Disclaimer-I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! or 'The Wizard Of Oz'. L. Frank Baum owns 'The Wizard Of Oz', plus he's dead, and I'm not that disrespectful enough to take that from him. Also, I'd be one rich Japanese dude if I owned Yu-Gi-Oh!, but I'm not Japanese or a dude. And another thing- I'm not stealing Jolly Leperachaun's idea, I thought of it a while ago, but never really wrote it until now. Also, the plot is very different from her's as well. So please don't sue me.
Characters-
Dorothy-Anzu(she's basicly the only girl in the show, except for Mai, so I had to give her that part)
Toto-Buddy(Jou shouldn't always play the dog, so I made up one, and pretending it's Anzu's dog. :P)
Glenda the good witch of the north-Ryou(light vs dark)
Wicked Witch of the West-Bakura(Yami Bakura, and he's gotta play the bad guy)
Cowardly Lion-Jou(he acts all tough like Jou, but they're both just soft and squishy on the inside ^^)
Scarecrow-Yugi(can't you just imagine him as a giddy little scarecrow? ^^)
Tin Man-Honda(now I get to rust him up whenever I feel like it, mwahaha)
Pharaoh of Oz-Yami(well, you we gotta put him there)
All of those creepy guard dudes in Emerald City-Seto Kaiba(gotta give him a part in here somewhere ^^)
Tick, tock, tick, tock...
Yami anxiously swayed his legs back and forth as he sat down on his cold steel seat, right beside Jou who also looked nervous, in the hospital's waiting room. Yami could remember that just over an hour ago, him and Jou had rushed into the emergency room in the hospital, and Anzu and Yugi had been taken to the back room to be worked on. Yami gulped at the thought of Yugi being even more injured than he first thought, but pushed that out of his mind.
Tick, tock, tick, tock...
Yami looked up annoyed at the clock over his head. Everything was quiet in the room, minus that damn clock. Yami growled lowly at it. Couldn't a guy think in peace anymore? Espicially one that used to be a pharaoh.
Tick, tock, tick, tock...
Yami groaned in annoyance, and looked back down to the ground. Even clocks didn't like him anymore. First his light and his girlfriend are wounded badly, then the doctors make them wait for the longest time before him and Jou could see them, and now the clock was annoying him. What was the world coming to?
Tick, tock, tick, tock...
"Jou?" Yami asked suddenly.
Jou looked up from the TIME magazine(I don't own it) he was reading, "Ya?"
"Can you please get that clock to shut up before I rip out every single one of it's wires?"
Jou looked at Yami with somewhat surprise and amusment, and said, "I can't do dat, Yami. Only da people who work here can. I suggest you get earplugs then. But anyway, we better call Honda and Ryou. They don't know 'bout Anzu and Yug yet."
Yami looked up again, and nodded. "Your right."
Jou nodded back, and got up, and walked towards the phone in the corner of the room. Right beside the phone, was a really fat man, who was snoring really loud. Jou found it hard to believe that Yami hadn't already banished that guy's soul yet, if a clock was bugging him, as he dialed Honda's phone number.
It rang a few times, until somebody picked up. "Yellow."
"Nice ta hear ya too, Honda."
"Jou? What's up?"
"Well, I kinda have some bad news," Jou said casually, "You know dat tornado dat was on da weather channel, and hit part of Domino City?"
"Ya, why?"
"Well, you see," Jou started, shifting his weight on the floor, "Anzu lives in dat area, and Yugi was gonna to visit her, and da tornado went by, and...well, now they're in da hospital."
Jou had to hold the phone away from his ear as Honda started to scream his head off at him. His yelling was louder than the guy snoring beside him, and that's pretty bad! "Tojikimeru!" Jou shouted, "Your gonna make me go deaf here or somethin'!"
"Sorry. Look, I'll be right over, ok?"
"Gotcha. Later."
Click. Jou hung up the phone, then looked back at Yami, who was staring at Jou intently. "Honda's coming over, I'm going to call Ryou now."
Yami nodded, as Jou dialed Ryou's phone number.
It rang a few times, and someone picked up. "Hello?"
"Is Ryou there?"
"Ya, sure," the guy on the other line said gruffly, "I'll get him." The guy put the phone down, and Jou heard some screams and hitting sounds in the backround, until the shacky voice of Ryou greeted him, "H-hello?"
"Hey, this is Jou. I'm guessing that was Bakura before, right?"
"Ya," Ryou huffed, "Anyway, why'd you call?"
"Well.." Jou said in the same words as he used with Honda to explain to Ryou what happened to Yugi and Anzu.
"Oh dear," Ryou said after Jou finished explaining.
"Well, can you come over?" Jou asked.
"Sure, but do you think I should call Seto or something?"
"Kaiba?" Jou said bitterly, "Why would he care about them?"
"Well, since Yugi and Seto duel against each other, Seto sort of respects Yugi, so he'd probably would want to know about this sort of thing."
"Fine," huffed Jou, "Bring him over. Later."
"Bye."
Ryou hung up, and so did Jou. Jou turned around, sighed, and sat back down next to Yami.
"Kaiba's coming now, right?"
"Possibly."
"...If he comes, do me a favour and remind me to try and not to hurt him."
Jou chuckled a little, "You got it, bro, just make sure ta do da same for me."
Tick, tock, tick, tock...
"Grr, that's it, your going down, bitch!" Yam igrowled, jumped up from his seat, and tried to rip the clock out of the wall, while Jou tried to hold him back. Meanwhile, the guy in the corner just kept on snoring.
Meanwhile, back in Oz...
Scarecrow and Anzu were farther down the yellow brick road by now, and had stopped skipping, since Anzu became too tired to, and Scarecrow's stuffing started to fall out a bit. So, they were still on the yellow brick road, and had passed by the mountains, and were now near an apple orchard, with a shack nearby. You'd think they'd just walk by them just like they did with the mountains, right?
Wrong!
Anzu looked around herself as they entered the new territory, and her eyes glimmered with excitement as she spotted a tree. "Apples!" she squealed(O.o I always thought that part was corny, but meh.).
Scarecrow looked up, and a puzzled expression, with his goofy smile still intact, crossed his face. "You want some?"
Anzu blushed a little, "Um, ya, I guess. I haven't eaten anything for a while.."
"Well, help yourself then! No holding you back," Scarecrow grinned.
Anzu smiled back, then ran up to a tree. Buddy started barking a bit in a protective way, but Anzu ignored it, not really thinking much about it as she picked a red apple off the tree...
And the branch she took it off of smacked her upside the head. "Ouch!"
"What do ya think yer doing?" The tree asked gruffly.
"W-what?" sputtered Anzu, "D-did you just t-talk to me?"
"Well, it wasn't that bush over there," scoffed the tree.
"If I wasn't here in Oz, I would have thought you were posessed or something!" Anzu muttered to herself.
"Ya know, we apple trees don't really like being picked off of for our apples, since we worked hard on growing 'em year round!" he growled.
"Um, sorry--" Anzu was cut off by Scarecrow grabbing her arm out of nowhere, Buddy in tow, "Hey, Anzu, come on, I don't think you'd like those crab apples anyway."
"What was that, short stuff?"
"Oh, nothing much," Scarecrow said innocently, "I just don't think she'd really enjoy those green worms that come with your apples."
The tree growled at Scarecrow, "Oh, wise guy, eh? Well, I'll show ya not to mess with me, squirt!" The tree picked an apple off of one of it's branches, and threw it at Scarecrow, barely missing him, but causing him to stumble back. "How'd you like them apples?"
Anzu ran after Scarecrow, and helped him stand up, "And I thought they didn't like to have their apples picked off of them!"
"Well, I guess you'd expect that from trees, they have no more brain than myself!" Scarecrow said shrugging. With a small smile, getting up, he whispered to Anzu, "I'll show you how to get some apples!" Scarecrow looked back at the tree, stuck two fingers behind his ears with his fingers all spread out, and stuck his tongue out at him, waving his fingers and squinting his eyes.
The tree huffed, and growled at Scarecrow, and picked off some more apples from one of his branches, and threw them at Anzu and Scarecrow.
"Whoa!" shouted Scarecrow, jumpping up just in time to dodge a flying apple. The barrage of apple kept on going, and Scarecrow was having hard time dodging them, but still managed to croak to Anzu, who was also trying to dodge them(Buddy was sniffing around the tree and barking), "There you go, plenty of them!"
Anzu couldn't help but smile at him as she dodged one of the last apples the tree threw, and started for a bush, where she found a pile of them lying around. She smiled a little, and picked up a couple of them, rubbing them against her shirt to make sure they were clean. She found one particual one that did have a worm in it, which she threw behind her. She winced after a few seconds past, and she heard more apples being thrown, with small squeaks of pain coming from Scarecrow as they hit. She shook her head a bit, but then she felt sudden pain go through it. "Owie!" she whinned, rubbing her head. She looked up, and her eyes widened.
"Um, Scarecrow," Anzu whispered, "Maybe you should come here. I don't know whether to plead insanity or not, since I think I hit my head a little too hard here, and am seeing things..."
Scarecrow was rubbing a sore spot of his head, the tree chuckling at him, but looked back at Anzu, blinking his big violet eyes a bit. He walked over to Anzu, who was still staring at whatever, or whoever, she bumped into.
It was a man by the looks of it, only it wasn't a man. He had a silver tint to him, and would feel like he was made of tin if you touched him. His body was cilinder shaped, but wasn't too thin, or too fat. His arms were basicly the same, only thinner and were connected to regualr hands, only they were silver, and his legs were the same shape, only his feet looked like silver shoes with nothing to tie them up with. His head was pure silver, but seemed to be sort of made of flesh, and his hair was tin-ish as well, and pointed at the top, sort of like a funnel, only thicker. He had dark brown eyes as well, and in his left hand was an ax. He was frozen in place, his arm with his ax up, his right arm by his side, and his legs straight from standing up. And, on a tree trunk beside him, was an oil can, the same colour as him.
"I think he's...a tin man," blinked Anzu.
"Maybe," shrugged Scarecrow.
"Oil can," came a mumble from where Anzu couln't place.
"What?" she asked.
"Oil can."
"Um, Anzu, I think he's talking to us here," pointed out Scarecrow, looking up at the much taller tin man.
"Really?" puzzled Anzu.
"Oil can.."
"What do you think he's saying?" asked Anzu.
"Oil can!" mumbled Tin Man a little louder than before, obviously in annoyance.
"Oh, oil can!" said Scarecrow in realization. He stood on his tip-toes, and reached for the oil can. and picked it up. "Where? Do you want to be oiled? If so, where first?"
"My mouth," mumbled Tin Man.
"What?" asked Anzu.
"My mouth."
"He said his mouth!" exclaimed Scarecrow. He stood on his tip-yoes again, and reach up for his mouth, but frowned when he couldn't reach it. He looked at the can, then back at Anzu. "Um, maybe you should do it,"
Anzu nodded, and took the can from him. She tested it out, seeing that it was working again, and oiled his mouth in the corners a bit.
With loud squeaks, Tin Man grinded his mouth back and forth together, and atempted to open his mouth a bit. He found that he could. "H-h-h-holy crap, I can talk again!" he smiled, and looked at Anzu, since he couldn't move his neck much and look down at Scarecrow, "Can you oil my neck, two? And maybe my arms a bit?"
Anzu nodded, and oiled his neck a bit, then went down to the arm holding th ax. She oiled the shoulder, his elbow, and then his wrist. She then moved his arm a bit, and it fell down limply to the side, ax still in hand. "Oh, sorry, did I hurt you?"
Tin Man shook his head, "No, not at all. It's better than holding up your arm forever, you know!" Tin Man replied.
Anzu smiled a bit, then oiled his other arm, then passed the oil can to Scarecrow, who did his legs. As they did so, Anzu asked him, "How long were you like that, anyway?"
"Well, just over a year ago, I was trying to chop down that tree over there to use for fire wood in my house," Tin Man started, pointing to to the other tree beside him, which had some dents on the sides of it, "When it started to rain. I rusted up, and I've been this way ever since. Stupid rain..." he grumbled the last part bitterly.
Anzu nodded sympathically at Tin Man, and shook his arm a bit more, "Well, your not rusted now."
"Ya, until next time," Tin Man muttered to himself.
"Your in good shape now, at least!" Scarecrow smiled cheerfully.
"Naw, not that good shape. If you wanna see, bang on my chest," Tin Man said. Anzu and Scarecrow looked at him oddly. "Go ahead, bang on it!"
Anzu shrugged, then knocked on his chest with her knuckles.
Bang, bang, bang!
Bang bang bang.
"Nice echo going on there!" smiled Scarecrow.
"Not nice to me, ya know," grumbled Tin Man, "The tin's man forgot to give me a freakin' heart here! It kinda explanes why I'm not being to chipper or nice about things here, ya know," he sighed, and banged on his own chest bitterly.
"How can you live without heart?" asked Anzu incrediously.
Tin Man just shrugged, "Don't ask me. I'm just all hollow, yet still in this world. I just want a heart so bad..!" Tin Man sighed to himself, and banged on to his chest again, but a little too hard, and tumbled backwards. Anzu and Scarecrow helped him back up, not knowing right away that he was going to start to...sing. But just in time, his mouth rusted up again, and cackling in the backround is heard, but not heard by the three, even though Buddy started to bark at it. Anzu oiled his mouth again, and then he started to sing.(A/N Mwahahaha, I love authoress power! ^^)
Tin Man:
When a man's an empty kettle,
He should be on his mettle.
And yet I'm torn apart.
Just because I'm presumin'
That I could be kinda human,
If I only had a heart.
Tin Man sighed to himself, then looked over at Anzu.
Tin Man:
I'd be friendly--I'd be nice,
Like sugar, not spice,
And not be hissy fights.
I'd be friends with sparrows,
And the boy who shoots the arrows,
If I only had a heart.
Picture me....a balcony....Above a voice sings low.
Juliet's voice, which come from freakin' nowhere:
Wherefore art thou, Romeo?
Tin Man:
I hear a beat....how sweet!
Just to register emotion
Jealousy -- Devotion --
And really feel the part.
I know that life isn't a game,
But it still isn't the same,
If I only had a heart!
Tin Man took a few steps forward, but then his leg rusted up, and he fell down face first into the ground, then more cackling was heard as well. Anzu and Scarecrow run up to him as Buddy started to bark again. Anzu oiled his leg, and asked, "Are you alright, sir?"
"Ya, go figure," scoffed Tin Man, "But just call me Tin Man, I don't like sir much."
"Well, anyway, Tin Man," Anzu started, ignoring Tin Man's rude comment, "Since it looks like you need that heart a lot, maybe you can come with me and Scarecrow to Emerald City, and maybe there, the pharoah will give you a heart!"
"I'm not so sure," Tin Man shrugged, "It really far away, and I might rust up, and rust up even more if it rained!"
"But don't you want a heart?" questioned Scarecrow.
"Well, ya, but--"
"Plus, I'll bring the oil can along in case!" said Anzu.
"Sure, I guess I'll be fine then, but what if he still doesn't give me a heart?" Tin Man asked.
"Well, I'm sure he will, Tin Man! We've already come a long way already, and me and Scarecrow here need something from the pharoah, too! So why wouldn't he give you a heart, too?" Anzu frowned a little.
Before Tin Man could react, they all heard cackling from behind them, which happened to come from the roof of Tin Man's old shack(A/N- No, it's not me! :p). They looked up, and Anzu's eyes widened in fear and surprise. It was the Wicked Witch of the West! Buddy started to bark and growl at him, then ran up next the Anzu, and continued to bark for a few seconds, before whimpering a little bit and sitting down next to it's master.
"Because, he'd just be wasting his time on you three losers!" hissed West cruelly. West looked over at Scarecrow and Tin Man, and said smugly, "You tagging along with her like dogs, eh? Well, it won't do her any--whoa!!" West slipped off the shack, and fell right on his back behind it. The three sweatdropped, as coughs are heard behind it. A few bangs, and West climbed back on to the shack. "Now, as I was saying, it won't do her any good, so stay the hell away from her!" He glared at Scarecrow alone, "Or I'll stuff a matress with your straw!"
Scarecrow frowned at West, shaking a little with fear, as West glared at Tin Man, who was also trembling, "And I'll use you to make coffee in the morning with! HAHAHA!" West held out his palm, and a fire ball appeared in it. Scarecrow started to away a bit in pure terror. "Ah, ah, ah.." he stuttered.
"Hey, Scarecrow? Wanna play ball with me? HAHAHA!" West threw the fire ball at him, which landed on the ground just in front of him. Scarecrow screamed out, and fell back on the ground, trembling a lot more that before now.
"Stop drop and roll, Scarecrow!" Tin Man shouted, dropping to the ground and lifting off his hair/hat off his head, and starting patting it on the fire breaking out on the grass, as Scarecrow started to roll on the ground. Anzu then said, "Scarecrow, it's ok! It's not even on you!"
West cackled some more. "As for you, Anzu, I wish you luck with the Pharoah of Oz, and a happy trip back to Japan! HAHAHA!" he sneered in a mocking tone to Anzu, who was staring straight at West, then grasped on to his broomstick tighter. He got on it, laughed some more, coughed a bit, then resumed laughing manically. Then, the broomstick lifted from the air, and red smoke puffed from the end of it, and he flew away with fading cackles following.
Anzu helped Scarecrow up, who still had a bit of a shocked look on his face. "Are you ok, Scarecrow?"
Scarecrow shok his head a couple of times, then looked at Anzu. She had a look of concern on her face, and he smiled at her. "I'm fine now, Anzu." Anzu smiled back at him. After a few seconds, they broke their stares at each other, and cleared their throats. Tin Man put his hair/hat back on his head, a slightly puzzled look on his face. "Well, I hope that's the last time we see her, he really scared you there with that fire ball, Scarecrow,"
Scarecrow looked at Tin Man, and said with a small frown, "I'm not afraid of him! No way! And I'll make sure that Anzu's safe from him, and gets back home, even if I don't get a brain!"
Tin Man nodded in agreement. "That's right! I don't care if he has all of that magic, I'll give him the ol' one-two if he even lays a finger on you, Anzu!"
"Well, that's very nice of both of your," replied Anzu honestly, "But right now, I'm not even sure that you guys should come with me and Buddy, seeing how she could have burnt Scarecrow up with just a fire ball!"
Scarecrow gulped to himself, but then said, "You can't get rid of us that easily, Anzu! We're coming with you!"
Tin Man nodded, "After all, we're friends, and friends stick together...right?"
"Ya, I guess so. You guys are really good friends. But, I just can't shake the feeling that I've met you both before. You both remind me of two people I know back home."
"Well, it's probably just a feeling, because I never even saw you pass by when I was over there rusting up," Tin Man blinked at Anzu.
"And you weren't around when I was made, either," Scarecrow added.
"I guess your both right," Anzu said, tilting her head a bit, "But I guess it doesn't matter much, since we're together now, right?"
Scarecrow nodded eagarly. "Right!"
"To Oz?"
"To Oz!"
Anzu picked up Buddy, and the three began to walk back down the yellow brick road, as they all sung together the song we-all-should-know-of-and-I-really-shouldn't-have-to-say-it-but-I-will-anyway, "We're off to see the Pharoah!"
~To Be Continued...~
A/N: I hope you enjoyed this chapter! And, as all of you have already guessed, I figured out how to work an HTML file! So now, my stories won't be so messed up looking. ^^ And ya, I did change the lyrics to 'If I only had a heart' a bit, too, but I didn't like some parts of it much. :P
Jade- I don't like you, and I don't change you around. Why should you get to change the song around?
Jay- Cuz, I have AUTHORESS POWER! *thunder is heard in backround* Hehehe.
Jade- O.o Now I know I don't like you. You freak me out badly!
Jay- Aw, you don't hate me! ^^
Jade- Yes I do.
Jay- No you don't.
Jade- Yes I do.
Jay- No!
Jade- Yes!
Jay- No!
Jade- Yes!
Jay- No!
Jade- Yes!
Jay-No!
Jade-Yes!
Jay- Yes!
Jade- NO!
Jay- ^-^ See, you don't hate me!
Jade- Grr.
Jay- Hehe, I love reverse psychology. ^^ Anyway, please review! I love reviews! And maybe if I get more than three reviews, I'll get the next chappy out quicker...^-^