Hello, everyone. I'm going to be trying something new, and presenting something I like to call my Disney Storybits. It's where I put up drabbles and unfinished scenes of Disney stories I'd like to write in full some day. With every storybit, I'll put up the backstory and explanations behind what's going on in the description, and feel free to ask any questions. Hope you enjoy!

Backstory:

We open on an Arabian kingdom, where prince Mickey is celebrating his birthday with his pet dog Pluto, as he rides his birthday present from his mother – a flying carpet. As he flies through the kingdom, we learn that his mother is THE Scheherazade, the famous woman who used stories to delay her execution. When Mickey returns from his trip, he finds his parents have been kidnapped. Pete, his royal adviser, says that the evil Phantom Blot is holding them hostage in a haunted Kingdom far away. Mickey vows to go and save his parents, leaving Pete in charge in his absence. As the journey begins, he finds a strange flying pirate ship, with captain Sinbad, Goofy, on board.

Sinbad knows Scheherazade quite well, and it turns out that many, if not all, of her stories may be true! Goofy and his crew decide to help Mickey out, taking him on board and heading toward the haunted kingdom. They stop for supplies, and Goofy wants to take a break and watch a magic show by the Magnificent Mortimer. Mickey chides him, saying they have more important things to do, until he catches site of Moritmer's beautiful assistant, Minnie, and thus becomes very eager to watch the show, even becoming a volunteer for one show. Mortimer's show is pretty amazing, though he tends to start a lot of his tricks with 'I Wish', and never does the same trick twice. Mickey befriends Minnie after the show, though soon learns Mortimer has been stealing from this town.

The pirates confront Mortimer in his private home, but Mortimer keeps defeating them with his magic acts. Mickey discovers that only if he says 'I wish' can he use magic, so he manages to gag Mortimer and tie him up, stopping him. The townspeople thank Mickey for saving them, and insist that Mickey take something for himself as payment. Mickey settles on a lamp, since his old one is broken, and for some reason this drives Mortimer into a frenzy. Mickey rubs the lamp, as it has some dust on it, and Minnie starts glowing! Golden cuffs leave Mortimer's wrists, and latch themselves onto Mickey's, with his name inscribed. Mortimer gets the gag off, frantically telling Minnie to obey him, but Minnie simply says he is no longer her master. She then kneels before Mickey, saying she is a genie, and that Mickey is her master. She begins going into the rules, but the townspeople become greedy, wanting the genie, so Goofy scoops up the mice, taking them back to the ship and sailing off.

They find out Minnie can't perform the same wish twice, and Mickey decides that after he saves his parents, he'll wish for her freedom. Minnie highly doubts this, though she does begin to fall for him, constantly calling him Master though he insists on her calling him by name. Later on in their journey, they come across a kingdom where everyone absolutely hates their prince, calling him a plague on their houses, but they are duty bound to him. Mickey goes to the prince to ask for help, and the prince is Donald, a pretty nice guy, but everyone abandons and hates him because, since birth, he has been cursed – the weather in the immediate area is affected by whatever mood he is in. Whenever he is angry, for example, expect a bad storm. Goofy decides to do him a 'kindness', 'kidnapping' him so he can be among real friends.

They make a stop at a bar to grab some info, where it turns out Sinbad is EXTREMELY popular with the ladies (it's how he gets his info), much to the boys shock. Even bigger a shock is that he is married, to a woman 'the color of the moon'. Through the women, they learn that Pete has become a tyrannical leader, claiming Mickey and his parents are dead. Daisy also joins the group, a former fangirl of Goofy's, but is also a master of animals (snakes especially) and poisons, deciding to become Donald's fangirl instead. The gang makes it to the haunted kingdom, where the Blot once ruled, but because he was such a bad tyrant, everyone left! He thought Scheherazade would help restore his kingdom to glory, but she refuses to help out – and it also turns out Blot and Pete are working together, so Pete can rule Mickey's kingdom.

The gang rush in , but Blot grabs Mickey's lamp, becoming Minnie's new owner. He uses her to defeat the gang, and put them in the dungeons, where Mickey is reunited with his parents. Pete (who happens to be there via a magic portal, as Blot uses some weak dark magic occasionally), deciding Minnie is pretty enough to make a bride, lies to her and tells her Mickey has been executed. Stunned, Minnie begins to cry... and the palace explodes! Earthquakes shatter the land! Fireworks go off! Flames shoot out! As the dungeon crumbles, the gang makes it out, finding the knocked out bodies of Blot and Pete. Scheherazade sees the crying girl, and Mickey remembers the rules that Minnie had been trying to explain to him long ago – one of them was 'never make a genie cry.' Scheherazade says it's because a genie's tears are full of uncontrollable magic, and that they should escape before they're all killed.

Mickey doesn't want to leave Minnie behind and break his promise, so he gets on his flying carpet, heading right into the danger zone. He leaps off, and kisses Minnie, snapping her out of her sobs, and the magic barrage finally stops. He wishes for her freedom, the cuffs fall off and the lamp disintegrates, and she becomes a mortal girl. The gang returns to Goofy's ship, intending to go home, and live happily ever after.

Onto the storybit! For this scene, the gang has defeated Mortimer, and the villagers wish for Mickey to take one of Mortimer's treasures as a thank you gift.

... It still felt uncomfortable to take something that had once belonged to someone else, but the citizens were staring at him with a strange kind intensity, it would be impossible to refuse further. But what could he possibly need? He had his blade, his flying carpet, and Sinbad was sure to provide for anything else. He shifted from foot to foot, uncomfortable... until his eyes laid upon the lamp.

That tiny golden lamp, on a pedestal in the middle of the room, as if it was the most important item there. An odd place to put a glorified candle, but it was the best option for now. He didn't have one in the flying boat, and he could use it for any late-night reading and research. "I guess I'll take that." He announced, and began to walk straight towards the pedestal.

In an instant, the bound Mortimer went frantic. He struggled to move, and his gagged mouth went into muffled screams. Sinbad gave him a slap upside the head in an effort to silence him, but the rat continued to freak. He kicked about, toward Minnie's general direction - her own eyes had grown wide, startled, staring at Mickey as he approached the small object. Was she holding her breath?

Mickey delicately lifted the lamp into his hands, and frowned - how dusty. It hadn't been touched in ages. Why steal a lamp if you were never going to use it? "Geez, would you look at this?" He began to rub his arm against the lamp, in an effort to clean it -

And the world turned pink.

The lamp had seemed to explode, shaking and shivering, its top clattering against the rim, with pink smoke exhaling out of every orifice. Sparkles and fireworks flew out of the tip, creating dazzling effects in the air. The lamp whistled and whined, the ground shook, and several of the robbed citizens fled for their lives. Sinbad was so distracted by the light display that his grip on Mortimer loosened - enough so that the rat could slip his arms free, and ripped the gag out of his mouth - and in the same instant, the golden cuffs on his wrists turned to ashes, swirling in a small sandstorm, flying through the air until they met Mickey's wrists, and became cuffs once more, emblazoned with names - Micheal and Minerva.

Mortimer got to his feet, shoving Sinbad aside, his voice screeching in his desperation. "I wish - I wish - I wish - "He couldn't even make up his mind in his absolute panic.

Minnie finally 'noticed' him, and turned her head back ever so slightly. Her face was that of haughty, with flat eyes and a voice caked in sheer loathing. "I no longer serve you... Mortimer." The first time anyone in the area had ever heard her address him by name. Mortimer made a grab for her, but Sinbad had collected his senses, and the smack upside the head this time was far stronger, enough to knock the rat out.

The elaborate light show appeared to be slowing down and stopping, and Minnie began to flounce over to Mickey, a light spring in her step. The lamp settled into silence, and the girl knelt before the prince, hands on her thighs, and head bowed in submission. "I am the genie of the lamp." Her voice was light, airy, but also seemed a bit... disengaged. As if she had given this speech a million times before, and so had lost the heart of it long ago. "As of today, I am your obedient servant, Prince Micheal, my master."

"... What?" was all he could make out in response, looking down at her. All eyes - citizen and pirate alike - were watching the exchange, looking just as surprised as Mickey was.

"Use me as you wish." She placed a hand to her chest. "For your wishes are my command. I can not disobey, but I can not perform the same wish twice."

"... What?" he repeated.

"Merely command me with the words 'I wish', and my magic is yours to use."

Mickey had been about to repeat himself again, but at once, everything clicked in everyone's minds - Why Mortimer had always used 'I wish' for every magic act, for every theft, for nearly single action he did that seemed impossible. He had been using a genie? Mickey looked at Sinbad, as if for confirmation, who was merely scratching his noggin in contemplation. So Mickey returned his face back to Minnie - who was suddenly much, much closer, on her feet, with barely any space between their noses. His entire face turned a deep scarlet at having such a lovely vision that near.

"There are many rules to follow, master." Her voice had gotten a bit deeper, and her eyelashes fluttered at him. Years of experience had taught her that male masters preferred her to be... 'friendly' in the beginning.

"Mas - now wait a - " Mickey's words caught in his throat.

"SHE'S A GENIE!" A voice screeched from the crowd of citizens. "Why in the sands should HE get her?" And at once, the crowd agreed, their once kind looks now twisted in greed.

"We deserve her, after everything Mortimer put us through!"

"Yeah, she belongs to us!"

"Get 'er!"

Sinbad put a few fingers in his mouth, and whistled high. "Time to go, lads!"

Movement was everywhere - the citizens were racing after the mice, the pirates were scooping up the stolen goods and making runs back to the ship, and Sinbad took it upon himself to leap, grab a mouse in each hand, hitch them over his shoulders, and chase after his crew.