Chapter 2 – Fate or By Choice

My fate started to become clear and so did my memories

The ropes were cutting off most of my circulation and I couldn't see but the twinkle of the stars comes through the barred window above my head. The room is empty but a lonely bed the has no frame. It's just a manky mattress. My hands are tied to the chain that is attached to the wall and it won't break no matter how hard I tugged at it.

The shaft in the big black metal door opens and I try to ignore the big eye that stares in at me. Then the voice shouted at me and I was going on a journey. A journey to the emerald city. I went to sleep that night worried about what was going on but I never knew who and what I'd see on the journey.

I was there already. I'd woken up and I was tied to the big green machine in a big room. I saw the witch talking to a very tall munchkin and they occasionally turned around. Then the tall munchkin came over and tried to examine me. Then he gave me a pill. It was red and pale blue. I swallowed it and then I was strapped to a chair. All of the winkies were standing there. There was about 30 of them. Then a weird pulsation started in my arms and then my arms were starting to turn green. My jaw was widening, my shoulders broadening and my legs growing. My clothes were tearing and falling away, my blonde hair fell out in sheets and my arms grew much longer and became much greener. My eyes were vibrating, my skin was starting to fall and I could feel the wrinkles in my face, my nose felt much bigger and my lips were becoming much thicker and green. Black long hair fell down over my eyes and only now my black bushy eyebrows held the hair back as they had become so black and bushy. A winkie came over to me with a mirror and showed me what I had become. I was now one of the witch's slaves and my munchkin life was gone forever.

When the witch came in she wasn't happy she decided to send me into a room of 14 other winkies who would 'Make sure I was given the proper welcome.' When the witch left 14 winkies left and then the others loosened off the ropes and took me to the chambers. I was surrounded by the winkies and they looked at me and often whispered to each other. Then the tallest approached me and declared me as Jax, the cat that works well alone but works better in the pack.