Once Upon A Time, There was a man named Jefferson who was born in a well-known kingdom, Oz. Jefferson was a very poor man, dressed in nothing but rags, and he often had to beg for food. One day, Jefferson met a woman who's name was Danielle. She was a very kind woman, who had fed him and given him a place to rest. They, just like in lands where fairy-tales do come true, fell deeply in love. They were married by the Wizard of Oz, and soon had there first child, Daniel. A few years later, they had another child named Lily, and a third called Grace.

Their children each acted very strangely in different ways, and so the family went to the Wizard, to see what was going on inside there children's minds. Once they reached the Wizard though, he said that the trouble wasn't in their children's minds, but in their hearts. The oldest, Daniel (only 16 at the time) was actually missing a heart! The middle, Lily, was a seer. (In case you didn't know, a seer can tell the future) He said that the problem with being a seer is that the past and future is all jumbled up in the child's mind, like a huge puzzle, left for that seer to figure it out. More side effects to the seer are more emotional distress, a greater sense of love, hate, war, and feeling. Inside the heart, however, there is chaos, confusion, and a pull toward home, whichever that may be. Another problem is that many people who don't understand the seers are cruel to them, sewing there eyes shut, or locking them in ark cells. So in conclusion, the Wizards said that other than being a blessing, actually seeing things is a curse. The third child, Grace, had an amazing way to speak to animals. Rather than speaking, they spoke through their minds and their hearts. She also had inherited some of the gifts of the rabbit, fox, and canine. She had an amazing sense of smell, sight, and she could hear conversions nearly a mile away.

They were about to leave, but the Wizard could not let them leave without gifts. To Jefferson, he gave a magical hat that could take you to any world or dimension that he needed to go, with one single rule: How many people (living or dead) that went through the hat's portal, that exact amount came back through again. To Daniel, the Wizard an artificial heart, which would let the boy feel love, hate, and every other emotion? The only thing his heart couldn't do that other hearts could, was provided or take away life. To Lily, he gave a pair of ruby red slippers, and when the right enchantment is said, they would take her to wherever her home really was. The Wizard wrote the enchantment onto a small piece of paper, folded it up, and gave it to Lily. He warned Lily to never read the enchantment, until she needed to direly. To Grace, he gave a small necklace (a heart locket), with the word TODO, engraved on the heart. The Wizard said that if she whispered that word into someone's ear, that all of the memories spent with that person would be trapped into the locket, and she could re-live them whenever she wanted to. The memories would only work if the necklace was on Grace's neck, and if someone else put the necklace onto there neck, all of the memories would be erased. And she could only use the necklace on one person. To Danielle he gave only a warning, "Of the North a thing should fly, and try to take away thy life, and only on some breaking dawn, should thy sleeping eyes be saved when drawn." Danielle of course had no idea what this meant, and when she asked the Wizard, he seemed not to remember uttering a word to her about the matter.

So the family went home and rested. But that night, Danielle snuck out of the small house and sat outside in the poppy fields to think of what the Wizard had told her. She was only out there for a few minutes though, because she breathed in the seeds of the poppy and fell fast asleep. (Poppy seeds have the magical capability to do that) Soon after she was asleep, the Wicked Witch of the North carried her off to the North Castle.

When Danielle awoke, The Witch of the North told Danielle of her plan to take over Oz. The Witch needed help, though, from someone equally as evil as herself, and as powerful, to go in to the Emerald City each night and kill the officials. Of course Danielle would never do this, and the witch had known this, so the witch uttered a curse so wretched, that Danielle quickly changed from her old, kind self, into the most wicked, evil, and powerful witch there ever was, simply by melting Danielle's heart away. From then on, Danielle was known as the Wicked Witch of the West. The Witch of the West killed the Witch of the North, and then went back to terrorize all of Oz. .
The next day, Jefferson woke to a screaming fire, smoke and ashes everywhere. He groped around the bed, but he couldn't find his wife. His eyes stung, and blood began to fill his throat. He shoved the pain aside, and pushed through the burning house to find his children. His eyes where blinded by the smoke, and he groped around looking for a wall to follow. "Daddy!" a voice screamed, and Jefferson recognized the voice as Grace's. "Grace! Get out of the house, now!" The toddler grabbed Jefferson's hand. "Daddy, the doors that way!" she said doing her best to pull him along. "Forget about me, get out of the house!" After arguing for a few seconds longer, Grace consented and walked out of the house. Jefferson soon found himself in the children's room, and he woke Daniel and Lily. There was fire covering the exit of the room, so they climbed out of the window. Jefferson was panting as he finally got to breathe fresh air.

He spit ash and blood from his mouth, and turned to look at Daniel and Lily, who were both, unaffected by the fire. The three year old just smiled and wiped soot off her father's face. Jefferson didn't know what to think. Wouldn't a seer be just a tad more affected from the loss of her home?! According to the Wizard she should be. Although Jefferson did admire her sweet effort to clean his blackened face, and at the moment, he was just happy to see her alive. He smiled and kissed her forehead. The girl tossed her black hair behind her shoulder and closed her eyes, and she put her hands up, like she was trying to feel something. "What is she doing?" he asked to no one in particular. "Seeing," answered Daniel, "She does it all the time, and when I asked her about it, she always replied that she was seeing."

Suddenly Jefferson remembered Grace and Danielle, and obviously Lily did too, because Lily ran in the direction of the front yard. Jefferson and Daniel followed. Standing in the front yard was Danielle holding a ball of fire with her bare hands. She was dressed in black, and somehow seemed taller. She was wearing black thick wedged boots, that went up to her knees, and a tall hat that was pointy at the top. The thing that stood out most though, was her eyes. They looked like cat eyes, but they were bright green and they glittered with joy. Danielle's eyes had always been a dark brown. Her dress was long and black, and she wore some sort of black veil behind her pointy hat.

"Danielle, what the hell-" Jefferson started, but then he saw Grace. She had the look of pure fear in her eyes, and she was nearly plastered to the apple tree. She didn't move a muscle, and for a second Jefferson thought she was dead, but then he saw the steady movement of her chest moving up and down as she breathed. Her brown curly hair blew in the cool breeze that swept by. Poor kid. He turned back to Danielle. "Hello, Scarecrow," said the Witch, eyeing him up and down, taking in his burnt clothing and soot covered face (despite Lily's efforts to "un-soot-cover" his face). She smiled. She put out the fire in her hand, and decided to switch it for an apple from the tree. As the Witch walked closer to the tree, Grace tensed up more, and the Witch noticed this so she walked straight up to Grace an stroked her face. Grace's wide, terrified eyes never left the witch, but Grace didn't move a muscle. Jefferson tensed too. It was touching his daughter. The Witch laughed. Lily fainted. And Daniel just stood there with a dumbfounded expression on his face, as if he was still trying to make sense of all this. Jefferson tapped him on the shoulder, and mouthed "Get Lily and run." Daniel nodded to show he understood, and Jefferson ran for Grace when Daniel picked Lily's frail body up in his arms and ran. Jefferson knocked the Witch over, picked Grace up, and followed Daniel. When the Witch was back on her feet, she made a hand movement, and all the trees, bushes, and rocks nearby trapped the family in the yard together. "Did you seriously just dare to imagine you could escape me, Scarecrow?" Jefferson rolled his eyes. Who was this woman? She definitely was NOT his wife. "What the hell do you want?" he asked. "I want simply to watch as you show me how much is really up there (motioning to her head), as you attempt to escape. Inevitably of course. If you are really smart, you'll stop struggling." "And then what?" Jefferson asked, growing angrier. "Then you die." That was put simply enough. Jefferson breathed in, trying to calm himself. This woman was crazy. He looked around for a chance to escape, but there where none.

Out of nowhere, the Wizard appeared and threw fire at the Witch, catching her clothing on fire. While she was struggling with the fire, the Wizard spun around to face the family. "Hurry, Jefferson, the hat!" the Wizard said. Jefferson put Grace down and took the hat off of his head. "What do I do?!" he asked. The Wizard looked worried, "Spin the hat," then the wizard disappeared. Jefferson obeyed, and a purple whirlpool opened up. Jefferson took his children, and jumped through the portal.