Macusa

Macusa

8 mins
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BLACK. A PUNCH. The lights come on. Jerry breathes heavily. There is blood on his lips. Lights go. Another punch. Lights are back. Jerry looks around. The room is circular and it has four doors. One in front, one in the back and two on either side. Lights go and another punch.

A voice, “You can’t stop Macusa, Jerry.”

Lights come. Jerry collapses

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Days ago....

The water is flowing slowly in the river. There are rocks close to it. The area is surrounded by trees on all four sides. A hand. It dips into the river. Jerry washes his face. There are two people-Johnny and Jake- along with him. They stand behind him. Scared.

“You two don’t wanna wash your face?” asks Jerry

“No, sir.” Replies Johnny. “Sir, why did we come to investigate that house, of all the places?”

They had been appointed to investigate a house in that area. All three were police officers.

“What’s the problem with that house?” asks Jerry


“Sir...” says Johnny

Jake says, “Sir, everyone says it’s....it’s....‘Haunted’...”

“That’s just a belief. You can’t say anything until you have proof.” Replies Jerry

“Sir, whoever has stayed there, will leave that house in three days. The last one to stay, which was five years ago, ran away on that day itself. Everyone’s scared, sir. Some people who stayed there, have ended up being dead too. And the first person to come here, a lady named Macusa, has never been seen by anyone ever since.” Says Jake


“You don’t have anything to be scared of. Nothing will happen to you. Now, come on. We have to go.” Says Jerry and he begins walking, Jake and Johnny behind him. 

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A few kilometres and they now stand in front of the house. It’s an enormous rectangular house. It’s painted yellow and brown. Two storeys. Jerry gestures for them to follow.

Jerry takes the key from his pocket and opens the door. It’s completely black inside. Suddenly some bats come flying. Jerry steps to his left and the bats fly away. But this freaks out Jake and Johnny. 


Jerry steps in and flips a switch. The lights come alive. The room had two sofas and a 32 inch TV, the kitchen is attached to the hall and there is a table in it. A fridge is also there along with all the miscellaneous and cutleries.

Jerry takes bath after Jake and Johnny. After that, he gets dressed and goes down. Jake and Johnny sit and watch the TV. Jerry walks to the kitchen and starts cutting vegetables. He is cutting carrots now.

“Hey-” he begins


The carrot pieces start shaking. They shoot out to the left. All the other cut vegetable pieces follow them. The vegetable pieces swirl high above the table. Then they all fall to the table. They have formed some word or something. Jerry moves around the table to read it. Jake and Johnny get up and join him.

Johnny read the words out loud, “I Will Kill You!”

Jerry smiles, “The supernatural hunt begins.”

Something inside the cupboard starts making noise. It sounds like that of metals. The doors open. 

“DUCK!”


Knives of different lengths and sizes fly out. They dart towards them. The three duck just in time. The knives go and hit the opposite wall. The three get up.

“This is going to be a lot difficult than I thought.” Mutters Jerry.

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A knock. It's night. Jerry opens the door.

“George Sir?” Jerry is confused, “Why are you here?”

George replies, “Well, your two assistants called me yesterday saying they were scared. So I came here.”

“Okay....” was only that Jerry could reply

“So, got any clue or anything?” asks George as he scans the interior of the house. Jerry shakes his head.

“Mmhmm.” Replies George 


Jake comes running down the steps.

“SIR!” he screams

“What is it?” George and Jerry ask in unison

“Sir, I. ...”

Minutes before. ....

Jake is lying in his bed, fast asleep. The window is open. Jake wakes up hearing a noise. It’s a music of some sort. Very slow and very calm. Jake wakes up. He gets up and looks out of the window. 

The moon shines brightly. There are thin branches of trees on either side of the window. There, far away, he sees it. Cold creeps down his body as he sees it. A white figure. Glowing. It has long shiny brown hair. He jumps from his bed and exits his room.


Back to the present.....

“Must have been your eyes, playing with you.” Says George

“No!” snaps Jake, “I know what I saw. And it was a ghost. The ghost of a lady.”

Suddenly the glass of the TV breaks. A creak from upstairs. A door is being opened upstairs. Jerry, George, and Jake stare upwards traumatised. A white figure-the same that Jake saw- walks to the edge of the steps. 


It starts coming down the steps. Jake moves for the door. It lifts its hand. The sofa rises and falls in front of the door, blocking it. 

It speaks, with a shrill noise, “No one leaves. I, Macusa, will kill you.”

Light go off and when they come back she is gone.


“Macusa......I’ve heard that name somewhere.” Jerry thinks for a while, “That lady. The first one to come here and then she disappeared.”

Jake, “Well now we know where she disappeared to.”

“But what happened to her here?” asks George 

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Nobody sleeps for the next two days. More stuff like before takes place. Over and over. Glasses being thrown at them. The kitchen table flipping around. Their bed sheets getting torn. Pillow being torn. 

Johnny opened the bathroom door. Suddenly, Macusa’s face pops out. Johnny shrieks and runs away. Nobody has gone to that bathroom after that incident. George got dragged across the floor and thrown down the steps. He had fractured a hand. 


They all now sit huddled. A candle is lit. Each one has a lighter in their hand. Just in case the candle flame goes out. Jerry has gone to look around the house. A blow. The flame dies. Jake lights it.

Jerry frantically searches the house. He reaches a circular room with four doors. He stands in the center when lights go off. A punch. Jerry flies and his face hits the wall. Lights come on.

“HELP!” he screams. The others come running towards him. Suddenly all four doors close. Lights go. Another punch. Lights come. Another punch as lights go. Few moments to breathe as lights come. This process keeps on repeating until-


Lights are off and a voice says, “You can’t stop Macusa, Jerry.”

Lights come. Jerry collapses. Doors open. Lights go and remaining three fall unconscious as the lights come back. 

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Black. Jerry’s eyes, slowly, began to open. It’s all a blur. It takes a few moments for his eyes to focus. The room he is in is considerably small. To his left, Johnny and Jake are tied, by straps, to a bed that has been kept vertical and inclined to the wall.

To his right, George has been tied the same way. All three are still unconscious. Jerry tries to move his hand when he notices that he too is tied in a similar way. He struggles against his straps when-

“It won’t work.” The door opens and four people step in. The voice belongs to the guy in front. Jake, Johnny, and George wake up. Three of the people who entered are men, while the fourth is a woman.


Jerry looks at her and smiles, “Macusa.”

Jake, Johnny and George stared at her with shock.

George, “What do you mean?”

“She’s the ghost or should I say, the person who acted as a ghost in front of you.” Replies Jerry

“How do you know that?” asks Johnny

“I found it when I searched the house. I found how they fooled us and everyone else that there is a ghost here.” Says Jerry

“How?” asks Jake


“They have been observing us through hidden cameras. Cameras in clocks, table, TV etc. They used the levitation machine, found by my brother, Roy, who is missing for years, for making the vegetable fly, flip the sofa etc. They have used many other tech to fool us. They threw a stone from above, while hiding pretty well from our sight, to break the TV. Didn’t you notice that the light went on and off each time I was hit. It was so that nobody saw who hit me, so that their secret won’t be revealed.” Says Jerry


“True.” Says the guy who spoke before.

“But why are you doing this? Making people believe that this place is haunted,” asks Johnny

“Have you heard the word ‘Gold Smuggling’? That’s what we do here. This is just a precaution so that tells police don’t catch us. We do it for our leader. Kring.” Answers Macusa 


“Oh.....” says Jake

“Anyway, we’re leaving this place. The people who supply us find it really difficult to bring it here. So we’re moving somewhere else.” Says the second guy.

Guy 3, “We’ll leave you here. You can die a happy death here.”

They leave. Jerry struggles against the straps. He tries pushing himself forward. Again and again. The bed moves forward. Then he pushes towards his right. The bed rotates 180°. It falls down and breaks apart.


Jerry removes the straps and helps others. They rush out. The four smugglers load stuff into the van and get in when-

“STOP THERE!” 

Jerry and the others stand in front of the van, each pointing a gun at them. They stay like that until other police arrive. Jerry gets in their van. The police drive in front and Jerry drives behind. They reach a crossroads. The police turn left. Jerry moves to the left path. Suddenly he turns right and drives off. 


“Hey!” screams the police 

“The smugglers must have hurt Jerry and escaped.” Says another police.

George’s phone rings. 

“Hello, sir. It’s me, Jerry. Don’t look for them now.”

“Why?” asks George


“Cause they escaped. With me. You don’t understand, do you? Do you know who Kring is?” Jerry laughs, “That’s me! We needed a way to escape from there. And everything worked according to our plan. Anyway, see you. I don’t wish to. But still. Goodbye.”

And he cuts the call.

+++


3 months later....

Reporter, “We have received news of a haunted house here! Till now, there seemed to be no paranormal activity. But from the past two days, people living in that house are experiencing paranormal activities.”

Jerry smiles watching TV, “And I am in that haunted house.”



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