The Wizard of Oz
Retold by Mutitoon
Chapter Thirteen
Dorothy awaked from her faint, when she felt something warm, wet, and familiar: Toto's tongue on her face. The blue eyes opened and saw the little dog's brown eyes as well as a baby-blue blanket on her body.
"What's this?" Dorothy asked, picking up the cover, which disappeared from her hand.
Then, a group of familir voices rang into the girl's ears.
"Dorothy?" Tenchi thoughtfully asked.
The girl looked at the entrance to the kitchen and saw her dear friends, whom she thought were lost to her.
"Tenchi?" Dorothy asked in a daze.
"Dorothy!" Cerberus smiled in glee.
"Good to see you're all right." Jigen said, smiling at the girl.
"Thanks." Dorothy said, showing her happiness through her sweet smile.
"You okay?" Tenchi asked Dorothy as he helped the girl to her feet.
"I am." The girl replied, when Dorothy saw Elda's remains. She withdrew her sight to her friends.
"We know what happened," The tin man spoke out as he looked at the items that once belonged to the Vampire-Witch of the West, "Pallas told us what happened."
"Pallas?" Dorothy asked, unfamiliar with the name.
"That's me!" The child-like voice of PallaPalla replied.
Dorothy turned to the entrance once again and saw the sisters. Each of the sisters wore a dress that was sleeveless, went down to the knees, and had a turtleneck. Each dress had a color for each sister: PallaPalla's dress was blue, VesVes's dress was red, JunJun's dress was green, and CereCere's dress was yellow. The footwear with each dress were simple slippers with the same color as each of the dresses. The spheres that stood on their foreheads were gone. The only thing of any of the sisters that has not change was their hair style and color.
"PallaPalla?" Dorothy asked, looking at the sister's new look.
The sisters looked at Dorothy in confusion, turned to each other, and started laughing loudly.
"What's so funny?" The girl asked the sisters, who was still giggling.
"I think we better explain." CereCere announced as she wiped a tear from her eye.
"Yeah," VesVes agreed, "but introductions are truly needed here."
"Yeah!" JunJun agreed. She turned to Dorothy and introduced herself, "I'm Juno."
"I'm Vesta." The red girl announced.
"I'm Ceres." The pink and yellow girl said.
"And I'm Pallas!" The blue girl sang out.
"So," Dorothy asked, "your real names are Juno, Vesta, Ceres, and Pallas?"
"Yep." Pallas announced with a bright smile, "We want to give you our thanks!"
Dorothy, confused about the statement that was to here, asked, "Thanks? For what?"
"For freeing us from that hag's spell." Juno announced in the same boy-like voice, pointing at the remains of the witch, "She used that crown to control us."
"Excuse me?" Tenchi interrupted, "Do you mean the Golden Crown of Hope?"
"Don't you mean the Golden Crown of Lies?" Ceres announced with fury deepening her voice.
"I know that Golden Crown of Hope is used to control people." The scarecrow admitted.
"We mean the crown there." Vesta confessed with a loud sigh.
"Thanks." Tenchi said as he went to what was left of the Vampire-Witch of the West and picked the crown.
"You're welcome, I guess." Juno said, confused as well as her sisters.
"We better get our items too." Jigen announced to Cerberus, who agreed.
While the tin man and the lion got the Glass Eye and the Umbrella of Darkness, Vesta told the story of how her and her sisters ending up the servants of Elda.
"It started a little while after our elder brother left our mother's home to make a home for himself, because he's the first-born and her most powerful child. Mother has been running in and out to keep an eye on him. After a month or so, we grew tried of it, and we started out on our own. A day or so later, we encountered this old woman. She told us that we can become stronger than our brother, if we agreed to help her. We agreed and shook her hand. Then, four black spheres flew at us and placed themselves on our foreheads, taking our freewill from us."
"How horrible!" Dorothy exclaimed upon hearing the tale.
"And that wasn't the worst part." Juno announced.
"What was the worst part?" Tenchi asked the sisters.
Ceres answered the scarecrow's question.
"It was the fact that we were aware of everything that happened."
The girl from Kansas placed her hand oer her mouth in shock, when Pallas spoke up.
"Don't worry!" Pallas announced happily, "We were under Elda's control for a few days. It was the day that Beryl was killed."
Dorothy, Tenchi, Jigen, and Cerberus were dumbfounded at the announcement.
"That means you four girls have been under the witch's control for less than a week!" The winged lion assumed.
"That's right." Juno smiled, "Elda's been keeping us busy by chasing you, Dorothy."
Dorothy smiled, but she noticed something familiar on how Juno said 'that's right'.
"What's wrong?" Pallas asked the girl from Kansas.
"Huh?" Dorothy asked. Then, she replied, saying, "Nothin'."
"Okay." The blue girl accepted the answer.
"Now that everything's explained and collected," Tenchi announced, "we can go see the Wizard of Oz again and get our wishes granted!"
"The Wizard of Oz!" The sisters exclaimed in shock and awe.
"Yeah." The scarecrow nodded his head.
"May we please come with you to see the Wizard of Oz?" The former slaves of the Vampire-Witch of the West begged the straw-filled man.
"Why not?" Dorothy said, causing the sisters to become starry-eyed. Cerberus, however, intervened by saying, "But we don't have enough food to feed seven mouths for two days."
"Don't worry." Ceres said with a grin, "We can get to the Emerald City in less than an hour."
Cerberus asked, "How?"
Without another word, the sisters summoned their cue sticks and balls. The sisters aimed the sticks at the balls and hit them. Each ball hit and trapped each member of the group. Pallas's blue ball hit Dorothy and Toto, Juno's ball caught Cerberus, Vesta's red ball encircled Jigen, and Ceres's ball got Tenchi. Then, the sisters went to their respective ball, aimed their cue sticks at the floating balls and hit them. With the hit, the friends went flying. After that, the four girls turned into orbs and flew after the friends.