Chapter Six

The Right Thing For The Right Reasons

It was Jasmine's 16th birthday. Everyone was happy, even Jafar seemed to be in a good mood. Just like every year previous, the Sultan had decided to gather up all the available male suitors in the kingdom. Honestly, if I were a human, I would've been first in line. After several failed attempts and several laughable instances of suitors running away in sheer terror of either me or the tiger, the Sultan it seemed had finally given up.

"What am I going to do?" the Sultan asked desperately as he began pacing the floor, "I have a suggestion Your Highness" Jafar replied with a slight hiss in his voice, "Since you're having so much difficulty with this situation" I could tell already where he was going with this the minute he said "Suggestion" it was more like he was going to blankly state exactly what he wanted and then whip out his staff, hypnotizing the Sultan into doing exactly that thing. If I had put a billion dollars on that assumption, I would be a very rich bird.

After Jafar so predictably hypnotized the Sultan, I perched myself on the throne and began to think. "What to do?" I thought, "Finding a suitable suitor for Jasmine...I'd never thought I'd live to see the day that she would actually agree to this! I also never thought that I would take it upon myself to find her one." It was hard for me to accept the fact that no matter what I did, Jasmine would never see me for anything else but Jafar's bird, who is cold and heartless. Yep, that's me, Iago, the cold and heartless bird who just so happens to be in love with the Sultan's daughter. Ain't it great to be me?

Jafar sat on the throne, seeming to enjoy the power that just sitting in the chair gave him, I didn't understand what the big deal was, it was chair, they make millions of them every day. But then again, this chair was special because it was solid gold. But still, it's just a stupid chair, I see no reason why Jafar had to go ahead and lick the darn thing, which is exactly what he did. Then, as if the throne wasn't deflied enough, Jafar had the chutzpah to talk to and then hump the chair as if he were having sex with it. Once again proving, some things you can't un see and that will forever be, the most disgusting thing I had ever experienced in my entire life.

Jafar stopped, thankfully and stared at me accusingly, "Iago" he sneered demonically, "What you have just witnessed is off the record. Do you understand?" I nodded but apparently it wasn't enough for him and thus demanded that I speak, "Yes, your Evilness!" I replied, frankly I was terrified. Jafar then smiled that devious smile that he would get when he had a "good" idea, his smile is very similar to The Grinch's actually, now that I think about I think Disney stole it from Dr. Seuss. But I'm getting off topic here, Jafar's a creeper rapist and I bet he was thinking about how to get Jasmine to marry him, again if I bet a billion dollars...

"Iago, I've been thinking" Jafar exclaimed, "Isn't that dangerous sir?" I quipped, laughing to myself at my own joke, but unfortunately Jafar doesn't have a sense of humor, in fact he doesn't have a sense of anything. "Be quite you!" he said as he hit me on the head with his staff, "I need to find a way to get to Jasmine" With that Jafar stood up and began walking off in random, aimless directions, it was times like this I slipped out, but it was also a very dangerous to be around Jafar. So without causing attention to myself, I flew off, in search of the one person I knew would be absolutely perfect.

Finding Aladdin is harder than you think it is. For one, the kid is always getting in and out of trouble, because of this you would think it would be easy to find him, but no-because Aladdin was very good at getting out of trouble very quickly. I had searched the majority of the city was just about to head back to the palace when I saw him in a dark alleyway with Abu.

Flying higher than usual but close enough to hear their conversation I began eavesdropping, "What a great Abu" Aladdin said as he held two good sized loaves of bread in his arms, "and to think, those guards didn't suspect a thing" Abu nodded in agreement and began making unintelligible sounds, I say unintelligible because monkey, although I understand it, is extremely hard to translate and there are some things that shouldn't be said.

Finding a nice perch where I could view everything and still remain hidden, I saw Aladdin turn a corner and come across two small children. What happened next, is something that I will never forget. Stooping down, Aladdin took one of the loaves of bread and gave it to the kids. One of them looked up at him and asked curiously, "Why did you give us this?" Aladdin sighed, "Because you needed it" "But we were going to rob you" the child returned, Aladdin laughed, "You don't need to steal everything to get by. Some things just come to you naturally" Aladdin looked at Abu, who was selfishly guarding his piece like it was the Holy Grail, but seeing the kids suffer the way they were, Abu gave in and handed them his piece of bread. The other child looked at Aladdin and spoke, "Why did you give this?" Aladdin looked up this time, "Because when I was younger, I had food brought to me every day and not once did I ever see who it was who brought it. Not once was ever really grateful for it." The child was confused, "But by bringing this to us, you're putting us at a disadvantage" "No" Aladdin replied, "I'm making you stronger. By eating this bread you live another day, and by living another day, you appreciate the life you have been given."

Spoken like a true poet. It made me proud to say that I taught him that, even if he didn't know it was me, it didn't matter. Just the simple satisfaction of knowing that I made a difference made me feel like I was on top of the world.