Chapter 20: Justice
When everything at the Badlands Prison was settled, The King returns to his son and Elphaba after interrogating the leader of the Ozian Officials.
"So how is everything going on, Father?" Fiyero asked.
"The leader of the so-called Ozian Officials gave us every person in Oz who made deals with these atrocious men and one of them was the Governor of Munchkinland" The King replied.
"Frex banished me to this place so he wouldn't let me be with your son, your majesty" Elphaba sadly said.
"Is it true what he has done to you? Did you made you into a slave as a young child and abused, mistreated and slaved you all those years when your dear mother passed away?" The King asked in deep concern.
Elphaba woefully nods yes to the King as the royal men didn't like the outcome for what Frex had put poor Elphaba through.
"What else did he do, Elphaba?" Fiyero asked while putting an arm around the girl for comfort.
"He...He changed my name to Fabala as a slave name and I learned he forged my mother's will so he can take everything from my mother and sell them for his selfish needs before he took over the place like it was his castle" Elphaba explained.
"I assure you, Elphaba, He will face up to his crimes" said the King.
Soon one of the soldiers walks up to the king and the couple with another mistreated prisoner and said
"Sir we found this goat, chained up to a cage in the well"
Elphaba looks at the goat before she realizes that it was Dr Dillamond, Elphaba and Melena's dear friend to the Diggs family as she gasped in alarm.
"Dr Dillamond!"
"Do you know him?" Fiyero asked.
"Yes, he's my mother's and my dear friend! Frex didn't want animals in his home; so he sold him to this prison when I was first became his slave" Elphaba replied and rushes to the goat.
Elphaba was in shock to see that Dr Dillamond was scruffy, dirty, badly bruised and wet from all those years of slavery in this prison.
"Oh Dr Dillamond..." Elphaba sobbed.
The goat groaned before he looks up to see Elphaba as he slowly recognizes the girl and shockingly gasped out
"E...El...Elphaba..."
"Dr Dillamond, it's me! Elphaba!" Elphaba sobbed again.
"E...Elphaba...my dear...girl...look at you...Y-You look so much like your dear mother" Dr Dillamond quietly chuckled and touches the girl's face for the first time in a long time.
"I'm so sorry of what Frex putted you through" Elphaba wept.
"I-I'll be fine..." Dr Dillamond coughed weakly.
"Sir, As King I shall promise you that all of you including yourself shall be nurse back to health and back on your feet as well as those who had did this terrible deals with the Ozian Officials shall pay for their crimes" The King vowed.
"We need to get him to the hospital with the other victims" One of the soldiers said.
"Then be on your way and hurry" The King ordered.
"Yes sir" The Soldiers obeyed and took the victims including Dr Dillamond away.
Fiyero holds Elphaba close before the king walks up to them and said
"Miss Elphaba...I wish to greatly apologize to you for what I did to you and my son at the second ball; You see, I only wanted what was best for my son but now I see that you are what's best for my son...I just didn't see it clear and blindly believe on those awful rumors...Can you ever forgive me, Miss Elphaba?"
Elphaba smiles at the King before she bows and said
"I forgive you sire, I may not be a princess but I love your son more than anything in this world and if I had to be Queen, then I shall do my best to keep the kingdom's pride and love for Oz"
"You have my blessings, both of you" The King proudly replies.
"Thank you father" Fiyero thanked.
Suddenly Glinda wanders by the scenario as she asked
"What's going on now? I thought I heard…" She then sees Elphaba and happily gasped "Elphie! Oh thank Oz you're alive!"
"Glinda! What are you doing here?!" Elphaba happily gasped.
"She went to the Kingdom and showed us everything about you, Frex, Nessarose, the twins and everything that was happening" Fiyero explained.
"In fact, none of us would've being here for now if it wasn't for Glinda" The King pointed out as he turns to Glinda and adds:
"On behalf of the Kingdom and all of Oz, we thank you Glinda for saving not just our lives but for all of those victims in Oz"
"How can we ever thank you Glinda?" Elphaba happily asked.
"No need to thank me, being Glinda the Good is what I was born to do" Glinda proudly replied.
"But if you please, Glinda, if your magical family is like you then I want to raise you high and make your deeds and title go noticed" The King offered.
"Really? Oh thank you, your majesty" Glinda squealed in happiness and hugs the King who chuckles at this.
"Is she allow to do that?" Elphaba asked.
"Father seems to be OK by it" Fiyero chuckled.
"So, your majesty, what do we do about Frex and the others now?" Elphaba asked in concern.
"My dear child, you leave that all to me" The King assured the green woman.
And true to his word, in a few hours since the downfall of the Ozian Officials, who were arrested for life for their crimes, The King had all of his soldiers hunted down the people who made the deals with the Ozian Officials and have them locked away for years.
Back at the kingdom, the royal family including Boq and Dr Dillamond, who had fully healed perfectly, were watching as the girls brought in the last person they wish to confront; Frex and his twin daughters along with the brain-washed Nessarose.
"What is the meaning of this?! How dare your soldiers barged in my home?! I demanded a explanation!" Frex raged furiously.
"Silence!" The King bellowed at the Governor who flinched in fear quickly before the King angrily added
"Governor, we've discoverate your deals with the Ozian Officials as well as your plans on overthrowing the kingdom and attempting to control my son for your wicked deeds...Do you have anything to say in your defense?"
"Choose your words wisely, Governor, they may be your last" The Queen sternly warned.
The Governor was speechless for the first time as he was afraid of the outcome before nervously chuckling
"Well...A-A father would do anything to keep his daughters happy!"
"Father! How could you?!" Phannee reacted in disgust despite her knowing the plan.
"Your Majesty, like you, I am just a victim here. She has lied to us both and I am ashamed to call him family" Shenshen lied as she also knows about the plan as well.
"Me too" Phannee added to defend herself.
"How dare you, you horrible traitorous swines!" Frex yelled at the twins.
"Silence! All of you!" The King bellowed.
"Bring Miss Nessarose forward please" The Queen commanded.
One of the soldiers wheeled Nessarose to Glinda as a reluctant Frex stuttered "W-What are you doing to her?! Who is that girl next to Nessarose?"
"I am Glinda, Elphaba's Fairy Godsister and I'm the reason she got to the ball" Glinda replied before she smirks at the shocked Governor and mocked "You're welcome"
Glinda soon uses her magic to break the spell from Nessarose as the ruby slippers came off Nessarose's feet and they were slowly changing back to sliver slippers.
"W-Where am I?" Nessarose groaned.
"It's OK Nessarose, you're safe! I've freed you from your father's grasp" Glinda assured.
"My dear precious little girl" Frex tried to sweet-talk his daughter to him.
Nessarose glared at Frex and viciously said "I'm not your precious little girl anymore, Governor, I don't belong to you! I'm free from your wicked grasp!"
"Nessa! Are you OK?" Boq asked in concern as he rushes to Nessarose's side.
"Boq! You're OK!" Nessarose happily cried and hugs the man he loves.
"You; servant boy! Get away from her at once!" Frex barked at Boq.
"You do not make the orders here, Governor, Only the Queen and I do and if Miss Nessarose wishes to be with our loyal servant, Boq, then you have no power to stop her, for she has denied you now" The King firmly said to the Governor.
"I've given you everything and this is how you repay me?!" Frex hissed at Nessarose.
"You don't love me as a daughter, you love me as a jewel to your own selfish pride and greed...You'd use me and my looks to get everything you wanted and not what I truly wanted, to be a family together...That was all I ever wanted but now you three are not my family anymore" Nessarose sternly defied the Governor before she kisses Boq on the lips, much to Frex's shock and rage.
Soon the guards dragged out Madam Morrible who was in special anti-magic cuffs to make sure the Vizier does use her magic to escape.
"It was all his idea! He made me do it!" Morrible tried to excuse herself.
"Oh shut up you old hag" Frex snapped.
"Why you bald headed buffoon!" Morrible growled.
"ENOUGH!" The King bellowed at the two villains.
"Frexspar Thropp, Madam Morrible, you both are hereby forthwith stripped of your titles and both of you are to sentenced to death for your unspeakable crimes against all of Oz and this Kingdom... Unless by some miracle, someone here will speak for you both" The Queen strictly said.
The two looked around in a panic to see if anyone would speak for them but were all cast down by the glares of all the people in the kingdom as Frex nervously chuckled
"I-I'm sure my follow governors would speak out for me"
"I will speak for them..."
Soon everyone turns to see Elphaba at the stairway, wearing a black fabric dress with a pointy black hat, to some people she had the imitation of a witch but in fairness, she was looking beautiful like a princess in her own beautiful way.
The green woman walks down to the two prisoners then looks to the king and said
"As much as what mostly my stepfather and what Madam Morrible agreed to do with me was horrible but I rather not have them killed, less we look like hypocrites to all of Oz for doing something these people done to those slaves for years"
"I see...very well...Do what you believe is right, Elphaba" The King nodded.
Elphaba smiles at the King before she looks at Frex before she said
"I want you to know that I will forget you after this moment, and never think of you again. But you, I am quite certain, will think about me every single day for the rest of your life"
"And do you really think that this prince will be the one for you, girl?" Frex sternly questioned.
Elphaba turns her back on Frex and moves to Fiyero who walks up to her and asked.
"Elphaba, do you have anything you wish to say to me before I ask you something?"
Would who she was, who she really was, be enough? There was no magic to help her this time. This is perhaps the greatest risk that anyone will take...To be seen as how she truly is.
"Your Majesty...I'm no princess. I have no carriage, no parents and no dowry. I do not even know if those beautiful slippers will fit; But...if it does...will you take me as I am? An honest green woman who loves you" Elphaba confessed.
"Of course I will. But only if you will take me as I am" Fiyero started before he kneels on the ground and proposed
"I kneel before you not as a prince, but as a man in love... But I would feel like a king if you, Elphaba, would be my wife"
"I forbid you to do this, Fabala!" Frex hissed, trying once more to gain control of Elphaba.
"And this kingdom forbids you to forbid her! Who are you to stop the future King of Oz announcing his love for her?" The King angrily snapped at Frex.
"Are you an emperor? A saint? A lord?" The Queen strictly questioned.
"I am her father!" Frex bellowed at the royals which made Elphaba quietly glared at Frex.
"You have never been...and you never will be my father" Elphaba softly yet firmly denounced Frex.
"Come now, Elphaba" Fiyero softly said and extends up his hand to her.
Elphaba was about to take her hand when Frex angrily grabs her and growled
"Just remember who you are, you wicked hidious wretch!"
"Do NOT touch her that way, Governor!" The King exclaimed as the guards seized Frex and hits him with their rifles, making Frex groaned on his knees.
Elphaba walks up to the villains as Madam Morrible nervously chuckled.
"Miss Elphaba, dear, I know we've had our minuscule differenceations in the past—"
"Madame, have you ever considered how you'd fare? In captivity?" Elphaba asked.
"What? I don't—" Madam Morrible stuttered.
Captivity. Prison. Personally I don't think you'd hold up very well. You see, my personal opinion is that you do not have what it takes. I hope you prove me wrong. I doubt you will!" Elphaba replied before she turns to the king and queen and adds
"I purpose we used the Badlands Prison to keep every prisoner like these two locked away for their crimes"
"An interesting idea, Let us do it then" The King agreed.
"By order of the kingdom, you two are to locked away at the Badlands Prison for life while you'll be force to work hard for your crimes" The Queen ordered.
"You cannot do this!" Frex yelled.
"Watch us..." Elphaba softly said before she turns to the guards and commanded loudly
"Take them away!
"Noooooooooooooooooooo!" Both Frex and Morrible screamed as the guards dragged them out of the castle and banished them into the Badlands Prison, forever.
What happens next?
Stay tuned to find out!