Chapter Five

Smack!

The water felt just like cement, only instead of staying on top of it, Abu and I dived into it. The water was freezing but refreshing, or at least I think it would be refreshing had I not been hurled at it with full force of Genie.

It didn't take long for the shock to wear off. I grabbed Abu and dragged him up to the surface. We both took in a long breath of clean air. There was no dust from Agraba or anything. No camel feces. No forbidden water to drink out of or even spray-painted grass. It was kinda nice, but I was still in the water.

Tick-Tock Tick-Tock

Abu and I looked behind us. The water showed a slight rippling.

Tick-Tock Tick-Tock

"Abu?" I quivered. "Are you ticking?"

"No…Are you ticking?" he asked me, just as unsure.

"No…."

The ticking kept coming, closer and closer, louder and louder. Now the rippling was surrounding us. They started becoming stronger and closer together until all at once they stopped. Nothing.

"Abu?"

Abu shrugged and kept huddling to me. We started off towards shore. We had swam for about ten minutes before we heard the Tick-Tock again. The water had formed ripples, solid and close together.

"Ah-oh," stated the wise monkey.

Bubbles started to form at the surface and then something green. A head! The head was attached to a green body. It jumped out of the water in one huge splash and came back down in a very ungraceful belly flop. It was a crocodile.

"Swim!" I yelled to Abu. He just looked at me while already on my back.

"Oh, right." So I started to swim. And I swam, the crocodile tick-tocking right behind me.

What should have taken ten minutes turned out to be only five. We reached the shore in record time. The crocodile didn't follow us up; instead he sulked in the water, glaring at us. I glared back. But I was wet, cold, hungry, and wanted to find my girlfriend, Tink.

It was nearly nightfall when I knocked on the wooden door that was placed on a huge tree. The bark was a dark brown, almost a grey; the sharp deep green leaves surrounded the great tree, the many branches making the tree a perfect climbing tree.

Abu looked around. He saw a leaf he wanted and grabbed at it. The branch moved away from his grasp. Abu froze, giving me a look of confusion. Then he turned around to grab the leaf again. Again, he missed. The third time he jumped onto the branch. The branch wiggled and tried to shake Abu off. Abu clung on. He tried to pick the leaf off from the branch, but no matter how much he tried, the leaf stayed put.

Finally, Abu fell to the ground, the leaf still on the branch. He looked up at it and snapped his fingers.

"Drat," he muttered. As he said it the leaf flew away, disappearing into the night sky.

"That was weird," I remarked. Abu just glared at me.

"Aladdin!"

I turned around to see a little ball of light. Tinker Bell was glowing so bright I thought she was going to burst. She flew to me and gave me a kiss on the cheek. She wore her skimpy little green dress with her tiny green slip-ons. Her yellow hair was pulled back into a ponytail with a blue tie. Her blue eyes sparkled, her red lips pulled into a smile. Golly, she was pretty.

"I wanna make love right naw naw naw. I wanna make love right naw naw naw. I wish we'd never broke up right naw naw naw."

Akon.

I glared at Tink. She glowed slightly brighter and a little reddish.

"You listen to Akon?"

Tink just smiled. Abu found the remote for the stereo and changed CDs. Amish Paradise started playing next. I love Weird Al.

Abu started singing with it. The next song was completely unsuspected.

"Eminem? You listen to Eminem?" Tinker Bell took the remote from Abu and changed it back to Akon, Smack That. Better, but not by much.

Knock Knock Knock

"It's Peter," Tink sighed. "You will be good, right?" Tink put her arms on her hips.

"Yeah, I'll be good. He's going to leave soon right?" Tink ignored me and opened the door.

"Tink!" exclaimed Peter Pan. "Guess what."

"Well first you should meet two guests," she said. She pointed to me. "This is my boyfriend, Aladdin and his monkey," she pointed to Abu. Abu started to protest but I kicked him silent.

"Your boyfriend," asked Peter. "Oh. Um, nice to meet you Aladdin." He shook my hand. "I like monkeys. Come here little guy," he said holding his hand for Abu to sniff.

"I don't sniff on demand," Abu stated.

"Oh," Peter said surprised. "You can talk."

"No love-a-toe duh," replied Abu, his arms crossed over his chest. "I'm a monkey, what would you expect."

After about ten minutes with us Peter had to go. He said the Lost Boys needed checking up on. I didn't know how you could check up on lost boys, them being lost and everything, but he could apparently. Tink didn't seem surprised.

"Aladdin, you look tired. Here, this is your bedroom," she gestured to a nice cozy little room. It was furnished with a queen sized bed, a dresser with a mirror attached, a small chair next to a round window. A table lay next to the bed with a small blue lamp. There was a light blue circular rug on the floor.

"Gee, thanks," I said.

"No prob. Is Abu ok with sleeping with you?" she asked.

"Yeah, he'd prefer it."

"Ok. Good. The bathroom is the last door on the left," she said, pointing down the small hallway to the bathroom. "My room is the second door to the right." Only one door over from mine on the opposite side.

We hugged and kissed then parted our separate ways. I went to bed wondering how Abu and I had shrank so dramatically so we could fit inside Tink's house. Peter had done the same, but it happened as soon as we had stepped on what I assumed to be a welcome mat.

If Tink had that kind of magical abilities, what would she do to me if I ticked her off?