The Ritual

Did he just say 'The Church of Dark Hours '?

'Holy shit'

Before these guys could find me, I need to get out of here.

Is this what they mean when they say

'Curiosity killed the cat',

Fuck you Curiosity what have done to me?

For the 1st time in my whole Goddam life, I managed to man up for something and it has to end up like this.

What kind of a fucked up hell have I gotten myself into?

Whatever these guys are up to on the center, it ain't got nothing to do with me.

Without wanting to continue the quench for the stupid curiosity of mine. I immediately turned to leave only to find the idiot behind me crashing on me without stopping.

These hostages seem to be on some kind of a compulsive drug that makes them follow whatever the person who drugged them orders them to do.

Not wanting to disrupt the flow, I immediately started hopping places back into the last position in line. And waiting for a perfect spot to jump out of the convey.

Just as the group passed a stairway before the center hall. After seeing the coast was clear, I immediately took the stairs. Only after getting away from those guys was I able to calm down.

Of all the terrorist groups out there in the world, it has to be the most infamous one.

'The church of Dark Hours'.

Now I know why these guys didn't make any demands or have any interest in my classmates. The reason is that they had already planned on killing all of them from the start. why am I sure of this?

Because these guys are a group of bonafide Psychopaths who had murdered more than 100 people in the most gruesome way possible.

The 'Church of Dark Hours' is the current trending talk all around town because of what happened a few weeks ago. The incidents were so infamous that even someone like me, who has no phone or TV or any other means to connect with the media, knows them.

These guys seem to have come out of nowhere and started going around creating continuous massacres all over the city.

They had burned, drowned, buried, and even suffocated people, more than 500 people have been killed in these past weeks.

Each time they do major incidents it will be different from the previous and in different parts of the city.

Even the authorities are having a hard time finding them.

No one was able to find their pattern or what their motive was it's like no one could find anything about them.

All the police were able to discover until now was that all their attacks were on the night and they seem to like to leave some kind of weird circles and symbols.

Even their name the ' Church of Dark Hours' was given to them by the media due to this recent discovery by the cops.

There have been many copycat killers who tried to copy them. But the cops were easily able to differentiate the true ones from the rest due to those symbols in them.

It was as though those weird symbols drawn by them had some kind of meaning to them, it gives a feel of a sentence from an unknown language.

But one thing I can be sure of now is that they are going to murder everyone. And I have gotten myself into some kind of deep shit now.

I was about to find a way to go back to my haven 'the restroom'. But for that, I have to find out where have I taken temporary shelter at? and the actual distance from here to my base?

That's when I found out, that in a hurry to escape from the duo, I have taken the stairs to the open balcony inside the museum's central hall.

Yeah, The exact hall 'The Church of Dark Hours' is currently had occupied.

What kind of a fucked up fate do I have?

Even though I was trying to escape this catastrophe, it brought me right back to where didn't want to be.

Not wanting to stay even a single second here anymore, I went back down crawling to the hallway immediately only to be stopped by the sight of the duo standing guard at the center hall entrance.

If I went down now I would be right in front of their line of sight. After a few minutes of brainstorming, I came up with a plan to just follow the duo back to the hostage hall, I would be able to escape back into my haven.

Seem like I only need to time this getaway right.

While I was waiting for the duo to make their trip, the curiosity that just killed a few minutes ago started to flare back up again.

It was making me feel as if something was calling for me in the hall.

First I tried to come up with various reasons to resist the seduction of the curiosity but she seems to be the type that won't take no for an answer.

Alas being unable to resist her advances I maned up once again just to take a peak. I slowly lay down on the ground and crawled my way towards the balcony.

When I saw what these guys are up to I felt a terror that I never felt in my entire life.

The disaster that I have witnessed down below is something that I have never even dreamed about.

I have no idea how can a person with consciousness would be able to do something that Even demons would shudder at the site.

I know these 'Church of Dark Hours' bastards were not right in their head but this is sick.

These psychotic mother fucker have not only killed most of the hostages. But even seem to be playing with their corpse.

They have used a basin to drain all the blood and even seem to be using the flesh from their corpse to draw their signature 'the weird symbols'.

Most of their victims are the normal visitors who have come to the museum today with us but the last few batches seem to be from the students and I see a few familiar faces like the bitch Stacy whose corpse has been hung upside down to drain the blood.

I was even able to find out the reason, why they need to use the drillers.

These sickos have used the drillers to draw a bunch of circles around a cavity in which the altar which was evacuated from the ancient ruins was placed. And they seem to be trying to fill it with the victim's blood.

The circles and the symbol all appeared to be interlinked with each other and all these things remind me of only one thing a 'Ritual'