Chapter 07

Suddenly the bus stop on the way.

"What happen ?", I asked to Chris anxiously.

"Fuel is empty. We have to take some. But I can't able to see any fuel pump nearby", he replied with a worried look on his face.

"We have to do something", Mike spoke up.

Suddenly we saw a man emerges from the darkness in front of the bus. I can barely see his face. He was wearing a black robe with the hoodie up.

"Who's that ?", Chris murmured and point his his gun towards the man.

The man is holding an old fashioned lamp on his right hand. Chris and Mike put their gun's flashlight on that man. The man covers his face with his hand.

"Hey, do need gasoline ? Its late at night now. Why don't you all come with me", the man yelled.

"How can we trust you ?", Chris replied back.

"I'm a priest in a nearby church here. And I've a large chruch where you all can rest sometime till my students take gasoline for you".

"What should we do. Do we need to trust him ?", I asked to others.

"We have to. We don't have choices", Mike replied.

They turned off the flashlights as we went off from the bus and approach the man. The man put down the hoodie. He looked like a man in his 60s. He has wrinkled skin with a little horizontal scar on his left cheek. He has grey eyes and only a few hairs left on his head which was dyed grey.

"Okay let's go", Chris said to the man and the man smiled.

We followed him and he took us in a large chruch. He's not lying. There is warm to. It has benches well orgainized on the both sides and a Jesus statue was standing on the middle.

"Come with me. I take you to your room", the priest said.

And he took us to a nice but old small room where we four can easily fit.

"You all take some rest and I'll take you some food. I know you're hungry right ?", the priest said mockingly.

"Well, not so. But we will not reject your offer", I said.

"Thats so pleasant of you", the priest said and went out from there.

"We have to leave this place as soon as possible. It looks a bit strange", Chris suggest.

"Ya you're right", I replied.

I sat on the bed and it make a cracking sound as I sat. An old bed, I realise.

"Be careful. Everything here is old and rusted", Mike said as he took a sit on an old chair cautiously

"I got it", I replied back.

The priest return with a large plate full of fresh fruits.

"Eat. Its all for yours", the priest told.

We begin to eat all the fruits. We finished eating and the food was very tasty as it seems.

"Did your students take the gasoline?", I asked to the priest.

"Yes yes. They're on the way. You can take rest for sometime long", he replied and went out.

"I have doubt on that priest", Mike whispered to me.

"I don't think so. I'm feeling sleepy, you guys please wake me up if they take the gasoline", I said to them and goes to sleep.

My head, its paining. What happen ? When I woke up, I found myself sleeping on the floor and my hands are handcuffed with a rope. I sat up and my vision get vivid. I see that I, Chris and Mike were handcuffed and Cindy is strap to a metal gurney. The place where the Jesus statue placed was gone replacing with of a devilish staue. Cindy was infront of the statue unconscious. I saw the priest behind her holding a knife. My heart began to beat fast.

"Hey you, what are you doing ?", I yelled at him furiously.

"Waiting for you. This little girl, its a gift to the devil. If we sacrifice this girl to the devil, the creatures of the dark pardon us and leave the earth immediately", the priest described.

"Are you insane ? How can you sacrifice a little girl for the devil ? You son of a bitch", I cursed him.

"I think they are a kind of religious cult", Chris murmured to me.

"The fruits, they are chloroformed", Mike said to me.

The priest got near to Cindy and holds up the knife. I yell as much as I can to stop him but it doesn't make any effect. Is that the end I'm waiting for. But God did a miracle, a horde of nightwalker ambushed the church and attack on the priest killing him. The students try to stop him but the nightwalkers overrun the church. Chris somehow manage to unrope himself and then also unrope us. We took this chaos as an advantage to us.

"We cover you. You just save Cindy", Chris said to me as he clear our way to Cindy.

I nodded and ran near to Cindy who was still unconscious. I unstrapped her and we immediately fled the place. At outside, we sew a SUV was there. We get in. But there is no key there so Chris hotwire it and it start.

"Ready to go", Chris said as he hit the road.

Finally we were safe again. It was so exhaustable for me to travel place to place taking dangers with us. But anyways we're safe and Cindy to. She sat on my lap still unconscious as we travel the way silently.