"Infidels!" the Cave's voice called out. My heart jumped into my throat. I was shocked. "You have touched the forbidden treasure. Now you will never again see the light of day!"

Fire burst out of the place where the golden statue once stood. I was pulled out of my shock by a sudden push on the back of my legs. I fell back onto Carpet. I sat up quickly in time to see Aladdin falling towards me. Carpet caught him. I was sitting on my knees, and fisted Carpet, desperately trying to hold on.

"Please don't let us die. Please don't let us die." I started repeating quietly to myself over and over. "Abu!" I scream, seeing him down there stuck. We swooped down and I watched as Aladdin sweep up Abu from the exploding lava river. "Whoa! Carpet let's move!" I heard Aladdin say.

As we kept flying and dodging falling debris, "Oh God!" I screamed, trying to let all my fear out through my throat. It didn't work.

"Abu! This is no time to panic!" I looked in front of us and saw it: the large brick wall. "Start panicking..." I finished. We all let out screams as we started loop-de-looping and all sorts of other stunts. We entered the first room we came in. I heard the Cave start to growl and I knew it was closing in on us. We flew upwards and were almost at the top. That is, until a large bolder crashed down on Carpet. It me flying onto a nearby 'island' of rock.

I screamed as we crashed. I was dazed, but I still had enough consciousness to see. I was officially scared now, and I was fading fast. I knew that I would not be able to stay conscious for much longer. The last thing I remember seeing before my world went black was Carpet flying towards us with an unconscious Aladdin. Before I was completely gone, I managed to let out one sentence. "Please don't die on me, guys."

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I woke up to Abu who hugged me. He then jumped off my shoulder and went over to try and wake up Aladdin. I slowly rose to my feet and started looking around. It was really nothing but a big, black hole. I walked over to Aladdin, We then heard Aladdin groan as Carpet lifted him up.

I kneeled on Aladdin's right. "Oh, my head." He groaned as he came to. "Pretty bad fall you took." I said. Aladdin didn't reply. He just shook himself awake. He looked up at the ceiling. My eyes followed and I sighed.

"We're trapped." Aladdin said, disbelieving it. "Yep." I said. Aladdin's aura turned angry and he shook his fist at the place where the entrance once was. "That two faced son-of-a-jackal!"

I put my hand on his shoulder in an attempt to calm him. It seemed to work because he took a deep breath. "Whoever he was, he's long gone with that lamp."

"Aha!" Abu jumped in front of us and with a dramatic flair, pulled out the lamp. "Wow..." I said to myself. Aladdin laughed lightly at Abu's antics. "Why you hairy little thief!" Aladdin took the lamp from Abu and held it up for me to see. I scooted closer and leaned into it.

"Looks like such a beat-up, worthless piece of junk." I shot a glare to Aladdin at that statement, it was a beautiful lamp to me."Hey, I think there's something written here, but it's hard to make out." Aladdin started rubbing the lamp and I got as close to it as I could.

Suddenly, the lamp started shaking uncontrollably and glowing. Then sparks, fireworks and smoke started leaking out of it. A firework buzzed right next to my head. I let out a yelp and I ran behind the rock. Aladdin just looked on, dumbstruck. After a few seconds more of fireworks and smoke, we heard a scream as a figure started rising up with the smoke. It was big. It was blue. It looked to be a person.

"OI!" The blue man said as he cracked his neck, coming into full materialization. He stretched and looked down at Aladdin. "Ten-thousand years will give ya such a crick in the neck!" He then picked up Aladdin and hung him on an invisible peg to the wall. "Hang on a second." He then proceeded to take his head off and spun it around, yelling as he did so.

I got up on Carpet and pulled Aladdin down. I then got off Carpet and inched, cautiously inched closer to the blue man. His light blue skin was most defiantly spread over a muscled, toned body. His face was round and pleasant, giving away the fact that he loved to laugh and his chin was lightly covered with a black goatee. His ears were pointed and he had a nice top-knot of black hair on his head.

"Whoa! Does it feel good to be outta there!" he exclaimed, bringing me at least a little bit closer to earth. He then pulled his tail out of his lamp and used it as a microphone. "Nice to be back, ladies and gentlemen. Hi, where ya from? What's your name?" Genie asked as he put the microphone up to Aladdin. Aladdin unsurely answered him. "Uh, Al--uh--Aladdin."

"Aladdin!" Genie exclaimed as a large neon sign, with Aladdin's name on it, appeared above his head. "Hello, Aladdin. Nice to have you on the show. Can we call you 'Al?' Or maybe just 'Din?' Or how bout 'Laddi?'" At this point a Scottish hat and scarf appeared on Genie's person, along with the appropriate red hair beard. "Sounds like 'Here, boy!" Genie whistled and then turned into a dog. "C'mon, Laddi!' hehehe!" I found myself smiling at joke. Aladdin shook his head.

"I must have hit my head harder than I thought." "Nope, cause I see it too." I interjected. "You smoke? Mind if I do?" The blue man asked right before poof-ing back to his original form, laughing like a maniac.

The 'poof' obviously scared Abu, because he screeched wildly and climbed up onto my shoulders, holding onto me for dear life. As he screeched I turned my head to look at him on my back. I heard The blue man saying in the background... "Oh, sorry Cheetah--hope I didn't singe the fur!" ...and I gave Abu a 'what the hell do you want me to do?' look. Then, it stopped. 

I turned around, to see the blue man and saw that he was staring intently at me. He had a look of shock, confusion, and...something else I couldn't place, on his face as he stared at me. Not liking the awkward silence, I spoke. "Eh...Hi?" This seemed to snap him out of it, because he came back to his usual energetic self.

"And what is your name?" he asked no one and everyone in the room.

"I'm Besnik." I told him. "Well, Besnik," said The blue man, impersonating a snake with his voice on the 'S'. "Just what are you doing here with my new master?" "I'm his family." I said back. he let out a dramatic sigh. "Oooohhhh this is so beautiful! One big happy family together!" He then spotted Carpet. "Yo, Rugman! Haven't seen you in a few millennia! Slap me some tassel! Yow! Yah-yo-yo!" he said as he did a hand shake with Carpet. The blue man then took a closer look at Aladdin.

"Say...You're a lot smaller than my last master! Either that or I'm getting bigger..." The blue man pushed out his stomach to make it look like a beer gut. "Look at me from the side. Do I look different to you?" Aladdin interjected. "Wait a minute! I'm--your master?"

"That's right! He can be taught!!" The blue man slapped a diploma in Aladdin's hand and a mortarboard on his head. I tried to control myself from laughing. The blue man continued. "What would you wish of me, (he changed into Arnold Schwarzenegger) the ever impressive, (he locked himself inside a cube) the long contained, (he created a dummy in an imitation of a ventriloquist) often imitated, (he tossed the dummy aside) but never duplicated..."

My eye's widened as lots of the blue man appeared over the room. "Geeeenie of the LAAAMP!" He then shrunk slightly in an impression of Ed Sullivan. "Right here straight from the lamp, right here for your wish fulfillment. Thank youuuuu!"

I couldn't hold it back. I let out a little chuckle. "Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Wish fulfillment?" Aladdin asked, standing. "Three wishes to be exact. And ex-nay on the wishing for more wishes. That's it (He turned into a slot machine. The arm pulled down and three Genie's appeared in the windows.) Three. (The three Genie's came out of the slot dressed as caballeros.) Uno, dos, tres. (He changed into a black and white Groucho Marx.) No substitutions, exchanges or refunds."

As he finished the word 'refunds' a blue duck came down right in front of my face with a sign that said 'refunds', thus making me jump.  "Now I know I'm dreaming."

"Master!" Genie exclaimed as music started. "I don't think you quite realize what you've got here! So why don't you just ruminate, (Genie then turned neon blue) whilst I illuminate the possibilities." He lifted us up magically and put us back on the rock and then plopped down in front of us.

"Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves

Scheherazadie had a thousand tales

But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeve

You got a brand of magic never fails!"

As Genie sang these lines he created evil looking thieves that surrounded us. We got close together until Genie popped out of Aladdin's vest and beat them up for us. Then everything changed into a boxing scene. Aladdin as a boxer, Genie as a coach, and I as a card girl. Even though I'm a guy.

"You got some power in your corner now

Some heavy ammunition in your camp"

After those lines, we were back in our normal clothes. Genie started to do some crazy moves.

"You got some punch, pizzazz, yahoo and how

See all you gotta do is rub that lamp

And I'll say:

Mister Aladdin, sir

What will your pleasure be?"

As this happened we were set at a restaurant table and Genie turned into a French waiter.

"Let me take your order

Jot it down"

He poofed down to us and put his arms around Aladdin and me.

"You ain't never had a friend like me

Ha ha ha!

Life is your restaurant

And I'm your maitre d'!"

Genie appeared as a chicken in the plate for a moment before getting back to full size and leaning into us.

"C'mon whisper what it is you want

You ain't never had a friend like me"

 now Genie turned into a barber shop.

"Yes sir, we pride ourselves on service"

Then our's chairs turned into a throne and treasure appeared around him with Abu and Carpet fanning us.

"You're the boss

The King, the Shah

Say what you wish

It's yours! True dish

How about a little more Baklava?"

After the Baklava cleared away, Aladdin was left balancing on tall columns.

"Have some on column 'A'

Try all of column 'B'"

Aladdin fell off the last column and Genie caught him on a pillow.

"I'm in the mood to help you dude

You ain't never had a friend like me"

As he said the last line, a smaller Genie came out of the larger Genie's mouth dressed in a white tux right in front of me. Instead of dancing by himself, as I thought he would, Genie offered me his hand. I took it and he started dancing with me. Pretty soon, the two hands came up. So...I ended up dancing with Genie, Genie's left hand, and his right hand. This was fun. When the hands surrounded us, Genie spun me away from him. I caught my balance easy.

Genie started doing some more cool tricks with Aladdin.

"Can your friends do this?

Do your friends do that?

Do your friends pull this out their little hat?

Can your friends go 'poof'!?

Well, looky here!"

At this point, three harem girls appeared. I rolled my eyes at my brother.

"Can your friends go 'Abracadabra', 'let 'er rip'

And then make the sucker disappear?"

The girl's then disappeared and Genie continued his tricks.

He like's to show off, doesn't he? I asked myself.

"So don't you sit there slack-jawed, buggy-eyed

I'm here to answer all your midday prayers

You got me bona fide, certified

You got a genie for your chare d'affaires

I got a powerful urge to help you out

So what-cha wish? I really wanna know

You got a list that's three miles long, no doubt

Well, all you gotta do is rub like so-and oh

Mister Aladdin, sir, have a wish or two or three

I'm on the job, you big nabob"

At this point, Genie started shooting magic in different directions. First to the left. Dancing Elephant's appeared.

"You ain't never had a friend, never had a friend"

Then to the right. Camels started belly dancing.

"You ain't never had a friend, never had a friend"

Then, things just randomly appeared around us.

"You ain't never..."

I just decided to dance a little with all this happening.

"...Had a..."

"Friend."

"Like."

"Me!"

I was greatly enjoying the music and lights and...well...Life in general.

That is...until Genie started swirling everything away. Then it was just a world of multicolor.

"You ain't never had a friend like me! Hah!"

I was suddenly slammed down on the rock as if I had never budged. Genie leaned on his elbow above us, smirking smugly, an 'applause' sign flashing behind him. I started clapping with Carpet. This was going to be fun.