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As she clicked her heels the third time she immediately felt herself lurch forward. Immediately she saw the colors whizzing by her and the feelings of dizziness and nausea passed over her. She needed to get home, she needed to do something about the twister, and more importantly she had to keep her cousins safe. When she felt her feet make contact she immediately fell forward into Ellie's arms. Dorothy opened her eyes and tried to pull herself away. Immediately Ellie tightened her embrace and Mr. Foreman joined Ellie to hold her back.
"Let me go!" Dorothy shouted struggling against their grasp.
"Dorothy no! We won't let you go out there and get yourself killed." Ellie said closing her eyes tightly.
"My dear, please sit down." Mr. Foreman said.
"Yes, Dorothy please you're scaring you're cousins." Em said lighting one of the lanterns.
Dorothy looked at her aunt and then down to the other end of the cellar at her cousins. Dorothy sat down and began crying. She had just gone against ever thing she had promised over the last few days. She belched and let out some more mist and began to sob harder. Immediately the triplets started struggling to get out of their carriers. Aislynn and signaled Ellie to come over. It was easy to navigate around the cellar since they had cleaned it a bit over the last few years. Aislynn asked Em if she could let the kids crawl around.
"Sure, just make sure they don't get into anything while our backs are turned." Em replied.
Aislynn smiled and took the kids out of their carriers. As she set them on the ground they each crawled over to Dorothy. Robert and Alicia climbed up on Dorothy's lap while amber hugged Dorothy's legs. She immediately felt three sets of small arms wrapping around her.
"Ellie keep your eyes open so that I can know Glinda is watching." Dorothy said through her tears as she belched again.
"Why?" Ellie asked curiously.
"Because I need to say, well, I'd say I'm sorry but I'd only do it again, I've broken my promises again by wanting to keep these three as well as you guys safe." Dorothy said as the triplets as the triplets squeezed Dorothy tighter.
"Dorothy, you were upset, desperate and worried, otherwise you would never have used the slippers, but you shouldn't have left Oz, and you are going to get scolded when you go back, but Mr. and Mrs. Gale, don't be too hard on her right now." Came Glinda's voice from a nearby mirror.
Dorothy looked up and rubbed her eyes. She sniffed and belched letting out some more mist. Amber joined her siblings on Dorothy's lap and it was then that Dorothy realized she was sitting. She was in her wheelchair. She hugged her cousins and smiled. At the same time she felt guilty for leaving the emerald city. She looked at Glinda and wiped the tears from her face and looked over at the mirror. She could see Alex standing behind Glinda with a worried look on his face. It was then that they all heard the jester's voice booming from outside.
"Dorothy gale, I know you're here in Kansas, face me now." His voice boomed through the thunder.
Dorothy looked at Glinda worriedly. Ellie and Aislynn took Dorothy's cousins off her lap and allowed Dorothy to get up. She sighed and slid off the slippers. She handed them to Aislynn who sighed as she took them in her hand. Dorothy walked up the steps and pushed open the cellar doors. The farm looked as if it had so far been untouched. Dorothy walked out of the cellar. The wind and rain however obscured her vision of the farm a bit and she knew appearances were nothing to go by anymore. As her bare feet made contact with the now muddy ground of the farm she felt something latch onto her and lift her up. She looked up to see that it was a flying monkey carrying her off in the direction of the vortex. At this point she was beyond scared, completely horrified and scared stiff didn't cover it either. As they approached the top of vortex Dorothy could hear the deafening sound of the wind whistling through it.
"You don't really want to drop me in that twister do you?" Dorothy asked looking up at the monkey.
"Sorry lady, I have my orders." He said letting go of her.
Dorothy screamed as she fell into the mouth of the vortex. Immediately she thought it was over but she quickly felt herself hitting what felt like a pile of straw. She got up and climbed out of the pile. She was inside what looked like a barn. She looked around and saw a tea table with a chess board in the middle of the room.
"Really?" Dorothy asked looked around.
"Do you like it?" The jester asked leaning against the wall behind her.
"It's not too shabby, but why this though?" she asked belching again and exhaling more mist.
"At least soon you'll be able to take a breath mint." The jester said.
"How would you know?" Dorothy asked curiously.
"Because, when I was your age, my sisters tested their magic on me, it was that, which put me in this curse." He said pulling off his costume several times till he got back to the original costume.
"But you're still stuck with the curse." Dorothy said.
"Until the day I die." He said flicking the wand causing a table and two chairs appeared in the middle of the room with a large plate of sandwiches sitting in the middle.
"Fair enough." Dorothy said letting out an extremely loud belch, this time the mist went from Pink, to peach, and then to dark blue, to grey, and then to pure gold, and then to emerald green, she then fell to the ground coughing and spitting.
"Better?" The jester asked fanning away the mist.
"More like extremely vile." Dorothy said wiping her mouth.
"Glinda told you the only methods for getting rid of the magical energy were extremely painful, but discovered a spell that could be performed by anyone with or without an object of power." The jester said flicking the wand and causing a tin of mints to appear in front of Dorothy
"Why are you showing kindness to me?" Dorothy asked curiously.
"Because, well, I don't know to be honest, we'll talk about it over lunch." He said walking over to Dorothy and helping her up.
Dorothy coughed and opened the tin of mints. She took one and sniffed it before taking it. She then walked over to the table with the jester.
"Okay, why the tornado?" Dorothy asked looking around for a possible escape.
"There's no escape, not unless I say so." The jester said picking up a sandwich and eating it.
"I regret coming back to Kansas, and this time I'm captured while my home is being destroyed." Dorothy said.
"Actually when you got here the tornado dissipated completely, you vanished with it, right now, you are lost, alone, and very far from home, for all they know, you are dead, MIA, missing, vanished completely, this is where I ended up twice." The jester said offering Dorothy a sandwich.
"What do you mean by, ended up here?" Dorothy said taking the sandwich.
"You know what I mean." The jester said getting up and twirling the wand between his fingers.
This froze Dorothy in thought for a moment she didn't know what he meant. She then wondered how he could have ended up here in the first place. Then it dawned on her. Twice she had thrown him into a vortex, and not purposely either, they were accidents, if he had ended up here before then this was revenge. She gasped in shock and the jester chuckled.
"I knew you'd get It." he said walking over to the pile of straw she had landed in.
"But what about my friends, my family, my cousins?" Dorothy asked worriedly.
"They'll be fine, they'll have hope, if you died they'd know, but they cannot see you, the only people who know about this place now are you and I." The jester said
"Wait, you're not going to leave me here are you" Dorothy asked worriedly.
"Oh I'll come back, it gets rather lonely here, and you'll need the company, until then, why don't you watch your friends worry about you." The jester said flicking the wand causing a crystal ball to appear before he vanished.
Dorothy ran over to the crystal ball. She knew Glinda and Alex definitely saw her get thrown into the vortex. Glinda was comforting Ellie who was sobbing in her arms. Aislynn was crying in uncle henry's arms while Em was silently crying and putting the kids in their carriers with Mr. foreman's help. Alex however was staying strong. He seemed to be whispering something to himself and she wondered what it was.
Well Dorothy, your one dilly of a pickle now aren't you?