They knocked on the large doors. Only a large echo replied.

"well this was a wonderful use of our time" the Frenchman mocked

"why would such a place be empty, someone must have been here to build it" EngCrow commented stroking at the gem walls

"maybe they all got eaten by a monster and now and now!" America panicked

"and its right behind you Amerique!"

France once again was in fits of laughter as the young country leapt onto EngCrow and quivered.

There was a loud rusted hinge noise as a man appeared in a small window near the top of the door.

"what do you want?" the man seemed irritated and groggy, it's when Seychelles realised why no one answered…the doorman was napping.

"the wizard?" she sheepishly asked hoping he would understand what she meant. The man narrowed his eyes. They all just stared at the man like they had all unwilling entered a staring contest

"you cannot see the wizard for the wizard will see no one, what on earth would you want to ask of the great and powerful wizard of OZ?"

Seychelles heard a clunk. Turning she noticed France dropped his axe, that's when she noticed the look in his eyes, in fact EngCrow and America had the same look. Their eyes were clouded, swirling with confusion. Did what the doorman had said cause this?

"t-the wizard…"

"Oz…needs its wizard…"

"let's write the history…of Oz…"

Seychelles blinked. What were they talking about? They were scaring her…

"please stop this…please wake up!" she cried out. But they didn't hear her, they were lost in the words that the man had spoken babbling on about the wizard. She needed to get them inside she needed to get them moving.

"please!" she turned to the man of the gate " please we must see the wizard, they are sick!"

"so?"

Seychelles eyes began to swell with tears "p-please don't you understand! They….they all will die…please they are all I have…I don't want to be alone!"

She peered through her fingers and saw the man's face softening

"and all we want is to be able to go home" she cried letting the warm tears run wildly down her cheeks.

"oh please do not cry please come in come in!" the man himself was in tears as he disappeared and many gears were heard clicking and turning as the door began to open.

"my my Seychelles, do you use that trick often?" Seychelles looked over her should and sighed in relief as she saw the three men were back in reality. France smiled a little impressed with the evil streak in his little girl.

America grabbed EngCrow's arm and in his excitement and slight fear for the make believe monster his mind had made up and France had convinced him was there outside, decided to bolt inside dragging the poor English men behind them.

Inside the structure, the city was emerald green and full of beautiful decoration, there were shops, museums, and everything need of a city and more. A horse came cantering along pulling a white carriage; it was like out of fairytale and was driven by the man of the gate.

"Please let me make up for my rude behaviour miss" the man slid off the seat and took Seychelles hand and bowed " I will escort you to the wizard" and with that he led her to board the carriage. He turned and signalled to the three males, and a dog to follow.

America jumped at the chance to get on first, not wanting to be sat next to France he huddled up to Seychelles, this left EngCrow with the cynical Frenchman.

"Ah Angleterre ever wondered what it would be like to be trampled by such a majestic beast" he hugged England and directed his attention to the horse pulling the carriage.

"Don't you fucking dare!" EngCrow snapped back pushing France away. The gateman got back in the driver's seat and encouraged the horse to walk.

After several minutes of silence and listening to a strange music that seemed to flavour the background America suddenly started to add lyrics to the melody.

"Bzz, Bzz, Bzz, chirp, chirp, chirp, and a couple of La di Das, That's how the crickets crick all day, In the merry Old Of Oz"

CRACK!

"ah owie owie owie"

"stay quiet then you stupid boy"

"Mon Frere! Why did you do that?"

"because he was being noisy…stupid idiot"

"he wasn't harming anyone bloody frog now can you behave for five minutes!"

"maybe when you learn how much better I am then you"

"drop dead!"

"Desu-yo!"

There was silence.

Soon enough the carriage stopped in front of a large door.

"The wizard lays beyond that door" the gateman smiled. EngCrow got up and studied the door, there were engravings around the edge that seemed to depict a story, a young girl and her companions. Seemed strangely familiar.

The man of the gate rushed over to the man guarding the door of the Wizard. After several minutes of conversing the Guard sighed shook his head then tapped the door. Amazingly that one tap sent to door flying opening.

"Impressive…" EngCrow placed a hand on his chin " I wonder what kind of mechanism is within that do-!" he was cut off as he was pushed from the carriage and hit the floor hard

"Ah! England! England! England! Are you ok!" America leapt from the carriage and hoisted up the man with one hand. EngCrow was started to get amazingly frustrated at the Frenchman.

"I am fine America…please put me down" EngCrow forced a smile and he was greeted by a large smile on the boy's face

"come on come on! The Wizard hasn't got all day!"

The hallway to the Wizard was long, very very long, obviously the great man wanted to have a place away from the city for some reason or another. Each step echoed in the hollow hallways and left a moment to reflect.

Seychelles pondered upon her brother's question form earlier

"but what have you lost?"

Nothing seemed a miss since she had awoken and it was true, the four males with her had all lost something but she was completely convinced nothing had changed in her personality. Then her mind fell back to the notes. If someone had written them, then someone was watching them, someone had somehow taken stuff from everyone bar her for some unknown reason. Then finally her mind dwelled on what had happened outside the emerald city. The three's eyes diluted and seemed to be drowning in something, what they were saying sounded weird and they seemed to slipped between states quite easily. Like they were having an internal conflict. Seychelles shuddered at the thought and then realised they had reached the room at the end.

They stood before what appeared to be an alter. After a few seconds there was a crash and a large head appeared

"what do you want? I am a busy man you know!" his voice was loud and overpowering. EngCrow found the circulation on his air abruptly stopped as America's hand clamped around it shaking in fear

"We came to ask for your help" Seychelles felt compelled to curtsy a little.

"then speak!"

"I am only seeking a way home"

"BAH SUCH SELFISHNESS" Seychelles jumped and shivered unable to speak "I HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO THEN POINT ON A MAP FOR SOME STUPID LITTLE GIRL!"

"Hey now that is just plain rude, all she wanted to do was ask your help!"

"SO? SHE IS ASKING STUPID THINGS LIKE YOU ARE? I AM CORRECT IN SAYING YOU WANT A BRAIN!"

EngCrow snapped into what Seychelles had come to dub the OZ state since it seemed to be the most common thing muttered.

"w-well you see I just want to be able to outsmart those crows" he swayed a little

"BEGONE BLASTED SCARECROW!" he then turned to France "AND YOU ARE THE ONE WITHOUT A HEART?"

"Oui…" France spoke as he slipped into the state "it was forgotten when I was made…"

"A HEART IS A USELESS THING! AND YOU?" he boomed at America. The island girl expected America to slip away too.

However overcome with fear he turned tailed and ran jumping out a nearby window. The crashing brought EngCrow to his senses!

"America?" he ran over to the window and began calling out to American who was sprawled on the floor confused and terrified.

Seychelles snapped " how! How dare you! He only came here to ask for help and you do that?"

The face stayed silent.

"your supposed to be all powerful but your nothing but a coward!"

The face let a knowing smile creep across his face.

"very well, I will help you"

Sealand barked happily.

"however…I request something of you"

"figures" France snorted

"travel west from here until you reach a castle of darkness and gloom, there lives a witch, kill her and bring me her broom and I will grant your requests"

"always a fucking catch" France muttered. Seychelles had to agree with France, but stayed silent

"fine…we will…" Seychelles knew they had no other leads at the moment " come on lets go get America…"

They looked out the window and then figured out how to get to the shivering man. France seemed uninterested in helping and instead looked at the ceiling looking annoyed and sighed

"getting a little fed up of the colour green…"