Disclaimer: I do not own any part of The Corpse Bride. This fanfiction is for entertainment purposes only.
A/N: WOW! 8 reviews in less than 24 hours! I think that's a speed record for me! Thank you to all who reviewed. Here are some comments back:
dudei'mlikesobus- (cool name by the way) I read your bio and saw that you also like Pokemon with Ash and Misty romance. If you want, you might want to check out my story "The Ashy Merman". I think you might like it. I have a sequel planned, but I haven't started writing it yet.
Deyinel- I have read your story and I did, indeed, enjoy it. As for your comment about my not needing to change lines, I feel I should elucidate something I may not have clearly explained before. This is a story re-write. I'm changing the dialogue some because the story isn't the same as in the movie. This story will not have the same ending because of the changes I'm making in the story. All the dialogue and scene changes have a reason in this story because in some way they explain a reason or change the perceived opinion of the story flow. I'm doing a whole story re-write because, while I LOVE Victor/Emily pairings, I kind of like Victoria and don't want to see her destitute and alone, so I added her being in love with someone else in the beginning of the story, both to give her someone else to love, and to give Victor a reason to not feel bad about not loving her, allowing the character to think more about Emily without feeling like he was betraying his betrothed. In the movie it was obvious that this feeling was a large factor in Victor's confusion and indecision between his two brides. Furthermore, by doing an entire re-write, I can show how Victor has been slowly changing throughout the story, something the movie did, but could have done better. I feel all these things will help make the ending I have in mind feel better to those reading it, so they won't have to feel sorry for any character. I also agree with you that I don't have to stop this story at the movie ending. Since I have developed the characters so much, I very well may continue this story past the end of the movie, but first, I'm finishing this story before I decide if I'll add more.
NaviTheInsane and Queen B of Randomness 016- grins Thank you! P.S. to Queen B, I like black too! Black and purple are my favorite colors!
griffin-queen-of-silver-ski...- I am planning on finishing this story. I can't believe how fast I'm writing this! I only started writing this about five days ago and I'm almost done already! I agree that the movie should have been Victor/Emily and that's why I'm writing this!
MagicalGirl23- Thank you! I was so disappointed at the end of the movie I felt like crying, so I knew I had to re-write the movie into a version I thought was better. I'm so GLAD you like my story! The ending will be posted very soon as I'm almost finished with the story! sigh I still wish Danny Elfman had written more of the duet though.
Cheshire3324- Thank you! I'll be to the wedding soon pretty quickly. Please keep reading!
Timmy22222001-squealing happily MY FIRST CORPSE BRIDE REVIEWER! doing a happy dance before straightening back into a dignified girl (yeah, right) Thank you! I'm almost done with the story!
Chapter Eight: Getting Ready
The announcement of the Corpse Bride's wedding caused a big commotion.
Victor escorted his bride to the horse skeleton statue in the town square and, climbing up beside it, set Emily in its saddle, noticing that the skeleton was an actual skeleton when the horse turned and knickered at him.
He turned to the assembled crowd.
"Gather round! Gather round everybody," he called. "We've decided to do this thing properly. So grab what you can and follow us. We're moving this wedding party upstairs," he announced proudly.
This seemed to get everyone very excited as they began to scatter to follow his directions.
He helped Emily down from the horse and block and she was escorted away by a few ladies, no doubt to prepare her for her wedding.
He jumped down from the block the horse stood on and was about to walk away when a high female voice said, "Hold on, Victor."
He turned his head and noticed it was the spider he had knocked away when he was running away from Emily.
Had it only been yesterday?
"About yesterday," he began.
"Don't worry about it," she replied, obviously no longer feeling offended. "But you can't get married looking like that," she pointed out, bringing two legs to her mouth and letting out a whistle.
Six more spiders dropped down by his shoulders and started climbing all over him.
He laughed as their legs tickled him.
Quickly they started mending the rips in his clothes, singing a song as they worked.
The spiders think you're very cute
And goodness knows you need a suit
And have no fears, we're quite adept
We'll have you looking lovely, lovely, lovely,
lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely yet.
A little stitch, a little tuck
Some tender loving care
A little thread will fix you up
And we've got plenty as you see
And personally guarantee
Our quality repairs.
A little here, I'll fix the mess
We're going to do our very best
When everybody sees you
They will all be quite impressed.
They will all be quite impressed.
When they finished their work, which was very well done Vincent noted, they disappeared as quickly as they had appeared, retracting back up on threads of string.
He barely had enough time to wonder where they were going before he was being pulled aside himself by some of the men.
A/N: I'm skipping the rest of the song up till when Emily came down the stairs. I will not include further lyrics, I only included them in the spider scene since it's a little hard describe spiders sewing, so I left the lyrics to explain for me.
The next thing he knew, Emily was walking stately down a small stairway carrying her bouquet, waiting at the bottom for the spiders to lower her wedding veil down onto her head. Once this was done, she started twirling around gracefully.
Victor couldn't help but stare, awed by how beautiful she was.
He barely noticed the barber come up next to him, remove a pair of scissors that had been embedded in his head, and snip away a stray piece of his hair that was lying out of place, before he was more or less drug away since his legs didn't seem to be working.
Together, in a congregation, they all made their way to Elder Gutknecht's tower to go to the Land of the Living.
A/N: I'm ending the chapter here because I have no idea how a couple dozen corpses got to the Land of the Living.