Chapetr11: Irony
The Chivalry was dispatched to guard every entrance of the convent.
"What is the meaning of this!" shouted the Archbishop when the guards didn't allow him to leave his quarters.
"We're sorry your Excellency but until the killer is caught you are not permitted to leave" the guards closed the door and continued to stand guard.
"You think the killer will still try to kill the two?" asked Saga looking up to the heavily guarded convent
"I don't know. But if he does we'll be ready." Said Augustus
Darshon walked up from behind them "All entrances are secured and Guards are stationed in every room. I expect that the killer will still attempt to murder Sigmund Justre and the Arch Bishop. But resourceful as he is he wont be able to get through the blockade."
"Lets just hope so. He got past us once to many times who's to say he wont get past us once more?"
"WHERE THE FUCK IS IT!" shouted Sigmund rummaging through his room "I find out that my life is in danger and I can't find my knife everywhere."
He sat down on his bed then looked up the ceiling "At least that bitch Anna is dead. She's been tailing me ever since Ranulf died it was getting rather annoying. But now they say that the killer is after me."
Sigmund moved his hand across the bed when he suddenly felt a jolt of pain on it. He looked at his hand and it was bleeding because his hand was resting on the very knife he was looking for.
"How did this get here?" Sigmund looked at the knife. How could it have possibly just appeared on the bed? "Heal," he muttered while pointing on his hand. The wounds began to close while he used his free hand to return the knife to its scabbard and hide it in his robes.
He lay down on his bed and closed his eyes.
"Hello Sigmund." said a voice
Sigmund stood up right and looked around the room for the one who had spoken. "Who's there? Show yourself!" ordered Sigmund.
The guards went in "Is everything alright Father Justre? Is anybody in here?"
Sigmund looked around again but no one was there except the guards and himself. He was starting to suspect if he just imagined it.
"No one is here, leave me!"
The guard looked at Sigmund curiously before closing the door. He looked around the room for the third time.
"What's happening to me?" he said putting his hands over his face.
Sigmund felt a chill descend down his spine once a third hand rested itself on his shoulder. He stood up and saw Ranulf behind him.
"Ranulf! How'd did you get in here. You're supposed to be dead!"
"You remember what I said six years ago Sigmund? I said I'd make you pay even if it was the last thing I did."
"You're the one whose been killing all the priests and acolytes! And now you're here to…kill me"
"Lex Divina" whispered Ranulf. A beam of light shot from his fingers and hit Sigmund the light encircled him then entered his mouth. Sigmund tried to call for help but no sound came out from his mouth. He saw Ranulf reaching out of his robes and pulling out a sword mace and with that he decided to run. Sigmund ran out his room knocking down the guards.
"Father Justre! Your not allowed to leave your quarters!" shouted the guards forgetting to look inside Sigmund's room. "Quick, after him!" shouted the guard who was on the floor.
"Wait Father Justre come back!" shouted one of the guards
Sigmund didn't answer due to the fact a silencing hex was cast on him. He just continued running around the convent running away from Ranulf. He couldn't believe that Ranulf Filial was still alive after all that time and that he had killed all those priests and acolytes including Anna his friend who had stuck up for him even at the risk of her position as next Arch Bishop. If he could do that to Anna what more would he do to Sigmund?
"He's gone insane," said the other guard.
Sigmund passed a corner and once the guards arrived they could no longer find him "Dispatch the brigade search every room we must find him immediately."
Sigmund entered one of the rooms. He realized that it was the Arch Bishop's room but apparently no one was there. He walked up the window to see if anyone was there. Then, the door closed behind him and Ranulf was there sword mace in hand.
He knew no begging would change Ranulf's heart but as the coward he was he knelt before Ranulf and started mutely begging for mercy.
Ranulf raised his sword mace over his head then brought it down Sigmund's face. Sigmund fell on the ground his face bleeding with a very deep cut on his cheek that reached the inside of his mouth.
"Status Recovery" muttered Ranulf. "I want to hear you scream when I kill you slowly."
Again Ranulf raised his sword mace over his head but the sound footsteps stopped him. He bent closer to Sigmund then held him by the chin "You wait I will kill you I promise. Lex Divina" Sigmund was silenced once more. Ranulf stepped out the balcony "Teleport" he whispered with a flash of light he disappeared.
The Arch Bishop walked in and saw Sigmund lying on a pool of his own blood. "Heal" muttered the Arch Bishop. Sigmund's wound's closed and the Arch Bishop went to his care "You did this to you child?"
Sigmund was about to say Ranulf' name but in his mind the Arch Bishop turned into Ranulf. He pulled out his dagger from his robes then lunged it at the Arch Bishop's stomach. He stood up then ran out of the room.
"A priest walked past Sigmund while he was running again his paranoia made him think that it was Ranulf so he slashed the priest's neck. An acolyte boy spotted him then started shouting, "The killer! The killer! He's here the killer is Father Justre!"
Sigmund ran to the graveyard and there he saw Ranulf again. He pulled out his knife then ran at Ranulf. He slashed but the image disappeared. He saw Ranulf Behind him he slashed once more but Ranulf disappeared again. It was just his own paranoia causing him to hallucinate Ranulf wasn't really there.
Sigmund mouthed the words "Leave me alone" to the empty graveyard.
"Status Recovery," the word echoed through the graveyard and Ranulf walked out from behind one of the angel statues.
"Finally, Sigmund I got you alone there's no one you can call now"
"Ranulf please have mercy I beg of you. Be the priest I couldn't be."
"I told you before, I am a priest no more."
Sigmund knelt then grabbed Ranulf's robes. "Please forgive me please! My master my friend."
Ranulf slammed his sword mace on Sigmund's temple at suck force that Sigmund was thrown against one of the tombstones.
Sigmund placed his hand over his temple, which was searing in pain. He stood up then started to run.
"You cant run forever Sigmund I will find you. I will find you in whatever end even if that end will be yours, and it will be."
Sigmund continued running he'd glance back from time to time and see Ranulf behind him.
Sigmund reached a mausoleum. He went inside then hid behind one of the tombs.
There was a clap of thunder then rain started to fall before Ranulf entered the mausoleum.
"I know you're here Sigmund stop hiding and face me like a man."
Sigmund looked through the side of the tomb and saw Ranulf walking in front of the tomb. He quickly ducked back into the shadows of his hiding. He looked again then didn't see Ranulf. He crouched up a little bit then looked around the mausoleum but Ranulf wasn't there anymore. He went back behind the tomb then sighed.
"Did you have fun Sigmund?" asked Ranulf who had suddenly appeared beside him.
Sigmund screamed then tried to run but Ranulf slammed his sword mace on his shins and broke his leg.
"Oh God help me please!" Shouted Sigmund clutching his leg
"No one can help you today Sigmund, not even God."
Ranulf dragged Sigmund out of the mausoleum. Sigmund was shouting as he was being dragged across the mud.
"Please Ranulf you don't want to do this! Katie wouldn't have wanted you to do this. She wouldn't have wanted you to kill me!"
Ranulf stopped in his tracks a few feet from the mausoleum steps.
"YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO SAY HER NAME! YOU WOULD NOT KNOW WHAT SHE HAVE WANTED!" he shouted carrying Sigmund by the neck.
"I swore I would kill you and I will right now."
Ranulf threw Sigmund back into the mausoleum. Just at that time Lightning struck the mausoleum and caused it to collapse over Sigmund.
Sigmund's wail echoed through the rain then it halted.
Ranulf walked over the collapsed mausoleum. He pushed off a chunk off rock and found Sigmund beneath it with a piece of the mausoleum wall lodged in his stomach, surprisingly still conscious.
"How does it feel Sigmund? I expect about now you can't feel anything anymore. But I'll try my best to make you feel the pain."
Ranulf stepped on the piece of concrete then pushed it deeper into Sigmund's stomach. Sigmund yelped again and gritted his teeth from the pain. Ranulf reached inside Sigmund's robes then pulled out Sigmund's knife. He unsheathed the knife then stared at it before speaking again.
"Ironic isn't it? The knife that you used to break in Katie's house is the same knife that will end your life."
"Please Ranulf don't kill me." Begged Sigmund one last time even if the concrete would eventually kill him just the same.
"Good bye Sigmund I now fulfill my promise to you
"Please I don't deserve to di…."
Ranulf lodged the knife into Sigmund's throat. He pulled the knife down to Sigmund's chest then started twisting it again and again till blood splat on his face.
"Hey you!" shouted Darshon who was running towards them accompanied by Saga and Augustus.
Ranulf saw them then ran away.
"Not so fast come back here!" shouted Darshon
"Quick Darshon unshackle me I can catch him." Declared Saga
"But I cant you'll try to escape."
"You need to trust me we have to catch him!"
"No I cant."
"Oh, forget it!"
Saga ran after Ranulf still in shackles. Ranulf faced back then shouted "Decrease Agility!"
Saga glowed blue then started to move very slowly he felt like he was dragging an anchor by his neck.
"Teleport," muttered Ranulf and with the familiar flash of light he disappeared.
Darshon and Augustus caught up to Saga
"Did he get away?" asked Darshon
"Of course no thanks to you!" Saga stood up then pushed Darshon.
"I was wrong were not alike cause you are a coward! You seem so smart but you're really nothing but a coward!"
"Enough!" shouted Augustus "It's no time for both of you to fight."
Saga looked at Darshon, the same way he eyed his victims before he would kill them, then walked away.
The two walked over to Sigmund's dead body
"Somebody really wanted to kill him." Said Augustus.
"The wounds on his chest and neck are made by the knife still lodged in him but this cut on his cheek didn't come from a knife a sword mace probably but I'm not sure. And by the way he's lying on the ground I'd say he was thrown by somebody maybe that guy who we chased a while ago. But why?"
"Well I really don't care much about that guy we just found the killer right here Sigmund Justre he killed a priest and stabbed the Arch Bishop when he was running no doubt it's him."
"Though I don't understand why he would try and destroy the church? He was on the verge of becoming the greatest priest, why throw that away?"
"Well, it happened before with Ranulf Filial he was also on the verge to become the greatest priest but he fell in love with a archer girl from Payon. The Arch Bishop ordered the archer girl to be burned after that he escaped the prison then committed suicide."
"How did he commit suicide?"
"He jumped of a cliff into a raging river then his body was never found"
"I'm not convinced that Sigmund is the killer I need to go to the bottom of that cliff
