*Author's Note: Sorry. No Scar battle here. Even though he is a great bad guy. =^-^=*

***

The next morning, the group had awoken, and began traveling at a grueling pace. They had come to a tunnel entrance into the first part of Kingdom Hearts known as Agrabah. Kingdom Hearts was split up into different towns. Between them was mostly forests. The entrance to Agrabah was surrounded by symbols of a lamp, a tiger, and a magic carpet. They all went inside but Goofy was a bit reluctant. When they got onto the other side, they saw a market place filled with fire eaters, snakes coming out of baskets from the enchantment of the music played by men in white turbans, and belly dancers.

Goofy was driving everyone insane with his lame attempt at singing a good Sheryl Crow song. "Like Steve McQueen, all we need's a fast machine. And we're gonna ride it all night."

"Uh…Goofy, as much as we enjoy you're screeching ear shattering voice, could you please sing something less noisy?" Brad said, trying to cover his ears.

"Oh, sure." He cleared his throat. "Be our guest. Be our guest. Put our service to the test."

"Goofy, please don't sing that one."  Donald pleaded. 

"Oh, oh, I've got one." He started singing worst than he was before. "We like the moooooon. 'Cause it is close toooo us."

Erica grabbed Goofy by the collar and looked at him with cold eyes. "If you sing one more time, you're a dead dog." She let go of his collar and he dusted himself off.

"Okay, okay. You don't have to worry 'bout me. I'll just zip my lip." He imitated zipping his mouth shut and smiled broadly.

"Good." She turned to Brad and whispered. "I'll give him five minutes until he starts jabbering on again."

"I'll give him five seconds."

The four of them headed down an alley that was surrounded by trash. Clothes hung from wires and cats went through the garbage, looking for something to eat. Goofy was ringing his paws together nervously. This place was known for having many thieves and blood thirsty murders and they weren't exactly Goofy's favorite type of people. Erica noticed his freaked out expressions and smiled slyly. This was too good to pass up.

"Hey, Goof. I bet that killers around her can strike silently and quickly. Like ninjas." She imitated a karate move.

Goofy's face went pale and he had begun to sweat.

"Erica, stop messing with Goofy's mind." Brad demanded.

"Oh, he knows I'm just kidding." Erica's face fell into fear and she frantically pointed behind Goofy and yelled. "Oh my gosh! There's a guy with a chain saw and a hockey mask on right behind you!"

"No! I'm too young to die!" he threw himself on the ground and covered his head.

Erica began laughing at Goofy's gullibility. "I can't believe you fell for that!"

"Don't do that!" he said, getting up and dusting himself off.

"I couldn't help myself. I had to do it. You're like a sitting duck… er dog."

"I am not!" Goofy stomped his foot on the ground.

They heard distant, gruff voices coming around the corner and into the alley. Brad pulled the three behind a big wooden crate and they all squatted down out of sight. The voices were those of four men who, by the way they were dressed and the way they smelled, were thieves.

"Why should it be our job to go find that forsaken crystal?" one of them asked the others.

"Because if we don't Maleficent will tan our hides." The fat one of the lot said. He and the others looked around for any bystanders and when they saw the coast was clear he pulled a blanket from off of the ground revealing a hidden door on the ground.

Brad's eyes narrowed as he watched the four thieves open the door and go down a staircase and shut the door behind them. As soon as they were gone our heroes looked up from their hiding places and ran over to the door.

"I should have known that the thieves of Agrabah would get into the act sometime." Brad said shaking his head.

"Who's Maleficent?" Erica asked.

"She's only the most powerful, freakiest, and craziest of the villains." Donald said covering his face with his hat like he was protecting himself from something.

"She's also the one who thought up the plan of breaking back into Kingdom Hearts and taking the crystal." Goofy added.

"We have to follow them. Who knows what they have planned next." Brad pulled the secret door open and went down the stairs. The other three followed behind.

The tunnel would have been pitch black if it wasn't for the single torch on the wall. Erica grabbed it and used it to light the way. Rats and bugs crawled along the walls and floors. Brad stopped and held his hand up to command the others to do as well.

"What is it?" Donald asked.

"I thought I heard something."

"Probably just a rat." Erica suggested.

He shook his head. "No. Erica, hold that torch up higher to light this place up a bit more."

"Why?"

"Just do it."

She shrugged and held up the torch. The light shed further and before them were about ten thieves with their swords drawn. Goofy screamed and jumped into Erica's arms. She frowned and quickly dropped him on the ground with a loud oof.

Donald put on a fake smile and talked casually. "Hey, guys. We were just passing by. We're…tourist."

The fat one from before spoke up. "Tourist nothing. You're the four who are in search of the crystal." The others grunted in agreement.

"Stay back! I have a sw---sw---sword here." Goofy said as he tried to draw out his sword. He finally got it out and pointed it in the criminal's face.

He simply smiled and shook his head. He snapped his fingers and the entire tunnel lit up all the way. They could see that they were actually surrounded by about fifty of those guys. Goofy slowly and cautiously drew his sword back into its scalbert. He smiled weakly and ran and hid behind Erica.

"Take them to…Jafar." The leader of the thieves commanded.

A few of them grabbed the boys by the arm and lead them away. When one of them reached for Erica she narrowed her eyes at him as though tell him to lay off. He stepped away and let her walk by herself.

***

 They had stopped in a big room full of riches and stolen goods. A parrot flew low over head and they had to duck to avoid it. He perched himself on a snake shaped staff that was held by a tall, dark, sinister man. It was Jafar.

"Welcome to my humble abode." He said with a bow. "I'm the sorcerer, Jafar."

"I don't give a flying fig who you are!" Erica yelled. "You're not laying a finger on that crystal."

"We'll see. Feed them to the snakes!" Jafar instructed pointing over to a pit.

The four gasp and their eyes widened with fear.

"The loud mouth girl goes first."

Two men grabbed both of Erica's arms and led her to the edge of the hole. At the bottom were about twelve poisonous snakes. Erica tried to struggle from the men's grip but it was no use. They threw her over the edge and she fell to the bottom with a loud thud. She looked up and saw the snakes slithering towards her. She got up and backed up against the wall. This was it. Nothing could save her now. She closed her eyes and waited for the end to come.

Suddenly, she felt someone grab her hand and pull her onto something soft. She looked down to see that she was flying on a magic carpet. She then looked up and saw a guy with a vest, white baggy pants, barefoot, and a small hat. On his shoulder was monkey who also had a vest and a hat on. The monkey looked at Erica and tipped his hat at her.

"Who are you?" she asked half stunned.

"The name's Aladdin. This is Abu. Are you alright?"

"Yeah. I guess."

"Good. Now, hold on tight." The carpet did a nose dive to a clear spot and the two of them hopped off.

"Prince Abooboo." Jafar retorted.

"It's Aladdin or maybe just Al." he corrected. "Not Abooboo.

Brad took advantage of this distraction to get away from his captors. He kicked one in the stomach and punched the other in the face. Donald bit one of the others on their hand and Goofy tried to get out his word again. But it was stuck again. He finally got it out and swung it around in attempt to hit someone. One man dodged the sword but fell back and knocked another thief into another which caused a domino effect to about twenty of them. Goofy looked around and stood proudly. His moment of triumph was interrupted when Brad grabbed Goofy by the collar and pulled him towards the exit of the tunnels. The rest of our heroes ran towards the exit but were stopped by Jafar who stood in front of it.

"Where do you think you are going?" he asked with cold dark eyes.

"We'd love to stay and chat but we have a crystal to find." Erica said.

"Now, listen here…" he pointed his snake staff at her and it began to glow. Why was it glowing like that? He shook it as a desperate way of fixing it.

"Why the heck is that staff of yours glowing like that?" Eago asked. 

"Belay that for now Eago. Back to the matter at hand. You are not going to leave here alive."

Goofy piped up "Garsh. How could we leave here dead? I guess unless we became zombies or something. Which would be pretty cool."

"GOOFY!!! I'm warning you!" Erica threatened.

"The crystal belongs to us." Brad spoke up.

"We'll ssssssee about that." Jafar began transforming into a giant snake.

"Oh, not again." Cried Aladdin. Abu hid underneath Aladdin's vest and quivered with fear.

"Erica, take this!" he handed her a small dagger to protect herself.

"Oh, great. If he tries to eat me, I'll just poke him to death."

"Just make do with what you have." He pulled out a tiny sword handle and with the flick of the wrist, the steel of the sword zoomed out.

"That's not fare! You all have some kind of shier weapon of death and I have a toothpick!"

Brad ignored her and ran towards the snake. He took his sword and jabbed into his scaly skin. Jafar let out a painful wail. Brad pulled his sword out of him but Jafar's skin healed immediately. He lunged forward and almost gobbled up Brad but he quickly moved out of the way.

"How the heck are we supposed to get rid of this wacko?" Donald asked.

Aladdin examined the reptile and came up with a plan. "Look there on his forehead!"

They looked up and noticed a red jewel symbol.

"What 'bout it?" asked Erica.

"That could be his weak spot. If someone can get to it…"

Erica turned to Brad with a daring expression. "Brad, give me your sword."

"Erica, no. You can't take on a thing like that! You'll get yourself killed." Brad said. "No, I can't let you."

"Brad, I'm not very good in several school subjects. But, I am good at climbing. I can reach it!"

Before he could protest again, Jafar lunged forward again and made them all scramble to safety.

"Brad, just give me the sword before we all die!"

He sighed. "Okay." He handed her the sword. "But, be careful."

"I will be." She assured him.

She started off for Jafar as he hissed in fury. She jumped on him and began running up his back. He tried to wriggle her off but she clamped down harder. He reached for her with his teeth but she took her foot and kicked him in the eye. He charged for her again and almost knocked her off. She took the sword and dug it into his scales and held onto that. She dangled from it for a bit and then pulled herself back up. She continued her struggle to the forehead of the snake. When she finally reached the head she got the sword ready to do the job. Jafar threw his head back and Erica lost her balance again and toppled off Jafar's back. Her heart went up into her throat and she completely stopped breathing.

"Erica!" cried Brad. He felt like this was his fault. If he hadn't of let her fight, then maybe she would be alright.

Erica closed her eyes. She couldn't look to the ground that was approaching closer and closer. Suddenly, Carpet flew below her and caught Erica when she was only about ten feet from the ground. She shook off her fear and set her jaw for the right moment to insert the sword. When carpet was close enough, Erica raised the sword and jabbed it into Jafar's forehead where the diamond symbol was. He screamed in pain as blood oozed from where the sword was at. Carpet landed back onto the ground and when Erica jumped off, her friends were soon there to join her.

They all watched as a puff of smoke began swirling around him. Wind whirled around the room and Donald almost flew off, but Goofy grabbed him by his webbed feet and pulled him back down. Jafar collapsed into the smoke surrounding him and a loud crack of thunder rang out through the tunnels. When all was clear, calm, and quiet, the group realized that Jafar's body was nowhere to be seen. The thieves had all fled and a dead silence filled the room.

"Yoo-hoo!! Yeah! We sure should that slimy salamander!" Goofy cheered.

"Actually, you guys didn't fight him. You just stood there and watched." Brad said.

"Well, at least we didn't screw anything up." Donald admitted.

"Well, yeah there is that." Brad said rubbing the back of his neck. He turned to Erica who was curiously examining the magic carpet by Aladdin's side. "I must say, Erica, I'm pretty impressed and surprised that were able to perform such a dangerous task."

"Then you must not know me very well." She told Brad turning her back on him.

"Thanks for saving us also, Aladdin."

"Think nothing of it." He said with a wave of his hand.

"But, how did you know we were here?"

 "Abu saw you come into Agrabah and went and brought me here." The little monkey took a bow.

Erica laughed. "What's up with the doofy hat?" she asked as she poked at Abu's hat.

The monkey quickly became agitated and bit Erica on her index finger. She yelped and kissed her finger. Her painful expression turned angry and she grabbed Abu and began shaking him. "Why you little..."

Brad nabbed Abu out of the merciless grasp of Erica and handed him back to Aladdin. "Erica, what did I tell you about murdering others?"

"But, he bit me! You better not have rabies you lice infested ape!" she said pointing at Abu.

He talked back with monkey gibberish and shook his monkey paw at her.

"Abu doesn't have any lice or fleas for that matter." Aladdin said as he patted his fury companion.

"Well, he still smells funky."

"I'll take you guys to the palace of Agrabah. I'm sure the sultan and Jasmine would like to meet you all."

"Sounds like a plan." Brad said. "C'mon, Donald and Goofy."

"Coming." They both followed Brad, Erica, and Aladdin out through the exit of the tunnels and went on their way to meet the sultan.

***

*Author's note: I know that there wasn't a jewel on Jafar's head in the movie but this is another one of those "What if" things. That's right! Sheryl Crow! I was listening to it while I was writing this. So, that's what inspired me to put it in there. (Doing the famous Dr. Delbert Doppler dance) Go Jafar! Go Jafar! Go Jafar! Sorry. I know he's the bad guy and all. But, you have to admit, he's a pretty cool bad guy. Also, he has a funny parrot sidekick. The moon song came from www.rathergood.com/moon_song/. Give it a try. It will explain why Goofy was singing that song. I wonder if I even spelt Agrabah right. Probably not. Oh well, hats off to those who can. Oh, I may be getting an animation program and actual scanner so that I can post my pictures of the characters somewhere. I weally, weally want one. (Makes a pitiful puppy dog face) More fun and craziness to come. Bye-Bye!!  =^-^=*