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Inside the small café known as the Oasis, both Sora and Jasmine were sitting down as they waited for a waiter to come and take their order. Pretty soon, the waiter came by as he looked at the two disguised people as he raised an eyebrow.
"And what would you like?" The waiter asked, looking towards the two as they looked up from their menus.
"I'll have the baba ghannouj." Both Sora and Jasmine said at the same time, before looking at each other and blushing a bit, before giggling.
Sora looked up and said, "Uh, I suppose we'll have two bowls of baba ghannouj. And a side of pita bread, whenever you can."
The waiter nodded as he turned around and started to walk off. Jasmine looked pretty curious as she turned towards Sora. "I didn't know you had such fine taste in these dishes?"
"Huh?" Sora raised an eyebrow, before grinning. "Oh yeah, well, I can't just live on pizza and soda, you know."
"What is... pizza?" Jasmine asked, cocking her head in confusion.
The spiky haired teenage boy looked at her in bewilderment, before his eyes widened as he realized, "Oh, right! This is a different time period, of course she wouldn't know what pizza is..."
"Er, never mind." Sora shook his head. "But yeah, whenever I travel, I try a lot of exquisite dishes whenever I visit."
"Oh my..." The princess-disguised-as-a-peasant raised an eyebrow in interest. "It seems to me you've been quite the busy traveler."
Sora paused as he looked at Jasmine. "Well, not all of the time. You know, Keyblade travelling and all. I originally wanted to leave my place to explore the world... I did get what I wanted, but not in the way I thought..."
The princess noticed Sora's sad face as she felt a bit guilty. "Oh... I'm so sorry..."
"Hey, don't worry..." Sora smiled as he looked over to his new friend. "Because after I'm done exploring Agrabah and taking care of Jafar for you, I'm going to make sure I find my friends, safe and sound. And I have to help my other friends find their king. They told me he ran off to investigate some disappearances, and hasn't came back since."
"Really?" Jasmine grinned a little as she leaned towards the boy. "Tell me more."
Sora closed his mouth as he bit his lip. "I really shouldn't. I already said too much..."
The princess frowned a bit. "Sora, strange black creatures have been attacking the streets of Agrabah, overran the palace and most likely kidnapped my father. At this rate, I don't think secrets are going to help out much."
Sora wanted to argue, but he couldn't as he thought about what Jasmine said. "I suppose you have a point. But, from what my companions told me before I separated from them, I can't really let on where I'm from, because it messes up the world order."
Jasmine looked over at Sora in disbelief as he looked back at her with a concerned face. Sora sighed. "I know, it sounds stupid when you think about it, but in a way, it makes sense. You wouldn't, say, see a beautiful Arabian princess wandering around in a dark, Gothic like town, do you?"
The princess paused as she thought about it. "I suppose, in a way, it makes sense..."
Sora grinned in a cheesy sort of way, before Jasmine sighed, "I just wished you told me everything..."
Sora looked back in guilt as he looked down in his heart, wondering what to do.
"Go ahead, Sora. She raises a good point."
Sora looked around in confusion. He could have sworn he heard Kairi's voice, but he wasn't seeing her anywhere.
"As long as other worlds are being threatened by those Heartless, nothing's going to get better. It's not."
Sora bit his lip as he turned towards Jasmine, who was looking down in disappointment. Sora then gave a loud sigh. "Okay, Jasmine. I'll try and explain everything as best I can. But we need to keep our voices down."
Jasmine looked up in excitement, before raising an eyebrow. "Why?"
"...it's a bit complicated." Sora sighed. "And who knows who might be listening in..."
Jasmine nodded as she leaned towards Sora as Sora whispered to her, explaining his entire story from the beginning. But Iago, who had been peering from the window, gave a smirk, already having the information he needed as he started to fly off, presumably to get Jafar and tell him where he spotted the princess.
After enjoying their meal and paying for it with some good money that Sora had converted from his munny on his travels, he and Jasmine were walking out of the restaurant, hand in hand as she looked over to Sora, who felt relieved that he had revealed the truth to her. "Sora, thank you for telling me everything about yourself. Your friends must be very important to you if you were determined to rescue them..."
"Well..." Sora blushed a bit. "I know Riku's surviving okay. I don't know where he is now, but I know he's safe. I'm hoping I'll run into Kairi the same way..."
At the mention of Kairi's name, the princess frowned a little as she turned her head. "Kairi must sound VERY important to you, huh. Tell me, Sora, are you... seeing her?"
Sora stopped when Jasmine asked that question. He turned to the curious, inquisitive princess as he bit his lip nervously. "Well... uh... I like her... but-"
"Oh." Jasmine paused as she looked down. "I... I understand."
"You didn't let me finish." Sora said, lifting the princess's head up by her chin to get eye contact with her. "I like Kairi, but... I don't know my feelings on her."
"But... you said that you wouldn't mind sharing a papou fruit with her if given the chance." Jasmine cocked her head.
"The papou fruit thing is only a small myth, a little child-like story shared between kids that play on Destiny Islands." Sora laughed a little. "But, the more I think about it, even though Kairi is important to me as a friend, I don't know if I'd ever see me with her... it sounds weird of me to say that, even for me, but..."
Jasmine gave a smile as she leaned closer to Sora. "So, what type of girls do you prefer?"
"Uh, what?" Sora asked, before pausing. "Well, I don't know..."
"I suppose you prefer redheads?" Jasmine giggled. "Or blondes?"
"I just sai-" Sora started to protest, before noticing Jasmine's loving eyes staring at him.
"Or..." Jasmine grinned as she adjusted her hood. "Would you prefer brunettes? Girls with long black hair?"
Sora blushed a bit as he looked over at Jasmine, both of them smiling as they leaned close to each other, about to give each other a kiss... when all of a sudden...
"Funny, I prefer my women to be obedient... I wouldn't care about their hair color at all."
Jasmine and Sora stopped cold as Jasmine stiffened up, recognizing that familiar voice. She and the boy immediately turned and looked up towards a building to see a familiar old man holding a snake staff.
"Ah, so I finally found you, Princess Jasmine." Jafar gave a smirk as he leaned down towards the girl.
Jasmine, looking stiff, tried to hold onto her hood as Sora looked up at the man, trying to cover for Jasmine. "Princess? I don't see a princess anywhere? And who are you to harass this poor peasant woman, good sir?"
Jafar, looking down at the boy in disbelief, scoffed, "Oh please, do you think I can be easily fooled with that silly disguise?"
Immediately, Jafar raised up his staff and waved it around, causing Jasmine to be lifted up in the air, causing her to yelp and scream as the brown cloak fell off of the girl, now revealing herself in the public (if there was any to begin with) to be in her regular princess attire. Jasmine gasped as she looked up to Jafar, before narrowing her eyes.
"Jafar…" Jasmine growled. "What did you do to my father?"
"Relax, princess, your father hasn't been harmed... yet." Jafar grinned. "Now, why don't you come back home with me quietly, and I'll release your father and get this whole misunderstanding cleared up?"
"I will never follow you!" Jasmine walked up and growled.
"Jasmine, run!" Sora ordered as he pulled out his Keyblade.
"No, Sora." Jasmine said with a defiant glare on her face. "I'm not going to run. I may not be able to do much, but I'm going to stand and fight for what's right!"
"Sora?" Jafar asked, before looking over at the boy. "Ah, the boy who holds the Key... well, I have some gifts that you might enjoy..."
Jafar raised his staff again as Heartless appeared, surrounding Sora as he held up his Keyblade and tried to battle with them. Jasmine started running towards a nearby Heartless as she started to punch, kick and spin around, kicking each Heartless in the face as a magical surge surrounded her. Sora looked over while using a Fire Spell on a nearby Heartless, impressed by Jasmine's abilities as she slammed her feet on the ground, knocking down a nearby Heartless.
"Wow, I didn't know you can do those abilities?" Sora asked as he slashed down another Heartless, making it disappear.
Jasmine smirked as she punched another Heartless down. "Had some lessons from Sadira. They're not quite refined yet, but I'm getting there."
The former vizier could only watch as Sora and Jasmine started to battle down Heartless together. "Hmmmm… impressive... too bad I'm going to have to cut both of you off!"
Jafar then raised his newly refurbished snake staff that Maleficent had upgraded for him as he sent two red beams over at Sora and Jasmine, freezing them as Sora was stuck in an unfortunate position.
"H-hey! I can't move!" Sora said as he tried to move his limbs, but nothing was coming from it.
"I-I can't move either!" Jasmine gasped in worry as Jafar gave a laugh.
"Of course you can't move. Thanks to Maleficent improving me on my sorcering abilities, I now have the ability to freeze the both of you in your tracks..." Jafar said as he lifted both the frozen Sora and Jasmine by the staff. "I could just leave you and take the princess... but that wouldn't solve anything, would it? I'd just cause more problems... no, I think I'll take you both with me!"
Sora and Jasmine eyed each other in worry, wondering what was to become of them... right now, they needed a miracle...
And that's it for the eighth chapter! How did you guys like it? Next time, back to Donald, Goofy and Aladdin! All right, then, if you guys have any suggestions for this story, send out a PM (Private Message)! Anyway, read, review, criticize and suggest, folks!