Chapter 10 - Back From The Dead

Back From The Dead

 

A Novel

By Paul McCann

 

Chapter 10

 

The Day Evil Left Town

 

 

In an old timber shack, by the railway track, in town of Beevile, lived Jigger Mc Teague , the hermit with no permit , who made himself a home with things that no one wanted or owned . He prayed every day and stayed well away, from everyone who lived in the town . The townsfolk were good and they always brought him food, leaving it down outside his front door . Once a month Jigger ventured out for the free lunch in the church hall, near the centre of town, but when the gangs started to arrive in town , Jigger was not seen around and he kept to himself in his home . As time passed the people continued to bring food to his door .

 

Things got worse it was like a curse had been sent to the town with people being shot down on the street . Night after night there were gunfights and chaos in in the town of Beevile . It all happened so fast and as time passed, the fat cats of society sat beside the cruel rank and file, gangster style outfits, who now occupied most of the important buildings around town .

The police station had been unattended for six months and the court house had become the residence of one of the gang  bosses  who controlled law and order by maintaining street gangs who.

patrolled and  punished people if they complained or made any negative statement about the goings on around town .

.The fire brigade station was now home for a small group of  mercenaries who were employed as hired killers for the gang leaders protection . The gangs had too many pokers in the fires of hell for their own liking and were aware they had a growing number of enemies who would love to put them out of business permanently . At both ends of the town boom gates had been constructed with armed guards on duty 24 / 7 stopping and searching all of the vehicles coming and going into the town .

 Apart from a few kind hearted people who  brought him food, no one really knew about Jigger, the hermit of Beevile . Every day and night Jigger prayed for the safety of the kind people in town and prayed that criminal gangs in the town would be destroyed   . For over a year not the local residents of Beevile were trapped inside their town and they hadn’t got a hope to get out . They could not sell their home as the real estates were controlled by thugs .  They could not escape because there were surveillance cameras all around the town , watching them night and day .

The locals learnt to accept how it was and carried on regardless with daily threats and taunts from the towns corrupt officials who walked tall  around the town with their heads held high . No one dared to confront them and if you had scruples of any kind, you would be taken down and made to look like a fool in front of all the community . If you had any kind of decent morals or ideals you could be run out or burnt out of your home . Most of the people in Beevile kept to themselves and did as they were told . Over the past few months, a number or residents had discovered the short way out of town and the local cemetery was now almost full of people who had rebelled against the hard steel hand that had taken a grip of the town .

 

Those who ran the show , never smiled , their stern faces looked with disgust on everyone . They shared the spoils of their wicked deeds in their devils lair and sold shares to anyone who wanted to join their ranks . Their cold hearts refused to warm to anything and anyone , except the gun in their hand and those who run contraband in and out of town .The mob ruled the town with an iron fist and no one ever stood in their way .

One stormy night , Jigger sat in his shack and half asleep a ghostly presence made its way into the old shack and took possession of Jiggers body as he slept .

The presence was a curse  that was sent on the town and took the form of a plague and wherever he would go Jigger would take that curse with him .

It was sent as a wrath upon those who had taken control of the town and little did anyone known then what was about to happen .  Jigger had passed out on the floor when his body was possessed and now, he was no longer in control of anything he said or did . All of a sudden, he got up on his feet and headed out the door to where a storm had fallen on the town  .

As if in a trance he made his way along the railway track . Lightening flashed in the  sky above . Thunder roared as he made his way through a hole in the fence around the railway and there he was walking towards the streets of town .

As he walked there was a definite knowledge where he had to go . Past the  shopping centre and towards the courthouse where he stopped and knocked on the door three times . It was opened by a man who stared coldly at Jigger . He spat on the ground and said.

 “Who are you and what do you want ?”

Jigger replied ,

 “It is time for you pay up for all you have done in this town”.

“I’ll tell you what , you have two minutes to walk away, so if I were you?

I’d probably start running now .“

 

“ You have no idea of what us about to go down for I am plague set upon your you at this door .“

 Not another word was spoken , Jigger raised up his hand and the first plague arrived from out of the cracks that opened up on the ground , huge rats scurried out from everywhere joined by others from drains and gutters. More and more huge black rats infested with sickness and disease emerged . They were all covered in mud and slime and blood as they climbed over each other to get to the victim at the door of the courthouse who was already being devoured in minutes by some  flesh-eating substance from the rats . There on the ground only his bones remained and then the rats returned back into the places where they had come from  .

Jigger left the courthouse and made his way to the fire station where he knocked on the door . A man armed with a gun opened it up and he spoke in a rough voice .

“Who are you and what are you after?”

 
“ I’m here to let you know , its time for you to go . “

The man with the gun said ,

“I’ll tell you what , in two seconds I’m going to send you out of town with this here gun in your face “

He pulled the trigger but nothing happened and Jigger raised up his arms to the sky commanded the wrath to fall.

 A swarm of insects came down from the sky and entered the ears and nose of the man with the gun . He was eaten alive from the inside before they made their way out and into the building  where they devoured every single thing that was there .

Jigger turned around and walked along the road looking at all the buildings and shops . Then he watched as a dark mist fell down on a house there .

He knocked on the door of that house and told the people it was time for them to leave but again they never did as he asked and so he spoke to the dark mist around the house where a plague descended on all those who lived there . They screams were heard as they disintegrated into dust that the wind came and blew away .

Jigger turned and made his way to the guards at the boom gates on each side of the road that stood at the entrance to the town .

A deep dark shadow fell down as Jigger approached the guards who were standing there . The shadow was that of a demon who spoke with an evil in his voice .

““I am the spirit of Beevile . Who are you and what do you want here ?“

Jigger responded ,

“I am the curse send upon all who are here . No one is spared from the wrath I bring and so it’s time for you to go before you meet your wrath .“

The evil spirit screamed and spat words of hate  ,

“Nothing and no one tell me what to do . I despise you with all my might and now you will feel the wrath from every dark corner of this town “

Tigger raised up his hands and said  ,

 “I command every plague to descent upon the darkness in this town . From every corner of the universe, I command the wrath of eternal punishment to fall and remove the darkness forever from this place “

Bolds of lightening fell from the sky with flames of fire , creatures and entities from other worlds appeared from the sky bringing death and destruction on the evil that existed and spirit within a single sweep through the town  homes and building fell like

dominos leaving rubble and destruction everywhere except for the little shack on the side of the railway track where Jigger made his way back to .

In the morning light Jigger awoke in his shack and looked out the window at the sun that shone down over the town that lay in ruins , He had no idea of what had happened but didn’t really care anyway .

He needed nothing and no one and continued to live his life the way he wanted .

All the news reports had told the story of the devastating storm that had come and destroyed everything and everyone in the town of Beevile 

The local government received funding to rebuild the town and before long a new community arrived to Beevile which was now a much happier place to live in .

There were no more gangs and peace had returned again. There were always people who spoke of the day when the storm came but no one ever mentioned anything about a wrath or a plague .In the years that followed Jigger was never seen again . He still lived alone in the shack by the railway track and strangers often came to leave the hermit food every day and no one ever  bothered him at all .

 

 End Of Chapter 10

Link to chapter 11

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Back From The Dead

 

A Novel

By Paul McCann