3. But It Ruined Everything

A Chapter by Dr.Vishnu

Rhodes and Betsy moved away from the Cradle rock. They reached the prayer hall and they looked by the side. There was another room just like the bell-room. They went in to it. From there they saw a group of people enjoying on the other side of the room. It was party hall. Rhodes explained Betsy that this was the only church with party hall attached to it. There was another way around to leave the church via the party hall too. So Betsy and Rhodes went in to the hall mingling with the party people.

Rhodes stood in middle of the people, who were dressed in a party-ware and everyone is young. Then suddenly a voice came from his back, shouting- “Professor Rhodes! Professor!”

Rhodes looked back and there was another man in party-ware coming to him cheerfully with hands extended.

“Hey Mike! What are you doing here?” asked Rhodes after identifying the guy, may be one of his students.

Mike came to Rhodes, shook his hands and said, “It’s Bachelor party sir! Here are male bachelors and there are female bachelors” pointed mike to them.

“Bachelor party? In the church?”

“Come on, after all Jesus is a bachelor!”

“But you are married! You’re not a bachelor.” asked Rhodes.

“Don’t talk loud professor! Cindy can hear. I managed her saying I am a bachelor. Ok?” said Mike.

“Ok great! Now I need to go” said Rhodes and started to move.

“Yeah, better before Cindy interrogates you”

While Rhodes was leaving the church, he looked back- there was this red smoke everywhere.

“I have never seen this smoke before”

“I think this smoke was an arrangement for the party, but why- Red?”

“This one looks eerie like we are in a Halloween party!”

People were talking.

Suddenly there came a fleet of big bats from inside of the church. They seemed to be scared of something. All the people inside the church felt weird about the movement of such big group of Bats to outside during daytime.

“Oh god, what’s happening?”

“Bats? Very big, huh? Why are they leaving the church?”

“Such a big fleet dude! Can be Dracula’s cousins”…………..The bachelors were discussing on seeing such a strange thing. Rhodes felt terrible about this and looked at Betsy.

“We have to move now!” she said.

They walked towards their car.

* * *

Hexas Slaughterhouse;

Not so far away, there was one slaughterhouse- lying between the station and church. That seems very old and situated in the middle of a bare land. A lady- wearing dirty gown came from inside with a bucket in her hands. The bucket’s filled with blood and gore.

She was taking slow steps towards the garbage fill until she saw that red smoke in her ambience. She looked all over, and it was filled with that smoke.

“Eh?” she felt and dumped the gore into garbage fill. Seeing that smoke she went inside by opening another door by the side.

Inside the slaughterhouse; there are many sheds, water filled containers, and there was this big room where a big fat skinless buffalo was laid dead. Its skin is peeled off and its stomach contents were removed. It was ready to serve in someone’s dish. The owner of the SH was talking to phone with somebody in his room.

“Yeah. Make sure that papers were with you….”

Unwillingly he looked at the table where the buffalo was laid down. It wasn’t there! Shocked and looking all over,

“Hey I will talk with you later…something’s wrong here!” and he kept the phone. He came down to the table shouting, “Melissa! Melissa!”

“Yeah what?” came the lady to the room.

“The buffalo was missing, it was here at the moment, and next it disappears”

Who is stealing skinless buffalo? She thought.

She felt amazing and they went to another room to look. They looked in the cattle sheds, but found none. And they went into the feeding room on hearing some noise. They slowly approached the noise. In the darkness, they observed something was moving near the wall. When he threw torch upon it, it was that pinkish, skinless buffalo eating the grass. Just before they were puzzled, it turned around. It roared against them like a wild beast and ran towards them. They shouted bigger!

* * *

“Lucy, have you finished?” shouted Stan at Lucy, who was doing some little shopping at that supermarket.

“Let her do her shopping sir! You are no urgent to anyone” said Bob sitting in his official chair.

“Hey Bobbbb, you tell me when your friend is coming with my car repaired?” asked John.

John took another beer form the fridge and sipped it.

“He will be here at any moment, Sir” replied Bob.

“Hey Movie-man! How do we both look, me and Lucy? Tell me in your movie language” asked Stan.

“Beauty and the beast!” replied Bob without thinking. Stan froze and looked soberly at Bob.

“Sorry sir, I don’t mean that. It just came out like that…….you….um…That was great, I mean you both- ….look great” said bob.

* * *

Rhodes and Betsy were in the car driving their way to home. They saw the gas station distantly and Rhodes thought about Stanley.

“He must be here with her girlfriend!”

Then he saw something- blackishly is moving in his back seat through the mirror. And with the thought he looked back, suddenly a big Bat flied over him and caught him over the face. It was of cat size and it covered Rhode’s face completely. Betsy screamed bigger helplessly.

She tried to throw it off, but it was biting him all over with its powerful teeth.

With all the heck happened, his car went uncontrollable. Both of them were screaming and within a moment, the car flipped on the road. It took another big flip and slid on the road lying on its side. It went sliding and stopped by hitting a pole outside the Bob’s supermarket. The pole broke down and slipped on an iron shed making big noise. With that noise Stan came rushing outside followed by John. Lucy and Bob also joined to save them.

“Hey come here Bob, help me over here”

“What the ……”

“Oh my god, he is bleeding”

“There is a dead bat here….aaah…it’s not dead, it’s not dead…… It just flew away above me!”

“Drag him down, And John! You get her out”

“S**t”

* * *

Few minutes later:

“Hold it tight so that it can stop some hemorrhage, and ..” said Stan tying a tight bandage to Rhodes’ injured left leg. And Bob was trying to reach ambulance since they bought Victims inside the supermarket. But the phone lines were not reaching. Adding to the worst, no one had cell-phones. Rhodes was severely injured in the head and legs.

“Ok now, We need to check the vitals. Lucy you see pulse. And bob do you have an antibiotic in the freezer?”

“Antibiotic? Yeah…um… I think I have a pencil!”

“Pencillin?”

“Yes yes pencillin. I will bring you” said Bob.

“Oh god, he may go into shock!” exclaimed Lucy after reading his pulse.

“Shock? There is no power here since morning, how did he get shock?” asked john.

“Not Electric shock, you stupid John. Hemorrhagic Shock, due to blood loss!”

Bob brought pencillin to Stan, and he injected it into Rhodes.

“Is Bat-bite dangerous Stan?” asked john.

“I don’t know! I even don’t even know whether it is rabid or what?...... Okay, how is she?”

“She was unconscious since. She should see hospital. We have to go to Hospital” said Lucy.

“But how? Their car was damaged and we don’t have car.”