Chapter 11: Thalia & The Magical Broadway Bags

"Well…maybe I could help you." A voice from nowhere said. Aly and Lily screamed. Will grabbed the lamp.

"Oh please, I'm not going to hurt you!" the voice said. "I'm invisible aren't I? Crap. Gimme a sec!" the air in front of them shimmered to reveal a girl, about 14 or 15, brushing off the sleeves of a gold dress.

"Sorry about that, I'm still Level Three. I can't really do invisibility spells yet." She looked at Aly, Lily and Will, who were looking at her in amazement. "What?"

"Nothing…" Will said. "Now, who are you?" the girl blushed

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"Of course! Sorry, my name is Thalia. I'm a sorceress in training at Phoz."

"At where?"

"Phoz? The sorceress school?" Thalia asked. She shook her head. "What are you? From another dimension or something?"

"Or something…" Lily said under her breath. Aly nudged her, hard, in the ribs.

"Well, I'm willing to help you, even though I'm not completely out of training…" Thalia said. Aly looked at Lily, Lily looked at Will, and Will looked at Aly.

"Huddle?" Aly called. After talking for a few minutes, Aly said to Thalia. "You're in." Thalia smiled.

"Great! Let me just get my things…" She snapped her finders and a suitcase appeared. "Ready!"

"What should we do about Eonann?" Lily asked. Aly shrugged.

"We might have to leave him here; we don't need the extra weight…" she said. "Sorry Lil," Lily sighed, picked up Eonann and laid him on her bed.

"I'll be back…" Lily promised him, and kissed him on his forehead. She turned to her new entourage. "Let's go…"

BOARDER

"So, I just love being a sorceress! It's so much fun, doing spells and stuff. Where are you guys from? Have I been rambling? I do that a lot. I get in so much trouble in school for rambling." Thalia kept on talking. She seemed to get on Lily's nerves a lot. About ten minutes into the trip, Lily grabbed Aly.

"Does she have an 'off' button?" She asked, angrily. Aly sighed.

"Just let her keep talking. She'll ware off after a while." She said. Lily gave Aly the death glare, but kept walking on.

"She's like Catherine Smith! She doesn't have an off button."

"So, do any of you guys know—Oof!" Thalia tripped over a pile of leaves.

"O.K. how can you trip over leaves?" Lily asked, helping her up. Lily looked at the leaves, screamed, and dropped Thalia.

"Ow!" Thalia yelled. "Hello?" Lily dug through the pile of leaves and pulled out two bags.

"Aly! It's our Broadway bags!" Lily said. Aly gasped

"No F-ing way!" She ran to Lily and picked up a tan canvas bag with logos of Broadway shows on them. Lily picked up an identical one.

"How?" Lily asked. Aly looked through her bag and shrieked.

"Lily! It's my red sexy Gabriella dress!" Aly said, unearthing a red dress that went to her knees. Aly wore it when she played Gabriella in High School Musical: The Musical. "And…all my High School Musical stuff…" Lily groaned.

"Please let there be no Seussical stuff in here…" she said, closing her eyes and reaching into her bag. She brought out a red, orange and yellow ball gown. "Whoa, it's like totally Masquerade!" Lily laughed. "Look, there is even a mask!" she said, pulling out a gold sun mask Aly dove into her own bag, pulling out a silver moon mask.

"But those don't match…oh, I have another dress!" Aly said, pulling out a dark blue dress with a v-neck and a scoop back. The skirt was dark black silk with sparkles woven into the fabric. "Fabulous!" Lily pulled out a floral gown and flower mask for Thalia and Aly pulled out a maroon tux with a bird mask for Will.

"Are we going to a Masquerade?" Will asked. Aly nodded and pulled out a note

Five steps is the path

You do the math

If you want your love to awaken

Then these steps thou must taken

First go to a ball, with paper masks on parade

The one with the next step, is guardian of the lemonade

"What the hell?" Lily said. "That's the worst rhyme I have ever read!"

"But we need to follow it if we want to save Eonann." Aly said. She ducked behind a tree and changed into her ball gown. "Ready to go?" Will smiled, ducked under another tree and changed into his costume. He took Aly's arm and smiled at her.

"I'm ready." He said. Thalia rolled her eyes at all of them, took out her wand and took about three seconds to put on her floral costume.

"You guys take too long to put those things on." She said. Lily gasped.

"We don't have the time, can you help me?" she asked. Thalia shook her head.

"Everyone has their own magic…" she said. Lily raised an eyebrow.

"As in?"

"Make up a spell…" Thalia instructed. Lily looked at her dress.

We don't have time to fumble with zippers

So put this thing on, the better the quicker

Aly rolled her eyes, but when she looked back at Lily, had her dress on.

"Damn, I've got to learn to do that…" she said

"You already know how." Thalia said. "Aly, Lily, you are both witches."

"The hell?" Aly asked. Thalia nodded.

"I detected magic when I passed this house, I was hopping….you could help me with my magic." Thalia said. Aly and Lily looked at each other. "In fact, the moment I saw you two…I knew."

"Knew what? Exactly?" Will asked

"The Oracle Sisters." Thalia said. She raised her hand and wove a picture out of the air.

"Years ago, a prophecy was made. An evil wizard would try to take over Oz. It would seem like all of Oz would be doomed, but out of the shadows, two sister from another dimension would appear. The Oracle Sisters. Apart, their magic would never defeat the wizard, but together…the sister could overthrow anyone."

"But Aly and I aren't even sisters!" Lily blurted out. Thalia grinned.

"Oh no? Check your palms…" Aly looked down at hers.

"So? There's nothing…" Aly stopped in mid-sentence. A silvery crescent moon appeared on her palm. "Holy crap…" she looked at Lily's palm, her mark was a golden sun. Aly grabbed Lily's palm, wanting to get a better look. But a silver, golden light blinded her.

"O.K. This is too weird…" Lily said.

"Cool…but weird…….." Aly said

"Um…question?" Will said, raising a hand. "If they were 'magical sisters' why didn't their 'magical powers' kick in?" he asked

"Because they never thought to use them?" Thalia said. Aly shook her head.

"Not true, when we were obsessed with Harry Potter, we used to do spells, or pretend to, all the time." Lily said. Thalia shrugged.

"You must have the safety on." She said reasonably.

"Of course." Aly said, rolling her eyes. Thalia stuck her tongue out at her.

"But, since you don't know magic, and I do and you kind of need to know it…I can help you learn what I know." Thalia offered.

"And what would I do?" Will asked.

"Do your manly stuff that you do…whatever that is." Lily said. Aly laughed as Will scowled. Lily raised her hand to see if she could do her magic.

"How do you do this?" she asked.

"Just like before, make up a spell…" Thalia said. "I can already do spells nonverbally." She bragged. Al took a breath and started

Where faces hide behind masks

Let's dance the night away

This is the spell I cast

To go to a masquerade

The affect was instant. Soon, the group was in a grand ballroom, with all the stuff for a masquerade. Lily smiled gleefully as Will accompanied Aly to the dance floor.

Masquerade!

Paper faces on parade!

Masquerade!

Hide your face so the world will never find you!

"Wait…I can't dance!" Aly whispered to Will.

"Just follow me…" he said. Soon, they were dancing as elegantly as the people around them.

Meanwhile, Lily and Thalia were trying to solve the riddle.

"The guardian of the lemonade? The punch bowel?" Lily guessed.

"That's the most logical answer…" Thalia said. She was tired and cranky. While looking for the punch bowel, she bumped into a guy. "Whoops…sorry." She said, trying to move on. But Lily stopped her and glomped the poor dude.

"Jules!" she said. Jules turned around and saw Lily.

"Hey! What's up?" he asked, hugging her.

"Oh you know, Oz, Masquerade, magic." Lily said "The usual…hey," she said, having a stoke of genius. "You're not the guardian of the Lemonade…are you?" she asked. Jules smiled, looked around and gave Lily a note.

"Yep…by the way, is that Aly and Will over there?" he asked, pointing. Lily smiled and nodded. Jules abandon the lemonade and went to tap Aly on the shoulder. "May I have this dance?" he asked her. Aly nearly screamed and threw herself onto Jules.

"I can't believe how many people have landed in Oz, like we have!" she said, smiling. Jules laughed and greeted Will, since they were both fashionable pirates (please, don't ask…).

"Well? May I have this dance?" Aly hesitated and took his hand and started waltzing around around the dance floor with Jules; Will watched jealously.

"Jealous, much?" Lily asked, grinning, opening the note. She read it out loud to Thalia and Will.

You have passed your first test

And now, as you might have guessed

It's time for your next clue

You have no time to loose

You must follow the footsteps of a red haired friend

Who is dancing, with your girlfriend

"Jules???" Will said

AN--Hello! I am looking for the person with the next note. If you want a chance it be in Aly and Lily's Tour of Oz this is your chance! Put in in your next review, and the person who posts first will be made into an Ozian character! Good luck!

Dylan