The Jinns Amongst Us

Chapter 27

"Oh, in that case, bye." said Afreen. "Yeah, good luck." said Maggy as Afreen heads upstairs.

When Afreen arrives back in his room, she finds herself surprised as did everyone else to see Ivan accessing through the real user of the computer, predicted by him as well which became true.

"How did you do it?" asked Afreen. "It was staring right at our faces, literally, the webcam and the trackpad, it was installed with facial recognition and finger print authorization, he didn't hide any password behind because he was the password itself." said Ivan.

"Oh, but Tim wasn't here, how were you able to.." said Afreen as Ivan shows the candle wax consisting of Tim's fingerprint which was all over the place seeing as this is his room. "Okay, what about the facial recognition?" said Afreen.

"Thank me for that." said Selina as she shows a photo which he took with Tim. "This is a photo of him, I can see, but.." said Afreen before getting interrupted by Selina.

"Oh wait, one min, (switches onto a different app and shows again which depicts the scanned face of Tim using an app from the photo) once we scanned it using VirtuMe, all we had to do was show it to screen when Ivan switched it on." said Selina.

"Well done.. how did you come up with it again?" asked Afreen. "The only application that was left within the previous user was the email one, we started logging our known profiles onto it, but nothing came until Irene gave us credentials to yours, she typed it actually, and Vola, all the instructions to break into his Laptop were just written down for you." said Ivan.

"Why would he.. oh s**t, he knew." said Afreen. "Yup, told you so, dude can be a bit creepy, but he always knows stuff we think he's unaware of." said Irene. "What did he know?" asked Selina. "The password, it was.." said Afreen before getting interrupted by Ivan.

"The bastard, we got him! he's in Brampton as well." said Ivan as everyone's attention goes onto him as the computer reveals the location of the hacker, revealed to be in a certain address which Ivan immediately recongizes. "I can't believe it.." said Ivan. "Why? where is it?" asked Afreen.

"Edward.. this is his place, he did the hack." said Ivan. "I knew it! at least we have evidence this time." said Selina. "So this wasn't about finding where Tim is, it was to find the hacker who screwed your scholarship." said Irene. "Irene, don't be ridiculous, of course, it's about Tim, it's just.." said Selina before getting interrupted by Ivan.

"Maybe Edward got onto Tim before he did, right now, this is our only lead, if he wasn't there, we'll dig more, okay?" asked Ivan. "Fine, good luck with your.. whatever we're staying here." said Irene. "What? why?" asked Selina.

"I came here to help you find Tim, both of us, if you find him there, let the cops know, then us, if he isn't there, at least we could figure out something from here, with his Laptop." said Irene.

"It's a laptop Irene, just take it with you and come on, you can figure out something as we go as well." said Selina as they prepare to confront Edward.

Meanwhile, back at the Asylum, Maher leads Sharon down onto the corner and leads them down onto a brighter room, compared to the others which appears to be a half constructed abandoned shower room with a open roof which Maher found access to.

As Maher goes on to find something he hid, Sharon observes through the surroundings and senses a malevolent spirit lurking through the reflection of tiles. "What is this place?" asked Sharon. "It was supposed to be the original shower section, until the construction discontinued due to lack of income, the doors were all locked, but I've managed to find a way inside using the vents, this is where I usually come to stay away from them." said Maher while he searches within a chest he buried prior where he finds a copy of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam.

"And they just, don't notice you're gone from their view?" asked Sharon. "I don't stay here long, I only come here during night at full moon, but we can't wait that longer, it must happen." said Maher.

"What must?" asked Sharon.

"The jinn that haunts you, the one which latched onto you will follow you wherever you go, it won't stop haunting you till you are dead, only way to prevent that is through this (shows the book) reading the verses of the Holy Qur'an will cast this Jinn out of here, and send it away back to Alj'ahim's deepest pits." said Maher.

"Read a book and the ghost will go? sounds easy enough." said Sharon. "I know it's hard to believe but.. given what you had seen, I don't think you will question what is real anymore." said Maher. "If you wanna help me, then do it, I'm not gonna let a monster kill me just because I don't believe in it." said Sharon.

"Okay, we shall start, whatever happens, do not lose control, it will fight, it will threaten to kill you, but it won't, you're it's only link to our world, I shall begin." said Maher as he begins reciting the verses of the Holy Qur'an. At first, nothing out of the ordinary happens, then within minutes, Sharon falls down on her knees, screaming as the head almost feels like it could explode.

Maher continues reciting, and even louder than before to help Sharon as she starts to feel someone choking to which she gasps as tears come running down from her eyes as she is going through unbearable pain by the Jinn who feels tremendous pain by Maher's recitation. Soon, the taps within the shower room comes out bursting with water start flooding all over the place.

Maher gets himself pushed away by a malevolent force, but despite that, he still continues down his recitation, getting up as he gets close to Sharon with every step. Soon, Sharon's neck which is being choked by a invisible figure, soon reveals itself to be Sneaky, now in a much more demonic figure since his very skin seems to be decaying away.

Maher pleads and begs as he continues with his recitation as Sneaky turns towards him and approaches him at a quick rate, but is unable to move closer to him as his pain increases as he begins to scream. "No! Stop! Sneaky said stop! Sneaky wants to stop! Urgh!!" screams Sneaky as the decaying of his skin continues and he falls down to his knees.

Meanwhile as Sharon attempts to get up, the figure lurking within the reflection of the tiles begins to move through the reflection of water, all the way towards Sharon.

Upon looking at Maher with a pleading look, Sneaky starts to change himself into various forms of his known ones, trying to make him stop, but no matter what he tries, Maher continues down his recitation as Sharon gets herself latched by the lurking figure which gasped her while Maher continues his recitation.

"Please.... stop.... I... don't want to go!" screams Sneaky at a louder volume to which Maher suddenly starts coughing a little but soon he continues coughing violently, giving sneaky the power again when he pauses as she blasts him away with a huge repulse and immediately rushes back to Sharon to finish her job once and for all as he holds her by her neck.

"You've... been.... a bad girl.. and you will.. die!" screams Sneaky as he summons his knife and almost stabs her but Sharon immediately holds it within a instant. "Not girl..... Me!" screams Sharon with her eyes revealing a red look as fiery veins emerge from her skin from the reflective surfaces while on the surface, only her eyes is visible as red.

"Please.. let sneaky go...." said Sneaky in a pleading tone when Sharon, now possessed by another Jinn starts stabbing him at a rapid speed throughout his body, then summons down various thick fiery veins which grab Sneaky and tears him apart to pieces as it returns back to where it came from.

Sharon eventually drops down, as the mysterious jinn that possessed her fades away from view slowly, until nothing remains of it.

Meanwhile, Ivan and the rest arrive by Edward's house and park over by the entrance. "Okay, rest of you stay in here while I'm back, if I don't, call the cops and inform them everything, top to bottom." said Ivan.

"No, I'm coming with you." said Selina. "If both of you are going, then so am I." said Afreen. "No offense, but if things get nasty, I can't ensure to protect you guys." said Ivan. "No worries, we can handle ourselves. said Selina.

"Good luck guys, I'll just stay here then, look out." said Irene as she goes through Tim's laptop. As Ivan rings the door, within seconds Emily opens up and a shocked expression comes when she sees him.

"Great, you're here too, I keep forgetting." said Ivan. "If you're going to tell him, keep in mind that I wasn't responsible for anything, if it's all, it was all because of you." said Emily. "I didn't come for that, it's about the scholarship, where is he?" asked Ivan.

"In his room, upstairs." said Emily as Ivan and the others move their way into the house and head towards Edward's room and start knocking. "House is kind of empty, Edward lives alone?" asked Afreen.

"Parents are aboard, his uncle takes care of him now." said Ivan as he continues knocking to which no response comes.

"Hey Ivan." said a familiar voice from behind them which turns out to be Edward with a weird smile.

"Hey.. thought you were inside." said Ivan.

"Yeah, well.. I don't go there." said Edward as he returns to his awkward smile.