Once upon a time 39

PART 39

"ONCE UPON A TIME "

©️Opeyemi Akintunde 

Harry hurriedly followed Kemi to their room. Surprisingly, The Blinding light had 

disappeared from the entrance. 

On getting to the room, he saw Kennedy and Janet looking perplexed. The other hotel occupants had found their way to the entrance of the room as well.

" What did you do to her? You both have killed her.." Harry screamed "You need to arrest them." 

" We didn't do anything to her. We met her dead!"  Kennedy said quickly trying to defend himself.

" God! What have I gotten myself into?" Kennedy said to himself...Sudden fear of being implicated gripped his heart.

" Yes... " Janet confirmed.

A heavy looking man walked in... 

" What's happening here? I am the manager here. I heard you are from Nigeria! Can you tell us what is happening!"

"Je suis chauffeur de taxi..." Kennedy starting saying as a way of exonerating himself from the crisis . ( I am a Cab driver)

Kennedy explained all he knew in french to the manager...

" Let him speak English , so I can be sure he is saying the truth." Harry said 

" I will confirm his story with you all..." the Manager said

" Why are you trying to run away? Can't you pray?" Kennedy heard the words in his Spirit...

" Pray in this implicating situation?"

" Yes! You are about to be sent to jail..." 

Kennedy burst into tongues suddenly as Harry was busy recounting his side of the story....

Kennedy rushed towards Rachel's lifeless body...

He started by worshipping God in both French and English.... 

At that point, the manager decided to reduce the number of people in the room.

" Thank you everyone! At this point, we will handle the situation! You can return to your rooms!"

" Which room? Who knows if this place is haunted?" One of the hotel lodgers said

" Can I come in and see the girl?" A cracked voice said from behind...

Everyone turned to the owner of the voice,  it was an elderly man who had amassed a lot of grey hair on his head and beard. From his appearance,  one could tell he was a traditional healer...

As he walked in. He told the manager to tell Kennedy to step back. 

"Mr...Please step back..." The manager said

" We don't believe in his method!" Kennedy said

" Mister, it seems you want to rot in jail. Why didn't your prayer stop her from dying? Please step aside"

" Monsieur...Step Aside"  The others  shouted.

Kennedy had no choice but to step aside.

The traditional healer bent towards Rachel and placed his left palm on her forehead...

" Don't even try it!" Redemption shouted at him...

The healer looked towards the wall where Redemption stood.

" She made me into this,  and that's her punishment " Redemption said

The healer saw the burnt face and he understood that the girl was suffering for her wrong...

He stood up and shook his head in the negative...

" She's gone, she did something evil against someone powerful and they decided to punish her with death. The people here have nothing to do with her death!" The traditional healer said as he walked away.

Kennedy walked towards the body...

" No matter how terrible our sins may be, it is not a big deal before God. "

Kennedy remembered the Story of the prophet of Baal. 

" This is an opportunity for God's name to be glorified in this hotel... This hotel has been used in glorifying the devil with the immoral act that goes on here everyday. Glorify the Father here!" A voice nudged Kennedy out of his fear...

*****

Kamal walked towards Rogers, Pastor Greg and the driver.

" My people, I have always told you about a human that betrayed me! The face of my brother turned enemy is here... Can't you see how wonderful life is, Did he ever think he will see me? but here we are. This is a body I can't eat. Instead I will watch it burn till I see nothing of it left..." Kamal said in a tone that screamed Revenge.

" I...a..m..so....so...rr." Rogers managed to utter out.

" What are you saying?" Kamal said

" What is wrong with your voice... You are stuttering...You can't stutter when you are talking to me. You have to speak well, because when you were about to have me killed, you didn't stutter...So speak well..."  Kamal cried in anger

Rogers turned his head towards the driver implying it's the driver 's fault...

"What is wrong with him?"

" I used a charm on him, and I can't neutralise it until we get to our base." The driver said.

" If you let me go, I can go to our base and bring the neutralizing charm."

Kamal became enraged and in anger rushed towards Rogers. He put his hand through the iron cage and strangled him. The driver started choking. He tried fighting him back but Kamal's hand felt like a heavy iron...

After struggling for a while, the driver gave up the struggle.

Pastor Greg was horrified. He couldn't tell if the driver was dead or not.  Kamal in his rage was approaching him, obviously to do the same to him.

" You are also part!" He charged angrily at him

Pastor Greg felt his soul leaving him, but luckily for him, Rogers came to the rescue...

" No...N....oo...oooo" He said " Pa .ssse...n..ge...err tooooo"  Rogers didn't want the death of a man of God on his conscience again.

Kamal stopped in his tracks and stepped back.

"Passenger... Lucky you. For you...listen, this is the rule, you make a choice to join us and live like us. We eat humans or We eat you now if you can't join us!" Kamal said

Perplexed was an understatement for what Pastor Greg felt. Was the man asking him to be an eater of flesh or he would be eaten?

Pastor Greg needed a confirmation, because it was best for him to be dead than for him to go against God's Word that's against eating of human flesh...

" Nooooo...." Pastor Greg stuterred....

"No to what? No to eating of flesh?" He asked

" Yessss!" He said

Kamal twisted his neck in anger.  Kamal looked towards one of his villagers, he sent a coded message and the person got the message...

Rogers saw the exchange of looks between the two of them and from his experience in Cultism, he could tell that the Pastor was about to be eliminated...

" KI...LLLL.... me not him!" Rogers used the last strength he could gather to spit out those words...

Kamal turned back in surprise...He couldn't believe Rogers wanted to give up his life for a co - passenger...

" You said What?" 

" Me...not him!" 

To be continued....

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