Soul Searching

Encounters

While I was walking and the other two are floating across the yard going to the gathering, Bathilda asked me, " Why are lying beside that grave? " 

" Oh! It's my Grammy that is lying there. I want to talk to her about something. Then the last I remembered before I passed out is that the wind is blowing very hard and the sun is very high. I don't know what happened to me." 

"Your Grammy? Meaning your grandmother?" Asked Edith with her eyes widening.

"Yes. The person in that grave is my grandmother."

"What's your name again?" Edith asked. 

" My name is Lance. Lance Peterson."

" Hah! I know it. I knew there is something in you. Maybe it runs in your blood." said Bathilda in an enthusiastic way.

"Edith, what is she talking about?" I asked in a curious voice.

"You see my boy, your grandmother, Madam Rowilda Peterson is our champion. The new ones feared her because she is powerful. She does stuffs that a normal soul like us can't do." Now i understand why Edith reacted that way. 

" So, you're telling me that my Grammy is a dangerous soul? Well, I know she's canning and viscous, but dangerous? I don't think so." 

" Don't worry. She's on our side. That way you won't be touched by anybody, and besides she doesn't leave her grave. Only when she is needed she rise and help our kind." Bathilda said. 

When we arrived at the gathering it was already starting so i tried my best to keep my steps in a low so no one would notice. 

" They got one. Another soul from our side. They are getting out of control and I'm afraid that this might get worse." Said a bearded old man in the middle of a mausoleum where the gathering is being held.

" We should fight them. We should get even. We must protect our selves. Let's fight!" A tall skinny man announced. 

The crowd went wild and agreed that they should fight. They were mad and furious. 

" Settle down my friends. We need to think this through. If we make a wrong move, many of us might suffer." Said the bearded man.

" For Pete's sake Angus, let's just wake her. Then our problem will be solved." the thin man said while making a disgusted face. 

" Yeah! Wake her! Wake her! Wake her!" the crowd roared. 

"Waking her will be our last resort. This meeting is adjourned. Get back to your tombs and stay there until the sun rises. Be vigilant. " said the man I assumed to be named Angus.

While the bearded man was saying his last few reminders to the other ghost, I cought him looking at me. I think he senced my presence because I'm not like them. Edith and Bathilda left me at the back of the mausoleum concealed in some bushes. I can see them from where I was as they were talking to the bearded man. From the looks of it, the man seemed worried and mad at the same time. Then on one blink of my eyes, he was standing in front of me.

" What are you doing here? Don't you know the dangers of a living boy staying in a cemetery especially at night? Did't you hear just what we are discussing about?" he scolded me. Edith and Bathilda stood there frightened.

" I'm sorry i didn't mean to pass out in this place. I mean no harm to anybody. If I disturbed your grave, it wasn't my intention." I said politely.

" Come with me." he said without looking at me.

We followed him to his mausoleum. It was old and dirty. The tombstone was cracked and you can't almost see what was written on it. It took me sometime to read the information on the stone. It says, Angus Felch, Born: May 2, 1805, Died: December 25, 1902. 

" You will be safe here." he said firmly. " Edith and Bathilda will accompany you until the sun rises while i guard outside. Make no noise because they might hear you."

Then he floated outside and the two ghost ladies and I did as we were told. I lasted 15 munites until i broke the silence.

"Who is Angus? Why do you fear him.?" 

" He is our protector. He is a wise man and everybody here respects him." Bathilda replied. 

" Does those new ones fear him too?"

" Well, they respect him because of his wisdom and old age but fear? I Don't think so." Said Edith.

While the three of us were talking Angus suddenly pops in front of us and said in a lowered voice, " Hide. Quickly. They're here." then he disappeared.