Return to Oz
Told by Mutitoon90
Chapter One
At a small farmhouse, a young woman was standing on the porch, listening to her legal guardian on the house rules, which was something the girl was 'not very good' at following.
"Now, you know the rules. One: No wild parties. Two: No inviting friends over. And three: No looking through our things. Understood?"
"Yes, ma'am." The girl rolled her eyes.
The older woman glared at the young lady as she continued to talk.
"Remember: I have the sheriff's phone number, and he has mine, so there's no way for you to cause trouble."
"The sheriff?" The girl groaned in annoyance.
"That's right." The older woman confirmed, "He's sharper than he looks."
"Right." The child said as she smiled, "Don't worry about me; I haven't burned down the farm yet."
"Of course." The middle-aged woman smiled before adding, "I just making sure that dosen't happen."
"Em!" A man's voice rang out to the woman, "We gotta go!"
"Coming, Henry!" The elder female replied, slightly announced with her husband's yell. Then, she turned to the younger girl and said, "You know the rules, right?"
"Right." The younger woman answered, "Now, get goin' before you two are late."
"All right, I'm going." Em said, "Dorothy, please don't go disappering on us again."
"If I can control it, I won't." Dorothy replied with a smile.
The two women hugged each other and said their good-byes before Em went her husband, Henry, who was driving the car and had the little black dog sitting in his lap.
"Uncle Henry!" Dorothy shouted, "Please take good care of Toto!"
"Sure will!" The older man shouted back, "Just don't burn the house down!"
The teenaged girl rolled her eyes, hardly amused by the uncle's joke as her aunt entered the car.
"Good-bye, Dorothy!" Henry yelled out, "Try to stay out of trouble!"
"I'll try!" Dorothy said, "Good-bye and good luck!"
Hearing the girl's voice, the husband, the wife, the family dog, and the livestock left the house. Dorothy waved at the group until they were out of sight.
Dorothy grew a artful smile and said to herself, "Time to break rule three."
Then, she sped off to the inside of the house and went to her guardians' bedroom and started searching from two things that she discovered that her aunt had taken from her: the items from Oz.
"Aha!" Dorothy exclaimed with a smile of victory, "Hidin' stuff from me's not something I like not, Aunt Em."
In her hands, the girl had the silver slippers, one of, if not the, most powerful items in Oz and the blue orb that Pallas had given her before her departure from the magically land.
"I can hardly wait to see my friends again." The young woman smiled as she told the items into her room, but not before replacing the slippers and the orb from the shoebox that she found them in with a pair of Em's least favorite shoes and a old baseball.
Running as she could, Dorothy went to her room. Making sure that the orb and the slippers were not going to harm each other, she placed them into her backpack. Pleased at herself, the brunette went to her nightstand and grabbed the very first thing that she had reveiced, although it was really hers in the first place: her enchanted hair tie, which was first white and became purple after Zeniba, the Grandmother-Witch of the North put a protection spell on it. The girl tied on the hair holder and went downstairs and locked the doors in the farmhouse before retiring to her bedroom to take a nap.
Unbeknowest to Dorothy, a pair of dark eyes loomed over her at her bedroom window. If Dorothy ever saw him, she would not know what to do with the eyes' owner.
Dorothy was in Oz again, walking on the yellow brick road. Making her way towards the Emerald City, the young Kansas girl went as fast as she could the residents of the magnificent city, from the guards of each direction to the ruler, which was Tenchi the scarecrow. Jigen, the former tin marksman, and Cerberus, the winged lion, were at the side of the straw-filled ruler, who was wearing an oversized crown that seemed barely fit his hatless head.
"Hey, everyone!" Dorothy screamed with overflowing glee and happiness, "I'm back!"
The people in the kingdom-like city cheered as the gates opened to her as she reached the gate. Nearly overwhelmed with joy, Dorothy almost inside the city when the ground started shaking.
"What's goin' on around here?" The girl asked as she tried to maintain her balance and footing.
Then, she saw seven gems flowing in the air, spinning around each other in a circular motion. Dorothy was shocked to see them and watched them vanish into thin air.
"What the-!?" Dorothy started to form a statement, but she never got to finish as a hot blast of wind hit the city and blew poor Tenchi off of his feet.
Seeing this, she shouted the scarecrow's name as she attempted to reach him as Tenchi held on to the crown with one hand, and the another was holding on to a flagpole. Jigen and Cerberus were already at Tenchi's side, trying to keep himself from flying away. However, they were unsuccessful as another gust of hot wind went under the straw-filled being and carried him out of sight.
"Tenchi..." Dorothy started to cry and moan for her friend.
Then, she felt the ground shake once again, but this time the ground started to break apart. As the two pieces of the earth drifted from each other, the crack that was made from the quake went between Dorothy's feet.
"HELP!" The poor girl screamed out, but no one came to her rescue as her feet lose their grip on the ground, which since her to the dark, deep depths of the earth.
Dorothy sat straight up as she awoke from the nightmare that she just had. Putting a finger to her neck and another to her wrist, she was relieved that it was a dream, but then the question formed in her brain: What if it was not a dream, but a warning of things to come?
Then, a yell ripped through the house, which was dark due to the coming of the evening.
"Dorothy! Are you all right!?"
The girl sighed in relief once again, because it was the deputy, Kiyone Makibi, who was also the only person that the brunette could really trust with her story of her adventure in Oz.
"Don't worry!" Dorothy returned the holler with one of her own as she grabbed her backpack and put it on her back, "I'll be right down in a moment!"
Going as fast as she could, the girl nearly flew out of her room and down the stairs. She kept the speed as the girl directed herself to the front door, but Kiyone was inside by that time due to her having a spare key, which caused her to end up being knocked down by the running female.
"Kiyone?!" A dazed Dorothy asked as she tried to recover from the impact.
"Who else?" The teal haired woman answered, "Santa Claus?"
Both girls got to their feet after a slightly difficult try to untangle themselves from each other. Once apart from each other, both friends started to talk to each other.
"So, it's been a while, huh?" Dorothy started off first, which Kiyone Makibi responded to by saying, "It's only been a couple of days."
"What's wrong with what I've just said?" The brunette asked her dearest friend.
"Well," Kiyone tried to choose her words wisely, "you're talking about it as if it were years, not days."
"Oh, really?" Dorothy responded in an odd way, by Kiyone's understanding of the young girl. Then, Kiyone asked, "You had a nightmare?"
"Yeah..." Dorothy confessed to her best friend.
"Don't worry," the teal haired looked at her friend with her light blue eyes, "everything's all right."
"That's easy for you to say," snapped the Gale girl, "you're not the one gettin' the nightmares!"
Kiyone only rolled her eyes, knowing that Dorothy only snap at her like that was if the dream was that frightening to the poor girl. Taking in a deep breath, Kiyone tried once more to calm her good friend.
"You're all right."
"But what about my friends?"
Kiyone was not one to believe in such places, like Oz, but Dorothy was not the kind of girl to tell a big lie like that, so she tried for the third time to ease her friend's worries and fears.
"They'll be all right, if they're as tough as you've said they were."
Dorothy could tell that Kiyone was not being very thoughtful with her choose of words, because she did not believe her friend's words. Just as she was about to yell at her friend, a loud banging stopped the brunette from giving the other girl an earful.
"Who's that?" Kiyone asked, not knowing who would visit with any member of the Gale clan besides herself.
"Don't know." Dorothy confessed, "I wasn't expectin' anyone tonight."
Then, the door flew open, revealing an oddly-dressed woman with fire-red hair and holding a pair of swords, which both were shown by a flash of lightning. This frightened the girls greatly.
Kiyone was the first to recover from the shock of seeing the bladed weapons and pull out her gun as she said, "Freeze, or I'll fire!"
The odd woman's reply: she kicked the gun from Kiyone's hands and swung one of her blades towards both young women.
"Run for it!" Dorothy shouted out as the woman swung the other sword at them after its twin stopped.
"Don't have to tell me twice!" Kiyone ran after her friend and kept close.
Both young girls made their escape from the farmhouse by going out the back door, and the attacking female was close behind them, still swinging her sabers at them. And to add to their problems, the two friends were running when it started to rain.
"What can make this whole mess any worse!?" The deputy shouted as she followed Dorothy into the woods nearby the farm.
"Don't say that!" Dorothy warned her ally, but the warning came too late.
As they ran, they impacted onto an old, abandoned crate. Then, the girls and the crate rolled over the edge of a very small cliff-like hill and fell into the rushing river below!
"Kiyone!" Dorothy yelled to her firend, who was climbing into the crate. The teal haired female did hear the other girl and grabbed her friend's wrist, and she yelled out an instruction.
"Climb into the crate!"
Asking no questions, Dorothy manage to understand her ally's words and did as she was told to do. Once inside the box-like crate, she with Kiyone sighed a deep breath of relief.
"This was a ride I never want to go through agian!" The blue-green haired girl exclaimed in an attempt to speak, but she was in a shock from being attacked and falling into the local river.
"No joke!" Dorothy wheezed out to her friend.
Expecting no more problems, a growl grabbed the girls' attentions, and the females saw a stray cat that was just as wet and soaked as the duo was.
"Oops." The brunette responded to seeing the feline, "We must've uprooted the cat's home, when we bumped into it."
"Yeah..." Kiyone made no attempt to correct the brunette's words, knowing that Dorothy was right.
So, Dorothy, Kiyone and the stray cat spent the remainder of the storm and the night flowing down the ravine in the wooden crate. Little did any of them know that they were about to enter an unexpected adventure.