Ammonite

Name: Ammonite
Gender: Male
Type: Spiral
Flight: Lightning
Mother: Unknown (Deceased)
Father: Unknown (Deceased)
Siblings: None
Children: None
Familiar type: Iridescent Scaleback
Familiar name: Catfish
Status: Alive
Day:
Runestone soldier



[IRONSTAR]
After the war I went back to New York

[AMMONITE]
A-After the war I went back to New York

[IRONSTAR]
I finished up my studies and I practiced law

[AMMONITE]
I practiced law, Burr worked next door

[IRONSTAR]
Even though we started at the very same time
Alexander Hamilton began to climb
How to account for his rise to the top?
Man, the man is
Non-stop

[AMMONITE]
Gentlemen of the jury, I’m curious, bear with me
Are you aware that we’re making hist’ry?
This is the first murder trial of our brand-new nation
The liberty behind
Deliberation (Non-stop)
I intend to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt
With my assistant counsel

[IRONSTAR]
Co-counsel
Hamilton, sit down
Our client Levi Weeks is innocent
Call your first witness
That’s all you had to say

[AMMONITE]
Okay
One more thing

[IRONSTAR]
Why do you assume you’re the smartest in the room?
Why do you assume you’re the smartest in the room?
Why do you assume you’re the smartest in the room?
Soon that attitude may be your doom (aww)
Why do you write like you’re running out of time?
Write day and night like you’re running out of time?
Ev’ry day you fight, like you’re running out of time
Keep on fighting
In the meantime

[EVERYONE]
Non-stop

[AMMONITE]
Corruption’s such an old song that we can sing along in harmony
And nowhere is it stronger than in Albany
This colony’s economy’s increasingly stalling and
Honestly, that’s why public service
Seems to be calling me (he’s just non-stop)
I practiced the law, I practic’ly perfected it
I’ve seen injustice in the world and I’ve corrected it
Now for a strong central democracy
If not, then I’ll be Socrates
Throwing verbal rocks
At these mediocrities (aww)

[IRONSTAR]
Hamilton, at the constitutional convention

[AMMONITE]
I was chosen for the constitutional convention

[IRONSTAR]
There as a New York junior delegate

[AMMONITE]
Now what I’m going to say may sound indelicate (aww)

[IRONSTAR]
Goes and proposes his own form of government (what?)
His own plan for a new form of government (what?)
Talks for six hours
The convention is listless

[FIRESTARTER]
Bright young man

[NIGHTSTORM]
Yo, who the f is this?

[IRONSTAR]
Why do you always say what you believe?
Why do you always say what you believe?
Ev’ry proclamation guarantees free ammunition for your enemies
Why do you write like it’s
Going out of style?
Write day and night like it’s
Going out of style?
Ev’ry day you fight like it’s
Going out of style
Do what you do
Alexander?

[AMMONITE]
Aaron Burr, sir

[IRONSTAR]
It’s the middle of the night

[AMMONITE]
Can we confer, sir?

[IRONSTAR]
Is this a legal matter?

[AMMONITE]
Yes, and it’s important to me

[IRONSTAR]
What do you need?

[AMMONITE]
Burr, you’re a better lawyer than me

[IRONSTAR]
Okay

[AMMONITE]
I know I talk too much, I’m abrasive
You’re incredible in court
You’re succinct, persuasive
My client needs a strong defense
You’re the solution

[IRONSTAR]
Who’s your client?

[AMMONITE]
The new U.S. Constitution?

[IRONSTAR]
No

[AMMONITE]
Hear me out

[IRONSTAR]
No way

[AMMONITE]
A series of essays, anonymously published
Defending the document to the public

[IRONSTAR]
No one will read it

[AMMONITE]
I disagree

[IRONSTAR]
And if it fails?

[AMMONITE]
Burr, that’s why we need it

[IRONSTAR]
The constitution’s a mess

[AMMONITE]
So it needs amendments

[IRONSTAR]
It’s full of contradictions

[AMMONITE]
So is independence
We have to start somewhere

[IRONSTAR]
No
No way

[AMMONITE]
You’re making a mistake

[IRONSTAR]
Good night

[AMMONITE]
Hey
What are you waiting for?
What do you stall for? (what?)
We won the war
What was it all for?
Do you support this constitution?

[IRONSTAR]
Of course

[AMMONITE]
Then defend it

[IRONSTAR]
And what if you’re backing the wrong horse?

[AMMONITE]
Burr, we studied and we fought and we killed
For the notion of a nation we now get to build
For once in your life, take a stand with pride
I don’t understand how you stand to the side

[IRONSTAR]
I’ll keep all my plans
Close to my chest (wait for it, wait for it, wait)
I’ll wait here and see
Which way the wind
Will blow
I’m taking my time
Watching the
Afterbirth of a nation
Watching the tension grow

[STARFINDER]
I am sailing off to London
I’m accompanied by someone
Who always pays
I have found a wealthy husband who will keep
Me in comfort for all my days
He is not a lot of fun, but there’s no one who
Can match you for turn of phrase
My Alexander

[AMMONITE]
Angelica

[STARFINDER]
Don’t forget to write

[DIAMOND]
Look at where you are
Look at where you started
The fact that you’re alive is a miracle
Just stay alive, that would be enough
And if your wife could share a fraction of your time
If I could grant you peace of mind
Would that be enough?

[IRONSTAR]
Alexander joins forces with James Madison and John Jay to write a series of essays
Defending the new United States constitution
Entitled The Federalist papers
The plan was to write a total of twenty-five essays
The work divided evenly among the three men
In the end, they wrote eighty-five essays, in the span of six months
John Jay got sick after writing five
James Madison wrote twenty-nine
Hamilton wrote the other fifty-one
How do you write like you’re
Running out of time?
Write day and night like you’re
Running out of time?
Ev’ry day you fight
Like you’re
Running out of time
Like you’re
Running out of time
Are you
Running out of time?
How do you write like tomorrow won’t arrive?
How do you write like you need it to survive?
How do you write ev’ry second you’re alive?
Ev’ry second you’re alive? Ev’ry second you’re alive?

[WINDSPIRIT]
They are asking me to lead
I am doing the best I can
To get the people that I need
I’m asking you to be my right hand man

[AMMONITE]
Treasury or State?

[WINDSPIRIT]
I know it’s a lot to ask

[AMMONITE]
Treasury or State?

[WINDSPIRIT]
To leave behind the world you know

[AMMONITE]
Sir, do you want me to run the Treasury or State department?

[WINDSPIRIT]
Treasury

[AMMONITE]
Let’s go

[DIAMOND]
Alexander

[AMMONITE]
I have to leave

[DIAMOND]
Alexander

[AMMONITE]
Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now

[DIAMOND]
Helpless

[AMMONITE]
They are asking me to lead

[DIAMOMD]
Look around, isn’t this enough?

[STARFINDER]
He will never be satisfied
He will never be satisfied
Satisfied
Satisfied
He will never be satisfied
Satisfied
Satisfied

[EVERYONE]
History has its eyes on you

[AMMONITE]
I am not throwin’ away my shot
I am not throwin’ away my shot
I am
Alexander Hamilton
I am not throwin’ away my shot





[IRONSTAR]
How does a *******, orphan, son of a ***** and a
Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten
Spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished, in squalor
Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?

[WINDSPIRIT]
The ten-dollar Founding Father without a father
Got a lot farther by working a lot harder
By being a lot smarter
By being a self-starter
By fourteen, they placed him in charge of a trading charter

[NIGHTSTORM]
And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted
Away across the waves, he struggled and kept his guard up
Inside, he was longing for something to be a part of
The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter

[VELOCITY]
Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned
Our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain
Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain
And he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain

[FULLMOON]
Well, the word got around, they said, “This kid is insane, man”
Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland
“Get your education, don’t forget from whence you came, and
The world's gonna know your name. What’s your name, man?”

[AMMONITE]
Alexander Hamilton
My name is Alexander Hamilton
And there's a million things I haven't done
But just you wait, just you wait...

[DIAMOND]
When he was ten his father split, full of it, debt-ridden
Two years later, see Alex and his mother bed-ridden
Half-dead sittin' in their own sick, the scent thick

[EVERYONE]
And Alex got better but his mother went quick

[FULLMOON]
Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide
Left him with nothin' but ruined pride, something new inside
A voice saying
“Alex, you gotta fend for yourself.”
He started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf

[NIGHTSTORM]
There would have been nothin’ left to do
For someone less astute
He woulda been dead or destitute
Without a cent of restitution
Started workin', clerkin' for his late mother's landlord
Tradin’ sugar cane and rum and all the things he can’t afford
Scammin' for every book he can get his hands on
Plannin' for the future see him now as he stands on (ooh)
The bow of a ship headed for a new land
In New York you can be a new man

[NIGHTSTORM AND NIGHTSQUALL]
In New York you can be a new man (Just you wait)
In New York you can be a new man (Just you wait)
In New York you can be a new man
In New York, New York
Just you wait!

[STARFINDER, DIAMOND AND NIGHTSTORM]
Alexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)
We are waiting in the wings for you (waiting in the wings for you)
You could never back down
You never learned to take your time!
Oh, Alexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)
When America sings for you
Will they know what you overcame?
Will they know you rewrote the game?
The world will never be the same, oh

[WINDSPIRIT]
The ship is in the harbor now
See if you can spot him
Just you wait
Another immigrant
Comin’ up from the bottom
Just you wait
His enemies destroyed his rep
America forgot him

[NIGHTSTORM, VELOCITY AND WINDSPIRIT]
We fought with him

[VELOCITY]
Me? I died for him

[WINDSPIRIT]
Me? I trusted him

[STARFINDER AND DIAMOND]
Me? I loved him

[IRONSTAR]
And me? I'm the damn fool that shot him

[EVERYONE]
There's a million things I haven’t done
But just you wait!

[IRONSTAR]
What's your name, man?

[EVERYONE AND AMMONITE]
Alexander Hamilton!