The Island of Doom
Declaimer: Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true... Somewhere over the rainbow I would own PotC and the Wizard of Oz. To my great disappointment, this is not somewhere over the rainbow.
The Yellow Brick Road
It all started with a deserted island. The Black Pearl with Captain Jack Sparrow, William and Elizabeth Turner on board put in at a bay on a large uninhabited island in order to restock their supply of water. They were going to Tortuga next to restock the rum, so Jack treated himself to a bottle. Well, at first it was a bottle, but very soon it turned into three bottles.
What Jack saw next he attributed to a hallucination brought on by an access of alcohol.
A wide road made out of sunshine-yellow bricks led all the way up to the gangplank of the Pearl and faded out into the solid wood of the deck. Just as Jack registered this, he saw four people dancing up to road. There was a man that looked to be made entirely of tin, someone that looked suspiciously like a scarecrow, a lion on its hind legs, and a small girl in a blue dress holding a basked with a tiny black dog inside it.
As they came closer, Jack heard them singing. Actually singing.
"We're off to see the Wizard,
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
We hear he is a whiz of a whiz
If ever a whiz there was,
If ever, if ever a whiz there was
The Wizard of Oz is one because, because,
Because, because, because, because,
Because of the wonderful things he does!"
They sang. Jack shook his head in disbelief. He must be hallucinating. There was no other explanation.
"Jack," Elizabeth said. "Why are these people dancing and singing?"
Jack was enormously relieved to find that he wasn't the only one seeing this strange vision. "Probably because they're in a musical," he answered.
"Oh," Elizabeth said as the foursome danced closer.
"What's going on?" Will asked, coming out on deck.
"They're a musical," Elizabeth explained, gesturing at the dancers.
At this point all of them tripped up the gangplank of the Pearl, following the yellow brick road. When the road ended they skidded to a halt. They had been apparently too concentrated on dancing and singing to notice the road vanishing.
The girl clutched the tin man's and scarecrow's elbow. The lion yelped in fright and hid behind the three of them.
"Who are you?" Jack asked, interrupting the tense silence.
The girl stumbled forward. Jack saw that she had ruby slippers on her feet. His eyes glittered.
"If you please, sir," she said, curtsying "I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas. And these are my friends and we're off to see the Wizard of Oz to see if he can give Scarecrow a brain, Tin Man a heart, and Cowardly Lion courage. And maybe he'll have a way to get me and Toto home," she added.
"How did you come here?" asked Elizabeth kindly.
"We were told to follow the yellow brick road," Dorothy turned to gesture behind her, only to find that the road had vanished completely. "Oh no!" she cried, her eyes filling with tears. "How'll we ever reach the Wizard now?"
Even Jack felt sympathetic. "Look darling," he said. "We'll try to find a way to get you to the Wizard of Oz, whoever he is. Just come with us. I'm Captain Jack Sparrow and this is me ship, the Black Pearl. This is Elizabeth Turner and 'er husband, William Turner."
"Oh, thank you!" Dorothy cried earnestly. Then she looked up at the ship, and upon seeing the black sails and the Jolly Roger, gasped.
"You're a pirate?" she asked breathlessly.
"Aye," Jack said.
"Let's go back Dorothy," Scarecrow said. "I don't have a brain, but I can tell you we shouldn't trust a pirate,"
"I don't know," Tin Man said. "I don't have a heart, but I can feel somewhere here," he touched his chest "that we should trust him."
"Oh, I'm scared," Cowardly Lion whimpered. "I'm scared, I'm scared. I'm afraid of pirates!"
"Don't worry," Jack assured her. "We won't hurt you,"
"Yes, do stay," Elizabeth urged.
"I don't know that there's anything else we can do," Dorothy said. "You see," she addressed Jack, "the Wicked Witch of the West is after us,"
"Who is-" Jack started, but he was interrupted by a puff of scarlet smoke. In the middle was a woman all in black with green skin.
"You!" she cried to Dorothy. "You won't get away from me!"
Tin Man, Cowardly Lion, and Scarecrow jumped in front of Dorothy. Jack took a step towards her.
"Get off me ship!" he cried indignantly to her. "And leave Dorothy alone!"
"Ah! So you take her side as well!" the witch cackled. "And your fate will be the same as their's!" she laughed the classical Wicked Witch of the West laugh.
It was quite impressive and the witch would have had the limelight for a while longer if not for...
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