SoOo! Whatchu guys think of the last chapter eh? Here is the third chapter, hope ya like it! Man, this story is so not going the way I originally planned it O.o It's like taken a life of it's own.
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Chapter 3: Genies Never Die

Everyone turned towards the nearing figure in expectation. Suddenly, Jasmine gasped, "No. it can't be." Genie and Abu's jaws dropped as low as the ground permitted.

The air around them tensed as Iago whispered the impossible idea that everyone had on their minds. "J- Jafar?"

"Impossible!!"

"Oh really now, is it so unbelievable that I'm back?" Jafar smirked menacingly at them, "Long time no see.. Princess Jasmine." His sinister smile made Jasmine shiver. She narrowed her eyes and snapped out in a low voice, "Get away from me you snake."

Jafar stopped dead in his tracks, surprised for the moment, but regained his composure with a sneer. "Oh yes. speaking of snake, one of my little friend should be dealing with your pretty boy Aladdin right about now."

Back to Aladdin .

Aladdin looked at the girl standing by the window, The girl's shadowed face showed nothing. A deep silence ensued and the only sound present was the noise of their breathing. Suddenly, the girl spoke, "My name.my name is." she seemed to be struggling to remember her name, "Johara." Aladdin was startled to hear her voice which revealed all her pain, yearning, hope, and all the emotions he couldn't see on her face. He could hear her emotions clashing with each other, heard her struggle to keep her control. His thoughts wallowed in pity as her emotion swelled through the room threatening to suffocate him. Trying to clear the tensed atmosphere, he replied, "Um. nice. name. It means jewel in Arabic doesn't it?"

"It does? I had no idea."

Another period of silence grew between them. Carpet flew out of the window getting away from the tension.

Nervously, he tried to start the conversation again, " You know, this place is where I used to live."

"Really? Heh, nice taste, view of the palace and all."

Aladdin glanced at the girl who was still staring out towards the sunset. He sighed and thought, I give up, and turned around into the ruby eyes of a snake. He yelped and threw himself backwards just as the snake lashed out at him. Johara swirled around, startled at the yelp and found a black boa constrictor advancing on Aladdin who had gotten his feet tangled in an old hammock. She watched in horror as the constrictor looped around him and started squeezing the life out of the future sultan of Agrabah.

"H-help me. Johara!" Aladdin whispered.

Suddenly, her fear turned into rage, as she watched the snake constrict. How dare that snake.! Before she knew it, her eyes had started glowing a bright white. She felt the magic course through her veins; swamped by this feeling she raised her right hand towards the snake. In her mind she directed the magic inside her and gathered it in her hand. She slowly pointed her index finger at the snake, and whispered in a deadly voice, "Leave. now." It seemed as if nothing had happened, but suddenly, the coils around Aladdin went slack as the boa constrictor seemed to writhe in pain. With an extra bolt of energy, Johara blasted the ground under the snake sending it slithering out the door as if it were being chased by hellhounds. Neither Johara nor Aladdin noticed the other set of red eyes retreating in the dark.

Aladdin staggered to his feet after regaining his breath. His hoarse breathing echoed through the room, "Thanks a lot Johara." Hearing no reply to his gratitude, he looked up. Johara was standing there with a glazed look on her eyes. "Johara?"

"Hmmm?" she said sleepily.

"Uh.are you okay?"

She nodded sleepily, "Mmmm, that's the first time I did that."

"Umm, you don't look too good---" his hesitant remark was interrupted by a scream. Johara's head jerked, her eyes opened wide, suddenly fully conscious and alert. "Oh no! Jasmine! Johara follow me!" Aladdin shouted. These words were said in vain, before the last word left his mouth, Johara had already ran past him and started down the stairs. He grinned despite his concern and leapt after her, racing her down.

*Let's go back to where we left off with Jasmine shall we? *

"No," Jasmine whispered, still recovering from the shock of seeing Jafar standing before her, but with growing fear and rage, she shouted, "What did you do to Aladdin?! "

"Oh, nothing in particular, I'm just having him. disposed of."

"Why you, you treacherous little, little," at a loss for words, Jasmine's frenzy took a hold of her and she launched herself at Jafar, her eyes emblazoned with hate. She braced herself for impact, but it never came. The next thing she knew, she was on the ground coughing on the dust that floated up on her impact. Huh, she thought, What happened? Jasmine pushed herself into a sitting position. Abu rubbed his eyes over and over again asking Iago, "Did you see that? Did you see that?"

Iago shouted back, "I saw it, I saw it already, and I don't believe it!"

Genie flew over to Jasmine to help her up as the carpet flew in for a landing. Spotting Jafar, it dashed behind the Genie as fast as it could fly. "Hey rugster, where's Aladdin?" Genie whispered. The carpet stretched one corner out towards the stairs behind them. Jasmine quickly asked, "Is Aladdin okay? What's going on? What's he doing right now----"

"Whoa whoa whoa, calm down Jasmine," Genie patted her back and whispered, "let's deal with this first," pointing at Jafar.

Jafar had a strange expression on his face, fear? Anger? Desire? Whatever it was it was gone the next moment, and his recomposed sneer was on his face again. He cleared his throat, "Ahem, as you can see I'm not truly fully here yet. Which is actually the reason why I'm here."

Jasmine was somewhat confused by this explanation, "I don't get it. How is it that you're here though; we melted you. I saw it."

Jafar smirked, "Your genie friend doesn't know much does he. Tell me Genie, what is the lamp for."

"Umm. our teensy weensy lil' living space?"

"WRONG! It's the thing that held us, our prison. Why else do you think that your lamp is now useless after that useless street rat freed you, " snarled Jafar heatedly, calming down, he further explained, "True, you destroyed my lamp which gave me wonderful powers, but at that time, you also destroyed my prison. I was free once more! If not for my second wish, I would not be here, I would've been a mere essence of a genie."

"Your second wish?" Iago asked.

"My wish to become the greatest sorcerer in the world. Now I am here to locate my key to becoming all powerful once again, and get my proper revenge."

Jasmine let out a scream as a black cobra slithered down the stairs. It ignored her scream and continued on to where Jafar stood, then raising its head up as far as it could its ruby eyes glared into Jafar's as if it were transferring some kind of message telepathically. Jafar shouted, "WHAT?! He's still alive?! That constrictor was supposed to KILL him!" The cobra hissed some more. "Eh? What's that? Oh really. the girl." a malicious smile crept onto Jafar's face.

Genie whispered to Jasmine, "I really don't like that look on his face."

The black cobra raised itself to its full height and transformed into Jafar's staff. Summoning it with some unseen power, the staff flew into Jafar's spindly hand. "That's better," he said, leaning on his staff, "now where were we----"

"Jafar!" A distraught Aladdin dived down the stairs.

"Aladdin!" Jasmine shouted, relieved by his appearance.

"Street rat!" Jafar glared in Aladdin's direction, "I don't like being interrupt." at that moment, Johara slowly crept down the stairs catching Jafar's attention, ".ed," he finished with an evil grin.

Johara peered cautiously around at the new faces. She noticed Aladdin holding a girl protectively. Hmm. a princess, a former peasant, a genie, a magic carpet, a monkey, and a talking parrot, she smiled inwardly, what a strange group. Johara looked around some more and spotted a tall dark man holding a staff shaped with the head of a cobra. She stared into his face. Sensing her gaze, Jafar stared into her eyes making her take a step backwards. She was startled by the hate she saw inside. She glanced back at Aladdin, his mouth was moving and he had an angry expression. Why can't I hear him? She could only hear a roaring in her ears. She put a hand to her head feeling dizzy all of a sudden. Her chest felt constricted as she found it harder to breathe. She whispered weakly "A- Alad---" but before she could finish, she collapsed on the stairs and blacked out.

Abu was the only one who noticed her falling. He walked over to her and brushed her bangs out of her eyes saying, "Hello. Hellooooo?" He lifted one of her hands with his monkey paws; it hung limply, and then Abu dropped her hand; she didn't stir. Worried, Abu shouted, "Aladdin Aladdin!"

Aladdin broke off shouting at Jafar and looked towards Abu. He was jumping up and down pointing at the figure next to him. "Johara!" Aladdin shouted. He ran over to the fallen girl as Genie, Jasmine, and the rest of them followed, curious to who she was. Aladdin felt her pulse and let out a breath of relief, "She's alive. Jasmine we have to help her. She saved my life."

Jafar was peering at the group from where he stood. Johara. he smiled wickedly. He recomposed himself with his classic sneer and addressed the group, "I will be going now, but I assure you, we will meet again." He twirled his cloak, and with a cloud of smoke, he was gone. As he vanished, Jafar thought, hmm. I have found my little jewel... Then he grinned to himself, my key. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~END~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Chapter three finished. ^^ Come on, give me opinions, ideas, anything.