Hi Guys, it's Cheshire! So today is the day of many Oz references... I hope you've come prepared to read all of them, I tried to stick with the basics, for those of you who haven't read the books! Anyways I do hope you enjoy this chapter! Allons-y!
"Hello!" I called out, but only the wind answered me... If only I had asked Zelena how to find a way back, but I hadn't.
Of course, there was always Glinda, whom I still had yet to meet... "Glinda the Good! Can you hear me?" I shouted.
"I'm afraid so... You have quite nice lungs for living in a place like Oz. Tell me child, what is your name?" she asked, sounding trustworthy, but I answered cautiously.
"My name is Jo'Hana I'm from another realm... The Enchanted Forest. I need to get back!" I said, as urgently as possible, "You are from Misthaven?"
I rolled my eyes... Everyone called it the Enchanted Forest, yet these foreigners still called it Misthaven... Which sounded dull. "Yes, Misthaven."
"There is only one way to travel across realms here and I'm afraid that you won't have much luck..." she said and I knew that Zelena held the key to returning.
"Her shoes can bring me home? I might have an idea!" I exclaimed, but Glinda looked at me wearily, probably wondering how I knew about the shoes.
"I need a suitable coverup... I can't very well walk up to Zelena and say I'm from the Enchanted Forest... She's not terribly fond of there"
"Perhaps you could come from a realm without magic?" Glinda offered, "I've always heard Kansas was the least magical of all!"
"What would be my name?" I asked and Glinda pondered for a moment... "How about Dorothy Gale? It's a rather sweet name!"
It was sweet, a sickly sweet name that might just work, "I'm going to visit Zelena very soon, Dorothy... Perhaps afterward you can find a way to intercept yourself and ask her for shoes to go home... It is my mission to make her a good person, to join the Table..."
I wasn't sure about what she had meant by the Table, but I had a foolproof idea on how a girl from Kansas might arrive in Oz... One Zelena would believe.
Glinda left for the Emerald City, floating away in what looked like a bubble, an odd way of transportation... Nevertheless, I needed to find a house.
I searched the area for one, but to no avail did I find one... All these houses had little families living in them, although the small people (perhaps a dwarf of some sort?) told me to "... Follow the yellow brick road."
It would have been helpful, had they directed me to an actual direction, instead of repeating the same words in their sing-songy voices, which was dreadfully annoying.
Finally, after about an hour of searching I found an old beaten up house... Much different from the ones I had previously seen.
I had walked towards the house, until I seen a pair of eyes, glittering in the shadows... I backed away, unsure of what was inside that house.
It could have been a troll, perhaps a lost shadow, even a small mome wrath... But what trotted out of the house, looked more like a miniature wolf.
It ran up to me, and scratched his front paws on my legs, encouraging me to pick him up and it worked, he wreaked of stench, but he wasn't so bad.
"You need a bath, that's for sure... But what of your name?" I asked and he barked twice... I could have sworn his small barks sounded likeTo-to.
"Well, Toto it is... I'm sure Azure will be overjoyed that I bring back such an adorable creature..." and the little black dog licked my hand.
"Dear gods, Toto... We really need to get you a bath, but how about we fix this house up for a nice landing, hm?" and the little dog barked in agreement.
Well, Well, Well... Jo'Hana is our "Dorothy Gale" and I basically did all of this without disturbing the Time-line! What's even better, if Once decided to ever show her again, we can all be like "OMG IT'S JO'HANA" and everyone else look at us strangely because they obviously haven't read this FanFic... Anyways, so I put quite a bit in this story... The sing-song-y munchkins that confuse "Dorothy"... Glinda, who floats away in her bubble and even finding Toto, whom we all remember from the stories! Anyways, our next chapter will focus a little bit on Glinda the Good, who Zelena has ever been worrisome of. Until then, Favorite/Follow/Review and I'll see you Monday for another Chapter of Who I Am: The Chronicles of Stable Child
Chapter Preview: Zelena had been right about Glinda, she was the farthest thing from Good... She was a manipulative control freak.
