Reign of Octohead

Mystery/ slasher/ horror and dark story for those who are not troubled with bloodshed and complex storylines.

REIGN OF OCTOHEAD. CHAPTER 1 ( THE CULTISTS) Alarm was beeping at 5'0 clock in the morning but Vikrant was too lazy to even shut the alarm off. Nandita - Wake up Vikrant! You are going to be late. Vikrant- What time is it? Nandita- It's 5 AM. Vikrant(suddenly wake up)- Holy crap! My flight is at 8 AM! Nandita- I still don't understand. Why you have to do this job? Why you need to go back to India? Vikrant- Because my company want me to. We are opening our new Branch in Manali, I need to supervise the work going on there. Nandita- Why can't I come with you? Vikrant- I don't want your schedule to get disturbed because of me, my dear wife. Nandita- You are going there for a week....I will probably get bored. Vikrant- No you won't. There is lot of work around here which is needed to be done and... Nandita- And what? Vikrant- I don't know. It's a kind of strange feeling, maybe because we are here in London from 2 years...and now I am going back. Nandita- Even I miss India sometimes, maybe sometime later we will get a chance to go together. Vikrant- Yeah right, ok now I am going to be ready. ........................At Manali railway station, two young people around the age 25 came out from train and set their foot on platform. Rohit- Vikrant said that he is going to be here soon. Pulkit- Soon means what? Rohit- I don't know. Maybe till evening. Pulkit- We used to be best friends in college dude and we haven't seen him from 2 years. Rohit- Even I am going to complain him about this..he didn't even met us before going to London. He just vanished into thin air. Pulkit- Maybe he learnt about you and Nandita. Rohit- Nandita and me had a past in college time. We didn't even meet after that. Vikrant knew about us when me and Nandita broke up. Pulkit- Alright buddy, let's not pull the strings of past. Come on, let's find out a good hotel around here. ...............................Rohit and Pulkit soon leave the railway station and came out. They were sensing a silence in the air. Rohit- Don't you find it a little..unusual. Pulkit- What? Rohit- People around here are a little bit silent than usual and a little bit..scared. ....................." It's because of them."said Inspector Shamsher who was right behind Pulkit. Rohit- What happened here? Shamsher- Are you guys tourists or .. Pulkit- No! We used to live here in Manali, we have done our schooling and Graduation from here then we got jobs in separate cities. We are coming back after a long time...after 2 years. One of our friend is also coming from London. Shamsher- Then you probably don't know what is going on around here. Pulkit- No we don't have any idea. Shamsher- People are disappearing mysteriously. People involved in any kind of religious work..like priests, spiritual gurus, maulvis are the main target. Rohit- What? Than why it is not in the newspapers? Shamsher- Because I am not letting them to release this news. Rohit- And why is it so? Shamsher- This is a very sensitive issue, political leaders will take advantage of this situation and they can use it to gain sympathy votes which can lead to a state of political unrest in the society. Rohit- But why someone is kidnapping only anyone indulged in religious acts? Shamsher- That's what I want to know. If you guys see something unusual then contact police, okay? Rohit- Yeah fine. Shamsher- I know that it shocked you guys a little but you really didn't choose a nice time period to come back. ........................................Then Inspector Shamsher called a taxi for them and told driver to get them a good hotel. Pulkit and Rohit were talking about the situation of Manali in taxi. Pulkit- It was really a nice gesture from Inspector by the way. Rohit(in tensed voice)- Yeah. Pulkit- Why are you so tense? Rohit- You heard Inspector, Didn't you? Pulkit- Well..yes. Who can be these guys who are kidnapping people? Rohit- Terrorists maybe.. Pulkit- I don't think so. ..........................................Then taxi reached Hotel PineGrove. Rohit and Pulkit came out from taxi and checked in into hotel. Rohit- This hotel appears to be.. a very quite place. Pulkit- Yeah right! Even I am not getting very good vibes around here. ......................................Then they went to their respective rooms. Pulkit enters his room and put his luggage in a corner then he go to balcony to get a view. Suddenly Rohit enters his room. Rohit- Have you tried calling Vikrant? Pulkit- Why are you so eager to know? He is coming very soon. Rohit- I am eager because he is the only one to have a house in Manali, otherwise both of our families used to live on rent around here and this hotel is a little bit expensive. As soon as he. comes, we will shift in his house. Pulkit(smiling)- I think that Inspector scared you with his story of disappearing people. Rohit- What? No! That has nothing to do with this. Pulkit- Alright brave guy! Let's take a look of our beautiful Manali from balcony. ..............................Both Rohit and Pulkit come to balcony, suddenly they saw a mysterious person wearing a black hood was standing outside the hotel and he was constantly staring above at the balcony where those two were standing. Rohit- Who is he? Why is he staring at us? Pulkit- How do I know? Rohit- He doesn't seem to be a very nice guy. Pulkit- I think he is just a mad guy..come on let's order some food. ...................................Rohit and Pulkit came into room again to order food. Rohit was still thinking about that mysterious black hooded figure. After having food, they both decided to take a look outside the hotel premises. Both of them came out from hotel. Rohit- This hotel seems to be in a very remote area, look at that forest attached to the back of the hotel. Pulkit- I wonder that we live here in Manali still we never came to learn about this place. Rohit- Manali is very large place, you can't expect every local resident to know everything about a place. .....................................Suddenly Pulkit's phone rang up. Pulkit- Oh! It's Vikrant! Rohit- Pick up. Pulkit- Hey Vikrant! Where are you buddy? Vikrant(over phone)- I have boarded the flight, coming very soon. Pulkit- Alright then. Pick us from Hotel PineGrove. Vikrant- Fine.Let me reach there first.(Phone disconnected) Rohit- What happened? Pulkit- I told him to pick us from this Hotel. .....................................Suddenly an obnoxiously tall person came out from the woods with a big hammer in his hand and tried to attack Rohit. Pulkit- Holy crap! ...................................Rohit evaded the attack of tall stranger , both Pulkit and Rohit attack on stranger and snatched his hammer from him. But stranger attacked on them bare handed. Rohit- Why on the earth is he attacking us? Pulkit- He does not seem to be in a mood to tell us and he is too strong to be opposed. ..........................Suddenly stranger's hands get a grip on Rohit's neck. Rohit started to choke up. Rohit- P..Pulkit do something! Pulkit- Don't worry Rohit! I am going to release you! ............................Suddenly Pulkit saw the hammer of stranger is still lying on the ground. He tried to pick it up. Pulkit- Hmm..it's heavy but I have to lift it. ...........................................Pulkit was a gym freak but he had to give a lot of effort to lift the hammer. He finally lifted the hammer and aimed on stranger's head with all his strength, hammer collided with stranger's head and his grip on Rohit's neck got loose. Rohit releases himself from his grip and the stranger collapsed on the ground. Rohit- W..What happened to him? Pulkit- I think he is dead. Rohit- What? Pulkit- I..I killed a person, I killed him! Rohit- Pulkit listen! Whatever you did, you did in self defense. He could have killed us. Pulkit- But..Who was he?Why he wanted to kill us? Rohit- I don't know. Pulkit- Should we inform the police? Rohit- This is not a good idea, this is a very serious matter. Pulkit- What should we do then? Rohit- We should dump the body into the forest, no one is going to know about all this. ................................Then Rohit and Pulkit lifted the body and took him to the forest. Forest was very quite at that time, even birds were not chirruping. Rohit- Hmm..this giant is heavy! Pulkit- Yeah very heavy. .....................................Suddenly they heard sound of some footsteps, Pulkit and Rohit left the body there. Pulkit saw Rohit and indicated him to keep his mouth shut by putting his finger on his lips. Then they move slowly into the direction from where the sound of footsteps was coming but they found no one. Rohit- Are you sure that someone saw us? Pulkit- I honestly don't know. Rohit- Let's get out from here, I am not getting a good feeling here. ..........................................Pulkit and Rohit came out from forest. Pulkit- One thing is very clear that someone send him to kill us. Rohit- I work in Reserve Bank and you are a gym trainer. Why would anyone want to kill us? Pulkit- My brain is not working this time, I think we should have never came back to Manali. Rohit- Let's get back to hotel, then we will think about it. .........................................Rohit and Pulkit were returning to hotel but suddenly two people wearing black hood came out of nowhere and put a chloroform on their face. Pulkit and Rohit were not prepared for an attack, they lose their consciousness. Then after several hours passes, Pulkit and Rohit found themselves tied to opposite walls by iron chains in a dark room. Pulkit- R..Rohit! Is it you! Where are we? Rohit(half conscious)- Ah.. Pulkit- Come on Rohit! Get up! You have to get up! Rohit(slowly gains consciousness)- Ah..Pulkit! Is it you! Pulkit- We are so messed up dude! Rohit(shouted)- Who are you guys? What do you want from us? Pulkit- There is no use of shouting. ................................Suddenly some people wearing black hood came into the room. Pulkit- What do you guys want from us? ......................................One of the person wearing black hood came ahead and uttered very slowly in a cold deep voice" Your life! That's what we want!" Pulkit- Why..and who are you? ...................................That person wearing black hood answered again" We are the cultists. Like you, we also have faith in God, our God. We don't believe in usual religious beliefs, we have different beliefs and a different God." Rohit- Alright! Let's come to the point! How much money do you want! ..........................................The mysterious person slowly walk towards Rohit and slapped him in face, then whispered in his cold voice"Money and fame, why people keep running for that? Why your God does not provide you all the joy of life if you believe in him truly? Our God is not partial like yours, he is going to come back on earth and whenever he comes, only those who believe in him will be saved from his wrath, others will be perished. But in order to awake our God from his sleep, we need to sacrifice a few human lives as part of a ritual." As soon as he finishes his sentence, other cultist brought kerosene in a container and poured it on Rohit. Pulkit- W..what are you guys doing? Please stop. Stop it! .....................................But then it was too late, the cultist showed burning matchstick to Rohit and burned him alive. Rohit was screaming helplessly but there was no use. Some time later, those people brought fire extinguishers and fire was vanished from Rohit's body but instead of Rohit, there was now a Burnt piece of dead meat was tied to those iron chains. Pulkit was still in a state of shock, he was not ready to believe that one of his best friends burned to death in front of his eyes. The leader of the cultists came to him and said"Just wait for two hours,next turn is yours." Than all the cultists get out of that dark room, outside that dark room..there was a graveyard where all the cultists gather in a round circle. Their leader said in a loud and cheerful tone" Today the 59th sacrifice is compelete, just one more sacrifice after two hours and Octohead will be free from his endless sleep. He has been sleeping over a millennia deep beneath the ocean, but now in this age...he is going to rise again"Pulkit was still chained from more than 1 hour in that dark, terrible room. He was in a state of shock because of the death of Rohit but then he became worried about himself. He thought in his mind"I have to make it alive from here and inform police about these murderers. It seems that they are gone for a while, I have to shout for some help." Then he started shouting" Help! Anyone please help!" But no one responded then Pulkit thought" I think this is the end!" Suddenly he heard some footsteps and thought that the cultists are coming again but he shocked to see that police entered the room. Inspector Shamsher was there with his police force, police force released Pulkit and burnt dead body of Rohit from iron chains. Pulkit- H..How did you know our location? Who are these people? Why did they killed Rohit? Shamsher- I will tell you everything, just calm down. Come to police station with me, this place is not safe. ........................................Soon Pulkit and Shamsher reached Police Station by jeep. Rohit's body was sent for post mortem. Pulkit- Now tell me inspector, what is going on around here? Shamsher- These people are known as cultists, they believe that there is only one true "God" and everything else is a false assumption. They live among us and have a job like normal people and that's why they are so hard to detect. In order to finish other religions and spread their own..they started to kidnap and kill people involved in religious acts. They want to bring "New World Order" in the society. They think that some ancient being who they call....Octohead is going to rise from deep ocean and rule the earth. Pulkit- How do you know so much about them? Shamsher- I know...because my father was also a cultist. Pulkit(shockingly)- What? But how did you... Shamsher- I never joined them because at the age of 12, I saw my mother getting killed by the hands of my father for this stupid ritual. Then I left my home and some NGO got me and moved me to some orphanage. Rest of my upbringing was done by orphanage. Pulkit- Why the world never heard about cultists? Shamsher- It is because cultist group was formed 1000 year ago and later on only descendants of the group's founding members were allowed in the group. They have a " Book of Black Magic" from which they practice dark arts. Once I remember that my father told me that if you have enough commitment to learn dark arts and black magic, you can do telekinesis. Pulkit- Tele...what? Shamsher- Telekinesis..an art of moving an object without touching it. The one who is really good in dark arts is later appointed leader of the cultists. Pulkit- You actually believe this crap? Shamsher- I ran away....because I never believed in their ways and their stupid black magic hocus pocus. Pulkit- But according to you...these cultists actually believe that some "Octohead" guy is coming from deep ocean. Shamsher- It doesn't matter what they believe. They are mentally ill and dangerous to the society, I learned that a long time ago. Pulkit- Then how are we going to catch them? Shamsher- They are soon going to return to the graveyard but they don't know that we have released you. I am going with my police force, we will wait for them and catch them as soon as they show up. Pulkit- Wait! I am coming with you! Shamsher- Are you sure? You just had a very bad experience of.. Pulkit- I will come at any cost, they have killed my friend. Shamsher- Alright! But you have to be careful, these people are very dangerous. Pulkit- Okay , let's go. ..........................................Inspector Shamsher went again to the graveyard along with a handful of his men and Pulkit. They hide around and waited for cultists to come, after some time a black car came to the graveyard and some black hooded people wearing a long robe came out from the car. Their faces were not visible because of hood and there was almost going to be dark at 6 PM. Shamsher was hiding and waiting for the right oppurtinity. Those mysterious people were talking to each other. Person 1- I think they followed us here. Person 2- Than be prepared, you know what happened last time. Person 3- Look over there! They knew we are here! ...............................Suddenly a white car also came into graveyard, some people came out of white car. Their hood and long robe was similar to the other cultists except it was not black...it was red. The black hooded cultists and red hooded cultists were facing each other. Shamsher and Pulkit seemed to be confused in this situation. Pulkit(in slow pitched voice)- How many types of cultists are there? Some people came in black robe earlier and now some people are there in red robe...what is going on? Shamsher- Even I am trying to understand the situation. .......................In the meantime, the red hooded people and black hooded people were facing each other. Person1(Red hood)- We heard that you guys have found the last human to sacrifice....give it to us and we will spare your lives. Person2(black hood)- We have done a lot of hard work on last two sacrifices..we even lost one man because he was killed by one of these humans, so forget about the last human sacrifice. We are going to compelete the ritual. Person1(red hood)- It seems that you black hood people don't understand polite manner, now we have to use another method to make you understand. ...............................All red hooded people took their guns out, black hooded people also took their guns out in a manner of responding to them. Suddenly Inspector Shamsher came out and yelled "Freeze! Everyone Freeze!" All the black hooded and red hooded people were surrounded by police force but instead of surrendering, the cultists started firing on police force. Police also responded with their guns, Pulkit was still hiding and watching the fight. Shamsher immediately took an headshot aim at few cultists and they turn dead, few police officers were also fell prey to the bullets fired by cultists. Some red and black hooded cultists tried to ran away from the situation but Shamsher ran after them. Then something unusual happened, a cultist stopped for a moment and wave his hand in air..the gun in Shamsher's hands fell on the ground. Pulkit was very surprised by watching this but Shamsher still ran after the cultists and caught one cultists into the strong grip of his arms, all other cultists ran away in their cars. That one cultist left also tried to ran away by releasing from the grip of Shamsher but Pulkit throw a stone on him and he fell on the ground. Shamsher came near the person. Shamsher- Al right, now remove the hood and let's see the real face of yours. .................................Shamsher removed his black hood and Pulkit just got very shocked by watching the real person. Pulkit- Vikrant! It's you! I can't believe my eyes! You and your people killed Rohit. Vikrant- Yes! We killed Rohit! You know what...I never liked that dude. He was having an affair with my wife. Pulkit- But that was past! I think everyone has got over the past. Vikrant - I didn't! I can't let go such thing. I was settled in London with Nandita, there I met some people in church who had a club for depressed people. I joined the club, that place changed my life forever. I was heartbroken when I learned the truth about Rohit and Nandita but after meeting the cultists in the club...I realised that the life we are living have no meaning because we all are worshipping pseudo Gods. Different religion, different myths and different gods. There is only one real God...Octohead. When you guys planned a get together, we cultists were involved in kidnapping the priests, maulvis and other religious gurus. Our goal was to sacrifice 60 people in order to wake Octohead but there was still shortage of two sacrifices then I thought of a perfect plan to get my revenge from Rohit and complete the ritual. I was having no problem with you at all Pulkit, but you were just coming in the way. Company's work was just an excuse to come here and enjoy to kill Rohit all by myself. Pulkit- You and the other cultists are mentally sick, you guys need treatment. Please take him away Inspector, I don't want to see his face again. Shamsher- Alright Pulkit, just try to calm yourself. ....................................Then police force arrested Rohit and took him for further interrogation. Pulkit was left all alone in the graveyard, suddenly his phone rang up. Pulkit(picked the phone)- Yes! The job is done! Member of black hood is arrested by police. Our people also died in the process. No..no one suspected me at all. Yes....Long live Red hood and long live Octohead."

Reviews

[Fatima]

This is really good !
well done