Exorcismo

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The creepy videos taken by the students at Carrizo High School went viral in YouTube. Many strange things, scary and horrid things happened before parents stopped sending their kids to class and the county authorities decided to shut the school down to order an investigation. Everything began the day Tamara Melendez was found dead in the construction site where the new library was going to be built.

According to the news, she was raped and then killed by her boyfriend Marcus, or at least it was the conclusion the police authorities reached after finding her body half naked, her skull broken into pieces and her body covered in her own blood. Nobody believed her boyfriend's version. Marcus, the captain of the Wild Cats football team, said she started to act erratically as if something had possessed her and then she killed herself by banging her head on the wall.

From that day on, the students, teachers and personnel began to hear voices, doors opened and closed; objects appeared or disappeared or just hovered in the air. Teenagers, apparently healthy, kept coming in and out the infirmary after having series of seizures.

Kids went crazy and uploaded all those videos that put on the world map the small town of Carrizo Springs. The headlines talked about the possibility of gas emanations coming from broken pipes in the construction site in the back of the school that might have caused intoxication that consequently provoked hallucinations as the more logical explanation to the strange behavior that the students and the school faculty was exhibiting. While in the paranormal blogs in the Internet, people talked about demonic possessions, ghosts and spirits and the videos of the haunted school were shared making the incredible news to spread around the world.

That night Sofía turned and tossed on the bed. She was having nightmares for a week or so after the school was closed. In her dreams she was in school and dark figures crawled up and down the dim walls in the hallways. There were hairy creatures with big red shining eyes that spoke in a language she couldn't decipher. But that night the dream was slightly different. She was standing in the middle of the construction site in the school backyard. Lights flickered and the dark figures advanced towards her. They were dressed in red armory and marched making a loud thumping noise like horse's hooves.

A cold gust blew inside the half built building swirling and lifting things in the air like tornadoes. A huge beast-like creature emerged from the ground right where a huge cross drawn with candles was burning. Its eyes flickered like red incandescent garnets.

"Who are you?" Sofia asked the entity.

"Can you see me?" He replied in a deep voice.

"Yes I can. Who are you?"

The huge dark figure vanished in the air and in its place a handsome man attired like a Roman legionnaire appeared and began to walk slowly towards her. Sofia was mesmerized by the tall and well fitted aspect of him. His dark long hair, yellow-green cat eyes and his god-like features enthralled her.

"I'm Alocer, Duke of Hell, commander of legions." He replied, standing in front of her, cupping her chin.

Alocer leaned towards her, closer to her face. It smelled like roses and ilan-ilan. Sofia closed her eyes instinctively. Their lips were about to meet when someone shouted. "No! Don't let him!" The spellbound was broken and the girl stepped back. It was a Hispanic boy, dressed like a poor farmer and barefooted. "You need to find Father Thomas! Bring him, the crucifix is here. He's the one who can stop this!"

"Shut up Rodolfo and go back to hell!" The handsome man turned again into the beast and flew towards the boy. Rodolfo began twitching and trembling. Blood gushed out of his eyes, ears, mouth and nose and a second after his body exploded, sending pieces of human meat to the air.

"Aaaah!" Sofia woke up in that moment. She was sweating cold sobbing and trembling after having that nightmare. Organizing her thoughts, Sofia immediately tried to recall each face and name in her dream. She got up her bed and ran to her desk and after turning on the laptop she began a web search.

'Alocer', she typed. 'Powerful duke of hell. Commander of thirty legions', it read on the screen. 'Images', she clicked. It showed a demon mounting a black stallion and holding a big sword.

She closed that screen and began another search; 'Rodolfo', 'Rodolfo farmer', 'Rodolfo exorcism'. The last one brought the desired results. '1968, San Pedro Chapel, Carrizo County. The isolated mission church built in 1758 by Spanish settlers, was reduced to ashes after a huge proportion fire began on the night of June 13, 1968. The incinerated bodies of Bishop Manuel Barboza, a Brazilian priests, four women and a teenager identified as Rodolfo Perez were found. The only survivor, Father Thomas O'Leary said that the church caught fire as the result of a failed exorcism conducted by Father Barboza to Rodolfo.'

Sofia's jaw dropped while she kept reading. 'Father Thomas O'Leary.' She clicked on the name-link in blue letters. 'Head master priest of Saint Vincent of Paul's Catholic School, San Antonio, Texas.'

"Bring him to San Carrizo... What it was once started must be finished." Sofia heard a whisper. She looked back where the child sounding voice came from. A human translucent shape just vanished in the air.