Chapter 7

The wind howled and thrust the sand against the teenagers' faces. They all tried their best to walk against the wind, and tried to see into the deserty night sky.

"How'd we even get into this mess?" Jake asked the gang, they all glared at him. "Oh right, sorry..."

Soon, the same tiger head burst out of the sand and confronted the gang.

"Who disturbers my slumber?" It demaded.

"Go on, Danny, you're the brave one." Ali urged him.

"Gee, thanks." He said. "It is I, Danny."

The cave looked closely at Danny.

"Proceed, touch nothing but the lamp." The cave ordered. It's mouth opened and showed a flight of stairs.

"Remember, first fetch me the lamp and then you shall have your reward." Freakshow reminded Danny and his friends, gathering up all their courage...they pushed Danny ahead.

"Come on, guys." Danny glared at them as they followed him down the narrow steps, as they reached the bottom they could see a golden glow coming from a room, it turned out to be a chamber filled with gold.

"Well would you look at that!" Danny exclaimed.

"Yeah, just a handful of this would make me richer than the king." Beast Boy said, amazed.

"Speaking of which...CANNONBALL!" Jake exclaimed while preparing to dive into a pile of gold.

"Jake, no!" Ali exclaimed, he stopped in mid air. "Don't touch anything, we've got to find that lamp."

"We've got to find that lamp." Jake mimicked in a squeaky voice.

"I heard that." Ali warned him, he followed her nervously, but he didn't stay to see a small, green badly-drawn rectangle with a smiley face on it under his feet move, it then rose up of the floor, hovering in the air and it seemed to be looking around for something.

"Blocky, come here!"

"But, I..." The rectangle stammered.

"Just come here, alright?"

Blocky ingored the voice and followed Jake.

"That rectangle is SO DEAD!"

Blocky hovered right over Jake, but he got the feeling that he was being followed, Jake turned around, there was nothing, he continued his way again. Jake turned around again and saw nothing, feeling afraid, he ran up and tugged on Danny's leg.

"Danny..." He muttered, scared.

"Jake, will you knock it off?" Danny warned him.

Again Blocky followed, but this time when Jake turned around, it went behind him. Then Blocky pulled on his tail.

"HIYYAAAAA!" Jake yelled, striking a karate pose. Beast Boy heard it and rolled his eyes.

"Blocky, come here, now!"

Jake turned around, he swore he heard a voice, suddenly, a girl wearing an arabic outfit sneaked up from behind the treasure piles.

"BLOCKY!" The girl exclaimed.

"Alright, alright, i'm coming already." Blocky told her as he floated towards her, unfortunately Jake saw this and ran, screaming at the top of his voice, towards Danny, Beast Boy and Ali. They all toppled over.

"Jake, what are you, crazy?" Danny asked Jake.

"Is that a trick question?" Beast boy asked him.

"What's going...on." Ali asked him as she took a look at the treasure piles, there she saw a girl hiding and a flying rectangle.

"A magic drawing..." Danny said in awe.

"And a really, REALLY pretty girl..." Beast Boy muttered. Ali just gave him a smack on the head.

"Come on out, we won't hurt you." Danny urged them, they both came out. The girl was wearing a white arabian outfit with yellow jewels lined by the sides of her shirt and pants.

"Um...hi." The girl said shyly.

"Hi, who are you?" Ali asked her.

"Me? Oh, I'm WolfChibi-chan, and this is my friend Blocky." The girl said, pointing to her and then to Blocky. "We've been in this cave forever. Who are you?"

"I'm Ali, that's Beast Boy, and that's Danny." Ali said, pointing to her friends.

"What about me?" Jake asked.

"What about you?" Beast Boy joked.

"That's Jake, he's a little..." Ali rolled her finger around her ear.

"Oh, right..." WolfChibi-Chan smiled.

"Sorry for scaring you." Blocky apologized to Jake, but he just screeched madly at him, Blocky, feeling hurt turned back in the other direction.

"Come on, WolfChibi-Chan. They don't want us here." Blocky told her, she looked at them and followed him.

"Hey, wait a minute, don't go. Maybe you can help us." Danny said, Blocky turned around, excited.

"Yeah, I can do that!" Blocky exclaimed, flying around Danny.

"You see, we're trying to find this lamp." Beast Boy told her.

"Lamp, oh right, follow me!" WolfChibi-Chan exclaimed, running off, but blocky went under her feet and lifted her up.

"Come on guys." Danny exclaimed as they were led down elaborate passageways, until they reached a dark chamber with only one thing lighted up, a small purple lamp. Danny made his way to the lamp.

"Stay here." He told his friends.

"Got it." They all said.

Suddenly, Jake caught sight of a golden monkey holding up a big ruby. He licked his lips in greed, Blocky nervously watched Danny until he saw Jake eyeing the diamond and going nearer to it.

"Jake!" He exclaimed, all the others turned their attention on him.

"NO!" They shouted.

Danny was making his way towards the lamp and he picked it up carefully.

"This is it? This is what we came all the way down here to..." Danny started before he saw Jake launching himself for the ruby and slipping out of everyone's grasp. "JAKE! NO!"

"Infidels!" The cave exclaimed.

"Now you've done it." WolfChibi-Chan said, worriedly.

"You have touched the forbidden treasure, now you will never again see the light of day!" The cave shouted as it's walls came down. Danny raced down the steps, but they turned into a ramp, he slid down it until it ended and he flew up to the air, the water suddenly became lava and he fell towards it.

"I got you!" Beast boy exclaimed, turning into a dragon and headed towards Danny, he caught him on his back, then he scooped up Jake and Ali while Blocky picked WolfChibi up.

"We have to get out now! I've seen the last guy that's been in this cave and it wasn't pretty." WolfChibi told them.

They raced for the exit dodging fire bolts and pillars on the way there, Jake, feeling incredibly scared right now, threw himself over Danny's head, covering his eyes.

"Jake, this is no time to panic!" Danny exclaimed, before he saw a wall right in front of him.

"Would you like to do the honor of shouting at the top of your lungs?" Ali asked him.

"Be my guest." Danny replied before they all screamed loudly.

They almost made it to the exit before a rock slammed down on Blocky and WolfChibi chan, knocking her out and getting Blocky stuck. Beast Boy, Ali and Danny was close to the exit, but then Danny got hit by a rock and was dangling from a piece of the steps.

"Give me your hand!" Danny shouted to freakshow, who was watching him.

"First give me the lamp!" Freakshow excliamed as Danny reached into his pocket and pulled out the lamp, he handed it to freakshow.

"AT LAST!" Freakshow said, maniacally. He saw Beast Boy trying to help Danny up, but Freakshow just kicked him aside and grabbed Danny's wrist.

"What are you doing?" Danny exclaimed.

"Giving you your reward." Freakshow said, holding up a crooked Dagger. "Your eternal reward."

Suddenly, Jake jumped up and bit his hand...hard. Freakshow yelled in pain as he dropped Danny, Beast Boy and Ali flew inside to get him, but they got hit by rocks. Enraged, freakshow dropped Jake into the pit as well. The cave closed up under them.

Freakshow smiled at his success. He pulled his disguise off and reached into his pocket to find the lamp.

"At last, I've got it! It's mine...where is it?" Freakshow asked himself as he rummaged through his pocket to find the lamp. "Where is it?! NOOOO!"

"Freakshow, you just got bit by a monkey, shouldn't you be worrying about that?" Plankton asked him.

"Good point...does this look infected to you?" Freakshow asked him.