Zoey Pov
I was jarred back to consciousness when I wooden beam struck the side of my head.
"Ouch! Damnit what the heck." Rubbing the pain, I squinted my eyes open to see a sheepish looking Aladdin as he set me down on the roof. He mumbled an apology, and I grumbled about the bruises I was going to have in the morning. Al rolled his eyes and offered his hand to Jasmine, who was still climbing the ladder.
"Almost there." Jasmine climbs over the top, but trips and falling into his arms, and quickly stood up, blushing.
"I want to thank you both for stopping that man." She said in her regal air.
I sighed and waved off her thanks, "Uh, forget it." I grabbed a pole stashed nearby and vaulted over the gap between buildings and glanced back to watch Aladdin 'attempt to flirt' with Jasmin. Honestly I was trying really hard not to laugh. Aladdin grabbed a pole and turned to Jasmine
"So, uh, this is your first time in the marketplace, huh?" He pole-vaults to the next building, leaving Jasmine behind.
"Is it that obvious?"
"Well, you do kinda stand out." He stares at her entranced and she returns the look. But he realizes what he is doing and returns to normal. "I mean, uh, you don't seem to know how dangerous Agrabah can be." He laid a plank between the buildings for her to walk over, but as he is leaned down, she vaulted over his head.
"I'm a fast learner." He looked back in surprise. She tosses the pole back to him. Both Al's and Abu's eyes bulge.
Tisk-ing, I reached out and smacked his chin, forcing his mouth closed with an audible clack. "Close your mouth, lover-boy, you'll catch flies." Al shoots me a glare and takes Jasmine's hand smiling at her.
"Right. C'mon, this way." They go inside the roof of a building, dodging planks and beams as they go. "Whoa. Watch your head there. Be careful."
I sighed, "Men" I sighed and followed them inside.
"This is where you live." I heard Jasmine say in awe.
"Yep. Just me, and Abu. Come and go as we please." He glanced back at me over his shoulder and stuck his tongue out at me. "Zoey is more of a recent addition."
"Fabulous." She sighs.
"Well, it's not much," he pulls back the curtain and exposes the palace, "but it's got a great view. Palace looks pretty amazing, huh?" Jasmine's face falls and she became depressed as she plopped down on a nearby chair. I sat near Abu's bed and hugged my knees to my chest as I watched the little love scene play out.
"Oh, it's wonderful." Al didn't catch on to her mood and continued to star out at the palace in awe.
"I wonder what it would be like to live there, to have servants and valets..."
"Oh, sure, people who tell you where to go and how to dress."
"It's better than here. Always scraping for food and ducking the guards." Al snatched an apple from Abu who chatters in outrage, crosses his arms, and pouts. I smiled at him as the two love birds continue uninterrupted.
"You're not free to make your own choices."
"Sometimes you feel so—"
"You're just—"
"-trapped." They both ended up saying together. They look at each other, I gagged aloud making him realize that there are other people still in the room, and breaks the look. He rolls the apple down his arm into the hand of Jasmine.
"So, where're you from?"
"What does it matter? I ran away, and I am not going back."
"Really?" He takes a bite from the apple in his hand, then hands it to Abu, who has a disgusted look on his face.
I snickered as Abu shook his tiny fist at Aladdin and screeched, "Why you!"
Al then walks over and sits down next to Jasmine as she continues her life story. "My father's forcing me to get married."
"That's-that's awful." Abu appears from behind the princess and tries to steal the apple. "Abu!"
Abu races up to a higher point, chattering and cursing as he goes.
"What?" Jasmine asks in confusion. Al starts floundering for a response that goes over better than the curses that Abu just unleashed, and I giggled at his helplessness, and he shoots me a dirty look.
"Abu says that-uh-that's not fair."
"What?" Abu says in confusion, that was not what he said.
"Oh did he?"
"Yeah, of course."
"And does Abu have anything else to say?"
"Well, uh, he wishes there was something he could do to help."
"oh brother!" Abu huffs in indignation crossing his arms and sitting in my lap.
I smiled and scratched him behind his ear, "Don't worry Abu I'm right there with ya, I'm about ready to hurl at all the lovey doveyness in the air. He chatters happily and snuggles closer.
"Hmm, tell him that's very sweet." Al and Jasmine have been getting closer and closer, until Aladdin leans in to kiss her.
Just before that however the sound of swords being drawn echoes of the stone. I turned and groaned; the guards had shown up. "You guys have shit timing."
"Here you are!" one of them shouts from the entrance and I leapt to my feet, clutching Abu to my chest.
Al and Jasmine leapt to their feet and shouted in unison, "They've after me! They're after you?"
"Talk later love bird, escape now!" I shouted as I carried Abu over to the window Al was busy calculating the window exit!
We could just barley hear Jasmine mumbling about her father when Al turned to her asked, "Do you trust me?"
She looked at him in confusion so I shouted, "Do you trust us?" she nodded in confirmation and I shouted, "Then jump" right after she grabbed Al's offered hand. All four of us jump off the roof, fall and land in a pile of salt. We tried to get away, but the exit is blocked by a Razoul who lifts Al off his feet by his vest.
"We just keep running into each other, don't we, street rat?" Again, the guard's turban is pulled down by Abu, we turned, trying to flee down the alley but more guards were there and blocked the exit. Razoul pulls Abu off his head and threw him in a vase. Three other guards grab onto Aladdin. "It's the dungeon for you, boy."
"Hey, get off me!"
I ran at Razoul, "Hey, let him go you asshole!, he didn't do anything to you!" I socked him right in the jaw and his head snapped back. turning back, he grabbed me by the throat and slammed me against the wall. I flailed about gasping for air.
"Stupid foreigner Bitch!" Razoul spat in my face, "your destined for the dungeon as well the Vizier has some questions for you!" I couldn't breathe; I was starting to see stars, so as a last resort I pulled back my leg and kicked forward, connecting my foot and his shin with a click. He released me, hopping on one foot as he clutched at his leg. I coughed and hacked, relearning to breathe as I held my bruised throat!
"You self-centered prick!" I rasped at him, "Your Vizier can go to hell!"
Razoul picked himself up off the floor, his face still red, and he was furious.
"Do not mock me you little whore! Orders or no orders, try anything like that again and I will end your life where you stand!" I spun and grabbed a pitchfork leaning against the wall and pointed it at him.
"I'd rather die than go anywhere near your creepy boss!" he glared at me and glanced back at his men. Then he smiled and walked toward where his men still held Aladdin captive, he pulled his sword from its sheath and held it to Al's throat!
"You may be ready to die, but are you willing to let your little street rat friend die for you?" I froze, and I sneered at him. With a snarl I threw the pitchfork away. Razoul smiled in triumph and jerked his head in my direction. Three guards converged on me, and held my arms behind my back, I didn't fight them. Once I was restrained Razoul strutted up to me and socked me right in the face, I screamed in pain as I felt my nose give under his fist. Tears poured down my face.
I cried past the pain the ass only grinned wickedly down at me!
"This is only the beginning sweetheart, your gonna pay for assaulting a palace guard!"
Jasmine who I guess was tired of being ignored starts weakly hitting Razoul with her fists! "Let go of them!"
"Look what we have here, men-a street mouse." He throws her down. I snarled at him, tears still streaming down my face, have you ever had your nose broken, it hurts like hell!
Jasmine quickly gets to her feet and pulls down her hood revealing her tiara. "Unhand them, by order of the princess."
Razoul and the rest of the guards paled and knelt dragging me and al with them, "Princess Jasmine."
Al gaped shocked, "The Princess?" he was quickly echoed by Abu from within the vase!
"What are you doing outside the palace? And with these street rats?"
"That's not your concern. Do as I command. Release them!"
"Well, I would, princess, but my orders come from Jafar. You'll have to take it up with him."
I snorted, "yeah his master has him too busy licking his boots to think for himself." Damn there goes my smart mouth again, I was cursing myself as Razoul turned his attention toward me and he smiled taking hold of my chin and making me meet his eyes!
"I'm going to enjoy teaching you a lesson, bitch, you'll regret your words I'm through with you!" he slammed the hilt of his sword against my head and I heard Aladdin cry out as my knees hit the street.
General Pov
Jafar and Iago were exiting the secret passageway; Jafar slides the door shut carefully, but the princess comes storming in before he is finished. He slams it shut, pinning Iago inside the door frame.
"Jafar" Jasmine demands regally!
"Oh, uh, princess."
Iago pulls on Jafar's cape trying to get his attention, "Awk! Jafar, I'm stuck!"
Jafar ignores him, "How may I be of service to you?" He spreads out his cape, hiding the door.
"The guards just took a boy, and a girl from the market, on your orders."
"Your father's charged me with keeping peace in Agrabah. The boy was a criminal, and the girl attacked a palace guard!"
"She wouldn't have if they hadn't of grabbed the boy, and what was the crime?"
Iago tugged on Jafar's cape again, "I can't breathe, Jafar!"
"Why, kidnapping the princess, of course."
"If you could just—" Jafar kicks him back inside the door and it slams shut "-wow, that hurt!"
"He didn't kidnap me! I ran away!"
Jafar started walking away as if shocked. "Oh, dear! Oh, how frightfully upsetting. Had I but known."
"What do you mean?"
"Sadly, both of their sentences have already been carried out."
"What sentence?"
"The boy was beheaded only an hour ago, and the girl had been only sentenced to torcher but sadly Razoul took it too far and she was killed during the process!"
Jasmine fell to the floor in shock, "NO!"
Jafar pretended to place a comforting hand on her shoulder, "I am exceedingly sorry, princess"
"How could you!" she whispered as she fled the room crying!
Iago finally makes it out through the door. He flies up and lands on Jafar's shoulder, coughing, "So how did it go?"
"I think she took it rather well." They both get a sinister smile on their faces.
Zoey Pov
My head throbbed and then I'm blinking myself awake. I squint around a dimly lit room; I wasn't in the dungeon with Aladdin I was chained to a chair. That….that was bad, being separated from him wasn't likely to mean anything good. An evil chuckle echoed around the room and my head snapped in that direction; I saw Razoul standing by a fireplace. As he walked toward me he ran his hand fondly down his sword, he placed the tip under my chin raising my eyes to his. "About time you woke up whore! It's no fun to torcher a prisoner when their unconscious!" he chuckled darkly, and I swallowed hard desperately rethinking some of my previous life choices.
"I don't suppose I'm sorry will suffice." My stomach lurched in terror as he spun and pulled I hot iron from the fireplace. His profile from the fireplace light gave him an almost demonic visage.
"No" he hissed gleefully as he stalked back toward me.