Nice: Sorry it took so long. With school and stuff and can't get anything done!
Bakura: (mockingly) You poor baby. Here let me get you your bottle. Hahaha!
Nice: You are so glad I'm in a good mood today. Let's not argue, okay? Here's the 2nd ch. of Family of Fear. Do the disclaimer.
Bakura: She doesn't own anything, so back off!
Nice: Before I forget, I changed the names of the characters from the original story. Guess which ones are the ones from the book! On with the fic!
Ch. 2: The Curse of Love
Village of Wicker, Japan 1692
You're so nice to me Chris Fier," said Selene Goode to her boyfriend, "Why do you love someone as poor as me?"
"Because you are a nice and good person who loves me not because I'm rich," replied Chris.
The two lovers sat on a log in the woods not far from their village. The village was mostly poor since most were farmers. Some were without food but there was one family who did not share their pain, the Fiers. Matt and Ben Fier were the magistrates of Wicker. They control the village and had the biggest house in the entire village.
Selene hugged Chris and was about to kiss him when she heard a familiar chant.
"Burn the witch! Burn the witch!" said the voices.
Selene sighed. The village had witches in it, vile creatures of the Evil One. It was Chris's father Ben job to find them and burn them. They had found out that one of Selene's childhood friends was a witch and was burning her now.
Selene started to cry at the thought of never seeing her again.
"Why are you crying?" asked Chris.
"My friend was accused of being a witch just because she wore a red ribbon in her hair! She couldn't hurt anyone! She is one the best people I have ever known!" she sobbed.
"I know you must feel really bad about your friend, but red is the color of the devil and she was seen dancing in the forest with demons by my father and he doesn't lie," said Chris soothingly.
He let Selene cry as they heard the death cry of the 'witch' as she burned in the raging fire and the cheer of the villagers as she died.
Soon she had stopped crying and said, "It's time for us to part, but you will talk to your father about us and how you want to marry me."
"I will say my goodbye here and yes I will talk to him and we will be wed," said Chris happily.
They parted and Selene skipped through the forest to her home. She lived with her father, Michael, who was a poor farmer, her mother Mary and her little brother Joseph.
'I can't wait to tell mother the news!' she thought, 'Father will be so happy and so will I! I just hope Chris's father lets him marry me.'
She had reached her home and opened the door. "I'm home, Mother," she said.
"You shouldn't stay outside so long Selene! I thought you were caught for being a witch." said her mother.
"I'm sorry. Where's Father? Out in the fields?" asked Selene.
Her mother sighed. "Yes. It seems imps have been tainting the fields. So, where were you?"
"I was talking to Chris Fier and he wants to marry me, Mother!"
"What! You jest!"
"No. we have been talking for some time now and we've grown to love each other."
"I'm so happy for you! But doesn't he need to talk to his father first?"
"Yes and he's doing that now." 'Oh, I hope Mr. Fier says yes,' thought Selene.
On the other side of the village
"The answer is no, Chris! She's poor and you're rich. You can't marry her!" yelled Ben Fier to his son.
"I don't care if she's poor! I love her and if you won't let me marry her, I'll marry Selene anyway!" yelled Chris.
The two had gotten into an argument about Chris marrying Selene. So far Ben's was winning.
"You wouldn't dare!" snarled Ben. "I already found someone for you. A nice rich girl from the south. You can't say no to her family!"
"I just did! And you can't stop me because if you do, Father, you'll regret it!" said Chris darkly.
Chris ran out of the room and out of the house and into the village.
"He will marry her you know," said voice who watched the whole thing. It was Ben's younger brother, Matt.
"Yeah he will," said Ben. Then he got an evil idea. "Hey Matt, get a mob together," he said evilly.
"Why?"
"Because we're going on a "witch hunt", Brother! That "witch" will pay for loving my son!"
Ben and Matt laughed evilly.
Goode household
"Mother, I'm going out again!" said Selene.
Her mother, who was bathing the baby, Joseph, said to her, "Be careful, and cover your head before you get in trouble!"
Before Selene opened the door, the door was kicked open and Selene was pinned to the ground by two men.
"Get off me!" she screamed to the men.
Mary rushed to her daughter, with the baby in arms, but was stopped by two other men, who grabbed her.
"What is the meaning of this!" screeched Mary as she struggled against her captors, "Get out of my home!"
She was slapped by one the men. "Shut up you witch!"
Her mother gasped. "How dare you!"
'He called us witches! Why!' thought Selene, franticly.
Ben and Matt walked in. "Mary and Selene Goode, you have been seen dancing with the devil and practicing witchcraft!" said Ben.
"We're innocent! We're not witches!" screamed Selena.
"Oh yeah?" Ben walked to their stove and looked behind it. He bent down and grabbed something. "If you're not witches," he said, "then what's this!" He showed them chicken feet, a claw from an animal, and some feathers. "Ingredients for a potion, hmm?"
"That's not ours! We didn't put those there!" yelled Mary.
"Take them away. You two will burn by sunset tomorrow," said Matt with a smirk.
Selene had started crying at that remark and her and her mother were pushed out of their house.
"Mary!" said their neighbor.
"Here," handing her Joseph, "Watch him for me and tell Michael what has happened!"
They were put in a cart and taken away from the home they loved.
Michael came home to a trashed house. 'What happened? Where is my family!' he thought.
"Michael, your wife and daughter have been accused as witches!" said the kind old neighbor, "I have Joseph. He's safe but your daughter and wife have been tried and been found guilty!"
"What!" yelled Michael. And he ran to the jail to speak to Ben and talk him out of killing his family.
"Ben, please, save my family. They aren't witches! I'll give you all the money I have!" he pleaded.
"You don't have much money, so bribing me won't work!" boomed Ben. 'Hahaha! I'm really enjoying this. Watching this peasant beg for the freedom of his family, I almost feel bad from him. Almost,' thought Ben.
Then he saw a glint of silver on Michael's neck. 'Hmm… that seems to be worth something.'
"I'll free them if you give me what's around your neck!" said Ben.
Michael looked at the pendant hanging off his neck. It was a sliver disk with a claw and blue jewels on it. His grandmother had given it to him before she died. She said it was from the Continent.
He took it off. "Here take it! Now let them go!" said Michael. He dropped the pendant into Ben's hands.
Ben looked at it and read the words on the back. "Dominatio per malum. The language of the ancient empire from the Continent. (1) Okay they will be released tomorrow at sunset."
Michael cried out in joy. 'They're safe. I can breathe again.' He thought. Michael walked out Ben's house happily.
In the Jail
Selene and her mother were in a cell full of hay. Selene lay awake while her mother had cried herself to sleep. Selene looked out the window at the moon thinking about her love.
'I hope Chris can get us out of here,' she thought as she closed her eyes.
"Selene. Selene open your eyes!" whispered a voice from the window.
Selene looked at the window and there stood Chris, his face contorted in sadness.
"You came! Help us, get me out of here!" she said. She reached out to touch his face but he slapped her hand away.
"Don't touch me witch!" said Chris, his voice dripping with venom, "Father told me that you enchanted me so I would fall in love with you!"
Selene was shocked at his tone. "I never- ,"
"Just shut up!" he said cutting her off. "I'm not under your spell anymore, so good bye." Chris walked away.
"Chris! Please come back!" she sobbed. Selene sank to the floor and wished that she could die right then, right now.
At sunset the next day, Michael was getting ready to take his family home.
He walked to the jail and saw his wife and daughter being led out. But they weren't going to him they were going to the stakes!
Michael ran to one of the officers. "Why aren't they being released? I made a deal with Ben Fier!" he yelled.
The officer said, "Ben never told me anything and he and his family left in the middle of the night and took most of our food with them."
"B-but…"
"I'm sorry, but they will be executed on schedule."
"Noooo!" cried Michael in agony.
As they were led to the stakes, Selene heard her father cry out. "Mother," she said as she looked into her mother's tear streaked face, "Mother, will it hurt? Will it hurt badly?"
Later that night
Michael sat in his home. He watched his wife and daughter burn. 'They burned as bright as the stars in the sky.' He thought sadly. 'Ben Fier and his family will pay.' 'Mary and Selene were innocent. I was the one with the craft. They never knew about it.'
He walked to the wall and pulled off a loose board. Inside was five black candles. He took them out and placed them into the shape of a pentagram.
"I curse the Fiers to lifetimes of unspeakable horror and bloody destruction! They will know the pain of betrayal and the agony of discontent and sadness! They will all die by fire!" he chanted. The flames on the candles flared up and turned black.
Kaiba stopped reading. The class was shocked at what they had heard. Tea, Serenity, Joey and most of the girls were a sickly green. Yugi, Ryou, Tristan, and Duke were pale. Even Bakura and Yami, who were used to gory things, were clutching their desks so hard that their knuckles were white. Joey was the first to speak.
"Dude…. He killed that girl just to stop her from marrying his son! That's evil!"
"Yes it was evil of him," replied Kaiba who was also pale, "But we're not even to the gory parts yet."
Kaiba sighed and continued reading. "So Selene Goode's death sparked a feud that lasted over 300 years. Ben and his family moved to the northern islands and lived there for a while but soon all except Chris's son Edward died horrible deaths."
'Wait a minute here,' thought Yami, 'He's leaving out something, I know it!'
"We jump ahead to 1737, Edward's family is trying to find there why to the Village of Wicker to find the Family who cursed them, the Goodes…"
To Be Continued
N: You like?
B: It was okay.
N: Yaay! Okay R&R No flames or Bakura will beat you up!