The Wizard of Ooze
Chapter 7 - The Wizard
"So, you did such a journey for nothing?" Haley asked Kimberly
"No way!, I wasn´t going away until I see the Wizard" Kimberly answered
"Did you see him?" Haley asked intrigued
I stepped forward and look at the humanoid machine right to the eyes, well actually the red lights he had instead of eyes, and said "You have no idea what we´ve been
through to get here, I demand to see the Wizard"
"Ay ay ay ay ay! Beautiful lady I´m afraid there is nothing I can do about, when the Wizard denied seeing someone, there is no one in the world who can change his
mind" He said while shaking
"No one except me!" Tommy stated, he stood in front of the robot and stated, he pushed him away and moved forward along the long corridor
"Ay ay ay ay ay!" The robot continued complaining while he held his head with his hands "Intruder! Intruder! Please somebody help me!" He yelled
When I turned round a group of guards ran towards us pointing with his lances. Some of them took hold of us, while the others ran after Tommy.
"Tommy watch behind you!" I screamed;
"Ay ay ay ay ay!"the robot kept on shouting
Tommy battled them and sped up towards the end of the corridor. We stayed in the waiting room with the guards and the funny robot who had finally shut his tin
mouth up. We knew nothing of Tommy for the next twenty minutes.
I was very worry, I could not stop squeezing my hands. I wanted to go for him, but the guards watched us really close.
Twenty minutes has passed before we knew of him.
He walked steadily and accurate through the corridor toward us. I wanted to jump to him but Billy hold me back as the one of the guards gave me a look
We didn´t have to wait for too long before finding out the good news. The Wizard had decided to see us all.
"Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay! It is impossible!" Alpha sighed
"Alpha, anything is possible" Tommy answered, then he turned to me smiling
"And you are the first, beautiful" He said
I just smiled at him and did not move
"What are you waiting for? Come on go ahead, your home is a few steps away" He said
I went through the endless white corridor, the floor was made of white shinning stone and you couldn`t say where it ended and where the wall started, the ceiling was
painted in white as well, and even the ornaments. At the end I got to a big white stairs that led to a tall wooden door with a rounded archway in the upper part. I raised
my hand to grab the golden doorknob, but it was opened before i touched it. I stepped into a huge purple empty room, with a row of tall columns at both sides. In the
other end I could see a throne, but no one was sat on it.
"Hello! Great Wizard?" I sighed, just my own voice echoed in the room walls
"Is there anyone here?" I asked
"Kimberly Ann Hart, Duchess of Bedford, you are welcome" a hoarse voice answered
"How do you know me?" I asked
"I´m the Great Wizard Ivan Ooze" He said
"Oh Great Wizard it´s nice to meet you . . . well to hear you" I said
"You should thank your friend Tommy" He answered
"Why?" I asked
"I´ve never seen anyone as determined as him" He said
"That´s why I let him convince me" He continued
"Convince you on what?" I asked intrigued
"He explained me everything you´ve been through to get to me and I think you are very brave, but so did many others . . ." He said
"Yes, but you have no idea of . . ." I started, but he interrupted me
"Shut up when I speak!" He shouted
"Oh I´m sorry" I apologized
"I agreed to grant him only one wish" He concluded
I waited a couple of seconds before speaking this time.
"I don´t get it, If there are no more wishes left why did you agree to see me and the others?" I asked
Suddenly a huge clown face showed up over the throne, it was a hologram. I have never pictured him like that. He had a curly purple hair at both sides of his head and a
large beard matching the color. His face was white and full of wrinkles. He was wearing a purple cone shaped hat on his head.
"Tommy wish was to make me grant one wish to each of you" He said
"What? He changed his wish for ours?" I asked shocked
"Now make your wish" He ordered
"Do you know what it means?" I asked "Do you really know?" I asked again
"It means he´s never getting a heart" I stated on the verge of tears
"Well, apparently he did not wish it as much as you thought" He just answered
"But what if he never breaks the spell, he won´t . . ." I said "Or maybe he will" I said then and my face enlightened in that moment
Jason went next, according to him the Wizard was nothing like I had told him. What he saw was a bunch of purple jelly on the floor near the throne.
Jason walked over to it and sniffed the thing, but an angry voice shouted at him. Jason moved backwards and blinded his eyes with his claws, its whole body was
shaking. I assume the Wizard needn´t to use his powers to guess what Jason was looking for.
Alike us, Billy saw a thick purple fog that danced around him. The Wizard told him that he didn´t need any brain, which I already knew, because he was actually very
clever for being a scarecrow. But if that was what he wished, he was going to make it true.
Unfortunately, the Wizard agreed to help us all only if we defeated the Wicked Witch of the West, who ruled over Ooze's Winkie Country. He asked us to recover the six
Power Coins that apparently the Witch had stolen from him.
Can you picture us facing a Wicked Witch?
Besides Alpha warned us that no one had ever managed to defeat the witch.
After having had some rest and eaten properly we embarked on journey to the west. It was amazing to see how the green view was made into a red stony one and
cactus replaced the dense dark green trees, as we moved forward. The Wicked Witch saw us approaching with her telescopic eye and sent a group of putties patrollers to
stop us.
I jumped over Jason "Run and stop at nothing!" I ordered him, he did as I said and with my bow I fired every putty that dared to come across into our way.
PC climbed over the creature's heads blinding them, so Billy could knock them down easily, it was a real team work. As for Tommy, he tore them to pieces without much
effort.
After we got rid of them we were really tired, but Tommy didn´t let us to stop, he said it was too dangerous to stay in one place. "We´d better keep going!" He said
It was almost dawn when we reach the top of a hill, from there we could see the castle of the Witch and the long road we still had to go.
I walked over to Tommy who was standing at the edge of the hill enjoying the view
"Tommy" I sighed to get his attention
"Hey Kim" He turned to me
"Do you think we are gonna make it?" I asked
"We´ll have to try or we´ll never know" He answered
"I mean we are not superheroes or anything, what makes the Wizard think that we are going to succeed in something he didn´t" I said
"Well, as I told Alpha, anything is possible if you believe in it" He answered
"Um, about your wish, I know that you . . . " I started, but in that moment a bunch of black huge birds came flying over us
I screamed and Tommy pulled me down
"Guys watch out!" he warned our friends
"Oh no! Those tengas again" Billy sighed, when he turned Jason wasn´t there anymore
Jason ran and ran, however, one of the birds grabbed him by its tail and pulled him up. I took out my power bow and fired against the bird who set Jason free and then
fell over the rocks.
Suddenly I felt some claws hurting my shoulders and then my feet left the ground.
"Tommy! Tommy!" I screamed. Tommy ran to me, but a winged golden ape stepped on his way and threatened him with a sword
"Hi green ranger we meet again" The ape said
"Goldar!" Tommy sighed in surprise; he took out his sword and started battling
The winged creature pushed Tommy towards the edge of the rocks
Billy and Jason were coming to help me and in their way they were caught by the Tengas. PC jumped and grabbed Billy´s foot, both of them were lifted by the bird
Goldar took Tommy by the throat and raised him with one hand over the cliff. Both of them disappeared in a blast of gold energy.
Billy, Jason, PC and I were taken to the Witch palace by the Tenga warriors and locked up in a cell in the dungeons.
I was so worry about Tommy, we knew nothing of him. Besides I had been taken my power bow away, so we were completely defenseless.
"You know it´s time" Haley told me and put on her feet
I put my arms round my body so she could tie my hands up behind my back and then tied my feet to the chair. A couple of minutes later the guard came in, untied my
feet and dragged me to my room.
To be continued . . .
Sorry for the late update, it´s summer time in Argentina and I´ve been enjoying my holidays. I hope you like this chapter. Thank you for R&R
