace she switched to her hand managing to sock him in the face. "How do you like that?" she bragged.
Tarzan then did the same, upper cutting and slamming his fist under her chin with his other hand. Energy coursed around his knuckles before slamming it into her stomach throwing her far back. Dust flipped over landing on her feet placing her hand on her stomach. "A berserker. Of all the cronies I had to fight. It had to be a berserker." Tarzan stood his ground frowning at her.
Goofy's shield clashed with Kurt's swords. The two went at it until Goofy saw an opening. He thrusted his shield down slicing the rim across Kurt's chest. But it did not phase the swordsman. He continued to strike nearly cutting Goofy's ear lobe off.
Donald fought off Zisa. They both remained distant from each other using projectile magic. "Fire!" sounded Donald shooting a fire ball at him.
Zisa sounded, "Thunder" sending lighting down on top of Donald. The duck was shocked while the fire ball burst in contact with Zisa.
"YaOWWW!" Donald screamed being burnt by the lighting. Zisa fell over after being hit with flames. They looked back at each other with frustration. "I ain't losing to a waterfowl," Zisa remarked.
"Whatever snake face," Donald taunted. Zisa stuck out his snake like tongue when more fire surrounded his hand. Donald's staff did the same as he twirled it in his arm. Both of them were fired up at the other both sounding, "Firaga."
Each shot out a large flame burst aimed directly at the other. The two fire spells impacted with one another causing an eruption of fire to spit up like a water fountain. The flames heated up the area causing everyone to finally evacuate.
The crowds of people ran away with some thinking about the battle. "These strangers are fighting off the Immortals" "Who are they?" "Where did they come from?" "Why are they fighting." These questions were shared through the crowds as they evacuated.
Jafar got on his feet and looked to Sora who was glaring back. "How you got that Carpet is of no concern. You will not triumph over me. You will all fall to darkness. You cannot win."
He hit his staff on the ground calling forth his shadows clones from before. Sora remained unphased flying in. The two clones tried to attack him, but the Carpet maneuvered around them as Sora came into contact with Jafar. His keyblade clashed with Jafar's staff. The sorcerer was almost surprised by the young boy's strength as it matched a grown mans.
Jasmine felt weird watching these strangers defend her. She almost seemed happy. Jasmine felt someone take her hand. She looked to find Aladdin in her gaze. "We need to leave," he said pulling her away.
The two began to run towards the crowd. Jafar took notice of this and in a fit of rage shot a beam of magic at them. Aladdin pulled Jasmine down on the ground missing the beam. Losing focus Sora hit Jafar again in the back of the head. "Hey don't turn your back on me." Jafar remained determined. He called on his shadow clones to chase after them.
Aladdin brought out his sword to defend Jasmine as they got on their feet. The red and blue-eyed shadows chased them, but from above Raoul and Jameelah jumped from the scaffolding with their swords in hand. They sliced through the shadow clones stalling them. Jasmine turned to see her mature friends defend her once again.
"Hey kid, take good care of her," said Raoul to Aladdin.
"Take her and leave the city. Will divert them from your path," said Jameelah holding her sword in front of her.
"T-thank you," Jasmine said gratefully.
The two went on attacking the shadow clones but every attack didn't faze them. The shadows bodies only diverted apart then returned to their original forms. "Dang, how are we supposed to fight these things," said Raoul facing off against the blue eyed one. Jameelah kept her distance away from the red eyed one as it shot magic at her.
Jafar still wanted to stop Jasmine. He called for heartless to appear around them stalling their escape. A horde of bandit heartless circled the two waving their swords around sporadically. Aladdin took his swords and fought the heartless off. Jasmine also did the same, but they were still out numbered.
Until the other harem girls all chipped in destroying the heartless. "Get out of here Princess. You don't have to fight for us anymore," said Aiba.
"You guys," Jasmine said as Aladdin pulled her away from the swarms of heartless. The 13 girls all worked together to destroy the heartless one by one.
Aladdin came upon the crowd of people hoping to get by. The citizens all shrugged to the side. Abu came running towards them jumping on his shoulders. The monkey panicked as he pointed to the Sultans soldiers beginning to surround them.
"Oh no," remarked Aladdin looking for a way to escape. Sora who was fighting Jafar on the Carpet saw their plight. He jumped off the fabric pointing to them. "Carpet help them," he said.
"Fire," sounded Jafar shooting a fire ball at the boy. Sora reduced the damage by hitting it with his keyblade. Through the smoke he sounded, "Strike Raid." He threw the keyblade like a boomerang hitting Jafar. In that moment while Jameelah and Raoul were fighting the shadows clones. The moment Jafar was attacked the clones began to morph into a more physical appearance displaying an almost exact replica of him minus the dark colors and glowing eyes.
Raoul decapitate one but this time the shadow clone evaporated out of existence. "Jameelah, attack now," he mustered. The one eyed woman took her sword and threw it like a javelin at the red eyed clone. She stabbed its heart right away. The clone evaporated like the other leaving no trace of its existence.
Knowing she had defeated her opponent Jameelah shouted, "LADIES, after Jasmine is safe. You must run. Run through the city and hide till the time is right!" she commanded. The harem girls nodded as they continued to destroy the heartless.
The Carpet laid out for the Princess to sit on. "Wow a real magic carpet. I thought they were a myth," Jasmine said.
"Yeah, it isn't the only one," Aladdin remarked feeling the lamp in his pocket. They both sat on the Carpet before it lifted up into the air. "Everybody jump on!" he shouted to the Disney gang.
Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Tarzan all heard the signal. Tarzan pushed Dust away from him. He then slammed the ground causing dust and sand to ascend into the air. This temporarily blinded Dust letting the ape man make his escape. He jumped on the Carpet behind Aladdin and Jasmine.
The Carpet flew off towards Donald and Goofy getting their attention. Seeing their escape is coming. Goofy and Donald sounded "Barrier" guarding them from Kurt and Zisa. The Carpet was too high for them to jump on so they each grabbed a corner of the fabric letting the Carpet pull them off the ground. "Whoa this is not my idea of third class travel," said Goofy being pulled around in the air.
The Immortals tried to pursue them, but the Carpet out sped them. The Carpet then came to Sora who was still fighting Jafar.
Jafar was pushing him back as his magic became a true hazard for Sora. He shot several fire balls at Sora who back flipped away to dodge them. "Hey!" Aladdin called out as the Carpet was heading straight towards him.
The young keyblade wielder smiled crouching down. He then leaped high into the air landing back on the Carpet as it flew by. "Perfect 10!" he remarked.
Jafar watched them fly off, "You are not getting away from me again."
He tried to shoot at them as they fled the execution area, but the Carpet kept dodging Jafar's magic. "Hey, wait you forgot me!" said a small voice coming through the crowd. Sora looked to see a small figure run out into the open. It was Jiminy waving his hat.
"You guys it's Jiminy," Sora said pointing to him. The Carpet went after the cricket, but the Immortals caught up to them. Zisa shot magic at the gang while Kurt and Dust pursued on foot. They got close enough to now attack the gang all on the Carpet. But The harem girls stepped in and all the girls managed to block off the Immortals. Nura took out her knife and spoke with a cold voice, "If you want to get the Princess you'll have to march across our cold dead bodies."
"That can be arranged," Kurt said in a similar voice.
The Carpet lowered down as Sora got on his stomach as Jafar went after them alone. Jiminy wasn't fast enough and he couldn't hop high enough. Sora reached his hand down but it was no use. Jafar will catch them if they slow down. From behind Jiminy felt someone pick him up. The youngest harem girl Zafirah ran after them picking Jiminy up in her hands. "Take him," she said.
From behind Jafar charged another beam attack. Sora caught on to this and grabbed Zafirah by the arm pulling her up as the Carpet ascended nearly missing the beam. Zafirah screamed as Sora let her on the already crowded fabric. Jameelah shouted to her youngest.
Jafar tried to fire again but he was thwarted by Jameelah and Raoul. "Like Nura said," Raoul snared at Jafar.
Jafar rose his staff as it caught fire. He waved the staff causing a storm of fire to erupt forcing his enemies to the ground. He aimed his staff at the Carpet as darkness flickered around him. He would shoot them out of the sky with one shot. But an abrupt sand storm formed around them. Causing Jafar to miss the Carpet as it flew away.
Everyone went blind as the sands were harsh and dark like a heavy storm. The original Dust appeared next to Jameelah and Raoul. "Leave now. Escape while you can." She lifted her hand up causing a narrow path to be cleared. "Now go." She made one for the harem girls as well. Jameelah thanked her friend and the three parted ways. The harems girls managed to escape the Immortals following Dust's path. People were still around as they covered their eyes.
Jafar quickly took his staff and sounded, "Aero". The winds magic parted the sands clearing the air. He rubbed the sand from his eyes before looking around to see the Princess was nowhere in sight. Everyone had escaped. He breathed heavily before screaming out. He fell to his knees still hyper ventilating. He then turned his head to see some of the citizens of Agrabah watching him with disgrace. His eye reverted to that of a scared child. Purple smoke pervaded from his body. He transformed into a purple and black orb with a green center. Black smoke poured from the sphere then flew off towards the Palace.
He flew in through the window in his bed room where he reverted back to the form of a man. Iago flew in from another window pretending to be scared, "Jafar, I can't believe it. It was the Magic Carpet. The one that you wished for."
Jafar walked over and pulled a rope connected to a switch. A secret doorway opened behind a wall next to Jafar's bed leading to a flight of stairs. He ran down as fast as he could entering into a secret laboratory with pots and science bottles decorating the tables. Tons of books were placed on a shelf covered in dust. He ran towards the shelf searching the middle bookshelf. He threw the books off the shelf to the ground like they were nothing. "Jafar, you don't think?" Iago asked flying in behind him.
"The brat why now of all times?" Jafar said. He located an old dusty book with a green cover near the end. He quickly opened it and flipped through the pages. He came across a small cut out square crafted in pages near the middle of the book. But nothing was placed in side. He dropped the book in disbelief and began laughing. "HAHAHAHAHAH!"
Iago landed near Jafar looking at the empty book. "Oh no no. The half of the golden bug is gone," acted Iago. He flew to his hysterical companion landing on his chest. He grabbed the sides of Jafar's head and yelled, "Jafar, Jafar snap out of it." Shaking him violently.
Jafar stopped him by grabbing the birds neck. "That good for nothing brat with the keyblade mentioned the Cave of Wonders. He must have found the Genie as well."
"The Genie?" Iago spitted out as Jafar clenched his throat. "This is the worst possible time. That keyblade is the only thing that can lock the keyhole. And to top it all off. It was right when I was going to hand the Princess over. The boy Sora is the only thing that can squander my plans. I swore I'd rue the day till this world was gone forever and now after I'm so close to achieving my goal. The one person in the entire cosmos who can stop me comes knocking at my door before striking me right in front of all my subjects. And to top it all off he found the Genie. The Genie has the ability to reveal the keyhole to his master."
"Yeah, your approval rating sure is going to go down after this," Iago said humorously. Jafar then clenched his throat harder causing Iago to cough and struggle.
"What the people think of me doesn't matter in the slightest anymore. Cause when this world falls into darkness there not going to talk about much of anything," Jafar spoke letting Iago go. The bird fell to the ground with some feathers molting off.
"You may want to talk to that Maleficent lady for help?" Iago suggested looking up to him.
"No I can't. I told her off that I don't need help. I have to take care of this myself." Darkness began to swarm around his body. "No matter what it takes." The floor around him turned black with darkness suddenly flooding the room.
"Jafar, I don't think this is a good idea," Iago pleaded flying up on top of the bookshelf for safety.
"Nonsense my heart is too strong. The darkness cannot phase me. Now come to me my heartless. An army of darkness must arrive." Jafar slammed his staff on the floor causing it to erupt.