The Phantom & the Princess

Chapter 1 - The Cemetary On the Hill

Before you start reading Let me warn you, This story isn't like your normal princess story. There isn't going to be some fancy knight in shining armor that saves the princess from some giant red fire-breathing dragon. Although, there are dragons and there are knights but none of them really have a big part to play, except for one, but he comes around later on. Anyway,  this story has much more than those two things, it has Fights, Magic, Adventure, Accasional Love scenes, Demons, Witty humor, Ghouls and Little crazy Flowers that eat all wooden objects. but most importantly it has Ghosts, or Phantoms as some might call them. One Phantom, one of the main Characters in this story, was named Grey (which is pretty ironic if you ask me)

"Look at all the little Humans down there." Scoffed Grey tossing a violet rose that he had been rolling around in his hands to the side letting all the peddals float and land softly on the floor. "You would think they would be inside by now with the sun going down and such."

Grey had been sitting underneath the tall barren oak tree that stood in the middle of the cemetary. He and his friends, Fernando (aka Fern), and Wallace (aka Wally) had been sitting there all day, in the shade of the trees long branches, watching people hussle and bussle in the town below. all the boys were arround the same age, sixteen, with six year old minds, as some of the older ghosts have said and all of them were tall and fit, though, wally was about five inches shorter than the rest of them. They'd been together ever since they had died and had been like brothers ever since.

The Angeltrove cemetary, for that was the name of the place of which they lived, sat on top of a small hill that was a few feet away from the town. surrounded by dead trees and always seemed to be shrouded in a layer of mist it was never visited much by the people of Angeltrove.

"I remember when kids had to go in early, those days sucked, Not really much scaring going on around then." said Fern who had been swinging from the trees by his legs.

"Not really much scaring going on around now either." pointed out Wally who was sitting next to Grey. He had always thought of Grey as an older brother ever since he died and ended up here meeting him for the first time.

"That's going to change in a few minuets though." said Fern swinging down from the tree as the sun was slowly setting behind the mountains in the distance, landing then brushing his pants legs off and grinning at Wally. "Bet I can scare more than you tonight."

"Pssh we'll see about that." Wally said standing up and grinning back at him.

"Has anyone ever tried scaring the castle before?" asked Grey suddenly, he had been staring at the castle curiously as if, just now, he had noticed it for the first time.

"Eh I don't know but it sounds like a good idea to me!" said Fern his grin getting wider "let's go go go."

"We can't go yet!" said Wally his grin fading and was replaced with a worried glance at the sun "The suns not completly down."

"Aw come on its down enough." said Fern excitedly then stepped out of the shadow of the tree just as the sun dissapeared behind the moutain "see?" his grin widened even more.

Wally grinned again and stepped out of the shadows of the tree and stood next to Fern then looked back at Grey "Are you coming Grey?" he asked.

Grey stood up and brushed off his pants and glanced at the castle again  in wonder then looked at his friends and grinned "yeah let's go have some fun."

"WOOOO let's goo!" said Fern laughing.

and all three boys ran to the edge of the hill and lept off, flying into the night sky towards the small Town of Angeltrove.