Killer Sacrifice
“Holy Mother Of Pearl!” I found him Melvin screamed. He ran over to his friend; there he was hanging upside down on a cross with his throat slashed. Marybeth runs over to her friend, just sees him and she starts gagging. She can’t stand the sight of blood. “Oh, dear God! She exclaimed. Who could do this? Where are the others? She questioned. I don’t know. Melvin answered. The last time I saw them Cory and Crystal were making out somewhere in the woods, and Christa and Chris were taking a walk I haven’t seen them since. Marybeth and Melvin call their friends names “Christa, Chris, Cory, Crystal, where are you? No answer. They searched the woods for an hour. “You know how they are Melvin; they probably went into some cave to be alone. Marybeth said. Don’t you think they’d be back by now?” Melvin countered. The kids walking on, waving the flashlight, and calling out their friends’ names. “Holy mother of Pearl I found him I found Chris; Melvin went running up to friend he was hanging upside down on a cross with his throat slashed. Marybeth came running over, she screamed, and then began gagging. They heard the sound of twigs breaking in the woods, they ran and hid behind some trees a man was wearing a black hooded cape carrying a long knife they were six crosses all in a circle and each of those crosses had their names on it and they going to die in order. The caped man drug out Christa, she was tied up and gagged and the man was dragging her to her fate, he untied her and then tied her to the cross upside down; each cross had names written on them in blood. He took the long knife put against her soft, tanned skin; he ran it against her throat blood came gushing out her neck unto the ground. On the ground was some type of ancient ritualistic stone, they were a deep grove running through it, and in the middle was a pool where the blood collected. They can’t believe they just watched their friend get murdered. They knew their friends would be next so they set out to find them. They ventured into a cave where they found their friends tied up, the caped man was in the center of the circle drinking the blood, the caped man thought if he drank the blood, he offered a sacrifice to the devil the, in turn, would make him immortal. The kids ran up to their friends and came to untie them but it was too late the man found them and tied them up. He took Cory and drug him to the cross and tied him up he said some type of spell in Latin and took his knife and slit the teen’s throat, the kid cough and gagged as the blood slowly drained from him. Christa was next on the list to go, she was kicking and trying to scream but her attacker grasped her more tightly. He drug her to the cross where he tied her, there she awaited her deadly fate upside down he then took his long-bladed knife and ran it across her throat she coughed and choked and spit up blood as it oozed out of her neck. Three teens remained left in the cave awaiting their fates, neither one of them wanting to die not like this, but it was their fates. This was how they were going to die and there no getting away from that. How were they going to fight when they were tired and weak from struggling to get out their ropes, how were they going to run away when they knew they would only get caught again. The caped man was around the ritualistic stone circle drinking the blood, he was becoming stronger and he needed three more lives to complete his transformation. He walked back to the cave to choose his next victim, he looked at Crystal her eyes were wide with fear and terror, she began to scream and kick and fought hard to get away but it was no use the caped man was too strong and she was too weak. He took her to the circle and tied her up. He his knife and ran it across her throat, slicing her neck. Blood poured out of her throat flowing to the stone circle where all blood flowed together, she gasped and choked as coughed blood trickled down her body, she closed her eyes as her last breath left her body. Marybeth and Melvin were sitting in the cave thinking of a plan to escape, they were the only two left to die, they want to die this way, they watched their friend get murdered from the cave it was too much. They wanted to escape they going to find a way to get away no matter what it took. Marybeth was the next to go, she could feel it, the caped man was taking handfuls of blood and drinking it, he laps it up he was nearly there he was about to reach his transformation. He went to the cave to grab Marybeth. He picks up her and drags her by her feet and takes her to the circle he begins to tie her to the cross. He took the knife and raised it to her throat he runs the long knife against her soft, pale skin he smiled evilly as he watches himself take a life; he loved it pleased him. The knife digs into her throat blood comes spilling out of her neck and trickling down into the stone circle., He doesn’t notice that the blood is glowing, he closes his eyes and laps up the blood but something begins to happen he begins to choke on the blood. Marybeth whispers an incantation, the killer is hacking and heaving on Marybeth’s blood then he keels over and he’s dead. Marybeth is hanging on the cross she’s alive but barely. Melvin is still tied up in the cave he’s trying to cut himself away from his restraints. He was using a sharp piece of glass he found in the cave. He finally is free, he comes running out to Marybeth, she’s all bloody he sees the caped man. “Marybeth, Marybeth!! Melvin yells. He ran over to his girlfriend; he took her arm his hand and checked her pulse. She was alive but barely, he takes off his shirt and rips it, and wrapped it around Marybeth’s neck to stop the bleeding, he took the caped man’s knife and used it to cut down his girlfriend. He placed her in his arms and carried her to safety, they found an abandoned campsite where there had been a tent, sleeping bags, and even food. There Melvin nursed his girlfriend back to health. “How did kill the caped man? Melvin asked. I don’t know, he sliced my throat he began drinking my blood and I choked on it and he died. Marybeth said in a whisper barely able to talk. "I remember my folks telling me a story about how I am special and there is something magical in blood. And when I was on the cross, I was watching as the man drank my blood, my blood began to glow and he drank it he choked and gagged and then just died. Marybeth explained. What, what are you? Are you a witch? Are you something else? Melvin stuttered. Yes, Melvin, I’m a witch and I placed a spell on the caped man to kill him he was almost immortal and I was the only one who knew how to kill him.” She proclaimed. About a week after being in the woods a search party had been sent out for the missing teens, the group found only two survivors the remaining dead teens were cut down and given a funeral and proper burial.
The two teens that survived the horrific murders went to live life, they went to college, got jobs and they eventually got married. That was the last time they ever went into the woods.