"But that mean old Captain Hook didn't stand a chance!" Sora exclaimed as he sat at a table filled with food, his mouth half full. "We knocked him right off his own ship!"
"I still can't believe you flew," Aladdin argued. "You're no Carpet."
"I did!" Sora nearly jumped on top of the table.
"Then why can't you fly now?" Aladdin crossed his arms, confident that he had broken Sora's claim.
"I need... uhh… what was it called?" Sora pondered shortly before practically screaming the answer. "Pixie dust!"
"Right…" Aladin sarcastically responded, rolling his eyes.
Jasmine giggled at the argument, clearly enjoying the dinner before noticing how silent Sora's other friends had been.
Oswald was no doubt enjoying the food, but he was trying his best to hide it. It was fairly obvious that he would've rather been somewhere else. On the other hand, while Firion had eaten a bit, he seemed indifferent.
"Where are your friend's from, Sora?" Jasmine asked.
"Uhh… I don't really know." While Sora had no problem discussing the existence of other worlds with Jasmine, largely due to events that occurred not that long ago, he had never thought to ask where his new friends had come from. He turned to them with a quizzical look "Where are you from?" he asked, turning to them.
The question seemed to startle Oswald far more that expected. "I'm… uhh… I'm from Tranquil Town, of course!"
"Is that so?" Firion asked. "You don't sound too confident."
"Yeah, it is so!" Oswald insisted.
Sora turned his head curiously at Oswald's sudden and strange claims but chose not to pursue the matter. "What about you, Firion?"
"Hmm…" Firion seemed to be lost in thought, apparently not even sure himself. "I suppose the best answer would be Tranquil Town for me as well, though I'm not sure I would call it home anymore."
"Yeah, right!" Oswald shouted in disbelief. "I never saw you there before! That's just where we found you! Where are you really from, huh?"
"Why would I lie about that? I've merely been away for quite some time," Firion calmly replied. "Also, I don't think I'm the one trying to hide something here."
"I…" Oswald sputtered for a moment, unable to come up with an argument. After a moment, he crossed his arms and grumbled in defeat.
It wasn't hard for Jasmine to sense the tension between Oswald and Firion. "They're very interesting, at the least," she interjected, hoping to end the subject.
"I guess that's one way of putting it," Aladdin added.
"Are we done yet?" Oswald rudely asked.
"Not yet," Jasmine answered. "The search party hasn't come back. I'm sure they will soon, though."
Oswald rolled his eyes for a moment before a huge crash from outside interrupted the awkward conversation.
Jasmine practically jumped out of her chair. "What was that?"
Aladdin was already out the door, shouting back. "I'll go check."
"I'll come, too!" Sora added, accompanying Aladdin.
"Sora, stop!" Oswald demanded to no effect. With a frustrated growl, he chose to follow as well, Jasmine and Firion not far behind.
When Sora and Aladdin arrived at the source of the crash, they found what appeared to be a giant man made of sand. The wall behind him had been completely destroyed, leaving just enough room for him to enter.
"Stop! Who…" Aladdin began to ask before wondering if it was even the right question. "What are you?"
"What? Never seen a sand golem before?" the monster asked, acting as if such creatures were commonplace in Agrabah.
"I know I haven't," Sora shrugged.
"Why did you break the wall?" Aladdin asked.
The golem sighed heavily. "Look, let's just get to the point, alright? I'm just doing my job. Just let me take the princess and I'll be on my way."
"I don't know who you are, but I won't let you take Jasmine!" Aladdin fearlessly declared, his sword pointed at the invader.
"Oh? You're gonna try to stop me?" the golem chuckled. "Looks like I'm gonna smash something after all." He raised his arms before quickly dropping them to the ground, creating enough force to shatter the palace tiles below.
"Too slow!" Sora exclaimed, having already leaped to the right. Aladdin had the same idea, sliding to his left.
"Sora!" Aladdin called, preparing to charge with his sword while Sora prepared did the same from the opposite side. The two tried to dash through the golem with their weapons, only to find them lodged within its granular body.
The golem guffawed at their attack, grabbing his now stationary foes as their weapons sunk further into his body. He lifted them into the air, gloating with a grin. "Is that all you've got?" He threw them against the wall before comically spitting their weapons away, the Keyblade vanishing as it hit the ground.
"Aladdin! Sora!" Jasmine shouted as she entered the scene with the others.
"I knew something bad would happen!" Oswald stormed.
"Jasmine, get out of here!" Aladdin fretted.
"Jasmine, eh? Then you must be the princess," the golem thought aloud. Before she could respond, he grabbed her and threw her into his mouth. At the same time, his belly formed into a makeshift prison cell, complete with bars made of sand giving a view to the outside.
It wasn't long before Jasmine found herself trapped in that cell, unable to break the bars despite their unusual composition. "Aladdin!"
"No!" Aladdin sprinted towards the monster despite being unarmed in an attempt to save her, only to be knocked away by a simple flick from a giant finger.
After seeing Aladdin be flung back, Sora summoned his Keyblade and tried another attack himself, launching a leaping strike on the golem. His attempt was no more successful, however, as the golem swiped his palm and launched Sora away as well.
The golem exited the palace through the giant hole he had created before diving into the garden just outside, leaving a massive tunnel behind.
Refusing to stay down, Aladdin dashed to the tunnel. "Guys, come on!"
Sora and Firion followed without hesitation, leaving Oswald behind. "Why can't he just stick to looking for Donald and Goofy?" The rabbit reluctantly dove down the tunnel as well.