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Chapter 6: Knightwood Bay Cemetery
Knightwood Bay Cemetery a place for the departed, a place for spirits to be laid to rest, find peace and move on. It was also home to the Baywood-Knight Family Mausoleum and is the exact place Justin and Benny were heading to. Tonight the cemetery felt soothing and calming in a way that could not be explained only felt. The night sky had cleared up and there was a chilly breeze, the moon and stars were the only source of light.
"Thanks Justin." Benny spoke to Justin as they headed towards the family mausoleum. Justin only nodded back as the white-pillared building came into view ahead of them. They opened the double steel doors and headed down the spiral staircase into the dimly lit room.
The family mausoleum dates back to the late 1600s and was carefully designed from the bottom up and inside out, according to Justin's dad and Benny's Grandmother. The buildings interior floors and walls were beautifully crafted from white polished marble. Each individual crypt has a shutter constructed of silver and is inscribed with the family member's name, dates and an endearment. At the center of the mausoleum there are a few benches and a small alter. It was also separated into two separate wings; on the west wing the mausoleum housed the Knight Family and on the east wing the Baywood Family.
The boys headed into the west wing and down the corridor to where Benny's parents were laid to rest. They came up to the all too familiar silver plaque that read, "Brandon Knight III & Alice Knight, 1993 – 2019, The Power of One Will Set You Free."
Benny and Justin sat with their backs against the wall and started to talk with Benny's parents about their first week of high school life. Benny and Justin only come here once a year, on the anniversary that Benny's parents were laid to rest, September 1, 2019. Today was that day, the ninth anniversary of his parent's death, a topic that is never brought up between the two and Justin understood why.
Alison crashed at the top of the Baywood-Knight Mausoleum and landed on the floor, but not before hitting a tree on her way down. She got up, dusted herself off and was slowly healing from the crash-landing. She felt very tired and needed food. She wandered around the cemetery in search for some kind of food.
Justin and Benny heard a loud crash outside the building; they quickly got up and headed for the entrance of the mausoleum. They closed the doors and looked around the immediate area of the mausoleum, but found nothing except a part of a tree branch that had fallen on the ground. The two knew it was getting late, especially with the new curfews and decided to head home for the night because their parents may be worried.
As the two walk in the direction of the exit they hear strange noises coming from the back of the small church. Being curious they head towards the sound. The mysterious sounds gets louder with each step they took, almost like hissing from a snake. They slowly turn around the corner of the building and stop when they see a dark figure in the distance. They boys hide behind one of the pillars and look ahead.
"What is that?" Benny whispers to Justin as the figure searches for something near the dumpster.
"It looks like a girl. Get your phone out and open the camera app." Justin responds to Benny as he loads the camera on his phone.
"It's too dark to see anything man." Benny replies back in a whisper not wanting to attract attention.
"Use the night vision filter." Justin says while he squints his eyes a bit. He hears Benny gulp, "What?" he responds as he turns his head up to look at his friend who has his face in question trying to make clear of the fading image he is seeing. "Benny, what?"
"We, sho…we…" Benny is now stuttering trying to make words come out of his mouth, "We should leave. We should leave." Justin takes the phone away from him and adjusts it to see what Benny saw. He points the phone towards the figure, and is surprised at what he sees, Alison. Both boys looked at each other with wide eyes and looked back at the crouched girl when they started to scream like girls.
"Ahhh!" Both boys scream in unison repeatedly at the top of their lungs, "Ahhh!"
Alison is about to drink the blood of a rat when she hears someone screaming. She looks up at them, and is in shock as well. Her eyes' are golden and is baring her fangs at them as she hisses.
At this point Justin gets up and starts running towards the gates of the cemetery, but notices that Benny is still screaming his lungs out like a maniac and has not moved. He runs back, grabs him by his jacket and starts dragging him towards the exit.
Alison quickly flashes up while holding the rat in her hand and hisses in the direction the boys are running. "We are so dead!" both boys scream as they dart in between tombstones and trees.
"See! I knew gym was good for something!" Benny practically yelled as he continued to run. "Watch out skinny guy coming through!" Leave it to Benny to joke about something serious as they ran for their lives, Justin thought.
They could clearly see the gates up ahead and were relieved. They turned their heads around to see if Alison was behind them but she wasn't. They turned back around and were about to exit the cemetery when Alison turned around the corner of the exit blocking them in. The boys suddenly stopped and crashed into each other and fell down.
Alison rolled her eyes and crossed her arms at them. Justin and Benny quickly got up and started walking backwards slowly. Justin stepped on a tree branch, picked it up and broke it in half.
"Demon of the night! Be gone!" He held the broken branch in the form of a cross as Benny and him continued to walk backwards slowly.
"What's your problem?" Alison exclaimed at them as she walked towards them.
"Just hold up, ok, if you eat us that would so not be cool." Justin answered back as calmly as he could for someone who was scared.
"If I wanted to eat you I would have done it by now." Alison retorted as she crossed her arms. Benny and Justin both had scared looks by now.
"See, she's going to eat us. We're doomed!" Benny yelled as he shook Justin.
"No! No, no I just want to talk to you guys!" Alison replied to the scared boys. "What ever you saw back there, it's not what it looked like."
Justin gave her a questioned look, "You're a freaking vampire, who eats animals and drinks their blood." Justin shot back at her. Alison awkwardly smiled back.
"Ok, so it's kind of what it looked like, but…" she was cut off by Benny.
"I'm warning you, I had garlic bread for lunch and I'm not afraid to use my breath." He started to huff his breath really loudly.
"Would you both just shut up, I'm just a normal girl ok!" She sighed, "At least I was until I was bit by my crummy ex-boyfriend."
"So you aren't going to eat us then?" Benny asked hiding behind Justin. Justin moved aside and put the sticks down. They headed towards the exit and walked towards the direction of the park. Alison was giving them a small update on who Jason was and what they had done to Erica.
Another one of Jason's spies was keeping a close watch on them from a tree in the cemetery. He quickly flew away towards the Lockwood Estate to inform Jason of what had just occurred.
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-Dominus Trinus 13
