Venator : Devil's Moon

XXI THE GRAVEYARD

Amberrivera121

Dedicated to Amber for being such an awesome friend!

[ Laura ]

I felt as if all of the air the universe had had disappeared. My heart stopped as confusion rose in my mind.

Was this really a forest or my nightmare? Where was I? Who was the little girl? What's this graveyard? And most importantly, why is there my own grave before me?!

Scared and confused, I started observing the grave. On the black gravestone,  inscribed in white marble were the words

LAURA HANNIGAN

Except for the green moss which happily grew on my supposed grave, there was no trace of anything. I bit my tongue until I felt the bitter blood. But what was before me still sustained. This was no dream. Whatever this was, it was happening in reality.

What the hell is going on? My mind screamed. I'd barely held up myself after what'd happened back at Sebastian's uncle. I'd somehow managed not to think of that gross blood and look for what's going to happen. Somehow, I'd felt there was something much darker coming than Alzaknos and yet a part of me believed everything will be over soon. I was broken but my shards were still together. And when I thought I'd meet the psychic who'd manage to make sense of everything,  or perhaps make it worse, I was stuck here looking at my own grave. What was going on!

Then a wave of fear washed over me when I heard whispers behind me. The hair on my neck stood up as I prayed the whisper to be just my imagination. What if it's the pale girl? Shh! There's no one here. The little girl disappeared. She wasn't there anymore. I tried to calm myself down. But, as usual, it didn't work. Instead, the whisper started growing in my ears. It must be a ghost, my logic replied. Or what could whisper in a graveyard this vast and spooky. Either I was going crazy or something was really really wrong with this forest. Both ways, I was in trouble, serious trouble.

With one quick moment of painfully gathered courage, I shook my stiff face and turned my gaze over my shoulder.

Fortunately there was no one there and the whispers had also stopped. But that just confirmed it was some paranormal I was dealing with, right? Sebastian,  where are you!  My mind screamed. Ghosts didn't scare me, after having dealt with them and creatures nastier than them for quite some times. But everytime, I was with Sebastian. I wasn't alone. I had my partner beside me everytime. But this time, I truly was alone. And alone, I knew I couldn't do much. Besides, somehow,  I got the feeling there was something strangely familiar yet unfamiliar about this graveyard, like I've been there before. But it didn't click my memory. And right, why shouldn't it be completely unfamiliar, it's after all where I was buried, well at least according to someone who was messing with me. And then there was that pale young girl with eyes darker than black.

Phew, I guess it was just my mind, I sighed with relief after quite a few quick glances around me when I could no longer hear the whispers. But before my mind jumped to think how to get out of here and how to find Sebastian and address other worries, another whisper hit my ears. This time, the voice seemed to be heavy, different from the first whisper. I froze.

"Who...who is it?" I sounded terrible. Even if you'd hunt deadly creatures many times, it's not true to say you've killed fear entirely. Just go in a graveyard full of ghosts alone , if you don't believe me.