A promise was a big thing to make during such a confusing and scary time. From where they used to be, in the modern world, in a theme park, they were now teleported to a whole new place, a entirely different one from before like in the blink of an eye. It was a natural thing to believe that all this was some sort of dream or nightmare, but the feelings made it feel so real. There was a reality in front of her eyes and someone was with her, talking to her. All the choices she had were dashed and she just had to trust. She had to, for her parents, for Mickey… and all she needed was an understanding for all this.

Sarah had her bag held before her instead of behind her. The thing seemed to be more of a problem now, that it was so big and loud that she felt the need to ditch it for something else. Sarah was trying to be as quiet as she could as she tried to keep track of what Woody was doing. By his guide, she followed him and mimicked his every move. When he hid against a tree, so did she. She sat in the grass, catching her breath as he was watching out for anyone alike with that stranger from before.

"Woody? Do you know who that was, who was following us?"

"Not really… but you said you smelled smoke." he said, still overlooking his shoulder.

At his last statement though, he looked at her with worry. She nodded.

"Yeah, i-it was smoke."

He seemed to nod, knowingly.

"Okay…" he said, thoughtfully.

When he looked back out, he squinted when he thought he saw something down the slope. Was it a camp? Sarah was able to spot something too. It was a corner to a round end of a tent tarp, with a striped red and blue pattern and then white. It looked very out of place, so near such a dangerous place. Right from the get go, this was not to be trusted.

"Looks like a circus…" Sarah mumbled to herself.

"Weird spot for a circus, don't ya think? I know what. We'll just go around." Woody prodded a bit and continued to go.

"B-but, what if — N-never mind…" she almost went to interject, but doubted herself.

"That smoke you smelled might have come from a cigar." he mentioned as he urged her to stay low and kept moving onward.

"It was really strong."

"There's only one who smokes a cigar…and I heard the footsteps. It sounded like a wooden leg or something."

"S-so did I."

The way was rocky and the road was uneven, yet it was deemed wiser to stay off it for now because there were voices here and there, which bewildered them both. It wasn't sure if it was the whistles of the trees or they were being watched. There is a possibility that the Doorway may have been botched by someone, with magical intellect, of course. Maleficent's forceful plan was obviously on the move and they were in a claimed zone. If Woody could remember correctly, the Magic Kingdom was a splendid and beautiful place where towns and cities were prosperous and safe, the forests were safe and sheltering to all. Everyone with kindness in their hearts were fully welcome. Sadly, there were those who despised such order whilst others had a certain vengeance in mind for certain individuals. Be it jealousy, hatred… it was all the same level of darkness that was the key thing injuring and taking that peace away. Even children were not safe. Bonnie, his imaginative young owner, who was only 4 years old, was taken. He got that right. She was taken. By a shadow. Woody and his friends, all of the bedroom, loved Bonnie with all of their hearts and thinking about the sweet girl kept breaking his heart over and over. The mere thought got Sarah's attention when the poor cowboy began to look really crushed.

"Woody?" she asked, worried.

"Yeah?"

Just before she was going to ask what was wrong, something sharp and fast shot up out of the dirt in front of them! It almost stabbed Woody right through, but he flew up from the force and fell right into Sarah's lap after she fell backwards. It was a leafless tree, covered in thorns and more shot out, blocking their path! The thorns were big enough to be swords…. After blinking out of her shock, Sarah grabbed her friend and scrambled up to her feet. When she went the opposite way to run, another shot out of the ground and it yanked a piece of her hair. She defensively shut her eyes and ducked, having losing Woody in the process but she still had her bag on her. When she recovered again, she saw a pair of gold eyes glare right into hers.

"Well, look at what we got here. Another scrawny!" cackled a slobbering female hyena, with teeth so sharp.

She was large, technicolored alike with the forest and very lively as anything. She was dark grey in fur, and heavily spotted with black. Her claws dug into the dirt as she inched in at the girl. Woody wasn't going to let her.

"You, back off, dog!" Woody turned brave. It didn't matter how big she was to him.

The female's dark eyes widened and she snapped at Woody, with a fearsome snarl.

"Can't taste as bad as that elephant, wouldn't it!?" cackled another behind her. He spat in laughter and decided to have his turn.

This one was the same color and size as the female.

"You think you're so tough huh? Little dolly." the female taunted Woody and got his plastic boot caught in her mouth.

"Gah!" he yelled.

Sarah tried to get him back.

"NO! Let him go, you~"

"You gonna stop us, scrawny? Go ahead…"

"Run!" Woody cried to her, despite his situation.

She couldn't leave him!

"No!"

She got some courage and gave a sharp kick onto the female's paw. She gave out a sharp cry of pain but proceed to bite at the girl back. It was enough for her to drop him and Sarah grabbed him and ran off!

Woody looked back and the hyenas gave chase, snarling and yelping. She didn't flee when he told her too. He was quite surprised after what she had shown before, it seemed like she was too afraid to care that much since he was just a character to her. Although it warmed his heart for what she did, he had to get her and Mickey to safety.

"Right!" he cried when another thorn shot up. "Left! Right!"

It got so annoying with these things trying to trip them up. Soon enough her legs felt weak and she tripped over a vine. She got hurt but she couldn't let it stop her.

"Jackie!"

"Woody!"

It was all too late though. He was grabbed by them again. Before she could reach out for him, one of them chopped down at her as a threat and stood over her, profoundly. She screamed and covered her head as she curled.

"Please!"

"No, don't don't!" she heard Woody cry out.

The female, Shenzi sneered as she eased her jaws away from the girl and the bag.

"Yes?"

"Please, please, we'll do anything you want, just don't hurt her…." Woody begged as he too was held captive with Benzai over him.

"Is that so?" Banzai lowered his head down and bared his teeth.

It made Woody curl up in fear. He was fair game as far as he was concerned.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah… yeah!" he agreed. "I swear!"

"Woody… Woody, no!" Sarah was crying, but Shenzi's claws kept her down. "Ow!"

"Hehehehehahahah! Looks like we're getting some eats tonight, boys!" Shenzi grinned wide.

They were caught. It was over already! What were they going to do? Sarah was dragged, along grass mostly and she tried to free herself by pulling on plants and the like, also she kicked. Her backpack was taking some hits but the hidden mouse stayed safe inside for now and no one else knew of him. Sarah was so terrified when she noticed that they were dragging them to that wierd tent. Woody saw that too and looked her in the eye, reassuringly. It was apparent that this magical trip wasn't going to as happy go lucky like those Mickey cartoons….

Shenzi dragged her further and soon shoved her forward and she fell on her stomach.

"Ow! Jerk!" she growled back.

Woody was thrown down next to her. Sarah was ready to hit them but she was glad that he wasn't torn or anything.

"You okay?"

"Yeah! Just~" he was saying before he gasped at the sight of someone very big who stepped before them.

The three hyenas sat back.

"What we got here, fellahs?" boomed this scratchy, deep, booming voice from the overbearing cartoon.

She recognized him. She stared up at him with wide eyes. The villain Mickey always faced in the classic animations and even the current ones. He knelt low to Woody, who was remaining brave.

"Been lookin' for ya, sheriff!" this dark character puffed his cigar right at Woody prior to picking him up by his belt.

"Bite me, Pete!" Woody snapped.

"Aw, why the attitude? You just got hired, pal!" Pete taunted him and laughed loudly.

Sarah was frozen. She didn't know what to do. She was even more so when Pete looked down at her after his maniac spell.

"And who's this?"

"N-nobody…." she lied, badly.

"Nobody? Ya gotta be somebody, kiddo! Otherwise, toy boy here wouldn't care so much!"

With that he laughed again. She felt shrunk and yet she felt angry at the same time. He then grabbed her by the arm and tore her bag away, throwing it to the grass.

"Ow! Let go!" Sarah yelled, kicking.

Woody was able to see some sort of light. Or so he thought he did, just a ways above the tent.

"Stop! Stop…" Woody had to tell Sarah sharply. They were caught, it was no use and he didn't want her getting hurt.

"Woody!?" she looked at him shocked.

"Stop bein' a brat, kid, you got a job." Pete smirked, smartly before throwing them inside this tent.

She fell on her side from such strength from a cartoon, no less, according to what she knew. Woody hit the tarp… and they were shut in.