Chapter 53 by jedijay

Who guards the Cathedral?

Nuns

“We don't fear you Demon,” came a female voice from behind a wide stone alter. Emerging slowly, eyes wide with absolute terror, emerged 5 women, each dressed in the black and white habit of nuns.

The woman who had spoken was clearly the Mother-Superior, an African American woman of late-middle years, a proud face despite her obvious despair, but a body held upright by her conviction, to her left a Hispanic and Asian woman silent in their terror, but rallying behind the faint bravery of their leader, to the right, two younger Caucasian women, barely out of their twenties and sharing and identical face of utter, cowering fear; a pair of twins.

“Hmmph,” Mark grunted to himself, lowering his arms, fearing nothing for this pathetic group. “This is the Order of the Sword? Pathetic!”

“This is merely a watch-station of our Order, you rancid stain of evil! Your mere presence here will have alerted our brethren to your existence and soon they will once again rid the Earth of your darkness!”