Authors Note: Hey guys! As promised, here's the next chapter for you. Thanks to SpringBorn, psychicshipping, kingdomdisney, Angel Of Randomosity, and two Anons. for their reviews. Thanks also to nijy and SunsetGlory for their follows/favorites. So, yeah. Here's Agrabah! Enjoy!
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Upon arriving at the next world, Katy was happy to see that it was one they had visited in the past. Pulling the outfit she'd brought especially for Agrabah out of her bag, (She hadn't wanted to be unprepared like last time.) she emerged with the others in a white tank top, a pair of shorts, and flip-flops.
"Agrabah! The land of genies and ponies!" she laughed to herself, ignoring the strange glances it got her.
"There were no ponies here the last time…" Sora said, confused.
"I know. But Genie said he's give Aladdin one for me when I asked. I wonder if he ever made that wish."
"Yeah, I wonder how Aladdin n' Jasmine are doin'" Goofy wondered.
"Hey, maybe Riku's with them! And the King!" Sora added
"Aw, Keep dreaming." Donald mumbled, grumpily.
"C'mon, you were thinking the same thing!" Sora protested.
While the ten and the duck bickered with Katy periodically rolling her eyes at them, Goofy was lagging behind, checking out the scenery. Out of the corner of his eye, he spied a red and blue parrot, flying awkwardly close to the four of them.
Wait, red and blue parrot?
"Hey! It's…um…uh…" He searched for the name "It's Iago!"
In a split second, Sora, Katy and Donald whipped around, weapons drawn.
"No, Wait! You've got me all wrong!"
"You're Iago all right." Donald disagreed, waving his staff threateningly in the bird's direction.
"No! I mean it's not the old me. I've turned over a new feather! I'm legit! No more scams. Promise."
"Bet that's your new scam." Sora scoffed.
"I don't know what's worse. Your act or the fact that a parrot just said the word legit." Katy mused
"You gotta believe me!"
"Pssh! Boring. Let's get out of here." Katy said, turning to leave, the others following.
"I was stuck inside that lamp with Jafar, remember? Well, I finally escaped. But then some things happened and…" He trailed off
"Free as a bird, huh?" Sora mocked.
"Those "some things" that happened must have been real bad. Good riddance!" Katy said, still not ready to be forgiving.
"Gawrsh fellas, he seems pretty sad." Goofy protested, worried.
Sensing a change in heart, Iago flew over.
"I want to apologize to Aladdin and Jasmine. Could you guys maybe put in a good word for me?" He asked, sounding desperate.
"Sure, we can do that, can't we?" Goofy replied, looking to the others for confirmation.
Donald Katy and Goofy exchanged glances, still unconvinced. So wrapped up in conversation, they didn't notice the Heartless behind them until Iago called "watch out!"
It was a seemingly endless supply of Shadows and Luna bandits. Because of the sweltering temperature, it seemed to last even longer, and they just kept coming.
"Where are they all coming from?" Sora panted, frustrated.
Two of the bandits spotted Iago perched on a clay jar. They went after him in a rush, causing the parrot to panic and knock over the jar in his rapid retreat. He flew in circles, knocking over other objects and coincidentally, creating an opening for the four heroes.
"This way!" Sora said, running down an alley, Katy, the talking animals, and Iago behind him.
After they finally lost the Bandits, the four agreed to let Iago tag along with them, although they weren't sure he'd been much "help" as he said. He'd just gotten lucky when he was trying to run away…
And so they began their long trek to the Palace. Joy.
Katy once again brought up the rear, looking around nervously. What Demyx had said about turning up where she happened to be every once in awhile was still fresh in her mind, and she was on high alert She hoped he was dense enough to try again so soon, and she hadn't felt that horrible "someone's watching me' feeling at all since they got here. Plus, Agrabah didn't seem like his kind of place. Not a lot of water in the desert.
"Look, we're almost there!"
Donald's cry of excitement broke her out of her thoughts. Sure enough, they could see the palace in the distance. Mood brightened by the promise of shade, Katy doubled her pace, bringing her to the front of the group.
"Let's hurry! It looks a lot cooler over there!"
As they entered the Palace courtyard, they quickly caught sight of the Sultan's daughter.
"Jasmine!" Sora called.
Jasmine turned around, startled, but her face brightened when she saw the familiar faces.
"Hello you four!"
They all bowed in greeting, causing the Princess to giggle.
"I never had the chance to thank you for before. You helped Aladdin defeat that awful Jafar and saved Agrabah."
"All in a day's work!" Sora replied, stretching his arms behind his head.
Katy didn't answer, she was much too distracted by the amusing sight of Iago attempting to stay hidden behind Goofy.
"It looks like the Heartless are acting up again, is there any way we could help you out?" Sora asked, concerned.
"I think we're alright, for now." Jasmine replied.
"And ya always got Aladdin!" Goofy added.
Jasmine looked away.
"He…hasn't been himself lately."
"Is it because of the Heartless?" Donald asked, looking around as though he expected them to pop out of the bushes.
"I'm not sure. Usually, he's the same cheerful Aladdin. But sometimes, he just seems sad. He leaves the Palace and goes off by himself all the time. I've asked him about it, but he says nothing's wrong."
If this wasn't a Disney game, I'd say he was cheating on her.
"He's gone again today, what if he doesn't come back this time?"
"Hey! Maybe he's got a secret girlfriend! I know! I'll go find out who she is!"
Apparently, Iago and I are on the same page…not sure if that's a good thing.
Jasmine gasped
"Iago! Quick, Sora! Catch him! I'll go warn the guards and everyone in the Palace!"
"For a parrot?" Katy muttered
"That's the thing! Iago's not…" Sora shouted after her, but the Princess was already out of earshot. He glared at the parrot. "Nice move."
"Maybe it's something you said." Goofy supplied helpfully.
Iago sighed while the others decided to work out the Aladdin problem.
"Let's just go find him. We're only in the middle of the desert. How hard could it be?" Katy suggested sarcastically
"Well, he's gotta be somewhere in town, right?" Goofy asked.
"Yeah, let's go. I wonder what he's been doing." Sora said, walking out of the courtyard.
"I was kidding!" Katy mumbled with a sigh, following the others back into the blaring heat.
Making their way back to town, they weren't searching long when they heard a shopkeeper cry out
"Stop, thief!"
Abu, Aladdin's pet monkey, skittered over their feet, a very familiar lamp clutched in his tiny paws. Aladdin followed seconds after, calling a quick "Hi, Sora!" over his shoulder as he continued to flee from the angry merchant.
They soot there awkwardly for a moment before Katy busted out laughing.
"I forgot how much I like that guy." She snickered as they ran after him.
They caught up with Abu and Aladdin in a dead end alley, Aladdin being chewed out by the shop keeper.
"If you can't control that fur ball, put him on a leash." The man said, crossly.
"Look, I'm sorry!" Aladdin said, raising his hands in surrender and turning to his faithful monkey companion "You should be ashamed of yourself, Abu." He chastised, sternly, taking the lamp from him.
Handing it back to the merchant, the former thief laughed nervously.
"No hard feelings?"
The shopkeeper just glared at him, and stalked back to his stall.
Sighing, Aladdin rounded back on his pet.
"Abu!—"
He didn't get to finish his rant, because Abu was scampering towards Sora, Katy and the others, taking sanctuary on the lavender haired girl's shoulder. Aladdin grinned at them sheepishly.
"Hey, guys. Sorry about earlier. I was kinda in a hurry."
"What happened?" Sora asked, genuinely interested.
"Yeah, I thought you were over the whole 'street rat' gig." Katy added, playing with Abu, who was running back and forth over her shoulders.
"You know Abu! We couldn't keep his paws off that lamp."
At that, the monkey stopped his fun and protested by making screechy-monkey noises at Aladdin, who shook his head.
"No talking your way out of this one."
Sora, Donald, and Goofy snickered, while Katy glared playfully at them.
"Hey! Don't blame Abu, he couldn't help himself! Right?" she asked the monkey on her shoulder, who made a sound of agreement and snuggled into her neck.
"So Aladdin, What's been going on?" Sora asked.
"Well…"
Aladdin began to explain his predicament to them, and they in turn, told him about the Iago situation. They decided to go over and talk to the shopkeeper about how they could get their hands on the lamp. (Katy agreed to stay over to the side with Abu, in case there were some hard feelings.
Meanwhile, over at the Cave of Wondrous Perils, our absolute favorite villain (who we STILL haven't seen enough of apparently) was up to some trouble…
After the peddler agreed to give them the lamp in exchange for a treasure from the Cave of Wonders, our group made their way over and reached it just as night fell.
They fought through the Valley of stone, leaving a trial of defeated Fat Bandits, Fiery Globes, and Fortunetellers in their wake, and finally reached the final chamber, which featured a pink, diamond shaped gem suspended in mid air.
Because of his love of shiny things, Abu jumped on the gem, causing a row of menacing looking statues to appear. Since Abu would not let go of the gem, no matter how much they coaxed, they led him to the other side of the room where a niche the same size and shape as the pink stone was engraved. Abu placed the gem in the niche and the statue at the opposite end of the hall disappeared to reveal a doorway, which led to the chasm of challenges. Whoop de friggin' do.
After a long and puzzle filled journey that no one really wanted to talk about, they finally reached the treasure room. Filled to the brim with gold and jewels, it was every thief's wet dream. Fixing their gazes on the lard bejeweled cup at the end of the room, Aladdin nodded.
"That should do it."
Donald ran to the altar the large cup sat on, blissfully unaware of Pete's presence coming from the other direction.
"Oh boy! It's perfect. That guy's gonna like this!"
"Sure looks valuable." Sora agreed.
"Great! Now let's go get that lamp!" Aladdin replied, determined.
At the mention of the lamp, Pete's ears perked up.
"We gotta keep Jafar bottled up or he'll destroy Agrabah!" Aladdin continued, causing Pete to snicker with glee. He turned to leave the back way, snapping his fingers as he left.
Taking their cue, the Heartless appeared.
"Why does this always happen." Donald muttered
Katy was inclined to agree.
They defeated the Silver Rock's, grabbed the cup, and swiftly exited the Cave of Wonders, hoping they wouldn't have to return any time soon.
As they made their way back to the Bazaar, Katy's thought's once again turned to Demyx. She was thankful he hadn't followed her, she really needed a break from all of the drama, and killing Heartless uninterrupted was a good way to let off some steam. But, now that she thought about it, she was getting kind of worried. Demyx was pretty harmless, and he wasn't showing up for any other reason but the fact that he wanted to. They hadn't heard from Organization XIII since they visited Beast's Castle and Katy couldn't shake the feeling that it was because they were cooking up some horrible plot.
Her thoughts were once again interrupted, this time for their arrival at Agrabah's shopping center. However, the peddler with the lamp was nowhere to be found.
"Hello?" Aladdin called
His answer was Pete's muffled voice from behind a tapestry demanding
"Stop your whining and hand it over"
"Oh, no! I'm trading it for treasure! This lamp is going to bring me riches!" The shopkeeper replied.
Bursting through the hanging cloth, they were met by the rather amusing sight of Pete chasing the peddler around, attempting to get is mitts on the lamp.
They followed them all the way back to the castle courtyard, listening (still quite amused) to their bickering.
"Thank you!"
"It's mine!"
"Lamp hog!"
"Go away!"
"Hah! I win!" Pete help up the lamp, victorious until Iago flew over and snatched it out of his hands.
"Nice one Iago!"
"Way to go!"
"Don't drop it"
"Look out! Behind, ya!"
"Oh, he is so screwed."
Pete and the peddler were both after the parrot, grabbing at him as the flew towards the Palace wall, Flying up quickly, Both of his pursuers ran head along into the brick. The peddler was down for the count, but Pete managed to stay upright. In his excitement, Iago wasn't looking where he was going and he too crashed into a wall dropping the lamp, coincidentally at Pete's feet. The villain quickly snatched it up.
"Nice try bird boy. You just wait until Jafar is free. He's gonna make on beauty of a Heartless."
Yeah, they would have been worried, but at that moment the ground started to shake, so they had bigger concerns.
Just when all hope was lost (not really, it was only Pete, his plans never work) everyone's favorite Genie came flying out of the sky with a shout of "I'm HOME!"
Not quite looking where he was going, he swooped around Pete blabbering,
"Al! It's been eons!"
He tackled Pete into a rather awkward hug, still thinking it was Aladdin.
"Al, you princely little muffin, you! Cosmic travel can get so lonely without a friend. To think I left you forlorn and genieless. Oh the HUMANITY!"
"Uh, Genie?" the real Aladdin tried to cut in, but the blue guy just kept going.
"Al, have you been putting on weight? Aw, of course! What am I saying? You're living at the Palace now! Aladdin! Jasmine!" Gene split himself into two and copied his friends' voices, shooting fireworks shaped like hearts into the sky before appearing next to Pete again.
"I can just picture it! Wait, tell me. Am I being a pest? Just a big blue pest? Aw, who cares, Al! I'm just so glad to see you!" He gave Pete another crushing hug.
"Genie…" Aladdin said again from behind him, by this time Katy and the others were almost in hysterics.
Genie looked from Aladdin, to Pete, and back to Aladdin before stating "oops?" and pushing Pete to the ground. The villain panted.
"I'll teach you to make a fool outta me!"
No one heard him, however. Genie was too busy hugging the real Aladdin and Sora, Katy, Donald, and Goofy were trying to pick themselves off the floor. Pete glowered.
"Fine, time for plan B. I'm gonna finish off you runts right now."
He slammed his fist on the ground, summoning two giant Heartless, better known as the Volcanic Lord and the Blizzard Lord. Double boss battle? Oh, Pete you shouldn't have!
…Seriously, was this necessary?
Using their trusty-rusty action commands, there were able to take down the two Lords fairly quickly and with little injury, none if you didn't count Katy's hangnail, which she couldn't remember if she got before or after the battle.
Needless to say, Pete was not happy.
"You! You messed with me for the last time. I'm gonna get you yet." He ran off and no one bothered to follow him. He was such a fail-villain.
With the help of genie and the magic carpet, the rode back out to the desert and put Jafar's lamp in a heavy stone casket, hopefully where no one would ever find it.
Later on, they were chasing Abu around the Palace courtyard trying to pry a stone Cave of Wonders gem from his paws. Donald managed to get ahold of it because after shaking himself out of it's hypnotizing shine he glared and said "Aw, who needs it." Before throwing it to the ground.
Apparently, they needed it because it quickly turned into the passage to the next world that Sora needed to unlock. Lucky Abu stole it, huh?
Saying their goodbyes to Aladdin and Jasmine, and promising to come back (Genie still owed Katy her pony after all) they went back to the Gummi ship and prepared to leave for their next destination.
Upon boarding the ship, Chip N' Dale informed them that Twilight Town had re appeared. Happy as they were to be able to visit Hayner, Olette, and Pence again, they set course for another world that needed their help.
The re-appearance of the town made Katy even more nervous. She couldn't help but think something bad and Organization related was going to happen soon.
She was right. Back on Destiny Islands, Kairi was about to get the adventure she always wanted.
A/N: Well, there you have it! The next chapter is going to be another brief interlude type one which may or may not have some Cassie and Ryan stuff, so stay tuned! I'll try to get Halloween Town or at least half of it up as well. See ya later!