Chapter 10
"Do you hear that?" Paul asked in the darkness.
They heard swishing sounds all around them like air moving faster than normal. Paul and Father Dominic could feel the chill in the air and the ghost's anger that was growing more intense with every word that they spoke.
"Yeah…just be careful when you talk about that incident. Ghosts tend to get more powerful with the more rage they feel" Father Dominic warned.
Just then the 5 lamps with the broken light bulbs floated off the tables and went hurling across the room in front of them, crashing in to each other. This sent Paul and the Priest jumping almost 2 feet back.
"You're not joking" Paul said sarcastically.
Father Dominic gave Paul a look and than spoke to the invisible forms that were in front of them.
"Look, I know you have been hurt. But you must believe that your son went to a better place. My name is Father Dominic and I'm a mediator too. So I know how to help you" he said. But at the moment he mentioned his name he felt two invisible hands grip his neck and pin him up against the wall.
"Father Dom!" Paul yelled and began to run over but something swift tripped him and knocked him to the ground and at once he too felt himself pinned.
'What are you doing?" Father Dom managed to choke out in ragged breaths. The fingers that were wrapped around his neck were growing tighter with deadly intent.
Suddenly a book lifted out of a dusty old bookcase on the other side of the room and moved closer to them. It dropped on the floor and the pages turned furiously until it got to one with a picture stuck in it. It lifted out and drifted into the air. Once it came into the Priest's sight, he gasped. Horror masked his face as he recognized the couple and more importantly, the child in the photograph.
Meanwhile upstairs Suze's head had stopped throbbing. Suze sat up and looked around the room. She felt a twinge of uneasiness. It had been a long time since they had left to go get the amulet. Suze vaguely remembered a crash when they were down there but she was so out of it she wasn't even sure she had heard it. Suze slowly got up and started for the stairs. Suddenly she heard a blood-curdling scream. It was Father Dominic.
Her eyes widened in fear. Than with all the braveness she could muster she ran down the stairs.
When she got there she saw Father Dominic's body propelled 5 feet in the air, being held by something and she knew it was one of the ghosts. Paul was on the floor his hands clutched in mid-air something slightly above his neck. Someone was choking him.
Suze ran to him and tugged at the place where there was no doubt hands that Paul was desperately trying to get off. She pulled but to no use. She couldn't get it off him. Suze looked around the room, desperate for anything to use as a weapon. Suddenly she saw a wooden chair that was by the bookshelf. In one fast and desperate movement she ran to the chair, picked it up and ran back to Paul. With all the force she had she hit the air above Paul and than instantly saw color come back to Paul's face which had been turning blue. She helped him up and they both looked up at Father Dominic who they could tell was being strangled more viciously than Paul was.
"What are we going to do?" Suze cried out helplessly.
Paul just shook his head. Suze noticed he looked more hopeless than she felt.
How are we going to get out of this? Suze thought.