THE DEVIL OF THE DEAD

Chapter 1
A man stands in the middle of a cemetery. It was only a second later when a portal appears, that some man stepping on the rough, hard ground surrounded by graves. The place is surrounded by spider webs. Here the spiders can call home to one of these graves never disturbed. Until now. The man walks silently almost floating along. His face his hidden by a dar cape making his body look like the shadows creeping along tows of burial sites. One, a head sticks out, there is no flesh but just the skull of the dead. Not buried right is the problem. The silentless man steps into the middle of the graveyard. Suddenly a flash of energy is glowing from the man's hands. He holds them out. Suddenly a lighting form is shot out of the hands of the silent Man. It shoots out, crashing into graves. Then it is silent as it was before. Then, you can hear the digging and scratching of human bones digging its way out of the Earth. Soon the sound spreads. Human limbs are poking out of the graves. A sound of moaning erupts through the graveyard. The moaning is the sound of zombies awakening from their long sleep. Two red, beady eyes show from the dark cape. The man whispers, "The dead has risen again!"

Chapter 2
Rriiinnngg! The sound of the school bell ringsinto Tom's ears. He sits up, looking around. Everyone leaves and Tom hurries with them. "I must've dozed off!" though Tom. His least favorite subject was Social Studies. Their teacher was Mrs. Fredrickson. Miss. F. was a boring teacher! She loved history but not the students. Everybody dozes off because Miss. F. has a bad case of going on and on about a subject. She could keep talking for the whole class time. The only good thing about Miss. F. is since she talks so much that she doesn't hand out homework a lot so that was good!

Tom had no friends, nobody to look up to. He walked down the hall silently only his footsteps echo through the empty hallway. He's always the last one because everyone rushes out and starts talking about having a sleepover, talking about who's dating who, and all the gossip stuff. Tom has to walk three blocks to get home. HIs school, For Middle School, happens just to be two blocks in front of the cemetery. At school, kids say it's haunted, and no one walks near it. But Tom knew it was just a myth, because he'll walk right along the cemetery fence. Kids will stare at him at a long distance. They think Tom will be snatched through the fence by live zombies and skeletons. That's why no one walks with him. He steps out of the school doors and starts taking his walking route.

Tom turns to go on the second block where the cemetery is. People call the cemetery the "Screeching Cemetery." They call the cemetery this name because of the weird screeching noises from the cemetery. Tom doesn't care. He just considers it's just crows or bats that has screeching issues. When Tom turns a big truck passes by. Tom waits until the end of the truck moves along. Tom peers over the truck to find police cars at Ford County Cemetery. That's the real name. Police men were guarding the entrance. Tom ran along the fence, his backpack thumping against his back.

A policeman steps in front of Tom. "Whoa! Stop right there young man."

Tom asks, "What happened here?"

He was just looking around. There were holds surrounded by huge piles of dirt. Tom couldn't tell but he thought he saw skeletal like footprints everywhere on the other side of the fence.

"What happened?," Tom asked again to the policeman.

""We're pretty sure it was a massive grave robbery," the Policeman answers. "We're thinking around eighty out of a hundred bodies were stolen."

"Why would people take other people's dead bodies?" Tom asks.

"Clothes, jewelry, shoes, coffins, gold teeth.", says the policeman.

"For what?"

"To sell it, wear it."

"You better get home boy."

Then the policeman walks away. Just then a truck followed by a van drives past and into the cemetery parking lot. Tom read what it said on the side of the truck:

FORD FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation.

"Whoa!" Tom then read the side of the van:

Missouri CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

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