While walking the path of the cave they came to where the lamp is. The carpet showed Sonic where the lamp is. It was resting on top of a large cliff with rocks leading to it along with a staircase.

"Wait here." Sonic tells the carpet and Inferno to wait.

Inferno huffs that she can't go with him, but turned to see a golden monkey idol holding a large ruby, she gets hypnotic over it.

Sonic jumps between the stones to get to the stairs which leads to the lamp. He began walking up on it while the carpet notices that Inferno is going to the giant ruby and tries to stop her by grabbing her tail.

Sonic finally reaches the lamp, "This is it? This is what we came all the way down here to-..." Sonic said and saw Inferno getting out from the carpet's grip and runs towards the giant ruby.

"INFERNO! NO!" Sonic screamed at her but it was too late, she touched the large ruby with her claws.

Instantly the voice of the Tiger God echoed in the Cave,"INFIDELS!"

"Rwar..." Inferno gulped in fear.

"YOU HAVE TOUCHED THE FORBIDDEN TREASURE!" the Tiger God yelled.

The carpet looks down in despair and Sonic looks around as the cave began to shake. Inferno moved her paws away from the ruby but it melts into lava.

"NOW YOU WILL NEVER AGAIN SEE THE LIGHT OF DAAAAAAAAAY!" the Tiger God roared out.

The light near Sonic turns into flames and the ceiling was falling apart.

Sonic jumps out of the way to head downstairs to get out of here but everything was shaking roughly from the Tiger God's anger.

The stairs turns into a slide and Sonic fell on it, sliding down to the bottom, "WHOOAAA!" he was about to fall into the water which has turned into molten lava, the carpet caught him and Sonic hangs onto it.

Inferno was jumping on the rocks as they exploded in both front and back of her. Sonic makes the carpet dive down to save her.

"RWAR! RWAR! RWAR!" Inferno was screeching in panic as the rocks on her left and right explodes, any second the rock that she was standing on will explode too.

"Gotcha!" he grabbed her right on time when the last rock explodes. Just as they thought they were safe but they were wrong.

The Cave of Wonders' anger triggered the lava to create a gigantic tidal wave.

"Carpet! Let's move!" Sonic said to the carpet as they flew faster through the tunnel with the lava following in pursuit, they dodged many rocks and one that was coming forward to them. The carpet managed to dodge it. Inferno was grabbing onto Sonic's face and covered his eyes.

"Inferno, this is no time to panic!" Sonic pulled her off, but realizes they are heading toward the wall.

"Start panicking! WHOAAAAAA!" they dove down until they came to the treasure chamber and the lava destroys all the treasure. The pile of treasures turns into flame thrower into the air but they dodged it.

Some of the flames seem to turn into hands but they missed them.

Outside the Cave was roaring still as Sonic, the carpet and Inferno was close to the exit, the staircase has already fallen apart and a boulder knocks Sonic and Inferno off the carpet. But Sonic grabbed the edge and Inferno managed to climb up. The carpet hits the bottom with the boulder on it.

"Help me up!" Sonic screamed.

"Throw me the lamp!" the old man screamed.

"I can't reach. Give me your hand!" Sonic shouted.

"First give me the lamp!" the old man shouted. Sonic takes out the lamp and gives it to him. The old man/Mephiles laughed out.

"MUAHAHAHAHAHA! YEEEES! At last!" he laughed and hides it in his robes. Inferno was helping Sonic up but Mephiles kicks her off.

"What are you doing?" Sonic asked when Mephiles grabbed his arm.

"Giving your reward...your eternal reward!" Mephiles takes out a dagger, about to stab Sonic. But Inferno bites his arm hard, making him scream in pain as he released Sonic.

Mephiles growled and threw Inferno down to join Sonic's fall of death.

The carpet managed to get off from the boulder and quickly flies up to save Sonic and Inferno from falling to the bottom to meet their death.

"ROOOOOOOAAAAARRRR" the tiger-god melts down in the desert and traps them inside.

"Heehehehe, it's mine! It's all mine!" Mephiles takes off his disguise and reaches for the lamp. But it was not there, "I...where is it? No, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Mephiles screamed in despair.

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Back at the Palace, Flame was in her room with her tiger Stripes, feeling depressed. She did not sleep at all from midnight.

"Flame? Oh, dearest. What's wrong?" Knuckles asks her.

"Mephiles...has...done something... terrible.." Flame looks down in sadness.

"There, there, there, my child...we'll set it right. Now, tell me everything." Knuckles sat next to her to hear it all.
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Now with Sonic, he was unconscious and is lying on the carpet.

Inferno walks up to him and licks his muzzle, "Rwar...."

The carpet moved and helped Sonic wake up.

"Ow.....my head.." Sonic looked up that the entrance on the ceiling is blocked, "We are trapped. That two faced son-of-a-jackal!" Sonic said, angrily holding his fist in the air. But he calms down, "Whoever he was, he's long gone with that lamp." He sighed.

Inferno smirks and holds it out with her tail, "Rwar."

"Why, you scaly little thief." Sonic grabs the lamp and Inferno climbs up to his head.

"Looks like such a beat-up, worthless piece of junk. Hey, I think there's something written here. But it's hard to make out." Sonic rubbed the lamp and suddenly firework-like effects came out from the lamp. Inferno and the Carpet dodged them as a turquoise blue genie comes out in the shape of a mobian hedgehog.

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHH! OY! Ten-thousand years will give ya such a crick in the neck!" the Genie hedgehog said and leans to Sonic. She then hangs him on a nearby rock.

The genie hedgehog turns her head 360 degrees as she yells and puts it back on, "Does it feel good to get out of there!" She said and uses her tail as a microphone. Inferno and the Carpet managed to get Sonic down.

"Nice to be back, ladies and gentlemen. Hi, where ya from? What's your name?" She asked Sonic.

"Uh.....So-Son-Sonic." Sonic stutters his name.

"Sonic? As in Sonic?" She said as a sign of Sonic's name appeared then disappeared. She then makes herself look Scottish.

"Sounds like 'Here, boy! C'mon, Soni!'" she then turns into a blue dog.

"I must have hit my head harder than I thought." Sonic held his head.

"Do you smoke? Mind if I do?" the genie changes back to her original form. "Oh, sorry drago--hope I didn't singe the scales! Hey, Rugman! Haven't seen you in a few millennia! Slap me some tassel! Yo! Yeah!" the genie hedgehog apologizes to Inferno for scaring her and shakes hands with the rug.

She then looks at Sonic, "Say, you're a lot smaller than my last master or am I getting bigger? Look at me from the side--do I look different to you?" She makes her gut bigger.

"Wait a minute. I'm your master?" Sonic asked.

"That's right! He can be taught! What would you wish of me?" She then turns into a blue Arnold Schwarzenegger, "The ever impressive."

She makes herself trapped in a box, "The long contained!" and then to a ventriloquist. "Often imitated, but never duplicated-" She throws her doll away, duplicating herself.

"Duplicated, duplicated, duplicated, duplicated, duplicated, duplicated, duplicated, duplicated, duplicated, SAPHIRA OF THE LAAAAMP!" she shouted after cloning himself. She then imitates Ed Sullivan, "Right here direct from the lamp, right here for your enjoyment wish fulfillment. Thank youuuuu! But you can call me Saphie or Saph for short."

"Whoa, Wish fulfillment?" Sonic asked Saphie.

"Three wishes to be exact. And ix-nay on the wishing for more wishes. That's it...THREE! No substitutions, exchanges or refunds." She turns into random things.

"Now I know I'm dreaming." Sonic whispers to Inferno.

"Master, I don't think you quite realize what you've got here! So why don't you just ruminate, whilst I illuminate the possibilities." Saphie began singing the song, making Sonic sit down while she glowed at the ceiling then gets down to normal color.

"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!"

She makes 40 thieves appear and knocks them all out using Sonic's arm by her own. She then turns the area to a boxing ring with Inferno waving the carpet at Sonic and then the genie turns to a rocket with ammo and then to a smaller herself.

"You got some power in your corner now

Some heavy ammunition in your camp

You got some punch, pizzazz, yahoo and how

See all you gotta do is rub that lamp

And I'll say..."

She puffs out in gigantic form with her arms crossed.

"Mister Sonic Sir, what will your pleasure be?

Let me take your orders.

Jot it down.

You never had a friend like me HA HA HA!"

She turns into a waiter and creates a chair for Sonic and his pals.

"Life is your restaurant

And I'm your maitre' d!

Whisper what you want you never had a friend like me."

She turns into a chicken and then to normal with a giant ear. Then into several Saphies who cut his quills, nails and shaving. Then creates a throne for Sonic with Inferno and the carpet waving.

"Yes sir, we pride ourselves on service

You're the boss, the king, the shah!

Say what you wish, it's yours! True dish

How about a little more Baklavaaaaaaa?"

She takes Sonic's hat to make baklava. Then Sonic stands on column A and falls to B. Saphie saves him by a pillow.

"Try some of column 'A'

Try all of column 'B'

I'm in the mood to help you dude

You ain't never had a friend like me."

She comes out of herself with a white costume and hat.

Her own hands appeared beside her. She shared a dance with them until she shrinks and appears back juggling her own head with Sonic who also did too. She then takes Sonic's hat to make herself a rabbit after spinning around to then becoming a dragon. She spews fire and creates seductive hedgehog belly dancers. She tears herself in two and the belly dancers then disappear.

"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

Can your friends go Abracadabra, let 'er rip

And then make the sucker disappear?"

She then appears smaller in front of Sonic dropping her jaw and bugged her eyes. She then uses Sonic's hands like a diving board and jumps into the water. She then becomes a giant wish-list and folds Sonic in it but un-folds him out. Then she pulls out a long list and Saphie rubs her own rear with it and whips it.

"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 a charg? d'affairs!

I got a powerful urge to help you out

So what you wish I really want to know

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

So all you gotta do is rub like so, and oh!"

The hedgehog belly dancers were behind Sonic making it look like he has 8 arms with several men bowing for him. The belly dancers came out and Sonic was about to kiss one when it turned into Saphie, who then creates elephants, camels, treasures, ships, sword men and even a picture of the palace.

"Mister Sonic, sir, have a wish or two or three

I'm on the job, you big nabob

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

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

You ain't never...had a... friend... like...meeeeeeee! Ah ha ha! YA HA HA!

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

Inferno tries to collect all of the treasure but when Saphie sucks all of the things she summoned into the lamp after finishing the song, leaving an 'applause' sign which the carpet claps at.

(And the guest of honor is here at last! Saphira of the lamp! Saphie belongs to mah bestie, XxIsidarMithrimxX X3)