Last time we left off, Cleo got knocked off the carpet and fell onto the cave floor. If everything else went the same, she'd probably be dead. It's just lucky that Carpet wasn't trapped this time, huh? On to the chapter. Thanks for your reviews, dream lighting, TaylorRiley17 and Xx Rebel Writer xX!

"Lee! Cleo!"

I opened my eyes slowly, rubbing my head. "Ow. I think I lost a couple brain cells." I muttered. Abu had woken me up, and it felt like he might've been trying to do so by pulling my hair. That wasn't good for the headache I had from the fall.

Obviously I hadn't lost my ability to love, because Al was the first thing I thought about when I woke up, just like always. And he happened to be unconscious, lying half on top of Carpet.

"Al!" I shook him gently, anxious.

"Aladdin!" chirped Abu.

Finally, Al groaned as he opened his eyes and let Carpet up. He glared up at the rock-filled opening of the cave, remembering something the man did after I passed out. He shook his fist. "That...two faced son-of-a-jackal!" (What happened to son-of-a-bitch, I wondered.) Then he sighed. "Well, whoever he was, he's long gone with that lamp."

Abu grinned and whipped the lamp out.

Al and I grinned at that. "Why, you hairy little thief!" Al mock-scolded, taking the lamp. "It looks like a worthless, beat-up piece of junk. I think there's something written here-"

"Wait a sec." I said, taking the lamp myself. There was something written, but the lamp was covered in dust, so I started brushing it off.

I stopped as the lamp literally jumped out of my hands, with a glowing outline. Smoke puffed out of it, and eventually revealed a big, blue...um, person? I fought the sense that told me that I should be scared, even though he was the size of a giant.

The person suddenly spoke, addressing no one in particular. "Ten thousand years will give you such a crick in the neck. Hang on a second." He literally picked up his head and twirled it around, then put it back on his neck.

"Wow, does it feel good to be out of there!" he exclaimed, referring to the lamp. Suddenly, he held a mic. "It's great to be back, ladies and gentlemen." He held out the mic to me. "Hi, where you from? What's your name?"

I exchanged puzzled glances with Al and then said, "Um, Cleo Sparks."

"Cleo Sparks!" announced the...I'll just call him a man for now. My name appeared on a convenient sign lit up. "Hello, Cleo, nice to have you on the show. Can we call you Clii, or maybe just Sparks, or how about Ospar?"

I giggled at that. "My friends call me Lee." I told him.

"I must've hit my head harder than I thought." Al whispered to me.

"I see it too." I whispered back.

"You smoke? Mind if I do?" asked Blue, then started laughing as smoke appeared. He then addressed Abu. "Oh, sorry, cheetah, hope I didn't singe the fur." Then he noticed Al at long last, and asked me "So who's this?"

"I'm Aladdin." Al said.

"But I call him Al." I added. "We're basically siblings."

Then there was a little bit with Carpet, before Blue looked at me again and said, "Hey, you're a lot smaller than my last master. Either that, or I'm getting bigger." I hated it when people pointed out how small I was (I was so petite I looked fourteen), but the beer belly appearing on him momentarily told me that he wasn't really serious. "Look at me from the side, do I look different to you?" he asked.

"Wait a second." I said. "Back up. I am your master...mistress...whatever?"

"That's right! She can be taught!" Suddenly, there was a mortarboard on my head and a diploma in my hand.

"What would you wish of me?" continued Blue, starting to parody a bunch of things as he spoke. "The ever impressive, the long contained, often imitated, but never duplicated..." A whole bunch of him appeared for a moment. "Genie of the Lamp! Direct from the lamp, for your own wish fulfillment.."

He was a genie? And why didn't I work it out before? Maybe I really did lose some brain cells.

I mean, in this world, I guessed that a genie in a lamp wasn't really a huge thing. After all, I had rubbed the lamp. So it looked like I got three wishes.

Al still had to have it explained, but I was simply too surprised to believe it.

"This has got to be a joint dream." I whispered.

"Master!" Genie exclaimed, and I could swear I heard music start playing. "I don't think you quite realize what you've got here," Al and I were magically lifted onto a rock. "So why don't you just ruminate whilst I illuminate the possibilities."

He lay in front of us (so we were at eye-level), propped up by his fists. In one, he held out a bunch of frightening-looking thugs who surrounded us. As he did so, he sang "Well Ali Baba had them 40 thieves, Scherazade had a thousand tales,"

Suddenly, he appeared as boxing gloves, which beat away the thieves. "But Master, you're in luck cause up your sleeves, you got a brand of magic never fails!"

Next the scene was a boxing ring. "You've got some power in your corner now, some heavy ammunition in your camp,"

Next he was in the Lamp itself, and grabbed my hand so I rubbed the lamp again. "You got some punch, piyazz, yahoo and how, see all you gotta do is rub that lamp,

And I'll say,"

Al and I were suddenly in chairs at a table. "Mi-iss Cleo, ma'am, what will your pleasure be?

Let me take your order, jot it down, you ain't never had a friend like me."

I couldn't count every time our situation changed, so I'll skip to the end, where some hareem girls were dancing around Al, and a princely guy was swinging me around.

"Mi-iss Cleo, ma'am," Genie sang, "Have a wish or two or three,

I'm on the job," he turned into the girl Al was about to kiss, "You big nabob,"

Things started appearing randomly. "You ain't never had a friend, never had a friend,

You ain't never had a friend, never had a friend,

You ain't never – had a – friend – like – me!"

Abu was trying to gather up the gold, before Genie started swirling everything away.

"You ain't never had a friend like me!" All that was left was a buzzing sign flashing "Applause." Only Carpet did.

Al and I were still adjusting to the situation. But my first thought? Awesomeness!

There! Was that twist with Cleo being the one to rub the lamp predictable or what? That has only happened in one "OC-in-Aladdin" that I've read, but whatever. Please, review!