"So what'll it be, master?"

I sighed lightly. It was kind of hard to relax after that show stopping number we just pulled.  Aladdin spoke up. "You're gonna grant me any three wishes I want?" To answer this question, Genie turned into a version of William F. Buckley. "Ah, almost. There are a few provisos, a couple of quid pro quos." Aladdin looked at Genie, urging him to go on. "Like?"

Genie shrunk down to our size and sat on the rock beside me. "Ah, rule number one: I can't kill anybody. (He slices his head off with his finger.) So don't ask." Aladdin grabbed his neck. Then Genie poofed himself on the other side of me. "Rule number two: I can't make anyone fall in love with anyone else." He then leaned down and gave me a large kiss on the cheek. My heart jumped into my throat. "Ooooo! You little punim, there." Genie said patting my cheek where he had kissed me moments earlier.

Then, Genie poofed next to Aladdin, lying flat on his back. "Rule number three: (he started rising back up, now turned into a zombie) I can't bring people back from the dead. It's not a pretty picture, (he grabbed Aladdin and shook him) I don't like doing it!" I saw Aladdin grab his mouth as if he were about to throw up. Genie poofed back to normal.

"Other than that, you got it!" Aladdin glanced on his shoulder at Abu, and then to me with a sly look on his face. I knew exactly what he was thinking.  "Ah, provisos? You mean limitations? On wishes?" I didn't want to be mean to Genie so I kept quiet.

"Can't even bring people back from the dead. I don't know, Abu--he probably can't eve get us out of this cave. Looks like we're going to have to find a way out of here..." I soon swallowed my pride, because Aladdin was giving me a pout, and I summoned up as much acting skill as I could. "Yeah," I bit out, scathingly turning my head. "What a wimp of a Genie."

I could feel Genie's angry eyes burning the back of my head. By this time we were all strolling away, 'looking for a way out'. Then, Genie slammed his foot in front of us, blocking our path. "Excuse me? Are you lookin' at me? Did you rub my lamp? Did you wake me up, did you bring me here? And all of a sudden, you're walkin' out on me?"

Aladdin looked smugly. I just watched Genie. I was slightly disturbed to find that he was really sexy when he was pissed. He started advancing on us, getting madder and madder as he went. "I don't think so, not right now. You're gettin' your wishes, so siddown!" I felt my legs give out (as much as I'll deny it, not JUST because of fear) and sat down on Carpet. Aladdin was next to me. Genie poofed in front of me.

"In case of emergency, the exits are (he crated multiple arms with each word) here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, (all the arms came back into two) anywhere! Keep your hands and arms inside the carpet."

Genie grabbed Carpet by the tassels and I panicked. Oh shit...

"Weeee'rrrrrreee..."

"Outta here!" as we broke through the top of the cave and I grabbed on to the closes thing possible. That just happened to be Genie's waist. Let me just say I didn't plan it! I swear! It was just reflex to grab onto something solid when flying on a carpet at 90 miles an hour. But, I'm not going to lie...it was nice. You know, Genie has really soft skin...when I finally realized what I was doing I tensed up. Crap. I pulled back slightly and saw Genie looking back at me. "You okay, sweetheart?"

"Yeah, just don't floor it next time." I said because going this fast with out easing into it, it makes ya think you were flying backwards. I started to reluctantly let go of him, and apologized, "Sorry." 

"Naw, it's alright if you wanna hold on." I smiled in appreciation. "Thanks."

"No problem." He said back.

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We flew all night long. After about an hour on Carpet, I felt myself dozing off. Don't fall asleep on Genie. Don't fall asleep on Genie. I kept telling myself. It didn't work.

The next thing I heard was Genie laughing. I cracked open my eyes to see that I was now leaning on Genie's shoulder (not his back)  I sat up slowly and the motion caught Genie's attention. He turned his head to look at me and smiled. "Have a good sleep?"

"Yep. Thanks, by the way, for letting me lean on you." I smiled in appreciation. Genie laughed lightly and poofed into a pillow. "Anytime! I'll always be here for you to lay on!" He said and poofed back to normal and I chuckled. Just then the oasis came into view. Genie changed into a stewardess garb and cups of tea appeared in our hands as we flew closer.

"Thank you for choosing Magic Carpet for all your travel needs. Don't stand until the rug has come to a complete stop." Carpet came to a halt and folded his end like stairs for us to get off. As we got off, Genie waved to us. "Thank you. Good bye, good bye! Thank you! Good bye!" After we were all off Carpet, Genie turned back to normal.

"Well, now. How about that, Mr. Doubting Mustafa?" We all looked at each other and smiled sneakily. "Oh, you sure showed me. Now about my three wishes..." started Aladdin. "Dost mine ears deceive me?" said Genie. "Three? You are down by ONE, boy!" Genie shoved a big, blue finger in Aladdin's face.

"Ah, no..." said Aladdin, pushing Genie's finger out of his face. "I never actually wished to get out of the cave. You did that on your own." Genie got a look of disbelief on his face. "Sorry, but that IS how it happened..." I said. "Yeah, you should know better than to trust us street rats." I added. His jaw dropped. "Well I feel sheepish." He turned into a sheep and got into Aladdin's face. "Alright you baaaaad boys! But no more freebies."

He turned by to normal and floated to two palm trees and hung himself between them as if he was on a hammock. I walked over where he was to sit down and leaned on the palm tree beside him. Aladdin started pacing with Carpet following him. "Fair deal. So, three wishes. I want them to be good. What would you wish for Besnik?" Aladdin asked me.

I looked down. I have no idea! I noticed that Genie had opened one eye and was watching me closely. I shook it off and concentrated on my answer. I soon started re-running things in my mind.

I lay in my makeshift bed, my stomach aching from its first day without food. "You are a worthless street rat. You were born a street rat. You'll die a street rat. And only your fleas...and maybe your bastard will mourn you." I vomit in a back alley on the anniversary of my parents' deaths. "Someday Abu, Besnik...things are going to change. We'll be rich...live in a palace...and never have any trouble at all."

"I would wish for a better life for my family and me. I would wish for all the pain and heartache that we had to go through to be washed away and that we could finally live in peace of mind." I came out of my reverie quickly.

"But this isn't my wish, Aladdin. This is yours. So YOU make a decision." Aladdin nodded solemnly. "What about you?" Aladdin asked Genie. "Me?" Genie replied, floating to the ground. "No one's ever asked me that before. Well, in my case,...ah, forget it."

"What? No, tell me." Aladdin said, his interest peaked. "No, I can't, I-" I got up to put my hand on his shoulder and he looked in my eyes. "Please?" I asked. He took a deep breath. "Freedom." Genie stated, showing his gold cuffs. "You're a prisoner?" Aladdin asked. Genie nodded. "It's all part-and-parcel, the whole genie gig." He grew gigantic and had a booming voice. "Phenomenal cosmic powers!.." He shrunk down into his lamp, looking cramped and incredibly uncomfortable. "Itty bitty living space."

I hissed slightly at his pain. "Ouch..." "Genie, that's terrible." Aladdin stated. "But, oh--to be free..." Genie said as he floated out of the Lamp. "Not have to go "Poof! What do you need? Poof! What do you need? Poof! What do you need?!"  By the time he finished this he had a death grip on Aladdin's vest. "To be my own master, such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world!" He was now a little higher than the rest of us. I smiled at the sincerity in his voice.

I knew what he was taking about, I use to be a prisoner, a slave, a...freak. "But what am I talking about, here? Let's get real here. It's not gonna happen. Genie, wake up and smell the hummus. "Eh?" I asked. "Why not?" Aladdin added. "The only way I get outta this is if my master wishes me out. So you can guess how often that's happened."

"Well that sucks." I stated. Genie snorted and gave me a 'ya think?' look. "I'll do it. I'll set you free." said Aladdin. Genie looked at him skeptically. "Uh huh, yeah, right." His head changed to Pinocchio's with a long nose and he made a "whoop" sound. Aladdin rolled his eyes and pushed Genie's nose back to normal saying: "I'm serious! After make my first two wishes, I'll use my third wish to set you free." Aladdin held out his hand. Genie looked at it for a minute, then sighed. "Well, here's hopin'."

He shook Aladdin's hand. "And Genie if he doesn't, then I will, alright!" I reassured him more, as he smiled. "Alright, let's make some magic!" He briefly turned into a magician with cards flying everywhere before poofing next to Aladdin, leaning on his shoulder.

"So how 'bout it? What is it you want most?" Aladdin started rubbing the back of his head. "Well...there's this girl..." I rolled my eyes. Genie made a sound like a buzzer and showed a heart with a circle and a line through it on his chest. "Wrong! I can't make anybody fall in love, remember?" As he said this he tapped Aladdin on his head. I walked over and stood next to him. "Yeah Aladdin, didn't we go over this...last night?" Aladdin sighed.

"Besnik, you know! And Genie, you don't understand! She's smart and fun and..." "Pretty?" offered Genie. "Beautiful!" Genie and I looked at each other in an 'of course she is!' look. "She's got these eyes that just...and this hair, wow...and her smile." Aladdin sighed and the scene changed.

Genie, Abu, Carpet, and I were all standing in a Parisian café now. Carpet and Abu were sitting at the table drinking wine. I was a painter with canvas, and Genie was standing next to me in a black and white striped shirt, a black beret and black pants with me, but he was smoking a cigarette. Genie put his arm around me and blew a smoke heart from his cigarette.

"Ami. C'est l'amour."

"But she's the princess." Aladdin continued. "To even have a chance, I'd have to be a..." I swear, you could see the light bulb go off! "Hey, can you make me a prince?" We all changed back to normal, except for Genie who now wore glasses and a pink apron. He held a large 'Royal Cookbook'. I peaked over his shoulder at it.

"Let's see here. Uh, chicken a'la king? (He pulled out a chicken with a crown on its head) Nope. (he tossed it aside) Alaskan king crab? (he yanked out his finger and we saw a crab that looked surprisingly like Sebastian) Ow, I hate it when I do that. Caesar's salad? (A dagger came out and tried to stab him.) Et tu, Brute? No!"

I had taken a good two steps away from the book by this time. "Ah," Genie said at last. "To make a prince." He looked slyly at Aladdin. "Now is that an official wish? Say the magic words!"

"Genie, I wish for you to make me a prince!" Aladdin said in a very heroic voice. I chuckled and rolled my eyes. "All right! (he turned into Arsenio Hall) Woof woof woof woof!" Then, Genie turned into a tailor. "First, that fez and vest combo is much too third century. These patches--what are we trying to say--beggar? No! Let's work with me here."

I was trying not to laugh as I buried my head in my hand and shook it. Then, Genie took Aladdin's measurements and snapped his fingers. Genie faked gasped at his creation. "I like it! Moi mocho!" Aladdin now stood in his Prince outfit, admiring himself in the mirror.

I clapped at Aladdin. He looked at us and smiled, and then at Genie. "What about Besnik?"

"He is your family, no?" asked Genie, still in character. "Yeees..." said Aladdin.

"Then, we'll have to make him look like prince as well!" he circled me once...then twice....then three times. When he started his third time around, Genie smirked slightly, and I wasn't sure I liked the look. When the smoke cleared and I looked at myself in the mirror, I was very happy with what I saw.

My pants and shoes were purple. My vest, which was lighter purple. My hair was pulled out of my face by way of the light purple circlet, which had an emerald in it, and sat back on my head. I had a light purple choker necklace with a emerald in it to match my circlet. My long hair in a low pony tail, tied by pink ribbon with the ends longer than my hair by an inch, nothing different by that. I decided to accessorizes and went for my mail bag I put by the palm tree, I grabbed my green and yellow sash and tied it around my stomach, then tied my dark purple sarong to it, so it was covering my right hip. I had my gold hoop earring on my left ear still, as well as my golden bangle on my let wrist and matching bracelet and anklet on my right hand and right ankle.

"I'm loving it, Genie. But my outfit doesn't look very...well, Arabian." I stated. He smiled. "True, but you are FOREIGN royalty, aren't you?" I nodded and smiled at his reasoning. "Do you think I can have a short light face veil?" I asked and he snapped his fingers, a light purple that was a little see through, and was connected to my circlet. It went from my nose to a little below my chin."Thanks." I said back as he replied, "No prob. By the way," he continued. "The gold kinda clashes with the outfit. You want me to change 'em?"

I looked down quickly. I could feel my eyes darkening over. "No." I stole a quick glance at Genie, to see him looking very confused. "These golden trinkets are My parents. It's...all I have left of them..." Genie winced. "Sorry." I smiled at his apology. "It's okay. You didn't know. But I really do love the outfit." Genie laughed nervously. "Hehehe...yeah. Well,.." He turned back into the tailor. "These ensembles need more! They say something to me...they say...Mode of Transportation! Excuse me, monkey boy! Aqui, over here!"

We all looked to see Abu trying to hide behind Carpet. I cocked an eyebrow at his antics. Carpet flipped him over and flew him to us as the scene changed into a game show, with Genie as the host. "Here he comes, and what better way to make your grand entrance on the streets of Agrabah, than riding your very own brand new camel! Watch out, they spit!"

Abu was magically transformed into a camel. I let out a little laugh. "Mmm, not enough." Genie said, as he snapped his fingers. Abu was then transformed into a horse similar to the fop's at the beginning, only white. "Still not enough!" Genie was not satisfied.

He started snapping his fingers, turning Abu into multiple forms of transportation, from a duck, to an ostrich, to a turtle, and a finally a car, saying "What do we need?" over and over again. Finally, he decided. "Yes!! Esalalumbo, shimin dumbo! Boo!"

Abu was now an elephant. I broke out laughing and walked over and patted Genie on the shoulder. "He's PERFECT!" He smiled cheesily at me. "Talk about your trunk space, check this action out!" I chuckled at the joke. Abu saw his reflection in the water of the oasis and let out a terrified sound. He jumped up into a tree, which could no longer hold his weight, and was now hanging upside-down in front of Aladdin.

"Whoa, Abu...you look good."

"He's got the outfit, he's got the elephant, he's got a prince for a brother, but we're not through yet. Hang on to your turban, kid. We're gonna make you a star!" 'Ego much?' but this will most defiantly be fun.