A New Journey

Ch.7 Reawakened

"What happened, is everybody alright?" I ask as I come running into the crypt. Once my body is fully in the room I am pushed further in by the force of the stone doors slamming closed. The girls except for me scream once again from the startling noise from the doors. The room is now completely pitch black since any light from the moon has now been cut off. Immediately, I try to push the doors open for some light but they don't budge.

The girls gasp at the realization that our only way out may now have been cut off as well. Someone slightly pushes me aside and tries to open the door as well, when they can't get it open they sigh and move away. The room is freezing since it is nothing but stone, and every noise in here seems to bounce off the walls.

Annoyance begins to creep up my spine and I say, "Someone better say something."

"It was a bug..." the words come out in such a whisper that I am unable to distinguish who said it.

"A what?"

"It was a spider Cerys." I can't see Willow but her tone makes it feels as if her head is hanging low in shame.

"I ran to your aid, only to be trapped in here because of a fucking bug?!" I reach around blindly in the dark until I touch someone else. Judging from her smallness I correctly guess that it is Valerie and I take the flashlight from her hands.

"It doesn't work," says Valerie a little too late as I figure it out on my own.

"Well, now what?" I ask with my hands on my hips staring out into hopefully the eyes of someone else.

"We call the police," says Serena and I roll my eyes, if only they had listened to me earlier. I listen to the sound of phones being clicked on but not a single screen lighting up. Valerie is the first to start banging on the door and yelling for help. Serena is next to join Valerie and in the dark, I blindly make my way to Willow.

I lightly nudge Willow in her side and make a joke, "That spider doesn't seem too bad now huh?"

"Cerys please, this is actually pretty scary." Willow's voice cracks and I realize that I am the only one here who is more annoyed than afraid. Valerie and Serena are literally screaming for help, Willow is probably clutching her rosary, and I'm rolling my eyes. The brave within me is quickly shaken as the disembodied sound of a low hum emanates from the middle of the room.

For some reason I find myself trying to follow noise but a fixture in the somewhere in the middle of the room stops me. I reach my hands down and feel what I can only assume is the aboveground grave. At first, the hairs on my body stand up but then they quickly subside when I feel nothing from the grave as if it is empty. It is an odd feeling to describe, but it's like I just know for a fact that it is empty.

"Is anyone buried in here?" I ask and the room goes quiet, my question probably struck up a fear the girls didn't realize was already here.

"Oh god, oh god we gotta get out." Valerie's voice has gone up a pitch higher and her breathing quickens.

"Serena help her," I say as I continue to follow my hands against the grave. Its touch is cold and not completely smooth, but there is a strange vibration to it.

"Cerys, what's going on?" Willow joins my side and when she feels what is in front of her she takes a step back.

I stand straight back up and huff out air, "It is like an itch, something is in here, not a body though." I grab Willow's hand, at first she tries to pull away but when I give a reassuring squeeze she lets me place it on the grave. Willow feels the vibration and pulls her hand away, "What?"

"Yeah, I don't know."

"What are you guys doing-ow!" While making her way towards us Serena stubs her toe on the grave.