They have a confrontation with a kalidah, and meet the Lonesome Duck.
Meanwhile, Trot and Cap'n Bill have travelled to a magic island to obtain a special flower for Ozma's birthday. The Wizard changes Kiki and Ruggedo into a walnut and a hickory nut, inactivating them he restores all the transformed beings to their proper shapes. Kiki, in Li-Mon-Eag form, escapes with the Wizard's black bag but the foxy Wizard follows him, spies on him, and learns the correct pronunciation of Pyrzqxgl. The Wizard becomes a fox, Dorothy a lamb the Cowardly Lion is a little Munchkin boy, the Hungry Tiger a rabbit. Ruggedo recognizes his old enemies a panicked Kiki starts transforming people and animals left and right. The conspirators tell the animals that they will help defeat this alleged conquest, by turning the animals into human form so that they can forestall the invasion of the Forest with a pre-emptive strike of their own.ĭorothy, the Wizard of Oz, the Cowardly Lion, and the Hungry Tiger arrive in the Forest, looking for monkeys to train for Ozma's approaching birthday party. They spread suspicion among the animals, by telling them that the people of the Emerald City plan to conquer the Forest. In the Forest of Gugu in the Gillikin Country, Kiki transforms himself and Ruggedo into " Li-Mon-Eags," Chimera-like creatures with the heads of lions, bodies of monkeys, and wings of eagles. They enter Oz as animals, to evade the notice of the Great Book of Records. The two fall in together Kiki changes them into birds to fly across the Deadly Desert. This is overheard by Ruggedo, the former Nome King, who wanders the earth after being defeated by Ozma and her supporters in Tik-Tok of Oz. When he is human again, a sparrow confronts him over his theft Kiki says that he didn't know evil before, but is glad he does now. He becomes a magpie and steals a gold coin.
In Ev, he learns that he needs money for food and lodging at an inn (unlike Oz, where money is not used). Longing for adventure, the boy transforms himself into a hawk and flies beyond the boundaries of Oz.
Once Princess Ozma placed controls on the practice of magic, Bini Aru wrote down his method and hid the account in his laboratory - where it was eventually discovered by his son Kiki Aru. A Hyup named Bini Aru discovered a means of transforming people and objects, by speaking (and correctly pronouncing) the word Pyrzqxgl. The Hyups are a small community living at the top of Mount Munch in the Munchkin Country.
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