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Chapter 11: Agrabah- Mozenrath

PJ brought down his charged hammer, barely missing the bird-man. Diaval leapt up, charging at him, but the cat moved surprisingly fast, pulling up a shield of lightning which sent Diaval flying back.

"What? Did you think I was weak like my dad?" PJ hefted up the hammer. "Riku taught me well. I can hold my own."

Diaval stopped, looking at the cat for a moment. "Indeed, you are better than your father, but still not strong enough." He charged, swiping at his opponent. His attacks came swift, throwing PJ off balance, but the boy managed to put up a shield of wind around himself(1).

"Hey!" Kairi leapt down, swiping at Diaval; her eyes flashed with fury and a white glow surrounded her as she stared down Maleficent's servant. "PJ, you alright?"

"I'm fine, Ms. Kumo."

Diaval looked at the pair before turning into a raven and flying away. Kairi let out a sigh and the glow around her faded. "Let's get back to the others."

The two climbed back on the roofs, where the others awaited them.

"Man, what happened here?"

Everyone looked up and saw a flying carpet and a red bird. Amira waved. "Iago! Carpet! I'm glad you're back!"

The carpet flew around her happily and then moved to Sora. Iago gaped at the sight of him and Kairi. "Wow! You two really sprouted."

"Good to see you too, Iago."

"So," the bird landed on Amira's shoulder, "what happened here?"

"Some freaky dude unleashed a roc on the town."

"Yipe…"

Sora stretched his arms, "Well, it's taken care of, so we better head back and let Jasmine and Aladdin know."

"A roc…" Aladdin mused. "Genie told me about them once, said they were almost nonexistent now. Why would one attack Agrabah?"

Piping up, Amira answered, "A man was controlling it, but I don't know who he was."

"Hm, we'll have to look into it more later. Right now, your mother and I need to go survey the damage." Aladdin and his wife waited for some guards to show up before heading outside into the town.

"What now?"

"I guess we wait…"

"Princess Amira," a servant bowed, "another suitor has arrived and is awaiting you in the audience chamber."

The princess groaned. "Really!? Ugh! I'll be right there… once I change." She stormed off, coming back minutes later, in her princess garb, but the others could still see a layer of dirt on her arms and face. "I am not wasting my time to take a bath just so I can turn down another jerk." Everyone followed her into the audience chamber. Amira looked up at the suitor and gasped. "You!? Y-you're the man I saw! The one who sent the roc!"

Everyone stopped, looking at the pale young man dressed in blue. Iago squawked and ducked behind Amira. "Mozenrath!?"

"Mozenrath?" Amira gasped. "My father told me about you! You're the sorcerer that gave them so much trouble!"

The pale young man grinned. "I'm flattered Aladdin remembered me, your highness." He glanced over at Sora and the others. "And Keyblade wielders… I never did get to meet you, but I heard a lot about you."

"How are you here?" Amira straightened up, glaring at Mozenrath. "Genie sent you away with magic(2)."

"Now that is a long and tragic tale, but alas I don't have time for it." He held up his right hand, covered by a brown gauntlet. Magic sparked above it. "I am here for Agrabah, and while it would be simple to marry you and become sultan that way, I'd rather not be stuck with you! You have too much of your parents in you, so we'll do this another way." An image appeared of a land with no sun and black sand. There, they could see Jasmine and Aladdin, trapped inside black crystals.

"What!?" Sora summoned his Keyblade. "Release them!"

The young sorcerer laughed. "I think not. So, here's what you are going to do, summon Genie, from wherever he is, and send him to me. Then I will come and you will hand over Agrabah to me." Sora charged, but Mozenrath simply teleported away. "Now, now. You should ask that feathered friend of yours if you should be doing this. I am not someone you want to cross, Keybearer. Remember, Princess, I want Genie. You have until sunset tomorrow." He turned around, as Sora charged him.

Sora skidded to a stop as a tornado of sand shot up in front of him. From the tornado stepped a girl with teal hair, dressed in a military-esque outfit. "Come, Mozenrath."

"Jazzy!?"

The girl gave them an uninterested look before sand surrounded her and Mozenrath. When it faded, they were gone.

"We need to go, now!" Amira turned. "Patria, could you please get Razoul, and hurry!" The princess hurried off to her room as Patria rolled her eyes and went for the guard.

The red-head found the large guard outside the palace. "Hey! Big guy!"

"What do you want?" He grumbled.

"The princess wants you. If you weren't aware, the sultan and the queen got captured."

Razoul stiffened. "You lie! I would know…"

"Captain!" Another guard stumbled towards them. "A woman who could control sand captured the sultan and the queen!"

"Now you tell me!" The captain turned around and ran into the palace, and Patria followed behind. They came into the throne room just as Amira came in, dressed in her street clothes. "Princess!?"

She looked up and smiled. "Razoul!"

"What are you doing, Princess?"

As she pulled up the hood of a blue cloak, which Sora recognized as belonging to Aladdin's father Cassim, she spoke. "Mozenrath has returned and has captured my parents with the help of a girl named Jazzy. I am going after them, and I am leaving you in charge. All I ask is that you do not arrest everyone while I am gone."

"But Princess…"

"Please Razoul! Do not make me have to order you to do this." She sighed. "You're the only person I trust to lead in my stead."

The guard opened his mouth to answer, but paused, a smile decorating his face. "Of course, your Highness. Be careful, please.(3)"

"I will. Mr. Kumo, you and the others can take Carpet. I'll ride my horse, and I can carry one more person, so Carpet has an easier time."

"What about me?" Iago flapped in front of Amira.

"Go get Genie. Now that I know who we're dealing with, I know what to do."

The bird grinned. "You're sending me away from danger; you're a saint, Amira!"

"Just go!"

Patria leaned against her dad as they flew on Carpet across the desert, sleep overcoming her mind. She found herself sitting on the beach of her home with her dark oppressor standing nearby.

"Haven't heard from you in a while."

"I wonder, do you believe what you heard about my plans?"

"You mean, what Xext told the others?" The girl refused to look at him. "Maybe I do, maybe I don't. I just don't understand what you have to gain from all this. I get the plot with my brother… but nothing else. Trying to make wars and hostile takeovers happen… it just doesn't make sense. And what's this all about? Trying to see if I can read your mind or something? Apparently, I can only do that when I'm near Braig." She stood up. "I'm surprised you haven't tried to take me over or threatened my family like last time."

"Perhaps I am biding my time for the perfect moment."

"Perhaps you are…"

"Patria, wake up." Sora gently nudged his daughter until she sat up. "Sorry, Amira, you were saying."

Carpet flew down low, beside Amira's horse, on which sat the princess and PJ. The girl kept her eyes focused ahead. "Father and Genie told me all about Mozenrath. He's very powerful, but physically he's weak, and he can't use offensive spells if we get too close. Our best bet is to get near to him and fight without magic."

"Then I can take him," Patria smirked.

"We," her father cut in, "we can take him. Amira, you, Patria, and I can take Mozenrath. As for Jazzy…"

Hikari piped up. "We can take her! She uses sand to fight, and PJ's hammer uses lightning. So we just have to turn her sand to glass and send the glass at her, like Glace did."

"Except there's more sand here than air." Max huffed. "We can't be standing on sand while we fight her or we're screwed."

"Unless we turn the sand to glass beneath us first," Kairi added. "I can cast a strong Thundza spell when we encounter her, and that will give us solid ground to stand on."

"Sounds good, Aunt Kairi."

As they came into a strange land, overcast with black sand. They could see a citadel of stone. Heartless roamed around and they could see Jazzy standing at the entrance.

Kairi, Hikari, and Max jumped off Carpet as Amira climbed on. "Honey," Kairi looked up at her husband, "once we create an opening, get in there."

"Got it." He leaned down, and they kissed before Kairi led the others up towards the fortress.

The Heartless all charged, but Max jumped on his skateboard and plowed through them. "Take that!"

Jazzy watched as they made their way closer before she walked down to meet them. Kairi kept her eyes on the girl at all times, and as soon as the assassin came down the walkway and her feet touched the sand, Kairi held her Keyblade up. "THUNDZA!" Massive bolts of lightning thundered down, striking the ground around them, turning it all into glass. Jazzy leapt back, the lightning threatening to singe her, leaving the way open for Carpet to fly the others into the fortress.

"Princess Kairi, this is an honor." The mutant(4) girl straightened up, pushing back her teal ponytail. "I hoped to face the Princess of Purity(5) in battle one day."

Kairi smirked. "Did you? Well, I hope you are prepared to lose."

"I should be saying that to you." Jazzy held up a hand and the sand around them swirled into the air before descending upon them.

"PJ now!"

The cat leapt into the air, his hammer charged with electricity, as he slammed it into the ground, sending out waves of electricity in all directions, turning the black sand into a foggy glass. Hikari then leapt in, glowing as she began to spin, magic surrounding her(6); the glass shattered and became a tornado around the girl.

Jazzy summoned more sand to act as a shield, but Kairi charged, forcing the mutant out of her protective shell, just as Hikari launched the glass into the air. Kairi cast Shieldza and Max's skateboard turned into a shield with which he covered himself and PJ.

The mutant tried to dodge the glass, but numerous shards stuck into her. "Not this again… I can't lose like this!" She drove her hands into the sand around her and grinned. "You will not win this time!"

Out of the sand rose a large, lumpy, hulking figure made of sand, with red eyes(7). It let out a roar that shook the sand and glass beneath them.

Carpet shot through the halls before coming into a large room full of… "Zombies!?"

"Mamluks!" Amira corrected. "But basically the same things, Mozenrath and the former king, Destane, turned the citizens of this land into zombie slaves, or Mamluks, and Mozenrath eventually turned Destane into one."

"Yes, and aren't they magnificent." A blast of magic sent Carpet flying out of the room and the others tumbled to the ground. Mozenrath stood at the other end of the room, his gauntlet glowing. The wall behind him shimmered and vanished, revealing two large black crystals, containing Jasmine and Aladdin. "Now, I don't see the genie with you, so I assume you're here to fight. No matter, the genie will come anyway, even if I kill you."

Sora reached to his side and drew Dawn's Might. "Release Jasmine and Aladdin!"

"No Keyblade? I'm insulted."

Sora charged at him from the front while Amira and Patria came in from the sides. Mozenrath held up his gauntlet, unleashing a wave of magic at them. Sora skidded to a stop, blocking with his katana as the two girls slid under the magic wave.

"Surprise!" Patria leapt up, bringing up her fist and slamming it into the young sorcerer's face.

Pith stood up in the cell, stretching. His back still felt stiff and sore, but at least he could move without too much pain. Angel lay against one of the walls, her wings encasing her once again as she slept.

They'd spent the entire day learning the song, "All I Ask of You", and the girl seemed to really like it, and it made the time pass just a bit faster in this dingy cell.

The boy walked towards the bars of the cell. The cell. It alerted Xext and the others if someone used magic in it. Though, it wasn't like Pith had been in any shape to use magic or summon his Keyblade.

But now, he held his arm out through the bars, expecting to feel some sort of forcefield right outside the bars, but his arm slipped out all the way. "Yes!" He concentrated and his Keyblade, Dramatic Fighter, appeared in his hand.

With some effort, he turned it around, pointing it at the cell. A flash of light came from the weapon before the cell bars began to shift. The boy dismissed his Keyblade and pulled his hand back into the cell just before the cell bars rose upward.

"Angel!" Pith ran to the girl, nudging her gently with his foot. Her wings unfolded and she looked up at him. "Let's go!" He held out a hand."

"Go where?"

"Home."

Max held up his shield as the sand monster brought its giant fist down on him. His knees buckled as the weight hit his shield.

"Max!" Hikari leapt up, slashing through the sand arm, but her Keyblade went right through it, so she turned and cast Thunder. The arm turned to glass, confusing the monster just before the girl slammed her Keyblade into it, shattering the arm.

Kairi smiled. "Same as before! Turn it to glass!"

"And I'll break the glass!" Max hefted up his shield.

"Ms. Kumo," PJ turned to her, "we'll handle the monster."

"And I'll handle Jazzy!" As the three began carrying out their plan, Kairi ran around the monster; the teal-haired girl sat on a rock, picking out the glass shards embedded in her body. "Give up, Jazzy!"

The assassin looked up, eyes burning with pain and anger. "I hate this little trick of yours! And I will beat it!"

"But not today. Now, where is my son!?"

"Not telling…" Jazzy pulled out the last large shard before a dark corridor opened up behind her. She rolled backward, over the rock and slipped inside just as Max and the others completely shattered the, once sand, now glass, monster.

"Jazzy! Get back here!" Kairi charged the portal, only for it to close when she got close. "No…"

Hikari saw her and walked over, hugging the princess. "Don't worry, Aunt Kairi. We'll find him."

"Yeah…thank you, Hikari."

Mozenrath stumbled back, clutching his cheek. "You insolent…!"

"Watch your back!" Amira slammed into him. "Patria! Get his gauntlet!"

The redhead, grabbed the young man's arm, twisting it behind him before pulling off the gauntlet on his arm. "Ugh!" Under the gauntlet was a grotesque arm; a skeleton with bits of flesh hanging off. She threw Mozenrath to the ground. "That is gross."

"What happened to your arm?" Sora approached, sheathing his blade.

The sorcerer refused to answer, so Amira did it for him. "The gauntlet has a price, to use magic with it, you give up your life force."

"I pity you," Sora pulled him to his feet. "Let's get you back to Agrabah. When Genie gets here, he can…"

"SORA!"

The spiky-haired man found himself pulled into a massive blue bear hug. "Genie!?"

The blue man held him high. "Look at you!? All grown up!"

"It's good to see you too! We'll have to talk later. Can you get Jasmine and Aladdin out?"

Only now did Genie see the crystals. "Oh!?" He snapped his fingers and the crystals began shrinking. In a few moments, Jasmine and Aladdin stood panting, on the ground.

"Mother! Father!" Amira pulled off her hood and ran to them.

As they hugged, Mozenrath tried to crawl away, only for Patria to grab him by the collar. "What do we do with this guy?"

"I'll take care of him!" Genie twirled his finger and a ribbon wrapped around Mozenrath. "There, all wrapped up as a gift for the guards!"

Sora, however, didn't listen or laugh at the joke, as his eyes fixed on Amira and her parents. "Pith… we'll find you soon. Just hang on."

Pith and Angel slipped through the quiet halls of the Castle that Never Was, checking every corner for enemies. "This place is a maze, but I bet if we keep going down, we'll find a way out."

"I hope so…" Angel clung to him. "I've never explored… they wouldn't let me."

"Let's just keep going."

The castle seemed deserted, quiet, without even a Heartless in sight. Lower and lower, they went until they found an open area, leading outside. Pith checked for any sign of trouble before making a break for the exit, pulling his friend behind him.

Suddenly, a sharp pain broke out on the backs of his legs. "Ah!" He rolled over and saw. "Angel?!"

The girls' wings dripped with his blood, but she didn't look at him. He saw her eyes, glazed over.

"Did you really think you could escape?" Briana walked into view, followed by Cander. "Poor little Angel led astray by you…"

"Leave her alone!"

The assassin looked down at him. "You care about her? How stupid. She's nothing but a pawn, not worth keeping alive if not for her powers. I know her brother wouldn't miss her." Briana smirked as Pith's face turned to anger. "Aw, you're angry. Good. Angel, take him back to his cell and bandage his wounds. No healing spells. We don't want him to be able to run again."

Angel nodded and grabbed Pith by the collar. Cander, still keeping his control over the girl, escorted them back to the cells.

Angel threw Pith inside and jumped in herself. Cander tossed them some bandages and she applied them to the deep slashes on the back of Pith's legs. The cell bars came down with a clang.

Pith watched as Angel's eyes cleared up. She looked at him. "Pith?"

"Hey…"

"What…?" She looked at him, his legs and the blood on them, and at her still present wings… dripping with his blood. "Oh no! I-I'm so sorry! I didn't want to… I didn't... "

He grabbed her shaking hands. "It wasn't your fault! Cander made you do it. I'm alright… I mean, this does give us more time to work on that song, doesn't it?" Angel didn't reply; her wings vanished as her whole body shook. "Angel…" He pulled her into a hug. "It's not your fault. Please don't cry." He held her as she continued to sob. "No more talk of darkness. Forget these wide-eyed fears. I'm here, nothing can harm you. My words will warm and calm you. Let me be your freedom. Let daylight dry your tears. I'm here, with you, beside you. To guard you and to guide you." He paused, waiting to see if she'd finish, but she just continued to cry. "Let me be your shelter. Let me be your light. You're safe, no one will find you. Your fears are far behind you…"

"All I want is freedom. A world with no more night…" Quietly, Angel whispered the next two lines before her voice drifted off into sniffles and hiccups.

Oh, that fluff!

I'm literally in tears!

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Footnotes:

1) Exactly like Pete does in KH2.

2) This was the last time Mozenrath was seen in the TV show.

3) While Razoul never really liked or trusted Aladdin, he was very loyal to the sultan and Jasmine, meaning he would probably be just as loyal to Amira, despite her father being Aladdin.

4) For those who don't remember, Jazzy is a mutant from the X-men world.

5) Wait for the next KH3 chapter ;)

6) Spellweaver.

7) This is the same Sand Monster that Sadira uses to try and get Jasmine out of the way in the episode of the Aladdin TV show, "Strike up the Sand".

What is Love?

What is love?

What does it mean to love?

Love is a word we like to use a lot today. We have people in love. Love your neighbor. Love your enemies. You love your family and friends. The power of true love. But what does love really mean?

If we love someone, do we have to agree with everything they do or say? If we love someone, do we just let them do things that can hurt them without saying anything? What should we do when we love someone?

A lot of times, we hear verses about love at weddings, but these verses can be applied to anyone at any time, not just for love between spouses, but between friends and neighbors.

John 15:13 says, "Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends."

Romans 13:9-10 says, "For the commandments, 'You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not covet,' and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law."

But love is something we all need, without love, we're just a bunch of grumpy people who hate everything, and I don't think most of us want to be that kind of person. So, this is what love is, this is what we should be like when we show love:

1 Corinthians 13:4-8, "Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away."

This is what love is.