"All right."said Aida, as she began to boil the potion.
She read the instructions carefully, and finally, took the mirror, attached a string to it, and dipped it in the potion.
"And that's it!"she said, looking at her watch. "It said only a few minutes."
"Kid, you should know that some of these are Jafar's own inventions."said Iago.
"Yes."Aida answered absentmindedly. "Now, I can finally see my mother again."
She looked into the mirror, and said her mother's name, hoping to see her face. But it wasn't her mother who stared at her out of the mirror. It was Jafar.
"Wait a minute, this isn't right!"she said. "My mother. The book said you would see the person you wanted!"
"Uh-oh."said Iago. "It's Jafar!"
"How…?"
"You foolish girl! You think your sister and her beloved street rat defeated me, did you?"
"Uh…"Aida didn't know what to say.
She wanted to throw the mirror, but she couldn't move.
"Oh, no,"she though. "I don't wan to be petrified! They won't know how to cure me."
She heard a voice in the back of her mind. Kill the street rat…kill the street rat…kill the street rat. Aida wasn't able to stop herself. She thought where Aladdin was now, if there was any time in which he was alone, where, and how she would be able to exterminate him. That was the only thing on her mind.
"Yes, I must kill the street rat."she said aloud.
"NO!"exclaimed Iago. "I've got to warn Al!"
Before Aida, or rather Jafar, noticed he was there, he flew out of the window.
"Al! Al! It's Jafar!"he said.
"Now what are you up to, Iago?"said Aladdin angrily.
"I'm serious. I'm not up to anything! It's Aida. She's being controlled by Jafar!"
"Jafar is dead, Iago."said Jasmine, calmy, looking at him with a worried expression on her face.
"He is dead, but don't you see, it was all in the book. Those were Jafar's own inventions. And she saw Jafar in her mirror, and now he wants her to kill Al!"
"What are you talking about?"demanded Aladdin.
"She's going to try to kill you, Al."explained Iago. "She's under Jafar's control! She doesn't realize it. See, he's controlling her through that mirror, you've got to be careful."
"Explain what you mean, Iago."said Jasmine.
Iago explained everything.
"So, then, instead of seeing the person you want, you would get Jafar?"asked Jasmine when he was finished.
"Well, I think he invented that in case he wanted to finish something before he died. See, it was like a way to make himself immortal, I think. He would be possessing someone else, or something."
"Is there any way to free Aida?"asked Francisco.
"I don't know."
"You don't suppose she would have Jafar's powers?"asked Jasmine, her voice quivering.
"Well, this was before the genie thing, so I don't think so. Hopefully."Iago gulped.
"We've got to save my sister!"exclaimed Jasmine.
"But how?"
"I don't know."
"You don't suppose that the answer might be in another of those books?"
"I don't think so. We're going to have to find it ourselves."
It turned out that, thankfully, Iago had been right in the fact that Aida didn't have Jafar's powers while he had been a genie, however, she did have all his malice. She didn't seem like Aida at all. She seemed to have only one thing on her mind. Eliminate Aladdin.
"We just have to save her!"Jamine cried.
"Perhaps we could just, I don't know, tie her up, lock her up, or something. That way, Al wouldn't be in such danger."suggested Iago.
"No. Isn't there someway to free her?"
"There must be something. That's what I always noticed about Jafar. There was always something that he guarded, or that was the key to the whole affair."said Iago, walking back and forth. "When it was with the Sultan, it was the staff, destroy the staff, free the Sultan, when it was with the genie deal, it was the lamp, destroy the lamp, destroy Jafar. Now we just have to figure out what's controlling the girl."
Everyone thought long and hard.
"Something she keeps close to her, that she didn't keep with her, she didn't guard so closely before?"
"I can't seem to think of anything."said Francisco.
"The mirror!"said Iago triumphantly. "She was using the mirror!"
"Oh, but that's nothing new. Aida has always had her mirror with her."
"Now that I think about it. She won't let go of her mirror."said Francisco. "She carried it everywhere with her. I once saw her talking into it, but I thought she was talking to herself."
"That's it, kid. We've got to get the mirror."
That was easier said than done. It seemed that taking the mirror from Aida, without her knowing would be just the same as taking the lamp from Jafar. There was no way they could think of to separate Aida from the mirror.
"Kid, you know her habits, maybe there's something that'll help us. You know what she's like."he said to Francisco.
"Well, she's like clockwork, you know. She does just about everything at a certain time, in a certain routine, in a certain way. Like her watch is the first thing she puts on, then her wedding ring, then whatever rings she'll be wearing that day, then if she'll be wearing a necklace, and finally, her earrings, which are always last. But I don't think there's anything that will help."
"Well then, we'll just have to take it by force then, won't we?"
"No, a rock!"exclaimed Francisco. "Or a ball, or a stick, or anything! Aida's terrified of anything flying towards her!"
"That's true."said Jasmine. "Anytime she saw someone throwing something and she saw that it was flying towards her, she always ducked, or covered her face, or ran."
Genie immediately turned into a baseball player.
"Let's play ball, then!"he said.
Everyone went outside to watch Genie throw a baseball, hit it, start running, while another Genie tried to catch it. Aida sat, watching the game, thinking that today was finally going to be the day that she would once and for all exterminate the street rat. How foolish of them not to realize it! Everyone else was calm. During the fifth inning, Genie hit the ball too hard, and it flew towards Aida.
"Foul ball!"exclaimed Genie as he raced towards it.
Aida shrieked, and covered her face, bracing herself, knowing that the ball was aiming right at her. Francisco reached into Aida's pocket, and pulled the out the elegant silver rimmed mirror. Aida was too terrified to notice. She just hoped that the ball would hit him instead of her. The ball missed Aida, however, it crashed right into the center of the mirror, and it broke into a hundred tiny pieces.
"What…? What's happening?"she asked, looking confused.
"Aida, are you all right?"asked Jasmine.
"Of course I'm all right. Why wouldn't I be?"
Jasmine smiled.
Later, everyone explained what had happened.
"I should have known!"said Aida bitterly.
"Well, Jafar was pretty manipulative."Iago told her. "Besides, most of those spells, like I said, were his own creation. Purely Dark magic."
Aida sighed.
"Well, at least I learned not to mess with anything in there. Perhaps you were right, Aladdin. We should just burn everything there."
They destroyed the whole place. Until there was absolutely nothing left of Jafar and all his malice. Iago, especially was glad that they did. Now there would be nothing left to remind him of the dreadful ordeals he had gone through, while under Jafar's power. Besides, he was starting to like to the kids. Yeah, he got along much better with these brats. They may be annoying sometimes, but…they were all right.