CHAPTER 4

                                    

                                          
After walking for some time, we come across a building that looks like that of a police station. Just as we are about to cross the road to it, Cartman stops, grabbing our attention towards him.
"Wait, this way," he motions towards a police car.
We follow and stop beside it, just as Cartman taps on the window.
It rolls down.
"Oh hey there kids, what are you all up to?" a bulky shaped man asks from behind it.
"Nothing much really officer Barbrady," Cartman replies, "But we had a question we wanted to ask you about the house incident two and a half years ago,"
The officer shakes his head, "I already told you kids I-"
"Yeah yeah we know, it was none of our concern and act like nothing happened, blah blah blah, but-" Cartman says, "you see our new friend Craig here just moved in to that place not too long ago," he points to me and Barbrady glances over, "he's been having a few concerns about the house he lives in now, says some weird things have been going on there."
"Weird things?" Barbrady repeats.
"Yeah, says some things have been moved around and stuff, right?" Cartman asks, looking at me. I nod my head, "See?" he looks at the officer again, "so we thought that, us being his new friends and all, ought to help ease his mind with some answers. And we figured who better to ask than someone who was there that day?"
"Someone who was there?" Barbrady repeats again.
"Yes, someone who knows what really happened that day, you, officer Barbrady," Cartman tells him.
"Oh," Barbrady pauses, "but I-"
"We know but, don't you want to help out Craig here? Think of how you'd feel being in his place right now, moving into a new town, not knowing what happened to the current house you live in, only hearing all these rumors about it and then seeing things move around in it. Wouldn't you want to know the truth too? Officer Barbrady? Wouldn't you?" Cartman says, trying to persuade him.
Barbrady falls silent for a bit, "A-alright," he finally says, "I'll tell you what happened- but only to ease your friend's mind. Although I don't think hearing the truth will help much. You see, we got a call about a suspicious group around town. At first we didn't pay it too much mind until we started to get calls about missing pets and such. The calls of this unsettling group started to get more frequent, so we decided to start looking into it more, and eventually connected the dots that they were the ones behind the missing pets."
"What were they doing to the pets?" Stan asks.
"Well you see, they were-how do I put this nicely... well, they were basically sacrificing them," Barbrady replies.
"Sacrificing for what?" Kyle asks.
"Well, the thing about that suspicious group is, they were uh..." Barbrady trails off.
"They were what?" Cartman asks.
Barbrady pauses, seeming to have a hard time saying the next set of words, "Satanists. They were a group of satanists."
Everyone falls silent.
"J-Jesus!" Butters exclaims.
"What?" Kyle says in disbelief.
"Look, I know it may be hard to believe, but it's true," Barbrady goes on, "they were going around stealing pets and using them as sacrifices for their rituals and stuff."
"So what happened to them?" Stan asks.
"We were trying to track down what they might do next, we wanted to stop them before it got worse," Barbrady explains.