Never Lost

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 10

Shane didn’t know why he was crying because he had so many things to cry about. Firstly his father had died a very mysterious death. Secondly he had made Shane kill all those women without him knowing about it or remembering anything. This was heartbreaking and Shane seriously didn’t know if his father did deserve his tears. The man killed his mother and now Shane had been left with so many questions. All the money that his father had given him, he got it from killing innocent people. Shane was feeling so much guilty and he didn’t know if he deserved to be walking around free. Shouldn’t he hand himself to the police? Such questions ran through his mind and by refusing to explore these questions, he placed the flowers on his father’s grave and walked away.

Sam tapped his shoulder as they walked back to the car.

‘I am glad you attended the funeral.’

Shane was very grateful when his uncle came over to the funeral. The last time he had met his uncle was when Shane’s father had refused to have his wife buried or did he allow the Pastor to come over for a ceremony before burial. That’s when Sam felt as if Shane’s father had something to do with his sister’s death and vowed to find out what really happened to her.

‘Anything for you my nephew.’

The two men walked to the car, Shane had so many things to discuss with his uncle thus he decided to drive with him at his father’s house to go and pick up the package. He wanted to find out everything that he could about this organization. When they walked inside the house, his uncle just by stepping inside the house felt a very dark odor in there.

‘This house needs to be cleansed,’ he said to Shane.

‘I have decided to burn it Uncle. It’s no use to me,’ said Shane with a hint of seriousness in his voice as he walked upstairs to his father’s study room.

Sam was trailing behind. They walked inside and Shane walked straight to the safe. He put the password and when it opened, they were many documents in the safe and a USB flash. Shane took it and decided that they would be playing it at his house. They walked out of the house to their car and Shane drove to his house.

On the other side, Diablo was wearing a black garment with blood on his forehead. The other members in red surrounded him and Fadzai’s dead body had been placed on the temple. Diablo was still in denial, he just couldn’t believe it that his sister was dead. He still couldn’t believe it. He hoped that it was going to work what the elders had decided. All the members were paying their last respect; even Aretha was also in the room. Few minutes later when they had finished body viewing, Diablo cleared his throat.

‘I know I can’t bring back my sister’s body back to me. I can’t resurrect her but her spirit will be transferred to another person.’

There was noise in the room.

‘How is that possible?’ asked one of the members.

‘It is possible,’ that was Diablo’s response with his hoarse daring voice, ‘I have someone I am going to use as my sister. My sister’s spirit will take over her body.’

They walked inside the room pushing her as she was screaming out loud. When Aretha recognized her voice she loudly said,

‘No, Diablo. Not my daughter,’ she begged him but Diablo had already made up his mind.

‘Mum!’ Linda cried out loud when she saw her mother in the room.

‘My baby,’ Aretha wanted to run to her daughter but the guards’ grabbed her before she could take her child.

‘Mum!’

‘Linda!’

Linda was placed beside Fadzai and they tied his hands and legs as he lay there crying out loud.

‘She will be my sister in spirit.’

‘Let me go!’ shouted Linda in an attempt to break free.

‘You can begin the process,’ said Diablo.

‘Not my baby pleeeease,’ cried out Aretha but it was too late when the priest started chanting some words while pouring water on Linda’s body.

Linda screamed out loud that her screams could be heard in the entire room. Her screams made her mother cry out loud. Aretha felt very much betrayed by Diablo. Yes she had joined the league but she never wanted one of her daughters to be part of it. She was even hurt when she had to sacrifice Nyasha’s parents. She had thought everything will end when she sacrifices her husband but it wasn’t enough. Linda continued screaming and stopped when there was a sudden wind that by passed the room and blew off the candles. Aretha was now quiet when she already knew that her daughter had been initiated and there was no getting her back. Linda had closed her eyes and when she opened them, she just smiled and untied herself. She got up and sat.

‘Brother,’ she said to Diablo with a smile spread across her face.

Diablo rushed to her and hugged her.

‘Not so tight Farai.’

He already knew that it was his sister. She was the only person who always called him by his real name. Some did but he would tell them to call him Diablo.

‘You are back.’

‘I wasn’t going to leave you.’

Aretha was taken out of the room and Diablo told them to lock her somewhere that she would never try to escape. He wasn’t up with the idea of killing her yet. She could be useful in the future and so he thought to himself.

‘Those bloody fools killed me,’ said Linda in her voice.

‘They will never kill you again and I am making sure of it. I need you to stay away from that boy.’

‘But I love him.’

‘For now you need to lay low and be Linda. Once you go out there, you will have to behave like Linda so that no one will see your changes. I am just glad that you are back and I shall take good care of your body until I find a way of making you go back to your original self.’

‘Thank you brother.’

‘You don’t have to,’ said Diablo and kissed her on the forehead, ‘let’s have a party tonight, to celebrate your return.’

‘No problem but it will take a while for me to get used to this body. It’s bloody skinny.’

Diablo laughed. Although it wasn’t her actual body, he was just happy that she had been brought back to life. He was willing to make a lot of sacrifices to make sure that she is back.

Aretha sat down on the floor just after trying to break down the cell door. She had been placed in a dungeon which stinked and some of the dead bodies were kept there. She was still mad at Diablo and his betrayal. Never in her life did she ever think that he would do something so evil to betray her.

‘Aretha,’ she heard his voice and there was standing outside her cell.

She glared at him and clenched her fists.

‘You know that you can’t do anything to hurt me.’

‘You betrayed me.’

‘I didn’t do no such thing Aretha. Your daughter was the only person who could save my sister and so I had to trade her life to get my sister back. You know this place will never be the same without Fadzai and so we needed her to come back to us. I am sorry Aretha but some sacrifices had to be done. Now I need is to get Nyasha here and this will be over sooner than expected. I have brought you something to eat and drink for we are celebrating my sister’s return.’

‘How long are you planning on keeping me here?’

‘I have no plans of letting you free Aretha. I am sorry but you have to become my prisoner for as long as I don’t know. I shall keep you alive for now because I might need your help in the near future.’

‘Once I get out of here, I will forget that we were once a family. I will take my revenge on you. I will make you suffer.’

Diablo raised his hand and Aretha started coughing out blood.

‘Remember the person you are talking to Aretha. I am more powerful than you and I won’t hesitate to kill you right now. You should watch your tongue. Have a blessed then, I shall take my food with me.’

Aretha sat back down on the floor. With hands on her head she screamed out loud.

..

Shane switched off the television just after watching the video and his uncle was just sitting there waiting for him to say something about what they had found out about Diablo and his family.

‘How could they do something like this? I have heard stories about cult and Satanism but this is way too much Uncle and to think that my father was once part of this organization makes me feel angry. I am angry at myself and at him. Where is he now? Six feet under.’

‘My son I know this is hard to take in but what we can do right now is to pray for your father’s soul to rest in peace and for the Lord to forgive him for his sins. You shall need to be baptized again and you need to be cleansed. I am here for you and we will defeat these people,’ he assured.

Shane felt so much ashamed of his father’s deeds. Up to now he just couldn’t take it all in. the fact that his father was part of some organizational league that killed people made him very angry. He was busy thinking about it when he remembered seeing Nyasha in his flashbacks.

‘Oh my God!’ he exclaimed getting up.

‘What is it?’ asked his uncle.

‘There is a girl uncle,’ he said grabbing the file and flipped the pages.

‘What girl?’

‘I mean there is a girl…,’ he tried remembering something about her but it’s like his memory had been blocked, ‘D–n it! I can’t remember her, I am trying so hard to remember her but I can’t. What the hell is wrong with me?’

His uncle held his hand.

‘All shall be well Shane. You don’t need to force it.’

Sam felt pity for the boy. There was so much work on him. He needed to be strong in prayer for him not to be attacked by anyone.