((I own none of these original Disney characters from the three movies or Saturday morning cartoon series of Aladdin. There will be no crossovers, but this will be a musical story. And some lyrics will be changed to fit the story and I will only be doing a my favorite episodes from the series and some things will stay the same others will change. Also a few head-canons will be thrown in as well as known scrapped Disney ideas for the series. I hope you enjoy this retelling ^^))
Back at palace, Jaara emerging from her secret chambers. She slides the door shut carefully, but the prince comes storming in before she is finished. "Jaara?" She slams it shut, pinning Iago inside the door frame. "Oh, uh, prince." "Awk! Jaara, I'm stuck!" "How may I be of service to you?" She spreads out her cape, hiding the door and the stuck bird. "The guards just took a girl from the market, on your orders." Aladdin says as he glares at Jaara. "Your father's charged me with keeping peace in Agrabah. The girl was a criminal."
"Oh really? What was the crime?" The prince asks her. Iago pulls on Jaara's cape. I can't breathe, Jaara!" She glances at the bird then looks back at the prince. "Why, kidnapping the prince, of course." "If you could just- " Jaara kicks him back inside the door and it slams shut. "-wow, that hurt!" "She didn't kidnap me! I ran away!" Aladdin says loudly. Jaara walking away as if shocked. "Oh, dear! Oh, why frightfully upsetting. Had I but known." The prince looks at the advisor confused. "What do you mean?" Jaara turns back to the young royal. "Sadly, the girl's sentence has already been carried out." Aladdin gives a quizzical look. "What sentence?" With a sinister tone she answers. "Death." Aladdin gasps. "By beheading." He quickly blames himself as he walks then sits down on a cushion.
"No" He whispers to himself. "I am exceedingly sorry, prince." She says while placing her hands on his shoulders. Aladdin quickly turns and glares at her. "How could you?" He gets up and quickly leaves the room while fighting back tears. Iago finally makes it out through the door. He flies up and lands on Jaara's shoulder, coughing very dramatically then stops. "So, how did it go?" "I think he took it rather well." They both get a sinister smile on their faces.
During the night, Aladdin was crying at the edge of the fountain. Abu comes over to comfort him. He looks up at him. "It's all my fault, Abu." He sits up and wipes some of his tears away then looks up at the night sky. "I didn't even know her name."
Unknown to the young royal, in the palace dungeon was the person he was mourning. Rats scurry by up above on chains as Jasmine chained to the wall. She talks to herself "He was the prince. I don't believe it. I must have sounded so stupid to him." From a distance a soft roar is heard. Jasmine looks up to see her friend, Rajah. He appears at the window at the top of the dungeon.
"Rajah! Down here!" Rajah hops and jumps around then walks over to her. "Hey, c'mon-help me outta these." Rajah stops, then begins and makes his eyes big in an imitation of the prince. "Hey, he was in trouble." She shrugs then sighs. "Ah, he was worth it." Rajah jumps up on Jasmine's shoulder and pulls a small bobby-pin from her hair and uses his tail to move in the lock, then frees Jasmine. "Don't worry, Rajah. I'll never see him again. I'm a street rat, remember, and there's a law. He's gotta marry a princess, he deserves a princess." Jasmine pets Rajah's head as thanks then rubs her wrists.
"I'm a-I'm a fool" She says to herself then jumps a bit as she hears a new voice. "You're only a fool if you give up, girl." Jasmine looks over and sees an old woman sitting in the corner that neither Jasmine nor Rajah have seen before. "Who are you?" "A lowly prisoner, like yourself. But together, perhaps we can be more." She gets up and hobbles over then rubs her fingers in the motion of rubbing a coin. Jasmine raises an eyebrow "I'm listening." "There is a cave, girl. A cave of wonders. Filled with treasures beyond your wildest dreams." The old woman shows the street rat her hand full with glowing rubies. Jasmine smiles then as she reaches out to them the old lady puts them away. "Treasure enough to impress even your prince, I'd wager." She winks at the teenage girl.
The old lady turns her back, and Iago sticks his head out of Jaara's "old lady" disguise. "Jaara, can ya hurry it up? I'm dyin' in here!" Jaara then knocks him back into place. Jasmine stands up. "But the law says that only a princess can marry-" "You've heard of the golden rule, haven't you? Whoever has the gold makes the rules." She grins, showing a hideously bad mouth with a odd gold tooth.
"So why would you share all of this wonderful treasure with me?" "I need a young lady with strong legs and a strong back to go in after it." Jaara says as she uses her walking stick to tap Jasmine's legs and back. "Ah, one problem. It's out there, we're in here?" The street rat points out. "Mmm, mmm, mmm.," The old lady walks to a wall and pushes open a hidden exit. "Things aren't always what they seem. So, do we have a deal?" She holds her hand out to Jasmine. She looks at Rajah, who shrugs his shoulders.
Suddenly in the desert leading a horse with the old woman and Rajah on it. They walk up to cave of wonders. The cave is already awake and asks "Who disturbs my slumber?" "It is I, Jasmine." "Proceed. Touch nothing but the lamp." The cave opens up with a roar, and a staircase appears in front of Jasmine. The old lady calls out to her. "Remember, girl-first fetch me the lamp, and then you shall have your reward." She looks at her then looks at the entrance. "C'mon, Rajah." Jasmine whispers as he nuzzles close to her worriedly while on her shoulder.
Jasmine begins to descend the staircase. She reaches the bottom and enters a golden chamber filled with treasure. "Would ya look at that!" Rajah looks around amazed. "Just a handful of this stuff would make me richer than the sultan!" They begin to make their way through the room when a Carpet rises off the floor and begins following them. Rajah gets the feeling they're being followed.
He turns, and the Carpet lies flat on the floor. He continues, and the Carpet begins to follow again. Again, Rajah turns back, but the Carpet is rolled up and leaning against a pile of treasure. Rajah runs to Jasmine and tugs her pant leg. "Rajah, will ya knock it off?" Again the Carpet follows, but this time, when Rajah turns, the carpet jumps to the other side. It reaches down with a tassel and pulls Rajah's tail. When ABU jumps around, CARPET again goes to the other side. This time, Rajah lands in a karate stance. The cub sits thinking for a second, until Carpet waves a tassel in front of his face. Rajah and Carpet both jump scared, and run away. Rajah tackles Jasmine. "Rajah, what are you-crazy?!" And turns her head to look at the Carpet.
The Carpet peeks out from behind a pile of treasure. Jasmine looks in amazement. "A magic carpet! C'mon. C'mon out. I'm not gonna hurt you." She waves for it to come forward. The CARPET slowly comes out, shyly It flies over to Jasmine. Rajah roars, and jumps onto Jasmine's shoulder. "Take it easy, Abu. It's not gonna bite." The Carpet tries to wave friendly at the tiger cub. Rajah hisses at it. Carpet begins to walk away 'sadly.' "Hey, wait a minute. Don't go. Maybe you can help us." Jasmine calls out to it. Carpet looks back, uses its tassels to point at it, as if to ask 'Me?'. Jasmine nods the it gets excited. It then flies over and wraps around the pair. "Hey, whoa! You see, we're trying to find this lamp." She explains to it. Carpet motions for them to follow it. "I think it knows where it is."
They pass through a long cave, until they emerge in a giant underground cavern. In the centre of the room is a tall pillar, with a staircase going up to it. It is surrounded by water with unevenly placed stones forming a bridge. At the top of the pillar is a beam of light. Jasmine begins to cross the bridge. "Wait here!" Rajah nods then sees a shrine with a golden monkey. The outstretched paws hold a giant ruby with an odd glow. Rajah is hypnotically drawn to it. Jasmine climbs the stairs quickly. Carpet sees Rajah and grabs his tail trying in vain to hold him back. Jasmine finally reaches the magic lamp. It doesn't look like much.
"This is it?" She picks it up and turns it a bit while looking at it. "This is what we came all the way down here to-" She looks down and sees Rajah break free of Carpet's hold and lunge toward the jewel. "Rajah? NO!" Rajah touches the jewel then breaks from the trance. There is a rumbling and the room begins to shake. "Infidels!" Rajah whimpers in fear. "You have touched the forbidden treasure." Rajah removes his paw from the jewel, but the jewel and the shrine melt into lava. "Now you will never again see the light of day!" Jasmine races down the steps, but they flatten into a ramp, and she skis down until she flies into the air. The water has turned into lava. She is falling toward it, when all of a sudden Carpet appears and catches her. Rajah is standing on one of the rocks of the bridge. He looks left and right and sees rocks exploding into lava. Then Carpet races over and Jasmine grabs him, just as the last rock is exploding. After which a large wave of lava starts to pursuit them.
"Whoa! Carpet, let's move!" Jasmine shouts. Together, they race back through the caves dodging walls and falling debris. Rajah grabs Jasmine's head and covers her eyes. "Rajah! Ugh!" She tries to remove him from her face. "This is no time to panic!" She pulls Rajah off her head and sees they are flying into a wall. "Start panicking." Carpet goes into a dive, then through another cave. Finally, they emerge through the internal entrance. Outside, the cave begins to growl and close. Carpet and company are almost to the top when a boulder drops on carpet, sending it to the floor. Jasmine grabs onto the rock wall and holds on. She sees the old woman at the top, within reach.
"Help me out! " "Throw me the lamp!" "I can't hold on. Give me your hand." "First give me the lamp!" Jasmine reaches in and pulls out the magic lamp. He hands it up, and the old lady raises it above her head. Her voice breaks back to her normal one. "Ha ha ha ha! Yes! At last! Ha ha ha ha!" Jasmine has climbed out with the assistance of Rajah. But the old lady kicks aside Rajah and grabs Jasmine's wrist. "What are you doing?" "Giving you your reward." Jaara returns to her normal voice. "Your eternal reward."
She pulls out a crooked dagger and is about to stab Jasmine, when Rajah bites her on the wrist. She screams, but lets go of Jasmine, who falls into the cave. Old lady throws Rajah into the cave as well. They fall. Carpet sees this, but is pinned under a boulder. It struggles to break free, then does. It races up and catches Jasmine, but she has already hit the wall several times, and is unconscious. On the surface, the cave roars one final time, then sinks back into the sand. Jaara pulls off his disguise.
"Heh heh heh! It's mine. It's all mine! I" She goes to pull the lamp out of her pocket. She can't find it in her pocket "-where is it?" She pats down her body, the lamp was gone. "No. NO!" Jaara falls on her knees and yells into the night.