CHAPTER 3: Sins and Prayers
Frex dragged Elphaba back up to her tower and drops her violently to the ground whist deeply furious, he kept his calm and softly yet strictly scold:
"How could you do this, Elphaba? After all I taught you?"
"I-I'm sorry, master, I just wanted to see the city...I wanted to know the Emerald City and all of Oz was like down there" Elphaba sobbed.
"Well now you know...and now you know why I keep you here from those heartless fiends" Frex firmly said.
"Yes sir, I understand now, sir" Elphaba cried.
Frex turns Elphaba to face him before he disciplinary strikes her on the face and hissed:
"You caused a violent stir in the city, you attacked the princess of Upper Upland and you used your demonic magic against the Ozians!"
"W-Why didn't you help me sir?" Elphaba sniffed.
Frex ignores her and grabs the bible of the Unnamed God and began to spoke out whist reading to Elphaba:
"And darkness covers the pure, tainting the flesh with vile corruption, the wickedness of the heart shall grow and grow until light is dead and darkness forever more"
"Why didn't you save me, master?" Elphaba begged for an answer but Frex still ignores her and continues quoting.
"Deny all that is un-pure, all spells and incantations are not welcome in the eyes of our savoir; it will betray the innocent and souls shall be tainted to hell"
"Master; you just watch me like a gargoyle" Elphaba stuttered as she raises to her feet, getting angry at her master.
"We are not mocked by those who expresses themselves with witchcraft and wizardry, they are betraying the lord of our home and are nothing but evil in blessed clothing" Frex loudly quotes to Elphaba, showing the book to her and ignoring her again.
"Why didn't you stop them from hurting me? You promised to protect me!" Elphaba angrily yelled at Frex.
The furious Governor hits Elphaba with the book, making the poor woman fall to the ground in pain and bellows at Elphaba:
"Foolish woman! As the Unnamed God as my witness, you will not dare inflect your wicked ways upon me, woman! You may have the heart and soul of your father but you are born with the sins from him because of that sinful wicked whore of your mother"
"Master please, don't hurt me" Elphaba begged, feeling very afraid at this point.
"I will not let you become like her; she's the reason you are becoming wicked and she died for her ways when she gave birth to you as punishment from the Unnamed God" Frex viciously said.
"Don't say that!" Elphaba shudders in fear.
Frex grabs Elphaba up again and pushes her into her room and snapped: "Take that foul dress off and give it to me when you are properly dressed"
"Y-Yes master" Elphaba nodded and rushes off to her room.
A while later, Elphaba returns wearing a blue nightgown and hands the dress as well as the hat she wore today to Frex who puts it on a stick and pours candle oil on it before lighting it on fire with a candle and watches it burn from out the stone railing of the tower.
"No wickedness like this shall poison our Sanctuary..." Frex coldly said to Elphaba.
As soon as the clothing was burned, Frex grabs Elphaba again and forces her downstairs to go inside a private mass chamber and sternly spoke:
"Now, I want you to pray for your forgiveness and salvation from the Unnamed God, only he can protect you now"
"Yes master" Elphaba sniffed and goes inside the chamber to pray.
Frex closes the door and locks it so no one can enter in; he then spots the scarf that covered Elphaba's head with the hat near the front doors of the tower.
"Missed one..." Frex whispered.
He goes to pick it up but soon he caught a scent of lavender and exotic perfume as he couldn't help but gives it a smell, finding the scent to be intoxicating and exotic before he felt the soft fabric against his face and pictures Elphaba dancing today with that boy; something within him felt so wrong as he was about to throw it to the ground.
But eventually he couldn't and decided to hide it in his pockets while looking around to see if no one was within him in the tower and walks away.
Hours later the Governor re-opens the mass chamber and lets Elphaba out as he questions her with:
"Have you prayed for your forgiveness and salutation, my girl?"
"Yes master" Elphaba quietly answered.
"Do you regret your sinful ways that you are born and committed with?" Frex asked.
"Yes master" Elphaba nodded.
"Good...I will protect you, Elphaba, just like the Time Dragon and the Unnamed God will" Frex replied.
"Of course, master" Elphaba softly nodded, still feeling miserable.
Frex made the green woman look at him as he firmly then said:
FREX:
See how it's cruel
See how it's wicked
See how I sheltered you from having to go through this?
How could you do this
To me?
" Forgive me, master; I will never leave the tower again, I swear..." Elphaba vowed as Frex soon embraces her, stroking her hair.
FREX:
Now, girl, you see you don't belong with normal Ozians
You are happy when
You're in your sanctuary
ELPHABA:
Sanctuary ...
FREX:
Stay in your sanctuary
Never to come out here
Again...
"I promise to never again leave this tower, my master" Elphaba whispered.
"Good girl" Frex nodded before he soon takes Elphaba back upstairs to bed.
Two weeks have passed and the events of the Feast of Festavalogy dies down like a burning log turning into ashes; as Elphaba miserably stays in her tower, never forgetting the horrible event that occurred upon her, Frex was down the mass chamber praying when he hears the doors opening and soon finds to his alarm, Fiyero;
"What is that wicked rebel doing inside these chambers?" Frex gasped in himself.
Fiyero stopped and beheld all the beauty, like a beggar receiving an alm, for each window, pillar and arch seemed to fill hi with peaceful light from the tower.
Fiyero soon kneels before a statue of a religious angel and prays in silent for his parents souls, may they rest in peace. This surprises Frex, a rebel praying in the tower's cathedral before he walks up to the young man and confronted him:
"So a rebel dares to enter this holy place?"
Fiyero quickly turns his gaze to the Governor of Oz, still bowing on his knees in respect as he said:
"Of course and may I ask, why not, sir?"
"Because you rebel kind aren't allowed here nor are your people are allowed to wander in these city walls" Frex coldly responded.
Fiyero got up to his feet and desperately, he cried out:
"Why do you hate the rebels and the animals so much? What did we ever do to you?!"
"More than you know, boy" Frex snapped at Fiyero then clears his throat and adds: "What are you doing in here anyway?"
"I came here to find that girl. It was my fault she was up on the stage in the first place. I wish to apologise" Fiyero apologized
"The girl doesn't need your help. She's my charge. God loves even a monster" Frex responded
"Monster? Her? She's no less human than the rest of us, no matter what she looks like" Fiyero firmly points out.
"Some of us are less human. In the moral sense" Frex said, eyeing at Fiyero coldly.
"Do you mean me?" Fiyero asked.
"You created a speculation in public without shame or modesty" Frex informed the young man.
"You saw what those Ozians were doing to that poor girl, they needed to be told that not everyone is as heartless or monstrous as they seem to be even if the truth does hurt" Fiyero argued.
"You think me as heartless? You called me a hypocrite" Frex sternly replied
"You're suppose to be the Governor of all your people, a man of peace and equality" Fiyero said.
"I'm also a man of religion" Frex points out to Fiyero.
"Even so, do you not deny the quote of: Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you" Fiyero quoted.
The Governor looks at Fiyero a bit amusingly before responding with: "You're a clever boy, for a rebel. You twist the truth just as you twist the words in your speeches"
"Your grace, there must be some charity inside you. If you've helped that girl, then surely you can extend that kindness to others almost as unfortunate. How you would wish others to treat you, could you not treat them?" Fiyero questioned.
"Our savoir said something very similar" Frex nodded when suddenly he heard the afternoon bells of the clock tower and soon said to Fiyero:
"The afternoon mass is starting. I must go. My boy, though your people are lost, maybe something within you can be saved. Stay. Perhaps you'll see what true beauty is and we….We can continue this conversation afterwards"
The Governor soon leaves with a group of prayers into the mass chamber while Fiyero soon goes to the statue of the angel that he was praying before he looks up and sighs:
FIYERO:
I don't know if you can hear me
Or if you're even there
I don't know if you would listen
To a rebel's prayer
Yes, I know I'm just an outcast
I shouldn't speak to you
Still, I see your face and wonder
Were you once an outcast, too ...?
God help the outcasts
Hungry from birth
Show them the mercy
They don't find on Earth
God help my people
They look to you, still
God help the outcasts
Or nobody will...
I ask for wealth
I ask for fame
I ask for glory to shine on my name
I ask for love I can possess
I ask for God and His angels to bless me
I ask for nothing
I can get by
But I know so many
Less lucky than I
Please help my people
The poor and downtrod
I thought we all were
The children of God
God help the outcasts
Children of God
Children of God
As Fiyero continues praying, unbeknown to him, Elphaba was watching from one of the stairs levels of the tower, looking down at the young man and wonders if this boy was not as evil as her master says he is like other rebels.
It wasn't long until Fiyero hears footsteps approaching him, thinking it was the Governor back from his afternoon mass the young man got up and turns around but was surprised to see a figure from his past.
"Glinda?" Fiyero startled.
The Princess of the Upper Upland, Glinda smiles at the man she still loves and greets him with:
"It's being a while, Fiyero"
"Indeed it has" Fiyero agreed, smiling at Glinda back.
Glinda embraces Fiyero and happily sighed: "Thank Oz you're alive" but then hides Fiyero behind a pillar and then said: "Only you shouldn't be here, if anyone should discoverates you-!"
"I'll be OK, Glinda; you should go before anyone sees you with me; a rebel near a princess would cause so much chaos to the Ozians" Fiyero assures Glinda.
"But I don't want to leave, not without you" Glinda sadly replied.
"Glinda..." Fiyero sighed.
"Fiyero, please; come back home with me, we can be together again like before and everything will be fine" Glinda pleaded with her ex-boyfriend.
"Fine? You called the fact every Ozian including your family and mine stripping the rights and life of every animal, Munchkin and other individuals that all of Oz hates, fine?! It's not fine; none of this was and yesterday was not fine too" Fiyero argued.
"Fiyero, do you think I liked that they did those awful things to her? I felt so terrible for her" Glinda vented.
"Then help me, Glinda, help me set this world right" Fiyero pleaded.
"I can't do that...I'm a born royalty and I have my expectations to, people are looking to me to raise their spirits" Glinda points out.
"Who are you kidding, Glinda? You can't help out because you can't resist the glory of your royal life! And that's the truth!" Fiyero firmly spoke out.
"Well if it was true then who do you know would resist their royal birthright?" Glinda argued.
"Glinda, you're looking at one now" Fiyero replied.
"I still love you, Fiyero...What went wrong with us?" Glinda miserably sighed.
"I guess we both wanted something different that tore us apart" Fiyero sighed as well.
"Fiyero..." Glinda started.
Suddenly Fiyero notices Elphaba while looking up the tower as the green woman gasped in alarm and fled back to her tower to which Fiyero starts to rush up to the staircase.
"Now where are you going?!" Glinda cried out.
"To see that girl" Fiyero called out while running up the stairs
"Why can't you just mind your own business?" Glinda argued.
"It has to be somebody's business" Fiyero argued back before leaving a concerned princess behind.
"Fiyero...I hope you know what you are doing" Glinda softly said to herself.
What happens next?
Stay tuned to find out!