The Preacher 2

The first explosion happened almost unrealistically, witnesses who survived the attack stated that what appeared to be a 'delusional teenager' walked into the convenient store and blew himself as well as 5 others into oblivion. The body was identified as Jason Mersky, a boy who was well known in the community for his devoted service to it. He was a handsome, nice kid who never complained about anything...and now this. The community was shocked, never before had they experienced anyhting like this. When the second disaster happened, there would be rioting in the streets. 18 year old Jonathan Bailey went into a retirement home with a pistol and unloaded on the residents, killing 12 people before killing himself. There was a frantic movement throughout the community to try and get to the root of these killings. What was corrupting the minds of their children? Was it television? Was it peer pressure? Was it the parents themselves? The answer lay in the chapel on the horizon. In this chapel, soldiers were being trained, the soldiers of God. The Preacher had used his time well, and now he was preparing to unleash a wave of terror on the residents of the town. He equipped his brainwashed soldiers with several pounds of explosive and told them to go to the Town Hall and initiate phase 3. They diligently obeyed his orders. The Preacher had served God well these past few days. He had been destroying the plague of sin which had encroached upon this town, just as he had done before in other, similar places. Now was the hour of his greatest triumph, the hour where he would be finally thrust into the limelight. The communiy was having a meeting tonight in the Town Hall and all of its most prominent figures would be there. The Preacher had no doubt that he was about to make history. While his soldiers worked frantically to connect the charges and rig the timers, convinced that they would be able to sit back and watch the glowing fires of the Hall with their Preacher, he had other plans. None of them would be going home tonight, because once everything was reader, he would make sure that they went up in flames with the rest. Then he'd be off to another town to recruit, cleanse, and destroy. While the community mustered itself together in the Town Hall, Donnie Barker, one of the Preacher's latest recruits, was beginning to have doubt. He couldnt deny that he was doing a wonderful thing for the world as the Preacher had told him, but his mom and dad would be here tonight, and so would others he had known since childhood. The Preacher had told him that it must be done but his parents werent guilty of sinning...were they? Donnie wasnt one to be considered strong of will but what happened next was truly astounding. Donnie pulled the fire alarm, causing the Hall to evacuate, then, in spite of the others, he activated the detonators and blew himself, the Hall, and the others to pieces. The Preacher, who had been standing on the hills eagerly awaiting the event, was enraged. How could his children betray him like that, then again he was planning to blow them up anyway. However now the sin of the town would take months to purge. As the people stared in awe at what had just happened, Law Enforcement was staking out the Preacher's home. Based on witnesses and connections between the dead boys who had carried out the previous killings, the police were able to pin down the man responsible: The Preacher, their psych profile was as follows: paranoid, authoritarian, control freak, megalomaniac, charismatic, fanatic. When they staked out his home, they found countless papers and articles about not only the killings in town, but others as well. They found plastic explosives and gasoline cannisters. They found several books on religious subjects. But they didnt find the Preacher, indeed no one was able to find him. It was as though he had simply disappeared from the face of the earth. There was a public outcry about the events. People were awe struck that a man could have such power over the minds of their children. No one ever found out about the heroism of Donnie Barker, many beleived him to be just as fanatical as his brethren. The story went that as they were setting the explosives, they mislit a fuse and a chain reaction was set off. The community would never recover. Now no one trusted anyone else, as anyone was beleived capable of doing anything. The police shut down the old chapel, but it was burned down a week later by an angry mob. The Preacher's house remained, and some say that it became a site of cult worship. As for the Preacher himself, he was never found. Some say that killed himself after the explosion. Others say that everything was covered up. Others beleive that a cult had taken over the towns administration and was protecting him. Several homeless people have stated that the Preacher appeared before them and ordered them to attack the society that had wronged them. No one beleives these people, but there have been reports of vagrants attacking people with knives and crowbars. While these reports are viewed as nothing more than a mild hysteria which will eventually die down, no one can deny that the Preacher still has influence in the town, and that he will someday appear again.