I just wanna get this story over with -'' (this is like my longest chapter yet I think, if you're a bit confused, there's a few references here to chapter 8)

anyways, next up I've decided will be Full Metal Alchemist '' )

Thankyou everyone who has stayed with my story for however long it took me '' but I'm finished now. Hope u guys will check out my other stories when I get it up )

Chapter 11: Live…

Johara dropped her sword and it clattered on to the marble ground, disappearing into a white puff of smoke. Where the sword had dropped, the ebony floor rippled into silver like Johara's falling tears did. Aladdin watched as Johara trembled under the stress. Her hands gripped her head as if it was about to split apart, and her breaths came in harsh pants. She fell to her knees and where she hit the ground, more silver spread. Aladdin heard her mumble something, "What was that Johara?"

"Kill me," she whispered, covering her eyes with her hand, "Kill me before I kill all of you."

Aladdin staggered back. "J- Johara!"

"Do it… now… I can't… hold on much longer…" Johara wailed out as a sudden pain assailed her as if someone jabbed her head with a knife, and Johara felt herself slip even more from control over her powers.

Aladdin glanced around frantically. The Genie had conjured up a protection ward to protect them from Jafar's attacks. Jasmine was holding onto Iago and Abu who were badly injured from attacking Jafar. She looked up and locked eyes with Aladdin. Her eyes shone of the helplessness she was feeling and the desperation of their situation. Aladdin turned back towards Johara who had now keeled over on the floor trying to stop herself from losing control.

Jafar turned towards Johara now that he had dealt with the annoying fuzzballs and found her struggling against his spells. He saw Aladdin, with those wide eyes and ignorant face and felt his hatred boil up at the sight of him. "Streetrat," he spat, and Jafar then raised his staff to strengthen his spell on Johara.

Johara was struggling to stand up when the magic hit her. She gasped as the power hit her, the force threatening to swallow her alive. Fight Johara, fight she thought to herself, for Jasmine… everybody… Aladdin. She started choking as the powers conflicted within her and struggled for breath as if she were under huge pressure. Johara felt her mind start to cloud over as tears came to her eyes. She stopped struggling as she felt the cold grip of magic upon her thinking how weak she was… how she let everyone down. Johara began to succumb to the power when all of a sudden, she felt it, the envelopment of warmth.

Aladdin watched as Johara struggled with herself. He felt so helpless just standing there. He watched Johara stand up and stiffen in shock when Jafar raised his staff. His mind raced for ideas that could maybe somehow save them when he saw Johara's eyes. They were starting to lose their shine, the shine of Johara… he saw tears form at the corner of her eyes, and he realized she was losing the battle. Emotions filled him as he never thought could be filled, this feeling brimmed over…was it love? No… that was for Jasmine. Brotherly protection? No… it wasn't that. Maybe it was both, or none, or maybe more than could ever be explained. It felt like nothing he had felt before and it was coursing through him and filled his heart. Without thinking about any consequences, he reached out for Johara and pulled her into his arms. Aladdin felt her resistance and rigidness. He whispered with his face buried in her hair, "Johara, come back…come back to us." He felt her relax and slid in his grasp. Surprised, he released his grip a little and Johara slumped to the floor.

"Johara?" Aladdin whispered, "Johara, wake up. You're not dead, you can't be." He checked her breath with his hand. The air was still. No sound of breathing came from her. "Johara?" he started saying, shaking her shoulders. "Johara!"

Jasmine turned her head towards Aladdin when she heard him shout. She looked over to them and almost fell backwards, startling the Genie. She tripped and fell onto the now-crimson red velvet seat that was her father's throne. "No… it can't be." The injured Iago and Abu got up slowly to look at what was happening and gasped. The Genie and Carpet looked towards Aladdin and the fallen figure of Johara, Genie's jaw fell to the floor in shock, "Johara? No… she can't die."

Jafar looked surprised as his opponents ran towards Johara. He wasn't surprised that Johara might have died, but that he felt something torn away from him. Something felt missing. He left the group alone while he sorted through his mind trying to figure out that missing thing in him.

Aladdin slumped down to his knees cradling Johara's body. You can't be dead, you can't be dead, you can't be dead… Jasmine, Genie, and the rest of the gang made their way to his side. Iago and Abu now walked by themselves, not feeling the pain from their injuries. Carpet flew over Johara, brushing one of his tassels against her forehead as if trying to wake her up. Iago walked slowly up to Johara and brushed a feather against her face, tracing a tear streak that had ran down her cheek. He felt wordless and couldn't say anything but turned to Abu by his side for comfort. Genie stood behind Aladdin and Jasmine, not trusting himself to speak, not even to comfort anyone. Jasmine stared at Aladdin hunched over Johara and then stared at Johara uncomprehendingly, "She's not dead. She can't be. She can't die." Aladdin raised his head to look at Jasmine, his usually mischievous carefree eyes burdened by a grief so heavy, Jasmine felt a weight on her heart, but she refused to believe it, "Why is everyone so silent?" She laughed. Even the laugh sounded fake to her. "Johara's just tired. She must be after using so much magic. She's not dead." Aladdin bent down again, placing his forehead on Johara's, unable to listen to Jasmine for once in his life. Genie tried comforting Jasmine, thinking that so many deaths in one day must have broken Jasmine's mind somehow, "Jasmine, Johara… she's not just asleep, she's… she's gone." Jasmine tore herself way from Genie's hand and knelt beside Johara, and shouted "No!" even as her mind realized it must be true, "She's not dead…" Jasmine started silently crying. She slowly reached out her hand for Johara's hand and held it for comfort, "No."

Aladdin felt useless and drained. He couldn't do anything but silently cry as Jasmine rambled on. For once in his life, he tried to block her words out. It was too painful listening to her. He closed his eyes willing for Johara to come back. He felt Jasmine reach for Johara's hand and felt a jolt when they touched. Aladdin's eyes widened in surprise and he lifted his head. Suddenly Johara's body shuddered to life in his grasp.

Johara awoke the faces of everyone around her, Aladdin, Genie, Iago, Abu, Carpet… and Jasmine. She pushed herself up off the floor and embraced a shocked-looking Jasmine, "Thank you… you believed I wasn't dead…" she stepped back and smiled at everyone, "so… I'm back." Without knowing it, everyone let out their breath, sure that Johara had indeed came back to them and it wasn't a dream, and cheered, temporarily forgetting their problems now that Johara was there.

Jafar smiled grimly. He hadn't figured out was wrong with himself yet, but at least his magic source wasn't dead. He raised his staff towards Johara but to his surprise, she continued laughing with the group. As if she felt him, she turned towards him. He dropped his staff with a clatter and it transformed into a cobra and slithered off. Everyone else heard the sound, and turned to face Jafar also. She spoke clearly, "Jafar… you can't control me anymore. I have visited the land of the dead, and returned. There is nothing your magic can do to me any longer."

Jafar trembled slightly. His magic source was gone, and it was beginning to look like the end. He shook his head and looked at Johara again. She was breathing slowly and sweating. She was pale and skinny and battered. What could she do against the greatest sorcerer in the world? Nothing. "Dear girl, magic may not affect you. But it will affect them," gesturing his hands at the rest of the group. Johara stepped forward, "I will not let you. By rights of my ancestors, the beings of justice, I reclaim what is mine, and banish you and to never return." Everyone watched in amazement as she glowed her white magic and saw Jafar glow the same. Jafar began to panic as he saw particles of white glowing magic leave him and return to Johara, but he couldn't do anything. Already he felt his magic draining. Damn it, dammit all Johara. Streetrat. I will still get my revenge, (at the risk of being cliched ) even if it's the last thing I do. Summoning his last vestiges of strength he took his essence and escaped the mortal body entering the nearest friend he had left.

Everyone cheered when they saw Jafar's body crumple. Aladdin cheered with the rest until he thought he saw a flicker at the corner of his eye. He turned towards Johara and scrutinized more closely. Another flicker appeared in her magical aura. It was crimson-red. Aladdin blinked and looked again, but all seemed normal. Johara's aura started to fade, and when it did, she sat down on the floor, if you can call falling "sitting". "Phew, I'm tired," Johara sighed, and looked back at the group behind her that had already began celebrating. She smiled wistfully. Though she seemed fine, and everything was getting better, she felt within her, the magic that once overfilled her was almost gone.

Johara stood slowly and dusted herself off and turned towards Aladdin and Jasmine. Out of the corner of her eye she saw something slithering towards Aladdin. It was a snake, a cobra… the staff that Jafar had always carried. She felt Jafar's presence in there, and called out to Aladdin, "Watch Out!" Johara ran towards them, but she felt as if her legs had turned to lead and just couldn't get there fast enough. So useless, she watched as if in slow motion, as the cobra launched for the strike at Aladdin, and Jasmine pulling Aladdin down and shielded him. And the cobra sunk its fangs into Jasmine's arm. Johara wailed, "Nooooo!" The cobra's bites were deadly, one bite and you're a goner. By the time she made it over to where they stood, Aladdin had pulled the cobra off and crushed its skull in anger At least Jafar was really dead now and Jasmine was already fading in and out of consciousness.

Aladdin questioned, "Why? WHY did you have to do that? Why did you shield me! I don't want you to die!"

Jasmine smiled gently, and brought her hand to her lips and raised her hand to his cheek, "That's a silly question Aladdin," her hand slid to Aladdin's mouth, silencing his next question, "I love you… what else?" Her hand fell to the ground.

Johara sank to her knees, watching Jasmine die was too much to bear. Watching Aladdin suffer was too painful to watch. She closed her eyes, her hand clenching her shirt in concentration, feeling for her magic, and she knew what she had to do.

She stood up and slowly walked to Aladdin. Gently, she patted Aladdin on his shoulder and held Jasmine's hand to her forehead. Then said the simplest, yet powerful word… "Live."

Aladdin looked on as Johara began to glow… glowing brighter and brighter as she had never done before. The aura of her magic spread everywhere, brighter and brighter. The injuries they had all sustained were healed, even Iago's tail feathers were all present. The black and crimson palace rippled into its original blue and golden self. The city became calm and peaceful as it once was. Everyone gaped at the transformation. Soon, the circle glowing white left the walls and its radius diminished as it tightened more upon Johara and Jasmine. Smaller and smaller and brighter and brighter it went until it was solely concentrated on Jasmine, where her heart was. Before everyone's eyes, Johara had began to fade. Her essence entering everything she had repaired.

Aladdin recalled his dream, and without asking, he knew she was leaving them this time and for good. He had nothing better to say than, "Why Johara?"

She smiled a smile that showed her contentment of what was to come in the future for everyone in Agrabah, her yearning to live, her feelings of love for everyone, and replied, "For your happiness."

Aladdin looked down at Jasmine and saw that her skin was already becoming a healthy shade full of vigor and life. He realized he would have been missing a huge part of him if she had died and looked back at Johara, "What about you?"

Johara was near gone, only her head and shoulders and right arm and hand remained. The rest was scattered and she was still fading. "I've played my part in this world, like my family before me… I'm… happy… that I was able to die like this… among friends… "

Aladdin slowly reached out his hand toward her fading face, "Thank you… for everything. If only I could do something for you… anything…?"

Johara reached out her hand towards his and smiled, "Live," and a tear fell from her face. As they touched, the rest of her scattered into the wind and became part of them. Aladdin was left reaching out at empty space, with a teardrop on his hand.

In his arms, Jasmine stirred, "Aladdin?" All he could do was hold her, he didn't know what to say, so he just hugged her. Jasmine looked around at everything and it seemed as if it was as if nothing ever happened, "I thought I was dead…?" She glanced around at everyone there and noticed that Johara was missing, "Where's Johara?" she asked. But even as she asked and stared into Aladdin's eyes, somehow she knew Johara was gone. "No… Johara's dead?"

Aladdin replied, "No Jasmine. Like you said, she's not dead. She can't die. She's alive in everything and everyone. She's all around us, in Agrabah, in the palace, in us… just watching over us…"

When Aladdin spoke, it felt like a warm gust of wind came through and embraced them all, lifting their spirits and they knew Aladdin was right.

Johara was with them… and the pain of loss didn't hurt so much anymore; because Johara was with them. Because of Johara, they were alive, and because of her, they would continue to live… and in time if not for themselves…for Johara and the simple price she asked from them. Live…

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