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Luna was an odd girl. She never had many friends, maybe one or two. Luna was not like other girls. She loved to get dirty, wrestle with the neighborhood boys but most disturbing was her fascination with dissecting dead animals. She would pick up road kill and explore it. She did this secretly so her parents had no idea. She also could see the dead. She would talk with a spirit named Vicky all the time until the day Vicky told Luna to go get her dad's pistol from his dresser. Luna refused and that was when Vicky decided to harm Luna. Luna would get deep scratches and bruises but always hide them from her parents and friends because she didn't want to be more of a "freak". She's tortured enough for being weird. One day Luna's friend, Sarah, decided to walk home with Luna from school. Everything was going fine until Luna froze. Sarah stopped and turned around and asked if she was okay. "My back!" Luna cried. 

Sarah carefully lifted up the back of Luna's shirt and low and behold there were six bleeding cuts. Sarah screamed and ran away. "God damn you, Vicky!" Luna cried. "There goes another friend." She starts to continue to walk home when she sees this shadow with a top hat that was darker than the blackest black and it was in broad daylight! It just stood there are watched her. "Go away!" She screamed. But it didn't go away, instead it stalked her to her house. Once Luna was home she went straight up to her room to start on homework when all of a sudden she feels breathing down the back of her neck! She quickly turns around to see a huge black mass hovering behind her. She could feel herself get weaker and weaker. She was frozen. Then the mass slowly made its way up to the ceiling. Luna snapped out of it and looked up. "Oh God!" she yelled. Luna ran out of the house as fast as she could. She didn't know where she was going just as long as she got far away! She finally stopped at a stop sign a few blocks over. Her mind was racing. She didn't know what to do. 

As she was catching her breath she looked to her let and saw the Shadow man! It quickly darted behind a tree. And when she started to look around more she noticed Shadow Men behind every tree! Her heart was racing. She could barely move. But she had to get out of there! She starts to walk slowly down the street when the Shadow people come darting out from the trees right towards Luna! She started to run but they were too fast. They grabbed her and started to rip out her hair, claw her and bite her. She cried in pain and fear. Then all of a sudden they were gone! Luna ran home hoping her parents were there. 

She reached to door step and walked in the front door. Her parents were sitting at the dinning room table staring at their plates. "Mom, Dad?" Luna replied. Her parents did not answer. She walked up to the table and tapped her mom on the shoulder and when her mom turned around she had no eyes! Luna screamed and ran out of the house. Vicky stopped her in the driveway. "Where do you think your going?" Vicky asked with a smirk on her face. "Please just stop!" Luna cried. Vicky laughed. "I'll stop if you will do something for me and I will get the shadows off your back too." Vicky offered. "What do you want?" Luna asked.

"I want you to kill the man that murdered me" Luna really didn't want to do it but she was desperate. Luna stole her father's car and gun and Vicky rode with her to tell her where her murderer lives. 

They pulled up into a motel. "His number is eight and his name is Randy" Vicky said. Luna hid the gun in her pants and knocked on door number eight. Randy opened the door "What the fuck do you want?" he said annoyed. "Can I come in? It's important" Luna conned Randy in to letting her in. 

As soon as Randy shut the door Luna pulled out her gun and shot him but it hit him in the shoulder. He charged after her trying to grab for the gun. There was a huge struggle. 

Luna fired the gun until it was empty and missed him every time from the struggle. Luna tried to get up but Randy pushed her on the floor so hard it knocked her out. Then Randy grabbed a metal bat and started bashing Luna's head in. As she lay dying she saw the shadow people all around her whispering. The shadow people walked up to her and lifted her soul from her body and carried her off into the unknown. 

 © Rachel Aleta Livingston