Number 2: When returning souls to bodies, make sure they are buried in their coffins to minimize chances of escape.

General POV

"Ummm . . .eww." Tori stated, peering around. "This is just gross guys."

"This is where we're sleeping tonight," Derek said gruffly, tossing his stolen sleeping bag on the floor. "Or you can leave."

Tori looked around the place like she was considering it. The old building was almost falling in on itself, vandilism covered the walls, lumps of god knows what covered the floor, and there was a smell, not unlike that of urine. "I wouldn't curse this place on my worse enemies!" Tori cried, then paused. "Okay, I wouldn't curse this place on anybody but Mom."

"That's nice." Simon said through a yawn, stretching out on his stolen sleeping bag. "I for one don't care where we are as long as we're not captured."

"I agree." Chloe whispered, putting her sleeping bag in between Derek and Simon. "Please, just lay down Tori. We'll be gone in the morning and you'll never have to see it again."

Tori threw a scowl at little Miss Perfect, but put down her sleeping bag and crawled inside. "I swear, if I get bitten by something, you're all paying for it!"

"Isn't that what we're doing now?" Simon hummed in Chloe's ear, and she giggled.

"Go to sleep guys," Derek ordered.

"Yes sir," Chloe replied.

Derek simply growled, but he could still see Chloe smiling in the dark.

Hours later, it was still dark, and everyone was still asleep, but Chloe was tossing and turning. A nightmare plauged her, and she tossed and turned, finally waking, a startled cry on her lips. Just a nightmare, she told herself, it was just a dream. She wasn't very convincing, doubt still lingered within her. Everytime she dreamed of bringing a body back to life, it happened. Only question now was: where was the body?

She looked over at the sleeping form of Derek. He would be royally pissed off that she'd woken him, but it was for a good cause. After all, they couldn't leave a dead body to run around town. Chloe put on her shoes (they slept in their clothes) and went to Derek's side. His eyes opened the second she touched his shoulder, annoyance in them.

"What?" he snapped.

"I summoned a body." She whispered.

He looked less annoyed. "Un-summon it."

"Ummm, I don't know where it is." Chloe admitted.

Derek sighed. "Fine, let's go find your mystery corpse."

It took the pair less than five minutes to find the body of a homeless man scrabbling around in the warehouse next to theirs. Derek kept the creature away from Chloe, while she released the spirit. After a few seconds, the body slumped, lifeless once again.

"We should probably move it, so that you can't summon it again," Derek mused.

"It's too much. Let's just go back to sleep."

Too tired to argue, Derek followed her back to the warehouse.

Early the next morning, Simon, Derek and Chloe were jerked awake by Tori's loud screaming. "OH MY GOD! GET RID OF IT! EWW!"

Derek looked around. "Chloe, your friend is back."

Chloe took a deep breath and released the spirit. It fell to the ground in front of Tori, who screamed again.

"Be quiet, would you?" Simon hissed at her. "We don't want to give away our position."

"We'd better get moving anyway," Derek suggested, already rolling up his sleeping bag.

"Are we going to get breakfast?" Tori demanded, pulling out her hairbrush.

Derek opened his mouth, to rant, but Chloe said, "I think we're going to try and get out of town first."

Tori grumbled, but rolled up her sleeping bag. "Then let's get going."

A little over an hour later, the group was in a national park, eagerly munching on what Tori and Simon had managed to swipe using a combination of distractions and spells.

"Where are we going to be by tonight?" Simon asked Derek. Derek pulled out a map, laid it on the ground, and began to show his brother.

Tori was trying to ignore her companions, and Chloe was slipping deeper and deeper into the woods. She really needed to pee. She found a secluded area, surrounded by high bushes. Feeling safe, she yanked her pants down, and squatted, reliving herself. She was just buttoning up her pants, when she heard it. A scrambling in the bushes. She walked over, and parted the branches, and screamed. There was the corpse from before, struggling to get at her.

"DEREK! SIMON! TORI!" Chloe yelled, before lapsing back into a wordless scream.

"What is it?" Simon shouted, and Chloe could hear their footsteps.

"Body!" She called back.

Derek arrived first, skidding to a stop. "Looks like this one's really attatched to you." He joked.

"This isn't funny!" Chloe cried.

"Okay, okay!" Derek grabbed the body and pinned it against him. "Release the poor spirit."

Chloe did as he asked, just as Simon and Tori arrived.

"That's the one that tried to kill me this morning!" Tori exclaimed, pointing at the slumped body.

"We should have let it." Simon grumbled under his breath.

"I keep summoning it! And it keeps following us!" Chloe felt tears at her eyes. This was too much. How was this happening?

"Look, we'll tie the body up to this tree," Derek pulled rope from Simon's back-pack, and tied up the body. "We'll think of something to do with it, and come back and take care of it tonight."

"Why not do it now?" Tori wondered.

"Four teenaged kids carrying around a body, hmm, let's think about this for a second." Simon tapped his chin and pretended to ponder the meaning of what he'd just said.

"I get the point!" Tori threw her hands into the air, "So, what are we going to do?"

"This is so gross!" Tori cried, leaning on her shovel.

"Dig," Simon grunted.

Chloe nodded in agreement. Her arms and legs were burning, her body felt like it was about to drop, and her throat was screaming for water, but she pushed herself on, digging the hole for the body, and it's coffin. They had stolen the coffin around dusk ("Steal a coffin? You've all lost your minds!" Tori had screamed.) and they had been digging through the night trying to make the hole big enough. Dawn was approaching, and that's when the park rangers began their check, and Derek wanted to be already gone by the time that happened.

"Enough!" Derek yelled, and jumped out of the hole. He helped out Simon, Chloe, and Tori. "Help me." He waved to the coffin, and they gathered around it.

Derek was at the end, Chloe on the left, Simon and Tori on the right. "PUSH!" Derek shouted, and their strained their muscles as the black box slid easily over the dewy grass. Chloe imagined she could hear the body scrabbling around inside, desperate to get out. She pulled her thoughts away from the body as the coffin hit the ground.

"We've got about an hour," Derek said, handing out the shovels again. "Let's get him covered up."

They went over to the piles of earth surrounding the gravesite, and began to throw it in, shovelful by shovelful. The work was tedious, but Simon found a moment to whisper to Chloe, "Imagine what people will think if they ever find the coffin."

"I'm thinking they'll think vampire," Chloe whispered back.

Here is chapter two by yours truly. I am seriously sorry this is late. I went away on break, and then my computer, which isn't the newest model crashed. :( I hope you enjoy anyway. :) Neither I nor Agony-Fairy owns any part of Darkest Powers.

~DI4MGZ~