Ch3
Dorothy's Pov
(a few hours later)
I sit there in the cafe waiting for Marvel to show up, we had agreed to meet up after school so nothing was rushed. I stir my blue chai tea, the barista insisted I try it for some reason, into a small whirlpool as my mind drift. Why can't I get those eyes out of my mind, those perfect blue-green eyes of that Scarecrow? I jump to attention when Marvel had sat down across from me, I quickly straighten up to cover up my embarrassment,
"Hello Marvel, I didn't see you there, hope you didn't have too much trouble gettin' here."
Marvel laughs joyfully as he settles in, he pulls up this chest that looks as if it was some fancy relic
"Thank you for your concern my child but I'm afraid I don't have much time to spire. I have much to cover with you to even get to my true reason for being here."
He turns the chest around so it faces me and I feel the color leave my face, there on the lock was the same symbol that was on The Emerald City gates. My fingers glide over the symbol, I look up to Marvel as my head reels
"You knew all along, why didn't you tell me?"
His eyes look down regretfully as he sighs
"It was too dangerous to…"
My mind froze for a second as everything came forward, I felt my eyes tear up
"My friends, I thought… I just passed them off as some loony daydream."
I cover my face as we sat there in sleights, I trusted him and seen him like my own grandpa, ok Dorothy he has to have his own reasons to pull this. Wait this means that Scarecrow is … real. I pull my hands away as I turn my head slowly to him and ask tentatively not sure to be thrilled are scared to my wit's end.
"First, why in heaven blazes did you hide this and second…. Does this mean the Scarecrow that hasn't left my mind since I was 11 is real?"
He grins to himself at the last question and I can already feel my face heatin' up. I cover my face again as I slouch back in my chair, contemplating what this could mean, Marvel opens up the chest and begins to get out some random trinkets a lot of them having some kind of emerald along with that blasted crystal ball.
"You see Dorothy, there is this force that has awoken since you've been gone. Glinda and I hoped that you won't of remembered what had happened but as the years go by your memories have made a connection to both of our worlds."
He picks my lemon slice and toys with it as he explains
"The stronger it gets the more others notice it like lemon juice in tea, this will allow unintended magic users to visit your dimension or curse you."
He squeezes the lemon into my tea and it turns to a sickly green rather than the brilliant pinkish magenta its known to turn into, I gasp as I look Marvel dead in the eyes
"Why me?"
He sits back in his chair
"The wicked don't rest, dear, and it is easy to follow if you have no lead."
"But she is dead we all saw her melt and who in their right mind would follow her path?"
"family"
I sat there speechless with my hands in my lap, ok get ahold of yourself girl so a group of vengeful witches and warlocks, is that what male witches are called, want me dead as painfully possible. It can't be that bad right oh who can I be kidding, I'm dead meat.
"Now you could live in fear of this or I could get rid of your memories of oz completely. If I do so every memory and dream you have that has any connection to oz will be completely wiped clean and will be gone forever. That means everyone you met: Lion, Tinman, Glinda, the fact I'm the Wizard, The Munchkins, The Ozians, the wicked witches and... "
"Scarecrow"
Marvel nodes as I look down at my ring and I see a small profile of Scarecrow smiling as he turns to me, tears fall on to the emerald. I would never see him again, I don't look up from the gem
" Isn't there any other way?"
I hear him sigh as if some weight was lifted off of him and then he chuckles as he said.
"You can come back with me."
I felt my heart skip a beat, he continued
"Truth be told we do need your help if we want to ensure we win this fight and I know someone who has been extremely worried about you. So worried that he has even affected your world recently."
He laughs happily and I just turn my head
"Um can ya' fill me in professor"
"(laughter) all in do time but as a hint, you two have sung together before."
"I sang with everyone in oz well except the witches I think."
He continued with his jolly laughter as I pout across the table
"So I'll take that as a yes."
I smile at him, oh Marvel you know me too well,
"Just give me 2 weeks to wrap things up here good thing summer is going to start soon. Anyway, what are those trinkets for"
He smiles as he lines them up: emerald teaspoon, emerald plated egg-shaped jewelry box, 5 hairpins with emerald decorations, a necklace with an emerald shaped key, and a brooch that has the Oz symbol on it.
"They are to protect you, at first I was going to give them to you so that you had time to choose but it seems now that we don't need to worry about that, though you can use them as you prepare for our trip."
Marvel gets this serious look as he leans in.
"Now Dorothy you must listen carefully I will help you get prepared to leave, you will have to pack up all of your belongings and we can store them at my estate. I have no idea how long this will take and or if we will come back, so be ready for that. I'll take care of any financial problems you can't cover and finally, you must keep these on you at all times since I can't be around you 24/7. Use the spoon on anything you eat and drink if it turns green throw it out it's like the lemon juice in the tea it's a way to tell if it's cursed. The egg jewelry box is to keep it all together, the witches will try to hide the smaller objects when you're not looking. The hairpins will keep your mind clear and you will be able to see any trick they try to play on your mind. The brooch will protect your heart from any curses of fatal nature and most importantly.."
Marvel picks up the key
"Keep this with you no matter what, its a one way key to oz for emergencies only it will work on any door, we have no idea what these witches can do or what they will send your way. If you use it, the key itself will teleport to me and tell me and Glinda what happened to you before it was used."
He hands it to me and I put on
"Where will it take me."
"Into the emerald castle, where ever King Scarecrow is. We are not taking any chances here."
I look down at the key and then to all the other objects, then with a confident hand I start to put on all the wearable emerald in a tasteful manner, no going back now, it's time to make the most of what is left of my life. Once I pinned on the brooch I looked to marvel
"Well, how do I look Professor?"
He gives me a wide smile as he nods
"They will be so proud of you once they see you especially now."
~^owo^~
Hello, my darlings I know it's been awhile since the last time I updated the story but like I said before I am currently in college, with that I'm happy to inform you I passed my first year with a 3.1 GPA. so I'm going to be coming back to this and trying to finish it up as soon as I can in the meantime please if you guys have any questions please send them to me they actually can you help me cover some plot holes in the story. I bet you there's going to be a lot cuz I'm just writing this as I go. There is going to be a part 2 to this chapter of Scarecrow's point of view, it's just this is already over a thousand words long and I just felt like it should just be its own chapter. I hope to see you all soon my beautiful darling, now have a wonderful night and sweet dreams or a beautiful day and wonderful things.