Chapter Seventeen part one

(Hey, y'all!

As promised, here is a fun fact:

Margaret Hamilton, the actress who played Miss Gulch and the Wicked Witch of the West, was actually a really nice woman in real life. In fact, she was a kindergarten teacher. After The Wizard of Oz came out, younger children recognized Hamilton as Miss Gulch and the Witch and they always wondered why she was so mean to Dorothy (Judy Garland). Trying to convince children that she was really a nice person, Hamilton appeared on an episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and younger children were FINALLY convinced.

Now, this is where things kind of get a little serious.

The songs that were in the last chapter's note (Look back at the previous chapter and read the note and the names are written like this.) are going to be played in the second part of this chapter. The songs that were listed from the previous chapter are under the name Munchkinland Medley. If you like, go on YouTube or pull up the Munchkin Land scene on your Wizard of Oz DVD or VHS tape. You don't have to do that or listen to the songs as you read.

If you don't want to, then just kick back and read.

So, here's the seventeenth chapter and enjoy the story and life as it goes!

-imaginarytoon1)

Beatrice:

"That was a wild ride." I said to myself as I was getting back on my feet. "But what I kind of expected from the crash landing is the house falling apart and be nothing but a pile of wood, broken glass, and debris."

"Is that what you really expected, Toots?" A bossy voice asked me.

"Well, yeah. That's what-"

Then, I stopped myself. A confused look spreads across my face as I looked around the room.

"Who said that?" I asked.

"Look under the bed, Toots. I'm coming right out." The voice said.

I swear that the voice sounds like Baby Herman. I thought as I turned my head towards the bed.

"All right," I said, "show yourself, whoever you are, or I'm going to coming over there and get you."

"Hold your horses! I'm coming right out!" The voice said.

Then, I saw a head that was covered with dark gray, angora teddy bear-like fur and two dark brown triangular ears crawl out from underneath the bed. A couple seconds later, the whole body comes out from underneath the bed and I see a small, stuffed dog with dark brown angora fur and…Baby Herman's face. Try to imagine a stuffed dark brown Toto doll with Baby Herman's face instead of a dog with dark brown eyes and a black nose.

"Oh, man. I certainly don't want to go back under that bed again." The Baby Herman/Stuffed Dog Hybrid Thing said and wiped his…paws…on his shoulders and two bits of debris flew off.

I watched in amazement.

Did Penelope's doll…? I thought.

"What are you staring at?" The doll asked with his eyes narrowed.

"You were once an inanimate…doll…and now…you're…walking on two feet…and you're…you're…" I said.

"Really, really handsome?"

The doll started to strike a pose.

"That's not what I was going to say." I said.

"Well, spit it out." The doll said.

"I was going to say…'you're talking'."

"Well, of course, I can talk."

"You didn't talk before. You were once a doll that never said anything at all, never moved, and stare out in to space all day and night."

"All right, we're kind of having a bad start. You keep talking about things that sound impossible to you and you didn't even introduce yourself."

My eyes widened at the doll's attitude. It…I mean, he is so testy.

"My name is Beatrice. What's…what's your name?" I said and held my hand out, getting ready to shake hands with a little hybrid doll.

"My original owner, Penelope Gruwell, calls me 'Toto'." The doll said.

What a coincidence! Well…sort of…I think.

"Did we land on some other place?" Toto asked.

"I don't know. I haven't looked out of the window." I replied.

I walked to the window but I couldn't see anything. There was nothing but a blinding white light.

"I can't see where we are from the window, Toto. Maybe let's get out of the house and let's see where we are." I said.

"All right." Toto said.

Right next to the closet was my patchwork bag. I grabbed it and like an ordinary bag, I, obviously, put it over my shoulder and was about to walk out of the room.

"Hey, hey, Beatrice. Stop walking so fast. I need to catch up with you." Toto said.

I looked at him.

I guess walking isn't really going to work out for him. I thought.

"Here, Toto. You can step into my bag and you can stay in there if you prefer that over walking." I said and opened my back.

It's a good that I have a large bag. Toto wouldn't be able to fit in it if it was too small. I thought.

"Thank you, Beatrice." Toto said with a small smile.

At a not-so-quick pace, I walked out of the bedroom.

While I was heading my way towards the staircase, I looked around the house. Hardly anything was torn down or broken and that really surprised me.

"I thought that it was going to be a wreck in here." I said.

"What do you expect from a tornado or a bad storm?" Toto asked.

I rolled my eyes and while I walked down the staircase, I replied,

"Destruction, lost or injured people, torn buildings and land in a complete mess."

Then, I walked towards the front door and I carefully opened it.

After I walked out of the house and on to the front porch, my eyes widened in shock, surprise, and amazement.

Instead of Grandpappy's field, I was seeing a very colorful land with different types of plants and the scenery is completely different but very, very beautiful. The hills in the scenery were a pea-green and the sky was sort of a grayish-blue in color but it wasn't making everything in the scenery look depressing. What surprised me even more was that the new land looked like a combination of It's-A-Small-World-After-All (A ride from one of the Disney Parks) and a very quiet and peaceful version of Toon Town.

"Wow." I whispered.

I stepped off of the front porch and I got to see more of the strange land as I walked. There were low and tall buildings and huts, a yellow brick walkway (it also had a red brick walkway spiraling along with the yellow walkway) that made its way to a central plaza, and small sparkling blue ponds with giant floating green lily pads.

"Where are we?" Toto asked in awe.

"I don't know, Toto," I said as I walked on to the bridge that led to the huts and houses, "but I have a feeling that we're not in Houston anymore."

All of the sudden, four orange-yellow fish leaped out of the pond and landed in the other side of the pond behind me and Toto. I turned to that side of the pond and I looked at the fish and I realized that those fish were the Humming Fish from the 1972 version of The Lorax.

"I guess that we must be over the rainbow." I said and smiled.

I turned back to where Toto and I saw the Humming Fish leap out of the water. My attention was caught by a bubble in a light toon blue color. It looked really small but I really that it was one of those distance and size view things and I watched the bubble (as it changes into a different color after two seconds) grow larger as it came closer to me and Toto.

When the bubble was close enough, I had to scoot away a few feet as I watched the bubble have a purple and red color before it touched the ground.

A toon woman, who looked a lot like Jessica Rabbit, appears from the bubble with a smile on her face. She did have the same physical characteristics of Jessica Rabbit but she had a different and very beautiful outfit and had a different make-over. She was wearing a strapless red ball gown-like dress with a several hints of purple on the bottom and her make-up consisted of a light shade of purple (and a little bit of black eyeliner) and her lipstick was a medium purple color. The jewelry consisted of a tall tiara around the wavy red hair and Jessica Rabbit-Look-Alike had a scepter in her hand. She looked really beautiful.

She walked over to me with a smile and she asked me,

"Are you a good witch or a bad witch?"

That caught me completely off guard.

"Who, me?" I asked.

The Jessica-Look-Alike nodded.

"I'm not a witch at all. I'm Beatrice Birchwood from Houston, Texas." I said.

She looked at Toto, who was moving his eyebrows up and down and had a little smug on his face.

"Is that the witch?" She asked.

"No, ma'am." I replied. "He's Toto. He's a…he's a dog."

Despite of some embarrassing confusion, the Look-Alike chuckled.

"I'm sorry. I'm a little muddled. The Munchkins called me because a new witch had just dropped a house on the Wicked Witch of the East." She points her scepter at Grandpappy's house. "And there's the house and here you are." I looked and to my horror, there were two green feet with…ruby gladiator sandals sticking from the bottom of the house.

"And what the Munchkins really want to know is if you were a GOOD witch or a BAD witch." The Look-Alike said.

"But I already told you, ma'am, I'm not a witch at all." I said, without trying to sound impatient. "I'm just a teenage girl. Witches are old and really ugly."

Then, I heard giggling from behind me. I turned around but I didn't see anyone.

"What was that?" I asked.

"The Munchkins." The Look-Alike giggled. "They're laughing because I AM a witch. I'm Glinda, the Good Witch of the North."

Whoops! Uh oh! I thought.

"Oh, you-you are?!" I asked in a surprised voice. "Oh, I'm so, so sorry but I NEVER heard of a beautiful witch before."

That was the truth.

"Only bad witches are ugly." Glinda said, smiling. "The Munchkins are happy because you freed them from the power of the Wicked Witch of the East."

"If you please, Glinda, what are Munchkins?" I asked.

I heard the giggling again. I still didn't see anybody.

"The people who live in this land. It's Munchkin Land and you, my dear, are the Munchkins' national heroine." Glinda said.

We look around and I thought I saw a little toon duck, who looked like the female version of Huey (one of Donald Duck's nephews) in a vintage doll's dress, peek from behind a bush like a shy child.

"It's all right, everyone!" Glinda called out with a smile on her face. "You may all come and thank her. Everything's all right!"

To be continued…