Zoey Pov
My knees hit the stone floor with a crack. My cuffed hands doing nothing to help break my fall. The attached chain was jerked roughly dragging me a few inches forward, scraping my knees. I stumbled to my feet, in an effort to minimize being dragged like a sack of potatoes. The guards had taken my shoes, making this whole entire trek through the prison unnecessarily painful.
As we neared the end of the hall the guard ahead of me pulled a key to unlock it. Yanking me forward with the chain again, sending me off balance enough that when he shoved me, he sent me tumbling down a short set of stone stairs. I laid at the bottom, curling protectively around myself as every part of me throbbed. "I'm guessing you guys haven't herd of police brutality around here?" I quipped.
"Zoey!"
Lifting my head, I saw a familiar figure shackled to the wall. I lifted my chained hands in an awkward wave. "Hey Al."
He glanced over me worriedly, and boy if I looked half as bad as I felt, it was no wonder. Razoul was a vindictive son of a bitch. I hard burn marks littered across visible patches of skin. Bruises from where he and several other guards had worked me over.
I was hoisted to my feet; the guards having come down the stairs behind me and dragged me over to my own set of shackles. "Ouch!" I snarled as the clicked the lock in place. I stuck my nose in the air pretentiously, "honestly its very flattering but I'm gonna have to turn you down. I'm not into bondage." unsurprisingly they ignored me. They turned and marched out the door slamming it shut, the sound echoing off the walls.
Al sighed and laid his head against the wall to rant, "She was the princess. I don't believe it. I must have sounded so stupid to her."
I leaned my head back against the wall and closed my eyes, trying to brace against the forming headache.
"Yoo-hoo! Aladdin? Zoey? Hello!"
Al and I looked up and shouted, "Abu!" he tips his hat to us happily and I jerked my head toward Al and myself, "Down here! Hey, c'mon-help us outta these." Abu scampers down and quickly unlocks me with a small set of tools I rub my wrists to help regain feeling! Abu stops before Aladdin and chatters angrily. He wraps a cloth around his head and makes his eyes big in an imitation of the princess.
Al only shrugs unconcerned, "Hey, she was in trouble. Ah, she was worth it."
Abu chittered irritated but scrambled back over to me and gently pat my burned leg worriedly. I smile and reached over to ruffle the fur atop his head.
"No worries buddy, I'm tougher than I look."
"Don't worry, guys." Aladdin continues, still ranting, "I'll never see her again. I'm a street rat, remember, and there's a law. She's gotta marry a prince, she deserves it." After a few more minutes Abu finally gets Al's hands free and he poses grandly and I mock applaud, Al only hangs he's head in sadness and Abu scurries over to sit in my lap to pout.
Al starts rubbing his wrists, "I'm a-I'm a fool"
"You're only a fool if you give up, boy" we head a creaky voice say!
Our heads whip around, and we see an old man sitting in the corner, Al and Abu look confused and I growled under my breath. "Who are you?" I spat acidly at him, even though I already knew.
Jafar peers over at me in mild interest, "A lowly prisoner, like yourselves. But together, perhaps we can be more."
I leaned over to Aladdin whispering, "This guy looks a few cards short of deck."
Al turned back to Jafar, "I'm listening."
I growled and shot him an unimpressed look as Jafar continued, "There is a cave, boy. A cave of wonders, filled with treasures beyond your wildest dreams. Treasure enough to impress even your princess, I'd wager."
I was closer to them then Al and Abu so when Jafar turns his back, and Iago stick his head out of Jafar's "old man" disguise. I can hear what he says.
"Jafar, can ya hurry it up? I'm dyin' in here!" Jafar quickly hides him again and shoots a look at me and I glare back.
Al, the poor fool's mind was still on Jasmine, "But the law says that only a prince can marry—"
"You've heard of the golden rule, haven't you boy? Whoever has the gold makes the rules." He grins, showing a hideously bad mouth.
"So why would you share all of this wonderful treasure with us?" I spat at him.
He turned and ambled toward me, "I need some young kids with strong legs and strong backs to go in after it." He wraps an arm around my shoulders, and I elbowed him in the ribs, hard. He clutches his side and glares at me.
Al trying to save the situation breaks in, "Ah, one problem. It's out there, we're in here?"
Jafar shoots me another dirty look and limps to the nearby wall gently hitting one of the stones with his cane revealing a secrete passage out. "Mmm, mmm, mmm., Things aren't always what they seem. So, do we have a deal?" he holds his hand out to Al, who turns to look at me questioningly I try once more and shake my head, he ignores me and shakes Jafar's hand. I shut my eyes in defeat and follow them out.
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As Jafar woke the cave and it rose to its full height I shrunk back a little and held my breath.
"Who disturbs my slumber?"
Shuffling forward Aladdin stuttered, "It is I, Aladdin….." he reached over and yanked me to his side causing me to squawk, "And my friend Zoey."
I shook him off and crossed my arms, "Oh so you make a deal with the creepy ass old guy, and I have to go into the spook tiger cave?"
He at least had the decency to smile sheepishly at me.
"Proceed. Touch nothing but the lamp." The cave opens up with a roar, and a staircase appears in front of us. Abu chattered fearfully and cuddled closer to Al.
"Remember, boy-first fetch me the lamp, and then you shall have your reward." He turned his head to look at me and his voice got a slight bit deeper causing my stomach to roll. "Of course your little friend is more than welcome to keep me company out here."
"Not on your life ya creepy pedo." I snarled and grabbed Aladdin's arm, stomping quickly toward the cave.
I stopped right at the entrance, releasing Al I took a steading breath.
"Come on guys." Al says and leads the way down the stairs. This place was a lot freakier in real life than in the movie. And walking the stairs takes a lot longer; as we reached the bottom of the stairs we entered a room that glittered with the gold that filled it. "Would ya look at that!" Al said in awe!
I nodded in agreement saying, "Just a handful of this stuff would make us richer than the sultan!"
Abu peeks out, sees the treasure, then bolts for it. We called for him to stop and Abu stops in mid run, hovering over a rug on the floor.
Al runs to him and points a reprimanding finger at him, "Don't...touch...anything! We gotta find that lamp." I glance behind us to see Abu putting his hands on his hips and stalking angrily after Al and me. I giggle and turn back to the path. I could hear Abu chattering confusedly and then I collapsed as he tackles me from behind. "Abu, what are you-crazy?" and he forcibly turns my head back the way we had come, and I saw that Carpet was peeking out from behind a pile of treasure.
Al walked up behind me as I stood and I heard him say, "A magic carpet! C'mon. C'mon out. We're not gonna hurt you." I smiled encouragingly at him, and Carpet slowly comes out, shyly, then picks up Abu's hat and dusts it off. It flies over to Al and hands the hat to Abu next to him. Abu screeches and jumps onto Al's shoulder.
"Take it easy, Abu. He's not gonna bite" I giggled at the monkey.
Carpet again picks up Abu's hat and hands it to him. Abu jerks the hat out of Carpet's hands and shakes his fist and screeches at him. Carpet begins to walk away, "sadly" and I called out to him, "Hey, wait a minute. Don't go. Maybe you can help us." Carpet looks back, excited. he then flies over and wraps around me in a hug, I giggled, "Hey, whoa! You see, we're trying to find this lamp." Carpet motions for us to follow him. "I think he knows where it is." I told the others and I race after Carpet hearing the guys follow hurriedly. we passed through a long cave, until we emerge in a giant underground cavern. In the center of the room is a tall pillar, with a staircase going up to it. It is surrounded by water with unevenly placed stones forming a bridge. At the top of the pillar is a beam of light. Al begins to cross the bridge. I stayed back with Abu and carpet.
I could hear Abu and Carpet squabbling in the background and told them to shut up, I was so distracted by my thoughts that I forgot what the troublesome monkey was up to till Al reached the top and grabbed the lamp I could see him whisper to himself until he looked back at us in terror. I turned and saw Carpet trying to hold Abu back from a sparkly red gem and shouted, "Abu NO!" Carpet lost his hold on Abu's tail, Abu snatched up the gem, and the cave roared if fury!
"Infidels! You have touched the forbidden treasure." Abu places the jewel back into the paw, but the jewel and the shrine melt into lava. "Now you will never again see the light of day!"
Al races down the steps, but they flatten into a ramp, and he skies down until he flies into the air. "Carpet grab him!" I shout as the water has turned into lava, Abu and I start hopscotching our way toward Al on the rocks. He is falling toward it, when all of a sudden Carpet catches him. Abu and I are now standing on one of the rocks of the bridge. I looked left and right and saw rocks exploding into lava. I lift Abu into my arms and cradle him close. Then Carpet races over and Al grabs me around the waist, pulling me up onto Carpet, just as the last rock is exploding.
Regaining our balance Al shouts, "Whoa! Carpet, let's move!"
Together, we raced back through the caves dodging walls and falling debris. Abu grabs Al's head and covers his eyes. I couldn't help but laugh as Al struggled to rip Abu off, "Abu, this is no time to panic!" He pulls Abu off his head and sees they are flying into a wall. "Start panicking." Carpet goes into a dive, then through another cave. Finally, we emerged through the internal entrance. I could picture the outside vividly in my mind, the cave beginning to growl and close. We were almost to the top when a boulder drops on carpet, sending it to the floor. Al and I grabbed onto the rock wall and held on. I looked up to see Jafar at the top, within reach. I saw Al reach for Jafar and say "Help me out!"
"Throw me the lamp!"
"I can't hold on. Give me your hand."
"First give me the lamp!"
"Don't do it Al!" I shouted, but he hadn't heard me because he reached into his vest digging for the lamp. I started to slowly climb up to them. Al hands up the lamp, and Jafar raises it above his head cackling in glee!
Abu was trying to pull Al out when Jafar kicks aside Abu and grabs Al's wrist, pulling him higher. "What are you doing?" I head Al shout in confusion.
"Giving you your reward," Jafar returns to his normal voice, "your eternal reward."
He pulls out a crooked dagger and is about to stab Al, when Abu bites him on the wrist. He screams, but lets go of Al, who falls into the cave. I watched him fall and glared up at Jafar,
"You'll pay for that you bastard," I shouted at him and he looked down at me and grinned.
He reached down and twisted his fingers in my hair, lifting me. "Perhaps I should take you back to the cells, little foreigner." I kicked out and nailed him on the knee. He snarled and threw me down into the cave. falling I screamed in terror, Carpet who had already caught Al raced up and caught me as well. Al was lying next to me unconscious, and I hissed in pain as the shoulder was jostled. Carpet gently set al and I on the ground and my vision was getting fuzzy, a brown blob I assumed was Abu chattered worriedly over me as my world went black.