The
tale starts out like this.
There
was once a princess who was taken nightly from her husband because a man wished
to have her. No matter the cost. One night this man named Aladdin took
her from the very bed in which she lay with her husband and put her in his bed.
Fearful for her life, for her reputation and most importantly her virtue, she
sought to rid herself of him once and for all.
“How
can I do this… he wields such power...How?” said the princess lying next to
Aladdin.
Aladdin
rolled over and she saw tucked under his arm was a lamp. How
odd she thought for a man to sleep with a lamp, it must be very important. Very
valuable item indeed. I wonder… As she slid the lamp from his grasp, she slid off
his bed where he slept soundly and stood beside the bed and rubbed the lamp
every so eagerly. Surely, it’s not what I think it is, she thought.
As she
rubbed the lamp a string of red smoke began to come out the end of it and a
figure floated before her very eyes. “Who dare
wakes me from my slumber!!”
“Shh…
you must be quiet; you will wake that beastly man that lies in the bed!”
“Pssht!
My unwise lady, he is in the deepest sleep, nothing, not anyone not anything
could wake him now. Now speak! What do you wish! After all, you did not wake me
to quiet me, did you?”
“No,
I promise you. I did not do such a thing. I wish you to rid me of him. This man
called Aladdin. He wishes to be my husband, but I’m already betrothed I fear
for myself! Rid me of him. Throw him into the hottest volcano! Do whatever you
want!”
This menacing
red genie grinned evilly, with a glint in his eyes. If the princess wasn’t so
oblivious to what was in front of her. She would have seen he is not a good
genie. He is in fact the worst kind…
“Granted!”,
crossing his arms and bowing his head. Aladdin disappeared into a red
smoke. His ring falling to the ground and rolling across the floor. Suddenly it
began to glow green and smoke began to form, there before them both stood a
genie. He was decorated in the finest green silks and emeralds.
“What have you done to my
master! His disappearance worried me so, I had to leave my safe haven. What
have you both done!”
Scared, but in awe at the same time. It would be the
princess’s luck that her had two powerful genies to do his bidding.
“He
is a cruel man who wishes to take me from my husband and make me his own. He is
a mean man bent on my unhappiness. He is an unholy man, fore he lays
soundlessly by a married woman and he is a greedy man fore he bears to powerful
genies, when he could give one to another.”
The green
genie grew in height angered at the princess’s words. She did not know Aladdin
the way the genie did and in doing so summoned the genie of death. A genie bent
on destruction. He granted wishes, yes, but he destroys everyone including the
person doing the wishing.
“You speak about my master
in such a way! You obviously do not know him! Princess you are wrong! Very,
very wrong! He is a generous man, he rode on the back of a camel dropping
rubies and sapphires to the poor. He is a wise man, because he does not take
advantage of a beautiful creature like yourself, he only rests his head near
you. He is a kind man, who knows you would not be happy in the marriage you
have for he saw his future in you. He is a virtuous man, because he wants you
as his wife and sees inside your soul. You destroyed the very man who was your
one true love, your match”.
Tears began
to form as she had no idea who Aladdin really was. She took him on surface
value and never go to know him.
“I’m
sorry… I did not know him as you do. Please help bring him back…”
The red
genie snarls and turns into flames as he was about to lose his next victim.
This green genie had the ability to turn the darkest hearts and in so taking
away what sustains him, other’s misery.
“NO!
She is mine, he is mine!”
“No one is yours dark one, be
gone!” With a flick of
his wrist he was cast back into his lamp. A low guttural moan resounded in the
room as the evil genie was locked with the emotions and feelings of every
victim. Suddenly the lamp blew up and the princess guarded her face from the shards
that flew across the room and embedded in her satin outfit laden with patterns
of flowers.
“Is your wish to have
Aladdin?”
“Very
much so…Maybe I can get to know him...and maybe learn to love him. I never really
did like or even love the Vizar anyways.”
With a big smile that could dazzle the most beautiful
woman. Aladdin appeared back in bed, asleep as if nothing happened.
Author's Note: The story originally came about by my initial reaction to the taking of the princess, by the way of Aladdin. I was kind of in shock that she would so readily give herself to him in the form of marriage. She completely dismisses whom she was married to. It was just odd to me, so I wanted to change that. Make it to the princess was blinded by her faithfulness to her husband to realize that she never did like him or love him for that matter. Her initial reaction (and calling of the lamp genie)stemmed from my initial reaction to the story. Which is why I decided to go with a evil genie/good genie. The evil genie represents what I originally thought of the story and the good genie represents what I thought of the story later. Plus, with Aladdin having to genie's in the story I really wanted to represent the differences between them both because they kind of blend together.
