A/N: Yes, we've started it. This is the beginning of our answer to the Wicked 100 challenge. This is written by oboefae.

Disclaimer: I, unfortunately, do not own Wicked.

Beginnings

To Elphaba, Shiz meant possibility, her first step towards being loved by all of Oz.

To Galinda, Shiz meant leaving behind her provincial town for something more ozmopolitan, parties and friends and fashion.

To Fiyero, Shiz meant one more school to flunk out of, one more student body to shake up.

To Nessarose, Shiz meant a chance for independence, a chance to exist outside her family's shadow.

To Boq, Shiz meant his chance to better his homeland and his people, to save them from the drought.

To each of them, Shiz meant a new beginning, and none would get quite what they'd bargained for.

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