Disclaimer, you know.
As the sun rose over the land of Oz, dorothy bade farewell to her aunt, uncle, and cousins. She decided to send Toto and pockets with them just to be safe. As they departed with Locasta dorothy smiled and walked to Glinda's room. As she arrived she could have sworn she saw the purple cloaked figure out of the corner of her eye. She found Glinda sitting at her desk, wand in one hand pointed at the cauldron. In the other hand was a book.
"Ah dorothy, feeling a little more at ease?" Glinda asked.
"not really." Dorothy replied.
"didn't think so, but I had hopes that you might." Glinda said.
Dorothy opened her mouth to say something but immediately shut it again and sighed. She then turned and left the room without a word, if this was Glinda's plan to make her happy then she needed another plan. Her thoughts however were interrupted by alex running into her. They both fell to the ground with dorothy whacking her head on the floor causing her vision to go fuzzy.
"Dorothy! Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry, are you alright?" Alex asked getting up and helping her up
"when my vision clears I'll let you know." Dorothy said blinking a few times until her head cleared.
"come on, we'll go to the kitchen and get you some ice." Alex said picking up the scepter
Dorothy sighed and felt the lump forming on the back of her head.
"Why were you running anyways?" Dorothy asked.
"I was looking for you, you shouldn't run off like that." Alex said
"Do I have to tell you guys when I'm going somewhere?" dorothy asked
"well seeing as we expect an invasion to happen any day now, yes." Alex said as they walked to the kitchen
Dorothy's vision suddenly went fuzzy again and the next thing she knew she was in a chair and had a rather fowl taste in her mouth that made her start gagging. Before she could even gather her thoughts, or her vision for that matter she was blinded by a bright light.
"Alex, Ellie, back up." She heard Elena say as her vision finally returned to normal.
"what happened?" Dorothy finally managed to ask.
"you, somewhat fainted." Ellie said.
"dorothy, drink this, it will taste terrible, but given the circumstances, you need this." Elena said bringing a cup to her lips
Dorothy braced herself as she nearly spat out the liquid being forced into her mouth. It was more bitter than anything she had tasted so far in terms of concoctions. However, as some of it made it down her throat her head began to stop hurting. She could now see that she was in the kitchen and there was a bag of ice being held against the lump on the back of her head.
"Dorothy?" alex asked.
"yea?" was her response.
"Feeling better?" he replied.
"A bit." Dorothy said
Meanwhile elsewhere in Oz
Theodora had been looking around the castle for her sister. She eventually found her but the circumstances by which she found her were a bit odd. Evanora was in the tower, which now instead of being a stone room with the crystal ball, the entire room was now made of ruby, she was watching the crystal ball with shade in his raven form on her shoulder.
"Forget three days, get the troops ready for tonight, it's time." Evanora said.
"Sister, what have you done?" Theodora ask touching the now ruby wall.
"I was testing something." Evanora said
Theodora wanted to question her sister but at this point was too scared of her sister to try. Evanora laughed as she picked up a rose. Immediately it began to wither and fade. She crushed the dead, dry flower into dust. And let it fall to her feet.
Okay yes another short chapter, but the next chapter will longer I swear.