Fracture

chapter 17

The Awakening Part 6

As I walked to the graveyard I could feel my hear start to beat harder and harder as if my heart was going to beat right out of me. I felt as if this moment was being relieved over and over again. I could feel my movement becoming more and more slower as I walked. I remember everything from that day. I remember the gate that stood it read Mother of the Forgiven Graves. It was always a weird name for a graveyard even as a child I felt it was a weird place to me. As I younger child I remember playing in the playground right next to it, when I got out of school with my sister. Then as I got older with Jun and Nivea we would run through the graveyard after school as a shortcut. It never seemed to be that big of idea. It seemed like a normal graveyard when was younger. Now I'm older and I know better. Now I'm older and I have to fight for my life. I think it somewhat hard to think about life and death when you're just waiting for your driver license. I guess as I child myself I would like to say that I should not have to make this choice to fight for something like this. I guess the choice should be to get someone else, but as my father said, there is no one else. There no one else that can do my job, I was born to do this job. I was born to be a hunter and I will die as a hunter I guess the real question is how I will die. I guess it people who die in their sleep I admire now. It sounds crazy from a young kid to say this maybe as an adult retelling the story it sounds like insight but as we, all know we all have to retire ourselves sometimes. I guess I was smart to know that as a child and not make plans to die in a resort when I'm 60 years old.
"Samantha it time it time to fight are you ready", said Jun.
Samantha dresses all black with her hair in a ponytail and black and gray guess shoes on. She rubs the ground with her shoes at the same time she cracks her toes on the ground.
She smiles and says "The ground could of wet I guess there no time to use the last resort moves. I guess I'll have to charm him with my sweet moves", said Samantha.
"Samantha what are you talking about there no sweet moves only direct attack to do here remember this is going to be hard for many different reasons", said Mr. Grafton.
Grafton looked so different as he walked with a cane through the graveyard. He had on a long brown coat. He also had on sweats and gyms shoes. On his head was a hood from the gym suit.
"Daddy I know what I need to do. Trust me in these few weeks I have learn a lot about what I need to do, but I have one understanding that you don't have to worry about me forgetting", said Samantha.
"Oh and what that Samantha what that", said Mr. Grafton.
"That thing in there is no longer the man that gave me presents every time I came over. He is not the man who always had donuts when I came over the house. He a monster and my job is to kill a monster isn't right daddy", said Samantha.
"Samantha I just don't want you to think this is going to be easy. This won't be easy Sammy", said Mr. Grafton.
"What do you think our talk was nothing I know what I'm facings I know what I need to do ok", said Samantha.
Grafton grabbed her by the arm and held her tight to his face.
"Sammy don't think you could fool me with your hard act I know your scared use your fear. Fear is what lets us know that we need to survive. When you start to not be scared is when your ready to die ok. This won't be easy that why I'm here ok. There no way I would let you get hurt but you got to give your all for me baby ok", said Mr. Grafton.
"Daddy I will be fine. You won't have to come and save me ok I won't need any help ok I just need to focus on what I need to do and I will be fine ok", said Samantha.
They walked up some more and her father told her to sit on the grave of her grandfather and wait. After a few minutes, she saw her friends and their parents waiting on the far corner of her. She then saw her father walk back and directing everyone to walk ten feet back. As they walked back, all she could hear was the leaves breaking as they walked back. The light from their flashlights were almost gone. She was sitting there all along. She breathed a little then waited a moment as she heard a noise from the back of her. She sat up and walked behind the tombstone then she walked back on the grave. She then sat back down, thought for a second, and wonders what she needs to do know since she was sitting there.
"Daddy what am I supposed to do here. Isn't he supposed to get up by now or have we got the wrong time schedule for him", said Samantha.
"No we got it right you just need to sit there", said Mr. Grafton.
"Well what am I supposed to do just sit here until he pops out", said Samantha.
"Honey when he already popped out about an hour ago. Your our bate for him to come back to the grave", Said, Mr. Grafton.
"What", said Samantha?
Just as she spoke, she saw a hand grab for her neck. She moved back onto the ground. She then fell to her knees and looked at the sight of her grandfather with dirt all over him and his eyes black as the dirt that now covered him. She rolled over and looked up she then screamed for her father. Who then threw the axe to her hands? She then got up, hit her grandfather in the arm, and planted the axe right in his arm. She then realized as she tried to move the axe that she could not move the axe. Her grandfather then looked at her, picked the axe from his arm, threw it in the arm to the side, and then grabbed her by the neck. He then held her in the air, held her tight in the air, and would not let her go. She could feel her life slowly go away. With the free breaths she had, she screamed for her father but he did not come. In the background there, her father sat and her friends held back by their parents her father almost crying.
"How can you keep us like this don't you care. That thing going to kill her", said Jun.
"Let me go father she needs my help", said Nivea.
"She needs to learn how to defend this thing on her own. Besides you both can't fight those things even if you wanted to", said Mr. Grafton.
"I can fight one of those things myself", said Jun.
As Jun spoke, he started to transform his hands into claws as long as butcher knifes and his teeth long and sharp.
"Jun get a hold of yourself or I will", said Jun father.
"Jun what's happening to you. Are you sick or something", said Nivea.
"Oh now I know what you mean Santos when you say your family is different you're SkinWalkers I see", said Mr. Grafton.
Jun then looks at Nivea in his half transform she turns away in fear. He then turns back.
"Nivea I'm fine ok. I'm just a little different then what you thought of me before ok. Things will be ok", said Jun.
"Right now we need to help her, just let us go please", said Nivea says to all the parents.
"Don't worry you think she will die that easily there only been one case of death from a hunters first fight don't worry she will be fine. She just needs to fight for once in her life", said Mr. Grafton.
Samantha hid behind a nearby gravestone and held a stick tight to herself she then got up and swinged it at her grandfather, but nothing happened. Her grandfather threw her through another gravestone. For a moment, she lost conscious then woke up as she saw she was high in the air and was being choked to death. She thought about something her science teacher said to her that all animals are divided by the notion of fight or flight. She then thought for a second. She has never fought for anything in her anything this important in her life. She then thought about something she had never thought of in her life. What if she can't do this, she dies, and her grandfather kills her father and her friends. Samantha started to cry as she started to think about. She then heard a voice come out of her head and it was of her mother. Samantha you are always supposed to do better things with your life then you have done before all your training all of your life will not be in vain. I see you changing the world with your will. She then though to herself my mother knew what I would do but had faith that I could do this. She had faith that I can do something incredible. She knows I am more then what I look like. I just need to believe in myself. I just need to take control of the situation. She could feel as she though her self-slipping away she then used all of her strength to grab her grandfather had and get a grip on it. She then held it tightly finally, she could feel his bones begin to break and he let go of her. He then grabbed for her neck again with both hands but she threw them away and kicked him in the leg with enough force to break it. Her grandfather let out a howl. She then started to punch him over and over again until blood was over her hands and all over her grandfather face. In the background, she could hear Nivea and Jun screaming for her name but she could not stop. She felt like for the first time in her life she was doing something that seemed right like it was her destiny. She then slammed her grandfather on the ground and then walked off in to the darkness to find her axe. The graveyard was dark but she remembered where the axe went to and picked it up right next to a tombstone. As she picked it up she could hear I the distance her grandfather running toward her. She closed her eyes and only thought about the moment of his feet. Faster and faster they went. She could now feel the feet moving closer and closer to her. She now could feel his body moving closer and closer towards her before she could think about anything she turn as if a motion she had done a million times and cut off her father head with the axe. As her grandfather, head fell to the ground she started to wonder how she did know to move. She then thought about it that there are things you were born to do and killing is something she born to do. After it was on the ground, she felt her body go limp and she fell to her knees. All the emotions came back to her. Her grandfather was died and she had killed him. Even though she knew, the thing she killed was not him. She could feel herself crying all over again for him. She felt as if he had died all over again. In the distance, she could her them yelling is everything all right. She screamed at them that it was over and he was died. They all ran to see her but, she did not move she merely just sat there will the head looking at her. She then wondered how to you live an entire life like this without going insane. She then pondered I guess you don't. I guess you die eventually.