~ Chapter 7: Rewrite the Stars 🌟 ~
Y/N walks through the hallway, trying to find where Jasmine is while sightseeing. She was impressed at how nice the palace is on the inside. Razoul sees her and follows her in alone. As he comes up behind her, she turns and grabs his sword.
"You!" she scowled.
She forces him to the floor, holding him there with the tip of his sword at his chin.
"Easy, easy--I just shaved this morning."
"Oh, really? You missed a spot."
"Alright, alright. Just calm down. Just give me a chance to apologize."
"For what?"
As she lets down her guard for a split second, Razoul grabs the sword from her hands and turns it on her.
"That, for example."
"You sneaky son of a--"
"Ah, ah, ah! Watch it--you're in a palace."
She has picked up a staff with candles on top.
"Are you always this charming, or am I just lucky?"
She swings the staff at Razoul, who blocks it with his sword. They fight. Razoul laughs as he speaks between Y/N's swings.
"Candlelight...privacy... music. Can't think of a better place for hand-to-hand combat! You fight almost as well as a man!"
"Funny. I was going to say the same thing about you."
"That's hitting a little below the belt, don't you think?"
"No. This is."
She swings one end of the staff at Razoul's crotch. He blocks it with his sword. She quickly hits him in the face with the other end of the staff. He shakes it off.
"Touche!"
True, who's back into her snake form, comes in and headbutts him in the chest.
"I didn't know you had a little friend of yours."
True hisses at Razoul, slithering back to Y/N and wrapping herself around her neck.
"Well, she doesn't take kindly to guards."
The fighting has subsided.
"Eh, I noticed. Permit me. You're Y/N, aren't you?"
"How'd you guess?"
"Your personality and your fighting skills are the same as I remember."
"Well, congratulations. Is this an interrogation?"
Razoul sheathes his sword.
"I just wanted to be sure it's you."
"You're not arresting me?"
"Not as long as you're a guard to that prince. I can't."
Y/N was surprised by that. She places the staff back to where it belongs.
"You're not at all like the other guards."
"Thank you."
"So, if you're not going to arrest me, what do you want?"
"I'd just thought you might need these back."
He hands her a sword and a dagger, which she immediately recognized them and took them, placing them back where she normally held. She looks up at him with a surprised look.
"Oh, and I think you'll find that this does actually belong to you."
He pulls out a rare flower as it looks perfect and undamaged. Y/N couldn't believe it. He actually took it? She was about to take it when he removes her hat for him to see her same braided hair as he remembers and places it by her ear. Y/N blushes at the contact.
"Thank you."
As they gaze into each other's eyes, neither notices Jasmine approaching.
"Is everything alright? I heard fighting and--"
She stops to see this interaction.
"Am I interrupting something?"
Razoul still has his back to Y/N as he gaze at her lovingly.
"No, princess. I was just escorting Y/N to you as she wanted to talk to you."
Jasmine raised her eyebrow.
"Really?"
"Uh, yeah. I wanted to apologize to what my brother said about you. It's just a misunderstanding."
"Is it?"
"I'll leave you two be. See you, Y/N."
Razoul left, giving Y/N a smile.
"If you're really sorry, come with me to my room." Jasmine suggested, already heading to her headquarter.
Y/N nodded and followed her, whilst looking back at Razoul. As soon as they made it to her room, Y/N was greeted by a tiger as he walks up to her, looking curious. She stood there as calm as she could as Rajah sniffs her. True comes out and stares at Rajah. Rajah notices her and tilts his head with a questioned hum. Y/N carefully reaches her hand and gives him a pet on the head. He purrs in bliss, tucking his head against her stomach. Jasmine smiles at this.
"Looks like he likes you."
"Well, I can be very good with animals."
"So, if he's really sorry, why did he come here for? Besides marriage..."
"Well, he wants to get to know you before thinking of getting married."
"That's... thoughtful of him, but I don't think I can trust him."
"You'll never know. Not all boys are like that."
Jasmine smiles, but they disappeared when she got a good look on Y/N's face along with her hair that was supposed to be covered by her turban.
"Do I... know you from somewhere?"
Y/N's eyes widened.
"Wait..."
Jasmine recalled Razoul calling Y/N's name when she came over after hearing the ruckus.
"Is that you Y/N?"
She sighed, knowing she can't get out of this.
"Yes. It's me."
"Wow! I can't believe it! You're alive!" Jasmine gasped, holding her shoulders.
"Alive? What are you talking about? We escaped."
This made Jasmine growl, realizing something.
"That awful Jafar lied to me!"
"What... did he tell you?"
"That he executed you and your brother."
Y/N gaped at that.
"That's preposterous! Why would he do that?"
"I don't know. But I don't trust him. Just be careful around him."
"Well, I am a guard so I don't attend to be unaware of my surroundings."
"If you're here, does that mean...?"
Y/N smiled and patted her head.
"You'll just have to find that out soon."
Jasmine pouted and then suddenly smiled smugly.
"So, you and Razoul, huh? What's going on here?"
Y/N's cheeks turned pink.
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"Oh, come on. Don't think I noticed that look between you two. He's got that look. And I know that look."
"What? Seasick?" Y/N joked, making the princess giggle.
"Oh, very funny. I think you're in love."
"Me and Razoul in love? That's crazy!"
"Oh, come on! Anyone can fall in love."
"You really think so?"
"Mhm. And I think you need some help."
"Help with what?"
"Your date!"
"Huh?"
Before she knew it, her hair was all styled up and nice along with some natural makeup on her face. Jasmine even gave her the best outfit there is. She tried to decline that this dress belongs to her, but she insisted and that it would be a waste to not wear it. And that's how her talk with Jasmine had went. Y/N is now in the hallway, trying to find Aladdin while hiding the clothes Jasmine had given her inside her turban. As she turns, she bumps into the muscular chest. She looks up to see Razoul, looking down at her.
"Oh! H-Hi."
She gets all flustered and accidentally ran into the wall. This made him alarmed.
"Are you okay?"
Y/N pulls herself away and covers her face in embarrassment, hiding her clothes behind her back.
"Y-Yeah. I'm good."
"Okay... Hey, uh... would you... like to take a night stroll around the city?"
She looks up at him. Is he... asking her out? She glances back at her clothes before turning to him.
"Uh... sure. When and where?"
Razoul looks happy and immediately coughs himself to keep himself together.
"Tonight. Wear something nice. Meet me by the marketplace."
"Great. I'd love that."
"Good, good."
Razoul backs away with a shy smile and turns around when he ram himself into the wall, making her wince and giggle. He quickly pulls away and walk away fast. Once he was sure he was out of view, he sighs happily and does a little dance that he had man up to ask her out.
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Jasmine is on her balcony at night. True and Rajah are playing around as Y/N had left her to and they look like they're having fun. Down below, Aladdin and company are in the courtyard.
"What am I going to do? Jasmine won't even let me talk to her. I should have known I couldn't pull off this stupid prince wish." Aladdin rambled.
"Well, what do you expect? She's not as easy as you think she is. She has her integrity." Y/N sassed, fixing her hair a little.
Abu struggles with his elephant paws to open a banana. He squishes it, and the banana squirts into his eye. He then tosses the banana peel into a heaping pile of the same. Genie is playing chess with Carpet.
"So move!"
Carpet does, knocking a black piece off the board.
"Hey. That's a good move."
Genie imitates as Rodney Dangerfield.
"I can't believe it--I'm losing to a rug."
"Genie, I need help." Aladdin pleaded.
"Alright, sparky, here's the deal. You wanna court the little lady, you gotta be a straight shooter, do ya follow me?" Genie said, imitating as Jack Nicholson.
"What?" Aladdin questioned.
Back to normal, wearing a mortarboard. Genie points out his words on a blackboard.
"Tell her the...TRUTH!!!"
"No way! If Jasmine found out I was really some crummy street rat, she'd laugh at me."
"That's not true. She'd never laugh at you." Y/N shook her head.
"How would you know?"
"I had a talk with her."
"What... did she say about me?"
"That you should find out yourself."
Aladdin puts on his turban, which lights up as the Genie.
"A woman appreciates a man who can make her laugh!"
Aladdin pulls the chain turning off the light. Genie comes out holding the real turban.
"Al, all joking aside, you really oughtta be yourself."
"Hey, that's the last thing I want to be. Okay, I'm gonna go see her. I gotta be smooth, cool, confident. How do I look?"
"Like a prince." Genie said sadly.
"Aladdin, remember. Genie's right. Just be yourself. There's nothing wrong with that. Becoming someone else that you're not is not a good way to get to know one another." Y/N said, staring at him straight in the eyes seriously.
Aladdin says nothing and nods before he flies up to the balcony on Carpet.
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Y/N looks around to make sure no one is watching before heading off, looking all dressed up nice thanks to Jasmine's taste of clothes with a rare flower by her ear still.
She heads through the entrance of the palace and heads off into the city to meet Razoul. As she walks through, she felt a presence behind her and grabs their arm and flips them over her shoulder, making them land on their back.
"Oof! Fast reflexes, huh?"
She looks down and was surprised to see Razoul without his turban on his head as he has a nice smooth black hair.
"Oh, my! I am so sorry! I get very cautious."
Y/N helps him up, looking embarrassed. He chuckled, dusting himself off.
"It's fine. I don't blame you. You'll never know what's coming for you."
He looks at her up and down, smiling.
"You look beautiful."
"Thank you. You look beautifuller."
Her eyes widened at she just said and quickly corrected herself.
"I mean, not beautiful! I meant you're very handsome."
"Thank you." he chuckled.
He brought up his arm.
"Shall we?"
She gladly takes his arm as she wrap herself around him before they take a stroll. Y/N was amazed at how amazing the city is. She never goes there often as she's most likely busy, so this is a first time.
(Here's what the city looks like at night.)
She enjoys the stroll they're taking as everything is lively. They even took a stop to eat as they a very fine meal before going back to strolling for the past hour. Razoul stares at her with admiration. He then takes her hand and begins walking faster.
"What's the rush?"
"I want to show you something."
As soon as they're far away from the city, he begins climbing up the building as he had found a perfect spot. Y/N follows up after him. Once they made it to the top, they could see the white blankets hanging as they were blown for a bit.
"Why are we here?"
Razoul points it up ahead.
"Look."
Y/N turns and gasps at the whole view of the city full of lights like stars. But the best part is the night sky filled with Milky Way that's behind the hills of the sand.
"This is the most incredible thing I have ever seen."
He smiles, looking glad that she liked it.
"This is where I would sometimes get a break from all the duties. It helps soothe my stress."
"Well, I'm glad you found this place. We should come here more often."
"I'll gladly book it for our next... stroll."
Razoul and Y/N stares into each other's eyes, both sparkled with rainbows. He tries to touch her face when she pulls away, nervous.
"Don't... Please... I... We shouldn't even be here like this."
"Why not? What's wrong with us being together?"
She smiles sadly -- the question seems naive, quixotic.
"I don't know if I can keep this up. I'm afraid my brother won't accept this. You're a royal guard, and I'm... nothing."
"Oh, damn this role and your brother of yours! If it is made up of fools, that is their and his problem, not yours!"
She looks at him, heart melting. He leans in for a kiss. Y/N leans in to kiss him, then pulls away -- sad and scared. He sees her unhappy reluctance -- he must convince her. Music starts as Razoul sings a love song with a driving beat, taking her hand.
(Here's how they dance and the roof they're in takes place. Watch until the song ends, not the part where she leaves him and continue reading.)
https://youtu.be/-RoGRl8I780
As the song ends, they are now close to each other's face until they finally kiss after he pulls her in. She slowly pulls back, cheeks all pink along with his.
"Still think we can't be together?" he asked teasingly.
"Not anymore..."
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