Chapter 9, The Journey Home, Part 2
Rosie had to think fast. She knew if she drank this potion, her life would come to an end, and she'd never get to grow up or become an adult. But if she didn't drink the potion, surely these villans would find another way to try to kill her. Then, she struck up an idea. She took the vile from Dark Peter, looking as if she was going to drink it, but instead, she turned it upside down, dumping its contents on to the ground.
"You clumbsy child!" Scoffed Dark Peter, as he took out a soard, and prepared to attack.
Then, Rosie remembered, she still had a Reptar bar in her pocket that Chuckerfly had given her a while back. She took it out and ate it quickly, growing to the size of Reptar, making her larger than everybody else in the entire kingdom.
"Hear me, hear me. I didn't bleech those roses white. It was Fluffy the cat." Bellowed Rosie in such a loud voice, that it nearly shook the land, until all of the white roses fell out of the ground, flying everywhere as a gust of wind came by, blowing them all over the place.
"First, you bleech my roses white, and then you destroy them? That's it, army, attack!" Cried Dark Peter, as all of the Disney villans, raised their soards, Ursula, Morgana and Yzma, holding up bottles of poisonous potions, ready to squirt them on command.
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jerky you heard it with your own eye. This large creature destroyed our garden." Said Angelica.
"Yes, maybe I did, but I'm sorry. But I didn't bleech the flowers in the first place. Please, please, don't hurt me." Cried the large Rosie, as her tears created a river, making the castle grounds flood.
This caused Dark Peter, Angelica, and all of the Disney villans to find themselves, swimming through the river of tears, trying to keep from drowning, as they made their way towards the giant Rosie, without much luck. Rosie was about to pick up Scar, who was headed her way, and throw him at the castle, hoping he'd smash into a window, being cut by splintering glass, when a now destroyed vegetable garden came her way first, which consisted of spinach, corn stalks, and brustle sprouts. Rosie quickly gathered up the vegetables and stuffed them into her mouth. Upon swallowing them, she shrunk down to the size of a crumb, causing her to nearly drown in the river of tears, unnoticed by Dark Peter, Angelica, or any of the Disney villans, who were confused, as they looked everywhere for Rosie, but couldn't find her.
No sooner had Scar spotted the crumb of Rosie in the water, when her tiny body floted beneath the stone castle walls, causing Rosie to be on the opposite side, faced by the large castle walls.
Dark Peter, Angelica and the Disney villans made their way towards the large stone wall that enclosed the castle, but the walls were too tall for any of them to climb over, causing their mission to defeat Rosie to fail. Meanwhile, Rosie looked around on the opposite side of the wall, to find she was in a large field of grasses, like she was in the African savanna once again. She didn't care that she was the size of a crum at this point. Afraid those villans may still be after her, she knew she needed to run, and not stop running, until she got home.
As Rosie ran, she passed by everything she saw on her trip so far. She saw mad hatter Bassum, march hare Hunter, and dormouse Kimi lighting another candle on the oversized manora to celebrate a new day of UnChanukah, once the candle was lit, Rosie kept on running, till she spotted Chuckerfly flying overhead, humming a happy tune and gazing up at the clouds, which were balarinas dancing to his tune up in the sky. Then, she ran past the wooden debree that once made up Tommy the dust bunny's house, where she spotted Tommy the dust bunny and Dil the cricket lounging on beds of leaves, gazing up at the sky. Tommy the dust bunny sat up, and saw the tiny Rosie running past.
"Hey Rosie, care to do some sky gazing with us?" Tommy the dust bunny asked.
"No, I'm sorry, I've gots to go." Rosie cried apologetically, with a hint of panic in her voice, as she knew if she stopped, not only would she possibly put her own life in danger, but heaven for bid those villans found a way over that wall and found Rosie along with Tommy the dust bunny and Dil the cricket, their lives would be in danger too, and she couldn't let that happen.
Then, Rosie ran past the field of singing dandelions, as they were singing another song. As beautiful as their song sounded, Rosie knew she needed to keep moving. She then ran past Tweedle Phil and Tweedle Lil, as they were still arguing after all of this time over what story to tell Rosie next, oblivious of the fact that she had long since left them. There they were, continuing to shout the words, cockroaches and bird back and force to one another.
Finally, Rosie reached the door with Hazel's face on it. At that moment, she knew exactly what she needed to do.
"Hazel! Hazel! It's me, Rosie! Listen, you need to open up and let me through. If I don't get out of here now, I'm going to disappear forever if that mob of evil creatures from the Make Believe Confederacy come and get me." Cried Rosie.
"Relax Rosie, relax. Don't you know this is Make Believe Land?" Hazel the door asked.
"Yeah? But…" Rosie cried, before Hazel the door interrupted her.
"But nothing. This is all in your head Rosie. You're having a dream." Said Hazel the door.
"I am? But it all seems so real to me!" Said Rosie.
"Yes, it seems real to you because it's in your imagination. You can do whatever you want when it's your imagination." Said Hazel the door.
"I want to go home." Rosie cried.
"Then go home." Said Hazel the door.
"But, but, I'm not sure if I know how to go home." Said Rosie.
"Wake yourself up, that's how you get home." Said Hazel the door.
"Wake myself up. Wake myself up." Rosie said over and over to herself, as she sat down on the ground, pressing her back against the door with Hazel's face on it.
So, will Rosie wake up and return home? We'll find out, in the next and final chapter of this story, as I decided to make this story only 10 chapters long, so please, do stay tuned, for what will hopefully be the exciting conclusion, of Rosie in Make Believe Land.
