Chapter 28: The Oracle
Aladdin, Sora, Abu, Genie and Iagoarrived in the hall where Aladdin's and Jasmine's wedding is taking place. When Sora got off of Carpet, him and Aladdin when over to Donald and Goofy who was standing as Aladdin's groomsmen.
"Hi guys, I'm glad you could make it." Aladdin greeted before taking his position and looked at the passageway. Sora looked over to Donald and Goofy to see both of them gulp from his glare.
"How come you guys didn't tell me or Kairi about the wedding?" Sora asked, making sure his voice wasn't that loud.
"Well, I thought you knew and tried to tell ya but Donald stopped me." Goofy said truly. Sora then appointed his glare at the duck and waited for his reason.
"Well?" Sora waited
"I'm not telling you anything." Donald replied
"Uhh Donald, I think it would be good and more safety for you to tell?" Goofy said, worried.
"Goofy has a point, Donald." Sora smirked
"You'll never get anything out of me. No matter what you do." Donald resisted
"I'll get you a diamond the size of your mouth." Sora offered
"Riku and Brian are the masterminds."
"Riku and Brian. I knew something was going on between them besides fighting. What did they tell you to do? " Sora asked
"I'm not telling until I get that diamond you promised." Donald replied.
"Grr! C'mon Donald." Sora commanded
"No! Besides, now is not the time to argue about this. We have a wedding to focus on." Donald quaked
"Donald's right, Sora." Goofy agreed. Sora sighed in defeat and nodded in agreement as he went back to stand by Aladdin. The guests started to come in and Genie when up to Aladdin with a white flower in one hand and silk in the other.
"Bad news, Al. The boutonnieres clash with the cummerbunds." Genie reported while looking at the items.
"Genie, isn't it a little late for that?" Aladdin pointed out as the crowd was waiting for Genie to start the ceremony that he had been bugging the entire city about ever since he found out. Genie looked at Aladdin and dropped the items.
"What? What are you trying to say? Out with it! What? What?" Genie started to laugh nervously as he noticed the crowd.
"They're here, Genie." Sora simply said.
"OH, NO!" Genie then turned into the white rabbit which Sora, Donald and Goofy recognised from Wonderland. Man, how they hated that place. "I'm late, I'm late for a very important date." Genie ran out of the doors as the white rabbit and re-entered a millisecond later as himself wearing his clothes that he chose (Cough. Cough..Created..Cough) and a trumpet in his hands. He blew though the trumpet and whizzed back to the others as a groomsman.
Soon the bridesmaids walked into the room, throwing flowers on the floor. Sora immediately noticed that one of the bridesmaids was Kairi. Unlike the other bridesmaids, who was wearing violet and gold dresses, she was wearing pink and white and her hair was kept down. Aladdin looked and noticed that Sora was completely awed by Kairi's presents. Aladdin jabbed him in the ribs to snap Sora out of it and to save him further embarrassment. The bridesmaids when to the opposite side and were facing the groomsmen. Sora grinned at Kairi which see gladly return with a smile of her own.
The doors opened again to reveal a short old man being carried up the aisle in a throne; being carried by four large palace guards. "Who's that?" Sora whispered to Aladdin.
"That's the Sultan. He's the ruler of Agarbah and Jasmine's father." Aladdin answered in the same tone of voice. As he was carried by, people would bow to him and greet him as 'Your Majestic' or 'Your Highness'. When the guards lowered the chair, the sultan went over to Aladdin and Sora who bowed respectfully.
"D-don't look so solemn, boy. This is a happy day." The Sultan smiled, he then looked over to Sora, Donald and Goofy. "You must be the young men who help restore Agarbah from Jafar."
"Gawsh, I won't say we're young, ah-yuck." Goofy smiled
"Speak for yourself." Donald said clearly to Goofy
"It's an honour to meet you, Your Majestic." Sora respected as he bowed to the Sultan once more along with Donald and Goofy. The group then looked up to see Jasmine in her wedding dress, holding her bundle of flowers and smiling warmly at Aladdin.
"Wow!" Aladdin breathed, Sora would have jabbed him but he was already in reality.
"Jasmine looks very beautiful." Kairi said to the other bridesmaids who giggled in agreement. When Jasmine approached the group, her father took her hand and patted it softly.
"I never thought this day would come. Now I'm afraid that it has come too soon." The Sultan said.
"Oh, Father." Jasmine hugged her father. Kairi sneaked pasted the groomsmen and stood by Sora.
"Jasmine told me mostly everything her and Aladdin have been through together. They're such a cute couple." Kairi cooed
"Yeah, they are. It seems like they were prefect for each other." Sora smiled. The romantic vibe in the room seemed to be affecting Sora because he ended up putting his arm around Kairi's shoulder and pulled her close without even realising it. Kairi blushed and her eyes widened at first but then relaxed and rested against Sora. If they weren't paying attention to the wedding, the two would have noticed a flash coming from where the groomsmen stood.
Jasmine walked up to Aladdin as he held his arm out. She took it and Aladdin escort her up the stairs.
"This is all so magical." Genie had tears forming in his eyes, "I'm not going to cry. I'm not-"Genie ended up crying his eyes out and started to use Carpet as a personal handkerchief. "Oh, sorry" he said as he let Carpet go.
Jasmine stepped up to the top with Aladdin. "Well, here we are," said Aladdin.
"Together forever," finished Jasmine.
Just then, the place started to shake. While tried to regain footing, Kairi and Jasmine sense that something was causing this, something very similar to a...
"HEARTLESS!!!" Genie yelled as Elephant sized Heartless along with Luna Bandits appeared.
The crowd ran for their lives as Sora and the gang summoned their weapons. One of the elephant Heartless was about to Abu when Genie swooped in and grabbed him before getting flattened. Sora turned to see where the other elephant when and saw that it was heading straight for Aladdin and Jasmine. Sora quickly changed into his element, flew to them as fast as he could and pushed them off the stand before the elephant crushed the-soon-to-be-weds. Sora changed back to using the Keyblade and started to run to one of the Heartless elephants. Sora felt his speed quicken and his vision focus on the elephant, soon he performed a quick slash, going right through the elephant and causing it to fade.
"Wow, that's new." Sora said in amazement before fighting more Heartless.
Goofy saw the Lunar Bandits surround him and acted quickly by throwing his shield like a Frisbee and took out the Heartless in one go. Goofy ran towards Aladdin (who had joined the fight) and saw that he needed a weapon. Goofy bashed into the Heartless and stayed with Aladdin until he could find a weapon. Donald was with Kairi as the two worked together with their spells to take down another elephant.
The Lunar Bandits suddenly disappeared and a group of thieves burst into the hall.
Most of them were stealing treasure of the remaining guests who were trapped by the thieves. Kairi went over to Jasmine, Carpet and Abu to help them out with a couple of thieves they started to fight. Kairi looked up and saw that the three thieves were under a chandelier. She used the ability that Sora taught her back at Destiny Island called Strike Raid and aim Oathkeeper at the chandelier. The Oathkeeper struck the chains that were holding the chandelier up and the chandelier fell and knock the thieves out.
Sora had switch places with Goofy as Donald had called for Goofy's assistance. (That's a first). Goofy threw his shield in the air and Donald aim his wand at it. "Blizzard strike!" Donald called out and turned the shield to rock hard ice. Goofy grabbed his ice covered shield and started to throw the shield multiple times at the Heartless elephant. After a couple a minutes, the elephant faded away and Goofy's shield turned back to normal. Donald and Goofy regained balance after that limit and was about to attack again when a thief with golden claws in his left hand stopped them.
This thief appears to be bald, bare six pack chest with only an open vest on his upper body; he had red silk around his waist and light blue baggy bottoms.
Donald and Goofy was about to attack when the thief done quick and sudden strikes. Donald and Goofy looked at themselves and saw that the thief had rip their suits up and only stood in their Disney Castle boxer shorts. Genie saw this and poof them their original battle garments before trying to mend the palace by holding the ceiling. Goofy blocked the bald-men attack as Donald saw that his magic was not affecting any of the thieves.
"They fight like Heartless." Donald shouted to everyone as Goofy back off Sa'luk away from him.
"Worse than heartless. We're the forty thieves!" Sa'luk said as he continued to fight Donald and Goofy. Genie started to count the thieves while the others fought.
"Really? I count 39." Genie said out loud. Aladdin turned to look in the room where the wedding gifts were.
"Forty." Aladdin corrected when he saw the last thief going through the gifts. He tapped Sora on the shoulder towards the room where the other thief was and to two began running to that location. The man wearing a blue haik, Sora and Aladdin saw him grabbed a golden scepter with a smooth, round emerald in it that was in the presents. The man turned around to leave when Sora kick him right in the face, making him drop the sceptre and Aladdin quickly grabbed it. When the man looked up, he saw Aladdin slam the sceptre in his hand like a club and Sora pointing the keyblade at him.
"Can I see your invitation?" Sora cockily asked.
"Stay out of this, boys. This is a fight you cannot win." The man said as he grabbed a present that fell on the floor and threw it at Sora. Aladdin looked to see if Sora was alright when the man grabbed the scepter his hands and tried to take it from Aladdin. "No one can stop the King of Thieves." The man announced. Sora got back up and charged at the king of thieves.
Back in the hall, Genie looked up to see that the entire ceiling had fallen down even with him holding it up. "Well there's no point to this now." He said as he flew down to help the others. Just then, Lunar Heartless returned to the fight and started to surround the others. Genie smirked as he turned into a dozen ninja genies, they all ran and started to take care of the palace's pest problem.
Sa'luk's anger grew as he saw the genie fight against the genie. He knew that there was a slight chance that the keybladers and their friends might show up but he didn't expect to fight an almighty genie. "Everyone! It's time to go! Let the 'king' handle this." He spat coldly before him and the other 38 thieves ran out of the palace.
Aladdin and the king carried on their struggle for the scepter when Sora raised Kingdom Key to strike the king. The king saw the attack coming and regretfully let go of the scepter to avoid getting killed. When he was about to approach Aladdin, he noticed the rest of the thieves gone. The last elephant heartless burst in the room and the three of them dodged the heartless. The elephant heartless burst through the wall and left the palace.
"Where's the King of Thieves?" Sora heard Aladdin say. Sora got up and saw that the King of Thieves was no longer in the room.
"He must have hitched a ride on the heartless." Sora concluded. Sora looked at the scepter in Aladdin's hands and wondered why the King of Thieves just wanted the scepter.
BOWBOWBOW
"What were they after, the gifts?" Jasmine asked as she picked up one of the broken gifts. Sora, Kairi, Donald, Goofy, Jasmine and Aladdin were in the room where all the gifts were kept, the only room that didn't collapse.
"The king only seemed to be interested with this scepter." Aladdin replied as he shows her the scepter, he gave it to Jasmine and she started to examine the object. Sora was deep in thought about the thieves.
"Do you think that the 40 thieves are working for Maleficent?" Kairi asked who was standing next to him.
"The heartless does show that but knowing Maleficent, she would have commanded the thieves to take either you or Jasmine or both of you." Sora replied, half of his mind was still in thought.
"Gawsh, maybe Maleficent doesn't know that we're here." Goofy suggested
"Or the Endless Order messing with Heartless again." Donald pointed out. Sora didn't reply, only in deep thought of the subject. He finally snapped out of it when he noticed Aladdin and Jasmine come over to the group.
"Donald, could you look at this? Aladdin and I can't figure out why the king would go after this." Jasmine asked, handling the sceptre to Donald. Donald agreed and took the sceptre in his grasp. He tapped the emerald on the sceptre to see if anything would happen…
It didn't work
He tried casting magic out of the sceptre, thinking it's some kind of staff or wand
It didn't work
He started waving it around and said random words that he had read in the magic book
It didn't work
He soon lost his temper and started to slam the sceptre on the floor.
That didn't work either
"Wak!" Donald raged, "Why would the King of Thieves go after this hunk of junk!?!" After saying that, the sceptre started to glow brightly; making everyone shield their eyes.
"You question is mine to answer." A saga tone voice said, the sceptre floated out of Donald's wings and when in the middle of the room. Everyone opened their eyes and found a spirit from the sceptre in front of them.
"The King of Thieves sought my sight to find the Ultimate treasure." The spirit answered, Donald perched up as soon as he heard one of his favourite words.
"Did someone say 'Treasure'?" Iago and Donald asked excitedly, Iago flew over to the group after finally escaping a vase that the King of Thieves must have trapped him in.
"Treasure is the word that I have spoken." The spirit replied, Genie came flying into the room after seeing the light and stood next to Aladdin. Aladdin and Sora asked him what was in front of them and Genie put some sunglasses on before answering their question.
"Oh, looks like an Oracle." Genie said in a serious tone.
"I see all that has been and all that will be." The spirit explained.
"Defiantly an Oracle." Kairi summarised. Sora looked at Kairi with a questioning look, "What? I learned it from school."
"The school teaches you about other worlds?" Sora asked, surprised
"Noooo. The school teaches you about myths." She corrected, "See Sora, this is why it is important to go to school."
"Oh Ok....Hey! What's that suppose to mean!?" Sora asked
"Nothing..." Kairi replied quickly and appointed her attention back at the Oracle.
"Okay you know all, so tell all." Iago said as him and Donald approached the Oracle. "Where is the treasure?"
"You know the ultimate one?" Donald finished as him and Iago eagerly waited for the reply.
"I am bound by the rule of one. One question, one answer." The Oracle explained, the reply wasn't enough for the two treasure crazy birds.
"I only want one answer!" Iago complained
"Where is the ultimate treasure?" Donald hastily asked again
"You two have already asked your one question." The Oracle replied again, the two then knew what it was talking about.
"You mean before? Oh, that wasn't a question. That was, uh, thinkin' out loud." Iago explained as he flew up to the Oracle's face. Donald nodded in agreement but the Oracle didn't grant then another question. Donald started to lose his temper again and Donald and Iago were held back by Genie and Goofy.
"We could get information about the Dark Master." Sora pointed out
"Or about Ven." Kairi suggested
"Or if Maleficent is planning something again." Donald said
"I wonder what Riku did while we were asleep for a year?" Goofy asked out loud.
"The one you call Riku was working with Ansem the Wise and an nobody called Naminé to restore your chain of memories..." The Oracle began answering; Goofy immediately started apologising for wasting a question.
"Gawsh, sorry guys." Goofy repeated
"No need to apologise Goofy. Besides, Riku never told us about his days with Ansem anyway." Sora assured and carried on listening to the Oracle.
"During that time, he would go to different worlds to try and find a nobody called Roxas. When he went to a place called Beast's Castle, he found out the fourteenth member of Organisation XIII called Xion." The Oracle said
"Whhaatt????" Sora, Donald and Goofy yelled like they did when Ansem wasn't Ansem, he was Xehanort.
"Another member?" Kairi said, confused
"Why didn't Riku tell us?!" Sora muttered under his breath
"Riku had found out that Xion was able to wield the Keyblade, he met up with Xion on a world called Destiny Island before returning her to her true self and went to capture Roxas. I believe that you know the rest of the answer." The Oracle finished
"WHAT!?!" Kairi yelled, considering that she had to stay on Destiny Islands for a year, it would have be nice of Riku to say that he was alive. Sora closed his eyes while clenching his teeth and fists.
"Why didn't Riku tell us? Riku went back to Destiny Islands and didn't even say hi to anyone, not even Kairi." Sora asked in his mind, hoping Roxas would answer his question.
Just shows you what Secrets can do to a person, doesn't it
Sora recognized the voice from the strange pains he has but it was just the voice this time. He knew the voice was trying to get to him like it did in his dreams, so he ignored it.
"Riku said that he didn't want anyone to see that he had fallen into darkness so maybe that's why he didn't visit anyone while on Destiny Islands." Sora explained.
"He still could have told us about the fourteenth member." Donald moaned
"Me and Kairi both know Riku and we know that he'll tell us when the time is right." Sora said, Kairi thought about it for a minute before nodding in agreement.
"Aladdin..." Jasmine called, Aladdin turned to her as he had been listening to what the Oracle was saying to Sora and the others. "We could learn anything about our lives, our future."
"You have but to ask." The Oracle replied as it faced Aladdin and Jasmine.
"I know what my future is." Aladdin then faced Jasmine, "My future is you. But my past is a blank. My mother died when I was just a kid, and I never knew my father." Aladdin then took his father's dagger out of his pocket and looked at it thoughfully. "I have no idea where I come from." Everyone looked at the Oracle again when it began to reply.
"Your question is your choice, but remember the rule of one. Choose carefully." The Oracle warned
"Oh, sure. She warns him about the one question." Donald mumbled under his breath
"I don't think you can help me." Aladdin said and looked away from the Oracle, "My past isn't just one question, it's a million questions."
"Ah, but mere questions about you past can be answered by your father." The Oracle said, this caught Aladdin's attention.
"My father?" Aladdin grasped, wide eyed. Everyone was wide eyes when they found this out. The Oracle then revealed a image for a man in his late 40's, with grey hair, a full covered beard and you could see the resembles between him and Aladdin. "My father is alive?" Aladdin said as he continued to look at the image of his so-called father.
A/N: Yay!!! I've finished!!! I can rest till the weekend!! And now for messages:
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