Disclaimer: I do not own the Wizard of Oz.


"Winnie! Winnie! Wake up!" Nettle yelled in her face.

Winnie sighed she didn't want to get up. She was still tired from yesterday.

"Come on! We are gonna teach ya how to make an actual house! And buildings!" Thorn shook her roughly.

Winnie was interested in learning more magic... She slowly got up and stretched. "Okay, What are we gonna do?" She asked.

The little faeries danced around happily. They grabbed her hands and pulled her out of bed and into the undergrowth of Oz.

Finally they reached a particularly blue part of Oz. The plants were blue and the dirt was blue.

"What is this place?" Winnie asked

"This is Munchkin Country, all the vegetation here is blue and the inhabitants will wear blue clothing, the buildings will also be blue," Nettle said.

Winnie looked around at the blue treetops and plant life.

"Okay to build your first building you need 252 branches, 350 pieces of lumber and 18 bricks," Thorn smirked showing off his sharp teeth. Winnie blinked, and looked at the small sprite.

"WHAT?! You said I would learn more magic! Not do more physical labor!" Winnie yelled. The three sprites looked at each other.

"B-But, our magic can't make things from nothing! We need materials first," Nimble cried. Winnie ran her fingers through her hair. How was she supposed to help such insignificant faeries?

"Where does one find lumber and bricks?" Winnie asked. A silver axe appeared in Winnie's hands. "You chop down trees with our axe and it'll automatically turn the wood into lumber how many pieces will determine on the size of the tree, bricks can only be found by visiting certain spots where your world and ours connect and hoping a brick or two will appear," Thorn continued. Winnie groaned she never had to do much work in her world, her dad had passed and her mom lived with her grandparents, her grandpa owned a store and a small farm. Her grandmother was a full-fledged Faery Doctor and helped people keep their homes protected with charms and gimmicks. Unfortunately hardly anyone believed in Faeries anymore and mostly pitied her grandmother for being "old" and "senile" Winnie wondered what they would do without her grandmother's charms. Brownies and pixies can always find their way into a well-kept home. Her mom didn't believe either because she wasn't born with Winnie's gift. Instead of a Fairy Doctor her mother was an editor for the local newspaper.

"Okay! I'll start now! If you see Binks send him my way," Winnie carried the axe deeper into the trees and found a nice sized tree with beautiful light blue bark. She lifted the axe and swung at the tree it came down in two swings and gave her roughly 42 pieces of lumber. She wandered how she would carry the lumber to the faeries and remembered the bag that her grandmother gave her. It was supposed to be a bottomless bag when it came to carrying faery objects. Blue wood wasn't usual so maybe blue lumber could be carried in the bag. She picked up some lumber and dropped it into her bag. As suspected the bag opened up real big and the lumber disappeared inside. Winnie continued to chop down trees and put lumber in her bag and finally she was done. She collected various branches along the way and finally Binks came to get her. "Binks! Hey, I finished!" Winnie smiled at him.

"You still need the bricks but the trio of idiots forgot to take you to water the crops and they need to tell you where your world connects with this one, follow me," Binks walked along on furry paws and finally we found the Faeries again. Then we travelled to the field where the peach melons grew and I watered the crops. The faeries let me wash off the sweat and dirt gathered from the past few days and somehow washed my dress. Clean and revitalized we walked back the hut. It was dark out now.

"So! How much did you collect today?" Nimble smiled.

"I got 362 pieces of lumber and 328 branches," Winnie said patting her little bag.

"An endless bag! I haven't one of those in a long time; you really are a Faery Doctor!" Nettle exclaimed.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Winnie asked.

"Nothing, nothing..." Nettle sweat dropped.

"Anyway, where does my world and this one meet? You guys didn't tell me and I need to find the bricks," Winnie said rolling her eyes at Nettle. Thorn pondered for a second and then he grabbed Winnie's arm and started to drag her out of the hut. "Where are you taking me?" Winnie demanded.

"To where our world and your world meet," Thorn replied.

"B-but it's dark out and I just got attacked the other day!" Winnie protested.

"The archer will save you again," Thorn said in a matter-of-fact tone smirking to himself.

Binks ran out of the hut after the duo while Nettle and Nimble played with Winnie's Endless Bag.

"This would be so much easier if I wasn't a cat!" Binks grumbled.

Finally Winnie and Thorn reached a place where it looked like there was a plane of glass.

"This is one of the places where our worlds connect, we can't go through but other stuff can come out," Thorn explained. Winnie looked around for anything useful. There were two bricks and a broken pearl necklace. "You should keep the pearls, they may come in handy later… Well, put the stuff in your bag and let's go!" Thorn stretched. Winnie patted her side for her bag but it wasn't there, and then she patted her other side and she started to get panicky.

"Thorn… I don't have my bag on me.." Winnie frowned. Thorn looked up at her.

"What?!" he asked. Then a figure stepped out of the blue trees and smiled wickedly at them. In the dim light of the moon Winnie could only make out the slender frame and the bulbous head of the creature.

"Thorn…" Winnie whispered. He was shaking next to her and then the creature held up its hands in one was Nettle and the other Nimble and around Nimble was Winnie's bag.

"Winnie that is a Dusk they are very dangerous and they feed on sprites! He's part of the Unseelie court!" Thorn trembled. The Dusk lunged towards Winnie and Thorn and Winnie tripped then was caught and shoved out of the way. She blinked and looked around for Thorn; he was up in a tree. Then Winnie heard fighting looked over to her savior and the Dusk. In the dim light she couldn't make out his features but she did notice the bow slung over his back and his unruly dark hair. He was grappling with the creature trying to help Nettle and Nimble escape. They flew over to Winnie and she hugged them close as the man sliced the Dusk in two with a short sword. He offered Winnie a hand, that she took and then he handed her the endless bag before bowing and disappearing into the trees. Winnie was busy checking Nimble and Nettle for injuries and scolding them for taking her bag, while Thorn hovered sheepishly nearby. Binks then crashed through the trees.

"Winnie! Are you alright?" he asked his furry paws checking her over.

"Yes Binks I'm fine," Winnie laughed.

"We're fine too!" Nimble grumbled. Binks merely shrugged at her comment.

"We should find another place to stay, the Dusk ransacked the hut and it's not safe there anymore," Binks said. The sprites perked up and danced around.

"Winnie! It's not enough brick to build a full house but we can build a better hut and live in it!" the sprites all said at once.

"We can?" Winnie asked. The sprites nodded and dragged her over to a secluded place of the Munchkin Country.

"The first house can be built right here!" Nimble cheered. Winnie gathered the materials and with a golden hammer and over various tools they had, and a shabby slightly warped, twisted house was built.

"That didn't turn out well…" Winnie laughed, and the sprites sighed, Winnie had a lot of work ahead of her if she ever wanted to finish Oz.