Of Necromancers and Graveyards

A/N:I made up this story, which is pure fiction and do not claim the legends of Lily Gray or Emo sheemo. Though this is my own take on the Emo sheemo legend. This is for Halloween and my first attempt at a scary story. Comment please, also check out my other stories!!! :D

Seventeen year old Cecil Jordans shivered as she looked up at the autumn moon, goose bumps forming on her dark brown skin, her coarse black hair at the nape of her neck standing on end.  It was a dark cold night, and the full moon was risen high up in the sky.  The moon came up just between a set of mountains, and dark storm clouds crept towards the silver moon like thin wraiths.

 Cecil was not the kind of person one took to graveyards, or anywhere involving dead bodies, since they where her greatest fear. Yet she was here at the graveyard because her older sister had a, “Halloween themed activity” as she called it, in mind.  The activity was innocent seeming, a cemetery graveyard scavenger hunt. 

Kylee was Cecil’s older sister, and was twenty-three years old and despite the six year age difference, people thought that Kylee and Cecil looked almost like twins.  And they would look like twins, except for their eyes being differently colored.  Kylee’s eyes were a hazel brown while Cecil’s eyes were colored dark chocolate.  Their eyes were the best way that people could tell them apart at first glance.

Jeremy Lee had been Cecil’s best friend since pre-school.  They had met when Cecil was being bullied by a girl named Shayla, and Jeremy jumped in and told her to stop.  When Shayla didn’t, Jeremy grabbed a crayon he had been coloring with and shoved it up Shayla’s nose.  He and Cecil had gotten into a lot of trouble, but they both thought that it had been well worth it.  Jeremy had short, darkly colored spiked hair, and eyes that were as dark as the night.  He was tall and skinny, and yet he was surprisingly strong.

The car was silent on their way up to the nearby cemetery.  As they got closer and closer to the cemetery, Cecil saw the dark, dried grass of the cemetery, sprawling out before her. The large cemetery was lined with rows and rows of graves.  Jeremy put his hand on Cecil’s shoulder, causing her to jump.  She turned to look at him and saw his eyes were staring at her with deep concern, and the olive skin of his forehead was wrinkled with worry.

               

“Are you okay?” he asked.

“I’m fine, don’t worry!” Cecil said, brushing his hand off of her shoulder.  Despite Cecil’s attempt in reassuring him, the worried look in Jeremy’s eyes didn’t fade.

 They pulled up by the section of the cemetery that lay in the far left corner of the plots.  Cecil hopped out of the car armed with a flashlight, a list of the scavenger hunt items, and a camera.  Because it was so dark out, Kylee and Jeremy had brought along flashlights as well. They began to look for items on a scavenger hunt list that Kylee had found online and printed out just before they came. Kylee handed Jeremy her keys as she had no pockets to hold them in. “If you lose them, I will kill you.” she said. Jeremy nodded and shoved them deep into his front jean pocket.

The first item on their list was to find a grave with a member of the group’s same last name on it.  They looked around and found a grave with the last name Lee on it.  Jeremy went over and posed next to the tombstone.  He puckered his lips and put his hands on his hips.  Laughing, Cecil took the picture, and the flash illuminated the night. She went to look at the picture to see how it turned out.  Behind the tombstone, where Jeremy was still standing, there was a shadow, a human shaped shadow with fingers long and bony, almost like they had six joints in them.  From the shadow’s head came wire-like hairs, twisting and curving strangely.

Cecil motioned over Jeremy and Kylee.  “Look at the picture!” she whispered.

Jeremy and Kylee laughed. “Jeremy looks like an idiot,” Kylee said, trying her best to stop laughing.