Chapter 10 :) hope you like. yay! we have a new main charecter! Elder Gudna. pernouced 'Good-na'
"Ok," Elder Gudna said. "We don't need much do we? Well you might want something to keep you warm…the Land of the Dead is particularly cold."
Victor and Elder Gudna were planning the trip. Elder Gudna had mapped the directions of were to go and they were about to leave any time now.
"It's ok. I like the cold." Victor said.
Elder Gudna stared at him weirdly and then looked down at Scraps.
"Who is this little guy?" he asked
"This is Scraps. My dog." Victor replied smiling.
Scraps barked happily hearing his name and wagged his tail.
"He sure is a sweet little dog. Well were ready to go." Elder Gudna said as he walked over to the door.
Victor and Scraps followed him and they walked outside to the cold air. Victor gasped at the sight.
The sight was beautiful. There were on a small hill with gray grass that went up to his knees. It was night (Well it was always night in the Land of the Dead) and there was a small beach right down the hill. The water was black and the sand seemed to be an extremely dark, red-black color.
Elder Gudna's tower seemed to be the only thing here. Why was Elder Gudna living here all alone? Well the place was beautiful. He could understand why he stayed here just not why he was here all alone.
"Its pretty, isn't it?" Elder Gudna asked beside him.
"Beautiful," Victor answered breathlessly. He wished Emily was here with him. She would have loved this. He felt his eyes fill with tears but he quickly wiped it away and tore his thoughts away from Emily.
Victor looked down at Scraps who seemed to be enjoying the tall grass. He was rolling around in it and barking joyfully.
"Well we better get going since you said you needed to get there as fast as possible." Elder Gudna said.
"Yes we should. Come on Scraps. Its time to go," Victor said clapping his hands together to get Scraps' attention.
Scraps stopped rolling around and looked up at him.
A slight breeze picked up and gracefully blew through the tall grass. Victor turned to Elder Gudna who pointed to the left and said "We go that way first."
Elder Gudna started walking and Victor followed with Scraps a few feet behind him.
They were quiet for a few minutes, and then Victor broke the silence and asked "Why do you live here all alone?"
"I like it here. After about a year after I died I wanted to explore the Land of the Dead. I wanted to travel around. I came across this place about six months into my journey and I haven't left since."
"How long have you lived here?" Victor questioned.
"About…eight hundred years." Elder Gudna answered simply.
Eight hundred years! Victor's mind wandered back to Emily. When he was dead, he would be with her forever.
Maybe he and Emily could live around here after they were married…with the tall, gray grass and the beautiful beach…
Why was he thinking of this now? He had two whole weeks ahead of him before he would see Emily again.
Did Emily miss him like he missed her? What if she had lost hope of them finding each other again? What if she didn't have those same feelings any more?
No, Emily wasn't like that. They were meant for each other.
The long trail of grass seemed to go on for hundreds and hundreds of miles.
Wait…how would he know how many days had passed? It was going to always stay dark so he wouldn't be able to count the days…Elder Gudna would probably know. He was an Elder after all.
"I've told you about me now you tell me about you. Were going to be traveling for two weeks and I think that's about long enough for you to tell me your long story," Elder Gudna said taking Victor out of his thoughts.
Victor still didn't really feel like explaining it all. He wouldn't explain all of it. He would just say the parts that he had to.
"About…I think about…," Victor started. How long ago had it been? The days after Emily had been taken back to the Land of the Dead had just been a blur of depression and no hope.
"About…five days ago. I think," Victor said uncertainly. "I was supposed to get married."
"You didn't want to get married?"
"No. Not at all. You see, I was very shy. I had no friends and I didn't talk much at all. The marriage was arranged by my parents so they could be in a higher society. The day before the wedding, we were having the rehearsal I no matter how many times I heard those vows, I just couldn't remember them."
"What does this have to do with you being in the Land of the Dead?"
"I'm getting to that part. So after a little 'accident' that I had caused I ran off into the forest outside my town. I started trying to get the vows right but I just couldn't. I came up to an old oak tree in the woods and I said my vows perfectly there. I had bent down and put the wedding ring on what I had thought was a tree root.
"Apparently, it was the decayed hand of a dead bride. She rose out of the ground thinking I was saying my vows in order to marry her."
"So…she took you to the Land of the Dead? Weren't you freaked out by this dead woman coming out of the ground and declaring you her husband?
"To tell you the truth…no I wasn't freaked out at all." Victor replied.
"Why? You said you were very shy so…"
"Well, I had fallen in love with her at first sight. That's why I wasn't scared or freaked out."
Elder Gudna's eye sockets widened in shock.
"You…you fell in love with a dead person?" he asked.
"Yes. It was surprising for me too. So any ways. I spend the whole night and the next day in love with this corpse bride in the Land of the Dead. The you brother, Elder Gutknecht, told us that there was a complication with are marriage and the only way we could properly be married was for me to say my vows in the Land of the Living and drink from the wine of ages."
"Poison," Elder Gudna said.
"Yes poison. Every thing was going fine until Emily, the dead bride's, murderous ex-fiancée interrupted the wedding."
"Ex-fiancée?"
"Her dad had forbid her to marry him so she snuck off into the woods to marry him and he murdered her for her money. So, a little while after he had arrived and practically tried to kill me, he accidentally drank from the wine of ages, not realizing that it was poison, and died. Then the pastor of the church, my parents, the girl who I was supposed to marry parents, and five other men, separated me from Emily and the pastor told Elder Gutknecht to take all the dead people back to the Land of the Dead and to never return."
"So, since they were in the Land of the Living they had to follow there rules." Elder Gudna finished understanding.
"Yes, and yesterday, I found out that they had left Scraps behind and Scraps brought me here."
"And you want to get back as fast as you can because you want to get back to Emily?"
"Yes," Victor answered.
For the rest of the night they walked, Victor told Elder Gudna about Emily and Elder Gudna told Victor about the good times he and Elder Gutknecht had had when they had been still alive.
cant wait to write the next chapter! i already have the main plot for it :) its going to be EXCITING! SO BRING A CUPCAKE!
