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Here we go! Only a few more chapters until the sequel! Whoo!
Finale
I pulled back from her and looked around as I heard footsteps. I groaned to myself and looked at Fern frantically.
SABRINA:
You have to hide!
No one can know you were here
Hide yourself! (I was shouting at her but I didn't care at all. I picked up the bucket and pulled a screen across the stage, so as not to show the corniness going on back here)
OFFSTAGE WOMEN CHORUS:
(Sung) And Goodness knows
The Wicked's lives are lonely
Goodness knows the Wicked die alone (Fern hid towards the side and I ran behind the screen. Arthur rushed onstage with a bunch of others and I fought them off. Arthur was actually trying to attack me! Idiot! I could curse him into a tin cup if I wanted to! Suddenly a little girl came up to me and pretended to toss water on me. I screamed as if in pain and began sinking to the ground. Smoke surrounded the screen where I was going down)
FERN
Elphie… (The little monkey thing hopped along and pulled open the screen and Fern jumped. She started to cry as she saw only my hat and the little green bottle. She grabbed the hat and held it to her chest)
CHISTERY
Miss…Miss Glinda (He handed her the little green bottle and she gaped at it in wonder. The scene began to change and the thrones where Belinda and Daniel were sitting. Belinda began to speak to Daniel)
BELINDA
(Spoken) I don't know why
You're so despondiary
I thought it went quite well!
They seemed thrilled to shreds
With their brains and their hearts
And their this and that… (Fern walked in quietly and Belinda didn't realize she had entered)
Oh, Miss Glinda! I thought
You'd be out festivating… (Daniel was leaning over, bored out of his mind and Fern stuck out the bottle mechanically. She was glaring at Belinda was a ferocity that would've scared me)
FERN
This was Elphaba's… (Daniel gasped and stood up looking at that little bottle in wonder)
DANIEL
What's that you say?
FERN
It was a keepsake
It was her mother's. (My own mother had a bottle like this but she had never drunken from it, she promised. The Wizard had been her best friend. Her very best friend when he went and betrayed her like the bastard he was!)
She told me so herself…
I've only seen a little green bottle
Like this one other time.
It was right here, in this very room
You offered me a drink from it.
DANIEL
This belonged to her mother? (The lover's theme played in the background, ghostly as he took the bottle from her and I looked at Katharine who was quietly helping me shed the tight Act 2 dress. Right underneath it was a black sheath dress. She pushed my hair from my face and kissed my forehead.
"You did great…just a good five more minutes and you'll be the happiest woman alive. Puck told everyone but you what he was going to do…" Katharine smiled, answering my unasked question about her weird comment.)
(Sung) I am a sentimental man
Who always longed to be…
(Spoken) A father! (He sunk to his knees and pulled out of his pocket a twin to the little green bottle that had turned Elphaba emerald)
BELINDA
So that was it?
That's why she had such power.
She was a child of both worlds (Fern looked down at him with complete disgust and she took on a complete business like façade)
FERN
I want you to leave Oz (She wiped the snot from her nose and wiped her face and glared down at him. The audience started to laugh but how this was amusing I would never really know)
I will make the announcement
Myself: that the strains of
Wizardship have been too much
For you and you are taking an
Indefinite leave of absence! (Daniel hadn't even budged. He looked like he was in a daze and I smirked from my little box under the trapdoor. It was cramped and it started to go higher so I could reach for the door when it was time to get out)
Did you hear what I said?
DANIEL
Yes your Goodness
FERN
You better go get your
Balloon ready.
Guards!
BELINDA
Glinda…dear, I know we've
Had our miniscule
Differentiations in the past… (Okay, she knows how to bounce back fast. She had intentionally hurt Fern when it was obviously not necessary and wasn't supposed to happen)
FERN
Madame, have you ever
Considered how you'd fare in
Captivity?
BELINDA
What?
FERN
Cap-tivity!
Personally, I don't think
You'll hold up very well. (She then took on Belinda's haughty tone and she raised an eyebrow)
My professional opinion is
That you do not have what it takes (The laughter and everyone began to applaud loudly)
I hope you prove me wrong…
I doubt you will.
Take her away! (Fern clapped and the guards rushed over to Belinda and dragged her off stage. I smirked from my little hiding spot. Fern spun in a circle and suddenly her bubble started going to ground and the singing started)
CITIZENS OF OZ:
Good news! She's dead!
The Witch of the West is dead!
The Wickedest Witch there ever was
The enemy of all us, here in Oz
Is dead!
Good news! (She stepped into her bubble and Chistery handed her the Grimmerie. The extras walked into the wings and watched her as she rose halfway in the air)
Good news! (A guy in the Scarecrow outfit rushed over to the trapdoor. He looked around and then crouched down and then moved the hat from over the trapdoor. He knocked hard. He smiled)
PUCK
It worked! (He swung open the trapdoor and I popped up, smiling. There were gasps and loud laughs at how quick I popped up)
SABRINA
Fiyero? (I smiled and I swung out of the trapdoor. He pushed forward and met me halfway. His arms wound around my waist and I hugged him before pulling back)
I thought you'd never get here! (I touched his cheek and prepared to pull back but he held it there steadfast
PUCK
Go ahead…touch!
I don't mind…(He then shrugged dismissively)
You did the best you could.
You saved my life…
SABRINA
You're still beautiful
PUCK
You don't have to lie to me
SABRINA
It's not lying…it's
Looking at things another way (Puck kissed my softly before standing up and the extras moved in from the sides. I closed the trapdoor quietly.)
OZIANS
(Sung) No one mourns the Wicked
Now at last she's dead and gone!
Now at last there's joy through the land!
FERN
Fellow Ozians, friends,
We have been through a
Frightening time.
There will be other times
And other things that frighten us.
But if you let me I'd like to try to help.
I'd like to try to be…Glinda the Good. (She was basically talking to Puck, saying she had given up and saying that she wanted to be 'Fern the Good', good queen of her people. There was applause again and I cleared my throat.)
OZIAN
(Sung) Good news!
PUCK
It's time to go…
SABRINA
We can never come back to Oz,
Can we?
PUCK
No.
SABRINA
I only wish.. (Oh, Fern. If this was real I'd make you come with us. You're my best friend and my mother half)
PUCK
What?
SABRINA
Glinda could know we're alive…
PUCK
She can't know…
Not if we want to be alive.
No one can ever know.
OZIANS
(Sung) Good news…(Puck held out his hand and the back of the clock opened and he held out his hand and walked back, in a gesture, )
PUCK
Come! (The spotlight that had dimmed on Fern lightened up and she didn't look at me but her eyes were glistening with tears and she sniffled, quietly)
FERN
(Sung) Who can say
That I've been changed for
The better? But…
FERN AND SABRINA:
(Sung) Because I knew you…
OZIANS
(Sung) No one mourns the Wicked (Our voices mixed with theirs caused a haunting voice. It was beautiful and I looked up at her, tears streaming down my face, freely now. Puck was looking at me with pitying but silver eyes. He looked at Fern and his eyes turned purple. Then he looked back at me, his eyes silver)
FERN
(Sung) Because I knew you (She went so high that it was kind of scary. And there really wasn't any music playing. You could only hear her beautiful voices. The extras looked at her in complete surprise and smiled at her)
BOTH:
(Sung) I have been changed…
OZIANS:
(Sung) No one mourns the Wicked! (I rushed off, hand in hand with Puck. We approached the hole slowly and everything was smoky. Right by the side I could see Katharine with my hat and my Act 2 dress. She was ready to shove me back into it)
Wicked!
Wicked! (Fern joined in at the end, her hands raising, but her grip firm on the Grimmerie. I knew she'd return it to me after but she realized that I trusted her so much to even give it to her in the first place)
The lights ended and suddenly everyone was on their feet, clapping loudly and Katharine was next to me. Puck smiled at me and then turned to Daphne who was hugging me while I slid on the dress.
"Daphne! Give it to me! Now!" Puck warned. Daphne smiled and nodded and Katharine smirked.
"Hide her eyes!" Daphne warned. Suddenly something dark obscured my vision and I shouted. Suddenly, I heard a squeal and someone slammed into me. I stumbled and the hat fell. Fern was hugging me tightly and I had to return it.
"That was so awesome! After curtain call and the speech the representatives want to give we're going to festivate!" she smiled. I pulled back and looked her in the eyes.
"Fern…you're the best friend I've ever had. I have a question…do you really believe that you've been changed for the better because I knew you?" I asked, quietly. Fern smiled and burst into another round of tears.
"I have been changed…" she sang. I smiled and hugged her tightly. Daphne smirked from where she was.
"Finally, you got something right!" Daphne said, clapping quietly. I growled, playfully at her.
"I know…Fern, I'd like you to hold on to the Grimmerie" I whispered. Fern looked at me in shock and gasped.
"A-are you sure?" she asked. I smiled and nodded and then looked out. The lights were going back up. I turned to Daphne and Puck. They nodded once.
"Go!" I warned. They nodded and rushed over.
"Now it's time for your surprise, 'Brina. I give you my blessing" she smirked. What the hell were they talking about?