Emerald Tales: Magic
Morrible teaches Elphaba magic for the first time. Elephaba learns not all magic is real.
Elphaba hid behind her father the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. She stared at the strange woman in front of her. She looked like an overdressed fish. "Ah Your Ozness hoe great to see you again!" the fish lady gushed.
The Wizard shook her hand "Madame Morrible, this is Elphaba my daughter." He introduced.
Morrible leaned down in front of Elphaba "Hello there dearie."
Elphaba hid further behind her father. "Elphaba, this is Madame Morrible. She is here to teach you magic darling. Now come out for the nice lady." The Wizard said pushing his daughter out in front of him. "Now I will leave you two to get to know each other." With that he left the room.
Elphaba continued to stare at Madame Morrible.
Morrible pulled out a training wand and handed it to Elphaba "I hear that you have quite some talent, well I will help train you good."
Later that night Oscar was tucking his daughter into bed as she recounted her first magic lesson. "And then Madame Morrible made it snow in the garden...even though it's summer! Isn't that amazing! Then... then I made water spurt out of my wand! Next time we're gonna make things fly. Can you do that? Make things fly?" Elphaba babbled happily.
He froze for a moment at the question. He was not sure how to tell his precious daughter that he couldn't actually do any magic. "Princess... um... Now I have to tell you something but you can't tell anyone okay? Can you do that princess? This is just our little secret." She nodded solemnly "I can't do any magic."
Elphaba looked confused "But you're a wizard. You do magic."
Oscar smiled sadly at his only child feeling like he was letting her down, something he hated doing. "No sweetheart they're just tricks. See." He showed her a simple magic trick. She looked absolutely crushed when she realized the truth so he pulled her into a tight hug. "Oh I'm so sorry darling but I'm not magical like you. You're special. Always remember that."