Priest of Death - Part 19

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Meanwhile, in the present day, the group of soldiers has made it inside the abandoned outpost in Uzice. It was a bit harsh, but they made it, all in one piece, without any causalities. The group of soldiers is walking down the road, with their lights on their assault weapons, looking on every direction to be sure a zombie would not jump on them. The group of soldiers has been lucky so far on this case.

"Look." says Alin pointing to his soldier, on the corpse of a person.

The corpse of the person he is lighting with the flash of its lighter from the weapon is the one of Zoran. They notice the bullet wounds, and the weird blood drawn on its body. Most of the soldiers were looking at the corpse of the human feeling confused on why there is a blood drawing and why he got shot because it didn't present any wound of a zombie on its body.

"What do you think?" asks a soldier to the commander.

"No idea." says the commander of the squad. "I've never seen something like this." he is looking at Alina.

"No idea either." respond Alina to the question of the commander. "We haven't seen something like this until now."

The group remains there for a bit more, after that they continue to move further on inspecting the abandoned outpost.

The squad continues to advance in group.

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Dragan and Milan are looking terrified at the creature who is walking toward them, with a bible on the right hand and a cross on the left hand made by iron. The Undead Priest is looking at the two people without any remorse or an angry reaction, he is walking slowly to them, relaxed like he will not be murdered by the two people.

"You two need help."

"The only one needing help is you, psycho!" yells Milan to the priest, holding the wounded hand with the fine one.

Sava is looking at Milan, especially on its left arm who is supposed to be the wounded one.

"My son." he says to Milan feeling the saddening of its reality. "You are wounded." he walks a step closer.

Dragan is aiming the pistol to Sava, he looks at him angrily.

"Stay away from us!" says Dragan to Undead Priest Sava.

"You too." says Sava to Dragan sounding more saddened by this. "You two are infected!"

"We are not!" says Milan to Sava.

Then, Dragan remembers critical information about Sava. His group of villagers who were coming with him.

"Where are your people?" asks Dragan. "What have you done to them?"

"They are fine." says Sava to the two survivors. Of course, this is a lie. "They are in their village."

Sava takes one more step, and Dragan continues to aim at the Priest with the handgun he found on the military truck. He knows the weapon is malfunctioned, but he believes this bluff may win some time to find a solution to escape from this Priest.

"Stay away from us, Devil!" yells Dragan pointing its gun to Sava who continues to move three more steps further. "Leave us alone!"

"My dear children." says Sava with calm. "Please. Follow my and the guidance of the Lord himself. I will guide you to the Kingdom of Heave where your poisoned souls will rest." he takes one more step, approaching the close distance of the handgun.

Dragan pulls the trigger, and the bullet has left the gun on high speed. The gun bullet hit the priest ear, it destroyed the priest left ear, sending it a few steps away from Sava. But the priest, did not care about this, he continued to move further, slower, holding the grudge to kill these two people with his cold and bloody hands. The priest did not feel the pain of the bullet penetrating and destroying the left ear.

The two survivors are looking terrified at the priest who continues to step closer to them. They do not believe what they are seeing.

Dragan shoots two more bullets, bullets who hit the face of the Priest, but these bullets were not enough to stop the Priest from going forward. The Undead Priest did felt the pain of these bullets who were destroying its facial structure, making him look more like a zombie than an undead human.

When the priest got to much closer to Dragan, Milan takes the knife from Dragan, he jumps on the Undead Priest, he stabs the head of Sava. The stab wound was enough to make Sava yell of pain, and stop from moving forward to attack Dragan. The priest grab Milan by the collar and he spits blood on the face of the man. That blood it was spit was enough to make Milan back down, puts hands on its face, and screams out of pain.

"Milan!" yells Dragan to Milan who is covering its face with his hands.

"It burns! It burns!" screams Milan as he is covering its face in this toxic and acidic blood it was spitting on the face.

"Monster!" yells Dragan shooting two more bullets into Sava face.

The bullets did hit the head of Sava, and these two bullets, have made two holes on the forehead of Sava. But, even if the bullets have made Sava stopped, and fall on its knees, the priest maintains its balance, and hit Dragan in the face with the bloody cross as he was screaming the words "Blasphemy!", "Insolent child!" and "Devil!". Sava has hit Dragan in the face with the cross for about six times, then he got pushed away by Milan, who pushed Sava body away from Dragan.

"Are you okay, friend?" asks Milan taking a look at Dragan.

Dragan face it looks messed up, a purple eye, nosebleed, a tooth fallen from its mouth and a red mark on the right cheek. When Milan saw this, he is turning around to Sava, angry and ready to kill this undead. Milan it is not looking as good as Dragan himself, the man has whole face burned by that blood liquid who was thrown to his face earlier. Milan, still having the knife of Dragan on the hand, he goes for another attack.

Sava, who just managed to get up, sees Milan approaching, and he prepares himself to attack Milan with the cross from its hand. Milan does the first attack, a stab on the head, but Sava manages to doge it on the last second, and after he was about to launch a hit on the head with the cross, Milan dodges the attack, and he stabs the chest of Sava. This hit did nothing, it did not even made Sava react.

Milan, seeing he is now unarmed, he looks around and sees the gun of Dragan is near him, but before he was about to grab it, he suddenly stops from moving, and falls on the ground.

"Milan!" says Dragan seeing his best friend falling on the ground.

"To late." says Sava with a smile on its face, he takes the knife from its body, and throws it three feet away from here on the north direction. "Your friend could not help you now. He is now going to become a Devil. Like the others of these creatures." he approaches Dragan, and he loos at him angrily. "Now. Would you accept the Lord word and surrender your life? You are in danger to become one of them."

"I am not bitten!" says Dragan to Sava who is close to him, he is aiming its cross to Dragan in a way to not dare to raise up from the ground. "Now. You better listen to my command. You are infected. You are infected by the blood of Satan! You have been bitten by the zombies."

"I am not!" says Dragan, holding his ground.

"You dare to not believe the word of God!" says Sava angrily.

Then, the body of Milan raise up, he is quickly running to the knife direction, he takes it, and jumps on Sava, stabbing the head four times. As he was stabbing he was holding the priest into a hard grip, stabbing it without nay mercy and fast. After the forth stab, Sava has fallen on the ground. And with him the bloody cross, who was considered the murder weapon to transform Milan into a human eater.

"M-M-Milan…?" asks Dragan to his friend, who is now starting to eat the body of Sava.

Dragan knows his friend is now going to become a full zombie. He saw this once, about three days ago, when he observed an undead type of zombie eating a zombie and going after them on a running speed. He backs down quick, enough to make himself rise up, turns around and run to hide from the zombie. But as he was running the distance of about five steps, he trips over, and falls on the ground, hitting its head pretty hard on a wrecked car, and falling unconscious.

As his body was falling unconscious, Milan, now being the complete zombie form, turns around to Dragan body, who is started to bleed out from its mouth. He stars walking toward the body, he pierces the chest of Dragan body with the knife on its hand, still hold in strong grasps, and starts eating the intestines of his friend, who is now dead, and became a corpse just like his friends.