Dustin's Necromancy Application

[Dustin Graves Rare]

 

 

It was a young summer night, the sounds of the night life were starting to come out and be alive. The presence of people were also starting to wind down as well. Mostly the only people left were the night owls and the people that were heading home, like Dustin and his brothers at the moment. He had ended up talking some of his brothers into going out of camp for some fun at the arcades but in the end they all ended up wanting to watch the newest scary movie that had just came out. The movie had ended up scaring some of them, even Dustin had jumped a few times at some of the jump scares in there. However, after the movie, the boys were off walking back to camp. Goofing off and Dustin even had one of his brothers in a headlock just playing around when one of the brothers ended up stopping and suggested that they play a fun little game of truth or dare.

Some of the boys thought that it was a silly game to play and one had even piped up and said that was a game for a party with girls all around. However, Dustin voiced his opinion about how they were just scared to play it because they couldn't handle being teased. Well, that statement got them to shut their traps pretty fast and soon they were walking again and either picking a truth or a dare to do. The first time around Dustin ended up picking truth because as much as he wanted to trust his brothers he didn't at the same time. They ended up making fun of him for it since he had made it so apparent that they were being sticklers for it. That he had told them the next time he would pick dare to show them how a real man played. They all laughed at him and playfully shoved him around like boys their age normally do.   

It didn't take long for the game to reach Dustin once more. "You said you were picking dare this time D, no going back now." One of his brothers said and Dustin only laughed a little at his comment. He knew that he couldn't go back on his promise as he didn't want to look like a scaredy cat. "Alright, alright." He muttered under his breath. "What is it that I have to do?" he asked questioning them on what it was, since he had no idea. However it didn't take long for the boys to come up with a plan for Dustin. "You have to go in that graveyard for five minutes." one said and the others began to talk and argue that it wasn't manly enough to just do that. Dustin however, didn't care. It was getting later at night and he was ready to just get back into his own cabin and rest for the night. "Fine." He said causing the boys to stop arguing. "I'll do it." He stuck up his hand and looked at his watch. "Be back in five." He said as he turned to look at the place that the boy wanted him to go into and his face dropped a little.

The darkness screamed at him from the inside of the graveyard and he couldn't help but take a step back to get a better view of it, or rather that was what he was telling himself. He hadn't ever been a fan of graveyards as they hosted things from the dead there. This was a place for the child of Hades not him. He swallowed hard as he glanced over at the boys who seemed to have faith in him. "Right, here I go." he said as he made sure that the sword he brought with him was still hanging tightly to his back. They all had gotten permission from Chiron to bring them just in case they were to get into some kind of trouble, which trouble seemed to always come Dustin's way. It was because of their scent. The boy could attracted the worst of monsters at the moment, but that didn't seem to be going through any of their minds. They were just there to play games and all. 

Dustin moved to the gate and glanced back at the boys. They didn't seemed to be nervous at all for him, hell, he had no idea what he was feeling this way. Maybe it was because it was getting later at night and the sun was going down which meant that there wasn't going to be enough light for him to see anything. But he kept on going. Thinking that there would be a win for him in the end. As he walked forward he began to read some of the tombstones that were there. Some of them had died long ago and some had the reason they died. Some were soldiers and some were doctors. Others just had beloved father or mother on there. It was nearly all the same. 

It didn't take long when he walked into the graveyard to start hearing noises. There were some that he could figure out and there were some that he couldn't. Some birds called out and fluttered their wings which made Dustin's heart flutter right along with them. He could have sworn that they were going to attack him but nothing happened. They just ended up going up through some trees, making some of the leaves fall to the ground. He pulled the sword from his back for a just in case, when he heard another noise. This time it didn't stop and he was a little worried. He glanced around the place once again and this time his eyes found some green spots in the back of the grave yard. Now normally, Dustin would have called out to the guys and had them enter the place with him, but he wasn't sure at the moment if they were heading this way or if they weren't.

However, it didn't take him long to realize that he was getting ready to be in trouble. The green dots soon turned into toddler looking things that had rolls of fat. The greenish hue of their skin now gave away to what they were. Karpoi. "Guys a little help here!" he called out to his brothers but they laughed at him calling him a chicken. It was a hard thing to bare when you were playing a game and end up being in real trouble where no one believed you. He pulled his sword in front of him and got into his fighting stance. He knew once his brothers heard him fighting they would run in and help him out. As the first one got to him, he slashed out his sword in a smooth motion and cut one of the Karpoi in half. He watched as it turn into some grains he realized all too well that he was pretty hungry now. As soon as the other got to him he noticed that he was outnumbered by a lot. He stepped back a little, letting his sword drop to the ground. The guys hadn't come yet. "There's monsters." He called out again. This time he heard the noise of his brothers coming to him. Though they were still pretty far away from him. 

He swung his sword a couple more times, barely getting the monsters and not enough to do any real damage to them as he was just trying to keep them away from him. But that wasn't working as he was really outnumbered by the whole group of them. He started to worry about everything. His brothers were on their way but they were taking their time. He had worried about if he was going to make it out of the place alive when one jumped on his back clawing at him, causing him to get cut on his shoulder and down his back a little. He let out a scream as he normally wasn't used to pain like this. It was then when the ground started shaking. Causing Dustin to look down as well as the monsters. The ground started to come apart which caused Dustin to freak out a little more as he wasn't ready to fight something coming from the ground. However, he then noticed a hand that came out, but not just any hand it was a skeleton hand that grabbed his attention and it wasn't just one that was in front of him. They were all around him. The Monsters seemed to freak out a little more as they seemed to move away from the hands that were coming out of the earth. 

Soon the hands became arms which was starting to not scare him as much as he seemed to understand where this was coming from. It was coming from him. He knew that his father was able to do it a little. However, he thought a little more as he looked over to where one of the skeleton's were coming out and he noticed the tombstone saying he was a solider. So this was really him. It was at that time most of the skeletons were out of the ground, wielding swords of their own. He smirked and stood up straight just as his brothers got there. Which they stopped when they noticed the new crew as well. He turned to his brothers and smirked. "Well, don't just stand there fight." He said as he lifted his sword a little but wincing at the cut on his shoulder. His brothers charged at monsters with a manly yell and the skeleton charged on as well. He was left there smirking at the family and of course his new crew as well before he joined into the fight with them. 

With all the skeletons and his brothers there fighting with him he knew that it wasn't going to be hard fighting them off. He rushed into the battle, swinging his sword and killing as many as he could. He watched some of the skeleton get re-killed, if that was what you would call it. They ended up turning into dust once they died. Once all the monsters were gone, Dustin ended up dropping to the ground and grabbing his shoulder. He listened to his brother yell and cheer about how well they had done and how they kicked the monster's ass. It only took them a moment to noticed that their brother was on the ground hurt. They rushed to him making sure that he was going to be okay before the helped him up, telling him he had won the whole truth or dare and game. 

The trip out of the graveyard had been a pretty easy one and once they got to the street and sidewalk that they were on, they all felt a little more relived about the whole thing. However, they still held their swords closer to them as she made their way all the campsite. Once they passed the border, Dustin headed right for the big house as his brothers left for their cabin. Dustin knew that Lilythe was still very much working at the moment. He walked up the stairs and into the big house with a small frown on his face. He knew that she was going to be worried about everything that happened. It was mainly one of the reasons that he didn't go out in the first place. He walked into the kitchen, holding his shoulder as he gave her a small smile. "Think you can heal me up?" He asked as he placed the sword down against the counter.