Answering to the past: part 7: killing the Beast

So I was hunting the Beast… I knew who was using him but where he was hiding the thing… I decided the best way was to provoke Greene make the Cardinal use his beast against me… So I dressed as if I was meeting reporters. "Cardinal, I think you have some explaining to do," I say Cardinal Greene looked at me and I smiled, "I know about the Beast I have proof you killed Cardinal Hermann. " "Really and I suppose you are taking it to the police?" He said picking up the phone. "No you probably paid them off. I was thinking of more going to the press. It would be hard for the Pope to look away. I am on my way now to get the evidence from Guy. I wanted to give you the chance to turn yourself in." Okay it was a lie, I had no such evidence and I wasn't sure where Guy was and he didn't have any evidence for me, but Greene didn't know this… "If you had evidence…" he lowered the phone… He was buying though he tried to act as if he wasn't. I walked away, "SO you won't give yourself in? Cardinal," I lifted my hand to his heart… He slapped my hand away, "Leave and take your cursed powers with you." I left walking out and soon I could sense the Beast… He was red fury with a shadowy black mist of doom that surrounded him like an aura…. His aura was free like a loose cloak just tied at the thickness of his body… Also it was demonic screaming demon skulls and faces in its clouded doom… "I can not believe the Church experimented on you through satanic rituals!" I yelled grabbing the spear of destiny… It was clear now what they had done, they had empowered the beast with the blood of Satan. I used the Spears Holy light to sicken the beast… "Rest in Hell!" I screamed as I plunged it into him… The Beast exploded in light and then blood that reeked of pure evil… It was dead but the blood it carried to curse it was pure evil thus I became weakened by a sickness… I climbed away into a near by abandoned building and tried Guy again… I knew I would need him to help me… Still No answer…. I stood still very wobbly and faced a man… but he was no man entirely, he was a vampire. "Sorry Lady, but that is awfully a lot of money you got there on yer head missy." I heard him say as the shots were fired…. The first shot pierced my left shoulder the next my right side and third my upper thigh… I fell, crawling away from the man… He twirled the old time 6 shooter and placed it in some western style holster… Then he pulled out a more modern weapon. He walked up to me and put his foot on my rear pushing me down on the ground where I was crawling… "Well now if ya don't look like sum kind of yellar belly lizard." I saw his show point the gun…. BANG…. The bullet pierced my back, He sneered, "M9, Beretta 92FS 9mm is the standard issue side arm for most military ... took off a man I killed when I started my mercenary jobs as a henchman. It carries 15 rounds, 14 in the magazine, one in the camber. That thar was the first." BANG! I heard the next shot as it was fired into my back and the sting of its penetration… He began to count off the shots as he fired, "two, three, four, five," my body went numb with pain as I found I couldn’t crawl from under his boot or even struggle any longer, "six, seven, eight, nine," I coughed and the blood came up in my throat to my lips as the blood poured out from under me, "ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, and one to die on." He laughed as if he had made a humorous joke and fired the last thought… The stranger lifted his boot and I heard as he released the magazine and reloaded his gun with a fresh one…. "My name is Jericho, Jericho Cross." He walked off and put his arm around 2 girls. The jangle of his spurs was the last sound I heard… [Meanwhile the Union informs their members over the wires that a privateer has killed the Magdalena… At the scene of the murder, corners wheel a body out in a black bag… Elsewhere at the Temple… Cardinal Greene sneers, "What do you mean the Spear is missing? Never mind, as soon as we initiate the New Magdalena she will…" A Priest interrupts, "It isn't working." Cardinal Greene yells, "What? Why isn't it working? The old Magdalena is dead!"]