Chapter 1: Street Ghosts

‘Tragic news comes from Sedona, Arizona. Tonight a human body was found for the second time in Oak Creek Canyon. It's suspected that the victim fell while hiking. For everyone out there, don't forget to stay safe when doing your hobbies. 99 FM News reports.'

Rosalia changed the channel on her car radio to ignore the bad vibes she was feeling. This was her first time coming to this town and not just to visit but to stay.

"Suspected fell off the cliff? Two times?" Rosalia coughed. "This town is full of mystery-oh shit!"

Lucky her reflexes worked because she had stopped the car inherited from her father just in time before it hit a dog that suddenly passed by.

Rosalia immediately jumped out of the car to check on the dog's condition. "Oh my God, are you hurt?" She panicked when saw blood on the dog's body. But after realizing it wasn't the dog's blood, she looked around. "You're not hurt. It's not your blood. Is your owner hurt?"

The dog cuddled into Rosalia's hand as soon as she pet it. "Calm down, don't be afraid. I won't hurt you. But I need to see whose blood is on your fur. So will you lead me to where you came from?"

The dog responded by barking, as if it understood Rosalia's words. Then it ran off, which was followed by her.

"Hey, slow down!"

The dog was so fast that Rosalia almost fell because she stepped on the wrong rock. It turned out that the dog was taking Rosalia to the river where a dead body had just been broadcast over the radio. There was even a police line surrounding it.

"You're the hiker's dog?"

The dog barked and wagged its tail as if it wanted to show something.

When Rosalia approached the dog, she was so shocked that she almost fell backwards when she saw a human finger lying on the ground.

"If the victim allegedly fell from the cliff, the finger would not have been torn off.” She looked ahead. "The cliff is still quite far from here. And a human body isn't like glass that shatters into pieces when it falls."

While contacting the police, Rosalia also looked at the finger more intensely. "It looks like it was bitten."

*****

"Thank you for contacting us, Ms. Blaire. It was our mistake to miss the evidence. Sorry for your inconvenience as a new resident here," the police said.

"I just didn't expect to find a human finger the first day I moved here," Rosalia pointed out. She pet the dog. "Can I take care of the dog?"

"I'm sorry but we have to take the dog with us as evidence for the investigation. You can adopt it after the case is over."

Rosalia really wanted to take the dog home for a friend but she couldn't help it. Finally she let the dog be taken by the police. And she also had to continue her ride to her new home before night because there were many things she had to take care of including her new motor garage in the future.

She continued on her way. And this time something strange happened again when she heard a voice other than the radio in her car which she had to turn it off.

"Who is it?"

The voice seemed to talk to her but there was no one in the car but her.

"Maybe it's just the wind or because I'm from the river so I feel like I'm hearing other voices," she calmed herself.

Rosalia wasn't the type of person who believed in spiritual things, but she also didn't want to respond to the voice that she assumed was part of her hallucination. The voice that called her name.

But it was getting so intense that it was ringing in her ears. Make she slammed the brakes suddenly. She held both ears.

"I'm fine. The voice I heard was just my hallucination."

Rosalia kept saying positive affirmations to herself. Until the sound of falling metal finally interrupted her and made her jump.

It turned out she had arrived in front of the house she bought from an old man at a low price without realizing it. And the sound of falling metal came from the signboard of the garage as the chain broke and hit the roof of the garage's porch.

Rosalia took a deep breath before coming out. She looked at the house once more. "Let's start over with a new atmosphere."

The first thing Rosalia did was open the garage instead of going into the house and putting her belongings in. She coughed as the thick dust rushed into the air.

"Mom and Dad must not expect their daughter would own her house and open a motor garage."

Rosalia smiled slightly before actually entering. "Not that bad."

Not before she heard the sound of the rumbling that was getting closer. That made her come out in a hurry.

"What was that?"

Rosalia saw a large group of bikers coming from the high land behind the cliff. They were the 'Street Ghosts' that always roamed these desert town roads. They were the rulers of the road in Sedona, Arizona.

But since it was her first time seeing such a thing, Rosalia was wary and she grabbed her long-barreled shotgun from the car, pointed it at the road and hid in the side of her car.

Rosalia's heart skipped a beat as she remembered the finger she had found and connected it to the biker gang.

"Might I have made the wrong decision to move here?"

The rumbling stopped. Peeking around, Rosalia found that they were off their bikes and standing on one side of the road.

"What are they doing?"

Thinking they were busy, she came out of hiding, planning to enter the house. But her eyes accidentally met with one of the men who had sharp eyes and a tall, muscular body on his Harley Road King motorcycle.

A split second after that stare, Rosalia felt a strange vibration suddenly attack her body. Like a small electric shock for a long time.

Since the man was staring at Rosalia, the rest of them followed too.

"What should I do?"