The Eyes of Fate (Currently in Rewrite)

Chapter 69

"Fang, I hear them." Sentinel whispered. In front of him, Fang stopped immediately. 

"Which way?" Fang asked quietly. He was smiling again, but not quite the insanity riddled grin he had when they entered. It was clear that he was in control of himself, but he must have been enjoying the hunt.

They had been searching the entire church looking for their last few targets. Besides the main lobby and the sanctuary, the entire building was nothing but hallways and small rooms, making it a slow, tedious effort to find them. They had gone through an entire half of the church before learning the two offshoots from the sanctuary weren't connected, and had to backtrack to get to the other half. This was the first time Sentinel had caught any signs of life in the place.

"That way," Sentinel pointed the direction they had been going, where he had heard a couple of people talking. "Sounds like they're close."

"Good." Fang growled, "Let's finish these assholes off and get out of here." 

Sentinel nodded and raised his pistol again, looking directly over Fang's shoulder. They crept around the corner slowly and were confronted with a hallway with only one door in it, all the way at the end. 

"Same way we did it earlier," Fang spoke low, even Sentinel's ears barely picking him up. "I'm going in hard, cover my ass."

Sentinel didn't even have time to answer before Fang was bolting forward. Sentinel could pick up the sound of everyone in the room freezing, all noise quitting as they heard Fang's footsteps. Sentinel moved as quick as he could while keeping his aim up, watching as Fang hit the closed door with his shoulder. He went straight through it into the room and kept going.

And immediately took a bullet to the thigh.

The bullet hit right as Fang was taking another step. The force of the impact combined with the trauma knocked his leg from under him, and Sentinel watched Fang fall to the side. To his credit, Fang rolled as soon as he hit the ground, but he didn't get far until a boot slammed onto his chest and held him down. Sentinel took aim at the man but froze when he saw the rest of the room.

The room had, as far as they knew, everyone else left alive from the Church of the Guarded Heaven. There were six men and two women. Four of the mean Sentinel remembered from Oracle's briefing as being not just police officers, but trained S.W.A.T officers. Cardinal and Father were also in the room, and beside Father were two women wearing what looked like they should have been lab coats but seemed to have been used as butcher aprons by the amount of blood on them. The women weren't part of the briefing on important or dangerous people that Oracle had given, and Sentinel didn't remember seeing them on any of the days he was surveilling the compound, but if they were here, they must have been important.

"Not quite what you were expecting, eh demon?" Cardinal smiled like a grandfather who had just convinced his grandchild to pilfer some of grandma's cookies from the kitchen. "While these men may not have been trained by myself and Brother Wist, they are some of the strongest Knights in my service, and are certainly enough to deal with.

Fang wasn't one to wait on people to finish talking. He saw, like Sentinel did, that the men relaxed when Cardinal started talking. The moment his guard was down, Fang drove his elbow into the side of the man's knee who was on top of him. The knee snapped with the sound of a green branch breaking, and the man fell on top of Fang. Fang quickly rolled so he was on top and drove his knife between the man's ribs once. He twisted it once before pulling it out, the man not even moving as moved to Fang stood up.

Sentinel watched Fang out of the corner of his eye, his awareness shrinking down as he instead shifting his aim to the man furthest from his captain. He was holding a shotgun instead of a pistol like the others, so he was target number one. Sentinel put two shots into his chest, then a third that hit him in the neck instead of the head where Sentinel was aiming. The man dropped, but as Sentinel changed his sight picture, he realized that two more people were aiming at him.