Disclaimer: I don't own Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan, Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan is a copyright of Hanna Barbera, I also don't own The Wizard Of Oz, The Wizard Of Oz is a copyright of MGM Studios.
Author's note: This story is the sequel to my 2014 story, Anne In The Land Of Oz, so if you don't know what's going on, go back and read Anne In The Land Of Oz first.
A Strange Sensation
Previously on Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan:
"Go away?" Anne, the scarecrow, the tin man, and the lion all asked in astonished unison.
Anne and her comrades couldn't believe what they now heard.
"Looks like we came a long way for nothing." the scarecrow said.
Anne started to cry, "And I was so happy, I thought I was on my way home." she said.
The tin man handed a hankerchief to Anne as the scarecrow put his hand on her right shoulder.
"Aww, Don't cry, Annie," the tin man said gently. "we're gonna get you to the wizard."
"We certainly are." the scarecrow said to Anne just as gently in order to calm her down.
The guard came out of the building where the wizard lived to hear Anne's pathetic sobbing.
"Rosa was so good to me," Anne said to her friends. "and I never appreciated it... running away and hurting her feelings, Tom tried to bring me back to our hotel suite, and I was too foolish to listen to him, I'll never forgive myself, never, never, never."
The guard was also sobbing up a thunderstorm.
"Please, don't cry anymore," the guard said to Anne. "I'll get you into the wizard somehow, come on, I had someone as wonderful as your Rosa in my life myself once."
The sobbing guard then opened the doors to the wizard's palace.
Anne, the scarecrow, the tin man, and the lion went on in.
"Wait a minute fellas," the lion said. "I was just thinking, I really don't want to see the wizard this much, I'd better wait for you outside."
The lion turned to go but the scarecrow grabbed him by the neck.
"Oh," the scarecrow asked the lion. "what's the matter?"
"He's just scared again." the tin man said.
"Oh, don't you know the wizard's gonna give you some courage?" Anne asked the lion.
"I'd be too scared to ask him for it." the lion answered Anne.
"Well, then," Anne said to the lion. "we'll ask him for you."
The lion was still holding onto his tail.
"I'd sooner wait outside." the lion said to Anne, still afraid.
The lion quickly turned to go but the scarecrow stopped him.
"Why, why?" Anne asked the lion.
"Because, I'm still scared." the lion answered Anne.
The lion yelped in pain.
"What happened?" the scarecrow asked hid cowardly friend.
"Somebody pulled my tail." the lion answered the scarecrow.
The scarecrow pointed to the lion.
"You did it yourself." the scarecrow told the lion irritably.
"I... " the lion began.
"Here," the scarecrow said to the lion, taking his tail out of his front paws. "come on."
The foursome stepped forward as two doors opened.
"Come forward!" the voice commanded.
The lion began shaking like a leaf, "Tell me when it's over." he said.
The foursome then continued to walk into the room where the wizard was.
"Look at that," the scarecrow said. "look at that."
The lion was still crying, "I want to go home." he sobbed bitterly.
The machine then began shooting smoke.
"I am Oz... the great and powerful, who are you?" the wizard asked the foursome.
Anne stepped forward.
"If you please," Anne said to the wizard. "I am Anne, the small and meek, we've come to ask..."
"Silence!" the wizard shouted.
Anne ran back to her friends.
"Oh," Anne called out. "oh! Jiminy Cricket!"
"The great and powerful Oz knows why you have come," the wizard said. "step forward, Tin Man."
The tin man stepped forward.
"Yes?" the tin man asked the wizard, timidly.
"You dare to come to me for a heart, do you? You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk." Oz said.
"Whoa! Yes," the tin man said to the wizard. "yes, sir, yes, your honor, you see a while back, we were walking down the yellow-brick road, and..."
"Quiet!" the wizard bellowed.
"Yikes!" the tin man screamed.
"And you," the wizard bellowed. "Scarecrow... have the effrontery to ask for a brain... you billowing bale of bovine fodder!"
"Yes your honor, I mean your excellency," the scarecrow said. "I mean your wizardry."
"Enough! And you, Lion." the wizard bellowed.
The lion was pushed forward by Anne.
"Well?" the wizard asked.
The poor lion was still quaking until he fainted on the floor due to fear.
"Oh! You ought to be ashamed of yourself... Frightening him like that when he came to you for help!" Anne said to the wizard.
"Silence, missy!" the wizard snapped at Anne fiercely.
"But..." Anne began.
But the wizard interrupted Anne.
"The beneficent Oz has every intention of granting your requests." Oz said.
The lion recovered from his fainting spell.
"What's that? What'd he say? Huh? What'd he say?" the lion asked.
"But first," Oz said to the foursome. "you must prove yourselves worthy by performing a very small task."
"We will do the task for you, Mr. Wizard," Anne said. "whatever it is, we will do it."
"Bring me the broomstick of the Witch of the west." Oz said to the foursome.
The foursome was cowering.
"But if we do that," the tin man said, still quaking in his armor. "we'll have to kill her to get it."
"Bring me her broomstick," Oz demanded. "and I'll grant your requests, now, go."
The lion was hesitant.
"But," the lion asked the wizard. "what if she kills us first?"
"I said go!" the wizard ordered.
The lion then fled the room and dove out of sight.
In a scary forest, the witch's pet raven squawked as Anne and her friends walked to the witch's castle.
"'I'd turn back if I were you'." the lion said, reading one of the signs.
The lion turned to go but he was stopped by the scarecrow.
The lion forced bravery by growling as a creepy owl screeched.
Anne and her friends turned when the lon turned to go.
But, the lion was stopped by both the tin man and the scarecrow this time.
"I believe there're spooks around here." the scarecrow said.
The tin man didn't believe the scarecrow.
"That's ridiculous, spooks," the tin man said to the scarecrow. "that's silly."
"Don't you believe in spooks?" the lion stuttered nervously.
"No, why... oh! Oh!" the tin man shouted.
The tin man was being lifted into the air by his shoulders.
"Oh! Oh, Jiminy Crickets!" Anne called out in fright.
The tin man then landed back down on the ground, dropping his ax.
Anne and the scarecrow ran over to the tin man.
"Are you all right?" the scarecrow asked the tin man.
Anne helped the tin man up off the ground.
"I do believe in spooks, I do believe in spooks, I do, I do, I do, I do, I do, I do believe in spooks, I do believe in spooks, I do, I do, I do, I do, I do." the lion said.
The witch was watching Anne and her friends through her crystal ball.
The Wicked Witch of the West cackled, "You'll believe in more than that before I'm finished with you." she said to the lion through her crystal ball.
The witch raced to one of her flying monkeys, "Take your army to the Haunted Forest and bring back that girl and her dog, do what you like with the others, but I want her alive and unharmed, they'll give you no trouble, I promise you that, I've sent a little insect on ahead to take the fight out of them, take special care of those ruby sneakers... I want those most of all, now fly! Fly! Bring me that girl and her sneakers!" she ordered.
The monkeys took to the skies.
"Fly!" the witch commanded.
Back in the Haunted Forest, Anne and her friends saw the witch's flying monkey army heading their way.
They all turned and fled as one of the flying monkeys was on their tail.
Anne continued running from the flying monkey with Chu Chu at her side.
"Help! Help!" Anne shouted.
More monkeys were after the scarecrow, tin man, and the lion.
"Go away now." the tin man shouted at the monkeys, swinging his ax at them.
"Help! Help!" the scarecrow shouted.
More flying monkeys were after Anne.
"Chu Chu! Help, Chu Chu!" Anne shouted.
Chu Chu stopped running and barked as Anne was being taken off by one of the witch's flying monkeys.
Another flying monkey grabbed Chu Chu and took off to the the witch's castle.
"Help! Help! Help!" the scarecrow shouted.
The tin man and the lion raced over to the scarecrow's location.
"Well," the tin man asked the scarecrow. "what happened to you?"
"They tore my legs off and they threw them over there," the scarecrow answered the tin man, full of fright. "then they took my chest out, and they threw it over there, and..."
The tin man gave the scarecrow a look of irritation.
"Well, that's you all over." the tin man said to the scarecrow.
"They sure knocked the stuffings out of you, didn't they?" the lion said to the scarecrow said in a joking manner.
"Don't stand there," the scarecrow commanded. "put me together! We've got to find Anne!"
"Now let's see..." the tin man said.
Back at the witch's castle a few hours later, the witch was petting Chu Chu.
"What a nice little dog." the witch said to her monkey minion, placing Chu Chu into a small basket.
"And you, my dear," the witch said to Anne. "what an unexpected pleasure, it's so kind of you to visit me in my lonliness."
Anne saw the basket with Chu Chu in it being taken away.
"What are you going to do with my dog? Give him back to me." Anne demanded the Wicked Witch of the West in terror.
"All in good time, my little pretty," the witch said to Anne. "all in good time."
"Oh please," Anne said to the witch. "give me back my dog."
"Certainly... certainly... when you give me those sneakers." the witch said to Anne.
Anne then looked at her feet, then, looked up at the wicked witch.
"But," Anne protested to the witch. "the Good Witch of the North told me not to."
"Very well." the witch said to Anne.
The wicked witch then turned to her underlings.
"Throw that basket into the river and drown him." the witch said to her underlings.
"No! No! Here," Anne shouted. "you can have your old sneakers but give me back Chu Chu."
The witch turned to Anne, "That's a good little girl, I knew you'd see reason." she said.
The Wicked Witch of the West tried to take the ruby sneakers from Anne's feet, but the sneakers' laces shocked the witch's hands.
"Ow! Oh!" the witch screamed out in pain.
"I'm sorry, I didn't do it," Anne said to the Wicked Witch of the West. "can I still have my dog?"
"No! Fool that I am," the witch yelled. "I should have remembered... those sneakers will never come off... as long as you're alive."
Anne was now looking worried.
"But that's not what's worrying me, it's how to do it," the witch continued. "these things must be done delicately... or you'll hurt the spell."
Chu Chu then got out of the witch's basket.
"Run, Chu Chu! Run!" Anne shouted out.
"Catch him, you fool!" the witch commanded.
Chu Chu ran faster and faster out of the room.
"Run, Chu Chu! Run!" Anne shouted out again.
The witch's minions began throwing things at Chu Chu who continued running.
"Run, Chu Chu! Run!" Anne shouted out again.
"Oh no!" the witch yelled.
When Chu Chu was out of sight, Anne was totally relieved.
"He got away," Anne sobbed happily. "he got away!"
"Oh! Which is more than you will," the witch said to Anne. "drat you and your dog, you've been more trouble to me than you're worth, one way and another... but it'll soon be over now."
The witch then walked over to her hourglass filled with red sand and picked it up.
"Do you see that? That's how much longer you've got to be alive," the witch said to Anne, turning the hourglass over. "and it isn't long, my pretty, it isn't long... I can't wait forever to get those shoes."
The witch then left the room, leaving a terrified Anne all alone.
The sand was running through the hourglass quicker and quicker.
Anne began to sob uncontrollably.
"I'm frightened," Anne sobbed. "I'm frightened, Rosa, I'm frightened!"
Rosa then appeared on the witch's crystal ball.
"Anne? Anne, where are you? It's me, Rosa, we're trying to reach you, where are you?" Rosa asked.
"I'm here in Oz, Rosa," Anne answered. "I'm locked up in the witch's castle... and I'm trying to get home to you, Rosa, oh Rosa! Don't go away, I'm frightened! Come back!"
Anne then gasped as the witch's face appeared on the crystal ball.
"Rosa, come back," the witch said mimicking Anne. "I'll give you Rosa, my pretty."
The witch began to laugh as Anne sobbed all the harder.
"It was an illusion," Anne said, sobbing bitterly. "I might have known!"
The sand continued running through the hourglass.
Meanwhile, Chu Chu went down the mountain to fetch the scarecrow, the tin man, and the lion.
Chu Chu found the tin man and the lion filling the scarecrow up with hay and barked urgently.
"Look! There's Chu Chu," the tin man shouted. "where'd he come from?"
"Why, don't you see," the scarecrow asked the tin man and lion. "he's come to take us to Anne."
The scarecrow, the tin man, and the lion all got up off the ground and ran after Chu Chu who barked urgently.
"Come on, fellas." the scarecrow said.
A few hours later, the scarecrow, the tin man, and the lion were making it to the witch's castle to rescue Anne.
The threesome followed Chu Chu up the steep mountain with the tin man, lion, and scarecrow falling down.
But the threesome got to their feet again as they continued to climb, following Chu Chu.
"I hope my strength holds out." the lion said.
"I hope your tail holds out." the tin man said.
The threesome climbed up onto some rocks and peeked over the side.
"What's that?" the lion asked the tin man and the scarecrow.
"That's the castle of the wicked witch, Anne's in that awful place?" the scarecrow answered the lion in a whisper.
"Oh," the tin man sobbed. "I hate to think of her in there, we've got to get her out."
"Can the waterworks will you," the scarecrow told tin man firmly. "we haven't got the oilcan with us... and you've been squeaking enough as it is."
"Who's them?" the lion asked in a whisper.
The threesome saw an army of the witch's guards standing outside her castle.
"I've got a plan how to get in there." the scarecrow said.
"Fine," the lion said to the tin man. "he's got a plan."
"And you're going to lead us." the scarecrow whispered to the lion.
"Yeah," the lion said. "me?"
"Yes, you." the scarecrow said to the lion.
"I... I gotta get her out of there?" the lion asked the scarecrow.
"That's right." the tin man said to the the lion.
The lion was still very nervous, but he soon forgot all about his nerves.
"All right, I'll go in there for Anne," the lion said. "wicked witch or no wicked witch... guards or no guards, I'll tear them apart!"
The lion then growled.
"I may not come out alive, but I'm going in there," the lion said. "there's only one thing I want you to do."
"What's that?" the scarecrow and the tin man asked the lion.
"Talk me out of it." the lion answered the tin man and the scarecrow, turning to go.
"No you don't." the scarecrow said to the lion.
"Oh no." the tin man said to the lion.
The scarecrow and the tin man made the lion turn around.
"No, now wait a minute," the lion said. "no."
Back inside the castle, the red sand continued running through the hourglass.
Back with Chu Chu and the threesome, they were about to put the scarecrow's plan into operation.
Chu Chu barked as the scarecrow shushed the little dog.
The lion began to sob as the scarecrow and the tin man began shushing him too.
But they were all caught by the guards soon enough.
"Look out." the scarecrow shouted.
"Let me go." the tin man agreed.
The threesome then emerged from their battle with the guards in disguise as guards.
"Oh," the scarecrow said. "I've got another idea."
"Do you think it'll be polite... dropping in like this?" the lion asked his comrades curiously.
"Come on." the tin man whispered.
The threesome sneaked into the castle to find Anne.
The threesome then separated themselves from the other guards.
"Where do we go now?" the tin man asked the lion.
"Yeah." the lion said.
Chu Chu then barked and ran up the stone steps.
"There." the scarecrow said.
The scarecrow, the tin man, and the lion quickly followed Chu Chu up the stone steps to the room where Anne was kept.
Chu Chu barked again.
"Wait, we'd better make sure," the scarecrow whispered. "Anne, are you in there?"
Anne heard the sound of the scarecrow's voice and ran to the door.
"Yes," Anne answered the scarecrow. "it's me! She's locked me in!"
"That is her," the lion said triumphantly. "we gotta get her out, open the door."
The threesome tried to open the door.
"Hurry! Please, hurry," Anne called out to her friends. "the hourglass is almost empty!"
"Stand back, Cheetah." the tin man ordered Anne.
"Okay." Anne told the tin man.
Anne stepped back from the door as her tin friend began to use his ax to chop at the door and free Anne.
Anne grabbed her basket as the last few grains of sand ran through the hourglass.
In no time flat, the tin man opened the door and Anne ran out the door and hugged the tin man.
"I am super glad you're safe." the tin man said to Anne.
The tin man released his grip on Anne as Chu Chu jumped into Anne's arms.
"Oh," Anne exclaimed. "oh Chu Chu! Tin Man Darling, I knew you'd come back! I knew you would!"
"Hurry," the scarecrow said to Anne. "we've got no time to lose!"
They soon escaped the room, but the doors to the staircase closed on Chu Chu and the foursome.
Somebody laughed evilly, "Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it." the voice said.
The foursome turned to see the Wicked Witch of the West coming up to them.
"Yes, we were just leaving." the lion told the witch.
The lion turned, but he was stopped again.
"Why, my little party's just beginning." the witch said.
"Trapped," the lion said. "trapped like mice, rats."
The Wicked Witch of the West laughed again as her guards ran to help her.
Chu Chu growled and barked.
The witch then laughed again, "That's right, don't hurt them right away, we'll let them think about it a little first." she said, laughing.
The scarecrow saw a ton of lit candles and became afraid.
The witch then threw something that exploded and began smoking like crazy.
Though, the tin man trapped the witch's army with a chandelier, the witch was angrier than ever.
"Seize them! Stop them you fools," the witch yelled angrily. "stop them! Seize them!"
Anne and her comrades ran from the witch's army.
The witch's army continued running after them.
"There they go," the witch shouted. "now we've got them! Half of you go this way, half of you go that way! Hurry! Hurry!"
The chase was on as the army split up.
Anne and her companions stopped running, the army was on their trail.
"Where do we go now?" the lion asked.
"This way," the scarecrow answered. "come on!"
They all continued running.
Until, they were caught by the witch's army.
"Back!" the scarecrow shouted.
They all tan back the way they had come.
But they were soon cornered again.
The witch soon caught up with her army.
"Well," the witch said. "ring around the rosie a pocketful of spears, thought you'd be pretty foxy, didn't you? Well, the last to go will see the first three go before her! And her mangy little dog too!"
Anne saw the Wicked Witch of the West light a broom on fire, "How about a little fire, Scarecrow?" she heard the witch ask cruelly.
"No!" they shouted!
"Help! I'm burning! It's burning!" the scarecrow shouted.
"Don't throw that water!" the witch exclaimed.
Anne put the fire out on the scarecrow but drenched the wicked witch in the process.
"You cursed brat! Look what you've done! I'm melting! Melting! Oh! What a world! Who would have thought a good little girl could destroy my beautiful wickedness? Oh! Look out! I'm going!" the witch exclaimed.
All that was left of the Wicked Witch of the West was her hat and clothing as one of the guards came up to the remains.
"She... she's dead," the guard said. "you've killed her."
"I didn't mean to kill her," Anne replied to the guard. "really I didn't... it's... it's just that he was on fire."
"Hail to Anne," the guard exclaimed "the wicked witch is dead!"
"Hail! Hail to Anne," the other guards exclaimed "the wicked witch is dead!"
"The broom," Anne asked the guard. "may we have it?"
"Please," the guard said to Anne. "and take it with you."
"Oh," Anne exclaimed. "thank you so much! Now we can go back to the wizard, and tell him the wicked witch is dead."
"The wicked witch is dead!" the guards exclaimed.
When they got back to the wizard, they told him everything that happened.
"Can I believe my eyes? Why have you all come back?" the wizard asked.
"Please, sir, we've done what you told us," Anne said to the wizard. "we've brought you the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West."
"How did you do it?" the wizard asked Anne.
"We melted her." Anne explained to the wizard.
The wizard couldn't believe what Anne had said to him.
"Oh," the wizard said to Anne. "you liquidated her eh? Very resourceful."
"Yes sir, so we'd like you to keep your promise to us," Anne said to the wizard. "if you please sir."
"Not so fast! Not so fast! I'll have to give the matter a little thought, go away and come back tomorrow." the wizard said.
"Tomorrow? Oh but I want to go home now." Anne protested to the wizard.
The scarecrow stepped forward, "You've had plenty of time already."
"Yeah." the tin man agreed.
"DO NOT AROUSE THE WRATH OF THE GREAT AND POWERFUL OZ! I SAID COME BACK TOMORROW!" the wizard bellowed furiously as Chu Chu used his nose and sniffed behind a curtain.
"If you really were great and powerful," Anne shouted courageously. "you'd keep your promises!"
"Do you presume to criticize the great Oz?" the wizard asked.
Chu Chu then pulled back the curtain to reveal a boy about Anne's height.
"Tom?" Anne asked.
"You ungrateful creatures," the Wizard of Oz shouted. "think yourselves lucky that I'm giving you audience tomorrow... instead of twenty years from now... Oh! The great Oz has spoken! Oh! Pay no attention to the teenage boy behind the curtain!"
Anne walked over to the curtain and pulled it back herself.
"The great Oz has spoken." Oz said.
"Who are you?" Anne asked the boy.
"Oh! I am the great and powerful... Wizard of Oz." the boy said to Anne.
"You are?" Anne asked the boy who looked like Tom.
"Uh..." Oz began.
"I don't believe you!" Anne exclaimed.
"No, I'm afraid it's true," the wizard said to Anne, sighing sadly. "there's no other wizard except me."
"You humbug!" the scarecrow snapped at the wizard.
"Yeah." the lion said in agreement with the scarecrow.
"Yes, that's exactly so," the wizard said. "I'm a humbugg."
"Oh," Anne said. "you're a very bad teenage boy!"
"Oh no, my dear, I... I'm a very good teenage boy," the wizard said to Anne. "I'm just a very bad wizard."
"WHAT ABOUT THE HEART YOU PROMISED TIN MAN?" the scarecrow asked the wizard furiously.
"Well..." the wizard began.
"AND THE COURAGE THAT YOU PROMISED COWARDLY LION?" the scarecrow continued furiously.
"AND SCARECROW'S BRAIN?" the lion and the tin man asked the wizard furiously.
"Why, anybody can have a brain, that's a very mediocre commodity," the wizard said to the scarecrow. "every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain, back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning where men and women go to become great thinkers... and when they come out, they think deep thoughts... and with no more brains than you have, but, they have one thing you haven't got, a diploma, therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me... by the Universitatus Committeeatum e pluribus unum... I hereby confer upon you... the honorary degree of Th.D."
"'Th.D?'" the scarecrow asked the wizard.
"Yeah, that's 'Doctor of Thinkology'." the wizard explained.
"The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side," the scarecrow said. "oh joy! Rapture! I've got a brain! How can I ever thank you enough?"
"Well, you can't." the wizard said.
The wizard then turn to the lion.
"As for you, my fine friend, you are a victim of disorganized thinking," the wizard told the lion. "you are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage, you are confusing courage with wisdom, back where I come from, we have men and women who are called heroes... once a year, they take their fortitude out of mothballs... and parade it down the main street of the city... and they have no more courage than you have, but they have one thing that you haven't got, a medal, therefore, for meritorious conduct... extraordinary valor, conspicuous bravery against wicked witches... I award you the Triple Cross, you are now a member of the Legion of Courage."
The wizard then hugged the lion and patted him on the back.
"Shucks, folks, I'm speechless." the lion said, blushing.
The wizard then turned to the tin man.
"As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart," the wizard told the tin man. "you don't know how lucky you are not to have one, hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable."
"But, I still want one." the tin man said.
"Back where I come from, there are people who do nothing all day but good deeds, they are called... uh... good-deed-doers," the wizard said to the tin man. "and their hearts are no bigger than yours, but they have one thing you haven't got, a testimonial, therefore, in consideration of your kindness... I take pleasure at this time in presenting you... with a small token of our esteem and affection."
The wizard then put the new heart into the tin man's hands.
"And remember, my sentimental friend... that a heart is not judged by how much you love... but by how much you are loved by others." he continued.
The tin man then held his new heart up to his ear.
"It ticks! Listen! Look! It ticks!" the tin man exclaimed.
Anne laughed with the tin man.
"Read what my medal says," the lion says. "courage, ain't it the truth? Ain't it the truth?"
"Oh," Anne exclaimed. "they're all wonderful!"
"Hey, what about Anne?" the scarecrow said.
"Yes, how about Anne?" the tin man said.
"Yes," the lion said to the wizard. "Anne next."
"Yes, " the wizard said. "Anne."
"Oh," Anne said. "I don't think there's anything in that black bag for me."
"Well, you forced me into a cataclysmic decision," the wizard said. "the only way to get Anne back to New Orleans... is for me to take her there myself."
Anne just gasped in shock.
"Oh, will you," Anne asked. "could you? Oh! But are you a clever-enough wizard to manage it?"
"Miss, you cut me to the quick," the wizard said. "I'm from New Orleans myself! Born to travel around the world! Premier magician par excellence... until one day... my magic curtain failed to return me to the stage!"
"It did?" the scarecrow asked the wizard.
"Weren't you frightened?" Anne asked Oz.
"Frightened? You're talking to a teen who has laughed in the face of death... sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe, I was petrified, then suddenly, my magic curtain brought me into the heart of this noble city where I was instantly acclaimed Oz... the First Wizard Deluxe."
"Oh!" Anne exclaimed.
"Times being what they were, I accepted the job... retaining my curtain against the advent of a quick getaway, and through that curtain, my dear Anne, you and I will return... to the land of e pluribus unum."
"Oh!" Anne exclaimed.
A few minutes later, Anne, Chu Chu, and the wizard were in front of the wizard's magic curtain.
"This is positively the finest exhibition ever to be be shown!" the wizard exclaimed.
The citizens of the Emerald City all cheered.
"Yes, well, be that as it may," the wizard said. "I, your wizard per ardua et alta... am about to embark on upon a hazardous... and technically unexpainable journey... into the outer stratosphere."
The crowd then cheered again.
"To confer, converse, and otherwise hobnob... with my brother wizards," the wizard said. "and I hereby decree that until what time... if any, that I return, the scarecrow by virtue of his highly superior brains, shall rule in my stead... assisted by the tin man, by virtue of his magnificent heart... and the lion by virtue of his courage, obey them as you would me, thank you."
Chu Chu growled, barked, then jumped out of Anne's arms, he had seen a cat and wanted to chase it.
"Oh, Chu Chu! Come back," Anne said. "Chu Chu, Chu Chu!"
Anne stepped forward from the magic curtain.
"Oh! Don't go without me," Anne begged the wizard. "I'll be right back, Chu Chu! Chu Chu come back!"
Anne raced after Chu Chu.
"Stop that dog!" a woman exclaimed.
The wizard stepped through his magical back curtain, "This is a highly irregular procedure, absolutely unprecedented, ruined my exit!" he exclaimed.
Anne screamed making her way back with Chu Chu.
"Come back! Come back! Don't go without me, please come back." Anne begged the wizard.
"I can't come back," the wizard told Anne. "I don't know how it works, good bye folks!"
The wizard disappeared from Anne's view.
"Good bye!" the Emerald City crowd said to the wizard.
"Oh, now I'll never get home." Anne said.
"Stay with us then, Anne," the lion said gently. "we all love you, we don't want you to go."
"Oh," Anne said. "that's very kind of you... but this could never be like New Orleans, Pop and Rosa must have stopped wondering what happened to me by now... oh Scarecrow, what am I going to do?"
The scarecrow saw a ball of turquoise light heading their way.
"Look," the scarecrow said to Anne. "here's someone who can help you."
They all now saw the same ball of turquise light heading their way as Guinevere appeared in her long turquoise gown.
"Oh! Will you help me," Anne asked Guinevere. "can you help me?"
"You don't need to be helped any longer, you've always had the power to go back to New Orleans." Guinevere said to Anne.
"I have?" Anne asked Guinevere.
"Then," the scarecrow asked Guinevere. "why didn't you tell her before?"
"Because she wouldn't have believed me," Guinevere answered the scarecrow. "she had to learn it for herself."
The lion asked leaned forward to Anne.
"What have you learned, Anne?" the lion asked.
"Well, I learned that it wasn't enough just to see Pop, Rosa, and all of my siblings, especially Alan," Anne answered the lion. "and it's that if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again... I won't look any further than my own backyard... because if it isn't there... I never really lost it to begin with, is that right?"
"That's all it is." Guinevere answered Anne.
"But that's so easy," the scarecrow said to Anne. "I should have thought of it for you."
"I should have felt it in my heart." the tin man said to Anne.
"No," Guinevere said to the tin man firmly. "she had to find it out for herself, now, those magic sneakers will take you home in two seconds."
"Oh," Anne said to Guinevere. "Chu Chu too?"
"Chu Chu too." Guinevere said to Anne.
"Oh," Anne asked Guinevere. "now?"
"Whever you wish." Guinevere said to Anne.
"Oh dear," Anne exclaimed. "that's too wonderful to be true! Oh, it's going to be so hard to say good bye, I love everyone here too, zàijiàn, Lion."
The lion began sobbing.
"Oh don't cry, you'll send yourself into a tailspin!" Anne said to the lion.
"Ha ha ha... I get it! Tail! Cause I've got one!" the lion laughed.
"Zàijiàn, Scarecrow," Anne said. "you know, I know it isn't right... but I'm gonna miss the way your recklessness got us into trouble... before you got your brain."
"I would never have gotten it," the scarecrow said to Anne. "if it hadn't been for you."
Anne hugged the tin man and then handed his oilcan back to him.
"I think I'll miss you most of all, Buddy." Anne said to the tin man.
"Take care of yourself, Cheetah." the tin man said to Anne.
"Are you ready now?" Guinevere asked Anne.
"Yes, say good bye, Chu Chu," Anne answered Guinevere. "yes, I'm ready now."
"Then close your eyes, and jump up and down three times," Guinevere said to Anne. "and think to yourself, 'There's no place like home, there's no place like home'."
Anne jumped up and down three times.
"There's no place like home, there's no place like home." Anne said.
Back in the hotel suite, Anne was still delirious as Henry & Suzie were helping Charlie & Rosa make the beds, while Flip read a comic book to Scooter.
Nancy was watching Anne worriedly.
"Is Anne okay, Tom?" Nancy asked.
"There's no place like home, there's no place like home." Anne repeated.
Tom took the thermometer out of Anne's mouth.
"Her temperature has reverted to normal, but she is still delirious." Tom answered Nancy, sighing seriously.
Alan had fallen asleep in a kneeling position by Anne's side, his head was on his twin's mattress, Stanley was standing by Alan's side.
"Hey, Alan, how can you tell there's been a cat in the pantry," Stanley joked. "by the fur on the Fritos!"
"Pass me the crescent wrench, Cheetah." Alan sighed serenely, Stanley didn't realize that Alan was talking in his sleep again.
"What?" Stanley asked, feeling baffled.
"Alan is talking in his sleep again, Stanley." Suzie said firmly.
"There's no place like home, there's no place like home." Anne repeated.
"Don't worry, Nancy," Mimi said, trying to comfort her closest older sister. "Anne will be all right, you'll see."
"There's no place like home, there's no place like home." Anne repeated once again.
Rosa went over to Anne's side and placed a cold cloth on her forehead.
"Wake up, honey." Rosa said to Anne.
"There's no place like home, there's no place like home." Anne repeated, opening her brown eyes.
"Everyone! Anne has made her triumphant return to consciousness!" Tom exclaimed.
"There's no place..." Anne began.
"Anne dear, it's Rosa, darling." Rosa said.
"Oh Rosa," Anne said. "it's you."
"Yes, Darling." Rosa said.
"Anne! You're well again!" Henry exclaimed.
"Yeah, she got quite a bump on the head," Charlie said to his eldest son. "we kind of thought there for a minute she was gonna leave us."
Anne sat up a bit too quickly.
"But I did leave you, Pop, that's just the trouble! And I tried to get back for days and days!" Anne protested.
"There there, lie quiet now," Rosa said to Anne. "you just had a bad dream."
The rest of Anne's siblings gathered around Anne's bed.
"Sure." Henry said to Anne.
"Do you remember us?" Suzie asked.
"Henry, Stanley," Anne exclaimed. "Suzie!"
"What about us?" three more voices asked Anne in unison.
"Nancy, Mimi," Anne answered. "Scooter!"
"Remember me, Annie?" a voice asked.
"Flip!" Anne exclaimed.
"And me?" another voice asked Anne.
"Tom you walking dictionary! Who would forget you?" Anne laughed.
"I'm glad you awoke from your somniloquous dream, Anne." Tom laughed.
"But it wasn't a dream, it was a place," Anne said to her siblings ruffling Alan's hair. "and you, and you, and you, and you, and you, and you, and you, and you were there."
Alan opened his brown eyes and straightened his sunglasses, "What about me, Annie, was I there?" he asked.
"And of course you were there too, Alan." Anne laughed.
"Sure." Anne's nine siblings laughed in unison.
"But you couldn't have been could you?" Anne asked her siblings curiously.
"We dream lots of silly things when we..." Rosa began.
"No, Rosa! This was a real, truly live place," Anne said. "and I remember that some of it wasn't very nice... but most of it was beautiful, but just the same... all I kept saying to everybody was, 'I want to go home.' And they sent me home."
"They did, did they?" Alan asked Anne, chuckling lightly.
"Doesn't anybody believe me?" Anne asked.
"Of course we believe you, Anne." Charlie said.
Anne sat up again, "But anyway, Chu Chu, we're home! Home! And this is our suite, and you're all here! And I'm not going to leave here ever, ever again, because I love you all! And... oh Pop, Rosa, there's no place like home."
Anne sat on the bed with her feet dangling over the edge.
"Wow, Anne," Suzie said. "nice sneakers, where'd you get them?"
"Oh! My ruby sneakers from the Land of Oz," Anne exclaimed. "so it wasn't a dream!"
Rosa undid the laces on Anne's ruby sneakers and took them off Anne's feet, "I will put these in your suitcase so you can take them home to California with you when we leave." she said to Anne.
"Thank you, Rosa." Anne said.
"You're welcome, Anne." Rosa said kindly.
Now on Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan:
It had been a month since Charlie and Rosa's early wedding anniversary vacation in New Orleans.
Anne looked around her surroundings in the bright sunshine.
"Oh! Look, Chu Chu! We're back," Anne exclaimed. "we are finally back in Oz!"
The lion, scarecrow, and tin man all came out to greet Anne.
"Anne! You're back!" the lion exclaimed.
"You're safe!" the tin man exclaimed.
"I always knew you would return to Oz... not to mention your best friends one day!" the scarecrow agreed.
Chu Chu barked happily.
"Anne! Anne!" a voice called.
Anne opened her eyes to see Tom's smiling bespectacled face staring down at her.
Anne rubbed her eyes, "Oh! Good morning, Tom." she greeted.
Tom looked at his sister questioningly, "Having a series of images and sensations during your time of suspended consciousness, Anne?" he asked.
Anne got out from underneath all her blankets.
"For your information, Genius! I was back in Oz!" Anne answered Tom.
"In other words," Tom said to Anne. "you were dreaming!"
"Oz is more than just a dream you know, Tom, or, have you forgotten all about my ruby sneakers?" Anne asked.
"Speaking of shoes," Tom advised Anne. "you had better get dressed, everyone's been waiting on you, we will be late for school if we don't hurry."
Anne checked her alarm clock, it was already eight thirty in the morning.
"Wam, bam, we're going to be in a jam if we're late today!" Anne exclaimed.
Tom turned his back so Anne could change into Winston Prep Academy school uniform.
After she got dressed for school, Anne raced down the stairs to join her siblings and James in the Chan van to go to school.
At school that day on the high school floor, Anne was having trouble concentrating in history class.
All Anne did was rub her eyes because she thought she was seeing the guard clad in green from the Emerald City in Oz.
"Are you all right, Miss Chan?" the teacher asked.
"I'm fine, Missis Cope," Anne said. "the sun was in my eyes."
Missis Cope went back to teaching the history lesson.