"I always cry at weddings." He said pretending to wipe a tear from his eye. "Our young lovers together at last. Surely now they can live happily ever after."

Emily gasped and held his arm tightly. She seemed to be terrified of Lord Barkis.

"What's wrong?" Victor whispered to Emily who was still clinging on to his arm.

"That's him." She whispered her voice trembling. "He's the man who killed me so he could steal my money."

Victor turned back to Lord Barkis. He felt his fist's ball up.

"You!" Victor said glaring at him.

Lord Barkis looked up to him seeming now to realize that it was Victor who was marrying Emily.

"You?" Barkis questioned. "Why would you marry her? She's dead." He asked amazed.

"You left her!" Victor yelled at him.

"For dead," Emily said, her voice still trembling.

Everyone in the room gasped as they now realized it was Lord Barkis who had killed Emily. They all seemed to get furious with rage. Just like hewas.

"This woman is obviously delusional," Barkis yelled, grabbing Victoria who had apparently been in the audience the whole time, taking the sword out of the dwarf skeletons, and holding it to Victoria's neck.

So this was the man who married Victoria? He was going to do the same thing to her as he had done to Emily.

Still glaring at him, Victor walked up to him and slowly said "Take your hands off her."

"Do I have to kill you too?" he said pointing the sword to Victor's stomach.

Then Scraps came up to Barkis and bit his ankle hard. Barkis yelled, letting go of Victoria and tuned, kicking Scraps of his ankle.

Victoria ran away from him and Ms. Plum yelled "Victor, catch!" throwing something to him which he caught.

It was only a fork instead of all the other knifes that had been in the other corpses back.

"Sorry," Ms. Plum mumbled.

Barkis swung his sword at him, which Victor prevented from splitting him in two with the fork. Victor ducked out of the way of barkis' next swing and Bakis slammed into the table.

Barkis regained his balance and started coming at him again. Victor backed away with the fork held out in front of him. Barkis swung two more times only hitting the fork. Victor plastered himself against a stone pillar and Barkis took another swing trying to cut Victors head off but Victor ducked out of the way and Barkis only hit the pillar.

Barkis swung again but Victor ducked under his arm, went around the pillar and stabbed Barkis in the back with his fork. Barkis let out a yell then turned to Victor and started swinging again but Victor managed to hit it with his fork each time.

Victor ducked as Barkis swung again hitting one of the church's bench's and struggling to get it out.

Victor swung his fork and managed to get him, leaving three lines from the fork in his coat. Barkis looked down and seemed to get even madder. He swung down hard. It would have cut Victor clean in two but Victor caught the sword in one of the fork tines. Seeing that he could no longer hold the sword in that place Victor crawled under one of the church benches.

This didn't stop Barkis. Barkis stabbed the sword through the bench that missed Victor by and inch. Barkis tried again this time stabbing it farther away then it had last time.

Victor reminded himself of who he was. That he had killed Emily. Furious, Victor stabbed his fork up through on of the holes Barkis had made with his sword, getting him in the foot.

Barkis screamed, and then fell of the bench sending a row of benches crashing down.

Victor got up and turned around looking for Lord Barkis.

Then Lord Barkis appeared, hit the fork out of his hand with the sword and kicked him in the stomach.

Victor glared at Barkis as he pointed the sword in front of his face. Barkis pulled back the sword and stabbed it forward. Victor gasped as he saw Emily with the sword sticking out of her chest. He swiftly took the sword out and pointed it at Barkis.

"Touché, my dear," Barkis said.

"Get out." Emily ordered, glaring at him.

Victor got up and backed away as Barkis came toward the altar. Emily still glaring and pointing the sword at him with each step he took.

"But first a toast, to Emily!" Barkis said. Taking the goblet of wine. "Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. Tell me, my dear, can a heart still break after its stopped beating ?"

Emily looked like she was about to burst into tears. Victor wanted to run up there and teach him a little lesson but then he remembered…the wine…

All the corpses and skeletons were about to rush up to Lord Barkis and start attacking him but Elder Gutknecht blocked them with his bony arms and said "We must abide by there rules. We are amongst the living."

"Well said," Barkis said holding out the wine, drinking it, then throwing it off to the side, and walked away.

He got to the door then bending over clutched his chest as the poison killed him.

Barkis gasped then turned to them dead. His face was blue.

"Not anymore," Said the maggot.

"Yep. Your right. He's all yours." Said Elder Gutknecht letting the crowd pass by him.

The corpses and skeletons made there way over to Lord Barkis who was desperately trying to open the door. They all pushed him inside the room and as Ms. Plum was closing the door she whispered "New Arrival."

Victor looked over to Emily and smiled at her. She smiled back and he walked over to her.

He pulled her into an embrace and she leaned her head against him.

"I love you." He whispered in her ear.

"I love you too." Emily said.

He glanced up at Victoria who was looking around nervously.

"What's wrong?" he asked her. "Lord Barkis is gone now. You don't have to worry."

"I'm not worried about myself. I'm worried about you two." She said

"What do you mean?' Victor asked confused.

"The town crier had figured out that Emily was a corpse before the people from the land of the dead came here for your wedding and he announced it to the whole town though no one believed him until they saw all the people from the land of the dead here."

"So, what's the problem?" he asked.

"Your parents didn't seem too pleased with the news."

"I don't care. I love Emily and nothing will make me leave her."

Then ten people barged into the church. It was his parents, Victoria's parents, Pastor Galswells, and five other men Victor didn't know. Mr. Everglot and the five other men had muskets.

"That's her!" yelled the town crier now coming into the room. "She's the corpse that I saw on the bridge with Master Van Dort!"

Mr. Everglot and the other five men raised there muskets at him and Emily. He then realized that there only target was Emily and not him.

Victor held Emily close to him. So this is what Victoria was trying to warn them about.

"Master Van Dort," said Pastor Galswells. "Get away from the corpse." He ordered.

"No," Victor said glaring at them.

"This is going to be harder then we thought," he heard his mother whisper to the rest of them.

Mr. Everglot motioned the five other men with his musket to do something.

The five men put down there muskets and started moving toward them. Victors grip on Emily got stronger.

Two men grabbed Victor by his arms and started pulling him away from Emily.

"No!" he screamed as he parted from Emily. He started kicking and screaming but another man grabbed his feet and they covered his mouth.

No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't break free of there strong grip. Emily started moving toward him but was stopped as the two other men pulled her back away from him.

"Victor!" Emily screamed.

The corpses and skeletons from the land of the dead rushed out of the room to see what all the screaming and yelling was about.

They were about to do something but stopped. Since they were in the land of the living, they could do nothing.

"Leave you people from the land of the dead! And never return!" Pastor Galswells yelled.

"We must follow there orders." Elder Gutknecht said sadly.

One of then men finally let go of Victors mouth but only because if he hadn't Victor would have escaped there hold.

"No!" he screamed. "Elder Gutknecht please don't take her away from me!" he sobbed.

Elder Gutknecht looked up at him sadly and said "I'm sorry Victor, we must follow there orders. It is how things are." Elder Gutknecht went over to the altar and pulled the big, red book off from the ground ignoring Victor's screams of "No!"

He looked over to Emily who was crying and trying to say something though her mouth was covered by the hands of one of the men.

Elder Gutknecht started saying the spell to take all the corpses and skeletons back to the land of the dead. When he said the last word, blue smoke started rising from the ground and Victor, with tears running down his face, watched Emily disappear along with the rest of the corpses, back to the land of the dead