I watched my reflection in the mirror for the 100th time today to adjust the golden circlet on my head. "God this thing is annoying!" I said to no one. I was wearing what I did in my dream, hellfire red with purple, along with golden trinkets. It was scary how similar it all was.
Once I got over nostalgia I got up and made my way to the garden, I needed a walk. As I currently walked around in the garden, looking for a certain red parrot that was supposedly with him.
I spotted Iago a little bit ago, the only question is he still around? I Suddenly heard a very loud, very upset voice cry out:
"THE SULTAN!?"
I then took off running towards the sound. It didn't take me long to find him. Iago had been locked in the cage by Aladdin, who was walking away from me. I was on the back side of the cage.
"Are you kidin'?" Iago asked incredulously. "He hates me!"
"He isn't the only one." I said loudly. Aladdin jumped and turned quickly. Seeing me, his face fell and revealed one thought: 'Oh shit'.
"Besnik!"
"Aladdin?" I asked, leaning up against the cage, "Any particular reason why Iago is locked up in a cage, at the palace?"
"I know it sounds nuts, but he saved my life..." Aladdin said, "Say what?" I asked confused. Aladdin took a deep breath and told us all about Iago's 'rescue'. After he had finished, I glared down at the parrot. "I don't know Al. This all seems too out of character for Iago for me to believe. Besides, you know how Jas feels about this."
"Yeah! What about the Princess?!" Iago asked desperately. It was obvious he didn't want to be in the situation in which he was currently stuck. "Don't worry," my brother reassured the parrot. "I'll keep you under wraps from Jasmine."
"Jeeze Al, not again!" I sighed out exasperatedly. "Wasn't it your LIES that got us into trouble the last time?" I said. "I just need time until I've gotten Jasmine...prepared." was his defense.
"Gotten me prepared for what?" said a feminine voice. We all looked up to see Jasmine approaching. "Jasmine!" Aladdin exclaimed, pushing himself in front of the cage where Iago was being hid. He shot me a pleading look to which I did not respond.
"Uh-uh...for the stain Abu got on the new vest you gave him." I gave a quiet snort at the pitiful excuse he made as I took my place on his left side.
Jasmine inspected the vest. "I don't see a stain," she stated after looking at it closely. Aladdin shot me his puppy eyes look and I rolled my hazel eyes in defeat. 'Here we go again.' I thought to myself.
"It must've just wiped off." I said, coming to my brother's rescue. He looked at me gratefully. "See! No harm done. Off to dinner! Wouldn't want to keep the Sultan waiting." Aladdin started to pull Jasmine along and I started to follow. Then, Jasmine stopped, sensing that everything was not as it should be.
"Is there something wrong?" she asked. "Wrong? No! There's nothing wrong!" my brother said quickly. Not completely believing him, Jasmine stopped and replied "You're not...hiding anything from me are you? Anymore secrets?"
Aladdin fumbled. "S-s-s-secrets?" Then, he cleared his throat and got his cool back. "Of course not. I almost lost you once that way. I'd never risk that again." I rolled my eyes again, exasperated as Aladdin and Jasmine leaned in for a kiss.
Just as they were about to touch, the earth started rumbling and water from the lake shot up into the sky in a whirlpool-like function. What was going on now!?
"YEEHAH!"
Wait... I know that cry.....
Jasmine and Aladdin's terrified looks turned to looks of joy as we gazed upon the big, blue form surfing towards us on a wave, dressed in a Hawaiian shirt, sunglasses, and an Eskimo hat, with a shit load of suitcases in his hands.
Carpet zoomed in next to me and bounced up and down happily. I guess he was ready to see his old friend. He poofed in front of us and exclaimed happily, taking off his hat and sunglasses and poofing out of the shirt: "He's big, he's blue...HE'S BACK!"
Aladdin and Jasmine rushed forward and hugged him tight. I couldn't budge from where my heart started pounding in my ears. As my friends hugged him, he turned dark red.
"Oooh, ah, hoo! WATCH THE SUNBURN!"
They broke away from him and looked at him confused. After cringing for a moment, he turned back to his normal blue tone and laughed lightly.
"Kidding!"
He then poofed in between Aladdin and Jasmine. "Did ya miss me? Be honest!" They were when they told Genie they did miss him. "Now tell me;" he continued, "How's Besnik been?"
"Ask him yourself," Aladdin said, breaking away from under his arm, "He's over there."
I came out from behind Jasmine as Genie turned to look at me. I saw him visibly catch his breath when he saw me and my heart beat sped up at the sight of him.
He looked the same as when he left. His black eyes sparkled with mirth; his light blue skin looked soft and inviting. I wanted so much to have him hold me again. But at the same time, I was frozen to the spot. This man could still stop me in my tracks and render me unmovable.
Finally, I was able to force words out of my mouth.
"Hey, Genie..." He smiled lightly at me and replied. "Hey sweetheart." Hearing his name for me set me ablaze and I gave in to my instinct. I ran to him and jumped into his arms, wrapping my legs around his waist. Taking his face in my hands I kissed him...hard.
At first, he responded whole-heartedly. He put one hand under my bottom to keep me stable in his arms. He tangled his other hand in my long hair and massaged my scalp as he kissed me back.
But then...I don't really know what happened. First, he slowly stopped kissing me back and took his hand out of my hair. He kept his hand under me, but I suspect that was just courtesy to keep me from falling on my ass. I broke away from the kiss and looked into his eyes to try and find the answer as to why he broke away from me.
In his eyes I saw incredible discomfort and something else I couldn't place. And then I realized... I had just jumped Genie and started making out with him in the middle of the palace courtyard in front of everybody.
No wonder he was uncomfortable. Talk about PDA. I quickly jumped out of his arms but I kept my arms on his shoulders. "I missed you." I said, breaking the awkward silence.
I heard Al scoff in the background. Genie answered me, "I missed you too." There was more awkward silence. "So...Did you have fun?" I asked cautiously. Genie sent me his trademark smile and laughed.
"YES! Definitely! Some of the places I've been and seen...I never thought I'd be able to. And boy, does the luggage pile up!"
With that, he broke away from me and poofed next to Abu, handing him all of his luggage. "Take these, my good mammal." He said in a stuck-up voice. When Abu took them, he fell off Aladdin's shoulder. Genie looked down at him and said:
"Careful, they're heavy."
And then he proceeded to hand out random pieces of junk. "I got presents and souvenirs for everybody!" To Jasmine he handed a bear with an African headdress. He placed a sombrero on Aladdin's head and a baseball cap on Abu's head. He also gave Abu a flag from a baseball game and a hotdog that was still steaming hot.
I laughed out loud when he handed Carpet his gift...A dashboard hula dancer, which Genie demonstrated by giving the skirt a light shove.
"Oooh, she dances."
I got brave and said loudly, "Hey Genie, its my job to shake my hips for you." I felt my cheeks heat with a blush once I noticed what I said, no take backs either. I also watched as Genie turned a darker shade of blue himself.
Genie recovered quickly and turned his back to us, slyly. "Well, I guess if you wanna crack jokes Besnik, you can just wait to get YOUR gift."
"No! I want my present!!" I whined. Everyone laughed me and Genie shrugged. "How can I say no to a whine like that?" He took a package out and handed it to me. I took off the brown paper and gasped. My eyes widened. Slowly and sacredly, I pulled out a Japanese Sai. I was sure it had a twin still tucked away in the paper.
"Oh Genie...Thank you."
"I picked those up for you in Japan." Genie explained. "I thought you might need them." I nodded my head in thanks as Aladdin and Jasmine came over to have a closer look. After Genie approached me and whispered.
"I still have your other gift put away. I'll give it to you later...in private."
I looked up at him and smiled. He smiled back at me and I felt sure a kiss was coming on. I leaned in slightly and tilted my head, but I kept my eyes open. Genie's smile turned awkward and he rubbed the back of his neck and walked away from me and over to our friends.
I righted myself and tried to shake off the confusion and slight hurt. I think he just might not be a PDA kind of person so I shook it off. "Ohhh-kay." I mumbled to myself as I followed Genie's example and joined the group.
"Genie, you mean you saw the whole world already?" asked Aladdin. Genie shrunk and split himself into four international figures and sang: "It's a small world after all!"
This caused me to giggle as I took my place beside Jasmine. He then made himself regular sized again and put his arms around all four of us. "But Agrabah has something nothing in the whole world has."
"Yeah," I said. I jumped on top of a low wall and spread my arms wide. "SAND! It's everywhere! Get used to it." (line from the third movie.)
Genie looked thoughtful. "Not what I was thinking...but I like it. I think I'll borrow that line sometime."
"Well, what where you thinking?" Jasmine asked, laughter in her voice. I walked back over to them. "Well...." Genie dragged off, leaving us hanging...
...that is until he turned into a rocket and shot off with us on him.
"YOU GUYS!!"
I held on tightly as we went flying through the sky as the music played, trying not to look down. Then, Genie started singing.
"I parachuted down into the Taj Mahal"
We floated down, Genie acting as our parachute until we landed in a rickshaw, with a Chinese Genie running it.
"I rode a rickshaw all along the great Great Wall
I even made the famous Leaning Tower fall,"
The rickshaw turned into an old fashioned bicycle, which a now Italian Genie rammed into the Leaning Tower of Pizza. Just as the Tower almost fell on us, Genie caught it.
"But who was with me through it all?
Nobody!"
We were now on a trapeze act. I sat on one pole while Al and Jas sat on the other, watching a Russian Genie work on it.
"The Moscow Circus hired me to fly trapeze
On Mount Olympus ran a race with Hercules
It's easy when you're chased by killer bees!!"
We were then poofed into a meadow where we were forced to run from evil looking bees. To get us away from the bees, Genie poofed us under water.
"Who said 'geshundheit' when I sneezed? ACHOO!
So now I'm home
Home again with you,"
We were brought out of the water, but we were still wet. Aladdin and Jasmine looked annoyed, and I had my arms wrapped around myself, shaking from the cold. I looked pitiful. But then, Genie changed into a sun and dried us off. After we were dry, he turned back to normal and wrapped us him his arms.
"You chase the clouds away
Whenever I am blue!"
"You're always blue!" Aladdin pointed out. We were then turned into Egyptian statues.
"And the pyramids, I highly recommend
There is nothing in the world quite like a friend"
Genie turned us back to normal and continued as an Indian Man.
"Slept like a babe in Bombay on a bed of nails"
I slapped my hand to my head as the love of my life turned into a miniature belly dancer.
"Moroccans loved my dancing of the seven veils"
He then turned into an old fisherman.
"I single-handedly even saved the whales
No one was there to hear my tales!"
He then turned into a Mexican and turned us into his back up dancers.
"In Acapulco, joined a Mariachi band"
He then turned into an old miner.
"I rode the ragin' rapids down the Rio Grande"
Then he put us into an air balloon. I clung to him.
"Flew in an air balloon, but when I tried to land
Nobody laughed or lent a hand"
We fell out of the air but were poofed to safety. Well, except for Aladdin. He fell into Safari Genie's net.
"Without you, the Amazon is just a trickle"
I felt I nudge on my arm and turned to Eskimo Genie as he sang to me.
"Without you, the Sahara's not so hot"
A drop of water fell on Jasmines head and she looked up to see Genie, in the form of a faucet singing to her.
"Without you, Niagara Falls is just a leaky faucet"
Then, British Marine Genie poofed next to Al.
"And the QEII is just some yacht"
He saluted and flipped into the boat as it took off. He took his place next to me and we looked over the edge as the boat flew us around to the balcony.
"Now that I'm home,
Home again, it's clear"
The boat pulled to a stop and Jasmine and Aladdin all slid down the anchor rope. I was about to when Genie swept me into his arms and carried me down the plank and onto the solid ground.
"All I ever wanted
Seems to be right here"
I was still standing with him when he grew 2 extra heads and sang a trio with them.
"I've traveled East and West
And now, I'm back again"
He took his tail and lassoed the rest of our friends and brought them to us as the song drew to a close.
"And there's nothing in the world
Quite like a friend..."
"There's nothing in the world" Aladdin sang.
"Nothing in the whole wide world" Jasmine and I sang. Then, we all sang the last verse together.
"There's nothing in the world quite like a friend!"
"Nothin' in the whole wide world!" Genie concluded as we all poofed back to the garden.
I'm so happy he's back!!!