Chapter 4: Meeting.
The next morning.
"Okay, Abu. Go!" Alana whispered to Cyborg as he dips over the edge and looks at the sale clerk.
"Watermelons! Try them, your taste buds will dance and sing." Cyborg grabs a watermelon and hangs down there.
"Yoo hoo" Cyborg gets the sales clerk's attention
"Hey, get your paws off that!" The sales clerk hissed as Cyborg made a face at him
"Oooooo, wat you gonna do?"
"Why, you! Get away from here, you filthy ape!" The slaes clerk grabs the melon away from Cyborg, not knowing that Alana's hands dippped down and snatches another melon from the stand.
"Bye bye!"
Cyborg zings back up as the clerk put the other melon back.
"Nice goin' Cyborg." Alana breaks open the watermelon and gives half to Cyborg "Breakfast is served."
Robin dressed up in a black cloak and hood walked into Agrabah. He was amazed at all the shops and people around the city.
"Pots! Buy a pot. No finer pot in brass or silver." One of the salesmen cried out.
"Sugar dates, sugar dates and figs! Sugar dates and pistachios!" Another cried out holding a basket of cookies.
"Would the young man like a gold ring? A handsome ring for a handsome guy." A older sales woman held up a gold ring with her eyebrow raised up. He is charmed, but creeped out at the same time by her action. A huge fish pops up into his face.
"Fresh fish! We catch 'em, you buy 'em!" A salesman held up a huge fish in his arms.
"No, that's ok." He backs away without even noticing, he bumped into a fire eater, who is startled into swallowing his fire.
"Wooh, sorry!"
The fire eater gulps, then belches fire from his mouth. Robin got a 'that was kinda cool' look. The fire eater was pleased and taps his stomach. Alana turns her head and sees Robin, and a strange look comes over her face.
"I'm really very sorry." Alana overhead Robin s he was talking to the fire eater.
"Wow! He is hot!" Alana turn her head back trying not to notice. She could help it she peeked at him once more. Robin pulled the hood of her cloak over his head. Alana stared at him with her hand on her right check and smiled. Cyborg noticed Alana was acting stranger than usual. Cyborg jumped on her shoulder, waving his hand in front of Alana's face.
"Alana? Hello? Hello?"
Robin stopped at the fruit stand and sees a young homeless child reaching for an apple.
"Oh, you must be hungry." Robin picks one up and gives it to the young boy. "Here you go."
The boy runs off and the salesman gives an evil look.
"You'd better be able to pay for that."
"Pay?" Robin looked back and questioned.
"No one steals from my cart!" The salesman walked up to Robin with a sword in his hand.
"Oh, I'm sorry sir. I don't have any money."
"Thief!" The salesman grabbed Robin by the chest and held him up high in the air.
"Please, if you let me go to the palace, I can get some from the Queen."
"Do you know what the penalty is for stealing?"
The saleman takes up in the air, intending to chop him in two pieces. Robin tried kicking him, but it didn't hurt the salesman at all. The salesman grip was tighter on Robin's neck, making hard for Robin to breathe
"Wooh! No, no please!"
Alana jumped over the rooftop of the fruit booth and ran towards Robin. She had to think of something and fast.
"Thank you, my good man. I'm so glad you've found him." Alana grabbed the salesman's arm with the sword. The salesman looked at her strangely and put Robin down on the ground.
"I've been looking all over for you." Alana turned and said to Robin. Robin looked at her with a puzzled look.
"What are you doing?" Robin whispered to Alana softly.
"Just play along." Alana whispered back.
"You know this man?" The salesman asked Alana. Alana turned and stepped up to the salesman as she put her arm on him.
"Sadly, yes. He is my brother. He's a little crazy." Alana circles her finger around her ear. Robin gets shocked on what he just heard from her. The salesman got angry and grabbed Alana by her cape.
"He said he knows the Queen!"
Alana just shook her head and laughed.
"He thinks the monkey is the Queen."
Cyborg was picking a pocket until he heared what Alana just said, then straightens up like nothing happened.
Robin gave a quick look to Alana and started bowing down to Cyborg.
"Oh, mighty Queen Starfire. How may I serve you?" Cyborg looked at Robin, then played along.
"Well, blah blah blah blah."
"It's so sad." Alana started to give a fake cry on the salesman and blows her nose on his vest. The salesman just rolled his eyes and wishing they would just go.
"But, no harm done." Alana rushed to Robin and put her shoulder on his shoulder.
"Now come along little brother. Time to see the doctor."
"Oh, hello doctor. How are you?" Robin acted dumb and started talking to a camel. The camel looked at Robin with the most confused look on it's face.
"No, no, no. Not that one, the bald one." Alana turned her head and said to Cyborg.
"Come on, Queeny."
Cyborg bowed to the crowd and everything that he stole from the cart falls out of his vest.
" Huh? What is it?" Cyborg picks up what he can carry, and the trio run off.
"Come back here, you little thieves!"
Mean while in Jinx's lab.
Gizmo was running as fast as he could on a gear in a bizarre contraption, as a storm brewing on top.
"With all due respect, your rottenness, couldn't we just create a real storm? I mean you have aton of black magic books. "
"Save your breath, Gizmo. Faster!" Jinx hissed as she place Starfire's ring in the contraption.
"Yes, o mighty evil one." Gizmo ran faster as he kept wizzing out of breahte. A lightning bolt streaks through the ring, passing into an hourglass below. The sands begin to swirl within and Jinx cast her spell. Her eye glowed a bright purple, with her fingers swarling around.
"Ah, sands of time--reveal to me the one who can enter the cave. Show me this 'Dissented of Trigon." The sand in top forms the Cave of Wonders. It falls through into a storm, but it showed Alana climbing up a ladder, followed by Robin who is covered in her cloak. "Yes, yes!"
Jinx stopped and slithered a devious smile
"Well if it isn't Prince Robin. Fallen in love with this so called weird girl everyone talks about? Who would have thought that this 'Weird girl' was the dissented of Trigon?
"That's her!" Gizmo questioned. "That's the dumb bimbo we've been waitin' for?" Gizmo accidentally lost his grab on the footing and is sucked into the gears. Gizmo went flying inside the gears, but Jinx choose to ignore him as he went into pain.
"Let's have the guards extend her an invitation to the palace, shall we?"
Gimzo went flying past and slams into the wall upside down.
"Swell." Gimzo sighed out as a puff of smoke popped out from his mouth.
Jinx gave a devious laugh as her eyes glowed a bright purple and looked in the hourglass.
"Almost there."
Alana climbed on top of the roof, as Robin followed her behind.
"I want to thank you for stopping that man. I could've handled him you know." Robin posed, as he was a body builder. Alana rolled her eyes and shot him a look.
"Right. You were some Hercules."
"Well I was going to go kung-fu on him if you weren't going to do anything about it." Robin posed in a ninja fighter form.
"Why is it that guys hate to admit the girl saves the day for once in their life?" Alana asked.
"It's like tradition. Like fairy tales or something."
"I hate fairy tales."
"So I noticed."
Alana grabbed a pole and slowly placed one of the sides gently and firm. "So, that was your first time in the marketplace, huh?"
Alana's pole vaults her towards the next building. Robin looked amazed with a remarkable feeling. "Woah!"
"I was that obvious, huh?"
"Well, you do kinda stand out." Alana looks at him and Robin looks back, with a quite pause. Alana shook her head and throws Robin a jumping pole.
"I mean, you gotta be real tough here around here."
Robin grabbed the pole and leaped forward on the other building. Alana stared and gave a little grin, but quickly disappeared. She pulled back her hair over her ear.
"Um, not bad. This way." Alana couldn't believe she said that. So scared. Why should she be scared she thought. He was just a guy. Cyborg looked at Alana and just rolled his eyes. A few minutes later, all three of them went inside the roof of a building. Alana ducked down the planks and torn up curtains.
"Oh Yeah. Watch your head there." Alana try to warn Robin, but it was too late as he bumped his head on one of the planks
"Ow!"
Alana gave a little giggle and replied. "Told ya."
"Is this where you live?" Robin asked as he ignored Alana's comment.
"Yep. Just me and Cyborg. Come and go as we please."
"Wow. That must be great." Robin walked around Alana's place and was amazed on what he was looking at.
"Well, it's not much," Alana grabs a curtain and shows the palace next to a breath, taking sunset. "But it's got a great view."
Robin turned to see and then his smile fainted as he saw his home.
"The Palace looks pretty amazing, huh?"
"Oh, yeah…..it's wonderful." Robin replied, trying to act joyful.
"I wonder what it would be like to live there, to have servants and valets..." Alana wondered as she spoke out loud.
"Oh, sure. People who tell you where to go and how to dress." Robin made a remark.
"It's better than here. Always scraping for food and ducking the guards." Alana kinda ignoring Robin's little remark.
"You're not free to make your own choices."
"Sometimes you feel so…"
"You're just…"
"..trapped." Robin and Alana said together. They look at each other, realizing that they're perfect for one another. Alana breaks the look and realizes Cyborg was stealing an apple from Robin's pocket.
"So, where're you from?"
"It doesn't matter. I'm not going back." Robin replied as he looked at the sunset.
"You trying to escape your past?" Alana took a bite from an apple then threw it at Cyborg, who made a disgusted face.
"You can say that. I'm forced to something I don't want to do."
" Wow, that sucks. Sorry." Alana looks at Robin and both smile lightly. Cyborg got annoyed and decided to try to steal Robin's apple. Alana eye turned as she saw her monkey friend. "Cyborg!"
Cyborg gave a high angry pitch squeaking to Alana.
"What is he saying?" Robin asked. Alana srugged
"Cyborg says that--uh--that's not fair."
Cyborg gave an angry face and made a sour face at Alana.
"You're really beautiful, you know that." Robin walked up closer to Alana as he lowered his lips next to hers. As their lips were about to touch, Robin and Alana turned their heads as they see a bunch of soldiers with their swords. "There you are!"
"They've after me!" Robin and Alana shouted together. They both looked at each other realizing what they said. "They're after you?"
The soldiers kicked down the door as they tried to get up the stairs.
"My Mother must have paniced and sent them…." Alana grabbed out her hand
"Do you trust me?"
"What? Yeah I guess so, but whhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. Alana grabs Robin and jumps down the long story down.
They both jump off the roof, and landed in a pile of salt as they try to get away.
"Yes! We lost them." Alana ran right into the main guard and fell back.
"We just keep running into each other, don't we, Wired girl?"
"What can I say, you just love me.
The guard's turban is pulled down by Cyborg, but more guards are here and block their exit. The first guard throws Cyborg off his head and throws him in a vase. Three other guards grab Alana as she tries to struggle.
"It's the dungeon for you, girl."
"Hey, get off of me!"
"Let go of her." Robin cried out as he kicked one of the guards.
" Look what we have here, men--a wired boy." The main guard punches Robin and causes him to bleed. Robin sot the solider a evil look. Robin stood up and removed his cloak to reveal his face.
"Unhand her, by order of the royal prince."
The GUARDS suddenly stop and bow, forcing Alana to bow as well.
"Prince Robin!"
"Prince Robin!" Alana rasied her head up.
"Prince Robin?" Cyborg peeking out from the vase in a silent whisper
"Your majesty, I apologize for my actions. I did not realize it was you." The main guard talked to Robin. Robin still glared at him as he removed a little blood on his chin. "What are you doing outside the palace? And with this wired girl?"
"That's not your place to ask." Robin barked. "Do as I command. Release her!"
"Well, I would, your majesty, but my orders come from Jinx. You must take it up with her."
The solider guards took Alana away as she looked at Robin in a surprised look.
"Trust me, I will." Robin whispered.
OH! What's gonna happen? Jinx is in trouble now. Will Alana (Raven) want to be back with Robin?