"No!!! Please mom, dad, help!! Help me!"
A little girl was carried by a group of people looking like cultists with black robes covering their bodies.
The little girl cried out for the two people she called her mom and dad, but, the little girl's parents did not respond at all.
No, in fact they didn't even show any regrets or anything.
The girl's parents then took the hand of the boy who looked very similar to the little girl kidnapped by the cult.
Bringing their son into the house, they closed the door tightly and locked it.
"Listen Adam, from now on you never have a twin sister, you are the only child of the Chambers family."
Before he could answer anything the boy's vision suddenly became blurred and everything his mother and father said sounded faint.
...
"Sigh, that dream again"
It's been ten years since he first dreamed the same thing every night, he didn't even understand what the meaning of his dream was, he was not someone who believed in the meaning of dreams or some bullshit related to the supernatural.
His name is Adam Chambers, a journalist who works with a small news magazine company in his town, today he will attend the funeral of his parents who died in a car accident a few days ago.
Adam got out of bed and went to take a shower, combed his black hair neatly and then put on a black suit as a sign of mourning for the death of his parents.
It's probably sound weird but he was never that close to his parents so that's why he was not that sad about the death of his parents.
For some reason he always feels that his parents always lie to him and always keep things secret, he is aware everyone has secrets that no one wants to know even if it's their own family, but he can't help it to feel his parents are too strange.
10 years ago when Adam dreamed the same thing for a whole week Adam once asked if he had a twin sister, Adam felt that if he did have a twin sister and something did happen to her at least adam who was 15 years old at the time felt entitled to know.
But his parents immediately tell him that he is the only child of chambers family, at that time he just believe what his parents told him, he think there no way his parents keep something that important as a secret to him.
But getting older adam really cant help it to find his parents really suspicious, did they sell their own child? At some point Adam always argues with them, told them that they are a liar, you can say that was the moment where adam's relationship with his family worsen.
After he was old enough to finally be separated from his parents adam rented a small studio with his friend from high school, Kyle Mcguire, a short man with curly brown hair and black eyes, his face can be said to be handsome and he is from a rich family but for whatever reason he chose to rent a small studio with Adam, he works as a photographer at a local news magazine and you could say he is Adam's partner in finding news.
Kyle is currently out of town visiting his family, that's why at this time adam is alone at home, after finishing getting ready he took his car keys then went out and headed to the cemetery where his parents were buried, when he got there it turned out that he was almost late to attend the funeral, seeing that his parents had just finished burying.
The priest who led the funeral began to say prayers from the scriptures while remembering Adam's parents, not so many people attended the funeral of his parents, strange when you consider that his parents were quite influential people in the neighborhood and had many acquaintances.
Not bothering with all that Adam just listened to the priest who led the funeral, the tip of his eye accidentally saw several people standing quite far from the group of people attending Adam's parents' funeral, they looked quite strange, wearing some kind of all-black robe with a hood covering their heads so that Adam could not see their faces clearly.
Their appearance somehow reminded him of the people who kept appearing in his dreams for 10 whole years, intending to approach them out of curiosity but the priest ended his prayer and then called Adam, as the only family attending the funeral.
"My child, I'm really sorry about your parents' death, I hope you can let go of them gracefully."
"Uh yeah, sure"
Honestly he's not sure what to answer, he doesn't really feel sad, lost or anything, it's not like he's a heartless person who doesn't care about the death of his parents or feels relieved that the person who always "lied" to him is dead.
But..he really don't know what he should fell right now
People took turns to express their condolences to Adam, one by one the people who attended the funeral then went home leaving only him and the priest who led the funeral who were now preparing to go home.
"My child, for now you better rest at home, let go of your parents and focus on your future."
Father Chris, the one who led the funeral patted Adam on the shoulder before turning to go back to the church in the center of town, he was an old man around 60 years old, a friendly man who was known and loved by the surrounding community and he was also quite close to Adam because for the past 10 years father Chris was the only person who listened to his complaints about the dreams he had repeatedly without judging him.
"Yes"
Adam only replied lightly then nod his head, watching Father Chris walk away from the cemetery to return to the church in the center of town.
Adam turned his gaze around looking for the mysterious crowd of people he had seen earlier, only to end up not finding anyone here, either what he saw was just a hallucination or the crowd had already left honestly he doesn't dare anymore.
"Sigh, whatever"
Adam walked slowly to the place where he parked his car considering the sky had also become cloudy and he also had no other business here, opening his car door he realized there was some kind of brown envelope that came out a little from the dashboard of his car.
Panic, Adam immediately opened his car door thinking someone had broken into his car, the door opened and he immediately opened his car dashboard to check if something was missing.
Thankfully nothing was missing, his camera, money and a few packs of cigarettes were still stored in the dashboard of his car, his attention was drawn to a brown envelope that he was sure he had never seen before.
Adam picked up the envelope and saw the words "for Adam Chambers" written on it, opening the envelope Adam found a candid photo of a young woman who looked a lot like Adam, no, they literally basically gender-different twins looking at the similarities between the two of them
"What the, who is she?"
Adam pulled it out and looked at the contents of the envelope but there was nothing else, turning the photo over in his hand Adam saw that there was an inscription containing the bio of the woman in the photo.
[Evangeline Chambers
25 years old
Alive]
"Evangeline..."
Suddenly Adam had a massive headache as he recalled the name of the woman in the photo he was still holding.
"Is she my sister? Then why my parents always told me I'm the only child?"
Once again, Adam questioned the question of why his parents went to the extent of keeping his sister's existence a secret, feeling there was no point in questioning all of this considering his parents had literally died Adam went to his parents' house which was actually not so far from the small stuido where he lived now yet he rarely visited his parents.
Taking the spare key he had, Adam opened the door to his parents' house, his parents' house was in a neat state and there were not so many items that filled this place, only essential items such as kitchen utensils etc, Adam remembered that even though he was not so close to his parents but he still regularly gave money to them and yet there was barely anything new since the last time he lived here.
Adam didn't find anything special, everything seemed completely normal, trying to open his parents' room but the door was locked, considering the key to this house disappeared when his parents had an accident, Adam couldn't open the door.
Trying to find a spare key that might be stored somewhere in this house, Adam spent quite a lot of time until he found the key stored above the chandelier in the dining room where he found the key and number combination 55719.
Taking the key and the paper with the numbers on it, Adam hurried back to his parents' room, opened the door and went inside to check the contents.
Like the rest of the room, there was nothing strange or suspicious until Adam found the safe hidden behind the family photo frame hanging on the wall.
"Is there something here?"
Thinking the combination of numbers he found earlier was the code to open the safe Adam tried to turn the analog dial on the safe according to the code he found.
The safe was opened but he didn't find what he wanted, inside he only found a kind of tree carved amulet made of gold, the amulet looked majestically and artistically designed, besides that he also found a pair of diamond-coated rings that looked like apples and snakes and a piece of paper with the words [you can't trust anyone in this town].
Confused by what he found and not understanding the meaning of the letter he found, what exactly did his parents keep secret?
The sky began to darken and the clock showed 5:55 pm, Adam decided to stop his search and intended to stop by the police station to file a missing person report.
Adam got out of his parents' house and locked the house again, after that he got into his car and left here to go to the police station without realizing that there were several people watching him from afar when Adam left his parents' house.
It took about half an hour for Adam to get to the police station from his parents' house, there was only one police station in this small town and there weren't many police officers on duty here considering it was a peaceful town, only about five police officers if Adam remembered correctly.
Adam entered the police station after parking his car, inside he was greeted by Paul, a police officer who had just been assigned to this small town 2 years ago, Paul was a burly black man with a bald head and there were several scars on his face, he was 3 years older than Adam and although he looked scary but Paul was a kind and gentle person.
"Hey man how are you doing? It's rare for you to come this place, is there something wrong?"
Paul greeted Adam with a friendly welcome and a smile on his face.
"I want to report a missing person, here she the one I want to report"
Adam took the photo of Evangeline that he kept in his suit pocket and showed it to Paul and then he took it and looked at the photo he was holding carefully.
"Such a beauty, is she your sister? She really looks like you, more like a twin to be precise"
"I guess? Honestly I just found out about her today"
"What do you mean today? You never met her?"
"It's complicated but I want to find her"
"Well sure, anything else?"
"Nahh, well I entrust this matter to you and for now I want to go back home to rest"
"Well then, be careful on the road"
After giving the photo of Evangeline to Paul Adam walked out of the police station to return to his home, after all that had happened today his body felt very tired.
Paul walked into his office to write a missing persons report, since the person he was looking for was similar to adam he decided to look for more data from the database of residents who live here but no matter what he never found anything about woman named Evangeline in the database.
"She not from here?"
At that moment his senior masuk ke office dan melihat paul didepan computer.
"What are you doing? Apa ada kasus baru?"
"Yeah, Adam want me to find her sister"
Paul menunjukan foto Evangeline ke seniornya namun seniornya memasang wajah bingung melihat foto yang ia lihat.
"What do you mean his sister? Chambers family only have one child, Adam is the only child"
"What?"
...
When Adam arrived at his house it was already 7pm, Adam parked his car in the garage, opening the door to his room Adam found another brown envelope right under the entrance door as if someone had slipped the envelope in.
"Another envelope huh"
Adam took the envelope and went inside, put it on the work table in his room and then went to take a shower first, Adam changed his clothes with a regular t-shirt and shorts then made dinner for him.
After eating and cleaning his plate he returned to his room to check the brown envelope he found just now and opened it, he found a letter and some kind of amulet again but this time the amulet was engraved with a gate.
[Your sister is still alive, but it's no use even if you ask anyone who lives in your city, no one knows about her existance except for us.
But don't worry we are not bad people, if you want to meet her in time go to the border of the town through the path near the mountain and forest there you will be able to meet your sister]
"Ok now what the hell is this"
It's feel like someone is playing with him, since the first time he saw the mysterious crowd at the cemetery Adam constantly felt watched by someone.
Even now.
Throwing the envelope containing the letter and amulet into the trash, Adam climbed onto his bed to rest, all the events he had experienced this day were enough to make him exhausted so he decided to go to bed.
At the same time without Adam knowing there was a great fire that hit his parents' house, many fire trucks were mobilized to prevent the fire from spreading further.
"Where the hell did the fire come from? Why it's like it suddenly just appeared"
The fire chief who was at the scene was confused when tackling the huge fire that devoured several buildings.
Around half an hour ago he received a call about a massive fire from a mysterious person, although he thought it was a prank but considering the caller included an address too he thought it couldn't hurt to check.
When he arrived though, just as he thought, there was no fire at all at first but and then not even a minute later the house in front of him suddenly caught fire, a huge fire suddenly appeared out of nowhere without him or anyone noticing and quickly devoured several buildings around it.
Thankfully though there was no causality at all, it's somewhat weird considering the fire suddenly appeared out of nowhere and the residents around seemed to know that there would be a fire around them but either way there were no casualties at all so everything is good.
It's take a few hours to finally put out the fire, notice someone who lives around is still here watching the firefighters put out the fire, the chief approached the man and grabbed his shoulder.
"Hey you, why are you here? Do you know anything about the fire?"
"Can't you hear it? The god, the god voice guided us to let us out even before the fire started"
With crazy smile in his face, he explain what he know as if that something obvious, that guy then prostrated and clapses his hand together then prayed, thanking the god who had given direction to them.
...
Adam woke up in the morning due to his alarm and then noticed his boss gave him a message telling him to take a longer vacation especially since his parents' house was on fire.
"What the, what do you mean my parents house caught fire?"
Adam rushed to take a shower and put on some clothes before finally rushing to his parents' house which was now only left with debris from the fire.
"How did this happen?"
Ok, now he's more confused, it's literally just yesterday he was investigating something about his parents and even though he technically didn't find anything important at the very least this house still holds memories for him even though his relationship with his parents is not so good.
"Should i find her?"
Everything feel like someone guide him to find his sister, honestly he doesn't really care, even if they're siblings they literally never met at all and he bahkan tidak mempunyai ingatan apapun soal his sister selain dari mimpinya selama 10 tahun belakangan ini.
"Sigh, there no other way i guess"
Adam woke up in the morning due to his alarm and then noticed his boss gave him a message telling him to take a longer vacation especially since his parents' house was on fire.
"What the, what do you mean my parents house caught fire?"
Adam rushed to take a shower and put on some clothes before finally rushing to his parents' house which was now only left with debris from the fire.
"How did this happen?"
Ok, now he's more confused, it's literally just yesterday he was investigating something about his parents and even though he technically didn't find anything important at the very least this house still holds memories for him even though his relationship with his parents wasn't that great.
"Should I find her?"
Everything felt like someone guiding him to find his sister, honestly he doesn't really care, even if they're siblings they literally never met at all and he doesn't even have any memories of his sister apart from his dreams for the past 10 years.
"Sigh, there's no other way I guess"
In the end he decided to return to his house to get ready, Adam took a medium-sized backpack and put in a few bottles of drinking water and canned food, not forgetting to also bring a flashlight, camping knife, handgun and also several boxes of bullets.
As Adam went to his destination he went first to the church, met father chris and asked him for directions, at least father chris he could trust especially since he was the only person who believed about his dream.
The condition of the church is now quite crowded with people considering today is Sunday so this is not unusual especially since the residents of this town are all devout worshipers.
Leaving his luggage in the car, Adam walked into the church and sat on the second bench from the back, Adam listened carefully to the sermon from Father Chris while praying about his safety on the journey he was about to take.
After about 3 hours of waiting, Father Chris finished with his sermon, Adam waited for the church to be quiet before finally meeting Father Chris in his room, for the past few years Adam had been allowed to meet Father Chris directly in his room.
"Father Chris, I'd like to say goodbye before I go to see my sister."
"Your sister?"
Father Chris made a puzzled face, not understanding what Adam was talking about as he knew that Adam was an only child.
"Yes, it's seem my sister actually exists and for whatever reason it seems there is someone who for whatever reason wants me to meet her"
Adam took out a letter indicating where he should go to meet his sister.
Father Chris took the letter and read it before returning it back to Adam.
"I see, so it's time for you to fulfill your destiny"
"What do you mean?"
"You see, dream is one of many ways of god trying to communicate with his followers, i believe the reason why you always dream the same thing for ten years is because god told you to meet her"
Father Chris walked over to Adam and tapped him lightly on the shoulder.
"That why you should meet and help her, god will not abandon his followers and i believe he will definitely protect you"
Father Chris walked over to his desk drawer and opened the top drawer and took out a key shaped like a cross from inside.
"Follow me my child"
Adam just nodded and followed Father Chris to the basement of the church, Father Chris took the key he had brought earlier and opened the door.
Inside the door there were various things, from something like a sword from fairy tales to something more modern like a digital camera.
"Is this it?"
"There is something that I want to give you"
Father Chris took the black cross necklace and gave it to Adam.
"You can think it's something like a protective charm, I can't explain the details about this place but trust me, I'm on your side"
Father Chris helped to attach the cross necklace to Adam, a soft and satisfied smile on his face as he saw Adam now wearing the cross necklace he had given him.
"Thank Father"
Adam took the cross necklace that Father Chris had given him and kissed it, even though he didn't understand his current situation and why Father Chris had given him the cross necklace but at least Adam was sure that Father Chris was someone he could trust.
Father Chris escorted Adam out of the church basement, re-locked the storage room door and then signaled to one of the sisters there to guard the storage room before giving the key to the sister assigned to guard the storage room.
Father Chris drove Adam to where Adam had parked his car.
"May god bless you my child"
Adam just nodded before starting the engine and leaving the church to sort things out, meet his sister and probably save her too.
Father Chris watched silently as Adam drove away, the friendly expression he always wore turning serious.
"Don't let go of your watch on that child and if necessary protect him at all cost, we need him to stay alive for our great plan of saving humanity from them."
...
The journey to the border was quite far from the church and the car also had a little gas left so he decided to stop by the gas station, honestly he didn't really like the owner that much since somehow he felt that old man was creepy.
Well it's not like he had any other choice though so in the end he ended up filling his gas tank at the only gas station near the border of the town.
As usual the owner, miguel, was drinking in the middle of the day, he was a drunk old man who was an immigrant, he lived in this town for almost 20 years but he rarely interacted with any other people in the town.
"It's unusual for you, hick, to come to this place boy"
It's seems he's still semi-conscious from his hangover even though he's already drunk 3 bottles of beer on the cashier's desk where he keeps the minimarket at the gas station.
"It's not like I never use this route though"
Adam bought some sodas and a sandwich while waiting for the gas to fill up.
"It's dangerous kid, if you want to get out fron this town you better use another route or wait for the next month"
Miguel drank the last can of beer then threw it into the trash can behind Adam, a treatment that annoyed him but he didn't have time to deal with Miguel.
"Sigh, i wish i could"
Adam paid for what he bought and ate his sandwich until it was finished, his sandwich ran out along with his car's full gasoline, drank the soda he bought earlier and then threw his trash into the nearest trash can.
Adam continued his journey but... suddenly a thick fog, a fog that was so thick that the headlights of Adam's car hardly made him able to see what was ahead.
And then suddenly a really bright light came out of nowhere from his right side, that light came from a truck speeding towards right towards adam's car, but the weird thing is his right side is literally a mountain.
"What the f-"
Crashh
That truck crashed into adam's car until both cars fell into the ravine.