Anybody else have a hard time with Gascoigne first time around? Hopefully this makes you feel better!

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Hunt #2

Father Gascoigne

CENTRAL YHARNAM-TOMB OF OEDON

Hale whistled the theme of Indiana Jones to himself just as he finished beating up a pair of lanky-looking wolfmen who tried (heavy emphasis on tried) to ambush him.

'Bloody wolfmen.' Hale thought to himself. Never in his life did Hale ever think that he would get the chance to fight wolfmen, werewolves, giant crows, legless zombies or trolls for that matter. Just earlier, one of them rolled a giant flaming wicker basket at him only for the Australian to kick it right back at him like a soccer ball (hence why he was whistling the theme to himself)!

Needless to say, Saxton Hale was greatly enjoying his vacation so far. He wasn't sure what to make of the angry mobs that kept attacking him but if they wanted to pick a fight, that was their decision. Hale spotted some stars and went up, coming up to a large graveyard that looked right at home in a horror movie.

His ears picked up the sound of rhythmic chopping and walked through the graveyard until he came upon a man hacking apart the corpse of one of the mob members while breathing heavily. Hale immediately noticed that the man was similarly dressed to the one he met earlier, though he had a large axe instead of a saw, wore a wide-brimmed hat and a white scarf. The man seemed to notice Saxton's presence and stopped chopping.

"Oh! G'day, mate! Don't let me stop you from doin'…whatever you're doin'." Hale greeted.

"…Beasts all over the shop…." The man spoke in a gravelly voice.

"I know, right? Your town's got a proper infestation of monsters, mate. But luckily for you, a genuine professional Hunter just so happen to stroll into your dreary little burg! I already took care of a big one earlier-"

"…You'll be one of them, sooner or later…"

Hale blinked. "Be one of them? What does that mea-"

The man turned around to reveal that his eyes were covered by strips of gauze and scraggly hair. Then he let out a throaty growl, steam coming from his mouth as he bared his pointed canines. Hale was immediately cautious. "Hey, are you alright, mate? Do you have whatever hay fever the other folk-"

PAKOOOM

The man whipped out a blunderbuss at shot at Saxton who had just enough time to jump out of the way of the shot as it destroyed a tree behind him. The madman ran up to Hale and swung his large axe at him. As he continued to swing his weapon at the Australian; the Mann Co. CEO figured that this guy was just as addled minded as the others.

Dodging another blast from the blunderbuss, Hale closed the distance and backfisted the psycho across the face. He grabbed the blunderbuss with his free hand, crushed it in half in his grip and booted the man away from him.

Father Gascoigne grimaced and extended his Hunter Axe. He swung it at the shirtless man who instantly grabbed it, Judo chopped it in half and then followed up with a headbutt that broke Gascoigne's nose. He staged backwards, clutching bleeding nose as a wave of madness overtook him.

"…What's that smell-"

WHOCK

Hale ran over and did a flying dropkick to his chest, collapsing both of his lungs and sending him flying into a wall which crumbled apart and buried him beneath heavy debris.

"That's the smell of my boots voiding your bowels, ya wanker!" Hale laughed. Having taken care of another threat to his vacation, Hale saw another flight of stairs leading up to another area and began to make his way towards them. But then he started to hear the rubble shift and turned around just in time to see the rubble explode outwards to reveal the towering, hunched over form of the man that tried to kill him, now a slobbering wolfman!

"GRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGHH!"

"HOLY DOOLEY!"

The monster that was previously Father Gascoinge threw itself at Hale, attempting to eviscerate him with its razor-sharp claws! Halve dived out of the way of its swipes and slammed his fist into it's side, the audible cracking sound of its ribs filling the air. Opening its fang filled maw, the beast attempted to bite his head off only for Hale to grab it by the jaws, swing it around and threw him into the statue in the center of the graveyard.

Hale rushed over and, with the expertise and finesse of a boxer, he pummeled the monster left and right across the face as he swiftly dodged its claw swipes. Hale did a sweeping kick that knocked the monster to the ground and then got it in a headlock and started slamming his fist into the side of its head! After 20 more punches, Hale threw the dazed beast away like a sack of dirty laundry and grabbed a tombstone that had been dislodged from the ground during the fight.

Hale then swung the tombstone across it's ugly mug!

THRACK

"REST!"

THRACK

"IN!"

THRACK

"PEACE!"

THWAM

Hale slammed the tombstone over the creature's head; caving in its skull and finally killing it for good. Dropping the shattered tombstone aside, hale wiped the sweat off his brow. It was another successful hunt in the bag. But something about what the crazy man had said earlier was still fresh in Saxton's mind.

What exactly did he mean by 'become one of them'? Come to think of it, many of the loonies he met along the way had unusual facial hair and looked more animal than human. The wolfmen also wore the same clothing the mobs had too. Then it all fell into place. The wolves must've had some kind of spontaneous evolutionary change and were now reshaping their bodies to look like humans and disguise themselves amongst the populace!

Hale shook his head. Maybe that sounded a little bit too ridiculous even for him but just to be absolutely sure…

Hale took out his phone as he went up the stairs. "Bidwell? It's me, Hale again. No, no, everything's just dandy but I need you to do a background check on all of our employees and customers, they might be wolves in disguise. Don't ask me how or why, just do it."

To be continued…

I know some of you are expecting Hale to fight Vicar Amelia but he's going to fight against 3 optional bosses before he gets to her! Which one will be next on Hale's chopping block? The Witch of Hemwick? The Blood Starved Beast? Darkbeast Paarl? Find out next time!

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