"We have gathered today to decide the fate of these sinners. Who they've dared to bring one of the infected to our village. Their friend has been killed and has been sent to Kingdom of Heaven, where He will help his poor soul purify and forgive all of the sins he has committed." he walks to the right side of the podium, where he puts the Bible down, on a table, and continues to monologue. "Our village, have been through a lot of the sins Satan has unleashed upon us. This Devil has made our close people transform into devils… Devils who have ruined our lives. Transformed our lives into terror. And for what? For what they've done this blasphemy to God?"
"To punish us!" says the crowd of people who are not infected nor bitten.
"Yes. These things are coming from God. From Him… They come here. To punish us. And to give us a second chance of remaking." says the priest sounding not normal. He turns around to the four people, who are tied from toes to hands on their pole. He walks toward Milan. "You must be the leader of this small group of sinners?"
"We. We are not sinners!" says Milan to the Priest.
"Yes, you are." says the priest in a scary tone. "You people have spread this disease of God.".
The priest reveals to Milan a bite mark of a zombie who is hidden under his black robe. The bite is big enough to belong to a zombie who that is on the adult state. By looking at the bite mark, he can see this bite is probably weeks old because of the texture he is having and becoming a little darker. This makes Milan to look terrified at the priest as he is looking questionable and scared at the bite mark.
"God has chosen me to deliver the cured ones to Kingdom of Heaven!" says the priest hiding the bite mark. "I am immune to this plague!"
He leaves Milan alone, letting him look in terror at the priest who is walking toward the person named Dragan. The priest only looks at the bandages of the Dragan from his hand. He looks at Dragan, who is telling the priest.
"I am not infected! I am not a zombie!"
"Zombie?" asks Priest. "That's what you call the Sinners? Zombies? Walkers? Dead-eaters? These are still people. But… They are plagued by God." respond the priest who is touching the bandaged hand of Dragan.
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"Ahh!" screams Dragan as he got his hand touched where the bullet hit him.
"Hm…" says the Priest who has uncovered the wound from the bandages. He looks disappointed at Dragan. "You are hurt… Hurt by a weapon from the Devil himself."
He covers the wound of Dragan by using the same bandages and he walks toward the podium. There, he looks at its people who are all staying in silence. That group numbers about seventeen people if they count the people who are holding torches. The big crowd demands at the same time.
"Death to the Sinners!"
"Kill the Sinners!"
The priest only raised his hand in sign of silence to the crowd, he takes a look at the four people who are tied to the poles. All are looking terrified at the Priest. The priest turns around to the crowd of people, and he speaks to them.
"Burn the Sinners!"
The crowd has erupted into screams of joy. The four people, hearing the word from the priest, they all have looked scared and terrified by this statement. He did say that. He did command these people to burn them. The priest leaves the podium, with his Bible, and his cane. The globe he put in the hands of a small child. as he departs from the podium, three males are setting the podium on fire by using their torches and gasoline of them is keeping for these types of executions.
When the podium was burning, the four survivors, are looking in disbelief at the crowd of people who are looking with joy at them, as they are struggling to free themselves from this bad thing it will come upon them. They all are trying to form themselves by moving their hands and muscles to make the rope lose its strength.
Lucky for Dragan, who was not tied back when the Priest was checking his bandage, he manages to free his hands very easily. He proceeds to free his tied legs, and after he freed himself. He runs to Milan to free him. Dragan manages to free him in almost ten seconds. After this, both of them are freeing the reaming two prisoners of this "punishment".
When they managed to free from the tied poles, they ran from the podium who is burning. when the four survivors have left the podium, the crowd of seventeen people are running to them, all yelling the words: "Sinners!", "Devils!", "Satan!". One of them, was even shooting them, but he missed from twenty meters to the ear of Milan.
"Run!" yells Goran to the three people who were confused at the crowd of people.
The four people are running from this church. Managing to dodge bullets from the angry crowd and outrun some of these people who were running after them. The four survivors have all been through zombies hordes and mad people these past three weeks since the first infection has started in Serbia. But this, will probably be their end to this journey if they do not manage to get to the army headquarters.