The Wizard of Cards
Cyrox
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or the Wizard of Oz.
"Another day, another duel," Joey said as they continued to earn more star chips.
"And the more star chips we get, the closer I'll be to getting Grampa back," Yugi thought.
Then they noticed that the wind was getting a little stronger. Shortly after that, some speakers were telling everybody who was still on the island to head for the shelter because a cyclone was coming soon. All of them dashed to the area that the shelter was said to be. But while they were running, a strong wind blew some of the star chips off of his dueling gauntlet.
"My star chips!" Yugi said as he watched them blow away.
"Don't worry, I'll get 'em," Joey said, but Tea stopped him.
"No," She said, "you have to worry about yours Joey, I'll get them."
"But Tea!" Tristan called out.
But she ran off leaving them in the dust. She chased after the Star Chips and caught them when they landed on a dueling stadium. Then she noticed her Shining Friendship card blowing away, but she caught it in time. The next thing she knew, something hit her in the back of the head and knocked her out cold.
Tea regained consciousness and found herself on the dueling arena and inside the cyclone. She turned around and noticed that her shining friendship card had come to life. She held on tightly to the now real card as the dueling platform continued to carry her off within the cyclone.
After that, the cyclone ended and Tea stepped off of the arena with Shining Friendship in her arms. She looked around and found herself in a mysterious place that was bright and filled with houses.
"I think I'm not at the duelist kingdom any more," Tea said.
The next thing she knew, a pink bubble floated toward her. Then it turned into a girl. She was dressed in pink, and was a little younger than Tea was. And she looked like Joey's sister Serenity.
"Who are you?" Tea asked.
"I am the good fairy of the North. Now are you a witch?"
"I'm not a witch."
"Good." The fairy said.
Then the fairy signaled an angry mob with torches to go away.
"This place can't stand people who associate with the power of Satan," The fairy explained.
"But where am I?"
"This is the land of cards, where it is against the law to hate Duel Monsters, and some are even alive like the one you are holding."
Tea looked at Shining Friendship when the fairy said that. Then some little guys who look like Mokuba come out.
"Hi," One of them said, "We are the munchkins."
"Wow, a village of little people," Tea said.
"Actually, I'm part of a cloning process gone wrong."
"Oh."
"And you killed the wicked witch of the east," Another one said.
"What?" Tea asked.
"Yeah," Another one said as he pointed at some legs that had some ruby red boots were sticking out from under the dueling platform.
"Yay!" All of the Mokuba's shouted, "The wicked witch is finally dead!"
Everyone threw a party because of it, while Tea just stood around, wondering what they were doing. But the celebration was short lived when a cloud of smoke appeared. All of the little guys were shocked and fled in fear. The smoke took its form and it was a witch who looked like Mai. Her outfit was exactly like Mai's, except that it was black.
"I thought you said the witch was dead," Tea said.
"She is," The fairy said, "that's her sister, the wicked witch of the west."
The witch looked at the dueling platform that had crushed her sister.
"Who did this?" The witch asked. "Who killed my sister?"
"She did," The fairy said as he pointed to Tea.
Tea felt surprised by it too.
"Ha, don't think that scares me. Now that she's dead, I can get her ruby boots."
The wicked witch walked over to her dead sister's feet. But the boots disappeared as soon as she touched them.
"What happened?" The witch asked.
Then she turned to the fairy.
"You did this. Where are they?" She demanded.
"The ruby boots were put in a safe place," The fairy said as she pointed to Tea.
Tea looked down at her feet and found that she was wearing the boots.
"What, what happened?" Tea said in surprise.
"So, you want to play games with me, huh?" The wicked with said to the fairy.
"As for you," The witch said as she turned to Tea, "I'll get you my pretty and your little card too."
After that, the witch disappeared.
"Sorry about that," The fairy said, "I thought if I gave you the ruby boots, her desire to kill you would decrease."
"Now how am I supposed to get back to the Duelist Kingdom and return to my friends?"
"Easy," A Mokuba said, "our ruler is the Wizard of Cards. He can do anything, so he could probably get you back to the duelist kingdom."
"Really, that's great! But how do I get to him?"
"Just follow that road. It's the one with yellow stones."
"Yellow stones?"
"Well yellow bricks have been taken."
"Ok," Tea said as she left them to find the wizard.
Tea continued on the road until she noticed a farm area with a scarecrow in the middle of it. The scarecrow wore a straw hat with a green jacket and blue jeans. And to what she noticed, the farm's corn yard was filled with crows.
"Guess the farmer needs to get rid of that scarecrow," Tea said to her Shining Friendship card.
"Hey, I could do a better job if I could play better," A voice with a New York accent said.
Tea looked around and saw nothing.
"Ether someone's playing a dumb joke on me, or that scarecrow just talked," She said.
"What's a matter, haven't you seen a talking scarecrow before?"
And with that, Tea knew that the scarecrow was talking to her.
"No, where I come from scarecrows don't talk," She said.
"Well I do, and the crows are here because they beat me in a game."
"What kind of a game?"
"Duel Monsters."
"I should have known, it is the reason that my card came to life."
"Well I really needed to get rid of those crows, but they wouldn't listen to me, so I challenged them to Duel Monsters. The only problem is I'm not much of a player."
"Maybe I can help, I'm not that great of a player ether, but I am friends with one of the best."
The Scarecrow got off of the pole he was hanging on and gave his deck to Tea. She looked at every card in there and found the problem.
"I see what your problem is," She said, "you only have monster cards in your deck. My friend says that you need to combine your monsters with magic."
"Aw man! I threw all the magic and trap cards away."
"Can you get new ones?"
"Yes, but I'd have to see the wizard of cards for that."
"I'm going to the wizard too, maybe we can go together."
"Great, now let's go."
Both Tea and the Scarecrow followed the yellow stone road, searching for the Wizard, but along the way they noticed a man made out of tin. Now the Tin Man's look kind of reminded Tea of Tristan like the scarecrow reminded her of Joey. But she knew it couldn't be them because they were back at the Duelist Kingdom. And they heard sound coming out from the guy.
"Hlp mm," Is what the two of them heard, but it was tough to understand.
"What do you think he's saying?" Tea asked.
"If I didn't know better, I'd say he wants us to help him," The Scarecrow suggested.
"Ol mm." It said.
Tea was pretty sure he wanted the oil can. She picked it up and started spraying oil on his mouth.
"Thanks," The Tin Man said, "I was chopping that tree down, but it started to rain and I rusted."
"Don't mention it," Tea said as she and the scarecrow continued to oil all of his joints. "But why didn't any others help you out?"
"Because everybody ignores me," The Tin Man said, "to them I'm just another guy. I just want a personality, a way for people to remember me."
"Maybe the Wizard of Cards can give you one," The Scarecrow said, "I'm going there to get a new dueling strategy."
"And I'm going to find a way back to my friends," Tea said.
So the three of them continued along the yellow stone road in search of the wizard. But what they didn't know was that the witch was watching them from afar.
"So those losers think they'll get to the wizard, I'll make sure they're journey ends soon."
Now the trio stumbled upon a forest with a lot of tall trees. They all looked inside to see what was in there.
"What do you think is in there?" Tea asked.
"My guess, wild beasts that will tear us limb from limb," The Tin Man said.
"Well that's something positive!" The scarecrow complained.
"There might be a chance to survive," Tea said, "If my Shining Friendship card came to life, maybe another card can too."
"Takes a lot of skill to do that," The Scarecrow said, "and I think you're the only one who has it."
"But I didn't do anything," Tea said.
"Let's just go into it anyway," The Scarecrow said, "besides, old tin boy and I aren't alive, so it won't be too painful."
The three of them enter the woods and here a roar. Then a short lion who looks like Yugi appears. All three of them look down at him.
"Well this doesn't take a genius," The Scarecrow said as he pushed the lion down.
The lion ran off with hurt feelings. Tea follows him to see what's wrong.
"Have you come to make fun of me too?" The Lion asked.
"No," Tea told him, "I was wondering what's wrong."
"It's always the same. As a lion, I'm supposed to be the king of the jungle, yet I'm just a loser that everybody bullies. If only I were taller, they'd fear me."
"Well the three of us are going to see the wizard of cards. He could make you taller."
"That's great," The Lion said, "you can count me in."
The two of them returned to the Scarecrow and the Tin Man and continued on their journey to the Wizard.
To Be Continued.