Lightning Doesn't Strike Twice!

Chapter 50

"Hey, you damn dirty ape! Are you looking for anybody in particular?"

"What world do you think you're doing?" Micah yelled at me with concern, as though I was crazy. 

"You get those people inside, and you can come back out and help me. In the meantime, I'm going to catch their attention and drive them off. 

From everything that I can tell, Evan seemed to be the main possessed one. He's the first one who started acting funny before this all happened, and they seem to surround him as though he's their leader. 

"All right, well, don't do anything stupid. Just hold them off until we can get the other villagers to safety." Micah said as she gave Kaysi a high five. "And hey, Kaysi, don't die! Micah said with a smile."

I ran ahead of everyone up the hill of the rocky terrain to the emergency shelter. But first, I ran into the crowd. As I ran upwards, I kneeled down, scooping a handful of rocks and throwing them at the group. When they turned their attention to me, I shouted at them. 

"Hey, shrewdness, if you're looking for something to hunt, I'm right here," I said as I scratched my head and armpit, imitating a monkey. 

Once I caught their attention, I made a sharp U-turn. I was headed in the opposite direction across the field so I could hide back in the woods. I hoped the trees and bushes would cloak me, buying me a little bit more time. 

I looked back and smiled. Well! I thought when I saw that the large village of infected people was at least following me. I'm leading them from the emergency shelter so the others can be safe. At first, the group that was initially chasing us veered off, and I could see our group just fighting the last couple of stragglers. 

All they have to do is make it through the door, and they will be safe. I breathed a sigh of relief. I myself was only a few hundred feet from the woods, and the people would be out of harm's way. Everything was going according to plan. 

It was as if it couldn't be helped, but at the worst possible timing, the small baby the woman had been carrying let out a large cry. Micah was fighting the last infected villager down the hill. Several hundreds of feet away, unable to soothe the baby to silence like she did before. 

I was hoping maybe the baby was gassy again, but the cries started attracting some of the infected villagers at the back of the pack of people chasing me. A line of my infected started to break off. 

Crap, I could see everything going on, but there was nothing I could do. I can't get through this group of people safely and get to the other side. 

"Damn it, we need a miracle here!' I shouted. There wasn't much else I could do! Were they going to get infected, too? 

A giant wall of ice arose across the field, freezing the path between the villagers and the emergency shelter. I blocked my group of infected people from going any further towards the group. 

It was Becky who was finally able to get Josh somewhat conscious enough that she could move him, but he looked like he was ready to pass out at any time. 

"Thank you. I shouted, Get to the emergency shelter." 

Becky gave me a thumbs-up as she collapsed, her knees hitting the ground with Josh. At least there were no villagers nearby so that she could catch her breath. That's all she could muster to do. She'd been using a lot of power to heal Josh. I am sure it didn't help having to carry him, and now this, she probably burned up the last bit of her strength. 

The others will soon be safe now that Micah has finished the last infected villager. Now, with the ice wall, I could focus on the remaining half of the infected. The village was small, but there had to be at least 80 to 100 infected villagers. For me, alone, that's an army. I felt a little panicked.

Once inside the woods, the large group of infected villagers running across the ground began to leap into the trees and swing from the vines. The monkey demon's possession gave them supernatural powers and animal-like behaviors. 

"Sorry to tell you stupid apes, but I have no bananas for you," I said, mocking them. Throwing out a little sarcasm is all I can muster up right now. 

I don't have any plans, nor could I think of too many options. If I tried to take on this many, I may get carried away and end up harming more people than I intended. However, I might not have an option. I do not wish to be possessed or killed. 

Unfortunately, as of right now, I don't have anywhere to turn. The only way we can get rid of the infected is to get to the main monkey demon. How, though, will I get the demon out of Evan, much less get close enough to do anything? 

Looking back, I saw the infected villagers closing in closer and closer on foot and above my head in the trees. 

I was not paying attention and did not notice that I was on a large cliff. I ran at full speed off of it, splashing far into the deep waters of the enormous river. 

The villagers came running after most of them stopped short and hit the entrance of the water or a few feet out words off the cliff's edge next to the shore. 

From where I landed, there was no shoreline in sight. A strong current dragged me down far out into the enormous waters. I tried swimming sideways at an angle to the current but was unsuccessful. 

The current was powerful. There was ample room where the deep waters flowed down into a waterfall. But I could no longer swim. After running nonstop for the past several days, my body had run out of stamina. Beyond the waterfall downstream, I saw several rapids as far as the eye could see with no end. 

I gazed back at the villagers—all those who went into the water were behaving like humans again. I am guessing the monkeys' demons, much like real monkeys, dislike water and wash away from the victims. 

When they were attacking, I did not see Evan. Where was he when I last looked? He once stood in the center of a vast group of infected, yet it appeared as though everyone present was now in the water. 

I searched around the shoreline, looking at the edges of the trees. There, following me, was Evan. He was running on all fours, still possessed by the monkey demon. 

He sadistically smiled down at me. Before I closed my eyes, I tried to embrace the rapids and hope I survived.

-Evan/demon monkey- 

(Evan, floating in the darkness of his consciousness, could see everything. He was aware of all that was happening but unable to control any of his physical body's

The demon monkey followed Kaysi through the trees down the rapids until her body floated to a nearby sandbar. The monkey demon rushed over and pulled Kaysi the rest of the way out of the water. 

"Okay, let's start CPR and get the water out of her lungs!" 

"Boy, who do you think I am?" the monkey demon said to Evan. I have no intention of saving her. I pulled her away from the water so it wouldn't do to me what it did to the other demons." 

"Don't you lay a finger on her Evan shouted in his mind!" 

(No, we could hear him, but the monkey demon that had possessed his body.)

"Ever since I took over your body and mind, all I have heard you talk about is this girl. She must be very precious to you. He said, stroking her hair. Which is why this will be all the more sweeter to devour her while you watch!" 

"Nooooo! Evan cried out!" 

The monkey demon bent down and licked the blood off of Kaysi's forehead. Where she had split her head open on one of the rocks coming down the rapid, he continued to her cheek and down to the jugular of her neck. Evans's demon-possessed body grew fangs as a monkey demon's power grew stronger from the human blood. Baring his sharp fangs, He attacked, sinking their teeth into Kaysi's throat.