Meeting Tiger and Fievel Mousekwitz/Zelda, Elise, and Link’s Group Get to Know Each Other

*(Elsewhere in the deeper part of the forest, Kiki’s group continued on until they looked around cautiously)*

Kiki: I got a bad feeling about this part of the forest.

Mei: It’s dark and creepy.

Tombo: Not to mention strange.

Pinocchio: I may not know it, but it’ll get darker than lighter here.

Yuki: I suppose.

Jiji: Do you think we’ll encounter wild animals?

B.E.N.: Probably.

Jiminy: Animals that eat insects like me?

Chirithy: Or meat?

Namine: I don't like the sound of that.

B.E.N.: Some, but mostly lions, tigers, and bears.

Kiki's Kansas group: Lions?

Sora's group, Pinocchio, and Jiminy: Tigers?

B.E.N.: And bears.

Kiki: Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my!

*(Suddenly, she got an idea)*

Kiki: I got an idea!

Satsuki, Yuki, Pinocchio, and Sora's group: What?

Kiki: This part of the forest is creepy, right?

*(Kiki's group nods in agreement to Kiki's question)*

Kiki: So, we can just calm ourselves and move along, chanting “Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my.”

Kanta: (Realizing) That way, we can get out of here.

B.E.N.: Take it away, Kiki, my girl!

Male members of Sora's group: Ladies first.

*(Kiki clears her throat and started)*

Kiki: Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my!

*(Then she and her group began to chant slowly and then quickly as they hurry along the Yellow Brick Road)*

Kiki’s group: Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my! Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my! Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my! Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my!

*(Suddenly, something orange lunged out at B.E.N., knocking him down, much to the group’s shock)*

Tombo and Pinocchio: What the…?!

B.E.N.: Oh, no! Help!

*(The figure revealed himself to be a male cat with orange fur, a big orange furry tail, a black nose, a light orange spot on his belly, and dark orange spots on his paws, and wearing a purple short-sleeved shirt with a dark purple T letter and dark purple neck and sleeve rims. He hissed a bit at B.E.N., and then noticing Kiki’s group, he lunged at them, making them run out of the way as B.E.N. recovered and ran back to them in concern. The cat panted savagely a bit and then got tough)*

Cat: Put them up, put them up!

*(He shadowboxes a little bit, much to Kiki's group’s fear now turning to confusion)*

Cat: I, the brave feline, Tiger, won’t let any of you pull any tricks on me! I got the claws of a cat!

*(Then the cat, now revealed to be Tiger, realized something while acting tough)*

Tiger: What am I saying? I am a cat.

*(Kiki's group got confused)*

Kiki’s group: Uh…?

*(Then Yuki and Jiji, realizing something, shouted a scare at Tiger)*

Yuki and Jiji: Boo!

*(That briefly startled Tiger upon the dog and cat saying that, but he got tough towards them. Kiki and Satsuki noticed Tiger got briefly scared, despite trying to act tough)*

Tiger: Watch it! *(Hisses a bit)* Try that again you, and you are ga-lue!

Yuki: "Try?"

Jiji: That's not trying at all.

Yuki: (Scoffs) You're nothing but a....

*(Tiger pounces at Yuki and Jiji, but they ran back to Satsuki and Kiki respectively. Seeing Tiger walking up to the dog and cat tough-like, Kiki and Satsuki respectively held Jiji and Yuki protectively)*

Kiki: I see that my magic talking cat here actually scared you.

Satsuki: Along with my normal, yet talking, dog here.

Tiger: (Scoffs) I’m not scared. Just reacted.

Jiji: (Sarcastically) Right. And we're ragdolls.

Yuki: (Sarcastically) Soooo scared.

*(Tiger grabs Yuki and Jiji’s faces up to him)*

Tiger: Oh, yeah?!

*(Kiki and Satsuki got angry)*

Kiki and Satsuki: Don’t touch them!

*(Satsuki smacks Tiger across the face, making him release Yuki and Jiji's faces and then to Kiki's group’s surprise, except an angry Satsuki, Tiger started to cry like a baby)*

Satsuki: Shame on you!

Tiger: (Crying) Why did you do that for? I didn’t hurt that dog and other cat!

Tombo: Well, you tried to.

Jiji: (Rubbing his right cheek a bit) Especially when you squeezed mine and Yuki's cheeks.

Kiki: (Gestures to B.E.N.) It’s bad enough you lunged at B.E.N. here....

Satsuki: But grabbing Kiki's cat and my little dog here…!

Tiger: (Crying) But you didn’t have to go and hit me!

*(He pulls his tail up and wiped his tears away while burying his face in its fur with it as he continued crying)*

Tiger: (Crying) Is my nose bleeding?

Satsuki: No!

*(Suddenly, a male mouse came out and went up between Tiger and Kiki’s group)*

Male mouse: Wait!

*(The group noticed him and got confused while Tiger slowly stopped crying and recognized him casually. The mouse is a male anthro mouse with brown fur, a peach-colored face, blue eyes, a pink nose, and wearing a big blue messenger hat, a red long-sleeved tunic with a dark red patch on his left sleeve's elbow part, a dark red belt, and dark blue pants)*

Tiger: Hey, Fievel.

Kiki’s group: (Confused) "Fievel?"

Yuki: What’s going on here?

Jiji: You know each other?

Rainbow: What's going on?

*(Fievel spoke up on Tiger’s behalf)*

Fievel: I ask of you to forgive Tiger. He was just trying to prove that he’s not a coward by picking a fight.

Tiger: (Sadly) It’s true. I am a coward. I have no courage at all. I mean, look at the circles under my eyes! I haven’t slept in weeks sometimes unless Fievel slept with me!

B.E.N.: Why not count sheep?

Lea: You know, one-one-thousand....

Tiger: (Sadly, cutting Lea off) That’s no good. I’m afraid of them.

*(He cries a bit in his tail again as Kayley’s group suddenly felt guilty and sympathetic towards him as he calmed his crying down)*

Kiki: We all had no idea.

Fievel: Tiger and I are partners and I wish to become the best partner ever to help him out in battles against evil enemies. Ask Tiger.

Kanta: (To Tiger) Is that true?

*(A short pause as Tiger stopped crying slowly)*

Tiger: (Sniffles, then nods) Yes. That’s Fievel’s dream, like my dream is to become brave and have courage.

*(Kiki turned to her group)*

Kiki: Huddle.

*(They huddled and talked quietly while Tiger and Fievel waited patiently)*

Kiki: (Whispering) I feel sorry for him already.

Jiminy: (Whispering) Me too.

*(Kiki's group agreed quietly as well)*

Satsuki: (Whispering) And if we’d known, I wouldn’t have hit him.

B.E.N.: (Whispering) So, why don’t we let them tag along with us?

Pinocchio: (Whispering) They got dreams like us.

Tombo: (Whispering) My sentiments exactly.

Kiki: (Whispering) I don’t see why not.

Kanta: (Whispering) I agree.

Satsuki, Mei, Yuki, Jiji, and Sora's group: (Whispering) Here, here.

Jiminy: (Whispering) Agreed.

*(They turned to Fievel and Tiger and spoke normally)*

Kiki: We were talking, as you both saw, right?

Kiki’s group: Yeah, right?

Fievel and Tiger: Yes.

Kiki: Why not come with us to Emerald City to see the Wizard of Oz himself?

Tombo: We’re going there with dreams of our own as well.

Kiki: Me and my friends’ dream is to get back home to Kansas.

Sora: And my group and I are asking him to help us learn how to use magic the right way.

Chirithy: And me and the other Dream Eaters to learn how to fly and breathe magic.

Pinocchio: And I’m asking for a brain.

Jiminy: And me to become the best conscience ever.

B.E.N.: And I’m asking for a heart.

Kiki: So we’re sure the Wizard will give you courage and make you the best partner ever.

Fievel: (In a hopeful happy voice) Really?

*(Kiki's group nods)*

Tiger: (Getting happy) That’s very nice of you. No one ever wanted to help me, except Fievel.

Fievel: That’s right. All the animals would do is pick on him for being a scaredy-cat.

Kanta: Then, we’ll make you brave like both a lion and a dog instead.

Yuki: For a cat.

Jiji: Compared to me.

Tiger: Thank you. And if I had courage, well….

*(He begins singing)*

Tiger: **Yes, life is sad, believe me, missy**

**When you’re born to be a sissy**

**Without the vim and verve**

Fievel: (Agreeing) That’s unfortunately true.

Tiger: **But I could change my habits**

**Nevermore be scared of rabbits**

**If I only had the nerve**

**I’m afraid there’s no denyin’**

**I’m just a dandelion**

**A fate I don’t deserve**

**But I could show my prowess**

**Be like a lion, not a mow-wess**

**If I only had the Nerve**

*(He winks at Fievel, who giggled a bit)*

Fievel: (Giggles a bit) No offence taken.

Tiger: **Oh, I’d be in my stride**

**A king down to the core**

**I would roar the way I never roared before**

**And then I’d nyah and roar some more**

*(On “Nyah,” he playfully raised his fur up briefly, making Fievel and Kiki's group chuckle and/or giggle a bit, and Tiger smiled with them)*

Tiger: **I would show the dinosaurus**

**Who’s king around the fores’**

**A king he’d better serve**

**Why with my regal breezer**

**I could be another Caeser**

**If I only had the nerve**

**I’d be brave as a blizzard**

*(Then the others joined in)*

B.E.N.: **I’d be gentle as a lizard**

Pinocchio: **I’d be clever as a gizzard**

Kiki's Kansas group: **If the Wizard is a Wizard**

Sora's group: **Who would serve?**

Pinocchio: **Then I’m sure to get a brain**

Jiminy: (On “A brain") **A brain**

B.E.N.: **A heart**

Sora's group: **Our magic**

Kiki's Kansas group: **A home**

Tiger and Fievel: **The nerve**

*(They then march along down the Yellow Brick Road together)*

Kiki’s group: **We’re off to see the Wizard**

**The Wonderful Wizard of Oz**

**We’ll find he is a whiz of a wiz**

**If ever a wiz there was**

**If ever, oh ever, a wiz there was**

**The Wizard of Oz is one**

**Because, because, because, because**

**Because, because**

**Because of the wonderful things**

**He does**

**We’re off to see the Wizard**

**The Wonderful Wizard of Oz**

*(Elsewhere in the same forest, Zelda, Elise, Mushu, Cri-Kee, and Link's group continued their trek down the Yellow Brick Road talking with each other, apparently getting to know each other)*

Zelda: So, you and your group dream of becoming both mechanics and knights of Emerald City besides finding the lost princesses?

Link's group: Yes.

Aryll: On flying things.

Zelda: Like planes?

Link: Yes.

Christopher: And of course, magic flying broomsticks.

*(Seeing their own broomsticks, Zelda and Elise smiled and nods)*

Elise: I sure hope you’ll accomplish your dreams with the Wizard’s help.

Zelda: As well as with King Daphnes and Queen Hylia’s help.

Elise: My sentiments exactly.

Mushu: (While Cri-Kee happily chirps a bit in agreement) Yeah.

Link's group: Thank you. (Thanks.)

Link: And I sure hope you’ll find your real past you told me you don’t know about.

Zelda and Elise: Yeah.

Elise: We only vaguely saw as a baby and a very young toddler two mysterious people staring down at us with gentle smiles.

Zelda: And then the next thing we knew growing up, is living with our mother and live-in aunts in the tower.

Link's group: (Nods in an understanding way) Hmm….

*(Suddenly, they heard footsteps approaching them from behind)*

Mushu: What’s that?

Zelda: I don’t know.

Elise: But that can’t be good.

Link: Stay behind me.

*(Zelda, Elise, Mushu, and Cri-Kee go behind Link's group for protection as they stood their ground, ready to protect Zelda, Elise, Mushu, and Cri-Kee as the footsteps got closer)*

***Coming up: Kiki and Zelda’s groups finally meet and learning of the same goal they’re after, decide to team up and then meet up with a certain other group looking shifty towards them.***