The Harvest

It was 19:00 hours and the surroundings were eerily quiet, having no signs of life nearby. It was getting dark and the engine of my car was also started to get heated. I saw a two-storied building in the middle of nowhere just five hundred meters ahead of my location. I thought “I guess there might be someone living there who can assist me” so I drove towards that building for shelter.

The building was good to look at from outside, and it didn’t give me any signs of being haunted as it is shown in movies since the house was so well maintained. As I approached nearer to the building I got to know that it wasn’t a house but a manor and at the entrance, there was a sign that said “Beware of the Dog”. After reaching the gate I can hear the bark of the dog and thought “This is definitely not a haunted house, no haunted house will have a dog at its gate”. The growling and the barking of the dog must have given attention to the residents of the manor. The main door opened and out came a young man in his early thirties. He looked like the butler of the manor by his appearance.

He asked me “Who are you?” “I was travelling through this road and suddenly my car’s engine broke down. After seeing this house in the middle of nowhere I thought I might get some help in fixing my car’s engine and if possible shelter for the nighttime” I replied. The butler looked at me from head to toe and vice-versa. After doing that he said “Let me ask my master” after confirming from his master he said “You can come in, and I’ll bring the car inside after you.”

Upon entering, I was greeted warmly by the family and out of my curiosity I asked the head of the family “Well, don’t you think you live quite far away from the city and having nobody around.” He replied “We opted to live outside the city. City life didn’t suit us.” The wife of the head said “Come, sir, have dinner with us.”

I was made to sit at the dining table and the food was being served by the maids of the mansion. Their child wrote something on the napkin and passed it to me via underneath the table. He wrote “Whatever happens do not take shelter in this house” and at the end there was the symbol of skull and bones which usually is a sign of death.

The head of the family said “You must be tired. Take some rest, and you can continue tomorrow” I replied “Thanks for your offer, but I cannot take it, I need to reach some place as soon as possible. I stopped here so that I can get some water to cool my car’s engine that has been overheated and some petrol for refuelling if possible as my petrol is running low” “Why not but where is your car?” asked the wife of the head. I pointed outside the window without turning and seeing and said “There” “But I don’t see any car outside the window” said the wife. After hearing her words I looked outside and indeed my car was not there where I have parked it, but I was sure that the car was right there before I started eating the dinner, but now it is gone.

I started to feel dizzy and became unconscious but before passing out I saw a glimpse of the man who was smiling along with his wife, but their child looked upset.

When I woke up or rather say after I regained consciousness, I found myself tied by the ropes on the operating table with a terrible stench filling my nose. I saw bloodstains all around the room where I was held and there were bodies hanging all around inside the room with their insides carved out with some special sharp tool. After a few minutes, I heard the footsteps of someone approaching me. When the person came near me, I recognized him as the head of the family but soon his appearance changed to something supernatural. His teeth turned into fangs, skin changed its colour from normal tone to blood-red colour same was the case with the wife of the head in addition she also grew a pair of horns on her head and both of them resembled demons whereas their child appearance changed and resembled that of an angel as he grew a pair of angelic white wings and white robe.

The head man approached me and said “Well then, now it's time for our harvest” and he sawed my limbs with a saw and his wife carved my heart out from the chest and started to nibble it.

I woke up gasping for breath and my whole body was sweating. “Was it a dream? It felt way too real” I thought. My friend said “What happened to you. You are trembling and sweating a lot?” I replied “It’s nothing” Suddenly the car started to heat up, and it was smoking the fumes “What’s the time?” asked my friend “19:00 hours” I replied. “Look there’s a building over there perhaps we can get help from there” said my friend. As we approached the building I gulped with fear as the building was identical to the one I saw in my dream.

***Download NovelToon to enjoy a better reading experience!***