The priest was knocking at the door. "Is anyone home?" He didn't hear anyone's voice. Wind was blowing greatly and the priest was feeling severely cold. "I can't just leave this place so quick." He kept on knocking at the door.
The large multitude of ghosts began walking towards the front yard. The priest felt something dropping on his head. "What's dropping on me?", he looked up. He saw a ghost crawling down the wall, towards him, spitting out blood consistently. The priest moved backwards in fear and sat on the floor. He heard noises around him and turned left. He saw a lot of ghosts coming towards him. He turned right and saw the same. They were walking slowly, approaching him. The crawling one got to the ground and continued moving closer.
The priest was shivering, trembling in fear. He tried to bring out his rosary from his pocket but, he couldn't find it. The ghosts now, were walking faster towards him. He was shivering the more. On reaching him, he suddenly disappeared in thin air, leaving the ghosts confused.
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The priest found himself in the room where the wizard and the teenagers were. "He's here wizard", said Darcie. The wizard stopped the ritual and turned to face everyone. The priest was so confused; he didn't know how he ended up in the room.
"What am I doing here? How did I get here?", he asked in terror. "I just saved your life", the wizard replied. The priest looked at him more carefully and recognized him perfectly.
"Aren't you White, the very close friend to Black?", he pointed at him. The wizard smiled;"Wow! You really recognized me pretty fast." "Why did you bring me here?", the priest asked sharply. "Because I wanted to save your life", replied the wizard.
"Anyone close to Black can't be even close to being good." The wizard giggled and replied;"You don't know the full story." The priest kept quiet for a while.
"I saved your life. Is that not being good? Or you've forgotten the difference between good and bad?", the wizard argued back. The priest remained silent; he was out of words.
"I'm against Black and I'm already planning on a battle against him...", the wizard then points to the teens,"...and these fellows are assisting me. He showed the priest the clique and Nigel.
"Which are these people?", the priest asked. "The fellow at the extreme right is Nigel. He's my servant while the rest are residents of the late Peters mansion currently", replied the wizard. The priest got surprised.
"What are you doing with them?", he asked boldly. "I want to save them from Mr Black." The priest got puzzled;"You said you're planning on a war against Black? I want to ask two very important question." The wizard granted him the permission to do so.
"How's this possible? You want to fight your once close friend? I thought you were friends before your mysterious disappearance?" The wizard tried to say something but, the priest cut in with the second question. "Is Black their enemy really or the Peters and crew are? I know it was Black that destroyed them but, is it not the Peters and crew attacking the people of Zantis for the sake of revenge?" The wizard sighed, took a while before saying anything to the priest.
"I'll tell you all you need to know but, you've been standing and, I think it's high time you sat down." The priest wanted to refuse but, Mr White had already told Nigel to get a chair for him. White offered him the seat and he sat on it reluctantly. The wizard now sat on the floor, on his usual spot and began talking.
"Black and I, White, were given the names because he was always on black and I was always on white", he began. He continued;"We were close friends until the day he felt he should be honoured, rather than Satan." At this point, the priest was finding the story interesting and begged for more. White went further;"I tried to bring him back to the right path but, he didn't want to. After he won so many people's heart with the powers he showcased to them. I wanted to face him but, he was too strong for me. He killed the Peters because they converted to Christianity. The Peters was a very affluent family; they were helping the needy a lot. The day people gathered in their mansion to receive some alms from them, was the day Black attacked them and the rest. This happened a year ago and he was always telling the public what he did fearlessly. He knew no one would win him.
The priest was feeling moody as he was listening to White's story, especially when he was talking about the death of the Peters and others. He said;"I really miss that family. They helped in the church a lot. More and more people were converted because of them but, ever since they died, a lot of them have stopped attending Masses anymore. I really miss them! They're now haunting the people of Zantis for the sake of revenge."
"That's the mistake everyone makes. Let me reply to your second question. The ghosts aren't attacking people on their own accord, Black invokes them and sends them to kill anyone he wants to die", Mr White told the priest. The priest became dumbfounded, he didn't want to believe his ears. "You have nothing to say?", the wizard asked him.
"Why does he invoke ghosts to kill people?", he managed to say something. The wizard replied;"He doesn't have any value for life. He uses the ghosts to kill his followers, whenever they offend him and anyone that resides in the Peters mansion. Anyone outside these options that offends him, he'll kill himself. He's a heartless man." "This Black is very powerful and wicked indeed", the priest thought.
"This Black must be very powerful", he said. "Yes! He's far powerful than myself but he has a weakness", White told everyone. They all immediately picked up interest. "What's the weakness?", asked the priest. Mr White pretended he didn't want to disclose anything to them. They begged him eagerly. He saw everyone begging and smiled, telling them to stay calm lest, he won't tell them anything. Everyone kept quiet immediately.
He began;"I told you guys but the priest earlier, Mr Black has a pendant he uses to invoke and control the ghosts, remember?" The clique and Nigel nodded their heads in agreement. He then continued;"Good! The pendant bears a human skull. The ghosts would have attacked him a long time ago but, the pendant is what's saving him. Once that's taken from him, he'll be devoured as soon as possible by the ghosts. That's his weakness!"
"We'll just simply take off the pendant from him", Dave said as though it was very easy. Mr White giggled;"It's going to be extremely difficult to get that pendant off that neck of his." "Listen! There's no way you'll defeat him without God", the priest told them loudly. The wizard laughed at him mockingly. He said;"Just try and perform one miraculous thing and I'll keep quiet."
The priest kept silent because he knew he couldn't do anything miraculous. Mr White joked;"Your God must have rejected you." The priest fought back;"What miraculous thing can you do?" This made White quickly lift up the priest from the ground by just moving his hands up. The priest was shocked and White brought him down, back to his seat. He saw the priest looking slightly embarrassed after he was lifted up.
He laughed at him and asked;"Do you want me to do more?" The priest fought back again;"That's the difference between the Devil and the Lord. The Devil always wants to showcase himself but, the Lord takes his time in doing things. The time you're going to see how worthy God is, is coming very soon." The wizard got a little bit annoyed;"You're talking like you'd have been saved from those ghosts. I saved you and you still sit here, telling me absolute nonsense." "What did I say wrong? I'm supporting my Supreme Being, just like how you're supporting yours", replied the priest. He was feeling happy inside to see he had got Mr White annoyed.
"According to what you said, your Supreme Being takes his time in showing actions. That's how he'd have been and those ghosts would have devoured you. It's the one that acts quickly, you're mocking", argued Mr White.
"The Lord can act quickly when he sees it's necessary to do so. He's so accurately calculative."
"Oh! So saving your life was not necessary? Do you even hear what you're saying?"
"If the Lord had let me die, he had his reasons. You saved me from those ghosts and that made me appear here trying to talk sense into you. Who knows? It could be the Almighty God's plan all along." The teens were now getting bored over the argument.
The wizard kept silent, feeling defeated for a while. Everywhere was quiet again. Darcie whispered to Dave;"I hope this place remains quiet for long." After some time though, the wizard ended the silence.
"I regret saving you! Now, I'm here hearing useless things coming out of your mouth." The priest took a deep breath, in and out, attempting to relax his mind and calm down. He replied to White calmly;"I'm not really trying to offend you, I want to talk to you calmly now. Be a follower of the Almighty God and you'll see a big difference." Mr White was outraged now and, got up to argue with him. The clique and Nigel had a feeling a fight may come up between the two. Dave stood up to end the quarrel and bring peace.
To the wizard;"Please be calm! I've got this!" He then faced the priest;"Let me surprise you! My friends and I are partly Christians." The priest nodded his head in response. "What does that mean?", he asked. "We believe God exists but we joined Illuminati because of the powers we were benefitting from it. Way back home, there's a man like Mr White. He has an idol of Lucifer which he claims is where our powers come from. With powers we can do things we want extraordinarily...that's a benefit of joining Illuminati. How about Christianity, you just worship Lord but no benefit...that's boredom please. We go to church at times...that's why we normally call ourselves partial Christians. We only go there to see if we can bring souls to us." With disappointment, the priest asked;"There's no benefit in worshipping Christ?"
"Yeah!", Ethan replied. "We lost our powers and were sent down here to retrieve them by tackling with the problem of the people very well. And from what I observe, Mr Black is Zantis problem", Dave spoke again. His friends nodded their heads in agreement. He continued;"We love the fact we were in possession of powers and we want to continue possessing them. That's why we're here. Using powers will help us defeat Black but for you...all you will have to do is pray. We need action not to stay quiet."
The priest felt disgusted and replied;"You guys are hypocrites...deceivers." Dave felt hurt but didn't say anything. The wizard cut in;"They're wiser than you. They've seen powers but, your God can't showcase a single sign of power." The priest wanted to argue back but the wizard made him vanish. This caught everyone by surprise.
"Where did you take him to?", asked Ethan. "I took him back to his home. He's been making a lot of noise", White sat back down. Darcie knew Dave was hurt and pat him on the back. She whispered to him;"Let's be quick and get out of here."
Mr White told everyone to prepare for the war and conquer Mr Black once and for all now the priest was gone. "It's not going to be easy but trust me, none of you will get hurt", he assured all. The teenagers were all looking tensed.