CHAPTER 10: Revolution!
Later at night, Fiyero was still silently alone in his prison cell until a guard came by and escorts a person inside, Fiyero turns to see one of the last people he wish he didn't want to see; Glinda.
"What are you still doing here? Haven't you done enough?" Fiyero coldly questioned.
"Fiyero, I want to say that-!" Glinda started.
"Just don't say anything! I don't want anything to do with you anymore" Fiyero snapped.
"You think I'm happy about this?! You think I'm thrilled that all of this is happening?! No! Frex caught me when I was leaving the rebels base and I had no choice; he was going to kill me and my family for your actions" Glinda exclaimed.
"So you betrayed my trust and the Wizard's who saved your family from Frex and is now dead because of you!" Fiyero argued.
"I tried to save you, Fiyero; why didn't you just stop this rebellion?! You could've being free right now away from Frex" Glinda cried.
"And let corrupted people like him win and all of Oz continues to shun out innocent animals and indifferent humans alike? Someone had to stand up for them and give them freedom or no one will" Fiyero scoffed.
"But Fiyero; you're not like them" Glinda said.
"Oh so it's them now that's the problem?" Fiyero angrily asked.
"You know what I mean! You're not a-!" Glinda started.
"A freak? Indifferent? Wicked? Like you think of Elphaba?" Fiyero snapped again.
Glinda was silenced at that point until Fiyero sighed: "Glinda...do you want to understand why I joined the rebels?" as he then explained:
"I had friends back at my days as the Winkie Prince who were not like the Ozians; I'm talking about animals like a snow leopard or a goat and I was friends with even a Munchkin; For years I watched as their families were abused, judged and even being treated as monsters all because of what they look like and how indifferent they are to the rest of Oz. Some of them were wrongly trailed and killed for crimes they never committed and were framed by hypocrite Ozians out there, just wanting to see others harmed or escape their crimes"
Glinda watches on as Fiyero confesses his story to her before Fiyero then adds:
"I try so hard to help my friends have a better life than this and do you know what my father did when he learned that I was siding with animals and all that? He had them killed in order for me to prevent revolution and shame on his prideful kingdom! That's when I made my choice and abandoned my title as prince and join the rebels, right in front of my parents to show them what it's like to lose the ones you care for..."
"I...I didn't know, Fiyero..." Glinda gasped.
"I didn't join the rebels to cause trouble, I did it because it was the right thing to do and I was not going to let the unjustified cruelty go on in Oz anymore...We needed to rise up against the evil that Frex is a part of but...now because of you, it's too late..." Fiyero sadly replied.
"And Elphaba...You love her, don't you?" Glinda sadly said.
"Yes I do but that never meant, I didn't like you; I did like you still Glinda and you were like the best friend I ever had during those times but now..." Fiyero sadly sighed.
"I'm so sorry Fiyero...Truly I am" Glinda sadly apologizes.
"It doesn't matter anymore, just get out of here" Fiyero angrily replied and turns away from Glinda.
The guard soon informs Glinda that her visiting time is up before she sadly left the prisoner quietly before she walks away from the dungeons, feeling incredibly upset and guilty now for what she has done.
"All I wanted was Fiyero but...because of what I've done; I lost him and become no better than Frex is now..."
Glinda was outside the city gates a while later as she looks back at the Clock Tower and said: "I got to make things right but how?" and soon was escorted back to the Uplands by her soldiers.
GLINDA:
WHILE THE CITY SLUMBERED
ELPHABA SAT AWAKE
AS THE NIGHT CREPT PERILOUSLY ONWARD
NOT ONE WORD SHE UTTERED
NOT ONE MOVEMENT DID SHE MAKE
AWAITING THE MOMENT OF THE DAWN
Early in the morning before dawn, Elphaba soon heard the door opening and sees her statue friends approaching her.
"Elphaba! Are you OK?" Dr Dillamond asked.
The green woman said nothing as the Lion whimpered:
"She's not speaking or moving still, this is bad"
"It's all Frex's fault! That insane twit has gone too far!" Chistery hissed within himself.
"Elphaba, you must try to free yourself" Dr Dillamond said with hope that Elphaba can listen.
"Don't you see what's going on down there?! They're building a pyre!" The Lion cried.
"Fiyero needs your help! You have the power to save him, just focus for a moment, Elphaba" Chistery said.
"Quiet. Go away!" Elphaba hissed.
"Elphaba...why are you speaking to us like that? We're your friends" Dr Dillamond gasped.
"I have nothing..." Elphaba coldly responded.
"That's not true!" The Lion whimpered.
"You're the only one who can save Fiyero now and stop Frex now!" Chistery encourages the green woman.
"You know what happens when I try to do anything. I only make things worse!" Elphaba cried out.
"You don't believe that!" The statues said in union.
Elphaba then lets out a chilling chuckle and snapped:
"How do you know what I believe?!"
ELPHABA:
WHAT DO YOU KNOW OF ME? HMM?
WHAT DO YOU KNOW OF ALL THE THINGS I FEEL?
YOU'RE ONLY MADE OF STONE!
WHO IS THAT YOU SEE?
INSTEAD OF SEEING WHAT I AM FOR REAL
THIS WICKED FLESH AND BONE!
"That's not true, Elphaba!" Dr Dillamond exclaimed before the green woman turns on Dr Dillamond:
ELPHABA:
YOU'RE A LIAR!
WITH EVERY NEW EXCUSE YOU TRY OUT
YOU ONLY MAKE MY WANT TO CRY OUT
WOULD THAT I WERE
MADE OF STONE LIKE YOU
"This wasn't your fault, Elphaba! You can't let that bastard get the better of you!" Chistery tried to snap Elphaba out of her guilt but to no avail as she glares at Chistery:
ELPHABA:
YOU GIVE SUCH GOOD ADVICE
SO WHY HAS NOT A SINGLE WORD YOU'VE SAID
BEEN ANY HELP AT ALL?
"Elphaba, please!" The Lion started only for the green women to snap directly at the Lion:
ELPHABA:
AND YOU, WHO SOUND SO NICE
THE MORE YOUR DREAMS AND FANCIES FILL MY HEAD
THE FURTHER THAT I FALL!
SHUT MY BRAIN DOWN
IF I WERE SENSELESS
I'D PREFER IT ANOTHER GARGOYLE
ON THIS TURRET
SPITTING RAIN DOWN
TO THE STONE BELOW!
"I can't believe what Frex has done to you; this isn't who you are" Chistery snapped.
"Let all of Oz agreed! I'm wicked through and through!" Elphaba coldly said.
ELPHABA:
I'VE WASTED MY FAITH IN
BELIEVING IN SAINTS OF PLASTER
WHEN THE ONLY ONE WORTH BELIEVING
IN WAS MY MASTER
HE'S THE ONE WHO NEVER LIED
HE TOLD ME IT WAS CRUEL OUTSIDE
HE TOLD ME HOW I HAD TO HIDE
HIS WORDS WERE COLD AS STONE
BUT THEY WERE TRUE
NOT LIKE YOU
TAKE ALL THE DREAMS YOU'VE SEWN
TAKE ALL YOUR LIES AND LEAVE ME ALONE!
As Elphaba cried out, her magic triggered again as the statues were slowly becoming lifeless.
DR DILLAMOND:
ALRIGHT, ELPHABA
WE'LL LEAVE YOU ALONE
CHISTERY:
ALRIGHT, ELPHABA
WE'LL TROUBLE YOU NO LONGER
LION:
YOU'RE RIGHT, ELPHABA
WE'RE ONLY MADE OF STONE
THE STATUES:
WE JUST THOUGHT THAT
YOU WERE MADE OF SOMETHING
STRONGER
Soon the magic on the statues vanished and are now nothing but regular statues of the tower. Elphaba tearfully looks down and sobs:
"Since I cannot succeeded Fiyero saving you, I promised no good deed will I attempt to do again..."
ELPHABA:
NOW I'M ON MY OWN
NEVER AGAIN TO WONDER
WHAT'S OUT THERE
LET IT REMAIN UNKNOWN!
AND MY HAZEL EYES
WILL EVERMORE BE DRY
UNTIL THE DAY I DIE
AS IF I
WERE MADE OF
STONE!
In the square a pyre is set for the burning of Fiyero as the crowd gathered at the event, some were hoping that the rebel prince suffers a terrible death while surprisingly lately, other Ozians were getting uneasy and afraid of what their beloved Governor is becoming.
Fiyero was tied up to the stake as Frex joins the podium and reads out a document to the crowd.
"The prisoner, Fiyero Tiggular, has been found guilty of treason and guilty of attempted murder on an Emerald City official. The sentence is death!"
There were a few cheers but mostly silence as Fiyero glares at Frex and hissed:
"You just can't help but pin the blame for crimes I didn't commit! I wasn't even going to shoot you back then at the Uplands"
"At long last, I can finally end this nightmare and bring peace to my child prodigy and myself. As I said before, young man, the wicked shall not go unpunished" Frex coldly whispered at Fiyero.
"You're right about that part and sooner or later, someone will stop you and you will be punished" Fiyero spat at Frex.
Frex just glared at Fiyero and announced to the crowd: "For the justice of the realm and for the salvation of Oz, it is my sacred duty to send this unholy demon back to hell!"
The executioner lowers the flame to the wood until Frex stops him, grabs the torch and lights the fire himself.
Fiyero eventually begins to cough through the black smoke until he yells out in agony from the fire burning him. Up in the tower, Elphaba can hear Fiyero's screams as she tries to block it, knowing she is helpless to save Fiyero until the screaming and violent coughing of Fiyero grows louder and more agony to the point where Elphaba couldn't take it anymore! She can't let Fiyero die! She needs to save him and now!
And at that moment, Elphaba decided…
"FIYEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOO!"
She could remain stone no longer!
Suddenly a violent explosion was heard on top of the tower as the crowd and Frex looks on from the tallest tower of the Clock Tower to see a green figure floating the sky magically. Elphaba was levitating through her powers as she angrily soars down to the crowd like a dragon on the hunt.
The crowd screamed in fear as Elphaba landed on the podium and magically unties Fiyero and gets him out of the pyre.
"Elphaba! What are you doing?!" Frex screamed.
"Get away from him, monster!" Elphaba screamed back and with a swing under her arm, the green woman sends Frex flying away to land on the crowd.
"Stop her!" Frex ordered her soldiers.
The soldiers tried to stop Elphaba but the green woman magically sends them flying away like cannon balls firing in the sky, she sends a few burning logs at some of them, knocking the soldiers to the ground.
Fiyero suddenly saw one of the soldiers with a crossbow, attempting to fire a poison arrow at Elphaba until he blocked her way and took the arrow. Elphaba saw Fiyero's act and gasped in horror:
"Fiyero, no!"
Elphaba then sees the crossbow soldier frantically reloading the weapon when she angrily uses her power to fling him out high over the city gates. The green woman magically got the arrow out of Fiyero and holds him close before she magically levitates them high to the Clock Tower before she screams out to the crowd:
"REVOLUTION! REVOLUTION!"
And to her surprise, the crowd was cheering for her as they can finally see the tyrant their Governor is becoming and to their horror, they were right when they saw him, yelling out:
"Captain, seize the tower!"
"But sir, the Clock Tower-!" The captain objected.
"I care less about the Clock Tower at this point, captain; do not disobey me and open those doors! Destroy the tower if you must, just kill them!" Frex bellowed.
As the soldiers attempted to ram open the church doors, they suddenly saw Elphaba magically hurl giant stones and wooden beams, managing to hit the soldiers away but more and more of the wild Ozians and soldiers attempt to attack the tower until an explosion appears from the city gates as the remaining rebels charges in the city to save the panicking Ozians and fighting the wild corrupted people and the soldiers.
Elphaba and Fiyero soon see Glinda wearing a bubble dress, floating inside a bubble as she calls out to the Ozians:
GLINDA:
HERE ME
FOLLOW OZIANS
HOW MUCH OPPRESSION
WILL YOU ALLOW?
SOMEDAY
YOUR PATIENCE WILL FINALLY PAY
WHY NOT MAKE
SOMEDAY
COME RIGHT NOW?
The rebelling crowd cheers with Glinda as Fiyero happily chuckled:
"I knew it! I knew she would understand someday!"
The injured rebel groans in agony from the poison arrow, unknown to Elphaba yet.
"Fiyero! I'll help you" Elphaba gasped.
"I'll be fine, just stop Frex no matter what" Fiyero said as he was being strong.
Elphaba eventually goes to her statue friends that miraculously didn't get destroyed from the explosion as she uses her magic to bring them to life.
"Elphaba! You brought us back!" The Lion cheered.
"I know and I'm so sorry I turned you all away but right now I really need your guys help!" Elphaba pleaded.
"What do you want us to do, Elphaba?" Chistery asked.
"Let's give old dragon here some action with lead" Elphaba replied.
"Lead? How about we going to make lead?" Dr Dillamond asked.
"With magic, of course" Elphaba winked.
Soon the trio statues managed to help Elphaba magically crave a giant bowl and with her Elphaba's magic, she created lead inside the bowl and aims it from the inside of the mouth of the Time Dragon Clock.
"OK guys, work the dragon out" Elphaba called out.
With the ropes pulled and the clogs turning, the trio statues together moved the Time Dragon machine to alert the crowd and the enemies.
"Look up there! The Time Dragon is moving!" One of the soldiers yelled out.
ELPHABA:
COME ALL YOU SAINTS OF STONE
ALL YOU GUARDIANS AND GARGOYLES
RAISE THE FIRE
IN THE NIGHT
RAISE THE FIRE
DOWN AND LIGHT
THESE VATS OF LEAD
STEAMING, BOILING STREAMS OF LEAD
BURNING LEAD
AND LET THE
FLAMES GROW HIGHER
OH, SAINTS AND MONSTERS
SHOW YOUR POWER
HELP ME TO SEND THIS RAGING SHOWER
RAINING FIRE
ON THE STONE BELOW…!
So the lead was poured out of the Time Dragon's mouth and falls on the enemies, burning them to their demise but Frex manages to jumps inside the tower and slams the doors, avoiding the deadly lead.
"That wicked witch..." Frex hisses.
Frex soon looks at the cross before him as he sighed: "Forgive me, Turtle Heart...I have failed you"
Elphaba returns to Fiyero who on the ground, breathing quietly as she then notices the wound was getting ugly until she realizes that Fiyero was poisoned.
"Fiyero! You've being poisoned!" Elphaba gasped in horror.
"D-Don't worry about me, I'm just happy you're alright" Fiyero gasped out weakly.
"Hang on Fiyero, I'll save you" Elphaba assured Fiyero as she magically attempts to heal Fiyero.
Elphaba can hear Fiyero gasping out and coughing violently as she holds his hand and soothes him with:
"You'll be OK, we're together now! Everything is going to be alright"
"I...I love you Elphaba" Fiyero gasped out as he smiles at Elphaba.
"I love you too Fiyero" Elphaba warmly replied.
Soon she finishes healing the wound and rids of the poison as she sighs in relief: "There, you're OK now"
Elphaba looks over to Fiyero but soon sees that he was motionless and his eyes were close.
"Fiyero?" Elphaba said in confusion.
Elphaba holds Fiyero in his arms and shook him gently as she adds:
"Fiyero? Fiyero, wake up!"
She worringly rests her head on Fiyero but to her horror, his heart was stopped. Elphaba soon realizes she was too late; the poison along with the heavy smoke from the pyre has killed him.
"Fiyero...No! Nooo! Fiyero! Nooooooo!" Elphaba wails out loudly and holds the body of her beloved one.
Unbeknownst to her, Frex enters from the trap door of the tower and sees Elphaba with Fiyero as he softly asked:
"Is he dead?"
Elphaba glares at Frex tearfully and yells out:
"Because of you!"
"I was only doing my duty as horrible as it was..." Frex quietly responded.
Elphaba continues to weep over Fiyero's body as Frex walks to the green woman, kneels beside her and said:
"Now we can finally go back to the way things were"
"No! Never go back!" Elphaba cried.
Frex holds Elphaba in an embrace, much to her hatred as she continues holding onto Fiyero's body as Frex soothingly said:
"There, there, Elphaba, everything will be OK; Our pain and misery will finally come to an end...You'll see…"
FREX:
AT LAST WE'RE FREE OF THE DEMON FIYERO
NOW THAT HE'S GONE
HIS POISON DIES WITH HIM
NOW THAT WE'RE FREE OF THE DEMON FIYERO
WE CAN GO ON
AS CLOSE AS ONCE WE WERE
HERE IN OUR SANCTUARY
SANCTUARY…
Suddenly Elphaba felt a sharp pain in her back until she saw Frex had plunged a dagger deep into her as she struggles to get up but couldn't due to the shocking agonizing pain. She crawls away from the cold insane man as he softly said:
"This is not your fault Elphaba, it's mine. I knew you were born from wickedness the moment your mother gave birth to you because of your weak father...I should have killed you right there when your father gave you up to me to spare both of us and all of Oz from all the pain and suffering that has happened, but when I got the sign from the UnNamed God, I knew you were my cross to bear so I did everything I could to rid the sins and evil out of you and save you from damnation but in the end, I failed your father and I failed you and I'm so sorry...Now, I'm going to do what I should have done... TWENTY YEARS AGO!"
"N-No!" Elphaba gasped in agony.
Frex pins Elphaba to the floor and raises his dagger up to finish Elphaba off as he quotes:
"And he shall smite the wicked and plunge them into the fiery pits of hell!"
Elphaba angrily screams out and with the remaining strength she can muster, she magically shoves Frex away and sends the dagger out of the trap door and slams it shut.
Frex got up and charges at Elphaba again to kill her but the green woman uses her power to froze Frex in his steps and forcefully made Frex expand out him arms like a person being crucified on the cross before she magically lifts Frex up slowly in the air, painfully standing up from the deep stabbed wound and levitates Frex over the balcony
"Elphaba! Let me go! Elphaba! Please no!" Frex screamed in terror.
"You're the weak one, Frex, and you are the wicked one!" Elphaba growled.
"You don't want to hurt me!" Frex whimpered.
"Yes I must...Because the wicked must not go unpunished!" Elphaba wickedly hissed.
Elphaba glared into the frightened eyes of her master for the very last time and with a cry of fury and pain, she lets go of Frex, watching him screaming and falling to his death...
"ELPHABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
And with a sick and loud crash, Elphaba gazes down from the tower to see Frex's bloody mangled corpse at the steps of the Clock Tower.
What happens next?
Stay tuned to find out!