Chapter 8
Agrabah
"Well, how are things going?" Maleficent asked as she walked through the city of Agrabah with Jafar, the royal vizier and one of the men from the dark room. He wore red and black robes with a long staff that had a snake's head on top.
"We have yet to find the keyhole and the princess has gone into hiding. No doubt with help from the street rat. But we have the Heartless searching all over the desert for the princess and the Keyhole," Jafar said.
"Good. The Keyhole is important but not as important as the princess," Maleficent grinned at the thought of success.
"Why is that, anyway?"
"We need all seven Princesses of Heart to open the final door and unleash true darkness upon all of the worlds," the two laughed as a parrot flew up to them and perched himself on Jafar's shoulder.
"Well Iago?" Jafar asked.
"We still can't find that princess!" Iago screamed.
"Be patient," Jafar smiled. "Agrabah and all of the other worlds will be ours soon enough."
Sora, Donald, and Goofy were currently locked in combat at the city gates of Agrabah. As soon as they had landed the Heartless struck. There were Shadows and a new Heartless. It wore a turban over its face, a purple outfit, and had a short sword in its hand. They were called Bandits.
Sora swung the Jungle King and blocked a strike from a Bandit. The Heartless quickly drew its sword back and sliced again. Sora jumped backwards and swung the Keyblade when the Bandit was open, killing it
All of the Shadows surrounded Goofy and started to close in. Goofy tried to think of an attack to use.
"Tornado!" Goofy held his shield horizontally and used his magic energy to spin himself really quickly, easily defeating the Shadows.
Two Bandits advanced on Donald and Donald used Fire on them. The two Bandits blocked the fire and advanced on Donald with blades pointed ahead of them. Donald quickly spun out of the way and bashed one of them on the back of the head as hard as he could and it was killed. The other Bandit grabbed the ground and flipped back onto his feet. Donald ran forward and blocked a strike from the Bandit's sword then blasted it with a Blizzard spell.
"It's really empty here," Sora said as he allowed the Keyblade to disappear. Goofy looked around and nodded.
"They were probably run off by the Heartless," Donald suggested. Goofy looked around once more and caught a cloaked figure run into the next part of the city.
"Over there!" Goofy yelled and they took off after the figure. Sora ran ahead of them and saw the figure run through a doorway into another area of the city but luckily for Sora there was no where to run in that area since it had high walls all around it.
"Stop!" Sora yelled and he pushed himself forward and grabbed the figure by the waist and pulled the figure to the ground.
"All right!" Donald yelled as he caught up. "Who are you?" Donald grabbed the hood of the cloak and pulled it back to reveal…a woman. Her skin was tanned from life in the desert and she wore blue, silk clothes. She had long black hair with brown eyes and expensive jewelry on her ears and around her neck.
"Oh! Sorry!" Sora said as he helped her up.
"It's okay," she said but eyed them suspiciously.
"My name's Sora and this is Donald and Goofy."
"My name is Jasmine."
"Ah! Jasmine!" a voice rang out above them. Standing on one of the walls was Jafar with two Bandits next to him. "I've been looking all over for you my dear princess. I've been so worried."
"Stay away from me Jafar!" Jasmine yelled. "And what have you done with Aladdin?"
"The street rat? He's taken a small trip to the Cave of Wonders. I'd expect him back in about ten thousand years or so."
"No," Jasmine's eyes went wide.
"Who do you think you are?" Donald shouted as the three of them stood in front of Jasmine and pulled out their weapons.
"You!" Jafar yelled as he saw the Keyblade. "Heartless! Attack!" Jafar pointed at them with his staff and the two Bandits came at them.
"Two Bandits? That's it?" Sora laughed. Soon more and more Bandits appeared as well as Shadows. There was also a couple of a new type of Heartless. It looked like a Large Body but had the clothes of a Bandit. "A Fat Bandit!"
"Don't let them get Jasmine!" Donald yelled as they attacked the Heartless. Sora was able to cut through some of them but they started to pile on him.
"Help me!" Jasmine's voice came through the many Heartless.
"Jasmine!" Sora shouted as he tried to reach her but it was impossible. Goofy and Donald were having the same troubles but managed to take down a few Heartless. Sora jumped into a window frame and then to the top of the wall to see Jafar was gone.
"Sora!" Donald yelled. "Over there!" Donald pointed to where Jasmine was. Two Fat Bandits were carrying her off.
"I don't think so!" Sora yelled and ran toward the edge of the wall. He jumped as far as he could and on the way down slammed the Keyblade into the back of one of the Fat Bandits. The other dropped Jasmine and turned toward Sora.
"Charge!" Goofy suddenly appeared from nowhere and knocked the Fat Bandit to the ground. The Fat Bandit got up and leaned back as far as it could go. When it came back a stream of fire came from its mouth. Goofy jumped in front of Sora and held his shield in front of him but the fire was to strong and knocked them both back into a wall. Their heads crashed together and they were both knocked out.
"No!" Jasmine cried as she saw this. She was once again picked up by two Fat Bandits and was taken away.
"Blizzard!" Donald tried to fight his way through to Sora and Goofy since the Heartless were now jumping on top of them to grab their hearts. He summoned all of the magic energy he had and focused it into one attack.
"Thunder!" Donald yelled at the top of his lungs and a gigantic blot of lightning rained from the sky and slammed into the Heartless, destroying them instantly. Donald was now to tired to go on and dropped to the ground. Unconscious.
Sora wasn't sure how long he had been knocked out on the streets of Agrabah but it was now night when it had been day. He stood but a sharp pain ran through his back. He felt his back and felt a long cut there. Heartless.
"Sora?" Goofy asked as he started to stir himself up. Sora walked over and tried to help Goofy up but didn't have enough strength to do so. Sora cast Cure on himself, Goofy, and the still unconscious Donald. Donald stirred when the green light washed over him and they all were able to stand at least.
"We need to find a place to rest," Sora said as he shook some feeling back into his limbs. Goofy pointed toward a set of stairs that led into a building. They climbed them and came into a room that had a bunch of junk all over the floor and a makeshift bed was placed in the corner.
"I can't believe I'm still tired," Donald said as he found a comfortable spot and lay down to fall asleep. Goofy and Sora did the same.
The next morning Sora awoke to something brushing his face. He waved his hand in front of him to stop whatever it was and opened his eyes to see one of the strangest things he had ever seen. A carpet.
"What the heck?" Sora asked as he stood up and saw that the carpet also stood. It was like the carpet was magic.
"Hey Sora, what are you doing?" Goofy asked as he stood up. Donald also woke and both of them stopped when they saw the carpet. It seemed to want something as it waved its tassels and pointed them toward the desert.
"You want us to go out there?" Donald asked. The carpet nodded and flattened itself so they could get on.
"Why not?" Sora shrugged as he thought of all the weird things they had encountered already. They got on the carpet and it flew toward the desert.
"What exactly are we looking for?" Donald asked as they scanned the desert. It had been sand as far as the eye could see for the past half hour.
"There!" Sora shouted and pointed to a young man fighting a bunch of Bandits. The young man wore tattered clothing and had dark hair and he fought with a deadly looking scimitar.
Sora, Donald, and Goofy hopped off of the carpet and ran toward him. As soon as they got close enough all of the Bandits spun around and stared at Sora. Goofy was the first to reach them and he slammed a few of them away with his shield. Sora reached them next and cut one of them down before turning to the young man.
"Hi, name's Sora."
"My name is Aladdin," he said though he stood his distance, not sure if he could trust the newcomers.
"Gravity!" Donald shouted as one of the Bandits jumped into the air and it was crushed into the sand. Aladdin sliced through one with his scimitar and turned to attack another but his strike was blocked. The Bandit pushed back Aladdin's blade and swung at his leg. Aladdin flipped backwards and caught the Bandit on his scimitar as he did so.
Sora quickly went to work on two more Bandits but there were to many. It seemed that every time a Bandit was killed another took its place. Aladdin was knocked back and several Bandits came after him. Aladdin quickly pulled a small gold lamp from his belt and held it up.
"Genie! Get rid of these guys!" he yelled and swirling blue smoke came from the tip of the lamp. The blue genie fully formed and with a snap of his fingers, the Bandits were all gone.
"That's wish one Al!" Genie smiled.
"I know," Aladdin said as he plopped into the sand after the fight.
"Wish?" Goofy asked as they came over and sat next to him.
"That's right!" Genie shouted. "I am the genie of the lamp and who ever rubs that lamp gets three wishes! Only three though and then I make like a banana and split! I am sealed inside that lamp forever unless someone wishes for my freedom. So what is your next wish Al?"
"You'll have to give me time to think about it," Aladdin said. "There's this girl I would like to impress though. Her name is Jasmine and…"
"Jasmine!" Sora jumped up as he remembered the princess. "She's in trouble Aladdin! Jafar has her!"
"What are we waiting for then?" Aladdin jumped on to the magic carpet and Sora and the others followed as they raced back to Agrabah.
"Here we are princess," Jafar said as he walked up to the gates of the palace. Maleficent appeared before them to take Jasmine.
"No!" Sora shouted as he ran up to them with the others shortly behind him. He then spotted the witch that stood before Jafar. "Wait! Are you, Maleficent?"
"Take care of them," Maleficent sneered and disappeared again and with no princess for her prize.
"Genie," Aladdin whispered as he rubbed the lamp. "Get Jasmine."
"Got it Al," Genie appeared behind Jafar with Jasmine in his arms. "Two wishes down and one to go. You're making this really easy."
"I don't think so street rat," Jafar laughed as Aladdin felt the lamp leave his hands. He looked up to see Iago laughing and taking the lamp to Jafar. When the lamp fell into Jafar's hands Genie had to disappear.
"Sorry Al," Genie said as he dropped Jasmine into a large pot. A lot of other pots in the area suddenly sprang to life as legs sprout from the sides.
"Heartless," Sora said. "They're called Pot Spiders."
"So sorry but I must be going," Jafar laughed and he, Iago, and the pot with the princess disappeared.
"Get 'em!" Donald yelled as he ran at the Pot Spiders. Two of the pots burst away to reveal a head and tail of a centipede. The Pot Spiders joined together with the head and tail to create the Pot Centipede.
Sora slashed at the head but it had a hard exterior and the Keyblade could not penetrate it. Aladdin ran forward and smashed on of the Pot Spiders but another took its place. Goofy ran for the tail but it had two whip-like tentacles coming from it and he was whipped away from it.
"We really don't have time for this!" Aladdin yelled as he tried to kill more of the Pot Spiders to no avail.
"Leave it to me!" Sora yelled and gathered up his magic. "Sonic Blade!" He yelled and ran past the Pot Centipede at the speed of sound. He destroyed the head, tail, and anything in between on his way past.
"Back to the desert! They'll head for the Cave of Wonders!" Aladdin yelled and they hopped back on the carpet.
"Genie!" Jafar yelled from deep within the Cave of Wonders in a treasure chamber. "My first wish! Reveal to me the Keyhole!" Genie stared at Jafar and reluctantly snapped his fingers so that a portion of the wall exploded to reveal the Keyhole.
"Now!" Sora yelled as they ran into the Cave of Wonders after barely getting past the tiger head guardian. A couple of Heartless got in their way but it was nothing to bad. A Fat Bandit appeared before them but Aladdin flipped over and stabbed it in the back the same time Sora stabbed its stomach.
"This way!" Aladdin got them to follow him as the closed in on Jafar. They could see the gold ahead and they ran past it into the treasure chamber.
"You again?" Jafar asked. "You are very persistent. Genie! My second wish, destroy them!"
"Well actually, I can't kill people. It's a rule," Genie said with a smile.
"Then hurt them real bad! Just get them out of my hair!"
"Yes, master," Genie said as he turned toward Donald and Goofy. "I am really sorry about having to hurt you guys."
"Don't be," Donald said. "We won't let you." Donald pulled out his staff and Goofy readied his shield. Sora and Aladdin stood off against Jafar and Donald and Goofy stood off against Genie.
Jafar sealed the Keyhole behind a magical barrier and turned back to Sora and Aladdin. Sora ran toward Jafar but Jafar fired a stream of heat from his staff and it blew Sora back into the cave wall. Aladdin came up behind Jafar but the evil vizier quickly turned and fired a blast of cold. To the desert dwelling Aladdin this was too much cold and he was sent back.
Genie shot off a magical blast at Goofy but it was blocked by Goofy's shield. Donald came up behind him and blasted him with a Fire spell. Genie wasn't affected too much and he turned to fire another attack.
"Aero!" Sora yelled as he encased himself in the wind shield. The heat beam from Jafar was about to hit but Aero blew it away and gave Sora an opening. Jafar was sliced on the arm as he tried to dodge Sora's attack. He growled at Sora and had to quickly react and block a strike from Aladdin with his staff.
Donald jumped over Genie's attack and blasted him right in the face with a Fire spell. Goofy came back and slammed his shield into Genie's gut. Genie went to hit Goofy but he ducked and caught Genie in the stomach with the edge of his shield. Donald quickly took advantage of Genie's sudden distraction and hit him with Blizzard.
Sora brought his Jungle King up at Jafar but Jafar jumped back and knocked Sora in the head with his staff. Jafar noticed Aladdin coming up to him with sword drawn and just as Aladdin was about to hit Jafar turned himself into a ball of energy. The sword went straight through the energy and Aladdin fell to the ground.
Genie charged up a large amount of energy until he had an attack as big as himself. He fired the energy and it split in two. One hit Donald and the Wizard was sent flying and into the wall. Goofy brought his shield up but the magical energy hit hard. Goofy was thrown back but the shield had taken most of the hit. Goofy got up to see Genie charging another blast.
"You should have stayed down," Genie said as he prepared to fire.
Sora and Aladdin followed the ball of energy all around the room and as they got near it a powerful blast of magic sent them flying backwards. Sora slowly got back to his feet and so did Aladdin.
"You fools can't win!" Jafar yelled as he reformed again. Jafar fired a blast of cold again and Sora was able to move away but Aladdin was struck again. Aladdin hit the ground and shivered.
"Aladdin!" Sora ran over to him. "What's wrong?"
"I lived in the desert my whole life," he chattered. "I never felt this cold before."
"That's right. You haven't," Sora said with a smile. "Neither has Jafar."
Goofy ran toward Genie and leaped over the attack Genie sent out. He powered up the best attack he could muster.
"Tornado!" Goofy yelled and he spun around many times with his shield held out. It smacked Genie in the head again and again and Genie finally fell to the ground. As Goofy dropped his shield and fell to the ground in victory. Genie got back up again with an even bigger attack then before.
Sora charged as much magical power as he could inside the tip of the Keyblade until there was so much the wind started to pick up inside the small room. The Jungle King let off a bright blue shine as it radiated with power. Sora pushed himself to make his attack stronger. Then, Sora felt his attack go to the next level.
"What is going on?" Jafar yelled as he noticed the wind pick up around him a little. As strong as his magic was he couldn't generate wind like this.
"Take this, Jafar!" Sora yelled and leveled the Jungle King at Jafar. "This is it! Blizarra!" Sora fired the updated Blizzard spell and watched as the giant blast of cold energy enveloped Jafar and tossed him into the wall and then into a crumbled heap on the floor. He was defeated.
Genie stopped right before he fired the magic at Goofy. Jafar's control over him was slipping away.
"Aladdin!" the voice of Jasmine rang out. Aladdin turned to see Jasmine behind the barrier that Jafar put up. In a flash of light the barrier disappeared and Aladdin ran up to her and the two embraced.
"No!" Jafar suddenly yelled as he stood up much to the shock of everyone. "I am the most powerful one here! Genie! My third wish! Make me an all-powerful Genie! Make me unstoppable!"
Genie frowned as he remembered Jafar had one wish left. He closed his eyes and pointed his finger at Jafar.
"Genie! No!" Aladdin yelled but it was to late and the magic beam hit Jafar. Jafar started to transform. His power grew and a hole was blasted into the floor. Jafar laughed as he went through the hole and into a lava filled chamber below.
"Jasmine! Stay here!" Aladdin said as he ran toward the hole in the floor. Sora had just cured Donald and Goofy.
"No Aladdin!" she grabbed his arm. "It's way to dangerous!"
"Do you trust me?" Aladdin asked.
"Yes," she nodded.
"Then trust that I'll be back!" Aladdin broke away from her and dived into the hole in the floor. Sora, Donald, and Goofy followed. Jasmine went to watch what was going to happen and didn't notice the portal of darkness behind her.
It was too hot for Sora to describe. There were a bunch of platforms in the giant lava filled chamber and no sign of Jafar. The lava burst around them as a giant form filled the room. It was Jafar.
"You fools! I will soon rule all!" he shouted. He had turned into a large red Genie easily ten times the size of Genie himself.
"Oh yeah!" Genie yelled. He flew toward Jafar and fired a gigantic blast of magical energy. It hit Jafar but had very little effect on him. Jafar laughed and backhanded Genie and he was thrown into one of the walls and was knocked out.
"No! Genie!" Aladdin yelled. He had no time to see if Genie was okay because a large beam of red magic struck the ground near him. Aladdin rolled out of the way but the power of the beam blew him backwards. There was no way they could fight Jafar now.
"Watch out Aladdin!" Jasmine yelled from above. She brought her head up and saw their only chance. Jafar was now a Genie. He had a lamp and it was resting on the other side of the hole. Jasmine dove for it but someone else grabbed it.
"I'll take that!" Iago laughed as he flew down into the hole to watch the battle from high above. Jasmine suddenly felt two strong arms grab her and a hand clamp over her mouth tightly.
"And I'll take you," a voice said. The person took her to the portal of darkness he had created and tossed her in, sending her to Maleficent. Riku took one last look into the hole and smiled before walking into the portal himself.
Sora dodged a large ball of lava that Jafar had thrown at him. He landed on his back and almost was thrown off of the platform. Sora lay there for a second and noticed Iago flying around the top of the room. He had a plan.
"Donald! I need you to hold off Jafar!" Sora yelled.
"You need me to what?" Donald yelled.
"Trust me!" Sora told him. "Goofy. Come over here!" Goofy nodded and ran over toward Sora.
"What's up Sora?" He asked.
"Goofy I need you to do that Rocket attack," Sora said.
Donald watched as Jafar was set to fire another huge beam of magic. Donald figured if Sora could pull off level two magic then he could too. Jafar fired the beam and Donald prepared his attack. He powered it up in his staff and it started to glow bright red as the power stared to form.
"My turn!" Donald yelled. "Fira!" Donald shot off the second level Fire spell and watched as it met Jafar's beam halfway. Donald braced himself as he tried to push his attack through Jafar's. Jafar was doing the same.
"Hang on!" Aladdin shouted as he noticed Donald starting to slip. He ran over and held Donald by the shoulders. He pushed to keep Donald in place so he could continue his battle of magic with Jafar.
"Rocket!" Goofy yelled and his magic propelled him into the air. Except now Sora held on to the front of his shield and he was pushed forward. As they were pushed into the air Sora rearranged it so the he was under Goofy. When he felt they were starting to fall he made it so Goofy was standing on his back.
"Now!" Sora told him.
"Rocket!" Goofy yelled again and from his point on Sora he was launched even further into the air. He reached Iago in the air and knocked the parrot into the wall. On his way down Goofy grabbed the falling lamp.
"You waste your time!" Jafar continued to push his beam against Donald's spell. They still met halfway and neither moved an inch.
"Okay Jafar!" Sora ran up to them. "You want to be a Genie? There are a few rules. One! You must be in a lamp!" Sora held up the lamp and Jafar gasped in shock. Gold braces appeared on his wrists as he was pulled into the lamp. Sora tried his hardest to stand his ground as Jafar was being pulled in a giant wind was blowing around the room.
"It's over," Aladdin smiled as Jafar was completely pulled into the lamp. Genie slowly shook his head as he floated back up. From the hole above the magic carpet came down to them. Sora and Aladdin jumped on the carpet and Genie carried Donald and Goofy up to the small room where the Keyhole was. Before they were out Sora noticed a piece of paper on the ground. The top of it read, "Ansem's Report 1." It was a piece of Ansem's Report! He would have to read it later.
"Jasmine?" Aladdin looked around only to find she was not there. Sora wanted to look for Jasmine but had more pressing matters at the time. He held the Jungle King up to the Keyhole and heard it click. As he did this sand poured out and covered it up.
"Well, that part's over," Goofy smiled. Suddenly the room started to shake. From the giant pile of sand that covered the Keyhole a stream of lava burst out. Sora jumped on the carpet and Genie went as fast as he could with Donald and Goofy.
"Aladdin, let's go!" Sora yelled.
"I can't find Jasmine!" he yelled back.
"We'll do that at some other time!" Sora grabbed Aladdin as they flew by on the carpet and forced him on as the lava covered where Aladdin had been. Suddenly a large wave of lava burst forth and they flew for their lives. Genie and the carpet dodged the burst of lava from all around and the large rocks. With the entrance to the Cave of Wonders closing ahead of them they flew as fast as they could they escaped just as the entrance was sealed. For good, hopefully.
Everyone sat in Aladdin's house pondering what could have happened. Sora, Donald, and Goofy coming to the same conclusion.
"I bet Maleficent has her," Donald said.
"Yeah," Sora stood up. "The problem is we don't know where Maleficent is."
"Guys. I'm going with you!" Aladdin declared as he stood up.
"We'd love for you to come," Goofy said. "But we'd be breaking some major rules and it simply can't be allowed. We must protect the world border."
"Order," Donald said through his teeth.
"Hey, Al!" Genie jumped up. "You still have one wish left! Just say the word and Jasmine is back!"
"Genie," Aladdin started, "I wish for your freedom."
"Al!" Genie yelled in disbelief. Suddenly the gold cuffs on his arms broke off and he felt his own wishes coming to him. He was free.
"But Genie, could you go with them?" Aladdin asked.
"Sorry Al, I'm done taking orders," Genie turned his back. "But a favor is another story entirely." Genie turned back around and smiled. He shined a great blue color and suddenly turned into a Summon Gem.
"Thanks Genie," Aladdin said. Sora walked over to the gem and pressed it into his Keyblade. He now had two summons, Simba and Genie.
"We better be going," Donald said as they turned to leave.
"Wait!" Aladdin stopped them. "Take this too." He handed Sora something. It was another Keychain. He took off the Jungle King and placed it in his pocket with the Kingdom Key. He placed the new Keychain on and the Keyblade transformed. It got smaller in length and became a sand color. It was very elegant and it curved at the top making the key part.
"I think I'll call this one…the Three Wishes," Sora said as he examined his new Keyblade. They said their goodbyes and were on their way to the next world.