In a small, remote village in Nicaragua, a military veteran and former Navy SEAL named Father Mosses arrived to take on the position of parish priest. He had a hidden agenda: to find information about his brother, Father Buford, who had mysteriously disappeared five years prior after serving the local church for over 15 years. Father Mosses concealed his relation to the missing priest and was warmly welcomed by the villagers. The mayor himself greeted Father Mosses at city hall and threw a party to celebrate his arrival.

As he settled into his new role, Father Mosses couldn’t help but notice a strange detail: most people he met had some sort of mold on their necks. He dismissed it as something hereditary and focused on his mission to find his brother. He became a beloved figure in the village, but his frustration grew as he found no leads on his brother’s whereabouts.

One day, Father Mosses overheard some teenagers talking about “the old priest” and the mayor’s sympathy for him. Sensing a connection, he began to investigate the mayor. When the mayor and his entourage discovered Father Mosses’ investigation, they assigned an associate to keep an eye on him.

Aware that he was being watched, Father Mosses set a trap for the spy. He lured the associate into a secluded area, captured him, and used his military training to interrogate him. Despite his harsh interrogation techniques, the associate only insisted that they were not his enemy and that he should leave town for his own good.

Frustrated, Father Mosses decided to confront the mayor directly. He retrieved his trusty FN SCAR from his room and went to city hall. The mayor, visibly shaken, warned him to leave immediately for his own good. Father Mosses refused, demanding answers about his brother. The mayor relented, revealing that the truth would be revealed during the upcoming blood moon in a week’s time.

The day of the blood moon arrived, and as night fell, the villagers gathered on a hill overlooking the town. Father Mosses followed, watching as the mayor led the way with a torch. The crowd chanted in Nahuatl, the native American language of the region, as the sky turned red. Suddenly, everyone became paralyzed, including Father Mosses, as an eerie skeletal figure with sharp teeth and sunken eyes appeared. It was a horrifying embodiment of the Mayan God of Death, Ah Puch.

As the chant intensified, the creature moved around the crowd, finally choosing a middle-aged man. It touched him with its pointy finger, causing him to levitate. The creature then used its claws to remove the man’s heart, consuming it before dropping the lifeless body to the ground. When it saw Father Mosses, it touched his head, leaving a small dot on his neck. The creature vanished, and the villagers regained their ability to move.

The mayor explained that Father Mosses had just witnessed a ritual for Ah Puch, the Mayan God of Death. Now marked, Father Mosses was forbidden to leave the village or he would die. His brother, Father Buford, had been chosen by Ah Puch during a previous blood moon, and there was nothing anyone could have done to save him.

The story ends with Father Mosses presiding over the funeral for the man sacrificed to Ah Puch, accepting his new fate in the village. The villagers mourn the loss of their fellow villagers, and Father Mosses realizes that he can never escape the curse of the blood moon or the watchful eye of the Mayan God of Death.