"Ahem, maybe if you just let me go, and you keep the kids here, I can just go grab whatever you want."suggested Iago.

"Don't leave us, Iago!"pleaded Fahriha.

She grabbed him.

"Kid, let me go."

"Shut up!"yelled Saluk.

"Can't you kids see we're in trouble? Better to keep quiet."

Next morning

"Where are the kids, Genie?"asked Jasmine.

"Can't seem to find them."said Genie.

Genie looked at Carpet.

"Probably took them somewhere without permission and got lost."he said to him.

Carpet shook his 'head'.

"Carpet! Did you?"asked Aladdin, glaring at him.

"He just said he didn't."

"I don't believe him."said Genie.

Soon, Carpet was hooked to a lie detector, while Genie was asking him questions.

"I don't think this is necessary, Genie, what's important is to find the kids. Where could they be hiding?"

"Haven't seen the parrot, either."said Genie.

"So that's why it's so quiet here today!"said Cassim.

"Possibly."said Jasmine.

"Maybe I should get the guards."said Aladdin.

"I don't think so."Jasmine told him. "They're probably just hiding somewhere."

"True."said Genie.

"Genie'll find them."

Genie winked, and went off.

"Well, what are you guys waiting for?"Aladdin said to Abu and Carpet. "Go help him find them! If you help him, he'll find them faster!"

Abu was just about to grab a banana, frowned and went with Carpet to help Genie in the search. They looked everywhere they cold think of. Genie was holding a map of the Palace, and crossing off rooms as they inspected them.

"Nope."he said, as he looked under the stones in the garden. "That was number five."he checked it off. "Hm, the rug'll have to look under the fountain."he said.

Carpet looked at Genie and at the fountain, but did as Genie suggested, or tried to.

"The fountain's too heavy to move."said Genie, so he moved it. "Nothing there, either."

Genie kept looking with his detective kit, and looked at everything under a magnifying glass.

"Aha!"he said. "we've found something. Or close to it."

He picked up one of Iago's feathers.

"From the parrot! But we're not interested in Iago, are we? Well, let's hop he's not far off, and he knows where they are."

"What's taking so long?"asked Aladdin. "Genie should've found then by now. And from now on, no more playing hide and seek."

Genie came back in.

"Well?"asked Jasmine.

"Nothing."said Genie.

He pulled out the feather.

"Only piece of evidence. Iago's gone, too."

Abu and Carpet nodded.

"Didn't you guys look hard enough?"

"We looked everywhere, even under the rocks. And the fountains. Didn't leave a single place in the Palace over looked."

"That's it. We'll have the guards look for them around here. Go get Rasoul!"

Rasoul entered the room.

"Where are Prince Ilyas, Prince Rakim and Princess Fahriha?"asked Aladdin.

"Here, in the Palace."

He saw that Cassim, and thought that no good Saluk had probably lied to him and ran off with jewels or something. Exactly what was that criminal doing still alive! As soon as he found him, he'd make sure to teach him a lesson.

"Are you listening!"demanded Genie.

"Of course."

"Then get going!"said Aladdin. "Genie, you better keep up the search. You guys help, too. And we'll go, too."he said to Carpet and Abu.

"Hmm, you don't suppose they could have been hiding in a vase or something?"asked Genie.

"Then we'll go and inspect all the vases."said Aladdin, and he Jasmine and Cassim joined the search.