Chapter 8
Over the past few days, Dorothy finished packing all of her things and had called Scarecrow every night like clockwork. It's now the last day, Dorothy stands in front of her classroom that she's had for 8 years, it once held bright pictures plastered on every wall now laid bare as the day she first stepped into this school. She glided her fingers over the keys of the grand piano, thinking of how many of her student she had tutored over the years, seeing so many grow up right before her eyes. Toto walked over to her whining lightly to be picked up, she was able to bring him to school that day as a surprise for the kids. She carries him to her desk where her purse was, it was big enough for Toto and the emeralds to fit comorbidly.
"Well Toto this is it, let's go and meet Marvel, he's probably outside waitin' for us."
He barks happily. As they head down the abandon halls the lights start to flicker and there is an audible click of someone's heels, Dorothy turns around to see Esteban walking to her with a corrupted smile.
"This could have gone by so peacefully you know, all you had to do was give in or at the very least forget everything, but no you just had to be so stubborn."
With every word his voice changes to be more and more demonic as he keeps walking to Dorothy, she backs away.
"It's time to pay, an eye for an eye, a bone for a bone, and a soul for a soul."
Black shadows projected out of his back towards Dorothy in a second, she ran.
Down every corridor she turned to every light turned off, the shadows barely grazing her legs as they raced for her. He blocked every exist she reached for as if he was corralling her.
"You can't run forever little girl, we will get you and your little dog too."
The sound of his laugh ringed out giving Dorothy a sense of dread. As she turned the corner she came to a dead end with only lockers on each side of the walls and his shadow had cut off the rest of the hall, his laughter got louder as he drew near. She runs to hide behind the last set of lockers and held Toto tightly as he whimpered in her purse. She pressed herself as close as she can to the lockers till she heard a loud scream of the possessed man. She sees the shadow flee seconds after, she comes out of hiding to see Marvel with his wand out holding Esteban in place with a magical grip. He bellows
"Run Dorothy, get to the closest door use the key. Ugh, he will lose all power once you enter Oz." their powers are closely matched in strength, they were in a game of tug a war. Dorothy headed to the now uncovered doors of the library, as she fumbled with the key Marvel was slammed to the wall beside her. One of the shadows had come up behind him, Dorothy lets out a scream
"Marvel!"
She looks back to Esteban, he steps closer to her as a larger black mass formed behind him. She looks to Marvel's can the had landed close to her, she grabs it and runs at him. Dorothy swings as hard as she could in an upwards motion as she cracks it across his groin. As he bends over in pain she runs back to the Marvel and takes him to the door, she now gets the key in the lock and turns it. The door frame glows a beautiful shade of emerald green, Dorothy quickly opens the door and shelves Marvel through. Before she could follow him through Esteban grabs her arm
"You will pay for that you little bitch."
As he says that Scarecrow's fist flies past Dorothy and hits him in the right eye. Dorothy is pulled in through the door and into a warm embrace by Scarecrow, she looks up at him before hugging him tightly as tears of relief pricked her eyes.
~0w0 ~
In OZ Scarecrow stands In front of a vanity holding his old hat as he ponders on what he should wear. His friends stand in the back as they watch him fidget with his suite again, Tin facepalms
"Stop worrying about how you look ,oh bloody OZ, your acting as if you two were getting married right as she steps through that door or something."
Scarecrow blushes at the thought
" (sigh) I guess i am a bit to dressed up."
He starts to strip off his suites coat and vest and places them back in the closet, he turns back to them
"I'm just nervous, it's going to be the first time she sees any of us in person. What if she changes her mind once she see me?"
Tin walks up to Scarecrow closes the vanatys doors and pats his back
"Your over thinking this she would never just judge you based on your looks."
Lion lays a heavy hand on him
"Yea she is just not that kind of person."
Scarecrow smiles and looks at his old hat and put it on
"Thanks guys"
They hug till the the doors swig back out with Marvel falling down to the side.they all yell
"Wizard."
Then they look back through the doors to Dorothy being grabbed by Esteban. Quickly Scarecrow lunges forward cracking his fist against Esteban's face, this makes him fall back as he becomes unconscious. Scarecrow pulled Dorothy back to Oz, once they are through Tin and Lion slam the vanity shut and lock it. He holds her tightly in a longing embrace, he lessen his grip to look down to her to see her looking up to see him as well. His world stops, all those years of longing and wishing for this moment to finally have her with him again and perhaps for good is coming to flowisan. He sees Dorothy tear up before she suddenly gave him the tightest hug she could muster, he waits a moment before returning the embrace with one almost as strong. He places a hand on her head as they snuggle in closer till there is no gap between them. They pull away as they heard one of your friends cough, they laugh off the blush on their faces and Dorothy with one arm still around Scarecrow reaches out to them.
"Come on now, I missed you guys too."
They all come together in a huge group hug, Toto barks before he got squished. He is then wrapped into the hug as well. Off to the side Glinda sat by Marval nursing his bruises, she smiles
"Now all we have to worry about are witches here."
Marvel nodes
"At least she is safe for now ."
I'm sorry that this took so long to get out this time. I've been working on stop at college and work ,yay being an adult. I'll try to get chapter 9 out to y'all as soon as I can and I'll probably come back and fix this one up if I think I need to. Till next time darling I hope all y'all have a wonderful day.