#Wicked's not mine

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Love scene for Chapter 9 (Perfect combination)'s already been uploaded in M RATE - "Ignite the fire" - I wish you have some fun with it, since it's my first smut ever. So sorry if there's any mistake, and you can tell me right away both in PM and Review.

For this chapter - Hope you enjoy the fight!

Chapter 10: Light in the battle

Elphaba slowly opened her dark brown eyes when she felt a feather trace on her arm followed by a soft kisses. Glinda, prop up on her side, was smoothly waking the green girl up in a new way, lover way. Elphaba's muscles were a bit sore from last memorable night, and it's like she didn't get enough sleep at all. Different from Glinda, who seemed to be happier than ever and loaded of energy.

"Did you always wake me up like this?" Elphaba whimpered and turned on her side to face the blonde

"No, not always, only when you're too tired to receive my full waking up routine."

"Full waking up routine, sound a bit scary huh?" Elphaba murmured and closed her eyes once more

"Not at all"

Glinda smiled then brought herself to kiss Elphaba wholly, trailing her tongue on dark lower lip, moved her hand up and down Elphaba's green throat and collarbone.

"Kiss me…" Glinda whispered between kisses, and Elphaba submitted uncontrollably. She kissed back and unconsciously speed it up, grasped the blonde hair in one and the other pulled her closer till there's no space left between them. Glinda parted when it's too risk to go far beyond a wake-up call panting on the pillows, and touched their forehead together.

"See…not scary" Glinda chuckled nudging her nose to Elphaba's.

"I scared I wouldn't stop." Elphaba replied, still breathed heavily

"Indeed, you'd never stopped when we kissed like that, so I would be the one who'd necessarily pulled out before we didn't have a single chance to get off the bed."

Glinda told the green girl sweetly and laughed at the still never change habit between them.

"I'm that demanding?, another shocking truth." Elphaba exclaimed holding the blonde tighter.

They spend time talking and teasing for awhile till the sound of rasp paper slit through the gap beneath their door. Elphaba shifted to get off the bed, to pick it up, but was ceased by creamy hand. The white letter has already been gripped in the blonde's fingers, and Elphaba looked at her in pure amazement.

"We're witches, my love, why bother to move?" Glinda said waving the letter in her hand then gave it to the green girl after reading who addressed.

"It's Dr. Dillamond." Elphaba said while tearing off the envelope. Glinda didn't say anything, moved to lie on her stomach watching her love concentrated on the text.

"He asked me to meet him this afternoon, at the lab. I refused his request for over a week to look after you, guess I have to go." Elphaba told the blonde, brows furrowed.

"I'll go with you."

"No, you can't. This experiment is secret and your magic skills attracted his interest enough, Glin. No matter what that invention is, I have to be a part of it, so I'll know how I can help you with this protecting the future staff." Elphaba switched into her earnest mode speaking firmly.

"You don't have to. It's no…"

"Of course I have to" Elphaba interrupted, a bit louder than usual. Her dark intense eyes stare directly at blue before continued on.

"It's not just you who want to protect someone you love."

It's like something pressed the replay button in the blonde life. Each one gave everything up just to protect the other, and in the end, they both failed because they loved each other too much to be side by side. Someone always stood in the front to be a bulletproof.

"Elphie…come here, please" Glinda pleaded quietly, and Elphaba complied moving closer to the blonde.

"I didn't mean to raise my voice."

"It's alright. You just don't know how to deal with this."

"I will if you show me what will happen. Let me see it"

Undesirable words shot up in the air at last. Glinda averted her eyes, silently denied her love's request. There's a spell that could bring someone into your memories, but there's a side effect that she didn't want the green girl to suffer. She knew that Elphaba waited for a right moment to ask her permission. Her love's smart enough to point it up when she has no choice, but to surrender. Glinda couldn't risk leaving Elphaba to meet the old goat. Surely, he wouldn't harm her; still, something might happen since many incidences had been changed.

"Can I just tell you everything instead?" Glinda decided to negotiate.

"No, if you don't let me, I won't get what I plan for."

"I can't, it's too painful. I spent half of my life dealing with it. You don't have to go back to be that girl anymore when you have me, have my power."

"What will I find there, Glin, what made you so afraid of?

"I'm afraid for you…and the only thing you will find is regret." The blonde whispered her answer before got off to prepare for her afternoon class.

Three days passed, and both girls acted like a well-known stranger. They still lived in a same room, shared meals, sat together in classes, but say no words to one another, at least for Glinda. Before bedtime, Elphaba would sit on the pink bed and faced with the back of her love, trying to convince the blonde to let her in those memories. Elphaba has no idea why the blonde didn't speak to her, didn't accept her request, that's understandable, but ignored her entirely; that must be something else. The green girl sat weakly under the apple tree in the agriculture zone not far from her dorm, avoiding her room when Glinda was there.

"You should talk to her, you know?" the sweet voice spoke beside her.

"Please, stop popping up from nowhere." Elphaba said to the time keeper.

"Awwwwwww…my little green, don't be so upset. I'm here to help you!"

"I don't want you to come. Something bad might happen if you're here."

"You believe in my reputation then! Well…they have good memories though." Hora said with a sly grin.

"What do you want, Hora? Sorry, but I'm not in the mood."

"Always strange to the point…how boring you are. Alright, I will tell you that something might happen to Glinda if you're here."

"That's just for mocking me, right? NOT FUNNY." Elphaba gritted her teeth.

"Same structure with you, but no, I really mean it." Hora said in a firmer voice.

"What's wrong, what happen!?" Elphaba jumped up from the ground sweeping her books in her satchel.

"She's going to the Animals camp tonight, alone; I'm with her too, literally."

"What? Where? Isn't that dangerous? Why she's running for trouble like that!?...wait…her friend! She's going for her friend!..." She sped up her questions and mumbled all the way to her room.

"Oh please…too many for my slim mouth"

Hora complained out loud. She appeared not far from Elphaba a few feet away all the way to the gate of her dorm then stood out of nowhere in front of her to block the path.

"Elphaba, just think of a lovely way to persuade, to let you go with her, before walking in to that room, please, you didn't talk to each other for days, did you?"

This was harder than taking the hardest exam Shiz has ever created. Dark eyes caught a sight of ordinary flowers along the path, simple tone, and no any smell, so out of sight from everyone. She hurried to them and picked up randomly trying to balance it into a nice small bush, inserted some good sized of fern and grass around it. Elphaba fasten it with some reed she could find and showed her plain gift to Hora for a comment, with a serious look on her face.

"I promise her love for it."

No need to say more, Elphaba shouted back thank you and ran to her room. When she abruptly shoved the door in, she met with a figure stood formidable in its black satin cloak, dress in same color with swiftly look. Slight of blonde ringlet could be seen under the covered hood. Bright light shone in her right hand ready to cast a spell. Glinda jerked her head up to meet the visitor, but Elphaba didn't see anything except shadow and dim blonde hair. Even with that frighten look, the green girl felt that it's her Glinda.

"You can't go with me." Glinda said simply.

"Just because I don't need any more prove doesn't mean I can't go with you." Elphaba replied, hiding her gift at the back.

"You don't understand."

"That's why I need to go, so I can understand what you've been through, Glin."

In that time, Hora appeared behind Glinda and bowed politely, the witch was here now, not a college girl. Before Elphaba could say anything more, Hora gently waved her hand to her and acted like smelling something, so Elphaba slowly stepped closer, lower the dark hood to review the gorgeous face, and handed her a flossy bush.

"I love you, and I'm sorry for my stubbornness, but please, let me be that girl." Elphaba said staring at the blonde.

"What if you die…" Glinda murmured, averted her blue eyes.

"What's the different if you die?"

Glinda looked at her at last. Tear began to brim in her eyes. She accepted the bush from green hand, and chuckled quietly.

"It's just so you, Elphie. Thank you." Glinda kissed her gently before walking to their wardrobe and grabbed some thick black cloak for her. She prepared it since Elphaba still required any prove.

"Thanks for bringing her to me, Hora." Glinda smiled at the time keeper.

"Well…I adored your love, master." Hora turned to Elphaba and winked at her. Glinda settled her flower on the bed and walked to them whispering something to her hand.

"Ready Elphie, Hora?"

"Since the day I met you."

"Since the day I served you." Hora copied the green girl, and that made said girl groaned out loud.

Glinda smiled at them, a bit shy at Elphaba's answer, and with a snap, they all vanished from their room sweet room.

Bright light blinded Elphaba's eyes for a while. She felt a cold wind cut all over her body even with a quite thick cloak. Glinda reached for Elphaba's hood and covered raven head for her before took care of her own. They stood in the damp forest, with large trees and lots of vine. The sun was going to sleep soon, gleamed its weak orange light. Hora's nowhere to be found, but that didn't worry them much.

"Where're we Glin?"

"Northern from Shiz, I guess Dillamond went his business trip here. We came here before, in the future I mean, but after the Emerald city was taken. They moved to city, and they left the monkey die, for they didn't follow any orders. Chistery told us about this."

"So, lots of Animals're here now."

"I guess so, but I don't think we took so long. I planned to let our friends out and spied on their army a bit then we go back."

Glinda lead her green girl deeper for around five minutes when they heard a louder voice. They stopped behind a big sharp rock looking into the large camp. There're hundreds of tents and many of residences were cottages made of wood and hay. From what they saw, it was like a huge refugee camp that full with weapons: guns, arrows, spears, and more. Most of Animals carried it with them; even bird has an iron beak tucked under wings. Around the camp was a low wood fence, easily to climb over. Elphaba walked at the outside of the fence for a while till she's in the back zone of it, guess from the old cottages and few of ripped tents. It was a meadow part of the camp, wide open with strong wind. Not far from the collapsed house, iron cages were placed on high grass, sounds of shaking bars could be heard clearly. They crossed a short distance between forest and the ruin house. Winged monkeys locked up in the cages, nearly hundreds of them jumping and screaming at each other. They have wings, large and big.

"No…it can't be…" Elphaba said in shock.

"Dr. Dillamond modified their genetic, for spy. He needs them for news, and they're the best messenger." Glinda explained softly looking for her friend in the cage.

"Chistery!" Glinda called out. The said monkey whipped her head at the blonde and moved closer. Glinda hugged him through the bars and told him about her plan.

"Chisty! Uh no no…Chistery, I'm going to let you out...out of the cage, yes!, you have to bring your friends to the North, fly two days - nonstop. There's a safe cave in the waterfall, live there, and I will meet you later, alright." The monkey seemed to understand and screeched out to his herd.

Elphaba kneeled beside the blonde and patted the small furry head kindly. Her eyes full with tear.

"They'll be alright, Elphie."

"They're no different, animals – Animals, same race, how can he...stoop so low." Elphaba thought about her teacher and let tear drop for the first time in many years. Glinda stepped back from the cages bringing Elphaba with her, shot her hands, and flicked small wrists up. The front bars exploded out into pieces. Chistery screamed again and spread his wings. His friends flew up in the air heading northward, but Chistery didn't follow. He caught Elphaba and Glinda hands in his and waved them up and down.

"Looks like he doesn't want to go."

"That, I expected. Let's get out of here Elphie. I think I see enough."

Glinda whispered a transporting spell on her hand again while running to the outer camp, making move to the old fence.

"How he can gather many Animals, I wonder. It's too many, too many to be real."

"You said this before, but we've never get the answer."

They nearly reach the dark forest when Chistery screeched out in frightened. The flash yellow light lashed at them, but brighter white one struck back instantly, still, they all flew back for a few meters from spell's impact. The witch's the first who stood up; her hood fell out showing her flowing blonde hair. She gazed around dreadfully, bright light shining in her hands. When his body caught her eye, she threw her arm up, and glistering light blades dashed to her attacker. It slashed out part of his shirt piercing through many trees, and he, who hid in the shadow of the forest amazed with his opponent. The witch didn't have any patient to play hide and seek. She kneeled down on the grass and lit fire on top of its leaves from her heated light. The white flame shone up immediately, and she tossed it to the first bush she saw in the forest. The sound of chapped wood burned her enemy ears, and he, shredding his fired shirt out, showed himself in front of the higher bonfire.

The man with middle range white hair, soft beard on his lower face and cheeks, tally stood, bare foot. His body was perfectly shape, strong muscles set in pack under his wide chest, and long legs with plain black trousers which was a bit burn now. Dark gray eyes looked at her with interest, small smirk on his thin lips. He was very handsome actually, intensive way. The witch scanned him carefully while whispering a spell to her fists and touched her palms on the green ground. This's going to be a boom boom party under the moonlight.

Elphaba thought she just struck by a thunder light; she grasped the shaking monkey in her arms before she was crashed to a middle sized rock hidden in the taller grass. Chistery cried out in annoying voice trying to wake her up, and she found that his hands pressed hard on her side head. First thing she saw with blurry eyes was her own blood, lots of it on Chistery hands, and it ran down on her left cheek. Elphaba couldn't move, the pain shot up and it's so difficult to even blink her eyelids. In her numb and blurry senses, she heard a sound of thunder everywhere, flash light fast in her half opened eyes, and the smell of smoke. Light…Glinda with her dizzy realization, she finally moved her head a bit to observe things around her. She met with a light explosion on her right, and there her love stood, panting and wounded. She saw blood for a moment from the spell's flash, but she's not sure where, for the blonde's in her black dress, and the spells were too fast from her condition right now. Anyway, Elphaba heard another voice, a familiar two voices along with noisy shouts; across the meadow she saw fire from torches and her teachers – Dr. Dillamond and Madam Morrible looking at this magic war with grin on their face. Disappointment flashed in her mind, some part of her hoped it's not true. Then Glinda's fighting form filled her heart, wild blue eyes, gritted teeth, shaking from injury and cold wind, and for the first time in her life that she understand the feeling of hate. She hated them with all her green being. They're coming this way, and this's worse, indescribable worse than ever. Elphaba realized that she had to do something to fetch them away. A few feet from her right, placed a ruin house, so she tried to walk there with her weight on Chistery. Every strategy she used to read in the book was digging up in her head; finally, she grabbed a dusty long wood and examined it thoroughly.

"Chistery, there's armory here, right?"

He nodded his head fast before lift his hands up with two fingers.

"Good…" handed the winged monkey a green fired log

"Burn them all"

All went wrong – her rescue plan. Who is he? So powerful…so unlimited. The witch's never fought with a real wizard like him before. She used to fight some of them, but no one really called as magical. Critically, she couldn't win this man. He struck her with ancient spells, same as written in the Grimmeries, without afraid of over destruction. The witch herself fought back with the same series of lighting spell too, or else she would be dead since the first blow. Fearfully, where is Elphaba, lost in the field or died from the widespread spells, so she casted the brightest light she's ever had aiming at her enemy, followed by the spell she once dare not to use - Blinding spell. No one can protect these two spells perfectly, even him, but surely he wouldn't give up his eyes to the darkness easily; still she hoped he would. Her spells hit him directly at his face, but he blocked some of it with yellow light shield like she predicted. That's enough for her. The witch transported herself to the old barn, quite far from the meadow, she guessed. She needed space to think, and her spell brought her here. Her left upper arm got a huge cut from her own light blade. That man has a various kinds of shield – obviously, protector type; different from her – she was a combat one.

BOOM!

A very loud explosion reached her ears, and emerald fire started to alight. Elphaba…, the witch ran as fast as she can, nonstop till she met with the great fire consuming all over the place, tents, cottages, and what looked like an armory which was now blow into pieces from gunpowder. It's like a center of the camp here, where everyone could get their weapon equally. Animals rushed around in chaos trying to put out the fire, but before she could do anything, a thick light wall produced by lots of brick crashed to her side forcefully, thrown the witch to the other side of the burning square. Something might be broken. The witch began to breathe harder, struggled to take a gulp of air - worn-out on the floor.

"Moonlight trap, that's very hard to perform. You are incredible my lady."

His voice was deep, but sweetly soft opposing with his look. The white man said in praise and motioned to his left side, from head to toe. Many ugly burns and deep cuts decorated on his good shape.

"Nice to meet you, Glinda Upland."

And he sent light giant sword to her. Glinda, who already prepared a spell on her hand, painfully shoved it out and released her last chance, yet nothing happened. Their spells gone, disappeared in the air. By Glinda's surprise and relieve, the time keeper's there in front of her, eyes full with dangerous rage. The white man looked more shock and stepped back shakily.

"ENOUGH"

Hora groaned out in deep anger. She waved her hand, and a rusty anchor shot up from the ground binding him with its heavy chain and dig its huge head deeply, buried under their feet. The time keeper lashed her arm up and another rusty chain darted out to confine both hands and legs. The white man was forced to his knees when the last smaller chain dragged his neck down.

"Enjoy your stay" Hora said cruelly

Moving quickly to her master, she mildly carried Glinda up on her back, laced Glinda's arms and legs on her body before kissed her cheek softly.

"I'm sorry master, come on…let's get your Elphie."

Glinda hugged her neck loosely and let conscious strayed away from her at last.

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