Priest of Death - Part 8

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Back to the night when the group of four survivors have arrived in Uzice, a lost city who once was a promising evacuation point, and a base for the locals to live safely. One of the person from the group, Milan, is leading his group into an abandoned building.

Upon entering the building, the four people are looking around, seeing destruction on the interior, and some written words on the walls with black paint, words such as: "Nobody is safe!", "Place is dead!", "Do not trust Military!", words like that. There was even a letter on a wall near the exit door, the letter was written by a woman who was expressing her regrets of coming here rather than risking her chances of going to Croatia's Dock.

"Let's go upstairs." says Dragan to his people. "We have to rest."

"Okay." says Zoran. "But what we will do later?"

"Probably going away from here or try to communicate with military." says Goran.

The four people agree to rest in this house. Dragan, Goran, Zoran and Milan are walking upstairs to the second floor, arriving in there, they see on the hall corpses of zombies, all dead, shoot on the head, head smashed into pieces, decapitated or stabbed. They ignore the corpses, walking on them, and searching any available apartment that will not have the awful smell of decaying corpses. On the six apartments, they've only found one room who wasn't touch by any zombie, but it was in disaster. It looked like a room of a cabin where students would rent it for their New Year Eve's.

The four people couldn't complain about this. They entered the apartment, locked the door after them, and goes to any suitable place for them top sleep. Dragan goes to a couch who is situated on a living room. Milan and Goran are heading to a bedroom both taking the same bed, and Zoran, decides to stay on the living room, with Dragan, he sits on a chair and keeps his guard for the night.

As Zoran stayed on the chair, he is looking at the window, and sees darkness. The cold night summer who would be suitable for anyone to walk on the streets. Zoran gets out of the chair slowly, to not wake Dragan from its sleep, he looks at the window, down to the street to see what is happening there. He cannot see much due to the darkness, but he can sense the destruction on the streets as he sees figures of zombies walking in a slow pace. He is wondering whom creature could be able to do such destruction to a secured place like this and causes mass of people to leave a place like this.

Zoran decides to stay looking at the window for a while before he will be going to sleep. He looked at the figures of the zombies outside, wondering if these things can ever go back to normal if everything will come back to the way it was. He is thinking about his girlfriend, who once had the bad luck to be bitten by a zombie, a child zombie, from the kindergarten she was working at that time. This happened while Zoran and his four group of co-workers were fighting off zombies in Kaufland. Tear drops out from its eyes when images of his dear girlfriend came to its mind. He was about to ask the big question that day, but the Life threw everything and made Zoran miserable.

After a few minutes, when Zoran was about to go to bed, he sees something at the windows, on the streets. It looks like to be flashlights, and a group of people walking onto the streets. Zoran looks carefully at the group of people, and he sees they are in big numbers. He thinks these people have come to rescue them, so he takes a pistol (he doesn't want to take its chances) and he leaves the apartment, leaving his friends alone, letting them have a good sleep while Zoran is going outside.

Arriving outside, after he slowly opened the door, he looks on the street, and observes the group of people who are walking on the street, who have passed the resting place. Zoran is not calling after them, he hides on a wreckage car, spying on them hoping these are good people.

"Are they close?" asks a person from the group, sounding like a middle-aged man.

"Yes." says a person whose voice sounds similar to Zoran.

The moment Zoran heard the voice, he is wondering who would be, then the following sentence has made him aware of who is the person coming in here with a group like this.

"Sinners are in this city. But I cannot say for certain where."

"OH, no." says Zoran to himself after he heard the voice of Sava. He looks at the group once again, and looks away, then checks the magazine of the pistol he has taken. He sees it has only eight bullets in it. He decides to take its chances.

"If I die." he says to himself shaking its hand on the pistol. "At least I helped my friends made it alive and safe."

Zoran raises from his hideout, and pulls the trigger of the pistol. He shoots the first bullet of a 9 mm gun, who hit the neck of a villager from the group. After it hit the neck, the villager falls on the ground, the five people of the group turned around to the direction of Zoran, they aim their weapons to him and pulls their trigger. Zoran manages to dodge the shots of the villagers, and shoots six bullets as he hides his body behind the wrecked car. He hears how two bullets have hit two people due to their screaming.

When the gunshot of the assault rifles has stopped, Zoran takes deep breath, leaves its hideout and was about to pull a trigger, but then, a zombie jumps on him from the dark. That zombie pins Zoran, and he was about to eat him, but Zoran managed to aim his pistol to the head of the creature, pushing it far enough for him to pull the trigger and kill the zombie.

Before he could take a breath, Zoran, gets shot in the head, five times, by the villagers who still have some bullets left into their assault rifles magazines. When Zoran has fallen to the ground, images of her girlfriend, family, friends and parents have been flashing it before its eyes. He then succumbed to a deep sleep.

When Zoran died, Sava, the priest, approaches Zoran, he takes a small part of its blood from the holes the bullets have left. He licks the blood of Zoran from his palm, then he looks at the apartment where the three survivors are hiding.

"They are there." says Sava pointing its hand to the apartment where the remaining three survivors are sleeping.