"Aladdin, what have you done now?" Alibaba groaned as the two of them walked down lavish, unfamiliar hallways. Aladdin shrugged.

"All I was trying to do was try out a new teleportation spell. Guess I did something wrong."

"Hah! You guess?" Alibaba scoffed then groaned again, covering his face with his hands. "Oh man. Sharrkan's gonna kill me."

They turned another corner and walked down a hallway with two magnificent doors at the end. The doors were decorated with depictions of heroes defeating monsters and mythical creatures dancing in a forest. The handles were made of solid gold and stood about a foot and a half tall. The doors themselves stretched far above the two boys heads.

"I wonder where this leads." Aladdin said and placed his tiny hands on one of the golden handles. He pulled but the door didn't budge. Alibaba joined his and together they managed to slowly pull the door open and sneak inside. Despite the door being so big, it was surprisingly quiet.

"Whoa..." The boys were speechless at the room they now stood in. the room was enormous with huge marble pillars holding up a ceiling with stories carved out of pictures, much like the doors had. Blazers lined the turquoise tiled walls. The floor was marble and in the middle of the room was a huge 30 by 15 foot bath filled with glittering blue water.

While the two of them admired the room in all its glory, something black exploded from the water, nearly giving them both a heart attack. It seemed to be a male figure with long black hair trailing down his shoulders. They only knew of one person with hair like that.

Judal had his back to them, seeming to not have noticed their entry. Soft, beautiful humming filled the silent room as Judal ran a hand through the silky, black strands and brought them around his shoulder to get the knots out.

Alibaba and Aladdin's brains had short circuited. Their faces were beet red and their mouths hung low. Never in their lives had they expected to end up here. Never in the Kou empire and DEFINATLY not in the baths. They watched as Judal, who seemed satisfied at the moment with his luscious locks, flipped his hair back over his shoulder and started walking out of the bath, his back still facing them. The black silk covered his backside like a blanket. Judal picked up a towel that wis sitting on a table near the edge of the pool and turned around.

Judal froze.

The two parties stared at each other for what seemed like an eternity. Alibaba and Aladdin's faces turned an impossible shade of red while Judal's cheeks were dusted pink.

"Uh... Hi?" Alibaba spoke in a wavering voice. Judal snapped out of his shock and glared harshly at the two intruders.

"What are you two doing here?" He demanded.

"Uh... W-well you see, Aladdin here was practicing a new spell and he... uh, messed up?" Alibaba stuttered. Aladdin nodded vigorously.

Judal narrowed his eyes in distrust. "How do I know your not here to kill me?"

"Well..." There really was no good answer to that. The baths were empty, Judal's clothes holding his wand were nowhere to be seen, and there were no guards around. The perfect opportunity to kill the priest.

"You have a pretty voice." Aladdin cut in. Judal's eyes widened and he turned away to hide his red cheeks.

"GET OUT!" He yelled and the magi and his kings candidate were out of there in the blink of an eye.