Halloween part one; Grave Dave
Thorn was awoken from her daze by the repeated ring of the doorbell. She got up slowly slightly apprehensive about answering the door. The last time she had opened the door, a few hours ago, she had been met by a group of trick or treaters. They had proceeded in throwing at least dozen eggs over her. They had been dressed as angels, how ironic. Thorn frowned, that was the right use of ironic right? She groaned, her head hurt too much to actually have to think. Being a complete hothead Thorn had chased the little brats down the street, despite only being in pyjamas and barefoot. You may wonder why Thorn had been wearing pyjamas at six, but that was Thorn. When she wasn't in school she practically lived in pyjamas. She had like ten pairs.
Well anyway, she had pursued them all the way to Tala's house (he lived on the next street). Thorn found out that Tala had discovered that Tala had found a rather ingenious way of getting rid of pests. If any of them even came close to his house he would mercilessly squirt them with his water gun, which he did to the angel egg wielders. Thorn was a fool to think that it would be that simple. Like Kai, Tala was not one to give up a moment of potential Thorn-baiting. After being completely soaked, the intelligent thing to have done would have been to retreat, but this was Thorn. She marched up to his house and banged on the door until he opened up.
"What did you do that for?" She had screamed at him. Thorn's behaviour was usually act first ask later but seeing as Tala had a weapon trained on her she had managed to control herself. Well slightly. "I'm going to kill you, you son of a........" she hissed
Tala interrupted her pretending to be immensely shocked "Thorn what language you use". He laughed at incensed expression. "It wasn't my idea anyway" he protested as he gestured to the phone on the table next to him, when Thorn looked like she was about to jump him. Water gun or not.
"Well then, who..." she began. Her response was a door slammed in her face.
"Kai sends his love" Tala had shouted from inside to an irate Thorn.
Understandably Thorn was being a lot more wary about answering the door. She had changed into her costume so she would appreciate not being covered in egg or soaked. She didn't want to look like an idiot when she turned up at the party. Kai already had enough ammunition against her. Speaking of Kai, she was going to kick his ass later. Usually she would have asked her brother to get the door, well she wouldn't have asked so much as forced him to.
At first she had been less than enthusiastic at the stupid party thing. She had got used to the idea, well she had had to you didn't mess with Mariah and Becca when they were in plan mode. Thorn finally managed to summon the courage to open the door, armed with a baseball just in case. Those angels were going down. Thorn stopped dead at the sight she was met with. An over grown pink cat.
"Why are you laughing" Mariah asked her friend confused. Mariah had been stood waiting outside for her friend for ages and then when she finally opened the door she dropped down laughing hysterically.
Thorn managed to stop and climb to her feet but the bewildered look on her friend's face made her start up again. Mariah was dressed in a hideous Halloween costume and she didn't even seem to be aware of it. Words couldn't even describe it to the full extent of its ugliness. Mariah's costume consisted of a neon pink fluffy catsuit. Sparkly fluorescent pink boots, fluffy tail, pink diamante collar and cat ears. The make up was similarly brash, bright pink lip-gloss and eye shadow. Imagine this description ten times worse and you can nearly imagine what it looked like. Sophistication was not one of Mariah's traits she had decided to go with catwoman meets trailer trash.
Thorn got up again feeling slightly calmer, after five minutes of continuous laughter she was kind of tired. She shrugged on her favourite long black coat. Well technically it wasn't hers. She had stolen it off Kai ages ago mainly to just piss him off. She had grown to love it though, even if it had once been owned by the evil one. "Where's Ray" Thorn asked as she closed the door behind her.
Mariah sighed and rolled her eyes. "He's sulking in the car".
Thorn laughed, Mariah and Ray were like an old married couple. Minus sitting on a porch in rocking chairs talking about dentures. "What was it about this time?" she asked.
"Well I was supposed to be coming as Frankenstein's wife, to go with his whole Frankenstein thing". Mariah explained as the pair made their way to the car. "But when I went to pick it up this morning I saw this instead. It's just so cute. Don't you think?" Thorn didn't comment she just nodded gormlessly. Cute wasn't exactly how she would describe it but then again she had never liked the colour pink.
Mariah seemed to think repeated nodding was an acceptable response, she was already talking about how immensely 'cool' this party was going to be.
Mariah suddenly stopped still and stared at Thorn looking shocked. "Whoa who are you trying to impress?" she said with a creepy half grin half smirk.
"What?" Thorn replied self consciously as she wrapped her coat around her tightly.
"Well look at you, you've actually made an effort I'm shocked." Mariah commented.
"No I haven't" Thorn protested.
"Really?" Mariah said disbelievingly. "Let's examine the evidence shall we? First of all" Mariah began in a weird voice as if she was addressing a courtroom "Your hair is all sleek and shiny. Usually, and no offence, but usually your hair resembles a bird nest. Secondly, you're actually wearing make up. Which is very unlike you seeing as you're always saying that make up is pointless and irritating".
Thorn cut her off "Okay maybe I made slightly more of an effort then I usually do". Major understatement.
Everything that Mariah had said was true. Thorn's long sweep of black hair was down and unusually shiny and straight. Her large green eyes were outlined with black eyeliner making them look even striking then usual. She hadn't used lipstick or lip-gloss because she was bound to wipe it off accidentally later. Her clothes were simple but flattering. She was wearing a black strapped dress that reached around mid thigh. She had taken Becca's advice with the outfit but she had refused to be parted from her trademark scruffy black converse trainers. Anyway she couldn't walk in heels. In her opinion they were unnatural weapons of torture. She had covered her tiny bitten down nails with black press ons. Although she was bound to forget and nibble them off anyway. Up to there you wouldn't be able to guess what Thorn's costume was actually supposed to be. Well until she opened her mouth and you glimpsed the fangs in her mouth.
"Well I think you'll exceed in impressing Kai with that outfit" Mariah said grinning before running away from her furious friend, laughing her head off.
Thorn lay across the back seat off Ray's car. She hadn't bothered with a seatbelt, there really was no point, Ray drove like an old woman. Even a snail could overtake him at this pace.
"Ray, I do actually want to get to this part sometime this century". Thorn said grinning.
"Well would you rather be in a car with Kai or Mads" Ray said snarkily.
Thorn chuckled "Yeah, if I want to fear for my life".
Mariah laughed "Those two are dangerous when they get behind the wheel of a car."
"They're dangerous all the time" Ray stated. Thorn giggled again, Ray sounded like such a bore.
"True" Mariah agreed "They can both get pretty dangerous when they're mad. Especially Kai".
Thorn frowned. "Actually, Kai's calm most of the time, I mean I've never seen him really lose it. Mads is the crankier one".
Mariah rolled her eyes "Whatever. You're the Kai expert after all".
"Shut up" Thorn snapped. She didn't understand what Mariah was trying to get at. All of the annoying little comments were starting to piss her off. Why would she know stuff about Kai? He was her worst enemy. The kryptonite to her Superman. The penguin to her Batman. The insect repellent to her Spiderman. Well you get the message.
"So where is this party going to be again" Thorn asked, her mind blank. Like usual.
Mariah sighed exasperated "The Hiwitari mansion, I already told you a hundred million times"
Thorn scowled "Sorry" she began sarcastically, summoning Mads personality for a moment "but I usually just tune out when I know I'm going to be bored to death"
"I'm gonna go to sleep, wake me up when we get there. So in about five hours then." Thorn said grinning, she couldn't see Ray's face but she was almost certain he was scowling. Ray was touchy about his old lady driving habits.
Thorn probably would have fallen asleep if it hadn't been for Mariah's constant squealing. She kept repeating phrases like "This is going to be so cool" and "I can't wait". Thorn rolled her eyes; she wasn't even half as excited about the party as Mariah was. It was just going to be mostly people she didn't like or even know. 'They'd better be presents though' she thought to herself.
Mariah stopped her excited squeals long enough to give Thorn her birthday present. Thorn was about to rip open the pink wrapping paper when Mariah grabbed the parcel away again.
"What are you doing? You can't give someone a present then take it away again. It's just plain evil."
Mariah rolled her eyes; Thorn probably wouldn't have even come to this party if it hadn't been for the fact she was going to get loads of presents. In fact there was no probably about it, Thorn was all about the presents.
"I'm not taking it away from you, it's just that you have a tendency to open presents straight away and then destroy them in less then a minute."
Thorn opened her mouth to argue. "I know your tricks Thorn, if I give it back to you then you're just going to rip little holes in it so you can see inside" Mariah said quickly guessing what her friend was about to say.
Thorn closed her mouth again glumly. "You're just like my mother" Thorn moaned.
Thorn lay sulking in the back "I have a feeling this party is going to suck" she said aloud. For once in like ever, Thorn's intuition was actually correct. Weird.
The three of them stood outside the large elaborate iron gates of the Hiwitari residence. "How come it's so quiet you'd think we'd be able to hear the music?"
"Well you were driving so slowly it's probably over by now" Thorn muttered under her breath.
Mariah giggled "If we'd gone any slower we would have travelled backwards". Noticing Ray's less than happy expression Mariah softened, she hugged him as Thorn made being sick noises in the background.
"Ha ha very funny" Ray said sarcastically. He leaned out to push the gates open-they had a large wooden sign above them with "ENTER IF YOU DARE" written across it with red paint. Well Thorn hoped it was paint. As Ray's hand got closer to the gates, they swung open without being touched as if they sensed visitors.
"Way creepy" Mariah whispered. Thorn silently agreed.
As they walked along the long drive to the mansion, Thorn couldn't help but feel freaked out at the setting.
"Wow Becca really went all out didn't she?" Thorn said in an awed voice. "She even bought fog". Thorn pointed to the mist that was unfurling around the Hiwitari mansion. The mist and full moon gave the mansion an eerie feel not to mention the glowing pumpkins with sinister expressions and realistic looking tombstones that were dotted along the lawn.
Ray scowled "It was obviously from a fog machine moron".
"I know that, I was just joking Betty" Thorn snapped.
"Don't call me that" Ray shouted "I'm not an old lady".
"Whatever Betty" Thorn muttered. Ray glared at her nastily before charging off towards the large oak doors of the house.
Thorn glared after him but her attention was suddenly fixed on something very disturbing. There was a tombstone with her name carved along it Thorn Beckford and the date of death. Today. Halloween. That would have been scary enough but there was also more. In front of the tombstone was a freshly dug grave about her height. The phrase 'six feet under' sprung to mind. The grave even had a coffin inside it. Open and empty, waiting for a body. Shivers ran down Thorn's spine. Thorn knew she was being irrational but it felt like it had been waiting for her. Mariah seemed to agree "I think someone's planning your funeral." She said in a frightened voice.
Thorn felt just as scared herself but a thought suddenly struck her "I bet this is Kai's doing. He has that sort of sick sense of humour"
"Well it's just plain creepy" Mariah said dragging Thorn away. They were getting closer and closer to the front door when Ray noticed something. There was a dilapidated looking coffin leant against the wall. It was only a few metres away from the main doors. The coffin was brown and made of what seemed to be rotting wood. Ray for some idiotic and unknown reason decided to investigate.
"What are you doing?" Thorn hissed. "You're acting like one of those dumbass teenagers in a horror movie. They always want to investigate. Do you know what happens to those idiots? They always end up with an axe in their head.
"Don't be an idiot Thorn. What's it going to do to me? Splinter me to death" Ray scoffed "It's just a prop and not even a very good one". The coffin's lid moved slightly, creaking angrily as if it had heard the insult.
"See?" Mariah accused "You've pissed it off now"
Ray turned around and sighed "You two are pathetic; it's just a special effects prop"
It happened quickly. The three of them were just standing there when out of the blue the coffin burst open. Ray managed to jump out of the way before a skeleton staggered out of the open coffin centimetres from where he had been. The skeleton continued dragging itself towards them arms outstretched. Thorn was so close she could see the strips of decaying flesh still on the frame and the empty sockets in the skull.
All three screamed and ran as fast as they could in the opposite direction. Thorn noted that Ray, who a moment ago had been admonishing them for their cowardliness, was screaming just as much as she and Mariah, probably even more. If she ever got out of this alive she would have to tease Ray about his girly shriek.
All three ran up the stone steps to the mansion. Thorn being even clumsier when she's scared, or rather terrified out of her wits. She tripped and would have been thrown face first into the oak doors if they hadn't been pulled open just as she was about to land. Thorn looked up slowly feeling slightly dizzy, well that was an understatement stars were currently dancing in front of her eyes. So much light flooded out of the hall that Thorn was blinded or that could have been the concussion. Everything was silent until familiar laughing started to echo around them.
A mysterious voice spoke from somewhere above her, "I see you met Grave Dave"
HUH?
To be continued
Thorn was awoken from her daze by the repeated ring of the doorbell. She got up slowly slightly apprehensive about answering the door. The last time she had opened the door, a few hours ago, she had been met by a group of trick or treaters. They had proceeded in throwing at least dozen eggs over her. They had been dressed as angels, how ironic. Thorn frowned, that was the right use of ironic right? She groaned, her head hurt too much to actually have to think. Being a complete hothead Thorn had chased the little brats down the street, despite only being in pyjamas and barefoot. You may wonder why Thorn had been wearing pyjamas at six, but that was Thorn. When she wasn't in school she practically lived in pyjamas. She had like ten pairs.
Well anyway, she had pursued them all the way to Tala's house (he lived on the next street). Thorn found out that Tala had discovered that Tala had found a rather ingenious way of getting rid of pests. If any of them even came close to his house he would mercilessly squirt them with his water gun, which he did to the angel egg wielders. Thorn was a fool to think that it would be that simple. Like Kai, Tala was not one to give up a moment of potential Thorn-baiting. After being completely soaked, the intelligent thing to have done would have been to retreat, but this was Thorn. She marched up to his house and banged on the door until he opened up.
"What did you do that for?" She had screamed at him. Thorn's behaviour was usually act first ask later but seeing as Tala had a weapon trained on her she had managed to control herself. Well slightly. "I'm going to kill you, you son of a........" she hissed
Tala interrupted her pretending to be immensely shocked "Thorn what language you use". He laughed at incensed expression. "It wasn't my idea anyway" he protested as he gestured to the phone on the table next to him, when Thorn looked like she was about to jump him. Water gun or not.
"Well then, who..." she began. Her response was a door slammed in her face.
"Kai sends his love" Tala had shouted from inside to an irate Thorn.
Understandably Thorn was being a lot more wary about answering the door. She had changed into her costume so she would appreciate not being covered in egg or soaked. She didn't want to look like an idiot when she turned up at the party. Kai already had enough ammunition against her. Speaking of Kai, she was going to kick his ass later. Usually she would have asked her brother to get the door, well she wouldn't have asked so much as forced him to.
At first she had been less than enthusiastic at the stupid party thing. She had got used to the idea, well she had had to you didn't mess with Mariah and Becca when they were in plan mode. Thorn finally managed to summon the courage to open the door, armed with a baseball just in case. Those angels were going down. Thorn stopped dead at the sight she was met with. An over grown pink cat.
"Why are you laughing" Mariah asked her friend confused. Mariah had been stood waiting outside for her friend for ages and then when she finally opened the door she dropped down laughing hysterically.
Thorn managed to stop and climb to her feet but the bewildered look on her friend's face made her start up again. Mariah was dressed in a hideous Halloween costume and she didn't even seem to be aware of it. Words couldn't even describe it to the full extent of its ugliness. Mariah's costume consisted of a neon pink fluffy catsuit. Sparkly fluorescent pink boots, fluffy tail, pink diamante collar and cat ears. The make up was similarly brash, bright pink lip-gloss and eye shadow. Imagine this description ten times worse and you can nearly imagine what it looked like. Sophistication was not one of Mariah's traits she had decided to go with catwoman meets trailer trash.
Thorn got up again feeling slightly calmer, after five minutes of continuous laughter she was kind of tired. She shrugged on her favourite long black coat. Well technically it wasn't hers. She had stolen it off Kai ages ago mainly to just piss him off. She had grown to love it though, even if it had once been owned by the evil one. "Where's Ray" Thorn asked as she closed the door behind her.
Mariah sighed and rolled her eyes. "He's sulking in the car".
Thorn laughed, Mariah and Ray were like an old married couple. Minus sitting on a porch in rocking chairs talking about dentures. "What was it about this time?" she asked.
"Well I was supposed to be coming as Frankenstein's wife, to go with his whole Frankenstein thing". Mariah explained as the pair made their way to the car. "But when I went to pick it up this morning I saw this instead. It's just so cute. Don't you think?" Thorn didn't comment she just nodded gormlessly. Cute wasn't exactly how she would describe it but then again she had never liked the colour pink.
Mariah seemed to think repeated nodding was an acceptable response, she was already talking about how immensely 'cool' this party was going to be.
Mariah suddenly stopped still and stared at Thorn looking shocked. "Whoa who are you trying to impress?" she said with a creepy half grin half smirk.
"What?" Thorn replied self consciously as she wrapped her coat around her tightly.
"Well look at you, you've actually made an effort I'm shocked." Mariah commented.
"No I haven't" Thorn protested.
"Really?" Mariah said disbelievingly. "Let's examine the evidence shall we? First of all" Mariah began in a weird voice as if she was addressing a courtroom "Your hair is all sleek and shiny. Usually, and no offence, but usually your hair resembles a bird nest. Secondly, you're actually wearing make up. Which is very unlike you seeing as you're always saying that make up is pointless and irritating".
Thorn cut her off "Okay maybe I made slightly more of an effort then I usually do". Major understatement.
Everything that Mariah had said was true. Thorn's long sweep of black hair was down and unusually shiny and straight. Her large green eyes were outlined with black eyeliner making them look even striking then usual. She hadn't used lipstick or lip-gloss because she was bound to wipe it off accidentally later. Her clothes were simple but flattering. She was wearing a black strapped dress that reached around mid thigh. She had taken Becca's advice with the outfit but she had refused to be parted from her trademark scruffy black converse trainers. Anyway she couldn't walk in heels. In her opinion they were unnatural weapons of torture. She had covered her tiny bitten down nails with black press ons. Although she was bound to forget and nibble them off anyway. Up to there you wouldn't be able to guess what Thorn's costume was actually supposed to be. Well until she opened her mouth and you glimpsed the fangs in her mouth.
"Well I think you'll exceed in impressing Kai with that outfit" Mariah said grinning before running away from her furious friend, laughing her head off.
Thorn lay across the back seat off Ray's car. She hadn't bothered with a seatbelt, there really was no point, Ray drove like an old woman. Even a snail could overtake him at this pace.
"Ray, I do actually want to get to this part sometime this century". Thorn said grinning.
"Well would you rather be in a car with Kai or Mads" Ray said snarkily.
Thorn chuckled "Yeah, if I want to fear for my life".
Mariah laughed "Those two are dangerous when they get behind the wheel of a car."
"They're dangerous all the time" Ray stated. Thorn giggled again, Ray sounded like such a bore.
"True" Mariah agreed "They can both get pretty dangerous when they're mad. Especially Kai".
Thorn frowned. "Actually, Kai's calm most of the time, I mean I've never seen him really lose it. Mads is the crankier one".
Mariah rolled her eyes "Whatever. You're the Kai expert after all".
"Shut up" Thorn snapped. She didn't understand what Mariah was trying to get at. All of the annoying little comments were starting to piss her off. Why would she know stuff about Kai? He was her worst enemy. The kryptonite to her Superman. The penguin to her Batman. The insect repellent to her Spiderman. Well you get the message.
"So where is this party going to be again" Thorn asked, her mind blank. Like usual.
Mariah sighed exasperated "The Hiwitari mansion, I already told you a hundred million times"
Thorn scowled "Sorry" she began sarcastically, summoning Mads personality for a moment "but I usually just tune out when I know I'm going to be bored to death"
"I'm gonna go to sleep, wake me up when we get there. So in about five hours then." Thorn said grinning, she couldn't see Ray's face but she was almost certain he was scowling. Ray was touchy about his old lady driving habits.
Thorn probably would have fallen asleep if it hadn't been for Mariah's constant squealing. She kept repeating phrases like "This is going to be so cool" and "I can't wait". Thorn rolled her eyes; she wasn't even half as excited about the party as Mariah was. It was just going to be mostly people she didn't like or even know. 'They'd better be presents though' she thought to herself.
Mariah stopped her excited squeals long enough to give Thorn her birthday present. Thorn was about to rip open the pink wrapping paper when Mariah grabbed the parcel away again.
"What are you doing? You can't give someone a present then take it away again. It's just plain evil."
Mariah rolled her eyes; Thorn probably wouldn't have even come to this party if it hadn't been for the fact she was going to get loads of presents. In fact there was no probably about it, Thorn was all about the presents.
"I'm not taking it away from you, it's just that you have a tendency to open presents straight away and then destroy them in less then a minute."
Thorn opened her mouth to argue. "I know your tricks Thorn, if I give it back to you then you're just going to rip little holes in it so you can see inside" Mariah said quickly guessing what her friend was about to say.
Thorn closed her mouth again glumly. "You're just like my mother" Thorn moaned.
Thorn lay sulking in the back "I have a feeling this party is going to suck" she said aloud. For once in like ever, Thorn's intuition was actually correct. Weird.
The three of them stood outside the large elaborate iron gates of the Hiwitari residence. "How come it's so quiet you'd think we'd be able to hear the music?"
"Well you were driving so slowly it's probably over by now" Thorn muttered under her breath.
Mariah giggled "If we'd gone any slower we would have travelled backwards". Noticing Ray's less than happy expression Mariah softened, she hugged him as Thorn made being sick noises in the background.
"Ha ha very funny" Ray said sarcastically. He leaned out to push the gates open-they had a large wooden sign above them with "ENTER IF YOU DARE" written across it with red paint. Well Thorn hoped it was paint. As Ray's hand got closer to the gates, they swung open without being touched as if they sensed visitors.
"Way creepy" Mariah whispered. Thorn silently agreed.
As they walked along the long drive to the mansion, Thorn couldn't help but feel freaked out at the setting.
"Wow Becca really went all out didn't she?" Thorn said in an awed voice. "She even bought fog". Thorn pointed to the mist that was unfurling around the Hiwitari mansion. The mist and full moon gave the mansion an eerie feel not to mention the glowing pumpkins with sinister expressions and realistic looking tombstones that were dotted along the lawn.
Ray scowled "It was obviously from a fog machine moron".
"I know that, I was just joking Betty" Thorn snapped.
"Don't call me that" Ray shouted "I'm not an old lady".
"Whatever Betty" Thorn muttered. Ray glared at her nastily before charging off towards the large oak doors of the house.
Thorn glared after him but her attention was suddenly fixed on something very disturbing. There was a tombstone with her name carved along it Thorn Beckford and the date of death. Today. Halloween. That would have been scary enough but there was also more. In front of the tombstone was a freshly dug grave about her height. The phrase 'six feet under' sprung to mind. The grave even had a coffin inside it. Open and empty, waiting for a body. Shivers ran down Thorn's spine. Thorn knew she was being irrational but it felt like it had been waiting for her. Mariah seemed to agree "I think someone's planning your funeral." She said in a frightened voice.
Thorn felt just as scared herself but a thought suddenly struck her "I bet this is Kai's doing. He has that sort of sick sense of humour"
"Well it's just plain creepy" Mariah said dragging Thorn away. They were getting closer and closer to the front door when Ray noticed something. There was a dilapidated looking coffin leant against the wall. It was only a few metres away from the main doors. The coffin was brown and made of what seemed to be rotting wood. Ray for some idiotic and unknown reason decided to investigate.
"What are you doing?" Thorn hissed. "You're acting like one of those dumbass teenagers in a horror movie. They always want to investigate. Do you know what happens to those idiots? They always end up with an axe in their head.
"Don't be an idiot Thorn. What's it going to do to me? Splinter me to death" Ray scoffed "It's just a prop and not even a very good one". The coffin's lid moved slightly, creaking angrily as if it had heard the insult.
"See?" Mariah accused "You've pissed it off now"
Ray turned around and sighed "You two are pathetic; it's just a special effects prop"
It happened quickly. The three of them were just standing there when out of the blue the coffin burst open. Ray managed to jump out of the way before a skeleton staggered out of the open coffin centimetres from where he had been. The skeleton continued dragging itself towards them arms outstretched. Thorn was so close she could see the strips of decaying flesh still on the frame and the empty sockets in the skull.
All three screamed and ran as fast as they could in the opposite direction. Thorn noted that Ray, who a moment ago had been admonishing them for their cowardliness, was screaming just as much as she and Mariah, probably even more. If she ever got out of this alive she would have to tease Ray about his girly shriek.
All three ran up the stone steps to the mansion. Thorn being even clumsier when she's scared, or rather terrified out of her wits. She tripped and would have been thrown face first into the oak doors if they hadn't been pulled open just as she was about to land. Thorn looked up slowly feeling slightly dizzy, well that was an understatement stars were currently dancing in front of her eyes. So much light flooded out of the hall that Thorn was blinded or that could have been the concussion. Everything was silent until familiar laughing started to echo around them.
A mysterious voice spoke from somewhere above her, "I see you met Grave Dave"
HUH?
To be continued