OK, I was short on ideas for victims so I came across a review asking how I kill Emily from Corpse Bride. You'll now find out! By the way, I hate it but it must be done; Barkis is the good guy! Ew, I know.
Emily
Emily was promised to live in safety with her fiancés, Lord Barkis, as long as she brought gold and a bag of money.
"Emily?" Barkis quietly called out, "Are you there, My Sweet?"
She looked around the old oak tree to find him, "William, is that you?" he stepped out and smiled greatly at her in her wonderful gown.
"Did you bring the money?" he asked and looked in the bag, "Perfect, now we can runaway together."
"Will it be enough?" she held his hands and looked into his eyes.
"It more than we need." he gripped her hand and they didn't even take step when Sweeney Todd stepped out of the blue and into the moonlight.
"Todd!" Barkis gasped and shoved Emily behind him, "What are you doing here?"
Sweeney whipped out his razors, "Her." he darkly said and moved in. Barkis grabbed the bag of money and hit Sweeney in his face.
"What for? Why do you want to kill her?" he ordered, "I demand to know."
"I was hired by Lady Victoria." he answered and lunged past him, pulling Emily in his grasp, "Now, she dies."
Barkis leaped on him, making his razor slice her cheek. Emily slipped away from the fight and watched in terror. Todd here, Barkis there, vise versa. They batted each others' weapons away with what they had.
"Stop it! Stop it!" Emily cried and pulled a branch off of the tree and swung it at Todd. "Now, who is Lady Victoria?"
"I don't know exactly but she comes from a family of great wealth- or had it." he flipped Barkis over his shoulder and onto the ground, "I'm not cheap."
"You never were a murderer for hire, Todd." Barkis breathed as he stood up.
"Yes, I never was, but I thought I might give it a shot."
"We all need a hobby." Barkis skid on the ground, behind Sweeney and swiped out a razor, bringing it to his neck. "Now what are you going to do?" he teased. Emily stepped up to Todd, was something familiar about him?
"You!" she shrieked, "You killed Turpin!"
"The Judge?" Todd asked wriggled out of his grip, "What about him?"
"He was my father!"
"He was a monster!" he countered, "I did you a favor."
"How so? He never did anything bad."
"He stole my wife and daughter from me." his face was cold and hard, "Poor thing." he murmured.
"Excuse me?" she blinked a few times.
"Nothing." his focus returned and lunged towards her pulling her into another hold.
"Todd, I'm not going to ask you again. Let. Her. Go."
"Oh, but I won't." instead of slicing across her neck he drives the branch through her heart, making her fold onto the ground, gasping for a single breath. What escaped her mouth was coughs of blood, staining the soil.
"There." Sweeney yanked out the branch and dropped it beside him. He left his crime, an unusual one, but one nevertheless.
Barkis fell to his knees and swayed side to side. "Emily!" he cried and parted her dirty brown hair away from her face.
"William?" she whispered, "Leave, please."
"Never, I'll do anything for you, I swear."
"Promise?"
"Yes, anything."
She gurgled out more blood, "Kill Lady Victoria, take the money to find her and kill her." she gave a death rattle and went slump.
Barkis sobbed till the next morning and positioned Emily peacefully laying down, hold a Baby's Breath close to her heart. He trudged back to London, planning forever to keep his promise.
I don't know, epilogue anyone?… I talked to a friend recently and here's how it went.
"hey, which Tim Burton character do you hate the most?"
"Victor, from Corpse Bride."
"Why?"
"This is what really happened. Emily was waiting for Bonejangle to propose but damn Victor took her. Thinking there was no hope for her and BJ (that's Bonejangles by the way) she went with him. Jealous, Victoria hired Barkis to kill Victor."
Strange plot, I would add in more if it was mine- wait new story! What do you think?
