Nico and Bianca had spent a couple days being the servants of the Wicked Witch of the West. They spent most of their time doing chores around the palace such as brooming, dusting, wiping the windows and a lot more, however they got their own rooms which were large and though they were just servant, they had the largest rooms in all of Oz.
"It has been a tiring couple of days." said Nico. "Can't we get a break?"
"No, Nico, you've seen how wicked Zelena is." said Bianca. "She killed five guards yesterday, ten munchkins, and two chefs! We are just her servants, nothing more."
"How do you know that? She seems to have taken a liking into us. Look at these rooms!"
"Looks can be depriving, Nico, we can't trust her. We need to follow everything she says and once we get the information we need, we'll find a way to escape here and get back to the real world."
"But what do we have in the real world? We have no friends, no family, no home, nothing!"
"It's better to have nothing than risking your life every day serving a wicked witch."
"Maybe she is good, Bianca, not all villains can be bad."
"Maybe, but not her. If you're going to remember me, remember these words 'A villain is always a villain and that never changes'."
"Nico! Bianca!" yelled at a guard. "You're needed in the Wizard's chamber."
"Oh no." said Bianca, terrified on what was going to happen.
She grabbed Nico's hand and they headed towards the chamber. Suddenly, the door swung open and a woman was holding a scarecrow and ran as fast as they could whilst a small dog ran after them. They ran into the chamber to see Zelena under a heavy piece of curtain and a body of a headless guard lying on the floor.
"Are you okay?" asked Bianca, helping Zelena up. "Who was that?"
"Dorothy, one of the munchkins snitched to her and she returned from Kansas using her silver slippers." replied Zelena.
"So silver slippers can transport people from realms?"
"Yes, they can."
"What was happening?" asked Nico.
"None of your business! Go and clean the ball room, now!"
Nico rapidly left the chamber; Bianca wanted to stop Zelena from being rude to her brother but she was too scared.
"You should leave him." said Zelena.
"What?" asked Bianca.
"That Nico boy, I don't really like him."
"I can tell, but he's my brother and I love him."
"Younger siblings are terrible. Remember that."
"Sounds like you speak from experience."
"I have a little sister and my mother favours her, she abandoned me and a cyclone took me to Oz."
"Oh... I'm sorry."
"Look here."
Zelena went to a mirror and Bianca looked at it and suddenly, a woman carrying a baby in a basket began to speak.
"Poor babe." she said. "Life is cruel and full of betrayal. That is my only lesson for you, now I must give you away. To give me my best chance. As long as I have you, I can never be anything more than a miller's daughter."
The baby started crying and then the woman left and a familiar looking tornado swept the baby away.
"The woman was your mother and the baby was you." said Bianca.
"Yes," said Zelena. "My own mother gave me up and had a new child instead with a king."
"That was wrong, but I don't understand what this has to do with me and Nico."
"Today is a special day for me, today is the anniversary of when this event happened and this day is when I will reverse this using a time machine spell which I will make. The moral of the story is that younger siblings will always stab you in the back and it's only a matter of time until Nico does so. If you are ever given a chance to abandon him, take it." said Zelena and a broom flew into her hands. "Now I have some business to attend to."
Then Zelena flew away on her broom, leaving Bianca. Bianca then walked away from the chamber and saw Nico waiting for her outside.
"You're not going to leave me, are you?" asked Nico.
Bianca kept her hands on his shoulder, "Let's find a way to get the silver slippers and we're off from Oz."
"There wasn't a no." said Nico in his head. "But she won't leave me, will she?"
They went back to their chores when Zelena came back and greeted them.
"What happened?" asked Bianca.
"Had a meeting with a fellow villain." she replied.
"Who?"
"Another one of your 'fairy tale' characters, the Devil himself."
Neither of them responded to that and went back to work. Soon, they went back to the chamber where they could hear two voices.
"I can give you a run for your money." said Zelena from inside.
"Yeah." said a man's voice. "Which is why we must find your ingredients. I know where the Scarecrow is. Let me help you. Let me help us. If I can travel back, I can see to it that it is me who winds up on Olympus, and my brother who suffers."
"You might be as vindictive as I am."
Then the two of them chuckled. Bianca knocked on the door.
"Come in!" said Zelena but when the two of them came in, only she was there.
"Who were you talking too?" asked Nico.
"Were you eavesdropping on me?"
"No!" shouted Bianca. "We were just coming in and we heard you talking to someone."
"Well, it's none of your business! Now, I'm off to somewhere else for a while, I'll be back very soon. Finish your tasks."
"We've done them." said Nico and Zelena sighed, irritated.
"Then go off to your room!" she shouted and grabbed her broom and flew away again.
Bianca and Nico did as they were told and went to their room; it was getting late anyway and they went to sleep. In the morning, Zelena was in a grumpy mood and handed them a pair of slippers.
"Go of then." she said.
"What?" asked Bianca.
"You heard me, you're free to go." said Zelena. "Click the heels three times and think of where you want to go."
"What about the deal?"
"Fine. I know who your father is but let's say... it's a bit of a surprise."
"That's it?" asked Nico.
"Nico!" shouted Bianca and then whispered. "We're lucky we're alive. Let's go."
Bianca wore the slippers and grabbed Nico's hand and clicked her the heels three times and they teleported from Oz and landed in front of a school and in bold letters there was a title called 'Westover Hall'.