Step it out Mary and be Claimed
The celebration week came quickly. My costume was set. And on the third day I was to go up and sing and dance. Never at the same time of course. I was way too much of a klutz. I had to wear a classic bog dress. Its corset was tight around my chest and I had to wear a bra that showed I was a girl. I had to shave and get ready. I cut my hair and curled it. I was to go on barefoot as usual and I had to dance a bit harder this time.
Uncle Geoff decided to cancel his dinner and take the superiors out to see the celebration for once. I think it was because that he finally heard what happened and is really trying to push for me to be mated. I was very nervous about how I was going to do today. That Albert Wesker guy freaked me out. He had the gall to ask to watch me. I mean, I wouldn't mind it if he just popped up and watched, he just had to ask. To basically tell me that he would watch me.
Freaking Creeper.
I had to put on my costume and get out there before the time for me to come on stage. I had to get the guys ready. By the time we were ready I noticed my uncle up front with my Aunt Sandy and little Anya.
Then, the first song started for me to dance. I had to dance with Jacky and Bill. It was a tradition for the past ten years.
There were three gypsies coming to my hall door
Down the stairs ran this lady-o
One sang high and the other sang low
And the other sang a Bonny, Bonny, Biscayo
It was up the stairs that the lady went
Put on her silk and leather – o
There was a cry from around the door
She's away with the raggle-taggle gypsy-o
It was late that night when the lord came in
Enquiring for his lady-o
The servants said on every hand
She's away with the raggle-taggle- gypsy-o
0 saddle for me my milk white steed
Go fetch me my pony-o
That I may go and seek my bride
Who's away with the raggle-taggle gypsy-o
0 he rode east and he rode west
He rode through-the copses-o
Until he came to a wide open field
It was there that he spied his lady-o
0 what made you leave your house and your land
What made you leave your money-o
What made you leave your new-wedded lord
To be off with the raggle-taggle gypsy-o
0 what do I care for my house and my land
What do I care I for money-o
What do I care for my new-wedded lord
I'm off with the raggle-taggle gypsy-o
Throughout the song I had to swing my hips and my legs showed. When we were done I had to do the song that used to love, but now I dread: Step it out Mary. The song is about a beautiful blonde haired girl who lives with her father. One day a man comes into her father's house and asks to marry the girl. The girl protests and in the end she must marry the man. At the end of the song she drowns with her lover. The chorus of the song is where I must lift the bottom of the dress and show my legs and dance with them showing.
I felt the horror and the fear as I believe the girl felt when she had to dance in front of her father and a stranger. The superiors were watching and I saw Wesker in there too. I blushed and glared at him and the rest of the men. The locals, who have heard this song before started cheering because they must have thought that the glare was a new part of the show. They must have thought that I was acting.
In the end of the song I had to cancel the rest of the dances and singing. I felt so violated. My uncle just had to bring the extra men over. I didn't mind showing to strangers that I knew I could trust, but having my uncle and Wesker himself looking at my legs… was just creepy.
I know I wouldn't have minded so much if the times never changed; if Umbrella never took over and changed our culture so dramatically. But they did. So, I just had to suck it up and dance. When I left the stage I heard a round of applause, usually giving me a confidence boost for the next year, but this time it only made me ashamed. My eyes cast downward I went to the beach away from the celebrating.
I walked all the way to the water and just walked till it was waist deep. My dress lifted and floated around me. I just stared at the horizon. My feet felt the water and the sand. The peaceful smell of the water helping me calm down.
"As I went out walking one morning in June,
"To view the fair fields and the valleys in bloom,
"I spied a pretty fair maid who appeared like a queen
"With her costly fine robes
"And her mantel so green."
I started singing silently, remembering when this was a peaceful place. The only rude people were the mean tourists.
"Says I, "My pretty fair maid, won't you come with me
We'll both join in wedlock, and married we'll be,
I'll dress you infine linen, you'll appear like a queen,
With your costly fine robes and your mantle so green."Says she now, "My Young man, you must be excused,
For I'll wed with no man, so you must be refused;
To the green woods I will wander and shun all men's view,
For the boy that I love dearly lies in famed Waterloo.'"
I found Katie in the water with me. Her blue dress was floating around her too. She walked over to hug me and I hugged her back. We heard a snap and I looked behind us. I saw one of the superiors from Umbrella.
He was a young looking man with black hair cut in an old emo style. His suit seemed to fit him too well and his blue eyes were glowing in the sunlight. Katie whimpered and held me tighter. She was scared. Did she know this guy?
"My name is Dick," he started walking toward us and stopped just shy of the water. His shoes were combat boots. I thought that was weird. Who wears combat boots with a suit besides me? "And, you both are two lovely ladies."
"One of whom is already mated and the other is the sister of her mate!" I spat at him hoping that the impending death of touching one of us would detour him, but it seemed to make him even more excited.
"I am not here for the mated one." He said simply shrugging his shoulders. Katie and I tensed knowing where this was going. He was going to claim me without being an Unstable. This was bad. This guy was sick; he was going to try to… NO! I shook my head, I wouldn't let this happen.
"Leave us alone! You cannot claim me." I was getting nervous. Katie can't swim as well as I can. I pushed her toward the dock a hundred feet away on the left and she left, understanding to go get help. "Who sent you here? Or do you just like to stalk unclaimed women, you sick freak?"
"You were given to me as a present." He smirked walking into the water despite getting his suit and boots wet.
"Say what now?" I was maneuvering him to where the sink holes are. Living here almost all my life I know where the places to walk and where to swim were. If I could just get his foot into one of those holes he would be stuck till someone helped him get out.
"The village leader gave you to me. Apparently, you are quite a handful for him." He smirked and stopped following me just shy of the invisible holes. "I heard that someone tried to claim you, but you didn't accept it? How are you alive?"
"It was a joke some freak put up."
He seemed to relax at the statement, and I flipped. I should have just stayed quiet and waited for him to take a step. Or at least agreed with the—
A gloved hand was stabbed into his chest through his back behind him. Blood rained heavily out of the wound. His eyes widened and I screamed. Wesker was behind him, his eyes showing for the first time. His teeth were in a smirk and I saw the cat like pupils in his eyes. In my clumsiness I stepped into a sink hole and was stuck.
I saw what only mated women see, a male coming too close to the claimed or mated, and the horror of the male's death. When Wesker knew Dick was healing he pulled out his arm, took out a gun and shot him in between his legs. Blood was pouring into the water, making it look like someone spilt red paint into the sea. Dick was screaming and begging for mercy.
I was trying to get away when I saw Wesker rip off one of Dick's arms like tissue paper. The blood and muscles were spilling into the water and I couldn't look away. Dick's body wasn't shutting down yet, he was still alive. I started crying and begging for Wesker to stop, but he just looked at me and smiled with bloodlust.
My leg was stuck and it hurt to be pulled but I couldn't feel the pain, I just wanted to leave; I just wanted to not see this horror. And to get away from here. But I couldn't, I was stuck. Wesker threw the arm away and it floated still twitching. I couldn't help but feel sick. The screaming didn't stop until Wesker put his hand to Dick's mouth and whisper, "You have tried to take something from me."
Dick's head shook and so did mine. I'm not his, I'm not his. "She wasn't claimed!" he screamed. Wesker snapped and started to break every bone in his body. I heard every scream and every crack, before Wesker got tired of hearing him living.
Wesker ripped off Dick's head with his bare hands. I screamed some more before my voice broke. When he was done with the carcass he threw it across into the ocean and fixed his hair. His blonde hair turned a bit red with the blood of the man he just slaughtered. "She has been claimed." He stated to no one.
He looked at me and smiled.