Shivering lightly, the tall raven haired girl pulled her coat tighter around her as the wind whipped around furiously. Grumbling under her breath, she raised a pale hand to hold down her hat before glancing over her shoulder.
Thankfully her partner wasn't too far behind. Placing a hand on her hip, she tilted her head to the side and hooked a thumb over her shoulder towards the cemetery behind her.
"So, you sure this is the place," she questioned, raising an eyebrow at him.
"Of course I am! How could you doubt me?" He replied with a fake pout.
"Maybe because the last two cemeteries you've led us to have been the wrong ones?" She rolled her eyes, shaking her head and crossing her arms over her chest.
"You ever hear of this little thing called 'letting go of the past'?" He huffed and a smirk found its way onto her face.
"Nope," she retorted, popping the 'p' and it was his turn to roll his eyes, a sigh passing through his lips.
"Wisea-" Instantly she reached out and flicked his forehead before he could finish that statement, gaining a quiet cry of pained protest. Indignantly he glared at her. "Jeez .." He muttered. She rolled her eyes again, though a smirk still danced on her lips lightly.
"Anyway, what do you think is taking these people?" She inquired.
"How the heck should I know? It's not like I'm used to hunting for grave snatchers, Lily."
"… Hey look over here," She said pointing over to something to their right vaguely. Curiously he looked over and she closed her eyes, calmly slapping the back of his head. A pained and surprised cry escaped and he gave an annoyed growl.
"Can you ever just go one minute without hitting me?" He demanded, rubbing the back of his head, just a step away from full blown pouting.
"Not if you can't go one minute without saying something stupid or just get on my nerves...And don't call me Lily. Its Kirk to you." She retorted, irritated with his use of her real name which she wasn't exactly fond of.
"Fine, fine. Hey, why is it that we couldn't just come back in the day time? It'd be less creepy ..." He wanted to know, shaking his flashlight because the light was going dead and the last thing he wanted was to be caught in a cemetery in the middle of the night with a dead flashlight.
"Because, the report said that the majority of the bodies went missing at night, thus we were requested to come at night .. stupid. We want to catch the thing doing it remember? Besides, it wouldn't be any-" She was cut off by the sound of a twig breaking to their left and both of them instantly jumped. Quickly, as if on instinct, both pointed their flashlights towards the direction the sound came from. "What was that?" She whispered, trying to hide the slight tremor in her voice.
Though Lily did her best to come off as the tough tomboy, there were still some things that she was indeed frightened of. Creepy cemeteries ranked in the top three of her list, along with spiders and clowns. At the moment her over active imagination was playing far too many scenarios in her mind, causing her to inwardly freak out more than she probably should be. Like heck she would outwardly show it though, one big baby on this team was enough thank you very much.
"I don't...Wait a minute...I'm not an idiot!" He said loudly. Frantically, she tried to shut him up but he kept going. "You think I'll fall for this again? Oh no! I'm not the fool you think I am." He huffed.
"Actually you are," She whispered in a harsh hiss. "That wasn't me, idiot!"
"Oh." He was silenced by fear of what might actually be out there now.
Against what most smart people would have done (walk away), they decided to do the stupid thing (walk right up to whatever was behind the fence to their left). Without realizing it, the two seemed to inch closer to each other as they walked hesitantly towards the fence. Lily prayed it was just a raccoon or some little animal and that they were freaking out for nothing, but with all the reports of people going missing from the cemetery she highly doubted it. For one of the many times in her life and in the span of her investigator career, Lily wish she carried a gun.
Suddenly, their flashlights started to flicker on and off in a creepy and rather nerve wracking manner, but, thankfully, it stopped as they got closer. Taking a calming breath, Lily opened the gate and stepped through, quickly followed by Colt. When they stepped through Lily frowned, seeing that all they saw were more graves. However, she all too quickly noticed the fact that these were surrounded by statues. Not just any statues though, they looked like …
"A-Are those angels?" She heard Colt stutter out beside her. Without a word, she just nodded, not even taking her eyes off them. "Dude .. these things are creepy." He mumbled, looking at their covered faces.
"Why are there so many?" She wondered quietly, counting at least three identical statues. "I mean, they're so close together, its just a little ..."
"Weird? Freaky? Creepy? Take your pick, I've got more." He offered.
Frowning to herself, Lily took a cautious step forward, only to feel a weight on her shoulder holding her back. Annoyed, she looked up at Colt, but his focus was still on the angel statues. She could tell he was more freaked out about this than she was and vaguely wondered if he was more freaked out for her safety than of the statues themselves, not that that lessened her annoyance.
"What are you doing?" He questioned, the tone of his voice silently implying the word 'stupid' at the end of his sentence. "Rule number one: We do not go near the creepy angel statues in the creepy cemetery." He stated and she scoffed, rolling her eyes.
"Since when is that rule number one?" She wanted to know, raising an eyebrow at him.
"Since now I said so." He retorted,glancing down at her briefly.
That brief moment of looking away was all it took for things to get even more creepy. The sound of something scraping against the ground caused both investigators to look away from each other and jump, startled and even further freaked out. Two of the angels had grown close, their faces revealed, each having a hand outstretched towards the pair. The the angels' faces were blank, Lily and Colt felt a sudden sense of danger in the air.
"Th-They moved ..." Colt stammered out, his grip on Lily's shoulder tightening, causing her to give a low hiss of pain.
"Colt! You're hurting me, idiot!" She growled and he muttered an apology, releasing her shoulder.
"... Why aren't they moving anymore though? As soon as we looked at them-"
"They froze." She finished for him, her eyes looking over the two statues curiously. Then she realized something that caused her already rapidly beating heart to freeze. "Hey, Colt …? There were three angels, right?"
"Yeah, I think so."
"...Then why are there only two?" She asked quietly, her hands trembling as the flashlight started flickering slightly once more.