Disclaimer: Sup yo, I don't own any of the characters andthis is my first Harvest moon fic, ya dig? Yeah, I'm totally retarded, I'm well aware.

Well anyway, as I said, this is my first harvest moon fic, so be kind. So anyway, this takes place after HarvestMoon: Save the Homeland. So R&R, enjoy the story, and later in the story, you will find that I have this little obsession with blood. Yes, I know.

Harvest Moon: Saving the Homeland, Again

Prologue: Pick me flowers, will you?

She never got more then a few guests. And she never got more then a few offerings. Sure, they named things after her, and she was well known, but that didn't matter to them. And it made her sick.

The harvest sprites didn't help much either. She could hear them whispering things behind her back, and that only angered her more. And what had she ever done to anyone anyway? Besides spread her kindness to the villagers in the form of wishes. And to make matters worse, people would pick the flowers and fruits from her sacred grounds near her pond. She wasn't going to take it anymore.

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Katie waved good bye to her grandfather and closed the huge doors of the bar/cafe. The warm summer air washed through her pink dress and made her shiver in pleasure. She loved Summer, almost as much as she loved Fall, and Spring, and Winter. Hell, She loved all the seasons.

She began to walk past Maple Lake, smiling and waving at Joe, who was fishing, like always. He happily waved back, but was interrupted by a fish tugging on his line. Katie giggled to herself as she continued on her way.

She soon found herself at the Harvest Goddess lake, where she went everyday to pick fruits and flowers for the ever cute Jack. And then she saw it. It wasthemost beautiful flower she had ever seen. It resided near the edge of the water that was the pond where the Goddess herself was said to live. The flower was the colour of freshly spilt blood, and the petals looked as though they were made of the liquid. It had slender dark leaves that cupped the bottom of the plant.

She happily skipped over to it and kneeled next to it, her beaming smile reflecting the beauty of the flower itself. She lowered one of her slender hands to pick up the plant, only for it to spring to life and bite her. She yelped and leaped up, surprised when the plant would not let go of her finger, and was pulled from the ground.

Katie watched in horror as the plant suddenly began to rot, turning black as the midnight sky. She watched as blood escaped from the puncture wound on her finger, reflecting the colour that the flower had once been. And soon the flower whithered, and slowly released its jaws from the tip of the sixteen year old finger. Katie sighed in relief, feeling as though her heart would burst through her rips at any moment. Little did she know, but her relief was long lived.

A hand slowly rose from the water the stood behind her. It crawled on land and took hold of Katie's heal. Katie gasped as the hand, and whatever was attracted to it, pulled her into the lake. She screamed as it pulled her below the waters surface. She saw the light from the sun blur from the thick liquid that surrounded her, slipping into her nose, ears, eyes and mouth. And then what pulled her down showed itself.

The Goddess flipped up and floated in front of Katie. Her violet hair and luminescent dress were unaffected by the water, unlike Katie, who looked surprisingly like a drowning rat. While The goddess didn't open her mouth, Katie heard her words as clear as day.

" Pick my flowers, will you?"

Katie screamed, the sound muffled from the water that began to spill into her throat and tried to kick to goddess away. She managed to kick the Goddess back towards the bottom of the lake and began to swim with all her might towards the surface. The Goddess watched with anger as this vile mortal was disobeying her. Her once purple eyes turned the deep colour that the flower had been before it had rotted. Her fingernails grew into claws and her teeth became sharp fangs. The power that the goddess had never before used was spilling out of her like blood from a freshly cut wound. Katie was not getting away.

Katie reached the surface with and took a great gasp of air. Never before had she treasured air like this before. Then she realized that the Goddess was still after her, and that she should get out of the water. She started to swim as fast as she could towards the the shore, but the Goddess grabbed her ankle again. Katie screamed at the top of her lungs as she felt herself go under again. She kicked again, and hit something. Hard.

When she reached the surface, she saw blood pooling in the water around her, but it wasn't normal blood. This blood was black. Black as the withered flower that lay motionless on the ground that Katie so desperately wanted to be on. She continued to swim frantically towards the shore, but the Goddess beat her there.

She leaped out of the water and grabbed Katie's neck and arm. She quickly brought her face to her shoulder and bit down, her newly formed fangs sharp as knives. Katie let out another high pitched scream. Then the Goddess pulled her under, for the last time.

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Joe looked away from his fishing line, accidentally letting the fish he was struggling to reel into shore let go of the fishing line and have another chance at life. He had sworn he had heard someone scream from up at the Harvest Goddess Lake, and the only one he had seen go up there all day was Katie. But of course that was ridiculous. There was nothing up there other then Gwen's harmless weasel snowball, and even if that rodent were to go insane and try to attack her, the goddess and her sprites would protect her, so he focused at the now slack line.

" Shit..." he cursed under his breath. That fish, was hard to reel in, and might have been the legendary fish that he had been hunting for. He quickly reeled the line in and casted again, mentally pounding himself for letting such a grand opportunity to catch the grand-pappy of all fish. And then he heard it again.

Something screamed again, and he was sure that something was wrong this time, because he recognized the voice. It was Katie. No doubt about it.

He quickly dropped the line, rod, and all and raced up the path towards the the Harvest Goddess Lake, and he let out a terrified yelp when he saw her. Katie's motionless body floated face down on the water, blood ran from her a bite mark on her shoulder and mixed with the now tainted water. Joe rushed over to the shore and stared in horror. He didn't know what to do. Then he noticed that rotted flower that lay next to him. He cautiously picked it up and carefully put it in his pocket. He would show it to Parsley later, but that was the least of his worries.

With a long, strong arm, he grabbed the end of Katie's dress, pulling her to the ground. He slowly turned her and gagged. Her face was completely torn up with immeasurable rage, bruised and cut, blood stained the front of her dress. Joe leaned over and heaved, forcing all of his stomach content onto the ground in front of him. Her face was so gruesome.

He slowly wiped the sticky vomit from his lips and covered her face with the front of her dress. Then he carried her off back towards the bar. He was unaware of the harvest sprites watching his every move.

" This isn't good." Flak said in his deep, dumb sounding voice.

" No duh, you idiot!" Nik hissed at him.

" The Goddess has completely snapped!" Nak cried, only to have Nik slap his hand over his mouth.

" Shut up! We should go and tell Jack about this."

A/N: So, what did ya think? Love it? Hate it? Noticed how much I mentioned blood and wounds and stuff? Let me know what you think! R&R!I don't really like Katie, as you can see. Next chapter coming soon!