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Meanwhile, all the way back at Sadira's home, she had just arrived upstairs as she gave a small pant. She had just recently finished practicing her sand powers, feeling satisfied with the progress she made today. And right now, she was waiting for Sora and Jasmine to return from their date... or, as she smirked, maybe they already returned from their date, with Jasmine using her wiles on Sora, and they were currently making out in bed right now... she giggled, not helping but think of the image. She still remembered the conversation she had with Sora last night.
Still, much to her notice, Sora and Jasmine had yet to return. She couldn't help but look out the window. It was still late afternoon, and there was no sign of them. Biting her lip in worry, she couldn't help but wonder where they were.
"Gee, they've been gone a rather long time..." Sadira muttered to herself as she started to pace around in worry. She groaned as she held her head, wondering if those creatures... those Heartless... managed to corner them. She shook her head. "Of course they weren't cornered, Sora has that giant key that can take them out in a few blows... but still, I can't help but feel worried."
She bit her lip as she looked outside again... only this time, she noticed some strange darkness surrounding the palace. She squinted her eyes, examining the darkness that was spewing out more Heartless by the minute. She frowned as she said to herself, "That can't be good..."
It was at that moment Sadira decided that the time to sit around the house was over. She had really hoped her spells would improve to encase those Heartless in sand, but it looks she was going to have to test it out. And, for some strange reason, inside her heart, she felt that Sora and Jasmine were over at the palace... and they probably weren't canoodling next to the walls.
"If there's this many, then maybe... maybe they're at the palace." Sadira said as she jumped down, waving her arms as a patch of sand got animated to act like a wave. Sadira landed on the animated tidal sand wave as she moved her arms, getting the sand to move along her feet. Hopefully, she wasn't too late...
Meanwhile, over at the palace walls, Jafar was examining the prey he got in interest. On the one hand, Sora was being held in dark cuffs that the boy tried to get out from, but it wasn't quite easy for him when his feet were bound by the same cuffs. Sora panted as he looked over to Jasmine, whose hands were bound and mouth was gagged as Heartless were carrying her like... well, a princess that was bound and gagged.
"Well, well, well, what a lucky turn of events this turns out to be." Jafar grinned as he looked down towards the gagged and furious princess. "Not only did I manage to return our lovely princess home..." The snake-like man turned his head towards Sora, who gave him a glare. "But I managed to capture the Key Bearer as well. And Maleficent thought he'd be so tough to capture." Jafar laughed evilly, before crossing his arms. "Yeah right. If you ask me, I should have been the one in charge."
"Jafar, you let me and the princess go!" Sora demanded.
The former vizier looked at the boy in surprise, before lowering his eyelids at him. "Now really, do you honestly expect me to just suddenly turn good after that one sentence? Do you honestly expect that I'll just spontaneously let you go and be on your merry way? Oh, and while we're at it, why don't I marry you and the princess together? Oh, I'll be the best man, I can't wait to throw the rice and catch the bouquet..."
Jafar gave a slight chuckle at his own little joke as Jasmine glared up at the man, blushing furiously. Sora gave a blush as furiously red's as Jasmine's, much to Jafar's notice. Jafar gave a small smirk. "My, my, my, what an interesting turn of events. And here I thought that the girl Kairi was the one for you..."
Sora's eyes widened as he turned to the man. "What? Kairi?" He narrowed his eyes in a minute. "What do you know about Kairi?"
Jafar said nothing for a moment, before giving a smirk. "All I know is that if she ever found out you've been eying another girl... did you ever think about how FURIOUS she would be?"
Sora closed his mouth in shock, momentarily looking weak. Jasmine heard every word as she looked up to Sora, looking curious and shocked. Jafar continued on, "Oh yes, it seems that things have taken quite an interesting turn, hasn't it? Deep in your heart, you still have that little schoolboy crush on the redhead you've known for quite a while... but here you are, knowing the princess for... two days, at the most?... and you already feel attracted to her. You can't play favorites, you know."
Sora bit his lip, trying to fight his inner darkness, but the more Jafar kept talking about Kairi, the more he realized that... maybe he's right.
"Sora!" Jasmine said through her gag, looking worried for the boy.
Jafar turned to the princess with a smile as he looked down towards her. "I'm sorry you had to hear all that, my dear, dear princess, but I'm afraid that it's all true. The boy's been spending his life searching for the missing girl... and here he is, trying to get into your pants while searching for the girl. That's not a hero... that's just someone with a sick mind."
Sora couldn't help but look down in shame as Jafar laughed. Sora sighed as he closed his eyes for a mere moment.
Sora was seen floating in darkness, looking sad and worried as he said to himself, "Could Jafar be right? Am I just wasting my time with Jasmine? I thought I was being a good friend, but... I still want to find Kairi and make sure she's safe, but... the fact that I'm falling for Jasmine... I'm such a bad hero..."
"No, Sora. You're not a bad hero."
Sora heard the voice as he looked up and around. "Kairi?"
"Over here!"
Sora looked over and saw a familiar floating red haired girl grinning and smiling at him. Sora groaned as he held his head. "Not another illusion. I can't handle another one..."
"Sora... I'm not an illusion. I've always been with you on your journey." Kairi smiled as she started to float around the boy. "I may not have been able to see much since I've been in here, but I've known you've had some great adventures so far. And the fact you've been looking for me and Riku, that's enough to know you care about me."
"Well, yeah..." Sora blushed a bit, not realizing what his illusion was talking about.
Kairi rolled her eyes as she noted Sora's doubtful look. "I can see that you still don't believe me, but I've been with you every step of the journey. Alice's trial in Wonderland, fighting in the tournaments in Olympus Coliseum, the gummi ship accident in Deep Jungle, when we entered the then-empty Merlin's study for the first time in Traverse Town... you may not have realized it, Sora, but I've been with you, Donald and Goofy on every journey. My heart may still sleep inside you, but that doesn't mean I couldn't see through your eyes. It's amazing all the places you went."
Sora bit his lip, unsure about what Kairi said, before she gave a sigh. "Okay, lunkhead, let me put it another way. Do you truly like me?"
The spiky haired boy bit his lip a bit as he looked down. "Well... I did always wanted to share a papou fruit with you... I even marked it in the wall of the secret cave..."
"Wait, really, you did?" Kairi's eyes widened in surprise. "Well... what do you think now?"
Sora couldn't put it in words as the red haired girl cocked her head in curiosity. After a minute, the spiky haired boy sighed. "While I still want to look for you and make sure you're okay... I want to protect all the worlds and save them before more Heartless take them away, like our island. I do still like you, Kairi, but..."
Kairi couldn't help but give a giggle. "Sora, if you feel you love Jasmine, you don't have to worry. I can see that you have a very keen interest in her. Just as long as you don't forget about me."
"Are you sure?" Sora cocked his head.
Kairi gave an award-winning smile. "Hey, I'll even officiate your wedding. That, right there, is a promise."
Sora was unsure about the illusion-Kairi's talk, but after a minute, he gave a grin. "Okay. I'll do it. For you!"
"Good luck out there, Sora! And keep an eye on Riku next time you see him. I think something's up with him!" Kairi started to call out, but Sora had already vanished from the area. The floating Kairi paused before giving a sigh. "And of course, he leaves before I warn him about Riku… oh well."
Jafar stared at the glazed-eyed Sora for a minute as he waved a hand in front of him. The boy hadn't responded, much to Jafar's surprise. Iago, who had been sitting on Jafar's shoulder since the beginning, whispered to the man, "Hey, uh, Jafar, I think you broke him."
Jasmine looked terribly concerned upon looking over at Sora. Jafar gave a small frown. "Pity. I guess I'll just have to have the Heartless swarm him while I take Jasmine to our next stop..."
"Not if I have anything to say about it!"
Jafar jumped as he looked over to see a brown haired woman in street rat clothing jumping down from a pile of sand and landing on it, doing a samurai pose. Jafar raised an eyebrow as he said, "I didn't think ANYBODY would be brave enough to venture out in the streets of Agrabah."
"Well, you've met me." Sadira growled as she narrowed her eyes towards Jafar. "You don't know me, but from what Jasmine described, she certainly knows you."
Jafar raised an eyebrow as he looked over towards the muffled Jasmine, before grinning. "Ah, so you're the one who took the princess in. Very well, I'll be sure to imprison you too. Heartless?"
More Bandit Heartless appeared as they surrounded Sadira. The brown haired girl narrowed her eyes as she waved her hands, causing a sand tornado to appear as the Heartless got blown in different directions. Jafar looked in surprise as he muttered, "A sand witch... I didn't think I'd see one of those... well, this could be an interesting battle..."
"I'd say it has!"
That was when everybody immediately turned to see Sora, who had recovered from his glazed state, somehow breaking out of the dark cuffs he was in and summoning his Keyblade as he held it firmly. Jafar frowned as he said, "What are you doing?"
"Look, maybe you're right about one thing. I am seeing Jasmine in a different light than I am with Kairi, but I'm sure Kairi would understand!" Sora growled. "I still don't know how you know her, but I can feel it in my heart. If you know so much about Kairi, then you know something about where she is! And I'll beat the information out of you if I have to! And I will save Jasmine! She may be a princess, but..." Sora paused as he looked over at her with caring eyes. "...she's probably one of the best girls I've ever met! She's strong, beautiful, pretty and can probably kick your butt if she wasn't bound by your tricks!"
Jasmine's eyes shined as they were filled with joyous tears, hearing Sora say all that about her. Right at that moment, she made up her mind right there and then. If she ever got out of these chains, if she ever freed her father from imprisonment, she'd beg her father to change the law so that she'd marry anybody she deemed worthy! And Sora had more than proved her worth.
Jafar looked between the Keyblade holding boy and the brown haired female street rat as they both held a pose. "So, a Key wielder and a sand witch. Heh, do you really think I feel threatened by this..."
Before Jafar could give the order of attack... something shocking happened as a cloud of blue smoke covered the area, causing everything to get thrown in confusion.
"What the- what's going on?" Sora asked and coughed through the puff of smoke.
"I-I don't know!" Sadira frowned.
As soon as the puff of smoke cleared, everything was still in place... but new additions were seen standing next to Sora and Sadira as they turned in surprise.
"Donald, Goofy!" Sora looked over in relief as he noticed his two friends.
"SORA!" Donald and Goofy grinned as they ran over and hugged their friend.
"Aladdin?" Sadira asked as she noticed the street rat standing next to his pet monkey and a floating carpet.
"Sadira!" Aladdin smiled as he ran over and lifted the girl by the waist, giving Sadira a moment to squeal in happiness before Aladdin put her down as the two leaned over and kissed. "What are you doing here?"
"Long story!" Sadira laughed a bit as she turned to a confused Jafar. "But to give you the short version, my friend Sora is currently fighting this evil vizier here who happens to have the princess captured, and Sora and Jasmine happen to be boyfriend and girlfriend."
Donald and Goofy, hearing that part, jumped up in shock as they turned to a blushing Sora, with Donald glaring at the boy. "What? So, rather than go look for us, you spent your time flirting with other girls!"
"Now, Donald, it's not like you acted any different." Goofy pointed out. "Didn't you say in your college years with Jose and Panchito that you spent your time chasing after beautiful wom-"
Donald's eyes widened in panic as he used his hand to slam Goofy's mouth shut as he looked around in a panic. "Don't! Daisy might hear you!"
Jafar frowned as he looked over at the new additions. "Now what do we have here?"
At that moment, Jafar noted something interesting in Donald's hands as his eyes widened in interest. For in the duck's hands was the very lamp he had sought to find.
And that's the tenth chapter done! How did you guys like it? Next time, the fight with Jafar and the lamp ensues, only for an unexpected twist to happen! What's the twist? You'll have to wait and see! Anyway, read, review, criticize and suggest, folks!