In Parro's palace, Naris and Astrias bowed before Rinda, Sayori, Remus, and their parents. His recent actions had led to a furious scolding. Rinda and Remus had told their parents all about Istvan's supposed execution, and, although they was disappointed in Sayori for running away, they were enraged to learn that Naris had done something so rash behind their back.
"Naris, if it weren't for all your years of service, I'd hang you for this outrage. From now on, you are to speak to me before someone is sentenced." The King said, coming to the end of his rant.
"Forgiveness my liege. I swear, it will never happen again." Naris said, faking an apology. But his plan was working. The Queen stood up from her throne and calmed down.
"Now Sayori, Naris, can't we just place this whole messy business behind us and go back to being friends." The King and Queen had hoped to return peace to their home.
Naris approached Sayori, "My humblest apologies princess."
Sayori, unlike her parents, was not going to forgive and forget something so horrible. "At least there will be one good thing from my marriage: When I am queen, I will have the power to get rid of you." Sayori said. Naris wasn't bothered by Sayori's anger, he expected it.
"Well, now that that's taken care of, let us return to this suitor business Sayori." The parents turned to see Sayori leaving without listening to them. "Sayori? Sayori!" The parents and twins had to chase after her and out into the castle garden.
Once alone, Naris lost his composure. "If only I had gotten that lamp!"
"I will have the power to get rid of you." Astrias, perched on Naris's side like always, said mocking Sayori's words. He was surprisingly good at copying her voice. "Bah! I can't believe we're stuck serving those chumps and their kids for the rest of our chump lives." Astrias said in his normal voice.
Naris walked out onto a balcony which overlooked the castle garden, giving him the chance to watch Rinda and Remus chase after Sayori and Rajah, who joined her after entering the garden. "No Astrias, we will be stuck serving them until she finds her chump husband. Then we will be banished." Naris told Astrias. Naris realized there was another punishment Sayori could enforce. "Or worse, beheaded!"
"EEEEWWW!" Both Naris and Astrias grabbed their necks in fear and disgusted. As Astrias regained his cool, he got an idea. An awful idea. "Hey Naris, what if you were the chump husband?"
"What?" Naris misinterpreted the comment as an insult.
"No, no, no. Think about it. If you marry the princess, then you become king."
Naris took this into consideration and realized that Astrias was right. He made his way back into the palace and sat down in the king's throne. "Marry the shrew, I become king! This idea has merit."
"Yeah merit. Then we will push papa and mama-in-law…" Astrias mocked the king and queen "and the brats and little woman…" This time Astrias mocked Rinda, Remus, and Sayori. "off a cliff!" Astrias jumped off from the stairs of the throne and fell to the floor. "Aaagh! CRASH!"
"I just love the way your twisted little mind works Astrias."
The two laughed some of the most sinister villain laughs you may ever hear.
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Our heroes had reached an oasis in the desert. Istvan and Suni were enjoying some drinks, a smoothie and banana juice respectively. Guin, wearing a blue pilot's outfit, floated in front of carpet holding a steering wheel attached to nothing.
"Attention passengers, we are beginning our descent. Please put your seats in the up-right position and do not leave your seat until we have come to a complete stop. We hope you have enjoyed your flight on Carpet." Guin said, acting like an actual pilot. Carpet came to a stop next to a stump strangely shaped like a staircase. Both Istvan and Suni stood up and walked off carpet and down the stump-case. Guin stood by waving while saying, "Goodbye, so long, farewell, it's been a pleasure, come again."
Guin's clothes returned to their original design. "Ha! Now what do you say to the Mr. Doubting-Mustafa!" Guin said in confidence.
"Oh, you sure had me fooled." Istvan said in humor, he could barely believe that his plan worked. "Now about my three wishes."
"Do my ears deceive me? Three? Oh no, you're down by ONE BOY!" Guin said in amusement that Istan had already lost a wish. To emphasize his point, he held his index finger in Istvan's face, but he didn't flinch.
"Oh no, I didn't wish my way out of the cave, you did that on your own." Istvan said calmly.
Guin was about argue against it, but his jaw dropped and his finger drooped realizing Istvan was right. "Well now I feel sheepish." Guin turned himself into a sheep just to joke about it. "Alright ba-a-a-a-a-d boy, but no more freebies for you."
"Fair enough. Well let me see, three wishes. I want them to be good. What would you guys wish for?" Istvan looked at Guin, who was swinging between to trees like he was on a hammock thanks to his wisp, and asked, "What about you?"
Guin stopped going wide eyed when he heard this. "What would I wish for? You know, no one has ever asked me that before. Well I suppose that in my case I would wish for…on second thought, never mind."
Istvan was surprised. If a person who grants wishes would want something, it had to be pretty special. "What is it?"
"No, no it's stupid. You'd never wish for it." Guin just didn't want to make himself feel down like whenever he thought about it.
"Just tell us, he won't stop until you do." Suni informed Guin.
"Alright." Guin showed two identical golden handcuffs attached to his wrists, but no chain connecting them. "Freedom."
Istvan pulled out Guin's lamp and stared at it in a mix of confusion and sadness. "You're a prisoner?"
"It's all part of the genie's role in the universe." Guin flew into the sky and turned into his true genie form: a large muscular entity, his head remained the same though; his wisp became a swirling vortex, a yellow belt where his waist and wisp met and the same golden handcuffs that he had just shown the group. "PHENOMINAL COSMIC POWERS!" Guin quickly changed back and flew down into his lamp. Everyone looked through the hole in the top to see he looked rather crushed. "Itty-bitty living space."
"That's terrible." Istvan said, feeling sorry for his magical friend.
"Well, the powers are nice and all, but to be free, not having to always go POOF 'What do you need?' POOF 'What do you need?' POOF 'What do you need?' To be my own master, why that would be something greater than all the magic and all the riches in all the world. But what am I saying, it's never gonna happen. Guin, wake up and smell the coffee, the dreams over." Guin sat down on a nearby rock sadly. He knew that his spirits would be crushed.
"Well, why not?" Istvan asked, confused as to how long Guin would have to be a slave.
"The only way I can get out is if my master wishes me out. And you can guess how many times that has happened."
Istvan looked at Guin and began to think, he didn't need that much, maybe he could help. "Well I'll do it."
"Uh huh. Sure." Mask just didn't believe him, and had his head turn into Pinocchio's head and had the nose grow out to a far distance. Istvan had to push his nose back in to turn his head back to normal.
"No, really I promise. After I make my first two wishes, I'll use my third to free you. What do you say?" Istvan extended his hand to Guin.
Guin gave a quizzical look at Istvan's hand. He's had several masters in the past make agreements like this before, and they never kept them. But something about Istvan's was different than those other guys, something he felt that he could trust. "Well, here's hoping." Guin took firm grasp of Istvan's hand and shook it, accepting the deal. "Now let's make some magic. Tell me Istvan, what do you want most?"
Istvan rubbed the back of his neck, there was only one thing he wanted. "Well there's this girl and…"
A buzzer sound was heard and everyone turned to Guin, who was making the sound. "Wrong, I can't make people fall in love remember."
Guin wasn't the only one who was annoyed. "Oh, is it the princess?" Suni asked, still not happy how Istvan chose Sayori over her.
"Yeah she's just so smart and funny and…" Istvan was trying to choose his next words correctly.
"Pretty?" Guni said, taking a guess.
"Gorgeous!" Istvan said, somewhat offended that those words weren't good enough for Sayori. Everyone else rolled their eyes, Istvan was love sick. "She's got these eyes that are so…, and her hair is… And that smile…" Istvan was so love struck, he couldn't complete his sentences.
Guin summoned up a French restaurant, putting himself, Sparx, and carpet in French outfits. Guin was moved by Istvan's words. "Ami. C'est l'amour." he said.
Istvan looked down in sadness, remembering the truth of the situation. "But she's a princess, and she can only be married to a…" Istvan realized what he could do. "Hey, could you turn me into a prince."
"Now, let me check into your wish." Guin pulled out a book entitled Royal Recipes. "Alright, now let's see here. Chicken a la king," GUin pulled a chicken wearing a crown out of the book. "Nah, Caesar Salad." A hand came of the book with a knife.
"Oh my…word." Guin slammed the book shut, crushing the hand and knife. When he reopened the book he smiled. "Here it is, how to make a prince. But is that an official wish? Say the magic words."
Istvan stood up proudly and said, "Guin, I wish for you to make me a prince!"
"Alright! Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop." Guin was excited to get the show on the road. He transformed into a fashion designer and began looking over Istvan's outfit. "First, outfit and armor is way too casual. What are you trying to say, 'I'm a nobody.'?" Guin took several measurements of Istvan's body, until he tied his measuring tape around Istvan's body in a bow fashion. "Let's try something a little more…" Guin pulled on the tape and when it came off, Istvan's outfit changed. He was now dressed in a red royal outfit with his hair still in a low ponytail.
Guin smiled at his work. "See, this is what I'm going for. This outfit says, 'I'm royalty and a hero.' But I feel as though it's missing something. I know, you need a method of transport. Okay, monkey girl, Suni, come here please." Suni didn't like where this was going and started backing away, until Guin used his powers to force carpet to carry Suni over to him. Guin set up a game show stage with Istvan. "Congratulations, Mr. Istvan, you are our big winner! And here is your prize, get ready to ride into town on your very own…CAMEL! Careful they spit." Guin used his powers to turn Suni into a camel. Guin frowned, he could do better. "You know, it's not enough." Guin snapped his fingers and turned Suni into a stallion. "Still not enough." Guin continued to snap his fingers changing Suni into different animals: a duck, an ostrich, a turtle, a DeLorean time machine and back to normal, all the while going, "No, no, no, no, no." Suddenly a light bulb appeared over Guin's head. "I got it!" The light bulb burned out. "Lost it." The light bulb started up again. "Wait, it's back! For this wish I grant, she'll be a mighty elephant!" Guin finally shot a beam of energy that turned Suni into an elephant, a grey elephant with a monkey's tail, but an elephant none the less. "Talk about trunk space." Suni looked down into a nearby lake and went crazy with fear when she saw an elephant looking back. She jumped up and onto a tree, but carpet was freed from all the weight he was put under thanks to the different animals he had been turned into. You could even see an impression in the ground in the shape of carpet's body.
"Don't worry Suni, you look good as an elephant." Istvan said, trying to calm down his friend.
"Speak for yourself." Suni retorted.
Guin just took a look at the group. "He's got the look, he's got the elephant, BUT, we're not through yet. Hang onto your hats folks. WE ARE GOING TO MAKE YOU A STAR!"
In the distance, it appeared that fireworks were going off in the oasis.