A/N I have an idea for a Buffy story with the recent mini series 'Tin Man' (For those who haven't heard of or watched the movie 'Tin Man', it is a resent sequel to the 'Wizard of Oz')
In case you haven't read, 'Buffy… the TimeCop' I will reintroduce certain characters with a short summary.
A/N 2 Also in this AU, Willow had never activated all the potential-slayers as slayers. Instead she had charmed pieces of jewelry that the potentials wore and as long as the potential wore the jewelry she was a slayer with all the slayer strength and ability. (This type of slayer is know as a charmed slayer)
Spoilers. Wizard of Oz: Major Spoilers with the Tin Man.
Saturday April 20, 2013, in Washington, D.C., Buffy, Xander, Willow, Giles, Kennedy, Dawn's husband Brody, Amber, Valerie, Teresa, Nick, Alexis, Jennifer, Briton and sixteen potentials between the ages of fifteen and nineteen were carrying sorted furniture into a three-story house with eight bed rooms, two and half bathrooms, a good-size basement and a good-size attic. Dawn stayed out of everyone's way as she kept her four-year-old son Hunter out of everyone's way.
Teresa at the age of twenty-five and Nick at the age of twenty-seven were Buffy's direct ancestors from the year 1886. A demon was sent into the past to capture them in order for another demon known as Lowkey to revel over them as trophies in the year 2013 and to see the look on Buffy's face when her entire existence could be removed in a blink of an eye by killing Teresa and Nick. However, Lowkey failed to realize that Teresa and Nick had a six-year-old daughter in the year 1886 who was also a direct ancestor to Buffy. So, all Lowkey had achieved was brought two of Buffy's ancestors into the year 2013.
Amber Chiu was recently recruited and charmed as a charmed slayer by Buffy to help track down the stolen TEC's time-machine. Amber remained a part of Buffy's group once the time-machine was found.
Valerie Blackstone also was a charmed slayer and apprentice witch being train by Willow. She too was recruited by Buffy to help track down the stolen TEC's time-machine and remained a part of Buffy's group once the time-machine was found.
Jennifer and Briton Daniels are Brie's parents. Brie is a fifteen-year-potential. She wasn't really a wayward potential, but because of her intense dreams of fighting demons, she has the tendency to sleep-fight as well as sleepwalk.
Alexis Wilson was a seventeen-year-old half echo demon with human appearance. Faith had recently escorted her to Buffy after her mother was put in a coma by demons known as the Flortec crusaders.
Flortec crusaders were from the Zelotus dimension and they used an energy staff to open portals.
During two encounters with the Flortec crusader, Buffy's group had recently got their hands on two of those staffs. Faith took one of those staffs to New Sunnydale and gave it to Tabitha Foxworthy, the current vampire slayer chosen by the Powers That Be. Willow has the second staff and in her spare time during the past week, Willow had been attempting to open up a portal between Washington, D.C. and New Sunnydale California while using the staff.
With the number of people helping, the move into the house was short. Buffy gave Teresa and Nick the master bedroom and she took a bedroom next to it.
The remaining six bedrooms were set up with one set of bunk beds and two dressers per room. The attic was big enough to fit two sets of bunk beds and four dressers. Those beds were set up for Alexis and the potentials. A big screen TV, two couches and four chairs were set up in the basement for a lounging area. Another couch, three chairs and a smaller TV were set up in the living room.
Giles had planned to return to England once the potentials were completely moved in. Xander, Willow and Kennedy had bought a three bedroom house just down the road and were all moved in there.
Dawn and Brody had also bought a house closer to Dawn's place of employment at the TEC headquarters. Jennifer, Briton and Brie live in a rented apartment a short distance away.
Once each set of bunk beds were set up and made along with the potentials' clothes put away in the dresser and closets, the potentials trickled into the living room and kitchen.
Xander had been helping with the assembly of the bunk beds and when he helped with the last one he was on his way downstairs. He was next to the front door when the doorbell sounded.
Once he answered the door, he saw a seventeen-year-old boy standing there dressed as if he was going on a first date.
While noticing how the boy was dressed, Xander slightly hesitated to asked, "May I help you?"
"I'm Todd Clifford and I'm actually here to help you," he said.
Xander gave him a curious look while asking, "Pardon?"
Todd pointed to a neighboring house while saying, "I live in that house there and I couldn't help noticing a change of occupants of this house. The last occupant living here had hired me as a handyman and I thought I can resume that service with you."
Xander gave his famous amused laughed before questioning, "You wouldn't be offering to be a handyman because of the teenaged girls would it?"
"Teenaged girls? What teenaged girls," Todd questioned while trying to sound sincere.
"Todd, go home," Xander told him. "If anything needs fixing around here, I'll be the one to do it."
"Are you sure?" Todd questioned as Buffy was walking by the door. "You don't have to pay me all that much."
"Good bye, Todd," Xander said before shutting the door in his face.
"Who's Todd?" Buffy asked.
"A hormonal teenaged boy who lives next door," Xander said. "He was attempting to get in on the pretense of becoming your handyman."
"Great," Buffy uttered. "We haven't been here five hours yet and already the potentials are attracting boys." Buffy and Xander began walking towards the living room. "Which brings me to the creation of the rules; rule one, 'no boys allowed in the house.'"
Eleanor, Brie and Alexis walked in the living room slightly behind Buffy and Xander. Just as the three were stepping in, Brie blurted out somewhat loudly, "You're full of shit, Eleanor!"
"Brie!" Jennifer quickly exclaimed.
"Well, Eleanor is trying to convince me and Alexis that the movie 'Wizard of Oz' is base on actual events," Brie said.
"It actually was, Brie," Buffy said.
"You're telling me that the 'Wizard of Oz' is a true story?" Brie questioned.
"No; I'm not saying that," Buffy began. "The 'Wizard of Oz' is a fictionalize story based on Dorothy Gale's misconstrued diary which was written in the year 1889. When Dorothy disappeared in 1891 Dorothy's uncle Lyman Frank Baum of New York came in possession of that diary. He held the diary for eight years while hoping that Dorothy would return and when she didn't, her uncle wrote the story 'Wizard of Oz' to honor her memory."
"How was the diary misconstrued?" Alexis asked.
"Well, first of all, the dimension wasn't called 'Oz.' It was called the 'O', 'Z' which stands for the 'Outer Zone'," Buffy began.
"An easy mistake," Xander added.
Buffy slightly grinned before she continued to say, "The second big difference was that there was no walking and talking scarecrows. In Dorothy's diary it was written that after following the yellow brick road towards Emerald City for only a short time, she had come upon a man that had the brains of a scarecrow." As the large number of people in the house strolled into the room to hear the room became standing room only. The potentials, except for Brie, knew the story and kept quiet. The adults remained quiet also. "What Dorothy didn't realize though is that the man was a harden criminal and in the O.Z. one of the harsher punishments for criminals is the removal of part of the brain that held certain memories."
"Ew," Alexis said.
"Ew, but true," Xander said. "So if you ever find yourself in the O.Z. you better obey the law."
Buffy slightly grinned before saying, "The removal of the brain is only reserved for the more dangerous criminals."
"Was there an actual Tin Man?" Brie asked.
"There was actually a big confusion on that part," Buffy said. "The people from the O.Z. had been building robots for a short time before Dorothy first arrived in that dimension and she did describe one in her diary as the mechanical man. The mechanical man was out in the rain while chopping wood for his master and rusted…"
"That's how it was in the 'Wizard of Oz'," Brie pointed out.
"You didn't let me finish," Buffy said. "A policeman in the O.Z. is called a tin man. In this particular instance the tin man was the mechanical man's master. When Dorothy wrote that the tin man needed oil for the rusted parts, Dorothy's uncle thought that she was calling the mechanical man the tin man."
"So Dorothy was writing in her diary about a man and his robot, but Lyman Frank Baum thought that Dorothy was just referring to the robot," Alexis commented.
"Exactly," Buffy said. "And the part about the tin man needing a heart, well, that was just Dorothy describing a cynical policeman."
"What about the cowardly lion?" Brie asked.
"There is a specie of creatures in the O.Z. that is half man and half lion-type creature," Buffy said. "And there entire specie is easily intimidated."
"So was the part of Dorothy going to see the wizard true?" Alexis asked.
"Yes; in fact, the entire plot of 'Wizard of Oz' was pretty much true," Buffy said. "Dorothy was in a building with her dog Toto to get away from a class-four tornado, but the building that she was in wasn't her house. In fact, it wasn't even a house; it was an unusually heavy built shack. So when the tornado picked up the shack, it was picked up whole with her and her dog inside. The shack did land on the sister of the wicked witch, but in the O.Z. they called her the witch of darkness. And Dorothy's first encounter was the Munchkins, but with a lot less singing… if any at all."
Willow interrupted with, "Going back to the part of the class-four tornado. There is a thin barrier about two to three hundred feet in the air between our dimension and the O.Z. stretching across Nebraska and Kansas and a class-three tornadoes and greater have the tendency of punching holes in that barrier that could last up to a week before it closes depending on the strength of the tornado. In fact if you ever visit the O.Z. you'll find much of the same animals, birds and plant life in that dimension as you will find in ours."
"I feel a field trip coming on," Alexis hinted to.
Buffy smiled before saying, "Not any time soon. Anyway, the part of the magical ruby slippers was true. And once the good witch of the north, the witch of light, had placed the slippers on Dorothy's feet, Dorothy followed the yellow brick road that led to Emerald City."
"In order to see the wizard," Brie said almost as a questioned.
Buffy grin before saying, "Yes, in order to see the wizard; however, once Dorothy, the tin man, the criminal and the lion/human creature came upon the wizard, there was no big dramatic showy act like it was in the movie."
"So was the wizard a con man from Kansas?" Alexis asked.
"The wizard was a balloonist from Kansas," Buffy said. "I don't think he was a con man per se though."
"How did he get into the O.Z?" Valerie asked.
"A few years before Dorothy ended up in the O.Z. the man happened to went ballooning two days after a huge tornado went through the region and was caught in an updraft that shoved his balloon into the O.Z. dimension," Buffy said. "Anyway, the wizard actually figured out how to get home, but he needed Mauritanium to open up a portal between dimensions. And before anyone asks, Mauritanium is black mineral stone that is found in the Black Mountain of the O.Z. and it is valued for its ability to conduct magical energy."
"Why didn't the wizard go get this Mauritanium stone?" Brie asked.
"Because the wicked witch's fortress was built on the Black Mountain and her soldiers and mobats or monkey-bats attacked anyone who came near the Black Mountain," Buffy said.
"So Dorothy was sent to the Black Mountain to get Mauritanium and not to steal the witch's broom as it was in the movie?" Brie questioned.
"Most likely, Dorothy's uncle never understood what Mauritanium was, so that was why he used the broom in his story," Buffy said. "Also, the wizard never really sent her anywhere. In fact he warned her to stay away from there, but Dorothy didn't really understand the entire extent of the evil witch's magic and took off for the Black Mountain to collect the stones. It was about mid to late summer and the tin man learned when the sky was at its darkest that Dorothy had left for the Black Mountain, so he, the criminal and the lion/human set out to stop her."
"Why didn't you just say that it was night when the tin man learned of Dorothy going to the Black Mountain?" Alexis asked. .
"Because the O.Z. has two suns and it never completely becomes night during the spring and fall months," Buffy said. "Even in the winter and summer months when it does actually become night, it only becomes pitch black at night for only thirty-one days in a row. Sixty-two days total for the entire year with the nights being a few hours longer in the wintertime. Anyway, the three had caught up with Dorothy at the foot of the Black Mountain, but before they could get Dorothy out of there, the mobat swooped down and captured them. When Dorothy and the others came face to face with the witch, the witch demanded that she turn over the slippers."
"What was the importance of the ruby slipper?" Valerie asked.
"I'll answer that, but first you need to know that the wicked witch was actually twenty-five years old, but with all the dark and powerful magic that she was casting to take over the O.Z. she was aging at an exponential rate. She looked like she was fifty and she was months away before her mortal body gave out completely. However, she discovered a way to spiritually merge with another witch. Unfortunately for her she was so powerful that she needed another witch as equally as powerful as her in order to spiritually merge; otherwise they would both be destroyed. The good witch of the north was the only real candidate, but she wasn't volunteering so the wicked witch went with the next best thing and turned towards her sister. Her sister had the youth at the age of twenty, but she wasn't a powerful witch as she was, so she had to raise her sister's magical powers. And that was where the slippers came in. The slippers gave slight magical powers to those who didn't have it and greatly enhances the magical power in those who did have it."
"So that planned of spiritually merging with her sister ended when the shack fell on the sister," Alexis comments.
"Exactly and the witch needed the slippers from Dorothy and to find another candidate before her mortal body gave out," Buffy said. "Anyway, Dorothy refused to take off the slippers and because of the magical powers the slipper was giving Dorothy, the witch couldn't just take them off her feet. The witch threatened her dog as well as her aunt and uncle who lived in Kansas, but Dorothy still refused. The witch tired quickly, both physically and with her patients, so she gave the order to torture Dorothy and the others. However, just before leaving the witch's sight, the tin man found an opportunity to strike the guards and a skirmish broke out. During the skirmish torches were knocked over and a fire erupted near the witch. The only water available was a vat of mineral water from the black mountain stream."
"The water was enriched with Mauritanium," Amber guessed.
Buffy grinned before saying, "It was along with other magical ingredients and that water was what she was going to use to release her spirit from her body before merging with another witch. The witch was supposed to have drunk it, but when the guards used it to put out the fire, the witch got drenched by it, which started the process of her spirit being released as her body melted."
"So the witch melting was true?" Brie questioned.
"It was and at this point in the movie everyone was singing, 'ding dong the witch is dead'; however, in real life the witch's death was prematurely announced," Buffy said.
"Well, she did die if her body had melted," Brie quickly said.
"Her body melted because her spirit had shed the body," Buffy said.
"So she was a ghost," Brie said.
"She wasn't a ghost either, well not your ordinary spook, anyway," Buffy said. "And the only thing that kept the witch from being seen and being dangerous was the fact that she wasn't used to being out of body. So while everyone was thinking that the witch was dead, Dorothy and the others gathered the Mauritanium that was needed to open a portal and went back to the wizard. Dorothy was welcomed by everyone in Emerald City as the O.Z's savior. The good witch of the north had even recited an obscure ancient prophecy in front of the people that sounded much like what Dorothy had done. It took a few hours for the wizard to prepare his balloon for the launch and once it was ready, the wizard and Dorothy took off in it to return to Kansas."
"So Dorothy missing the balloon didn't happen?" Alexis asked.
"It didn't happen," Buffy said. "Dorothy's uncle thought that the movie ending needed to be more suspenseful, so he added her missing the balloon ride home and then clicking her heals while repeating the phrase, 'there's no place like home.' Dorothy did get to keep the ruby slippers though."
"So she returned to Kansas and wrote her diary," Brie commented. "Do you know what happened to her in 1891?"
"I do, but first you should know this," Buffy began. "The O.Z. has one moon and every fifty-eight years in the very beginning of winter, there's a lunar occurrence known as the double eclipse. Double eclipse is when the two suns are perfectly in line behind the moon. In every dimension a total eclipse means a greatly enhance magical atmosphere. That magical atmosphere is even doubled in the O.Z and the witches, wizards, warlocks, sorceresses and sorcerers are extremely more powerful during the moment of the eclipse. The O.Z had a double eclipse in the year 1891 and that occurrence gave the wicked witch a power boost. During that power boost, the witch learned how to become solid for thirty minutes at a time for every few hours."
"Ooh, that put her back as being dangerous again, didn't it?" Brie questioned.
"It did," Buffy said. "And again, the good witch found a passage that fit the situation within the prophecy. The prophecy continued to state that the savior will face the evil twice before the land can prosper for a hundred years."
"Dorothy had to face the witch again," Alexis guessed.
"And that was how the good witch interpreted it too; however, the good witch wasn't sure how to get into our dimension without a balloon," Buffy said. "But then the good witch remembered about how a tornado had brought Dorothy to the O.Z. After grabbing a few magical ingredients the good witch created was is now called a travel storm. A travel storm is a controlled tornado that allows people from the O.Z. to enter our dimension and then back into their dimension with little risk of harm."
"So someone was sent into our dimension to get Dorothy," Brie commented.
"Actually not just someone, that someone was the good witch's baby brother, Altose," Buffy said. "Altose was twenty-three then. The first time Dorothy was in the O.Z, she was weeks away at turning fifteen in the month of May. It was September 24, 1891 then in our dimension and Dorothy was seventeen and was considered a young woman by the people in the O.Z. Altose followed the magical signature that the ruby slippers were giving off and when the two saw each other, well, that was actually love at first sight for both of them. Dorothy put on her ruby slippers and went back into the O.Z with Altose. The details were never written down about them battling the wicked witch, so I don't really know what they are, but within two days, the witch's essence and her surviving monkey-bats were trapped in some cave. To make sure that they couldn't get out, the cave was physically sealed and a binding incantation was recited in order to magically seal her in. To make sure no one releases her by accident years later, a warning was inscribed on the walls near the entrance of her tomb."
"Since no one in this dimension heard of Dorothy again, Dorothy stayed in the O.Z. and had a fairy tale ending with Altose, didn't she?" Alexis questioned with a slight pleasing smile.
Buffy grinned before saying, "More so than you expect. Dorothy and Altose marry and become the O.Z.'s very first king and queen. A year later Dorothy gave birth to a baby girl and that girl grew up to be a powerful good sorceress who eventually went on to become queen."
"That was very interesting," Jennifer said. "By you knowing all of this, does that mean you have been to the O.Z?"
"Willow, Xander and a few others who aren't in this room and I did traveled to the O.Z in mid September of 2007," Buffy began. "But the story of how we ended up in the O.Z. actually began fifteen years before that."
"Unless you aren't counting the third prophecy, the story still starts with Dorothy," Willow corrected.
"What is the third prophecy?" Amber asked.
"It was a prophecy told to Dorothy by the good witch," Willow began. "After hearing it, Dorothy wanted to make sure that her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and so on knew about it, so she turned the prophecy into a nursery rhyme. I don't know the prophecy itself, but I know the rhyme."
"What was the rhyme?" Brie asked.
Willow thought for only a second before quoting, "The majestic queen of the O.Z. had two lovely daughters, she. One to darkness she be drawn and one to light she be shown. Double eclipse it is foreseen, light meets dark and the stillness between. But only one and one alone shall hold the emerald and take the throne."
"It's a prophecy of a coming battle of good versus evil between sisters," Brie said.
"That's what everyone thought, but that prophecy was more complex than that," Buffy said.
"What do you mean?" Brie asked.
"Well, first of all you should know that the prophecy had come to pass," Buffy said. "And it started twenty-one years ago with a twelve-year-old princess named Azkadellia and her seven-year-old sister, DG. DG was spirited and adventurous. Azkadellia loved her baby sister, so when DG was out exploring Azkadellia was at her side while attempting to keep her from getting hurt, but more often than not, Azkadellia found herself getting into trouble with her mother for not stopping DG at a certain point. However, the mother didn't realize nor would Azkadellia say that when DG was out exploring, there was no stopping her. Anyway, the exact location of where the spirit of the witch was imprisoned was forgotten over the years and when DG and Azkadellia went out exploring they came close enough to the cave for DG to hear the witch's cry. DG went looking for that cry with Azkadellia tagging along behind while making failing attempts to persuade her sister not to go any further…"
"Your adventures have a way of getting me into trouble," Willow added. When Buffy gave her a curious look Willow said, "That's what Azkadellia use to tell DG. At least that is what DG told me."
Buffy grinned before saying, "Anyway, DG followed the cry and led Azkadellia to the mouth of the tomb… which by the way was a scary face with a mouth carved in the wall to scare away trespassers. Azkadellia read the warning, but didn't really understand the meaning of it. They were about to turn back, but then something had caught DG's eye. DG had a lot of untapped magical potential. In fact both sisters did and when DG touched a tooth within the mouth of the carving her magic spontaneously flared and the wall came crumbling down."
"DG freed the witch," Alexis said.
"DG broke the seal, but the witch was not quite free," Buffy said. "DG heard the sobbing again, but this time with the voice of a girl her age. Azkadellia heard it too that time and when they stepped inside the tomb, they saw the witch in a form of a girl. Azkadellia offered to go get help for the girl while she kept her distance as well as making sure DG did the same. The witch was quick though and was upon the sisters within a blink of an eye while in her true form. The sisters joined hands and produced a protection spell that the witch couldn't penetrate; however, DG was a young child and was easily intimidated to let go of her sister's hand. When the grip was broken, the witch seized the chance to possess Azkadellia's body. When DG saw the witch's spirit entering her sister's body, she screamed before running as fast as she could to her mother. When Azkadellia caught up with DG and her mother, her mother was consoling DG. When the mother saw Azkadellia she felt something off about her, but ignored it while hoping that she was wrong. Later that night the mother had checked on DG as DG slept. After she left, Azkadellia entered the room. The mother noticed Azkadellia leaving DG's room, so she quickly checked on DG again, but this time DG was dead; choked to death…"
"Wait, DG is dead?" Alexis interrupted with. "But Willow indicated earlier that…"
"DG was immediately resurrected," Buffy quickly said. "The mother was also a powerful sorceress and when she found DG she gave up most of her life force and magic to save her youngest daughter's life."
"Oh," Alexis said.
"The queen had also magically sowed messages within DG's subconscious that were to activate as dreams when she got older also," Willow added.
"Those two spells were a one shot deal though," Buffy continued to say. "So to make sure Azkadellia couldn't do that again, DG's death was publicized and a funeral arranged as DG's father took DG and two nurture-units, human looking robots, to a farmhouse of a isolated and an out-of-the-way town in Kansas near the Nebraska border for them to live."
"Buffy failed to mention that the father was a balloonist originally from Nebraska," Willow added. "Like with the wizard in Dorothy's time, DG and Azkadellia's father had also found himself in the O.Z. days after a class-four tornado had gone through the region."
"Have any planes ended up in the O.Z?" Jennifer asked.
"Luckily for both dimensions the portal to the O.Z. is several hundred feet below airline traffic," Giles said.
"Was that a no," Jennifer asked.
"It was," Giles said.
"So what happened once DG was in Kansas?" Brie asked.
"Well, for DG she lived her life as a normal farm girl and listening to what she thought were nostalgic stories from the two people who she thought were her parents until she was twenty-two," Buffy said. "But in the O.Z. the queen prepared for the worst during the first year that DG was gone. The emerald… the magical jewel of the O.Z. and the power source for a newly designed mojo-tech device called the sun-seeder was hidden away. And it was a good thing too because when Azkadellia was seventeen she seized the throne and imprisoned her mother…"
"Wait," Brie quickly said. "There were two words that I didn't understand."
"I was about to say the say the same thing," Valerie said.
"And those words are Mojo-tech and sun-seeder, am I right?" Buffy questioned. Brie just nodded. "Well, in the O.Z's society magic and technology has always been interlinked, so the sun-seeder is a very advance technology that is powered by magic. Andrew, a former member of the watcher's council is the one to actually coin the phrase mojo-tech."
"Okay, now what is it for?" Alexis asked.
"Originally it was designed to magically slow down the movement of the twin suns in order to extend their crop's growing season…"
"A dream for any farmer," Nick said.
Buffy grinned while continuing to say, "But Azkadellia was going to use it to lock the double eclipse in place for ever. To do this she had to stand on a lens type platform that was shooting a beam of light into the double eclipse and since she needed the emerald to do it, she had literally tore up the O.Z for ten years while looking for it. Then in late summer of 2007 DG began to get those dreams that were sowed. Some of those lion/human type creatures are psychics and are called viewers. Azkadellia would capture those viewers and force them to have visions for her and one vision that she was told about was about a potential threat to her in a Kansas farmhouse."
"The viewer saw DG," Alexis quickly said.
"Yes, but the viewer didn't know what that threat was and Azkadellia didn't care as long as that threat was stopped," Buffy said. "So she sent a group of tin men into Kansas; however, DG and those two nurture-units escaped by leaping into the travel storm at the moment when the travel storm destroyed the farm."
Amber slightly laughed before questioning, "DG ended up in the O.Z. did she?"
Buffy grinned before saying, "She did, but she got separated from her nurture-units. And those nostalgic stories that she was told while growing up were messages from her real mother. Those messages took DG on a journey across the O.Z and the purpose behind the journey was to re-awake old memories and to find her father so her father could lead her to the emerald which was located in the Gray Gale. And the Gray Gale is the magically hidden mausoleum of Dorothy Gale. Oh and DG's companions as she tracked across the country was an ex-tin man, a viewer and Ambrose. Ambrose was the genius inventor of the sun-seeder, but when he refused Azkadellia when she seized power, she had pulled out his brain and left him not so genius like and with the nickname of glitch. Oh and the ex-tin man was a resistant fighter against Azkadellia."
"Don't forget Toto," Xander said.
"She had a dog name Toto?" Brie asked.
"Xander is referring to a 'human to dog and back again' shape-shifter known as Tutor. Tutor taught Azkadellia and DG magic before the witch possessed Azkadellia. He was locked in Azkadellia's dungeon once she seized the throne and he was released to spy on DG; however, he was actually on DG's side. He was eventually found out by the tin man as a spy and after explaining the situation, DG had him to shape-shift into a dog for the remainder of the journey. Anyway, to make a long story short, DG's rough journey was a success. She found the emerald; however, Azkadellia was right there. She took it from her and then teleported her into an empty stone coffin within Dorothy's mausoleum. DG's magic was coming along though and after calming herself she was able to free herself. That night was the night of the double eclipse so DG knew that she had to act quickly. She quickly reunited herself with the tin man, the viewer, Ambrose and Tutor. As the double eclipse was minutes away they all snuck in to Azkadellia's stronghold that was housing the sun-seeder. As Dorothy went to confront Azkadellia, the others went to stop the sun-seeder at being activated. DG biggest weapon was her memories and when she confronted her sister as the sister stood on the platform, she just spoke of those pleasant childhood memories that she and her sister made together. At first Azkadellia resisted, but as DG continued Azkadellia began to become nostalgic. It was during the double eclipse and the beam was shooting through Azkadellia when DG was able to coax Azkadellia into taking her hand. As soon as they gripped each other's hand, the protection barrier was put up and Azkadellia stepped from the beam of light while leaving the wicked witch's spirit within the beam. At first the witch didn't care, but then she saw that Azkadellia was still wearing the emerald necklace."
"One and one alone can hold the emerald and take the throne," Alexis quickly repeated the end of the prophecy.
"Dorothy wrote the rhyme as she interpreted it," Buffy said. "Everyone thought that the last verse was about Azkadellia and DG. It wasn't though; it was about the Azkadellia and the witch. Anyway, the witch attempted intimidation again to regain the necklace, but this time DG and Azkadellia held their gripped even tighter which made their protection barrier to grow even stronger. Meanwhile after a slight struggle within the control room, the tin man, viewer and Ambrose were able to shut down the beam of light which made the wicked witch's spirit to melt onto the platform."
"So the witch is finally dead?" Brie questioned.
"We believe so," Buffy said. "And the twin suns were only locked in place for a short time before it went back to normal."
"That's was interesting story, but when did you go to the O.Z.?" Jennifer asked. Buffy took a deep breath before she continued to tell how she ended up in the O.Z.
TBC.