When Hell's gates open
Brother Lucas wiped the rain from his face, He'd been walking all night to visit the abbey and risked not to mention bandits on virtually every road trying to get there. The times were bad not even monks could walk the roads without fear of being mugged by highway men. He'd come across one such man who'd had the courage to stop him but he'd allowed him to continue, at least some men still had the fear of God put in them.
He banged on the solid oak door desperatly trying to get inside it was the middle of the night and he desperatly needed some sleep not to mention unburden himself of the relic he was carrying.
Borther Lucas had been charged with carrying the relic to the northern most part of England, a risky area as there was always the constant threat of the scots raiding the smaller villages.
"Who's there" said a gruff voice from behind the door.
"It is I Brother Lucas I have the relic" He replied, Lucas had a very strong upper class accent, which he couldn't help he was the youngest son of a noble from down south and he wasn't going to inherit anything so his father had placed him in the church but the fact he'd been educated in Latin and French made things easyier for him at the monastary.
"Best come in then" the voice said opening the door.
Lucas stumbled into the warmth of the church, shaking his cloak off behind him whilst still clutching the box which contained the relic to his chest.
"I hope it was worth me bringing up this" Lucas said angreliy to the monk manning the door.
"Oh yes more than worth it" the monk replied with a grin.
Lucas spun to face the monk who was cluthcing a dagger and his eyes were fixated on the package.
"What are you doing" Lucas said stumbling backwards.
"Give me the package boy and I wont kill you"
"But this is God's house" Lucas stammered
"No longer boy, only the morning Star dwells here"
Lucas was so shocked he dropted the relice, The box fell to the floor and a clattered open, a peice of rotten,dark almost black wood about a foot long spilled out of the box infront of the dagger weilding monk.
"You have sided with the devil?"
"Our lord Lucifer is our real saviour, the thing that'l save the people god is this" the monk said picking up the peice of wood.
It was a peice of the true cross the only peice left in the world and had been claimed after the crusade.
"now you may leave, You wont get far though." The monk said laughing.
He grabbed Lucas by his robe and threw him out into the rain again.
Lucas clattered down to the mud and sprawled out onto it as the door slammed shut. All Lucas could hear from the other side of the door was the laughter of the monk which sounded like it was being joined by other monks.
Lucas heard a screech from the woods behind him, He knew it wasn't wolfs they wouldn't come this close to a settlement, the nearest village was about two miles away and he better get moving if he didn't want to meet what ever was creating the screech.
The screech however was joined b several other ones until the whole forest was joined in chorus by the screeching. Lucas pressed aganist the door.
"LET ME IN, IN THE NAME OF GOD LET ME IN"
He could here footsteps approaching him from all angles.
He continued to hammer on the door.
He felt a hand grasp him on the shoulder and it pushed him to the floor.
He had difficulty seeing who had thrown him to the floor through the ran but he could see the blood that was dribbling down their mouth. Within seconds of being on the floor others were on him.