Air Feathered Friends part 2

"Say hello to your insides!" Abis started to dig through his pockets but he couldn't find whatever he was looking for, as usual.

"Just call the guards." Haroud muttered and Abis Mal muttered under his breath before yelling:

"Guards!" The one word echoed around the room and in knew that everyone had heard it.

"Genie, get the bird out of here!" Al whispered and Iago jumped into Genie's arms.

"Take me home, daddy!" Genie tossed Iago at me.

"Wrong bird!" I laughed at Iago's frown as he pouted in my hands. Genie then ran and he jumped onto baby bird's back and hollered: "Get along little birdie!" Seeing that guards were blocking the door he quickly drew one up with magic. He left with the baby while Al and I got onto Carpet as Abis' guards came running in.

We flew past the guards and Abis Mal and headed for the door when we got sliced at by a tall guard. I fell off Carpet as Al jumped gracefully out-of-the-way and landed upright. Typical. They started to swarm us and pretty soon they cut me off from him. Uh-oh. As he was fighting some of them off, I got stuck in the middle of some and had no way to defend myself.

"Al?" He wasn't listening so I tried again. "Oh, Al?" Again nothing. "Aladdin!" I screeched and finally he came through them. "Well it's about time." I said and he rolled his eyes.

"Relax, I've got this."

"Right." I muttered and then he pulled me away from the men. Genie tried to get the bird to fly but it wasnt ready yet and with Abis blocking the way he had to find another way to get the baby out. Turning into a rocket, he then rocketed the baby out of the room leaving us with a whiny Abis Mal. The thief had attempted to stop Genie from taking off, but ended up entangled in his men on the ground.

"He took my bird. I'm birdless." He moaned and then he turned at look at us. "They don't leave here ALIVE!" He yelled in frustration. He's too dramatic, I thought to myself. Al grabbed me from behind and hoisted me onto Carpet.

"Got to go!" Al shouted to Abis as we passed over his head and I laughed at him.

"See ya fatso!" I hollered and beside me Iago sighed with relief.

"We made it!" he said with glee and no sooner were the words out of his mouth then we suddenly launched off of Carpet. I landed beside Al in the sand below and we looked up as Haroud showed us a rope and Carpet was tied to it.

"Can he do that?" Iago asked.

"I think he just did." I sighed as Abis and his men caught up with us. So much for heading home.

"Ruin my plans will you?" Abis asked angrily. "Oho, I'll do something really…Unpleasant to you!" He finally said and I arched an eyebrow.

"Oh, really? What are you going to do? Sit on us?" I asked and Al glared at me. I couldn't help it, I was cranky. I hadn't had any sleep. Besides I love to pick on him.

"Ohh, here is comes! Inside out city!" Iago screeched as he and Abu cowered behind us.

"Oh, no, no, no, no! I'm not going to turn you inside out." He said and I arched an eyebrow again at his calm voice.

"You are going to sit on us, aren't you?"

"No!" he shouted seething angrily, and then he seemed to control himself again. "I've got feathers!"

"That's good…right?" Iago asked nervously and I shook my head.

"I don't think so." I said as he lifted the feathers. Then he gave them a hard swirl and a large whirlwind came up out of the sand.

"Not good at all." We all tried to run but the wind pulled us into the large wind.

"Abu! Alaric!" Al yelled from somewhere inside the vortex.

"Aladdin!" I yelled and then there was blackness.

"Alaric? Rick? Rick, are you alright?" I groaned as I opened my eyes to see Al leaning over me. It was morning, I could see and then I focused on Al's concerned face.

"Al?" He sighed with relief and helped me sit up. "I feel awful."

"So do I!" Iago muttered loudly from down in the sand. "I have a migraine you wouldn't believe."

"…I'm sorry I ever made that bet with Fazal." Al was saying to Abu and the little monkey only nodded. "I was wrong. Friends?"

'Well, okay!' he shook Al's hand eagerly then a shadow fell over us.

"Did those wind demons give you a little trouble sand gnat?" I yelped and turned to glare at Rasoul's smug face.

"Stop doing that!" I hollered at him and he ignored me.

"They weren't demons." Al said forcefully and somehow I knew that this explanation would end badly. "Abis Mal and his men were using Roc feathers to be whirlwinds. But we-"

"Rocks have feathers?" Fazal asked and I stifled the urge to smack the grin off Rasoul's face.

"Oh, now don't be so skeptical Fazal." Rasoul said slyly with a mocking tone. "I'm sure Aladdin can convince us…with his proof." He held his hand out and Al gulped.

"Well-well I don't have any..really…But it's true! And-"

"And!" Rasoul interrupted grabbing Al by the vest. "A bet is a bet! Or is the honor of Aladdin just another empty boast?" I was about to jump him when Al sighed.

"No, Rick, he's right." I looked over to see him hugging Abu. "Abu, I'm sorry." The monkey hugged Al back and I heard Iago sniff from on my shoulder. Fazal snatched the little monkey and held up a set of chains.

"There now my little date picker." He snapped them on Abu's neck and started dragging him off towards the marketplace. I blew a raspberry at Rasoul who only sneered at me before turning to go.

"Abu!" Al called sadly and I hugged him sadly. Our little monkey was gone.

"Does this mean we can get a dog?" Iago asked and Al glared at him, but I knew that he really didn't mean it.

"Iago!" he reprimanded.

"What? Am I supposed to get sentimental? Start talking about what a pal he was? And how I'm going to miss him?" he sniffed loudly. "I am going to miss him! I'll miss that flea bitten little ape!" he shrieked and then started having a fit in the sand, banging his fists wildly with a sob. Suddenly the wind picked and we heard a man shout that the wind demons were coming back.

"Your proof kid! That's your proof! The monkey is ours come on!" Iago shouted suddenly and we all grinned and hopped onto Carpet. Once we started off Iago turned to me. "And if you ever tell the monkey what I said…You're going down like a plate of bird seed! Got it!"

"Sure." I said with a grin and he rolled his eyes. We spotted the guards at the top of a tower and flew up to them.

"Fazal…Aladdin was right." We heard Rasoul admit unbelievingly. Al and I exchanged smug looks.

"As you please Rasoul!" Al shouted as he pulled Abu from Fazal's grip. I waved at the guards as we flew away from them.

"In your faces!" I shouted at them and Abu waved to them before hugging Al furiously. Then we swooped down through the streets.

"Let's see I just need to pick up a few things." He told us and that list included an awning, a snake charmer's basket, snake included (I scurried as far from that basket as possible, seeing those things gave me chills), and the snake charmer's rope. Then we headed quickly towards the swirling winds.

"Now to take care of fatso!" I said and Al nodded.

"Look, we got the monkey, can't we just celebrate by running away?" Iago asked in a moan.

"You know the answer to that." I said and he grumbled to himself about 'goody-goodies'. At the first thief we tossed the awning on him and he slammed into the ground. The next two he got with the rope and they ended up tied together. Then he tossed the snake at the next guy.

"Alright!" Al shouted and we gave him a high-five.

"Al!" I hollered as the wind, thanks to Abis Mal, was rocking Carpet around. I toppled off the rug and hit the ground at Abis' feet. Then Al and the others fell.

"Try and get out of this!" Abis yelled and he and the remaining thieves advanced towards us swirling like disks with their swords out. "Go on try!"

"Now, whose gonna save our tails?" Iago wailed and I had to agree with him. Genie wasn't around. Suddenly a very large shadow came over all of us and Abis and the thieves cowered at the sound of loud screech. We then looked up to see a very large Roc. Genie wasn't kidding when he said it could blot out the sun.

"Hit it Mavis!" I heard Genie yell. Mavis?

"Come on." Al pulled me onto Carpet and we flew away from the large gust of wind that the mama bird had flung at Abis Mal and his gang. As the men were swept away I watched as the bird flew away its baby sitting happily upon her back. Genie waved goodbye before coming down to where we were.

"Would've been here sooner but mom was baking cookies!" Genie said and a large cookie appeared in his arms.

"Yum!" I said and he grinned at me before making it go away.

"No, desert before dinner." I huffed and he laughed.

"But its breakfast." I moaned.

"Oh, well in that case eat this." He jabbed an apple into my mouth. "No chocolate for breakfast."

"Fine." I muttered and they laughed.

We went to find Rasoul and Fazal later on and both looked extremely uncomfortable. I grinned widely at that. Abu demanded that Fazal get to work and by the time the fat guard had made it up the tree Al and I were in hysterics. Fazal made the tree sway and after a while of picking Rasoul came up to us.

"I, uh, admit we were wrong Aladdin, but Fazal has duties to perform."

"But," Al interrupted loudly. "None more important than those of personal date picker." I snickered loudly and Rasoul sighed irritably. We looked over at Abu to see him examining the fruit that Fazal was tossing down. He lifted one and then started to fuss.

"He says, none but the juiciest fruit!" Al called up to Fazal and I laughed loudly at the expression on the guard's face. And as he reached out to get a hold of a new one, he fell. Al and I laughed at the stunned guard and then made our way back to the palace finally relieving Fazal of picking dates.

"Okay, naptime for everybody!" Genie announced and Al and I just looked at him. "Okay…naptime for the short people." I frowned when Genie patted my head.

"But I'm not tired!" I said and he just grinned at me. "Really, I'm not!"

"Well, regardless," Genie said looking down at me pointedly. "Little boys need to catch up on their sleep. You were up all night like the rest of us."

"But-but…" I tried to point out that I just wasn't tired when my body betrayed me and I yawned. Al grinned at me.

"No, you're not tired at all." He teased and then he yawned.

"Aha!" I pointed at Al. "See, you are too!" before we could get into an argument about who needed sleep more, Genie gathered us all up. The next thing I knew I was on my bed and Iago in his. He blinked down at me in confusion and I shrugged.

"Now, little mister, go to sleep." Genie said suddenly and I jumped. He peered into the room and I scowled at him.

"The sun is up, no one should be sleeping!" I said and Iago shushed me. I looked to see him under a pillow.

"Some of us need our beauty sleep." I heard him say and I scowled further, crossing my arms. Genie closed the curtain to the balcony and the room grew darker.

"Is that better?"

"No." I said and Genie plopped down beside me.

"So, you're not tired, eh?" he said with a grin at me and I shook my head.

"Nope."

"Hmm." I ignored him as he moved around and then he started tickling me, making my arms uncross.

"Stop it!" I laughed as he attacked me and then Iago glared at us.

"Hello! Trying to get beauty sleep here!" he snarled and Genie and I laughed as he buried himself back under the covers with a grumble. I couldn't help it then, I yawned. Genie tucked me under a blanket with a smug look. I only halfheartedly glared at him which he laughed at.

"Go to sleep." He said and then he started to hum under his breath. I knew that I wouldn't be able to stay awake then, so I then closed my eyes. As I drifted off to sleep I wondered what adventure we'd have the next day.