Anthony at Kiamo Ko
Anthony slowly started to wake up. He was lying down on the ground and was cold from the stone and iron all around. He saw a funny man-sized thing with wings walking around, and a broom levitating in the middle of the air. Out of fear from realizing where he was, he passed out on the floor. The second time he woke up, Elphaba was in the room, pacing. Her enormous cape was flowing far behind her, and she kept clenching and un-clenching her fists.
"I have got to get those shoes! Why do all these stupid little children ALWAYS GET MY SHOES?" She was not talking to anyone, even though there were two other beings to talk with. Chistery had known for quite a while that Elphaba had a far less than stable mind psychologically, and this was nothing new for him. For Anthony though, it was like seeing those crazed bears at zoos walking around in circles all day, along with the lunatics in asylums. Throw in a huge temper and black magic, and you get Elphaba. Gambling on her response, Anthony decided to point out her crazed behavior by answering her clearly rhetorical question.
"Because you would use them for selfish needs, that's why! Even if you were going to use them for a good reason, you still would not get them! The slippers do what they want, if they want to make you do something, it'll happen, if not then you'll just sit there!" Elphaba stopped pacing and looked at him.
"Who the hell asked your opinion?" She stopped her pacing and stared at him, her long cape caught up with her a few seconds later.
"I'm just saying that the only reason why the shoes are on my girlfriend's feet is because Glinda-" Anthony tried to explain, but she would not listen.
"GLINDA! OOH!" She grabbed her head as if she had a headache, and then paced even faster. Just the sound of her name made the Witch's nerves rise, and sent chills down her spine. Ever since the first tornado incident, she hated Glinda, with a fiery passion. Anthony tried a little sympathy to test her emotional state.
"Look, I know you have been hurt and that you have been completely mistreated, but-" Not surprisingly, the Witch would have none of it, and she cut him off.
"No STOP! I do not care about all that anymore, I only want to give the citizens of Oz, a little taste of how WICKED A WITCH I CAN REALLY BE! YOU THINK 20 YEARS AGO WAS BAD? THAT WAS NOTHING! IF I HAVE TO BURN DOWN ALL OF OZ, THEN SO BE IT! AND DON'T CODDLE ME; I DON'T NEED YOUR PATHETIC SYMPATHY!" She continued her deranged pacing and Chistery left the stone cold room. Anthony too gave up trying, and started getting really worried about Natalee. He knew Elphaba would not kill him. She was still too smart for that. Instead, she would imprison him, and let Natalee worry to death, thus luring her and the slippers to Kiamo Ko. In the meantime, she would be attacking different parts of Oz, and get away with it because the ruler is her brother. Who is also trying to help Elphaba get the slippers so she can take over Oz to finally get her revenge? After a few days, he was starting to get hungry, and was wondering if she really would end up killing him. Elphaba was in no place for bargaining with, especially if it meant lovers. Having lost her own true love, she could not care less if I was OK or not.
A few weeks later, Elphaba left the castle to go and attack Quadling Country, which left the whole castle to me. Well, it left the whole castle to Chistery and me. So I, like any teen aged boy looking for a distraction from being so worried about his girlfriend, decided to explore the parts of the castle I hadn't seen or been to yet. I saw all sorts of rooms; I saw what looked like a chart room for navigation around Oz, filled with globes and maps and other navigation. Another room looked like a torture chamber; I do not even want to say what I saw in there. This was obviously her hobby room of sorts. Then, at the end of the corridor, I saw a unique door. It was a small door, only 5"5' tall, and was clearly not meant to be opened, ever. It was chained to the wall with iron links the size of my head, and one of those steel balls that are usually strapped to a prisoner's feet so they cannot move was wedging the door locked between the hinges. I immediately knew this was something huge that the Wicked Witch was hiding, or else it wouldn't be locked so extremely. So, I put my ear against the door and tried to listen for anything. I heard the soft murmuring of one voice. Then another, it interrupted the first, then they overlapped and I couldn't understand. I heard something snap behind me and I knew I wasn't supposed to be there, and was afraid The Witch was there. I saw Chistery the leader of the flying monkeys walk past the corridor and I tried to start conversation.
"What are you doing here? You can't go in there, never. No one is to know about her, do you understand? NO ONE!" Chistery's wings spread out and he pointed his arrowhead-tail at me in anger. He was worried that I would discover something about Elphaba that was clearly supposed to be secret. Above all, I now knew it involved at least one woman or girl.
"Know about whom?" I asked him.
"Never mind just don't come by here again, got it?" He turned around and almost started walking away, but then thinking about Natalee again, I stopped him. I told my self to remember what had just happened, I felt like it was going to be a bigger more important thing to know in the future. Elphaba didn't have many things I didn't already know about so this was huge.
"Hey Chistery, does Elphaba still have her looking glass she had as a child?" Chistery raised an eyebrow interested in what I had in mind.
"Yes. Why?" Chistery hesitantly answered.
"I want to use it to see if I can find Natalee, I am really worried about her it's been almost a week now, and plus, SHE'S MY GIRLFRIEND DAMN IT! I WANT HER TO BE OK!" Chistery shrugged his shoulders and continued walking.
"Follow me," he said. I did as told and slowly walked behind his large wings. We went down three levels and then he led me to a room that had a huge open window, no glass, perfect for suicide. He left and I saw the crystal in the middle of the room underneath a large black cloth. I took it off and said to it, "Show me Natalee," The crystal began lighting up and an image appeared. It got clearer with each passing second and it was Natalee. I could see she was talking with Glinda about our plan to fight back. I wanted desperately to get back to her. I tried speaking to see if she could hear me, but it was not working. I got tired of trying, and then I looked up. At the window was Elphaba, levitating on her broom, watching me the whole time. She scared me half to death, her cape was so huge and her skin was glowing; illuminated by the moon. I did not expect to see her there and she was pissed, as usual.
"Get out of my room immediately! NEVER TOUCH THAT AGAIN DO YOU HEAR?" I quickly ran out of the room. When she looked at what I was trying to see in the crystal, she heard Natalee say she was the wielder of the Ruby Slippers, and before she mounted her broom again, she said to it, "For now, ma ha" and then flew away.
