FINAL DESTINATION
Chapter 12: Sacrifice
The morning was windy at the cemetery, shaking the branches of the nearby trees and bothering those attending Amy Farrah Fowler's funeral.
“I don't understand what's going on," said Stuart, "it's not even half a month and now Amy's dead, too.”
“She was going to your store too?” Kripke asked nervously.
“No, not at all. She only came there once, you know, girls don't read comic books.”
“To hell with the Rector, I'm out of here," said Kripke as he got up.
“But where are you going, the burial is about to begin!”
“Forget it, this Sheldon brings bad luck and as they say: If you see your neighbor's beard burn, put your beard to soak, or what is better: better said, he ran here than died here.”
Kripke was turning his head backwards in fear and then he hit a guy in the end.
“Are you all right?” said an imposing African-American man, with a mysterious face, who offered him his hand to get up.
Kripke refused help and, after standing up for himself, continued his quick withdrawal. The coroner was watching the funeral worried.
“Come on, Penny," said Leonard, who had stood behind his girlfriend's wheelchair.
Penny's operation was successful, she would walk again with the help of crutches in a few weeks and then do it without help. She was no longer pretty because of her horrible face that was eaten away by rodents.
“Yes... come on, Sheldon.”
“Mommy, is it my granny's funeral?” Sheldon said.
“Yes, Sheldon," said Leonard, "Mommy and I will say goodbye to Grandma.”
“Daddy, you won't leave, will you, Daddy? You won't leave me, you won't leave Mommy, will you?”
Sheldon's hair and thin eyebrows had turned from a pearly white. It was he who opened the door and discovered his girlfriend's bloody and devoured skeleton, with his blood phobia, was too much for him. Fortunately, a security guard heard Sheldon's screams before he fainted and prevented the monkeys from eating him right there, shooting several of them.
After the funeral, the three friends met with the coroner.
“What are you doing here?” Leonard asked him.
“I told you that I had already seen this," replied the man in his deep voice, "in fact I have seen it many times..... You're good people, you don't deserve this.”
“No one deserves this," said Penny.
“Listen, maybe there is a way to deceive death, you see...”
The somber character told them his theory about taking someone else's life, but since Penny and Leonard dismissed that plan, he told them that the only way would be to go into a mental institution for life.
“That's what a survivor did.”
“Is he still alive?” I wanted to know Leonard.
“No, she died when she got out of the asylum. Look, maybe I'll come up with something, come to the basilica in the cemetery this afternoon.”
“Mommy," Sheldon said as the coroner was walking away, "that guy scares me.
The coroner was still walking away when he saw a funeral sculpture, it consisted of a coffin with a simple, blackened exterior, on top of which was an effigy of a black cat. A strange presence emanated from the sculpture and a strong wind threatened to break the branches of the trees around it.
Suddenly, a white cat stopped hiding behind the effigy and advanced to show its torso.
The coroner saw the cat but concluded that there was nothing unusual about the animal, until he saw that the short fur of the feline remained motionless despite the strong windstorm. The majestic cat continued to advance and this time the four long tails appeared, indicating its ultra-earthly nature.
The man fled in terror to the crematorium of the cemetery and locked himself in place. Outside, the wind was blowing through the windows flush with the floor and what is worse; it seemed from the noise that a gigantic creature was scratching the door as if it wanted to enter.
“I know what I have to do," said the man and then wrote something down on paper.
The coroner turned on the crematorium and opened the crematorium door, then placed the stool for the bodies in front of the door and climbed onto it.
“Ahhhhg! Ughhh!” he shouted as he slowly moved into the crematorium.
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Mary Cooper, Sheldon's mother, had just arrived at the apartment and Leonard decided to go meet the coroner. Penny, who did not want to be alone, asked her boyfriend to accompany him with what he accepted.
“Mom," said Sheldon, who had apparently come to his senses, "can we pray together?”
“Of course baby, but first leave that locomotive effigy you're holding.”
“No, I don't want to!”
The woman gave in and they both knelt down.
“Mom, Jesus gave his life for us, didn't He?”
“For all mankind baby.”
“What if Jesus came back and someone wanted to hurt him, wouldn't it be our job to sacrifice ourselves for him?”
“I guess you're right, my love.”
“I knew you'd understand," said Sheldon and suddenly hit his mother's head with the effigy of the locomotive.
Mary was bleeding and wanted to get up but felt her son's fingers close over her throat.
“I am the homo novus, I cannot die, my superior intellect will help people, it will save people.... I am the savior, now you must sacrifice yourself for me, you said it mother!”
Sheldon had murdered his mother and noticed that at the entrance of the apartment, someone had opened the door.
Standing up and with her mouth open, was Beverly Hofstadter, Leonard's mother.
The pedantic woman drowned a scream and ran to the elevator without remembering from the shock that it was broken.
The elevator doors opened but showed only a fall to a dark background.
Beverly turned to go down the stairs but felt her teeth being broken by the effigy of Sheldon's locomotive.
“Ahhhhgggg!” shouted the hateful woman as her body was lost in the darkness several floors below.
Sheldon then dumped his mother's body at the bottom of the elevator.
“They never bothered to repair the elevator for years, the evidence will be safe here until I can think of something.”
The lunatic went to Penny's apartment and took her car keys.
Maybe it was all that Sheldon had to go through, but anyway, the man was now able to drive a car and he wasn't so bad at it.
“Don't worry, my baby," said the lunatic to his locomotive effigy, "I won't leave you alone. Now let's go to Leonard's.”
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It was already dark and the bride and groom had arrived at the basilica of the now deserted cemetery but could not find the coroner so they decided to leave after a while. Halfway from the Holy Field they met Sheldon who was getting out of Penny's car.
“Sheldon, what are you doing here?!” Leonard said strangely, "Did you drive Penny's car here?”
“I'm the homo novus Leonard, I can do anything I want. Penny, your car's a mess, the engine's overheating, and for heaven's sake, woman, when are you gonna fix that red dashboard light! Well, that doesn't matter now.”
“Sheldon... your shirt, is that blood?” Penny said.
“Sheldon," said Leonard and then his friend told him what he had done.
“...Yes, the man was right, now my mother's life time and yours will be added to mine. Death can't touch me until those years are over.”
The bride and groom were horrified by Sheldon's words.
“Damn you, you're crazy," said Leonard who was holding Penny's wheelchair tightly.
“I'm not crazy, my mom had me checked out. You see Leonard, if I were crazy I would kill to kill, but I have a plan, I need to kill you both, so that not only will your years of life add up to mine, but death will be pleased with my offering and leave me alone.”
Penny wanted to reply, but in that case, Sheldon pulled a gun.
“Where did you get that from!” Leonard shouted.
“Please, my mother is from Texas, even the florist has a gun there.”
Sheldon then shot the bride and groom, but his aim wasn't good enough and the recoil of the gun made things worse.
Leonard was pushing Penny's wheelchair at full speed as the bullets ran through his body.
“Hide in this place!” Leonard told his girlfriend when they arrived at the cemetery crematorium, "I'll have him follow me away, hopefully the police will stop him.”
“Don't go Leonard, he's crazy!”
“And what can we do, the cell phones aren't working and there's no one around the cemetery, trust me!”
Leonard heard the sound of Penny's car engine and ran fast in the hope of being bait.
The crematorium consisted of two floors, the ground floor and the basement, where the bodies were cremated. Fortunately for Penny, there were no grandstands, just a ramp for the easy transport of the deceased.
Penny drove her wheelchair underground and found the coroner's note there.
"I have seen death face to face, my fate is sealed. I hope that with my departure the life of at least one of you will be forgiven, but I remind you, regardless of whether or not death chosen us, in the end we must all, without exception, leave to meet our... final destination.”
CONTINUARÁ...
Another of the aspects that I hate the most about the show are its stupid clichés, so that you know, the girls also go to the comic book store and buy these, in fact, many of them make their own comics that you can find on different independent comic book websites.
I leave no puppet with head, nya!
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