Chapter 6: Trouble in Agrabah
The party headed to one of the stars that looked like it had some sort of Arabian palace on one end of it and a massive stone tiger head on the other end of it. This was Agrabah, and it was one of the places that had problems thanks to Shade's opening of the Keyholes. What was worse was that Shade wanted to open up the Keyhole in Hollow Bastion to bring out the deadliest of all the Heartless. To do so, he asked the villians of each of the worlds to capture the remaining "princesses of heart" for he would need their hearts to open the way to the portal. One such princess was Princess Jasmine of Agrabah. Jafar, the evil vizier, told Shade he'd get Jasmine, but he'd have to have some help because of Aladdin who often caused trouble for him when he was trying to capture the princess. Shade agreed and sent some Heartless to keep Aladdin busy, but he hadn't planned on who would be coming to that world at that very moment..
Cid set the Gummi Ship down just outside of Agrabah, and the party got out. Sora looked around. "Things are sure quiet around here, Riku... I wonder what's going on?"
"Who knows?" said Riku. "But I bet it had something to do with Shade and the Heartless once again. Let's see what we can find out here."
The others nodded, and they all headed into the city where they were immediately attacked by some Heartless. The party fought them off and continued exploring until they reached Aladdin's house where they found the frantic Magic Carpet trying to get freed from under some funiture. Riku and Sora freed the Flying Carpet, and all of the party watched as it flew out of the room and headed for the desert. Thinking that it might lead them to the Keyhole, the party followed it.
Heading out of Agrabah, Riku and the others noticed that the Carpet had waited on them. Hopping aboard, they flew to the desert area where they spotted a young man fighting off some Heartless. Sora looked at Riku.
"It looks like that guy's in trouble!" said Sora.
"I know," said Riku. "We need to help him out."
With that, the party started taking out the Heartless. Just as they thought they'd defeated all of the Heartless, a sand whirlpool entrapped them while a group of Heartless advanced on them. But, when all hope seemed lost, the young man, Aladdin, came to their aid and defeated the Heartless. He looked at them.
"How come you guys came all the way out here?" asked Aladdin.
"Well," said Riku, "This Carpet brought us out here, and we saw you were in trouble, so we decided to help out. What's going on in this place anyway with all these Heartless?"
"Jafar has teamed up with someone named 'Shade' to find the seven 'Princesses of Heart', and he's planning to give Jasmine to him in exchange for his help to defeat me and the two Keyblade masters."
"Well," said Sora. "That would be myself and Riku here he was talking about. I'm Sora, and these are our friends Cloud and Leon. Any idea where you saw Shade last?"
"Last I saw of him, he was in Agrabah. That's where Jasmine's at as well! We've gotta get back there and save her!"
The heroes nodded and took the Magic Carpet back to Agrabah where they fought off some Pot Spiders, Bandits, and Large Bandits before Jasmine finally decided to show herself. But the reunion was only brief, as Jafar captured Jasmine and put her within a Pot Spider which joined with several other Pot Spiders to form a large boss, the Pot Centipede. The combined powers of both the heroes and Aladdin quickly defeated the Pot Centipede, but Jafar had made off with Jasmine and was heading back towards the Cave of Wonders. After checking their items and equipping what they thought they'd need, the party and Aladdin hopped on the Magic Carpet and chased after them.
When the heroes made it to the Cave of Wonders, they discovered that the Guardian of the Cave of Wonders, the large tiger head whose open mouth created the opening to the Cave of Wonders, had been taken over by the Heartless. Before the heroes could even get inside to try to find and rescue Jasmine, they first had to defeat the Cave of Wonders Guardian so that they could get inside. Riku, spying that the neck of the beast was left unguarded, ran up it and headed towards the nose where he could perch and start using combos to attack one of the eyes. Sora quickly followed his friend and went after the other of the eyes while their friends and Aladdin took out the minor Heartless that tried to knock them off, but they had to watch out for the sandblast that the Guardian shot out, as it could harm them greatly. Eventually, the Guardian was defeated and subdued, so now the heroes could head inside and find Jasmine before Jafar could deliver her to Shade for his evil plans. What they hadn't been told was how labrynth-like the inside of the Cave of Wonders was, but thankfully, their new friend Aladdin had been inside the Cave of Wonders before, so he led them through the twists and turns as well as the secret areas til they eventually reached the Treasure Room where Jafar had managed to also have another of Aladdin's friends, the Genie of the Lamp! However, despite Jafar having the Lamp, the Genie didn't harm Aladdin or the heroes that much.
Eventually when Jafar was defeated, he used his wish to be turned into an almighty Genie himself! The heroes and Aladdin did their best to take down Jafar, but nothing seemed to be working... or so they thought. Sora had managed to spot Jafar's partner in crime, his parrot Iago carrying his lamp in his talons. Sora decided to see what would happen and hit the lamp with some Blizzard magic. Jafar winced and then turned his attention towards Sora. It was obvious that Sora had found his weak spot, and he was going to pay for it. Quickly, Cloud casts some Shield magic on Sora nulifying the attack that would've harmed him. Now, the heroes knew what to attack and immediately went after the lamp, eventually destroying it and Jafar, but Jasmine had already been taken.
Riku looked at Aladdin. "We'll get Jasmine back from Shade. I promise you this," said Riku.
"Thanks," said Aladdin. "And I know someone else that can help," said Aladdin.
With his last wish, he freed Genie and asked him to help out Riku and the others. Since Riku already had one summon of his own, Ixion, he asked Genie to help out his friend Sora, and Genie gladly accepted. Aladdin also gave Sora the Three Wishes Keychain so that his Keyblade would have more power. Saying good-bye to Aladdin, Riku and the others headed back to the Gummi Ship now more determined than ever to defeat Shade and free all of the worlds from the Heartless' return.
The party headed to one of the stars that looked like it had some sort of Arabian palace on one end of it and a massive stone tiger head on the other end of it. This was Agrabah, and it was one of the places that had problems thanks to Shade's opening of the Keyholes. What was worse was that Shade wanted to open up the Keyhole in Hollow Bastion to bring out the deadliest of all the Heartless. To do so, he asked the villians of each of the worlds to capture the remaining "princesses of heart" for he would need their hearts to open the way to the portal. One such princess was Princess Jasmine of Agrabah. Jafar, the evil vizier, told Shade he'd get Jasmine, but he'd have to have some help because of Aladdin who often caused trouble for him when he was trying to capture the princess. Shade agreed and sent some Heartless to keep Aladdin busy, but he hadn't planned on who would be coming to that world at that very moment..
Cid set the Gummi Ship down just outside of Agrabah, and the party got out. Sora looked around. "Things are sure quiet around here, Riku... I wonder what's going on?"
"Who knows?" said Riku. "But I bet it had something to do with Shade and the Heartless once again. Let's see what we can find out here."
The others nodded, and they all headed into the city where they were immediately attacked by some Heartless. The party fought them off and continued exploring until they reached Aladdin's house where they found the frantic Magic Carpet trying to get freed from under some funiture. Riku and Sora freed the Flying Carpet, and all of the party watched as it flew out of the room and headed for the desert. Thinking that it might lead them to the Keyhole, the party followed it.
Heading out of Agrabah, Riku and the others noticed that the Carpet had waited on them. Hopping aboard, they flew to the desert area where they spotted a young man fighting off some Heartless. Sora looked at Riku.
"It looks like that guy's in trouble!" said Sora.
"I know," said Riku. "We need to help him out."
With that, the party started taking out the Heartless. Just as they thought they'd defeated all of the Heartless, a sand whirlpool entrapped them while a group of Heartless advanced on them. But, when all hope seemed lost, the young man, Aladdin, came to their aid and defeated the Heartless. He looked at them.
"How come you guys came all the way out here?" asked Aladdin.
"Well," said Riku, "This Carpet brought us out here, and we saw you were in trouble, so we decided to help out. What's going on in this place anyway with all these Heartless?"
"Jafar has teamed up with someone named 'Shade' to find the seven 'Princesses of Heart', and he's planning to give Jasmine to him in exchange for his help to defeat me and the two Keyblade masters."
"Well," said Sora. "That would be myself and Riku here he was talking about. I'm Sora, and these are our friends Cloud and Leon. Any idea where you saw Shade last?"
"Last I saw of him, he was in Agrabah. That's where Jasmine's at as well! We've gotta get back there and save her!"
The heroes nodded and took the Magic Carpet back to Agrabah where they fought off some Pot Spiders, Bandits, and Large Bandits before Jasmine finally decided to show herself. But the reunion was only brief, as Jafar captured Jasmine and put her within a Pot Spider which joined with several other Pot Spiders to form a large boss, the Pot Centipede. The combined powers of both the heroes and Aladdin quickly defeated the Pot Centipede, but Jafar had made off with Jasmine and was heading back towards the Cave of Wonders. After checking their items and equipping what they thought they'd need, the party and Aladdin hopped on the Magic Carpet and chased after them.
When the heroes made it to the Cave of Wonders, they discovered that the Guardian of the Cave of Wonders, the large tiger head whose open mouth created the opening to the Cave of Wonders, had been taken over by the Heartless. Before the heroes could even get inside to try to find and rescue Jasmine, they first had to defeat the Cave of Wonders Guardian so that they could get inside. Riku, spying that the neck of the beast was left unguarded, ran up it and headed towards the nose where he could perch and start using combos to attack one of the eyes. Sora quickly followed his friend and went after the other of the eyes while their friends and Aladdin took out the minor Heartless that tried to knock them off, but they had to watch out for the sandblast that the Guardian shot out, as it could harm them greatly. Eventually, the Guardian was defeated and subdued, so now the heroes could head inside and find Jasmine before Jafar could deliver her to Shade for his evil plans. What they hadn't been told was how labrynth-like the inside of the Cave of Wonders was, but thankfully, their new friend Aladdin had been inside the Cave of Wonders before, so he led them through the twists and turns as well as the secret areas til they eventually reached the Treasure Room where Jafar had managed to also have another of Aladdin's friends, the Genie of the Lamp! However, despite Jafar having the Lamp, the Genie didn't harm Aladdin or the heroes that much.
Eventually when Jafar was defeated, he used his wish to be turned into an almighty Genie himself! The heroes and Aladdin did their best to take down Jafar, but nothing seemed to be working... or so they thought. Sora had managed to spot Jafar's partner in crime, his parrot Iago carrying his lamp in his talons. Sora decided to see what would happen and hit the lamp with some Blizzard magic. Jafar winced and then turned his attention towards Sora. It was obvious that Sora had found his weak spot, and he was going to pay for it. Quickly, Cloud casts some Shield magic on Sora nulifying the attack that would've harmed him. Now, the heroes knew what to attack and immediately went after the lamp, eventually destroying it and Jafar, but Jasmine had already been taken.
Riku looked at Aladdin. "We'll get Jasmine back from Shade. I promise you this," said Riku.
"Thanks," said Aladdin. "And I know someone else that can help," said Aladdin.
With his last wish, he freed Genie and asked him to help out Riku and the others. Since Riku already had one summon of his own, Ixion, he asked Genie to help out his friend Sora, and Genie gladly accepted. Aladdin also gave Sora the Three Wishes Keychain so that his Keyblade would have more power. Saying good-bye to Aladdin, Riku and the others headed back to the Gummi Ship now more determined than ever to defeat Shade and free all of the worlds from the Heartless' return.