The church bells chimed 8 times. 8 PM. The men walked into the church, sweeping their eyes back and forth, looking for someone. The only person present was the priest, wearing a hooded habit, waving around a thurible, reciting the 23rd psalm from a bible. "Oi, Priest, we know you're keeping him here. Where is he?" one of the men walked towards the priest, grabbing him by the shoulder and turning him around. The priest didn't look up from the bible, but kept reciting the prayer. "Oi, I'm talking to you." "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil" the priest looked up from the bible at the man, his eyes glowing red under the hood "I will make that evil fear me." Atsuke swung the thurible and hit the man with enough force that his jaw broke in two places, a few teeth falling out, his neck snapping, severing his brain stem. The man, who was indeed a demon, crumpled on the floor, blood pouring out of his nose and mouth. Atsuke dropped the thurible, which was dented beyond repair, and looked at the other demons. "Well, you found me. I guess we'll have to do something about that, huh?" He threw the bible in the air and two daggers fell out. Atsuke caught them and let his arms rest at his sides. One of the demons chuckled. "Who brings knives to a gun fight? You may be good, but not that good." They all raised their guns at Atsuke. "Besides, these bullets are your own design. Poisonous to demons, of any caliber." The opened fire, all laughing at the same time. Atsuke flinched, but noticed the bullets had no effect. In fact, they didn't hit him at all. When they came close to contact, they turned into black smoke. Atsuke looked down and smirked. "I guess you got the recipe wrong. Looks like its my turn." He spun his daggers and leaped towards the demons. He caught two of them just above the groin with his daggers, and drew them up, slicing open their torsos, their insides spilling out over the pews. They fell over, convulsing. "Well, that's two down. Three more to go." He turned to face the other demons, who were all shaking now. He couldn't help but smile. He walked toward them slowly, looking at each of them in the eyes. "Well, looks like I was right. I did make you fear me." He chuckled. He threw his daggers at the two on either side of the demon who was in the center. The daggers hit them in their throats. They both staggered back, gurgling, blood coming out of their mouths, and fell over, twitching, eventually bleeding out. "And that leaves you." he said. The demon turned to run, but found himself face to face with Atsuke. He looked behind him and saw the habit he was wearing still falling to the floor. He looked back at Atsuke. "You know, there's a lesson to be learned here." A squelching noise echoed throughout the church as Atsuke shoved his hand in the demons chest, wrapping his fingers around his sternum. "Its a shame you won't be alive to learn it." He ripped out the the sternum with enough force that the demon flew back behind him, crashing into the confessional. Atsuke chuckled at the sight, then knelt down and retrieved his daggers, putting them back into the sheathes behind his back. He started walking away whistling the tune to Low Hangin' Fruit by Tenacious D,before he felt his cell phone vibrating in his pocket, the song . "Yes, Nade? Yes, I took care of it. Yes, I'm sure it will make the news. Yes, I'll stop and get you some candy. Alright. Bye." He hung up and took one last look at the grisly scene he made, and then walked out of the church. The bible Atsuke had thrown had landed open, the page reading "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last."
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