Chapter 7:

"Oh my god, Quinn's dead," Rachel said in an almost sarcastic tone as she looked at the Lion who was lying on the ground and looking like she had passed out, mind you, Tin Man Santana had just hit her across the head with the butt end of her axe really hard.

"Nope, now Santana is, oh look, she just lost her head," Scarecrow Brittany said, also in an almost sarcastic tone but seemed more amused than anything else.

The two were standing side by side as they watched the Tin Man and the Lion fight with each other.

Currently the Tin Man was losing and that was only because Lion Quinn cheated and knocked her head off.

"You puta, I oughta kick your butt, get back here, hey, drop my head, drop it," Tin Man Santana yelled at Lion Quinn.

But the Lion didn't listen to her as she shook the Tin Man's head really hard.

"Oh god I'm feeling dizzy," Tin Man Santana said, "Crazy genius slapper,"

"Do you think we should stop them?" Rachel asked Scarecrow Brittany.

"Nope, this is highly amusing," Scarecrow Brittany said with a slight grin and a laugh.

"Oh look, Quinn's losing again," Rachel mused.

Sure enough, the Lion was seen rolling down the side of a hill and into a meadow area as the Tin Man managed to get her body to kick the Lion's butt hard enough to make her drop her head and force her to roll down a hill. Somersaulting most of the time before she landed on her head, butt up in the air, causing Rachel and Scarecrow Brittany to laugh incredibly hard and the Tin Man to smirk at her genius as she managed to pick up her head and dust it.

Lion Quinn roared as she collected herself.

Now Tin Man Santana would have had the upper hand, had she not put her head back on facing the wrong way.

"Wait a minute, that's not r….ooph," she said as Lion Quinn knocked into her again.

"No one can defeat the Lion Quinn, the Lion Quinn is Queen," Lion Quinn roared.

"Yeah, Queen of the Cry-babies," Tin Man Santana said in a huff, "Now get off me,"

"No, you're going to apologise to Quinn for slapping her in the face very, very, hard,"

"In theory that could work, but we'll just see if it actually happens,"

"Then I'm going to stick your head up in that tree and you can walk around like the headless horseman,"

"You wouldn't dare,"

"Oh I would, teach you for hitting me across the face," Lion Quinn said as she again ripped Tin Man Santana's head from her body and stuck it up the tree.

"Hey, get me down, I'll kick your butt, I can actually see well from up here," Tin Man Santana said as Lion Quinn pounced away, "Besides you started it,"

"I did not, you slapped me in the face first for no reason,"

"Because you shoved me,"

"I did not,"

"Get me down Furball,"

"No, OW," Lion Quinn screeched as Tin Man Santana's body had crept up behind her and kicked her in the butt, again.

Rachel and Scarecrow Brittany just looked on, partially in tears from laughter and other part just highly amused.

You may wonder what started this commotion, well, when the four arrived at the edge of the Haunted Forest, Lion Quinn began to shake and say she didn't want to go in.

Tin Man Santana had told her not be such a scaredy cat and that there was nothing in the forest that could harm her since the Tin Man had her axe with her.

Scarecrow Brittany then stated that there were spooks in the forest, which made Lion Quinn tremble that bit more as she shook and moved not too far from the Tin Man.

"Scaredy Cat," the Tin Man had said only to be hit in the head by a large rock, "Hey, that dinged my tin, stop it,"

But another stone was cast until one large one was finally thrown at her head.

"Cut it out you stupid Lion," the Tin Man growled.

"I didn't do anything," Lion Quinn said as she looked around.

"Yeah right,"

Again Tin Man Santana was hit in the head by a rock as she had turned around to walk, she turned in fury at Lion Quinn but the Lion hadn't actually done anything.

The Tin Man then turned around and kept walking a bit only to be shoved from behind, hard.

"Oh that's it, bring it," the Tin Man challenged as she walked up to Lion Quinn and slapped her incredibly hard across the face.

Lion Quinn not liking being slapped had let out a loud roar as she pushed the Tin Man back; that action caused the fight to start.

The two had tumbled back out of the haunted forest much to Rachel and Scarecrow Brittany's initial annoyance and began fighting.

Tin Man Santana accused Lion Quinn of hitting her first, Lion Quinn said it wasn't her and that the Tin Man was stupid for even thinking it was her.

Which is how we are now at this point, Tin Man Santana's head currently stuck in the tree and Lion Quinn trying to dodge the angry Tin Man's body that was attempting to kick her butt.

"Maybe we should step in now, it's been fifteen minutes, I don't think they'll let up," Rachel said to Scarecrow Brittany.

"Okay," Scarecrow Brittany sighed, "They're just like children,"

"They are,"

"You two, stop it," Scarecrow Brittany growled as the two stopped yelling and fighting with each other, "Quinn, get Santana's head out of the tree, NOW,"

"But," Lion Quinn started.

"NOW,"

"Okay,"

"And Santana, stop trying to kick Quinn, it wasn't her fault, I told you there were spooks in there and you didn't listen, Quinn was at least one metre behind you when you were shoved,"

"There are no such things as spooks," Tin Man Santana growled as Lion Quinn got her head down from the tree and handed it to her body.

"Whatever, it wasn't Quinn's fault, now play nice you two, thanks to your fighting, we've gone downhill, literally,"

Tin Man Santana grumbled as she put her head back on her shoulders and the two finally agreed to play nice.

Rachel on the other hand decided that perhaps they should just rest for a while since she was tired from just chasing after the two.

"You get tired way too quickly," Tin Man Santana said to Rachel as the brunette decided to sit down in the fields and eat.

"It's not my fault that you're made of tin and can't feel," Rachel shot back.

"Hey, don't dig at me,"

"I'm not, I'm stating, besides we've been walking for three hours, lost fifteen minutes thanks to you two fighting like children, I'm exhausted, and let me tell you, these damn shoes are not comfortable,"

"Why don't you take them off?"

"Stupid magic won't let me,"

"Say what?"

"I can't take them off, I tried once,"

"Try again,"

"No thanks, I just want to rest,"

"She said we're resting, so let's rest," Lion Quinn growled at Tin Man Santana as Scarecrow Brittany plopped down next to Rachel.

"I guess it's a good time to rest, I feel like just taking a break anyway," she said, "You two, while funny, can be exhausting,"

"I thought that you're like me B, you don't get tired," Tin Man Santana said.

"I don't, but it doesn't mean that I don't like taking a break now and then,"

"Oh,"

"C'mon Sanny, come sit, relax, it's not like the Witch is going anywhere,"

Tin Man Santana gave a small sigh as she went to sit down with the other three.

"You know, I find it awfully convenient that there are just fields and meadows around that we can sit on the moment you're tired," Tin Man Santana commented and directed it at Rachel.

"The Wonderful Land of Oz," Rachel said as she leaned against Lion Quinn's side, "Besides, you two rolled here first, so it's your fault,"

Lion Quinn looked down at her as she playfully rolled to the side so that she would end up on her back and Rachel's head would slide down the Lion's side and to her tummy, one front leg was up in the air.

"Quinn!" Rachel laughed as she looked up at the face of the grinning Lion.

"I still find it funny that a female Lion has a mane, or maybe she's a boy but is too small," Tin Man Santana started.

"Sanny, don't ruin moments, besides I think it's cool she has a mane," Scarecrow Brittany said as she pushed Tin Man Santana a bit before Lion Quinn could growl.

Lion Quinn smirked when Tin Man Santana clammed up.

Rachel just shrugged as she leaned against the Lion's exposed stomach and ran her hand up the Lion's chest.

Lion Quinn began to purr at that.

"She looks like a dog getting her belly scratched," Tin Man Santana muttered to Scarecrow Brittany.

"Yeah, a bit, they're cute though," Scarecrow Brittany said.

"But not as cute as us,"

"We're not cute, we're hot,"

"True that,"

"Exactly,"

After Rachel felt rested enough the four decided to make their way back to the Haunted Forest.

"See, there are no such things as spooks," Tin Man Santana declared again.

"You seriously don't believe in spooks?" Scarecrow Brittany asked.

"Of course….WHOA!" Tin Man Santana yelped as she was hoisted into the air and thrown back down again.

"Oh my god, Sanny," Scarecrow Brittany said as Lion Quinn bounded up and hid behind Rachel with the brunette raising her eyebrow at the Lion with a 'really?' look.

"I retract that statement," Tin Man Santana muffled through the muddy ground.

"Oh this is going to be so much fun," Rachel said as she looked at the three of them.

"Why?" Lion Quinn asked.

"Because according to the sign just over there, we're just getting started, Kiamo Ko is about five hours that way," she said as she pointed in the direction of Kiamo Ko.

"That way?" Lion Quinn said in surprise as her jaw dropped when she saw the path.

"Yep,"

Before the four was the path that they would have to take; and it was not just any path, this path that lead them deeper into the haunted woods; though that was a given; and to make matters worse it was all up hill and that track looked like it would take at least two hours before they could see anything else.

"Oh great," Tin Man Santana muttered.

"Well, I guess we're wasting daylight, we should go," Scarecrow Brittany said.

"B, it doesn't matter, there's no sun at all, it's just dark,"

"Let's just go, the sooner we get to Kiamo Ko, the quicker we can get out of the scary darkness," Rachel said as Lion Quinn scooted closer to the brunette as the four began their long arduous task of walking uphill for at least the next two hours.

"This completely blows," Tin Man Santana said and Rachel was inclined to agree with her.