Another One Bites the Dust

How dare they mock me. How dare they call my story a bluff! They shall pay for their words! I will prove that I am a vampire of the night. Then they all will pay for their betrayal. Marie laughed as she stumbled through the old abandoned graveyard. It’s been years since this place been visited by the living. Even the trees that over-shadowed the graves were upon death’s door. The sun was already setting beyond the mountains making it the perfect time to come and put her plan in motion.
She could still hear her so-called friends calling her a liar. “Marie, you’re not a vampire. Last week it was werewolves, when will the stories end?” They’d tell her. How dare they belittle her. They think they’re better than she is. They’re just humans, stupid inferior humans that will pay for their words. They betrayed me. After tonight they will pay.
Marie was going to spend all night here, in this haunted place, to prove that vampires exist, and become the creature of the night as she promised. That will shut her friends up. How dare they not believe her. I don’t need them. Who needs backstabbers like them anyway? Marie shivered as the wind sliced against her pale skin. The air was becoming moist and the sky kidnapped the rising moon as a storm approached. It only storms when the nightmares are near. She flicked on her flashlight as she stumbled more through the huge cemetery.
Rain began to fall as thunder roared.  She ran for shelter underneath a huge tree, but the leaves failed to stop the water. “Stupid Rain, when I become a vampire this will be nothing.” She smiled as she seen shadows begin to dance within the blade of light. Waiting awhile the storm let up with only the thunder left to fear. Marie walked deeper into the darkness with only her flashlight as her guide. She approaches a small circle of tombstones with dying grass lay between the broken stones. A smile spread across her lips as she found her destination.
Marie approached the circle but stopped as something moved behind her. Turning around she met darkness. Her flashlight flickered on and off. “Hello? I’m Marie.” She spoke to the darkness as the shadows moved. “Come out!” The sky crackled as lightning struck a tree nearby. Marie laughed. “Yes, they’re here. Come and take me with you!” She raised her arms to the sky in praise. “All mighty ones! Make me one of you! Give me your power!” She spun around as a waving humanoid shadow caught her attention. Her eyes widened, her breathing sped, and her heart pounded as excitement took over. This is it. This is what I been waiting for. I’m going to prove those idiots wrong. They will now pay! Marie kept laughing as she stepped closer to the shadow. Reaching out, she tried to grasp it. Something pierced her hand and she starts falling. The thunder stole her scream.
Dawn arrives, lighting up the graveyard filled with police. The captain shook his head in disbelief as a young girl was pulled out of the empty grave in the middle of a tombstone circle. “When will these kids learn to stay out of here? This place isn’t safe. Many forgotten open graves that are easy to fall in. Another one bites the dust from careless midnight exploring.” His squad looks at him as he walks back to his police car leaving the rest to his men.
“Marie Narson, local high school girl. She goes to school with my daughter. A strange girl said my Lizzie in the past. Running around on a stormy night in a graveyard that has to be some sort of stupid. Lucky, she had her cellphone strapped to her ankle, or we’d never find her in this place. Poor girl would’ve stayed out here forever with a broken neck without any trace left. Better go call the parents. Shit, I hate this part of this job.” Sighed one of the other police officers as he snapped more pictures of the crime scene. There was blood on a sharp rock by the grave where a small slender tree had grown through the years. Most of the branches had broken off, leaving only a few on top and two on the sides that would sway whenever the wind blew.