What To Do In A Boring Meeting
A.N: Yeah it's not really near Halloween, but oh well. Finale!
No.25: Tell ghost stories.
"Hey I know!" America shouted out again, interrupting Canada yet again "Let's tell ghost stories!
"Are you sure America?" England asked. The American was kinda famed for his fear of ghosts. And inability to sleep after watching a ghost movie.
"Yeah I can totally handle it, it's only a story right?" America said.
"Okay, okay, can I go first?" Italy asked, suprising everyone, especially Germany.
"Sure." America agreed. Italy took a deep breath;
"Okay, so once in a palace, in Venice, called Palazzo Mastelli, there were these three rich merchants called Rioba, Afani and Sandi-"
"Sandi's not a very scary name." America interrupted. After some 'shhh's and a whack around America's head, from England, Italy continued;
"About 1100AD they tried to sell a poor quality fabric to this Venitian lady for a really high price. (I mean, you could buy loads of packs of pasta for it). When the lady got home she discovered the fraud, when she tried to make clothes and the fabric disintergrated before her eyes. She cursed the money that she had given to the merchants, and when the three touched it, they were transformed into stone statues. Y'know the statues are still there, in the square behind the palace." Italy finished.
"Right... I never knew you knew stories like that Italy!" America exclaimed, a little freaked out.
Italy nodded.
"I'll go next aru." China announced. Nobody could quite remember when they had let him in but, oh well.
"This is called; From Behind the Veil;
So the prefect of Hongdian, Henan Province had a really pretty daughter, and when she was 28, she was engaged to a man, surnamed Lu. On the day she and her family were preparing the wedding a magician, who had come to the house often, showed up.
The mother asked what 's fortune was like.
"He is not to be your son-in-law." said the magician "Your son-in-law will have a medium build, clean-shaven and light complexion (light skin). The mother denied this, but the magician insisted that she was correct, but she did not know why was not to be their son-in-law.
The 'bride's price' arrived-"
"Wait, so you had to pay for your bride? And when are we gunna get to the scary part?" America interrupted agian.
"Yes and soon aru." China replied while thinking 'rude westerners'.
"So the 'bride's price' arrived- lots of jewels and gold. The mother was not happy. "Can you still say my daughter is not to wed tonight?" she asked the magician. "A lot can happen between now and tonight." was the answer.
Then the Lus arrived and the magician was dissmissed from the house. They exchanged plesantries and gifts.
But then at the wedding, as the future groom and still-veiled bride faced each other for the first time...
"Ahhh!" screamed and fled from the room grabbed a horse and did not return. When people caught up to him, they could not convince him to return to the house.
As you could imagine, the prefect was very angry. He asked for someone to marry his daughter, as he did not want rumors spreading that she was really ugly. A man named Zheng stepped forward and became their son-in-law. He was of medium height, beardless and rather pale- just as the magician had predicted.
Several years later Zheng ran into and asked him why he had ran away from his wife.
"Beleive it or not," Lu said "She appered to me as a ghost! Her two etes were a fiery red and her face, a very greenish black! I had never befre been so frightened!"
From this we can see only those meant to be together should be wed and to expect otherwise, would be all in vain. And I should know it happened, because I was there." China finished.
"That was... creeeepy!" America exclaimed, quite freaked out now. "How 'bout one with a boat? Boats aren't scary right?" he whined.
Somehow everyone ended loooking at England and France. As the two with experience on a boat, one at least should have a good story.
"Fine," England huffed "The Ghosts of Goodwin Sands." and somehow the lights dimmed, while the sun set outside. It was getting pretty late. England lent back in his seat;
"It is said, in 1748, a three-masted ship, The Lovibond, was sailing from England to Portugal with a cargo that included gold and wheat. It was also carrying newlyweds, the Captain Simon Reed and his wife Anneta, honeymooning on the voyage.
However the mate, John Rivers, had been an admirer of the woman before her marrige and was driven mad by his love. He killed the helmsman and deliberately steered the ship onto Goodwin Sands, resulting in the death of all on board as the sea claimed them for its own.
The date of the wreck? Friday 13th Feburary."
"Eugh, creepy dude." America said.
"That's not the last of it," England said;
"Every 50 years people have supposedly seen sightings of the phantom ship, and the screams of those on board heard by other sailors nearby in 1798, 1848 and 1898.
In 1948 one captain reported the vessel glowing green and the screams even louder and horrorfying.
So the next time the ship should be around is in 2048, Friday 13th Feburary." England finished.
By now everyone was quite freaked out.
"Let's... go home now..." America finished. Everyone agreed and stood up.
"Watch out for the Black Dog on your way home- just saying." England warned.
"What's a leetle black dog going to do?" France mocked. Germany face-palmed.
"Well it's often said to be accosiated with the Devil or a Hellhound, and it's larger than a normal dog, thank you," England retaliated "and some people belive that you will die soon after meeting the Dog. It's also seen mostly at night, just so you know." Then he chose that moment to leave.
The walk home was terror filled for most of them.
Italy refused to sleep alone in his own bed for 2 weeks, untill Germany forced him to.
A.N: The stories I gave are all from different websites, but I think they are real. I did edit some of them (partly- not really- just tried to shorten them a bit) so some information would be missing, just the bits that I think are just a bit of a waste of letters though. The names were with the website, and the stories and characters aren't exactly proven to be true (not false either though, soo...).