35. A terrible turn of events
Under the cover of dense foliage and treelines, Felipe and his band of resistance waited for the perfect moment to strike. Back in San Juanita, the Spanish soldiers entered the local church, where the priest stood alone. The following argument between the clergy and soldiers over the invasion of the town awoke the white Cadejo from its rest behind the alter at the far end of the prayer hall. It charged out at the soldiers, kicking, and thrashing every which way and managing to get the soldiers to leave. Several bites from its massive jaws spelled the end to more than a dozen soldiers before the Cadejo was finally gunned down multiple times by reinforcements from the upcoming road.
The priest was left by himself once again to mourn over the Cadejo's body. Not even the power of a mythical spirit dog was enough to defend his church from marauding bandits. In the middle of the town square, a crowd gathered around lieutenant Enrique, who received an emissary from the locals in the form of Alfonso Duarte, who was all too pleased to have the Spanish arrive. With the election disrupted, there was nothing to stop Duarte from seizing power in San Juanita, or so he thought.
Enrique came off his white horse and gestured to Alfonso, branding him a traitor of the people and the one who had sealed the fate of the entire town by bringing the Spanish to San Juanita for his own personal gain. While Alfonso looked around at the distraught faces of the townspeople, Enrique called out to a platoon of soldiers to come out from behind the crowd. Cocking their rifles, the soldiers shot Alfonso several times as an act of extrajudicial justice bordering on the vigilante. With his only obstacle out of the way, lieutenant Enrique ordered his soldiers to begin his ultimate plan for the town. Seeing as there were no revolutionaries around to challenge his cruel dominion, Enrique sought to avenge his brother by destroying the town that had killed him, brick by brick.
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La Flor de San Juanita
KurzgeschichtenEl Salvador, 1800. prodigal son Felipe Sanchez returns to the small town of San Juanita, setting the stage for a mythical tale filled with vengeance, drama, legends and adventure. the second short-ish myth in the ever expanding pantheon.
