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The rest of that day went by in a flash, it was later announced that school would be cancelled the next day due to the snow continuing, it was forecasted at least another foot of snow overnight. At around five or six The Teaks and Mr. Foreman left. Dorothy and Aislynn were helping Dorothy's aunt with dinner while Ellie was contacting Glinda. Henry had returned from plowing and now it was time to set the table Dorothy smiled as she smelt the cooking food and listened to the clock striking seven.
"Auntie Em, are we having extra company?" Dorothy asked counting the plates.
Dorothy didn't wait long for an answer because she immediately felt a hand squeeze her shoulder. He turned quickly to see Glinda standing behind her. She nearly dropped the plates that she was carrying, and she indeed would have had Glinda not magically transported them to the table.
"Glinda I asked Dorothy to do that." Em said wiping her hands off on her shirt.
"And she would have dropped them had I not done that, and we wouldn't want that would we?" Glinda said chuckling.
Dorothy giggled and embraced Glinda. Toto then ran into the room followed by Ellie. She embraced her sister tightly. Dorothy then broke from the embrace and picked up Toto. He barked and licked her on the face. Dorothy giggled and walked over to the dining room table.
"Oh please stay for dinner, then you can visit mom and dad." Ellie said.
"Okay Ellie, I'll stay, why haven't you contacted me in so long though?" Glinda asked curiously.
"Not much has happened." Ellie said shrugging.
"She's not wrong, to be honest Dorothy walking again is the most interesting thing to happen in a while." Em said bringing out a casserole.
"Smells good Mrs. Gale." Ellie and Glinda said in unison.
"Thank you." She said walking over to the dining room table.
"Dorothy, where's the scepter?" Ellie asked curiously.
"In the living room, next to the radiator by my boots." Dorothy said holding out her hand causing it to fly to her.
Well, at least you mastered calling your object of power." Glinda said smiling.
"Yes she has, oh and Dorothy that reminds me, we need to take you to the store at some point and invest in some winter boots." Em said dusting her hands off.
"Right, I'll take note of that." Dorothy said setting Toto down on the floor and letting go of the scepter.
Dorothy then walked over to the kitchen counter and found a pad and pencil. She took a not about this for her aunt and then stuck it to the fridge with a magnet.
"Remind me to look at that." Em said as henry walked into the room.
"Smells delicious, oh hello Glinda" He said looking over to Glinda.
"Hello Mr. Gale." Glinda said walking over to the table and sitting down/
Everyone followed suit and soon dinner was served. They ate in silence for a few minutes before Aislynn broke the silence.
"This casserole is really good Mr. Gale." She said happily.
"Thank you Aislynn." Em said smiling.
"You know, your friends are really happy that you are walking again." Glinda said looking over to her.
"I'm happy as well." Dorothy said chuckling
"Hey sis, did I tell you Dorothy has never participated in a snowball fight?" Ellie asked curiously.
"Oh really? Why don't you bring her to the local park tomorrow?" Glinda asked raising an eyebrow.
"Oh no, not you too." Dorothy said rolling her eyes.
Everyone laughed heartily, Dorothy smiled weakly and held out her and to receive the scepter. As it floated to her hand it began to glow a light teal color and the image of a snowball formed in the middle around the red haze. Glinda chuckled and smiled.
"Even the scepter encourages it." Glinda said chuckling.
"Oh right, Glinda, the wheelchair." Dorothy said.
"What about it?" Glinda asked curiously.
"What am I going to do with it?" Dorothy asked curiously.
"I say keep it." Ellie said.
"Whys that?" Em asked worriedly.
"Because, once was an accident, he didn't intend to inhibit Dorothy's ability to walk, but now she can walk again, what's to stop him from doing it again as a jest?" Ellie and Glinda said in unison, laughing after they finished.
"Oh, good point, When the snow stops henry and I will dig up the door to the storm cellar, we can keep it in there." Em said.
Dorothy smiled and then got up. Taking her empty plate with her she walked into the kitchen.
"Dorothy?" Aislynn asked curiously.
"Yes ace?" Dorothy replied.
"Would you please participate in a snowball fight? For me?" She asked teasingly.
"Ace, if I said no, oh fine." Dorothy said giving up at this point.
Dorothy then walked into the kitchen and placed her plate in the sink. The scepter returned to its normal glow. She then sighed and turned around. Grabbing the scepter, she walked out the kitchen just as the clock struck eight.
"I think I'm going to turn in early." she said stretching.
"That's unlike you Dorothy, are you alright?" Em asked curiously.
"Yea, I'm just tired." She said walking to her bedroom.
"Well, good night Dorothy." Em said.
"Goodnight Dorothy." Everyone else said.
Dorothy smiled and yawned. She then walked to her room, when she got there she leaned the scepter against her dresser and then took out a night gown. She the then changed into it. Soon she was in bed and ready to fall asleep when she heard a knock on her bedroom door.
"Come in." She said.
The door opened and Glinda walked in. She smiled and walked over to the bed.
"I wanted to say that I'm going to visit my parent's so I'm saying goodnight." She said kissing Dorothy on the forehead.
"Goodnight, actually Glinda can I ask you a question?" Dorothy asked curiously.
"Sure, what is it?" Glinda asked curiously.
"Years ago, you told me not to let the witch get her hands on the ruby slippers, but the jester could only either his sisters wands or the scepter but not both at the same time…" Dorothy said before Glinda raised her hand to cut her off.
"And you were wondering if those rules would apply to both the slippers and the scepter?" Glinda asked raising an eyebrow
"Correct." Dorothy said smiling.
"No, that's why I was worried about it, combined the scepter and slippers would be a power that not even I could control, they were of no threat with jester because he could not, nor could I possibly think he would ever think trying to use them would work with him, you know, given the whole outfit thing." Glinda said chuckling.
"The fact that he can't remove it?" Dorothy asked.
"Exactly, actually summon the scepter over here, I want to show you something." Glinda said pulling out her own wand.
Dorothy smiled and held out her hand, the scepter flew directly to her. Glinda nodded and brought her wand towards the scepter. To Dorothy's surprise sparks arched between them. Glinda quickly pulled the wand away and it vanished from sight.
"What was that?" Dorothy asked letting go of the scepter.
"It's hard to explain, but the same thing would happen if I brought both of my wands together, it only works with some objects though, keeps them from coming into contact, until they do, then well…" She said shuddering.
Dorothy then yawned and stretched. Glinda smiled and got up, waving her hand she turned off the lights. She then leaned over and kissed Dorothy on the forehead again. She then smiled and walked to the door and looked back at Dorothy.
"Sleep well, and good luck." Glinda said softly
"With what?" Dorothy asked curiously.
"Your snowball fight." Glinda said walking out and shutting the door.
Dorothy rolled her eyes in annoyance and closed her eyes. The next thing she knew she was asleep. She was awoken by the feeling of Toto licking her on the face. She opened her eyes to find Toto sitting on her chest.
"You hungry boy?" Dorothy asked sitting up.
"Yes, but I was told to get you up." He replied happily.
"Ellie?" Dorothy asked only assuming.
"Everyone." He said as the clock struck seven.
Dorothy sighed and got up. She then changed into a teal shirt and a matching dress. Grabbing the scepter she walked out of her room, gave a stretching yawn, and then walked to the dining room. She was surprised to find that Alex was standing there with Aislynn and Ellie, all three of them were already to go. Dorothy smiled as she was tossed an apple by Ellie. Dorothy walked over to Alex and hugged him tightly.
"How, no why, are you here?" Dorothy asked curiously and concerned.
"Ellie and Glinda brought me here, Glinda is waiting for my parents to awaken." Alex said returning the embrace.
Dorothy then broke from the embrace and took a bite from the apple. Auntie Em then emerged from the kitchen.
"Auntie Em, did you know about this?" Dorothy asked referring to Alex.
"I organized it." Em said chuckling.
Dorothy was about to say something but the phone rang. Em put up a hand and ran over to it. As she picked it up Glinda appeared in front of them.
"It must be my parents." Alex said as Glinda changed her outfit into winter clothing.
"Glinda, you're joining us?" Dorothy asked surprised.
"Yes." She said smiling.
Dorothy giggled and turned around. Running into the living room she grabbed her boots from by the radiator. They were slightly warmer and dry as a bone. She pulled them on and they took a large bite out of the apple. Alex walked in and helped Dorothy with her jacket. Dorothy finished the rest of the apple in two bites. She tossed it into a nearby wastepaper basket and zipped up her coat. Dorothy was then dragged by her wrist to the door and led outside. Dorothy didn't even have time to react to anything, she was hit in the side of the head with a snowball, and it struck her with a nice 'Piff' sound.
"Hey!" Dorothy said looking over to Glinda.
"Sorry, couldn't resist." She said chuckling.
Dorothy smiled and tightened her grip on the scepter. It glowed brightly and everyone put a hand on it. The next thing Dorothy knew, colors were whizzing by her and they appeared in the park. It looked like people were already there and had set up snow forts in order hide behind them. Alex smiled and placed his fingers to his lips and whistled loudly. Immediately his old cronies appeared from behind the snow forts looking about ready for an ambush, people then started running in from all over.
"Why is there an adult here!?" one of Alex's old cronies asked in disgust.
"She, is joining the battle today, now I want even teams, rules are the usual." He said taking on the tone of a military commander.
"Why is the goody-two-shoes here?" Another one of them asked.
"Shut up, she's joining the fight as well, come on Dorothy." He said taking her hand.
Ellie, ace, and Glinda walked over to the forts and joined people behind them. Alex took Dorothy over to one and then took cover. Making a few snowballs in advance he then handed one to Dorothy. She took it and ducked down next to Alex.
"On my count we get ready, aim, and fire, got it?" he said getting one ready.
"Got it." she said nervously.
"Okay then, alright, on my count!" He yelled.
"Got it!" everyone yelled
"Alright! Ready! Aim! FIRE!" He yelled taking a snowball, standing up quickly and lobbing it at the other side of the field.
Dorothy ducked and took cover. She looked at Alex nervously, then he looked at Ellie, Aislynn, and Glinda. They seemed to be enjoying themselves, Dorothy sighed and looked over the fort. She then heaved the snowball as hard as she could only to have fire returned at her in a pelting of snowballs. All hitting her with a rather loud 'Piff' hitting her mostly in the face causing it to sting.
Ellie and Glinda couldn't help falling over in a fit of laughter while Aislynn continued to toss the snowballs for them. Alex chuckled and wiped the snow off of her face and coat and pulled her back down.
"Never stay up longer than you have to." He said lobbing a snowball over the fort.
"Is it just me or does it seem to be everyone against us?" Ellie asked looking around.
Alex looked at her curiously, he then looked over the fort quickly and realized that it was true. He sat down and thought for a minute. He then came up with an idea.
"Okay! Let's make this like dodge ball, If you get hit you're out!" He yelled happily.
"Fire!" they heard as dozens of snowballs flew over and past them.
Alex slowly returned fire snowball by snowball, Ellie dodged and ducked, throwing snowballs and hitting people one by one, Glinda was doing the same. Soon the group on the sidelines began to grow and the snowballs came to a gradual stop.
"You guys still there!?" a group of the guys asked.
"Yes!" They all shouted back.
"Well we still have you outnumbered, 15 to 5." They said as the barrage started again.
Glinda got up and was about to throw a snowball when she was hit square in the face. She spat and snapped her fingers. She walked over to the sidelines and sat down with the rest of the kids on the benches of the park.
"One down." They said.
Alex smiled smugly and handed Dorothy a snowball. She smiled and nervously lobbed it over the fort. Alex laughed and handed Dorothy another snowball. She looked up, took the risk and lobbed it. She saw it hit one of the kids. Ellie still hadn't slipped up but soon Alex did. Dorothy ducked down again and crawled over to Ellie. The scepter followed out of sight, as soon as she was over to Ellie she and herself worked together. Soon it was two on two.
"Okay! We Surrender!" they said standing up.
"What, give up already!?" Ellie shouted.
They were about to respond when the sound of sirens were heard. Officer grey's police cruiser drove up to the sidewalk. He pulled over, got out and trudged through the snow towards Dorothy. He had a worried expression on his face.
"Officer Grey? Is something wrong?" Dorothy asked as Glinda, Aislynn, and Alex quickly trudged over.
"Dorothy, Ms. Glinda, we found something, but we really want to be sure about it, your aunt and uncle are already at the scene, you are all to come with me to the scene of what we found." He said helping Dorothy and Ellie up.
"What is it?" Ellie asked sounding concerned.
"I think its better I show you." He said leading all of them to the truck.
Dorothy grabbed the scepter which was still following her, and soon they were all in Officer Grey's truck, Dorothy got a really sinking feeling about what they may have found. She hoped she was wrong about it.