Completely ignoring me, Razoul snarled down at Aladdin, "And this time…." But his triumphant speech was interrupted by Abu's screeching before Razoul's hat was pulled down over his eyes. In an attempt to tug the garment free from his eyes, he had released Aladdin who turned and grabbed and awning hook and used it to grab my captor's ankle. With a yank the guard fell, unfortunately taking me with him and when we hit the ground, my head snapped back and knocked into his chin with a crack. The wind knocked out of him, I rolled free and stood rubbing the back of head. Raising an eyebrow, I turned to Aladdin. "Smooth kid, real smooth."
He had the decency to grin sheepishly before turning and saluting his primate companion. "Perfect timing, Abu!" the chipper little monkey chattered and tipped his tiny hat before jumping up to Aladdin's shoulder. Aladdin then ran to me, grabbed my arm, and pulled me along into a sprint down the alleyway as I familiar rhythm began echoing around us. "Come on, let's get outta here!"
Gotta keep
One jump ahead of the breadline
One swing ahead of the sword
I steal only what I can't afford
That's Everything!
As we turned a corner we ran into a rather large guard, and Al does some tricky flips, miming sword fighting with his loaf of bread. He dodges a couple of swings, then pulls down the guard's pants. Abu stuck his tongue out at the guard as a distraction, then dodges an attack. The guard then swings at me, and with a significantly less grace I dodged out of the way, but the guard destroys a barrel of fish that had been a pace behind me. As we ran off, the guard pulled a fish over his lower body as a pair of pants by mistake. I shook my head as Aladdin threw his head back in laughter.
One jump ahead of the lawmen
That's all, and that's no joke
These guys don't appreciate I'm broke
I ducked behind a stack of barrels as Aladdin and Abu race up them, leading a few of the Guards to chase up after them. Aladdin turned and with a wicked grin kicked a barrel from the top, knocking the guards down like bowling pins as it rolled down the pile. Covered in the mud from the puddles they had landed in the guards begin righting themselves and I scampered over to a ladder and scurried up in to the top. Aladdin jumped from his pile of barrels and landed on the wooden platform next to me. I sat dangling my legs over the side and waved tauntingly down at the disheveled guards.
Riffraff!
Street rat!
Soundrel!
Take that!
I ducked as several melons sailed over my head, and Aladdin came out from behind me and used on of the wooden poles to dangle the loaf of bread over the edge.
Just a little snack, guys
Aladdin managed to dodge behind the pole just as axes and spears pierced the other side. With a yelp I skid backwards, desperately attempting not to get skewered. The guards began shaking the pillars holding the platform.
Rip him open, take it back, guys
The loss of balance caused me to topple over the edge, but luckily Abu had been perching on a beam and managed to grab the back of my t-shift and fling me into a nearby window with Aladdin only seconds behind.
I can take a hint, gotta face the facts
You're my only friend, Abu!
Glancing around I blinked at the scantily clad women around us and let and aggravated expression fall over my face. "Really? They call me a whore, but these ladies can prance around showing more skin than not but that's just fine. Freaking bull!" the women all turned to us, haughty attitudes, and hands on their hips.
Who?
Oh it's sad Aladdin has hit the bottom
He's become a one-man rise in crime
I rolled my eyes as I attempted to pull the kid away from the alarmingly young girls only to run into very tall, VERY angry women.
I'd blame parents, except he hasn't got 'em
She swung a broom at us, and we had to duck. Aladdin's hat went flying and he grabbed with an irritated glare while I backed toward the window as he spun between the girls and continued to flirt. Men I swear.
Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat
Tell you all about it when I got the time!
I was leaning against the windowsill, watching his antics with mild amusement when Aladdin sat on the edge next to me and one of the girls pushed him out the window but not before he grabbed ahold of my wrist in an attempt to regain his balanced that only resulted in us both falling out of the window. I shrieked in surprise and Al laughed at me and grabbed ahold of some of the booth ropes to slow our descent. I ran a couple of paces to a nearby stage and ducked behind it to break the guard's line of sight. Al, being the showoff he is, got on the stage behind the muscle man and pretended to follow the motions he was doing until he misinterpreted his next move and was left standing out in the open. I glanced down the street to see the guards skid to a stop running into each other like a broken-down train and snickered until I heard on of them shout, "There they are!" and we were off running again!
One jump ahead of the slowpokes
One skip ahead of my doom
Next time gonna use a nom de plume
Aladdin and I start jumping across a group of sheep to get away from the guards who are picking them up and throwing them out of their path.
One jump ahead of the hitmen
One hit ahead of the flock
I think I'll take a stroll around the block
As we clear the heard we put our hands in our pockets and pretend to casually walk…. well run, away. We hurdled a man sleeping on a bed of nails, of course one extremely large guard lands on him and I winced in sympathy. Abu disguised himself with jewels until a shopkeeper discovers him with an angry shout.
Stop thieves!
Vandals!
Outrage!
Scandal!
Next thing I knew we were surrounded by guards with pointy swords! We backed up to the house behind us. Shooting a look at Aladdin I hissed "So now what's the plan smart guy?" he grinned nervously and lifted his hands placatingly.
Let's not be too hasty
The door opened behind us, and a large, ugly lady came out grabbing Aladdin around the waist clutching him to her chest! I backed up a pace nervously.
Still I think he's rather tasty
Aladdin tumbled back, knock into me, sending us sprawling into the nearby guards. Quickly righting ourselves Aladdin leaned against one of the guards while I backed up away from a drawn sword.
Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat
Otherwise we'd get along
Wrong!
They all jump into a pile on us and fight. Managing to slip away in the resulting chaos we were almost home free. However, when they stopped, and the dust cleared we were already creeping away in barrels, which we quickly abandoned in favor of a hasty retreat. We ran across a flaming pit, followed by guards who hopped up and down, screaming in pain as they crossed the rocks. We passed a sword swallower, then Abu decided to jump down and go back, pulling the sword out of the poor guy's mouth. He advanced on the guards, who retreat in fear.
"He's got a sword!" one of the guards shouted in terror. And Abu grinned evilly as I swung the sword around in fancy patterns!
Razoul rolled his eyes and shouted, "You Idiots we've all got swords!"
I doubled back and scooped him up and bolting back after Aladdin.
One jump ahead of the hoofbeats!
Vandals!
One hop ahead of the hump!
Street rats!
One trick ahead of disaster
Scoundrels!
They're quick-but we're much faster
Take that!
We soon realized that the city guards had us walled in so we jumped up and climbed a robe trick being done on the street, as the guards all crashed into each other. I quickly grabbed Aladdin's offered hand as we ran across the roof to the other side and down to the street! Cut off again we climbed a set of stairs only to be blocked again and just before they swung their swords at us we jumped into a nearby window running across the room to the other window. I looked down with apprehension at how far down it was, the movie honestly didn't do it justice. I turned and laughed as I saw Al take a carpet and play bull fighter with the guards!
Here goes, better throw my hand in
Wish me happy landin'
All I gotta do is jump!
Grabbing my wrist he jumps out of the window and the guards follow us strait out the window, but they go straight down to the street, and land in a pile with the sign 'Crazy Hakim's Discount Fertilizer.' We used the carpet as a parachute to land safely and out of danger. Aladdin and Abu high-fived each other.
"And now, esteemed effendi, we feast!" I couldn't help but laugh and Aladdin raised his head just high enough that I could see his eyes beneath his bangs, and he smirked back. "Not bad for someone does not use to the market guards, my names Aladdin or you can call me Al, and this is Abu one of my only friends." He gestured to himself and then to Abu. The little monkey chittered happily and tipped his hat.
I smiled and nodded. "My name is Zoey. I'm ….not from around here." I finished lamely with a shrug.
Aladdin opened his mouth to say something, but his eyes shifted to something behind me. I turned to look and saw as the two little boys hid behind their elder sister and she cringed as if expecting to be hit or shoed away. With a forlorn sigh Aladdin got up and walked over to them and held his bread out to the girl! She hesitantly took it, and I walked up and ruffled her hair causing her to giggle. After a bit of coxing Abu was talked into giving his to the youngest and the children patted him on the head and scratched him under the chin until he chittered happily and playfully swatted their hands away. I waved goodbye and Al and I walked toward the center of town where the was the prince procession, Abu scurrying at our heels!