Return to Oz
Told by Mutitoon90
Chapter Two
The warm dawn had rose over the horizon and declared that it was mid-morning by the time Doorothy had awakened from her slumber. Moving around, she realized that she was not in her bedroom but the crate that she and Kiyone has crashed into and used a make-shift boat for themselves to escape the attacking woman.
"Kiyone?" The brunette asked, which was responed by a moan of dismissal and displeasure. Not one to give up, Dorothy carefully and quickly slipped from her friend, who fell onto the wooden bottom of the crate.
"Ouch!" The teal haired female exclaimed, while Dorothy laughed loudly at the deputy from Kansas.
"Dorothy!" Kiyone yelled at her friend, who continued to laugh.
"Hey!" A man's voice rang out to the girls, who forze upon hearing the voice, "Some of us are trying to sleep!"
The girls turned to the direction of the vioce and saw the same cat giving them the same look the night before.
"Did you...say something?" Kiyone asked, unsure of her own senses.
The cat looked as confused as the deputy as he asked her, "Can you understand me?"
Kiyone nodded her head, dumbfounded that she heard a cat speak to her.
The feline looked at Dorothy and asked, "You too?"
"Me too." The brunette replied as she nodded.
Then, a nasty grin appeared onto the cat's face, showing the girls that he liked being understood. This made Kiyone very nervous. Dorothy, however, was not as worried about the cat, because some of her friends in the land of Oz were animal in form, but she never knew that animals from the outside world would be able to talk.
"Well, maybe you two would be so kind as to SHUT UP!" Yelled the cat before returning to his nap.
"Well, I never!" Kiyone was offended, which was evident in her action of putting her fists onto her hips.
"Yeah." The brunette agreed. Then, she got to her feet and said, "We better get goin' if we want to find out where we are."
Kiyone nodded in agreement and getting to her feet as well. Then, she said, "Looks like we're in the desert."
"Man," Dorothy groaned upon hearing the news, "I don't want sand in my shoes!"
The young deputy agreed with her friend when it came to the lack of any desire of having sand in her own shoes, but she knew that she and Dorothy would have to endure the sands if they wish to pass through the desert.
"Hey, look over there!" Dorothy shouted, which was unneeded and painful to Kiyone's ears.
Kiyone, dispite the pain, obeyed and saw want the brunette saw: a lush patch of grass that reached into a forest that was as lush as the grass. Amazed, Kiyone considered the possiblity of being in Oz, but she did not say anything in case if they were not in the land that Dorothy claimed to have spirited off to a month earlier.
"That's great!" Kiyone responded to the sight of the pasture, "It's worth the sand in our shoes."
"That's not the best part," Dorothy answered to the comment, "but the stones in the desert sure are!"
Pleased with this odd, but appreciated, change of fortune, the deputy said excitingly, "Let's go then!"
"Right!" Jumped Dorothy in her glee, and she was the first to cross the desert sands by jumping from stone to stone until she reach the green grass.
Kiyone followed behind her friend, but she lacked the speed and enthumism that Dorothy had. This made the deputy think that Dorothy had changed a bit since the visit to Oz.
Once the teal haired reached the pasture, Dorothy smiled and said, "Now, we're done with that desert, let's find some breakfast."
As soon as the statement was completed, the cat's ears perked up to a certain word.
"Breakfast?" The cat lifted his head towards the girls, who were leaving for the forest, "I don't wanna miss that!"
The stray cat looked down at the sands, which he sensed were dangerous, and then he turned to the stones. Timing the leap carefully, the feline leaped from his crate-home and landed on the first rock. He repeated this until he was being tickled by the small blades of grass.
"Hey, wait for me!" The cat shouted as he chased after them.
Unknown to all members of the party, two small beings were flying around and noticed their direction that the group was going. Being quick, the two beings flew off to the desert and towards a mountain range that was large enough to hold many people, if they chose to be there. Into the mountain, the small duo flew until they had reached their destination.
"Hmmm." A dark form smiled evilly, "Kotake, Koume, what news with you brought with your early return?"
Before answering, the beings became their true selves: a duo of elderly, green-skinned women that were dressed in black robes, which were decorated with odd white patterns, and an odd belt held onto each of the women's waists. Each of the women were had a color for the jewels on their foreheads, their slippers and on their headbands.
"My Lord," the woman with the red color spoke first, "we bring news of Dorothy Gale's return to Oz."
"Good to hear." The voice of the dark being spoke out to the women.
"However," the blue-attired woman spoke nervously, "she has brought two others with her: a girl with hair that is the color of the sea and a lean cat with white fur."
"A small party?" The lord's voice sound intruged by the news, "Dorothy Gale must have banded them after the assassin's attack."
"So, what do we do?" The women asked, not knowing what to do about the girl that killed two witches within a week.
"Follow her and her band and see how far they go. If they sleep, report back here, and if they find a way to come here, when return and wait for further instructions."
"Yes, my Lord." The women bowed to the leader before returning to their small forms and flew off to carry the instuctions that they were given.
Watching the duo depart, the dark lord chuckled to himself as he said, "Things just became very interesting..."
Koume and Kotake traversed through the air until they reached Dorothy and her friends, who found an odd tree.
"What are those things?" Kiyone asked bluntly to her friend, who answered, "I think they're lunchpails."
"Lunchpails?" The cat looked at Dorothy with a skeptical look in his eyes, "Pails are from milk."
"A few decades ago, the milk pails were more common in use than they are today. Lunchpails are smaller than the pails for milk, and kids used to take them to school."
"Until lunchboxes were popularized." Kiyone added, finishing the explaination.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," the stray cat showed his lack of interest in the history, "it's there food in them?"
"Don't know." The brunette shrugged her shoulders, "There's one way to find out."
Dorothy went to a red pail and picked it from the tree's branch. With this action, the heroine was warned by her oldest friend.
"Be careful not of pick the green ones."
"Thanks for the warning." The cat said, rolling his eyes, "Let's eat!"
"Right!" Dorothy sided with the feline, whose hungry was over-riding her jugdment.
Then, the brunette removed the plant top of the pail and looked inside to find a napkin and something wrapped in a piece of white paper.
"This looks like something." The lunch-ready female said as she pulled out the small package from the pail.
"What is it?" Asked a hungry stray cat, who was drooling from his mouth.
Dorothy opened the package and said, "It's a ham sandwich."
"What?!" The mostly white cat exclaimed in an hunger-controlled fit, "No fried chicken?"
"Take it or leave it." Kiyone giggled after seeing the cat's reaction to the lack of his preferred food, "However, I now know it's safe to eat the stuff, so I'm picking one for myself."
"Hey, pick one for me!" Begged the stray, but that action earned him the disapproving looks of the females.
"Forget it!" Kiyone said, and Dorothy added, "I thought you wanted your beauty sleep."
"Hey!" The cat moaned in his angst and pain, "Please?"
The girls looked at each other and shared a look of uncertainity. Then, they turned to the cat and asked a few questions.
"Are you want to eat people food?" Dorothy asked first, allowing an artful gleam to form in her eyes.
"Yeah," Kiyone played along, "we don't even know your name."
"Ha!" The cat announced, "Cats don't need to have names to identify themselves to each other."
"But we're not cats!" Dorothy munched on her sandwich as she spoke.
The cat took a moment to think and before long, he saw that the girls wanted something from. With this realization, the cat said, "Pretty sneaky, girls. I'll grant you that much, but that didn't go as far as you've hoped."
"Well, we've tried." Kiyone sheepishly smiled as Dorothy finished the last of her sandwich.
"However, if you feed me, you two can call me anything you two want." The cat confessed in a bold and begging manner.
After a moment, Dorothy got to her feet and said to Kiyone, "Let's hope there's a tuna fish sandwich for him."
After their meal and naming the cat, the trio resumed their terk through the dense forest. It was not long before all three agreed that they were lost.
"Where are we?" Moaned the feline, who was becoming tired from walking.
"I don't know." Dorothy confessed to the cat, "I've only been to a few places in Oz."
"Is there anything we could use to get somewhere?" Kiyone asked Dorothy, who said, "I don't think-"
The brunette gasped as if she saw something awful, but Kiyone knew it really meant that she remembered something.
"What is it, Dorothy?"
"I can't believe that I've forgotten about the silver slippers!"
"Silver slippers?" The cat tilted his head to the side.
"That's right, Muta." Dorothy called the cat by the name that she and Kiyone had given him, "They can take me and anyone with me to anywhere I want to go."
"Well, get them and use them!" Muta shouted at Dorothy.
"Back off!" The deputy pinned the cat down.
"Quit fightin'!" The brunette shouted at her friends after removing the silver slippers from her backpack, which she nearly forgot about, "It's not goin' to help us if we're at each other's throats."
Both would not admit it, but they knew Dorothy was right. So, they kept quiet until Dorothy put on her magical shoes.
"Ready to go." Dorothy announced, "Are you two ready as well?"
"As I'll ever be." Kiyone shrugged her shoulders.
"Me too, I guess." Muta announced.
"Good." The brunette said before picking up the stray cat.
"Hey! Put me down!"
The cat's reaction amused Kiyone and Dorothy, who said, "Don't worry; I won't let you fall."
"I wouldn't count on that!" Kiyone said, trying to frighten the already-nervous feline.
"Quit jokin', Kiyone." The brunette scolded her friend, "Now, hold on to me, okay?"
"Okay." The teal haired deputy shrugged her shoulders before placing a hand onto Dorothy's shoulder. Then, she voiced her worries to her close friend.
"I hope it's safe."
"I wouldn't bet on that, Chicky." The cat grinned darkly at the officer of the law, who turned her attention and possible fury towards the mocking feline.
"Okay." Dorothy breathed out, seemingly ignoring the dueling duo that were her allies. Then, she said, "The Emerald City."
"What the-" The cat exclaimed as Dorothy floated up. Kiyone, who was holding on to the girl, shouted in the mist of her great surprise, "I don't think I like this!"
Then, Dorothy and her friends disappeared from the sight from the sights of the well-hidden Kotake and Koume, who returned to their master to report once more.