Prologue

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               ~1866~

Screams can be heard throughout the church. Screams of terror. Screams of pain. Screams of the nuns who are being brutally murdered by an unknown figure. 3 young nuns, are hiding, huddled together. Fear. That's what they feel. Fear of the unknown. Fear of what's going on.
Quiet sobs break out of the youngest nun, Maria.
Octavia and Viktoria both try to comfort Maria and keep her silent. 
Then a voice. An eerie voice calls out in the dark. Terrifying the women even more.
"I can hear you. I know your in there. So come on out. Don't make it harder than what it needs to be." He sounded so familiar but so different. I'm Suddenly, Maria sinks back into Octavia in recognition of the voice. Father Valentine. The founder of saint valentines church. Her eyes widen in horror at the realization of who the murderer is. Viktoria, slowly comes out of their hiding place and rushes to try to hold off the priest but before she made it, she is impaled by a fireplace poker in her chest. A satisfied smile forms on the priests face as he kills the nun but it quickly disappears when he heard poor Maria scream.
"Come on out now, little ducklings." He said in a eerie creepy voice. A voice that doesn't belong to him but came from him. Octavia holds onto Maria tightly before they both slowly walk tout to where valentine is. He shows a evil smirk before speaking.
"There you are, Maria! I been hoping you would come out sometime soon!" He says while the young woman shrinks behind Octavia. Both women are trembling and sobbing. Waiting for what is to happen. He suddenly reaches out, grabs a handful of Octavia's hair and jerks her to his body, and with a evil smile, he takes out a knife he had hidden and violently slits her throat open. Maria screams in terror at the sight and tries to run but Doesn't make the first step when she is roughly pulled to him. She struggles and screams trying to break out of his strong grip but is instantly slapped across the face.
"Now knock it off, dammit! Your the lucky one. That is if your still worthy of course!" He said letting out a sinister laugh. He leans down, sniffing her neck and exhaling at the smell of her terror. He looks into her eyes and then starts to get pissed off more.
"No!! Your supposed to be worthy! You smell like all the rest. You LOOK like all the rest!" He screams and violently shakes her. Maria, scared to death, shoved him off of her after kicking him hard in the groin, catching him off guard then she runs out of the room down the corridor, screaming for help. She makes it to the entrance of the building before discovering all the bodies in front of the door and it being chained shut. She lets out a horrified scream and turns to run only to see valentine standing there. Bloody, out of breath, with a furious and murderous look on his face. She runs again only to be trapped by an unknown force holding onto her as the crazed man slowly stalks up towards the frightened woman. She has fresh and old tears staining her tanned cheeks. Her raven hair has fallen out of her braid she had. He pulls out a long knife that has a badly drawn pentagram on its handle. He grabs her throat lifts her off the ground and with a final kiss on her forehead, he jams the knife in her stomach, killing her instantly. He lets out a sigh, and drops the woman on the ground.
"And here I thought you would be the one, Maria. The one who can rule along side of me. Alas not in this time. Maybe next." He says and starts to drag all the dead nuns around the room, forming a pentagram. He walks over to the corner of the room, grabbing the gasoline and pours it all over the dead bodies, then he douses himself with the gasoline. He then stands in the center of the pentagram with a lit candle.
"Years from now I shall return and finish what I started and maybe I will find my equal. But until then, let us bur-"

Before he could finish, the local townspeople and police finally broke in and the police shoots valentine in the head, killing him instantly but it was too late. The candle fell and lit all the bodies, including his on fire. Causing everyone to run out and watch as the building went up in flames, making the night sky look like the sun was shining.
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