I have to admit that I haven't seen the Wizard of Oz (the movie) in ages, so I don't actually remember what happened in the field of poppies. (Which is weird, because do I remember that the flying monkeys all had fezes) So I just made some junk up.

Chapter 8: Field of Poppies

There was a dark field, with a black sky. In this dark field, which was covered with withered and dead trees, squatted a big scary castle.

This was the home of Sheena the Wicked Witch of the West.

Cue dramatic lightning and thunder.

Currently, Sheena was glowered down at a crystal ball, which showed four vaguely humanoid shapes and a big green blob skipping down the Yellow Brick Road.

To the Wicked Witch's right, there was a man with a pink vest, long red hair, black feathery wings, and, for some unknown reason, a fez, sitting on the window sill. He was grinning.

"Are they still giving you trouble, my voluptuous hunny?" Zelos the Flying Fez Monkey purred.

Sheena slapped him. This made him fall out of the open window... which was several stories above the ground. However, he just flew back up and sat down on the windowsill again, idiot grin still in place. He discovered long ago that this was easier than just standing around inside and being slapped, and then pounded into the very hard stone floor. Admittedly, this also meant he regularly fell out of windows.

Good thing he had wings, no?

"They're persistent little twerps..." the Witch muttered to herself as Zelos adjusted his fez. "How to get rid of them...?"

She squinted. Wait a moment... they were approaching the field of poppies.

She grinned.

"Hehehe..."

"Oh, wow!" Colette began, eyes wide. "That's a lot of flowers!"

"...Indeed," said Kratos the Tin Man.

There was a huge field of red poppies in front of them. They were all red and flowery.

"Isn't that the Emerald City?" Genis the Katz pointed at a shiny green blob on the other side of the field. "Isn't that where the Wizard is supposed to live?"

"Then what are we waiting for?" Lloyd the Scarecrow said with a grin. "Let's go!"

He sprinted out into the field, and was shortly followed by his friends.

As soon as our heroes reached the middle of the field, a weird black fog descended, as if a higher power couldn't remember what was supposed to actually go here.

"Weird..." Colette began, groggily, rubbing an eye. "I'm... really tired..."

She collapsed.

Genis yawned and lay down, and Noishe curled up in a big hair ball.

There was a lot of snoring.

"Colette, Noishe, and Genis all fainted!" Lloyd the Scarecrow gasped, hurrying frantically between the three unconscious individuals.

"NOOOOOO!" cried Kratos the Tin Man. "WHYYYY!?"

"Dad, stop being all emo for a moment and help me!" shouted Lloyd. "I think if we can drag these guys out of the field, then they'll wake up!"

The Scarecrow grabbed Colette and began dragging her away, while she muttered something about cowbells.

Then it started raining glitter, making the dark fog dissipate.

If any of them had bothered to look up, they would've seen Raine the Good Witch, her wings beating frantically, dumping out a bottle of sparkly stuff on our heroes, and muttering darkly to herself.

"...If I were a teacher, I'd give these morons an F."

Meanwhile, Colette, Noishe, and Genis the Katz woke up from their naps.

"...But why is the catnip gone?" Genis asked the universe in general.

"YAY!" Lloyd cheered. "You guys are all right!"

Meanwhile, Sheena the Wicked Witch glowered at her crystal ball.

"...Dang."

"Aw... do you need a hug, my darling hunny?"

SMACK!