Darkness of the Light

Ch. 3 - William

The man landed on the floor, brushing off broken glass and looked to the male and passed by him, walking to the demons proceeding through the largest set of doors, mumbling “Get out.” as he passed by, and with a swift movement of his blade from the top of his head, he cut through three of the lesser demons charging in.

The groom looked to the man, and chuckled, raising the large blade of the guard, ignoring the man’s words, and charged to a larger demon, which was assaulting a crippled leper, but to no avail.

The large demon showed no reaction to the blade which went straight through its body, but did no damage, and turned its attention to the groom, swinging it’s paw-like hand to the groom, swinging him to a wall, knocking him into a slightly dazed state.

The man which had landed from the glass, looked back to the groom, mumbling “I told you to get out… well, a few human casualties won’t hurt.”  and turned back to the demons laying siege on the church, proceeding to cut through the waves of lesser demons with swift movements of his blade.

The groom looked to the large demon in a blurred vision, and tried to lift the blade, which was far too heavy for him to lift in his current state, and fell unconscious.

The man looked back in a more alerted way, with his eyes spread widely, and turned back to the demons, which had fled accept for one which was carrying the corpse of a human, or more of, the arm of one, slowly sinking it’s protruding fangs into the flesh, and swallowing.

The large demon which knocked out the groom walked towards the groom, raising it’s paw to crush him.

The groom’s eyes suddenly opened, glowing a bright crimson, and drew a blade from the air as it materialized into a blade, similar to that of the man that fell, but shorter, and was a blood red. The groom swiftly rose and took the blade by both hands  and swung wide, releasing a wave which cut the demon’s paw, and continued to sever the head of the large demon.

The demon that had yet to flee, looked to the groom, and turned to the man, which had sat himself down in a chair, reading a book, with his blade nowhere in sight, and charged towards him with a blade that ran across it’s arm.

The man kicked the demon into the air, closing his book, drew a pair of revolvers from his side pockets, and shot the demon in the arms, and legs.

The groom looked to the man, but went back to tend to the cripple, helping him up, despite his lepracy.

The demon fell to the ground, twitching, but yet to die.

The man stood up, and materialized a second, white blade, and piercing the ground it struck.

From the ground, a light flashed, as a large cross picked up the demon in the form of a crucifixion.

The man snapped, and the cross consumed the demon in a veil of light, and glowed.

The groom turned to the man, and back to the leper, which had finally found an end to his torturous, painful life. The groom set him down, and walked to the man, still holding his blade, though his eyes stopped it’s glow, and held out his free hand, saying the words “My name is William. I thank you for the help you’ve given us in our recent attack.”, and looked to the large cross, which glowed brilliantly in the center of the church, despite the twisted demon which had been contained within it.

The man turned to William, and looked to his blade, which had not lost it’s glow, and back to him. “What are you” he said, glaring at him sharply.

William glared back at the man, glaring back, and answered “You're one to talk, answer first, and I will tell you.”

The man chuckled, and walked away, knowing the answer to his question, he had not known, nobody had.

William’s blade had somehow disappeared from his hands, though he had not cared.

The bride, Ashley, turned to William from the crowd of people who had escaped, and ran to embrace him, fearing he had died

From the crowd rose a man who had grown old, but tended to the sick and the needy, and slowly stepped to William, and proceeded to smash a clipboard on William’s head “You dumbass I told you not to do anything stupid you idiot.”

William took the blow as if it were nothing, and turned to his bride, and smiled, but heard a loud crash coming from the building marked ‘Hospital’ and smirked, looking back to his bride saying “I guess that kiss’l have to wait”

Ashley blushed and went on to tend to the sick, as the old man came back, with a new clipboard.

The old man smashed the second clipboard on William’s head.

William instead of taking it, actually felt it the second time, and screamed “What the fuck Andrew, you do know clipboards hurt if you hit people with them hard enough, right?”

Andrew raised an eyebrow, and proceeded… “Im sure that you just heard the crash coming from our building, right?”, gesturing  to the building.

William sighed and began to make his way to the Hospital.

Inside of the hospital, there was nothing out of order, accept William heard something from the room upstairs which had been closed off, and had never came to his curiosity to open.

William ascended the stairs to the closed off room, and opened the door which had been marked with a “Do Not Enter”, but not much else. He turned the knob of the door, and noticed the man from  the church, on his knees, staring down at a set of sheets which had looked as if they had not been cleaned for years,

The man turned to William, and stood up, turning to the doorway, walking out.

William looked at him, forgetting why he had come, and simply stared at him, and back at the contents of the room.

The man was intercepted by Andrew, and simply stared down at him, not bothering to walk around him.

Andrew stared back up at the man in both fear, and surprise. “What are you doing here, Aphelion?”

Aphelion simply replied “Is it so wrong to visit the death place of someone close to you that died?”

Andrew closed his eyes, crossing his arms, and shot “Well, it was your doing that killed her.”

Refusing to speak anymore, Aphelion left the building, and continued down the empty streets.