School's out finally! =D So you can expect quicker updates, depending on the week. Hope ya'll are enjoying! Here's the next chapter! (I must forewarn you that it was written at like three in the morning! XD )

Yours Truly,

*Elyon*

P.S. WARNING: THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS THE EVER SARCASTIC IAGO.

Chapter Three: An Unwanted Encounter

'Ugh, that took far too long,' Jafar thought as he approached the palace gates.

'Now how am I to enter? Certainly not like this.'

At that moment guards happened to be passing by.

Jafar had to think fast. 'Illusions! Xenos, that fool wasn't specific! But knowing my taste, surely disguises are in the mix.'

Jafar hastily charmed himself to look like a dying shrub; but he wasn't transformed into a shrub. *Hint Hint* If you don't get it now you will later on.

Then Jafar devised something.

'That's it! I shall enter the palace as a lowly servant!'

As soon as a guard entered the gates-fifteen minutes later- Jafar sneaked in, disguised himself as a servant, then began a frantic search for Aria, his impatience growing with each passing minute.

'Where. Is. That. Girl?'

Meanwhile…

Aria entered the large dining hall and sat at the long dark marble table. Also sitting was Genie, Aladdin, and Jasmine, the Sultan at the head of the table. The table was set with fine china and silver. Covering the majority of the middle of it were baskets and baskets of fresh fruit. The Sultan shot Jasmine a quizzical look and nodded toward Aria. Jasmine introduced her, and in reply the Sultan said he was delighted to meet her. After a breakfast of fried eggs, pita bread doused in hummus, and plenty of fruit, the Sultan had to run off. On the way up the stairs they ran into Abu and Carpet. Abu had a look of random jealousy on his face.

"Can I….?" Aria asked, glancing at Carpet.

Carpet gave its best "nod".

Without hesitation, she hopped on, going in a million loop-de-loops as the Sultan had done many years before. After this the six ended up in the room where the lamp was kept, playing Monopoly. (Genie had used magic to get the game, considering it's from the 1960's or something.) It was a hot Summer day and the group began to get lazier and lazier-At one point Genie decided to move all the pieces with magic-, Aria and Genie even forgot about what was happening with Lebenah. Awhile later, with Jasmine in the lead, they were all hungry again.

"Want me to POOF! Something up?" Genie asked Aladdin.

"Nah, it's fine." Aladdin said.

Aladdin called for a servant.

The servant wore the usual, whatever that was,(XD let me know if you know how Arabian servants dress!) his hair cut into an Arabian buzzcut, and his face normal, exactly the reason why Aladdin, nor Genie, nor Jasmine recognized him.

"Anything in particular?" the servant inquired.

"Not really," Aladdin answered.

"I'll pick out something," Aria piped up. "In fact, I'll bring it up myself, my leg's asleep anyway."

"Do you know how do get to the kitchen Miss?" the servant asked.

"Now that I think about it," Aria said. "I don't, considering how big this place is, will you take my turn for me Carpet?"

Carpet gave another one of those weird nods. With that Aria and the servant walked out of the room and started down the stairs.

"I have to say," Jafar (The servant!) said. "Xenos was quite right about this being far easier under the circumstances."

Aria spun around, now face-to-face with the silver scarab Jafar was holding. A bright light filled every corner of Aria's vision. She cried out, for she felt something stabbing at her side. When she could see again, she was in a cramped space that was pure white. On one wall was a small circular window that showed the real world. There was another stab and Aria hastily turned around, to see a fat red and blue parrot holding a sharpened shard of glass.

The parrot snickered. "I never get tired of that. Alright Jafar you can close it up,"

There was the sound of something being slammed shut. Aria looked through the window, seeing a hallway of the palace. The scene was moving though. It appeared to be that someone was running. There was yet another jab.

"Ouch! Cut it out you little bastard!" Aria snapped.

Her eyes flashed orange, red encircling her pupil.

"It wasn't me this time I swear!" Iago defended, though he stifled a laugh.

It really hadn't been. Aria didn't notice that she was backing up. Had she moved another inch and she would've been pierced with living glass. Another foot and she would've died, for there was an entire wall of it. The space, she realized, was actually a lot smaller. What was this place? Why was she here? Honestly, Aria didn't have any plans for finding out. Out of anger she pounded on the window, hoping for a miracle, but to no avail. *cough*yet*cough*

"I wouldn't do that if I were you," Iago warned.

"And what?" Aria looked the bird dead in the eye. "You going to stab me with your little toy?"

Aria gritted her teeth. The glass dagger Iago was holding shined for a second then broke into tiny pieces. Iago jumped backward, almost hitting the spiny wall. Aria remained oblivious to the fact that she'd caused this to happen.

He actually looked a little scared. "Never mind, please, continue, I insist."

Aria did so, but after another minute of fruitless work, she sunk to the floor in defeat.

'I wish I could just POOF! out of here.' Aria thought.

Me: But you can.

Aria: Oh yeah. *head-palms* too bad I don't remember that at the moment.

Me: It won't matter anyway.

Aria: Why's that?

Me: You'll see.

My conscience: Back to the damn story already!

Me: Right.

Wish…

…Wish…

…Wish….

…..I…Wish…..

Aria's hands began to glow with pink magic. She stared at them for a second.

"Jaf-!" Iago was cut off when Aria grabbed him by the throat.

"Why…..me…?" Iago gasped.

Aria tossed him to the floor, and just for the hell of it gave one last pound on the glass of the window. The glass was suddenly tinted pink, and it was only mere seconds before it shattered into a million pieces, just as Iago's dagger had. Aria shielded her eyes with her hands. She was then sucked back into the real world by an invisible force. She and Iago tumbled out of the now non-existent beetle. Aria stood, facing her captor's back. Jafar spun around when he noticed the scarab shattering. He brushed the pieces of glass from his eyes and gritted his teeth. (And yes, amazingly enough, there was no one on the main floor of the palace at the moment.) He was ugly to look upon, with a twisty black beard, thin arched eyebrows, and wore a robe and turban that was black and outlined red. Aria didn't know who the guy was, but she was pissed. Fueled by her aura, she aimed magic at the miser and Iago and blew both of them back to where they'd started, the very limits of Agrabah. I'd like to say they've could've gone halfway around the world, but Xenos's force field was still around the city (active only for Jafar and Iago) and they were slammed into it.

The non-powered genie and his pet cursed in unison as they sank to the dirt street.

Luckily no one had really noticed the thick beam of magic in the sky, nor the two figures being thrown with it, but the people in the palace were shaken from the impact, and they all poured down the stairs to find out what exactly had happened. As Jasmine, Aladdin and the others hurried down, Genie had already POOF!ed at the bottom of the stairs, highly concerned for Aria, though not knowing until he got there that she was not in the kitchen, but by the door, looking down at her hands with eyes as wide as the earth itself.

"Ar! You okay? What happened?" Genie asked when he reached Aria, embracing her. "Wait…. What'd you do?"

He released her, crossed his arms, raised an eyebrow, and waited for a reply. Aria didn't answer, but just started to climb the stairs again back up to her room. As she did so, everyone except herself, Aladdin, Abu, Carpet, Jasmine, or Genie glowed for a split second. Instinctively, Aria made it so everyone except for those listed had forgotten the previous events. Or more so, Aria's magic made it so. Could magic control you? One problem seemed to lead to another nowadays… Now back in the room, Aria sat on one side of the Monopoly bored, trying to process everything.

Wish…

…..Wish…..

...Wish…..

Wish…..

..I…Wish…

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