The Monster of the Corpse Bride

Chapter 10

In the Everglot mansion, in the middle of the hall at the entrance door, there was the silent and sadly Victoria, the smug and dishonest Lord Barkis, and even her parents with a few guests, whom they sat motionless at a long table covered with a white blanket, and on them here lay silver forks, knives and spoons past plates of baked chickens, and glass cups with some water, or wine, perhaps. Every hour since the newlyweds and everyone had arranged a wedding feast, but only they still held an unbreakable silence, Victoria anxiously knew how it would ever happen to her when she was unacceptably married to a vampire-like stranger, if he would rather do something for her that he had to fulfill his mysterious whim, we would have to guess later how it will happen.
Suddenly, Hildegarde came out of the kitchen door above the frame in the middle of the stairs, holding a tray of small wedding cake with miniature figures of Lord Barkis and Victoria, but she seemed to be muttering something softly under her breath, she went to the table and put the cake on them near the newlyweds, and since then the maid went back to the kitchen door, leaving the newlyweds and several guests in deep silence under the hall.
In the middle of the table, one of the guests slept for an inappropriate length, and all still sitting impatiently and even bored, but an old woman with a large chin poked a chicken with her bony finger, and Lord and Lady Everglot rolled their eyes at each other, however, a short-bodied short man with both hands holds a fork and a knife, looking so hungrily at a plate of chicken to wait for one of the guests to get up and solemnly appoint a toast for the newlyweds.

When Lord Barkis got up, except for Victoria, he took a spoon to knock on a glass filled with water or wine so that he would break the great silence of all the guests, and made them pay attention to him, but they did not even look at him at all.

"Quiet down now, everyone." He spoke softly to the guests.

As they heard him, one of the guests began to wake up quickly with an anxious look, while Lord Barkis continued to enchant everyone.

"Thank you. Elegant, cultured, radiant." Barkis spoke solemnly as he stood beside the motionless and silent seated bride as she heard what he was still saying. "Victoria has found a husband with all these qualities and more. Serendipity brought us together and no force on earth could tear us apart...."

Suddenly, when his hospitable speech was interrupted by a fire in the fireplace that changed color to a green glow, illuminating around the hall, everyone at the table began to look nervously and frightenedly at what was happening here, but here, behind the surprised and confused Lord and Lady Everglot, many skeletons from the black sphere approached stealthily, and then in front of the hosts some guests were frightened to see it. However, the one-eyed skeleton, the leader of the gang of skeletons, his round eye fell out of his right empty hole and fell directly into the soup bowl in front of the confused Lord Everglot, and he looked sternly at his dinner with an eye that hangs on top of the soup like a tree, he definitely took a spoon on his left hand to get an eye on it from the bowl of soup and looking at it much intently.

"There's an eye in me soup." He said vaguely.

Since then, an old woman with a wrinkled face cried out in fear and all the guests began to panic when they suddenly got up from the table, and it fell to the floor where plates and silverware fell down in the same place.
It was complete chaos for the whole world, but it all made Lord Barkis more afraid of everything, and Victoria had little.

So the newlyweds were shocked to see that skeletons, zombies and living corpses were running all over the hall, that they were frantically catching up with frightened people running around in a panicked incomprehensible way.
Because Lord Barkis was too frightened when he saw anything, he pushed his wife and quickly hid under the table. Victoria could not believe with her own eyes that her husband was a coward, like a frightened vampire, who quickly hid in the shadows from the sun. And then she tilted her head back to look at the chaos, and then she suddenly saw in the terror of the "attack" of dead people her mother and father, but her mother stood frightened on a chair, with both hands firmly lifting the lower dark red dress on knee, which in front of her was a skeleton dog barking at her. And then she glanced at her father as he tried to summon his butler with his last order.