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Chapter 7: Return by Blood
"You can't," Jasmine went on breathlessly.
Jafar extended his right hand while gathering up the bag with Johara in, ignoring Jasmine's shock, "Now, I'd like you to come with me back to the palace, Princess Jasmine." As much as it sounded like a request, it's menacing undertone made it clear that it wasn't.
Jasmine stared at the extended hand in shock. Slowly, she raised her hand with fascinated horror. She whispered questioningly, "But how..." as she started to notice something amiss with Jafar's hand. Her finger was but only an inch away from Jafar when he suddenly grabbed her wrist.
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Back at the palace, everything was quiet. Genie and Carpet were snoozing soundly. ('specially the Genie, he was snoring ^ ^") The sultan was dreaming about his statues of animals and how he stacked the highest pyramid of them. The three of them were sleeping quite well... but Aladdin on the other hand was not. He lay in bed tossing and turning. He felt a dark presence around him and suffocating him. Then it stopped, and Aladdin was standing in the ruins of the palace, and in its place was a dark place. A vision of Jasmine appeared before him and in the other direction, a vision of Johara. They seemed like mirror images… Aladdin's foggy gaze focused a bit more, and he saw that the two were splattered in crimson red. He walked a bit towards Johara and looked back… Jasmine was fading. Aladdin quickly ran over to Jasmine and held her in his arms. As she returned to her normal state, he saw that the blood disappeared, and he turned around to see Johara. Aladdin's eyes went wide in shock.
*****
Jasmine resisted a scream. Instead she asked wildly, "How? Why are you solid?"
"Dear, dear Jasmine, don't look so shocked," Jafar chided, then chuckled, "Well, you see… in this form, I live off fear, hatred, pain, and anger, and hahaha. I guess you can say, I just had my feast… back there, and the result is," he waved his hand over his body with a flourish, "this."
Jasmine gritted her teeth in response, "You make me sick, " and turned away.
Jafar released her hand for the moment to bow down, "I take that as a compliment," he paused, as if testing Jasmine's reaction to his words, but hearing nothing, he continued, "but enough chit chat, time to be serious now." Jafar deftly grabbed his staff and whispered, "Jasmine, turn around."
Jasmine defiantly looked back at Jafar, only to face two swirling eyes of red and gold. Over the swirling of her mind, Jasmine heard the spellbinding voice of Jafar whispering, "Come with me to the palace, together, we will rule over Agrabah. We will kill the young girl who's taking over Aladdin's feelings. Then we will kill Aladdin…"
Jasmine repeated after him dazedly, "We… will… kill…?" Shaking free of the hypnosis for a moment, she snarled, "NEVER!! You WON'T twist my feelings. I'd never kill them."
"We WILL kill Aladdin and Johara! We WILL rule Agrabah!" Jafar growled menacingly and pressed in closer with his staff, then more gently but with a sneaky undertone, "But for now… go to sleep."
Jasmine was starting to succumb to the voice that cut through the roaring dizziness. Her consciousness was starting to fade, No… must not… give… in… … … Aladdin… Then she blacked out.
Jafar caught her agilely as she fell with a smirk. He quickly conjured a spell to keep her floating in the air while he held the sack containing Johara and his staff. Then he lifted his cloak and draped it over the vulnerable form of Jasmine and without a sound, they all disappeared with a poof of smoke. Jafar had spirited them away without even one speck of evidence that they were there. On the horizon, the sun had just dawned and the first beam of sunlight shone down just as the last of the smoke cleared away.
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Aladdin lost his breath as if someone had punched him straight in the stomach. Johara was disappearing… but that wasn't all… it was as if she was being tortured, her anguished face disappeared in a sea of red. Dragging Jasmine along behind him, Aladdin ran over to the place where Johara vanished. She was nowhere to be seen, but then, Aladdin looked down and jumped back a pace. There she was frozen, underneath the ground… but she was smiling… a peaceful, happy smile. Puzzled, Aladdin touched the surface of the ground, and it trembled. His hand shrunk back timidly, thought the ground shook even more, cracking through the ground came a golden dome. And it grew, and it grew even more… until it became the palace once more. Then, the scene faded into a vision of Jafar, laughing madly, his eyes at the peak of his craziness… Aladdin swirled in the vision of hate, trying to get out, but there was some force dragging him back. It dragged him deep into darkness; all his eyes could see was darkness, all he could hear was the emptiness of darkness, all he could feel was the loneliness of darkness… suffocating him. Can't… breathe… Out of nowhere, he heard someone call his name. Jasmine?
Aladdin woke up with a start, drenched in cold sweat. He was breathing heavily. There he was, sitting in bed panting, when the first ray of sunlight shone through the arches of the room. Aladdin thought distractedly, It's dawn already… then his face changed. It may have been the trick of the shadows from the dawning light, but it seemed as if his face had grown hard and determined to cover his uneasy fear and confusion… he thought one last thought before he leaped out of bed and sprung into action, Jasmine…
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Johara blinked groggily. Where am I? It was dark as night and she couldn't see anything. Ugh… so tired. Her whole body was sore as if she had been tossed and battered. She started to stretch but was checked by something restraining her. Confused by this sudden halt, Johara tried to lift her arm again. Again her arm was stopped. Her back was pinned to a cold stone wall and she felt belts of cold iron around her legs and wrists and arms. She stopped to think a while. What's happening? Let's see… the last thing that I remember… A lightbulb went off in her head, I was fighting! Then… then what? I… I… got caught! Johara's head was pounding from a headache and she felt bruised everywhere.
"Awake yet my dear?"
Johara's head snapped up in surprise. Her eyes locked with Jafar's eyes five inches away. She snarled, "Jafar!" but it actually came out as a, "Japhrm!" muffled by the gag over her mouth.
Jafar smiled, "Good morning Johara. Very good, Jasmine just woke up too."
"Jasphmrin?"
"Yes, she's here too, and I bet she'd be delighted to see you." At this point Jafar snapped and a wall on the side vanished, letting light pour in.
Johara's eyes widened when she saw Jasmine inside the large hourglass but fortunately no sand was sliding through yet. Suddenly Johara felt a surge of anger flow through her and she attempted to summon her magic to break free of the chains. She started glowing white and the chains started rattling. Jafar smiled knowingly.
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Jasmine woke up groggily only to find herself inside a large hourglass. Suddenly on her right side a wall vanished and she saw Johara bound in chains. Jasmine's eyes met with Johara's both more surprised than anything. Then suddenly Jasmine noticed that Johara was starting to glow. She's starting her magic! Jasmine smiled; relieved that they would get out with no trouble at all… until she saw the chains surrounding Johara start glowing white and then dim. Jafar was smiling with evil glee dancing through his eyes. Then Jasmine realized with a dropping stomach, the chains are absorbing Johara's magic.
*****
Aladdin jumped into Genie and carpet's room where they were sleeping and shook them awake urgently, "Genie, Carpet, wake up!"
"Oi, I almost had a heart attack! Don't you know how to knock?" Genie yawned, "It's only dawn, lemme go back to sleep."
"Genie, it's URGENT! I have a feeling something happened to Jasmine and Johara, not to mention Iago and Abu, they didn't come home last night."
Carpet flew up and tickled Genie awake and waved the corner of his carpet as if saying, "Come on!"
Aladdin smiled relieved, "Thanks carpet, Genie let's go!"
"Yes SIR!" Genie saluted with an army uniform and the three of them flew out the window together in the direction of Johara's dwelling.
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Johara gasped, "Wha? What happened to my magic?!"
Jafar grinned, "Those are magic proof chains my dear, and nothing you can do will break them without this key." He held up a little bronze key, which he promptly threw out of the window and into the prisons below.
Johara growled menacingly, "That's what YOU think…"
"Hahaha," Jafar cackled, "Why yes I do… and hold still for a moment, I need something of yours." Jafar walked over to a wooden table and grabbed a bowl and a knife, then returned to Johara.
Johara's eyes widened at the sight of the keen blade, "What are you doing?"
"Oh nothing much, I just need a little blood," Jafar reached out his hand, "Give me your hand will you?" Johara struggled against the chains. "It's futile Johara," Jafar sneered, and grabbed her wrist, then bringing the knife up high, he slashed down at her palm.
"Aaaaaaauuuuuugggghhhhhh!!!!!!!" Johara shouted in pain as the blood dripped out of the gash on her palm. Jafar smiled calmly and placed the bowl under the dripping wound collecting the blood drip by drip.
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Jasmine looked in horror as she saw Johara holding in the shouts of pain. She felt absolutely helpless in the unbreakable hourglass and she couldn't do ANYTHING. She sighed, bowing her head down in disappointment, where's Aladdin? She looked up at the sound of footsteps and saw Jafar swirling a half-full glass of red liquid. Jasmine's stomach lurched, Johara's blood.
"So Jasmine, enjoying your stay?" Jafar sneered. Jasmine kicked the hourglass in response, not that it helped much. All it did was hurt her toe. Jafar smiled, "Once I drink this, I will be more powerful than I ever was before Jasmine… and I will rule Agrabah."
Jafar lifted the cup to his mouth as Jasmine pressed against the hourglass screaming, "Noooo!"
But it was too late… Jafar had drunk the blood. He threw the cup aside, which clanged against the wall and wiped his mouth on the back of his hand.
"Agrabah, Jafar is back."
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The plot . . . is thickening even more . . . and by the way . . .
Toysrusgirl: I know… bloody scenes… I can't help it -_-, as u said, it's to show Jafarness
Bearmoon: ^_^ I'm procrastinatin on homework as u're reading this already
Stay tuned for more! The finale should be coming soon . . . in iunno, about 4 or 5 or 6 more chapters?