It was another long walk, and the group came upon some rainbow shells.
"Wow, this is great," Lori smiled.
Suddenly, something jumped out from a nearby tidepool, scaring Dorothy into getting on Lori's shoulder.
"It's okay, Dorothy—it's just a crab," Lori smiled. She saw that this crab looked like the one from The Little Mermaid. "Hello there."
"Hello, I'm Sebastian," the crab smiled.
"I'm Lori, and this is my cat Dorothy and our friend Scuttle," Lori smiled.
"Good to meet you," Sebastian smiled. Then he saw Lori's violin case. "What do you have there, child?"
"It's a violin," Lori replied. She took the violin out of the case and played a little bit of "Part of Your World".
"Beautiful," Sebastian smiled. "It must take a lot of heart to do that. I wish I had a heart." He began to sing, and Lori played along with her violin.
SEBASTIAN: When a crab's an empty kettle
He should be on his mettle
And yet I'm torn apart
Just because I'm presuming that
I could be kinda human
If I only had a heart
I'd be tender, I'd be gentle
And awful sentimental
Regarding love and art
I'd make friends with the sparrows
And the boy who shoots the arrows
If I only had a heart
Picture me a balcony
Above, a voice sings low
LORI: Wherefore art thou, Romeo?
SEBASTIAN: I hear a beat
How sweet
Just to register emotion
Jealousy, devotion,
And really feel the part
I could stay young and chipper
And I'd lock it with a zipper
If I only had a heart
Lori then had another idea. "We were just wondering why you couldn't come with us and ask the Wizard of Oz for a heart," she smiled, putting her violin back.
"You really believe he would give me a heart?" Sebastian asked.
"He must," Lori declared. "He's going to send me and Dorothy home to Kansas, and he's going to give Scuttle a brain."
"Okay, I'll go with you," Sebastian smiled.
"You might want to hitch a ride in my purse," Lori said. "Not only is it kinda hot, but I might accidentally step on you."
"Okay, thank you, Lori," Sebastian smiled.
Lori put Sebastian in her purse and skipped down the road with Dorothy at her feet and Scuttle by her side, and they all sang their travel song.
We're off to see the Wizard
The wonderful Wizard of Oz
We hear that he is a whiz of a whiz if ever a whiz there was
If ever oh ever a whiz 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!
Little did Lori know that the Wicked Witch was using her crystal ball to spy on her.
"Just as I thought—Sophia gave the slippers to that goofy girl!" the Wicked Witch growled. "She really needs to watch her back now."

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Part of this World
FanfictionLorelei "Lori" Prescott lives a happy life as a child until her mother is killed in a tornado when she was 10. Seven years later, everything changes: her widowed father is remarried, and she finds herself with a new stepmother, stepbrother, and step...