Strike up the Sand part 2
"Kid? Kid?" I opened my eyes to see Iago, Abu and Carpet leaning over me. "Are you okay, kid?"
"Iago, why is there two of you?" I asked and he blinked at me.
"Uh-oh, that's not a good sign." He said and Carpet helped me sit up.
"Where are we?"
"In the garden." Iago replied and then he looked past me and squawked. "What?" I turned in time to see a sand beast swallow Jasmine! She appeared in his stomach, bars appearing there like a cage. I snapped out of my daze at Jasmine's cry:
"Aladdin, do something!" The beast rolled his eyes at her.
"Oh, quit you're whining." He grumbled and zipped up the cage much to all of our dislike.
"Genie, help!" Al hollered and he popped out from being a sword and turned into a Japanese samurai. Genie said something I couldn't hear and took a swipe at the beast. He missed and was squeezed by the monster and shaken up for his trouble. The sand monster let go of him and he fell into a heap on the ground.
"We have to go!" I got up thanks to Carpet and we all jumped back on flying towards them as the monster turned and made a leap into the ground. A giant hole was left behind and Al peered down it.
"Come on!" Al called and Genie got off the ground as we all flew in after Al.
"You okay, short stuff?" Genie asked as we followed Al. "I saw you get hit into that wall."
"I'm fine, Genie." I said and Iago moaned.
"I'm not! Can we go back?"
"No." Al answered. "We've got to save Jasmine." Iago sighed.
"I had a feeling he was going to say that." I rubbed his head.
"I didn't know there were tunnels under the city." I commented as we went along the winding long forgotten passages. Al shook his head.
"I didn't know either. And I bet Jasmine doesn't know about them."
"Who do you think is behind this? We don't know anyone with sand powers." Al frowned in thought as he ran.
"I don't know, Rick. But we are going to find out."
"Boy, he sure can run fast." I said as the monster went around the corner in seconds. Al gritted his teeth.
"We can still catch him." He ripped his cape off and Carpet dodged being hit with it. I rolled my eyes at Al, but didn't say anything.
"Jasmine!" Al called and we heard the reply coming from an opening in the back. I hopped off of Carpet to run in with Al.
"Aladdin, in here!" We came into the room to find….Sadira? I blinked in surprise. But she had acted so nice before!
"Let her go…Sadira? What?" Al gasped and she wiggled her fingers at us. The sand monster laughed at us.
"Now I know I can smash these ones! Can't I?" He asked and Sadira looked troubled.
"No!" she called out first and then groaned. "Oh, I don't know! I mean-"
"Ya don't know?" The monster snapped turning to face her. "You summon forth an ancient evil and now you don't know what to do with him?" Sadira backed away, but the monster grabbed the necklace from around her neck.
"But, but you can't do that." She stuttered and I felt bad for her.
"You have trouble facing reality, haven't you?" The monster asked tauntingly spinning the necklace on a fat finger. Al took a step back pushing me behind him. "Now, I'm going to show you how to make decisions. One, I decide to take the amulet." He tossed it up into the air and swallowed it whole as he spoke. "Two, I decide to abandon your stupid capture the princess plan." With that he blasted Jasmine out of his stomach and she hit Al and Sadira knocking us all over with me on the bottom. Everyone else came over to where we were too and Genie grabbed me pulling me out from under the bigger people and we all looked up at the monster.
"And three, I decide to squash you all like BUGS!" We all cowered as he turned his hand into a hammer and raised it above us. He laughed at us again. "I love my job!"
"Scatter!" Al shouted over all our screaming and everyone darted in different directions. Everyone found a pillar to hide behind. Hearing screeching I looked out and saw poor Abu being chased. I ran out and grabbed him, started to run back to where I had found to hide. The monster smashed his hammer in front of where I was head and Abu and I fell backwards. Oomph! We looked up in horror as the monster raised his hammer again.
"Aladdin!" I yelped and Abu and I rolled out of the way.
"Genie, make it go away!" Iago screamed and it made the monster look in his direction. It swung out and almost smashed Genie and Iago both. Iago fled behind another pillar.
"Sadira, make it go away!"
"I can't! Not without the amulet!" She called back and they were almost smashed too. Abu and I were half-way up by then and a flash of red slammed into me and Abu making us fall back again.
"'Laric, Abu, make it go away!" He screamed and I gasped as the monster loomed over us.
"ALADDIN!" Iago screamed and I rolled with him and Abu as we dodged an attack. Finally we made it to a pillar and collapsed trying to regain our breaths.
"How am I supposed ta smash ya if you keep movin' about like that?" The monster asked and then we screamed as it smashed the pillar above our heads, making me have to crouch to remain unseen. "Oh, you people are so frustratin'!" I looked around the pillar or what was left of it and saw Genie popped up nearby. With a zap of his fingers, he made the sand beast lay on a large couch and Genie was sitting in a chair near him, dressed as an old man with a clipboard.
"So, you feel frustrated, ya? Tell me of your problems." He spoke in a weird accent and Iago and Abu blinked at him.
"Well, doc it seems like only people want to be my friend so I don't smash them to a pulp. I just want to be loved for me is that so wrong?" The sand beast asked and Genie nodded as he spoke. I was still watching them when something grabbed me. I shrieked and a hand went over my mouth cutting off the cry.
"Easy, it's just me." Al hissed in my ear and I turned to glare at him when he released me. He grinned sheepishly. "Sorry." He motioned for me to follow and keeping a hold of the animals in my arms I darted behind Al as we crept towards the entrance of the room. We went outside the room just as the beast noticed we were gone. Genie met up with us as we ran down the tunnels and the sand monster followed yelling as we ran.
"Now, you went and got me peeved! I'm going to have to smash ya the hard way!" The monster hit the ceiling of the tunnels and rocks fell from their places.
"That's it! Color us doomed!" Iago shrieked and suddenly we were all scooped up by Carpet. We flew down the tunnel and realized at the same time that were at a dead end!
"I've got an idea!" Genie announced and zapped us all. Buzzing we all looked at each other and snickered. We were flies! We flew away as the beast rounded the corner.
"Ay, Ay, Ay, now where did you go? Now look here. You're not fooling anyone. You're in here, and I know it. It's getting late and I've got a lot more devastation to cause, I do."
"Nice job, Genie." Al said and we all grinned at him. Genie beamed back.
"No problamo, Al." As soon as we were far enough away, Genie turned us back to normal and we sighed with relief.
"Oh, I'm so sorry. If I had the amulet back I could stop it." Sadira started to cry and I went over to her.
"Its okay, Sadira." I said patting her and she sobbed, suddenly latching on to me.
"You're so nice!" I tried not to blush at her closeness, but still did. "You've been nothing but nice to me and I did this!" I glared at Iago who had been trying not to laugh.
"Yeah, yeah, you're a dimwit, okay?" Iago snapped finally and I frowned at him. "No use crying over spilt amulets. Let's get out of here!"
"Oh, shut up." I told him and he growled.
"No, I've got a plan." Al stated and I patted Sadira again.
"Al always has a plan."
Minutes later we were all hiding in different places and Abu, Iago and I sat on Carpet waiting for out turn to call to the sand beast which was stomping around angrily.
"Oh, why don't you just give up? As a favor to me, eh, eh? I'll be your special friend." The sand beast coaxed and Iago snorted.
"As if that would work." He muttered and I shushed him as Abu and I sniggered at him.
"Over here." Called Sadira and phase one of the plan was set in motion as the beast turned to look at her and Jasmine.
"Yoo-hoo, Mr. Sand Beast." Jasmine called next and I grinned as the monster smirked at them.
"That 'special friend' bit always does the job." He laughed and then went towards them as they slipped around the corner.
"Hey, sandy!" Iago called out and the monster stopped and turned towards us. "Lookin' for someone?" Abu and I waved at the beast making faces and blowing raspberries at him. The monster frowned and came towards us and Carpet pulled us out of view and we went up another path and picked up Sadira and Jasmine.
"You're making me testy!" The Sand Beast hissed and we flew back into the main room.
"Nyah-nyah-n-nyah-nyah!" Sadira taunted from beside me and the Sand Beast whirled to find us.
"Hey, ugly!" It found us as I called out and narrowed his eyes at us.
"Oh, lovely. Fine. That does it. Stay right there! It's smashing time!" It stomped into the room then and glared at us
"Hold that pose, chump!" Iago smirked and then we grinned at each other as the beast looked livid. As predicted it tried to jump us and Carpet pulled away as it slammed into the ground, right on the spot that Genie was laying as a giant 'X' in the sand. Al hopped up onto Carpet as we watched the beast.
"Oh, my. This is trouble…Am I right?" The sand beast asked and I snickered.
"Of course." Iago sniggered and then Genie popped up off the ground and changed into a giant flour sifter and started sifting him, making him go down and come out the bottom in a pile of sand. We hopped off Carpet seeing as the beast wasn't going to bother us again.
"Like sand through a flour sifter, so are the days of our lives." Genie quoted and Iago groaned.
"Do I want to know what that means?"
"Probably not." I said and he grumbled about 'Genie's stupid quotes' and I patted him.
"We got him!" Jasmine hugged Aladdin in celebration and I saw Sadira look away sadly. I went over to her, not wanting to see her sad and suddenly the sand started to move.
"You just don't get it, do you?" The sand beast snarled as his head reappeared from the sand and slowly it rose back up. Sadira gasped and I stood in front of her protectively. "I am made of sand. Nothing can harm me. It's not a difficult concept, really. You are powerless before me! You don't smash me, but I smash you!" The beast lifted a hand to smash Al and Jasmine, when Genie cleared his throat. Sadira and I turned to see Genie and he, still as the shifter, dipped some sand into her hands and the amulet landed on her palms. She smiled and I grinned knowing that she was about to get the monster. Genie left us to go and save Al and Jaz who were about to be smashed.
"Oh, yeah?" Genie challenged and he appeared behind them dressed in a coat and hat. Sadira and I moved over to a flat rock and she put the amulet on the rock and then lifted another to smash it.
"Come on toots! Show him what's for!" Genie called to her and the sand beast turned to look at her with wide eyes.
"B-b-b-but, now, now don't-don't go doing anything hasty." The beast balked waving at his hands at her. "I-I know I was a little harsh there. I know what from now on I do whatever you say." Sadira's hand still briefly and I looked at her as jasmine and Al gasped. "Think of the power. You could be queen of Agrabah," Sadira's hand stilled briefly and I looked at her as Jasmine and Al gasped. "-ruler of the Seven Deserts. Not a bad job. Anything could be yours, anything, just tell me what you want!" The beast moaned and I kept my eyes on Sadira. She was wavering I could see and it hurt me to know she was thinking of what she could do. She looked at Al and I felt a pang in my chest.
"I want Aladdin to like me." She stated and then she smashed the amulet's stone. It burst and a whirl of sand and wind went over to the beast and circled around him.
"No!" The beast howled and then it was over in an explosion of sand. Sadira and I were thrown back as well as Al and Jas and we were buried in the sand.
Sadira popped up from the sand first and next to her Iago came up sputtering wildly. "Good*cough, cough* going kid, I'll be coughing up sand for a month." Iago coughed again and Sadira looked at him with a slight roll of her eyes. Alaric came up from the sand next and shook his head sending sand raining on Iago.
"Hey, knock it off!" The parrot snarled and Alaric spit sand out of his mouth.
"Sorry." He muttered before turning to Sadira. "Are you okay?" She gave a nod and then looked at him in concern.
"You're not hurt are you?" The boy gave her a wide grin and Iago rolled his eyes at the cheesy look.
"I'm fine. I'm tough." He said bravely and Iago snorted. Alaric threw him a glare as Sadira smiled at him.
Aladdin and Jasmine came up across the room and they both looked over at Sadira and Alaric. Aladdin noted that Alaric was once again staring at Sadira in a very odd manner and it then hit him that Alaric may have developed a crush on the girl. This thought made me smirk slightly as he helped Jasmine up. Genie unburied Abu and hugged the little monkey before taking him over to where Alaric was. Aladdin and Jasmine made their way over to them.
"Sadira…you saved us." Aladdin said giving her a smile.
"I'm sorry I made such a mess of things. It's just that I've never liked anyone the way I like you before." Sadira explained and she looked slightly embarrassed. Alaric was ogling her again his eyes pretty much saying the same to the back of her head. Aladdin hid a grin at Alaric and shook his head at Sadira.
"Look, I like you to, Sadira." Aladdin didn't miss the look that Alaric shot him. "But I…love Jasmine." Iago and Abu started to gag and Alaric rolled his eyes at them.
"Oh, I get it." Sadira said sadly, but Alaric didn't register the sadness, he was looking at her again a faraway look in his eyes.
"Sadira, would you like to come to the palace with us?" Jasmine had seen the look of longing on Alaric's face then as he waited for Sadira's answer. His eyes were pleading with the girl and Jasmine blinked at him. She had never seen him act that way before.
"No, I'd rather be alone." the group saw Alaric's face fall and seconds later he was beaming again.
"But we'll see you around right?" He asked and Sadira nodded. The group took their leave and Genie paused when he noticed that Alaric hadn't moved. He gave a whistle to get him to follow, startling the boy and Sadira and she blinked before spotting Alaric.
"Um, Alaric, right?" The boy nodded. "Did you need something?"
"Oh, um, no. I was just…going to tell you that I err, like you're outfit." Sadira smiled at his stuttering and looked down at herself made clothes.
"Thank you." He beamed and Genie grabbed the back of his vest lifting him off the ground.
"Come on, kiddo. Leave the lady to her thoughts." Sadira smiled a little and Alaric waved at her as he was pulled towards the doorway.
"Bye, Sadira!" He called and she waved back.
"Goodbye, Alaric." He couldn't hide his smile as Genie pulled him from the room. The rest of the walk back home was in silence, each person's thoughts on something else. Genie looked over at Alaric and the look on the boy's face was enough to tell him what he was thinking about. This crush may be a problem if the Sadira was pining after Aladdin.
Yes, Alaric has a crush on Sadira, I thought it would be funny since she is always after Aladdin. Yes, he's aware that she is older, but since he's having a crush age doesn't matter to him.
Okay, so anyone have a villain they want to see now? Let me know! The more who say they want a certain one that's the one I'll do!