After what seemed a very long time, light peaked in through the windows and the house had stopped moving.
"Cosmo...?"
"Cr-Cream?" Cosmo slowly sat up, awoken by the rabbit and her Chao. "We're alive?"
"Very." Cream said.
"Chao." Cheese agreed.
Cosmo then got up and headed upstairs with Cream and Cheese following her.
Cream looked scared, "Where is everyone?"
"I don't know, but it's so quiet." Cosmo added.
"Chao!" Cheese flew ahead of them for the front door and Cream went to him as Cosmo followed her.
"Be careful, we might not know what's out there." Cosmo spoke, worried about what big mess would make Vanilla exhausted or something.
Cream nodded and slowly opened the door... only to gape her mouth open. Cosmo looked at what Cream saw and did the same. No longer a nice quite front yard with the picket fence, but instead, a whole meadow, covered in golden and silver flowers with tiny little homes and trees that grew apples everywhere. The sun's golden rays of light shown off a small lake, which shimmered.
Both amazed and nervous, Cream and Cosmo stepped outside looking around as Cheese followed nearby Cream. Butterflies and birds flittered around as the two girls reached an edge of a snow-white garden of silver roses.
"Cream?"
"Yes, Cosmo?"
Cosmo stared up at the sky, "Do you have the feeling we aren't in Mobius anymore?"
Cream nodded as, unknown to them, little pairs of eyes peeked out and then ducked into their hiding places. Only Cheese seemed to notice, "Chao?"
"It's like from a song mommy sang." Cream then smiled, "We must be over the Rainbow!"
"From the feeling of it, it must be." Cosmo agreed.
Then something behind them glowed a bright green and both Cosmo and Cream backed away, with Cream hugging Cheese. A figure appeared in the light and the light slowly died down the reveal the figure. He looked like a black hedgehog with red markings on his quills, arms, and around his eyes, which were also red, a brown muzzle and he wore a red shirt with a Musketeer symbol, a long blue cape, tan gloves, tan pants, brown boots and a brown hat with a red feather. He even carried a long thin sword.
"Well, at least we know we aren't in Mobius." Cosmo whispered to Cream, who nodded.
The Musketeer slowly approached them as the girls looked nervous that he might harm them but he then asked softly, "Are you a good witch or bad witch?"
Cosmo looked confused and looked behind her. Seeing no one, she pointed to herself, "Me?"
He nodded.
"No sir, I'm no witch at all. I'm Cosmo the Seedrian, from Mobius, sir."
"Ah..." He then gestured to Cream, "But is she the witch?"
"No, sir. My name's Cream the Rabbit." She turned to Cheese, "And this is my very good friend, Cheese the Chao."
The Musketeer sighed, "I must be muddled again, I have been alerted of a large house having to been dropped on the wicked Witchling of the East." He turned to the house Cream and Cosmo came out of as the girls gasped at something they haven't before noticed; two hands stuck out with golden bracelets around the wrists.
"That is yours, isn't it?" The Musketeer asked.
"Well, mostly it's my home, sir." Cream answered.
"Which is why I must know if you're good witches or bad witches?"
Cosmo looked confused, "But we told you, we aren't witches at all."
"And besides, witches and wizards are old and ugly." Cream added. They then heard giggling.
"What was that?" Cosmo asked.
"The other Chaos, they're only laughing about this theory of witches and wizards because..." He bowed to them, "I am the Musketeer Wizard of the North."
"YOU ARE?!" They cried, bewildered.
Cream quickly bowed in apology, "I beg your pardon, s-sir, it's just... we didn't know that you were..."
"No offence has been taken." The Musketeer assured, standing back up, "The Chaos are just glad to be free at last, because of your heroine work."
"Oh... so, there's other Chaos?" Cream asked.
"Chao-chao-chao?" Cheese asked.
"There are many like your little friend here, this is the last of the Garden of Chaos." He gestured as little groups of shy and curious Chaos came out and Cosmo and Cream looked on, "It's okay, they only want to thank you for what you've done."
"Okay." Cosmo knelt down to pet one and she smiled as it licked her hand.
"They are so very happy." Cream smiled, standing near the Musketeer.
"They've been prisoner for a long time, so it's happiness for them." He nodded. He then noticed Cream staring at him, "Does something trouble you, child?"
"No sir but..." Cream looked away, "You remind me of somebody.... someone who became my papa."
The Musketeer just nodded silently as Cosmo came back to them.
"Cream, this place is wonderful." Cosmo smiled.
"It is, even Cheese has made some friends." Cream pointed to Cheese playing with other Chaos.
"Yes, they really are glad to be so..." The Musketeer looked up oddly and noticed some sort of greenish-black smoke.
"Maybe it's raining." Cosmo said.
"No, it's not rain..." He looked harder and glared, "Not him now."
"Not who now?" Cream asked.
"Chao!" The frightened Chaos floated off for hiding places.
"Chao-chao?" Cheese asked, confused but worried.
Suddenly, green fire rises out of the ground as a smoke-like figure comes out, scaring the Chaos, Cheese, Cream and Cosmo as Cheese flew back to Cream. The figure revealed to be another black hedgehog but with blue-gray markings on his arms, legs, quills and around his green snake eyes, and he only had on a long purple tipped hat, a long purple cape held by three green gems, a green vial he wore around his beck and he carried a long gold staff with a green orb on it. Cosmo and Cream froze in fright as the smoky figure walked slowly towards the house.
"But didn't you say...?" Cosmo asked, nervously.
The Musketeer knelt down to them, whispering, "I said the Witchling was dead, but he's the Dark Wizard of the West, a giant in the world of madness."
"Madness?" Cream asked, before he shushed her.
"Who killed my baby sister?" The Dark-Wizard growled, walking up to them, "Who murdered the Witchling of the East?" He pointed angrily at Cosmo and Cream, "WAS IT YOU OR YOU!?"
"No, sir, it was an accident!" Cosmo said.
"We would never kill anyone!" Cream pleaded.
"Fine then, I can cause accidents too!" The Dark-Wizard lifted his staff before the Musketeer interrupted him, "Are you sure you aren't forgetting your bracelets, little brother?"
"Brother?" Cosmo and Cream looked surprised.
"Ah, yes, my bracelets..." He went back to the house but then, the bracelets glowed and vanished as did the hands, which melted away.
"They're gone, the golden bracelets!" He ran back to them, growling, "What have you done! You give them back or I will...!"
"Sorry, too late. They are now where they will stay." The Musketeer then took Cream's right hand and Cosmo's left hand as the girls gasped; somehow they both got a single golden bracelet on their wrists.
"Give me back those bracelets." The Dark-Wizard snarled, "I've always known how to use them, they won't be any use to you little brats." They didn't budge, "Give them back."
"Keep a tight grip on these bracelets." Musketeer whispered to Cosmo, "Their magic is more powerful then what you'll expect."
"Keep out of this, older brother, or I can fix you up as well!" D-W growled, raising his staff.
Musketeer just grinned, "No luck around here, you know you can't have power in the Garden of Chaos. Now be gone, or otherwise The White House will fall on you."
"What, where?!" D-W Looked up panicked and then frowned as Musketeer smirked, "That never gets old."
"Fine, I'll be bidding my own time." The D-W glared a warning look at Cosmo and Cream, "As for you two little girls, true that I can't use my abilities in the Garden of Chaos, but just TRY staying out of my way, you just try. I'll will get you, little plant girl, and your little rabbit and chao friend too."
"Chao-chao!" Cheese called as the Dark Wizard chuckled in a dark evil tone, scaring all the Chaos before disappearing in his greenish-black cloud of smoke. Cosmo and Cream tried to recover from this, still shaking.
"It's okay now, you can come out, he's gone." The Musketeer called to the Chaos as they slowly emerged from their hiding spots, "It's okay, come on."
"He is so dreadful." Cosmo said, at last after being silent.
"This is why you must leave as soon as you girls can." Musketeer said to them, with a stern but concern look.
"But... which is our way back to Mobius?" Cream asked, "We can't go the way we came here."
"I'm afraid not, but you both have such a long journey. You must have yourselves a head start of the Silver Palace, where you'll find the mighty one himself: The Wizard of Oz."
"Chao..." The Chaos 'ooed' as this.
"Chao?" Cheese asked.
"Wizard of Oz..." Cosmo then asked, "But is he good or wicked?"
"Very good, but yet very mysterious." The Musketeer said, "No one has ever been able to see his true face over the years. Did either of you bring a broomstick?" He then asked.
"No, we didn't, sir." Cream shook her head.
"Then you'll have to walk there, but remember..." He knelt down to Cream and Cosmo, "Never let those bracelets leave your sight or you'll find yourselves in the clutches in the hands of the Dark Wizard." He then gave his special kiss of Protection on Cosmo's forehead and then Cream's, as she blushed for an odd reason but didn't know why.
"So... how do we start for the Silver Palace?" Cosmo asked.
"It's always best to start at the beginning and all you do..." He pointed to a bright green path, "...is follow the Green Emerald Road."
Cosmo took Cream's hand as Cream hugged Cheese and they began starting off a little, but something came to Cream's mind and she turned back to the Musketeer, as Cosmo looked at her.
"But, what happens if we...?" Cream was looking worried.
"Just follow the Green Emerald Road..." And with that spoken, the Musketeer glowed the same bright green and vanished as the Chaos were waving goodbye to their friend and guardian.
"...Goodness, people come and go so quickly around here." Cosmo said, and the Chaos giggled.
"He really does remind me of someone who became my papa." Cream said, knowing the Musketeer looked VERY familiar but she just couldn't think of the name.
"Come on, Cream." Cosmo took Cream's hand again and they went down the path, leaving the Garden of Chaos as Cheese followed, waving a goodbye to his friends, as they waved back.