Thank you for all the reviews. Now the main plot of the story is coming into play here. Stick with me for a little while. It will be confusing for a while but everything will come into play sooner or later.

Part 4

When Elsie finally made it off the dance floor a young man walked up to her and was about to ask her to dance, but Elsie just walked past him, not really paying any mind to him at all. When the young woman looked around she saw that her mystery dance partner was not in sight. Elsie sighed and walked over to the corner of the room. The guards standing at either side of the stair well with their spears crossed stood at attention and let their spears come up to their sides as they let her pass. She then ascended the stairs to the where she knew her mother would be talking to wealthy. Or the wealthy that had decided to attend the ball this year.

When she made it to the top of the balcony she was surprised to see that her mother was no where in sight. Even if Glinda was her mother Elsie had to admit that when her mother walked into a room you noticed. Everyone noticed, and it was easy to pick her out of a crowd, or in this moment it was easy to see that she was not in this crowd. Elsie sighed and put on a bright smile as she walked into the crowd. She became the main event. All of the men and women on the balcony were now talking to her, or waited until they were given the chance to talk to her. They talked about politics. Elsie was quite good at that, and then some how the group surrounding her now was interested in how far along her sorcery was coming.

"Its coming along well." Elsie stated hoping to get off the subject. Truth be told the only reason she and her mother knew she had that gene in her was mostly because Glinda had found her floating in mid air, yes it was only seven inches but she had no way of getting down. Thinking back on that memory it was quite comical to watch her mother start to freak out after trying to pull her down didn't work.

"Well would you mind demonstrating?" A woman's voice sounded from somewhere within the circle that had formed around her.

Elsie looked around and watched as every person in sight agreed for the demonstration. Elsie cursed her mother for actually letting her leave after her mystery dancer, because if the older woman had stopped her then she would not be in this mess. As the voices became still Elsie closed her eyes and sighed. In the last three years she only knew how to control one thing, and that was levitation.

Then all Elsie could hear was the loud crash of shattering glass. She covered her head as she felt shards push against her back and her head. She and the group around her fled to the right and when she turned she heard audible gasps as a harsh wind blew past her, and every one in the ballroom. Screams rang out as a figure in a cape swept down from where the large stain glass window once was. Screams became louder as horrified people ran for the doors.

The sound of shattering glass fell upon deaf ears as Glinda felt her body being lifted into the air. She didn't scream, she didn't even bother to wonder why she was now flying in mid air. There were sounds of feet running, and the sound of guards coming rushing to her aid, but there was only one thing that Glinda heard from the masses of screams calling for her.

"MOM!" Elsie screamed as she watched her mother being picked up into the air by someone on a broom. Elsie had watched as the figure on the broom had disappeared into thin air, and someone on the dance floor jumped onto the now empty broom and pulled her mother with them.

Elsie was not an idiot. She knew that the only person in Oz that had ever flown on a broom was the Wicked Witch. Her mother never spoke of that woman. She never spoke of the image that Oz had forced upon her friend. Elsie only knew the woman her mother had fallen in love with. The young girl from Shiz that had been a loner and had a beautiful voice. Though Glinda never admitted to that she loved Elphaba. Elsie knew her mother and knew that Elphaba was the woman her mother's heart belonged to.

Elsie was forced into reality when she felt two men push her backwards and up against a wall as they stood in front of her. The men and women that had been standing near her all being covered by their body guards of running down the stairs trying to escape. Elsie looked at the two men covering her only for a second, she only made it to their necks before she forced her eyes back to her mother. Elsie was frozen, she saw her mother being lifted higher into the air. The guards on the dance floor jumping trying to grab Glinda's foot failed and only made the kidnapper lift higher into the air with their prisoner. Elsie was starting to shake as she watched her mother being carried away on a broom. Her mother wasn't even fighting her kidnapper. Elise put that off to not wanting to fall off the broom.

The guards on the main floor looked up and then four out of the six ran out the door into the courtyard and mounted horses ready to follow the kidnapper that held their most trusted ruler.

"MOM...!" Elsie screamed as she pushed past the guards blocking her path. She grabbed the sides of her dress and ran down the stairs out into the courtyard where the people stood by the walls huddled together, some of the men running out to help the guards chase the one holding their ruler sixty feet in the air on a broom. Once Elsie was out into the courtyard she felt hands grasp her arms and haul her back into the castle. The last thing Elsie saw before the large wooden doors of the castel shut was her mother's silhouette flying off into the dark of the night with her kidnapper.

TBC...