10 Mayhem Begins

Clement was standing in front of the bed with an arrogant look and prideful aura, his eyes squinting towards the woman on the bed as if he was looking at a filthy creature.

Adam was standing right next to Clement and another Bishop was standing to Clement's left.

All the other priests were standing around the bed forming a full circle holding bibles and vials filled with holy water in their hands.

The woman on the bed was making grunting noises as the nuns all around the room started praying in a foreign language, their voices thundering out in unison.

The woman's body started shaking and vibrating as if the prayers were connected to it, from the condition it looked like the prayers were harming the woman, or the thing inside of her, she was feeling like the prayers were picking at her bones and soul like needles.

Daniel was observing all of it and was trying to understand the prayers the nuns spoke; he could make them out as these were the same prayers that the Exorcist apprentices were taught in the starting.

He remembered the days when the nuns had hammered these prayers into their minds telling them that understanding will come with the learning of the prayers.

He very much doubted this philosophy but soon turned out to be wrong because the nuns were right, it was really very easy to understand the prayers after they had remembered them by heart.

The prayers were part of an old testament where it was written that god only let the good beings stay in the living world and all the evil beings had to go to him, irrespective of their desires, to be rinsed of their sins. But there were still some who resisted and found a way to occupy the souls of living beings as a way to escape their punishments.

All his thoughts were stopped as the Archbishop started his prayers sprinkling holy water on the woman, the woman writhed and screamed, calling out unintelligible words.

The priest's and the bishop's around him were taken back and backed off a bit; but Clement was unfazed and stayed where he was.

"In the Name of thee,

our God and Lord….

…

…

in your great insolence,

you still claim to be equal."

As he started to dictate the prayers, he and the priests threw the holy water at certain intervals.

The woman started screaming, her voice so high that her vocal cords started tearing apart, their tearing clearly felt in Daniel's heart.

"Thus, cursed dragon, and you, diabolical legions,

…

…

Begone, Satan, inventor and master of all deceit,

enemy of man's salvation."

The woman started shaking violently, the thick ropes being the only thing which put her in place. Her eyes started changing colors, from black to white to red to blue.

Her screams hoarse and wild, flailing around the bed with inhumane strength.

"Let us pray.

God of heaven,

God of earth,

…

…

We beseech Thee through Our Lord.

Amen."

Clement threw the remaining of the holy water on the woman to which all the other priests followed and did the same.

The hall turned silent, the woman deathly still, the prayers stopped, everybody held their breaths.

Daniel looked towards the woman on the bed and turned his sight toward her fingers, where he thought he saw something, only to find a black and blue hand tied up with ropes.

When he tried to blame it on his imagination the hand suddenly moved; followed by the untying of the rope by itself, like an invisible hand undoing the knots.

He grabbed Elena's hand and backed off, his eyes trailing towards the face of the woman, only to find her eyes staring into his, an enormous grin formed on the woman's face.

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