Chapter 10: The Bonfire

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The very next morning at dawn, there was a huge crowd gathered to watch the burning of the couple, who were tied to a pyre.  Frollo stood next to them, while reading a script announcing Emerald's crimes and what his and O/C's fate would be.


"The prisoners, Emerald and O/C, has been found guilty of the crime of witchcraft.  The sentence: death!"


They, however, weren't so happy.  The fact that the judge was going to have his own adoptive daughter burnt alive was beyond shocking to them.  The gypsies watched from cages, while crammed in like sardines, including Phoebus.  


As the archdeacon came out to see what is happening, guards blocked him off so he couldn't intervene.  Frollo grabbed the torch from the executioner, and then spoke to his adoptive daughter.


"The time has come, girl.  You stand upon the brink of the abyss.  Yet even now, it is not too late.  I can save you from the flames of this world, and the next. Choose me, or the fire!" he held up the lit torch with a dark glare on his face.

  Choose me, or the fire!" he held up the lit torch with a dark glare on his face

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"You sick demented bastard!" Emerald cried out from the other side of the pyre.


She, however, was appalled that her adoptive father would view her in such a way.  She spat on him as a response, causing Emerald to hold back a chuckle on the side of the pyre.  She would rather burn to death than be his sex toy for life. That would be an even worse fate than death.


The minister wiped it off as she glared at him in disgust.  He then turned back towards the crowd and announced,


"O/C has refused to recant.  Both she and this evil sorcerer behind her has put the soul of every citizen of Paris in mortal jeopardy..."


At this point, O/C was no longer listening.  She looked up towards the cathedral to see whether or not she could find Quasimodo.  Way high up, she found him chained to the front pillars of one of the many balconies of the cathedral.


He wasn't even trying to break free and was just hanging there, as if all of the light and happiness had drained out of him.  He basically had given up completely.


On top of that, she was about to be executed for refusing to be her adoptive father's sex toy.  Growing up she had no friends, except for Jacquline who died years earlier, since she was kept in the Palace of Justice her whole life.


Not only that, he had managed to hide her deformed twin brother from her and raise him separately.  He basically took over both of their lives and made it a living hell.  Not to mention that 20 years after taking her under his wing, he developed sexual appeal and lust for her!

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