A/N: Hi everyone, I hope you all are doing well, to start things off I realized when writing the characters I put Levy as Auntie May, when in the actual Wizard of Oz production it was Auntie Em, however, I am going to keep May instead of Em do to the fact its not the complete actual story of the Wizard of Oz. On another note, writing these next few chapters might drive me crazy, haha. I'm having fun though, and I hope that by the time Fairies of Oz is done, everyone would have had fun reading it and experiencing the characters in their roles. If you have any request for anything, or just want to chat please feel free to PM me! Now please enjoy chapter 7!
Name: Mirajane Strauss
Age: 19
D.O.B: June 23, X765 (Made up, except year)
Height: 5'6
Weight: 120 lbs (Made up)
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: White
Blood Type: AB (Made up)
School: Fairy High
Team: Hakuhatsu (White Hair) Siblings
Chapter 7: Fairies of Oz, Part 1
(P.O.V Lucy)
Its was the day of opening night for Fairies of Oz and while the whole school was talking about it and buying tickets the rest of us were sitting in the Drama Club room staring at everything. My eyed were wide, and held tears, my heart raced and stopped, all we could do was stand there. All around the room was flowers, cards, balloons, candy, all saying "good luck" and "you can do it". The gifts were from other students, and some of the towns people. My tears rolled down my cheeks and a huge smile brightened my face as the encouraging voices of the cards and gifts washed over the room. To no was the first to move further into the room. He stood there for a moment and he touched one of the bouquet of flowers gently. "Magic Fairy, Student Council..." we perked up our ears and looked at the Drama Club Prez, he slowly turned a smile bright on his face and tears at the corner of his eyes, "Thank you so much" The room filled with small laughs and the Drama kids shared a group hug with their Prez.
"Don't thank us yet Tono" Natsu walked up to him and rested his arm around Tono's shoulder pulling him slightly closer to Natsu, "We still have to perform an amazing show before you can thank us" Natsu grinned.
"Nastu is right" Erza crossed her arms over her chest and nodded in agreement.
Tono looked up at Natsu and there was a silent moment between Natsu and Tono, the look in Natsu's eyes declaring that the Drama Club will perform one of the best shows Fairy High as ever seen.
The rest of day we were going back and forth between setting the stage for the beginning scene, setting back stage for the rest of the scenes, selling tickets, and receiving good lucks from our peers. It was exciting and I don't think there was one time were I stopped smiling, however, the closer it got to perform, the more my heart raced, and the more I felt my hands start to shake and claim up. I was getting nervous, and I was quickly realizing it.
Since the rest of the Drama Club and the extras were working on tech, and moving the sets while also acting we didn't have anyone to do hair and make up, meaning we were on our own and helping each other. I was sitting in a vanity chair staring into a mirror as Levy stood behind me braiding my hair into two braids. I was wearing my costume, a white, puffy, blouse like shirt that ended a few inches above my elbows, and a blue, overall-type dress that ended at my knee. I also wore blue socks that ended right above my ankles, and black flats; at least for the first scene. Levy was done and had my walk over to the full length mirror on the girl's side of the room. Starring at myself I realized that, one, I may look good in almost any type of clothing but Dorothy's attire does not suit my taste, and two, now that I was ready for the show I was no longer Lucy, but I was Dorothy, and Dorothy would wear an outfit like this. I sighed more nervous now, than I was ever before.
"You okay Lu?" Levy asked, in her older, farm woman attire.
"Yeah Lev, nothing to worry about, just a little nervous" I waved my hands in front of my face hoping she would believe me.
Skeptically she stared at me but then sighed knowing I wouldn't admit that "just a little" was an understatement, "Alright, I'm going to go see if they need help with any of the last minute stuff alright" Levy smiled and grabbed her other costume and headed to the stage.
I looked around the room, for a moment it seems so unreal, like magic was dancing around the props, and costumes, for a moment I didn't believe I was going to act on stage. Reality started to come back to me and while it was extremely exciting, it was also nervously scary, which caused my mind to race with what-if scenarios. I started to feel sick, my thoughts getting to me but before I could pass out there was a knock at the door. I looked up and saw Natsu, at first I wasn't sure on how to react, he was wearing brown pants that were tucked into black boots and had straw coming out of them and the top of the boots. His shirt was a dark green and it ended to about his mid-thigh but was tied at his waist with a braided rope, and out of his sleeves that ended at his wrist was more straw peeking out. His face was dirtied with browns, tans, and some blacks, and two lines on either side of his lips were fashioned to look like stitches. I kept staring his pointed dark green hat relieving straw from under it, and from a hole in the side distracting me for a moment until a thought brought me back. 'He even looks good as a scarecrow' this causing me to look him in the eye then quickly turn away my face flushed.
"Hey Luce" he grinned and walked up to me as I sit down in a chair against the wall. He sat next to me and once again flashed me his toothy grin, "what are you doing?"
"Um... I scratched my cheek slightly, "relaxing?" I questioned myself, not sure if I wanted to admit how scared I was at the moment.
"Yeah..." I looked over at Natsu a little concered from his tone of voice, his eyes were on the floor and his hands gripped the seat of the chair under him.
"Hey Natsu" he slightly turned his head up to the side looking at me causing my heart to skip, "You okay?" I asked.
"Huh? Oh Y-yeah! Couldn't be better, I'm excited for the play but I'm just a little-"
"Nervous" I finished his sentence and smiled softly toward him, "Same here Natsu" I looked up at the ceiling.
"Do you know how to get rid of it?" He asked sighing, but his question sparked a memory and somethings my mom told me.
"Here are some tips so if you ever get nervous again Lucy" she smiled down at me, "first right was is making you nervous on your hand" as she spoke I did was she told me, "now shallow that nervousness, like this" she cupped her hand and brought it up to her mouth and acted like she swallowed something, and as she did she slowly flattened her hand till her palm touched her lips. "You got that Lucy?" she asked and I nodded my head eargerly. "Okay now for the second thing, imagin the audiance as something funny, like pumpkins, or with flowers and mushrooms on their heads, or you could imagen them in goofy underwear like mama does." Her last comment threw me off gaurd and I quickly shouted "Underwear?!"
The memory ended but it made me smile and Natsu stared at me, "You're mom sounds nice" he smiled wide.
My smile softened and I held my hands in my lap as I turned to him "Yep" for a moment he looked taken a back but then I saw his left hand get closer to his face and with his right pointer finger he started to touch his palm.
"People... Acting... Singing... Play..." he spoke softly as his finger moved and once he was done his left hand slowly rose to his lips and then he swallowed. It was quiet but a glow quickly came over the pink haired teen, "Alright! I'm all fired up, now the next thing I need to do is picture the audience in their underwear, even though Gray is always in his!" he smiled toward me. I stared at him for a moment, my heart racing in my chest causing my nerves to act up again. I copied his actions and started to write on my hand with my finger.
"People, Acting, Singing, Dancing..." I then glanced at his from the corner of my eyes and quickly wrote one more but said it in my head instead of out loud 'Natsu...' I then swallowed my nerves and all of a sudden I felt calmer.
"Did it work?" Natsu got in front on me.
"Yeah it di-" I stopped mid-sentence once I realized how close his face was to mine. I could faintly feel his breath against my lips, I wanted to say something so it wasn't so quiet but my mouth wouldn't work and neither would my brain for that matter. He closely leaned in and my body froze, 'Wha-what is he...?' I was about to shut my eyes tightly when someone came into the room.
"Hey its almost time-... What are you two doing?" Gray smirked as he folded his arms over his bare chest. I could tell my face was 20 shades redder, and while it was not likely, I'm pretty sure they both heard my heart beating in my chest like a drum.
"Oh hey Gray" Natsu turned and grinned then turned back toward me, getting slightly closer as his hand reached up onto my shoulder "Luce just had a feather from one of the costumes on her" he pulled back and in between his thumb and pointer was a small white feather.
"I see" Gray sighed, which confused me.
'Why are you sighing? I should be sighing!' I quickly thought in my head.
"Well let go Luce, show's going to start with out us and we can't have our lead being late" he smiled and held his hand out to me and while I was still nervous in that moment it wasn't scary anymore, so I took his hand and the three of us headed toward the back doors of the theater.
(P.O.V Natsu)
We waited quietly in what are called the wings of the stage; which were the right and left sides of back stage; as Tono greeted the full house that sat patiently waiting for the show to start. "Welcome to the first show the Drama Club is doing this school year, we have taken the classic story of The Wizard of Oz and put a Fairy High twist on it. The actors and stage crew have worked really hard on this performance and they would like to thank you all for coming tonight. Now with out further adieu I am happy to present to you Fairies of Oz." Tono ended his introduction and exited stage left as the lights darken and the curtains smoothly opened. As the lights dimly set the stage I could see Lucy standing there looking around, her hand over her eyes as she stood on her tip toes, then on her knees as she acted to look under stuff.
"Toto! Toto where are you boy? Toto" Happy then came out from stage right wearing a black fuzzy, fur vest and shorts, with black boots and fuzzy, fur pointed dogs ears on his head, and a short, black tail. "Oh, Toto there you are boy, I thought I lost you!" Lucy picked him up from under his arms and held him close.
Happy smiled and his tail looked like it was wagging, "Meow!" the audience paused and then started to laugh.
"You do know you are a dog right?" Lucy's eye brow twitched as she clenched her teeth together.
"Meow" Happy's tail wagged faster causing Lucy to sigh.
"Well never mind, we'll fix that problem for you later, but you were suppose to help me pick flowers for Auntie May, however, you ran off with my basket again!" Lucy put the "dog" Happy down.
"Meow, Puurr~" Happy lifted his right arm and reaviled he was holding the basket.
"Oh thank you Toto... Um... You do realize all that is in this basket is cat-nip right?" Lucy questioned as she bent down and took the basket.
Happy's response, like his glove-like paws and "Meow~"
She sighed again "Well never mind, lets go get some flowers and get back before we get in trouble" the two exited and the lights went out again, meaning we had to push out the house we had on wheels, and the farm hands who were also stage crew brought out two fences and as the lights came on they started to act like they were working on them.
"Dorothy!" Levy entered yelling, "Do-Dorothy!" she stuttered, causing the audience to giggle as her small appearance, and small voice. "Dorothy where are you!" she screamed louder walking to center stage, to just stand on her toes as she looked out into the audience for Dorothy.
"Are you looking for Dorothy Mrs. May?" Loke asked as she stood next to her.
"Yes! Do you know where she is at?" Levy asked paniced.
"No, I don't I was just wondering, however..." he grabbed Levy's hand and pulled her close, "How about we go look for her together?" he flashed a shinning smile but then there was a loud, wam, sound and Levy turned to look the other way like nothing happened as a bump rose on Loke's head.
"Oh I hope she is okay, Pa said there is going to be a twister, that child needs to hurry and get back, I sent her to go get flowers, not to end up in her own little world!" Levy's voice rose as she crossed her arms over her chest.
"Auntie May, I'm back!
"Meow"
"Dorothy, what in heaven's name were you doing child!" Levy walked over to her and started to lecture the late Dorothy and while they played out the scene I felt a light tap on my shoulder. I turned and standing there shirtless in orange-tan, fur pants with a lion tail attached to them was Gray.
"Yo" he smiled.
"Weird cat" I whispered as I starred at him.
"Who you calling weird!?" I whispered yelled at me, but then cleared his throat, "Never mind, I wanted to act you something" My ears perked in his direction and I stood up from the chair I was sitting in and turned toward him. "You just so happened to have that feather in your hand, didn't you" I froze.
"What are you talking about stripper?" I asked crossing my arms over my chest and sighing.
"Oh don't give me that Natsu, I know you better, you were going to K-I-S-S her" He elbowed me in my side jokingly and causing me to turn my head away from him, I could feel the pink playing across my cheeks.
"I wasn't planning on kissing her, I got close and next thing I knew my body was moving on its own!" my voice was softer than a whisper but I new Gray could hear me as I turned away more, "It was my nerves I tell you, that's all it was, my body was moving on its own because my brain was all fuzzy from my nerves acting weird" I protested in my defense.
"You don't have a brain for that to happen with" I heard the smirk in his voice.
"What did you say?" I was about to start something but he stopped me in my tracks.
"Scarecrow" he smirked. I was pissed but he did have a point, in the play I didn't have a brain, however, he was a wimp and I was about to come back with a comment about that when I heard music start up. My whole body froze then it slowly turned to see Lucy standing in a spot light.
My body moved on its own again; from the nerves, and I knelt down against the wall as close as I could get to Lucy without the audience seeing me. She was singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and her voice a sweet, yet it was sad, a voice so pleasing to the ears that for a moment I only saw her. She only took a few steps during the song but she used her hand to express the feelings she felt as she sung. The whole theater was silent as they watched and I could see small tears at the corner of Lucy's eyes as it got closer to the end of the song, and once the music stopped she wiped the tears away and looked up at the "sky" once more, letting the audience clap for a moment. I smiled completely caught up in her pace of the show, and with out realizing it the next scene was about to take place.
(P.O.V Lucy)
"Dorothy! Dorothy!" Auntie May ;Levy; called from the house, panic in her voice, "Dorothy!" she ran to the end of the stage looking at into the crowd. I was on the other side of the stage sitting with my legs pulled up to my chest when all of a sudden wind started to dance around me along with a few leaves and then a small wagon started to slide across the stage.
I looked around with a look of confusion on my face as Happy hid behind me, whimpering, the only dog-like thing he as done so far. "Toto what's wrong?" I asked as he looked up at the sky, this made me do the same as I then quickly stood up still staring at the sky as I turned around slightly. There in the background was a twister getting closer, and closer. "Toto, come on!" I picked up Happy and started to run back to "my house" the wind picking up. I could feel the suspense and anxiety in the room as I fought to get closer. By now Levy and the farm hands have already gone in the "cellar" and my feet kept going toward the house with the basket and Happy in my arms. I forced the door open against the wind and ran inside as small object glided across the stage, I ran up to the "second floor" of the house and peered out the window with Happy doing the same next to me. "The twister is coming!" I shouted and picked up my dog.
"Meow!" Happy whined as we held each other. The stage hands came dressed in black and started to move the house a little.
"Dogs don't meow!" I yelled as the house started to spin and move across the stage, causing me to fall over and no longer be seen in the window. The house kept moving and in the background you could here the moo's of cows and dogs barking; not meowing. I could here the bangs and crashes of the sound effects as the house moved, and I could see the flashes of the lights as I peered through the window. Then out of nowhere a loud, crackling, high-pitched laughter was heard along with a bright blinding light and I was once again thrown away from the window.
"You think she's okay?"
"We should be careful, she could be a bad witch!"
"But she's really pretty, no way she is a bad witch"
"That doesn't mean anything!"
My eyes were hurting, and I could hear three little whispers from outside the house, when I felt fur against my face. "Toto, stop it" I moaned.
"Meow, Purr~" I opened my eyes and standing there in front of me was a black dog, child who still looked like Happy. All I could do was sigh and sit up, just so I could hear gasp come from the window.
"Where am I?" I asked the air as I stood up and went down stairs to head outside. The screen door creaked opened and I shielded my eyes from the light just to let my mouth hang open. There in front of me was a long stretch of feilds and hills, a pong that held strange lily pad flowers and a rainbow that filled the whole sky.
"Meow" Happy's tail wagged slightly as he came next to me and hug my leg. A butterfly as big as a bird, with blue clear wings and shimmering body fluttered in front of my face, causing me to fallow it with my eyes.
"Uh... Toto... I don't think we are in Kansas anymore... I'm not even sure if we are in the same universe let alone Kansas"
"Aye" the black dog spoke causing me to turn toward him my eyes wide.
"A-aye?" I questioned, still in shocked that my cat-like dog just spoke. We are defiantly not in Kansas... Where are we?!
To be continued...
A/N: HI everyone I hope you like this chapter, I'm hoping not to do more than 3 parts for this story arch, but next chapter is going to be all about Oz so I hope you enjoy the characters as they go through this adventure! Thank you for reading and please continue to fallow, favorite and review!
