“Are you sure we should be doing this?”
“Yes. Doesn’t it seem right to you?”
“Not really. It doesn’t feel right.”
“Just follow me and you’ll see that
I’m right. Have I been wrong before?”
“Yes, you usually are.”
“Well, this time I won’t be. Trust
me. Our lives will change for the better after this.”
Grayson shakes Julianna.
“Huh? Sorry. I was just having some
weird dreams.”
Grayson gives Julianna a curious
look.
“What? I’m okay,” Julianna says
with a smile and holding Grayson’s arm. “Let’s get to work.”
A mute man and a woman are
traveling to the city Grayson and Julianna live in. The man has bandages around
the sin affected areas especially his throat while the woman has relatively few
coverings for the effects of her sins. With their destination in sight, the man
grunts and pulls on the woman’s shirt.
“Don’t worry. We’re almost there. I
won’t let us down. Our lives will change for the better after this,” the woman
says.
They manage to sneak into a church
that’s being built and look through the supplies to find holy water. With the
holy water, they sprinkle it on the affected areas to no result. The mute man
grunts in response.
“Hmm. We must be in a state of
mortal sin then. That’s not surprising. Oh! I know another solution!”
The door to the room they’re in
starts to open.
“Quickly hide!”
As the two hide in the dark corners
of the room, they watch as a priest, Julianna, and Grayson enter the room.
“We need people like you, Julianna
and Grayson. The converted and reverted are the best at bringing sinners back
to the Church,” the priest says.
“And you need people defending it
here against the unrepentant transformed sinners and it just so happens that
you’re allowed to give that task to people like us who keep our special
abilities even after confession. What about your special guards? Can’t they
help you?” Julianna asks.
“We have them, but we need more
than physical force to defend the Church. We need strong faith especially with
all the different kinds of sinners who have been getting desperate now that they
wear their sins on their sleeves, so to speak.”
“You’d think this would make them more
repentant, but I guess I know better.”
“And that’s why we need people like
Grayson and you out there. You are great examples of repentance.”
“Haha, oh stop it with the flattery
already. We know what our jobs are, and we’ll get it done.”
“I can’t thank you enough.”
“Yeah, yeah.”
Julianna and Grayson are moving unpacking
and moving boxes from one room to the next with the priest. The woman sees a key
on the priest who is checking the inventory and takes it without him noticing.
Her hand decays further, so she uses a needle on it to dull the pain. The mute
man looks at her in silent concern.
“I’m fine,” she whispers, “Let’s
go.”
The two go into another backroom
with more supplies and find a locked box that’s modeled after the Ark of the Covenant.
They use the key the woman got off the priest to open the box to find bread and
wine in a chalice.
“I knew it would be here. Do you
remember how to turn this into the Body and Blood of Christ?” the woman asks.
The man grunts.
“I can’t do it, but you can.”
The man grunts again.
“I know we may be in mortal sin,
but maybe consuming Christ will help.”
Again, the man grunts.
“Okay, consuming Christ in mortal
sin may be wrong, but do you really trust what the Church teaches?”
The door to this room opens and
Julianna and Grayson enter it.
“I knew I heard someone creeping
around in here,” Julianna says.
“Julianna, wait. We need help.”
“Sister Susanna? Is that you? And you,
Father George?”
“Yes, Julianna. You’ve inspired
people like us to escape the confines of our vows and to be the people we feel
like we’re meant to be.”
“No, if anything, I should’ve
inspired you to do differently.”
“Sister Julianna and Father Grayson.
The young nun and the priest who fell in love and lead a revolution of love
against the Church.”
“I’m not a nun and he’s not a priest
anymore. We’ve repented of our sins and we’re doing penance. You should do the
same. Priests and nuns shouldn’t be married.”
“Oh, but we are, and you can’t stop
us from what we must do. We’re in the right here.”
“The state of your bodies says
differently.”
“And you’re one to speak with the way
Grayson and you look?”
“Yes, because holy water doesn’t
burn us the way it did to you, I’m assuming. I found that bottle of holy water
that you left out.”
“The Church is cursed and corrupted
with people who are taking advantage of the trying times that God is putting us
through.”
“Heretics! We’ll make you eat those
words! Grayson!”
Grayson is about to attack the two,
but Susanna lifts up her shirt to spew out flames from her chest.
“Don’t you know that it’s a grave
sin to look perversely at a nun?” Susanna asks as she continues to spew flames.
The two then exit out the nearby
window as Julianna tries to suffocate the flames she’s created.
“Go after them, Grayson!” Susanna
says.
Grayson does as Susanna commands
and goes after the two. As the two run away, George opens his mouth to spew out
acid and bile on the ground to prevent Grayson from following them. Grayson
avoids the acid by running across the walls of the buildings. George then spews
acid at him while Susanna spews fire to create an explosion to knock Grayson
back. The explosion doesn’t keep him down for long as Grayson gets back up and
climbs across the rooftops to cut off the two as they run into the streets.
In the public streets, Susanna
says, “Don’t pursue us any further, Father Grayson, or else we’ll release an
explosion in the streets.”
Angered by them, Grayson is about
to approach them.
“Stop, Grayson! Let them go,” Julianna
says as she runs towards him.
“Good decision, Sister Julianna.”
Susanna and George get away from
the two and head in the direction of another church.
“They’re going to be chasing us
soon,” Susanna says, “It’s a good thing we got the times of the mass times in
the area. They should be giving out communion now. We can get it if we hurry.”
The two take various shortcuts to
get to the nearest church and barrage in just in time as people are going up to
receive communion. Susanna spews her flames in the air to frighten everyone in
the church.
“Nobody move! We’re just here to
receive Jesus and we’ll be on our way out,” she says.
No one in the church dares to move
with even the priests who are handing out communion frozen in place. Susanna
and George bow before the alter then take communion from the chalice. Julianna
and Grayson manage to enter the church just as they’re about to consume the communion.
“Stop it, Susanna! That’s not going
to help you! It’s only going to make things worse!” Julianna screams.
“Just you wait, Sister Julianna.
Watch as a true nun and priest of God are given the abilities to do His Will. The
real nuns and priests of God will rise starting with us!”
Susanna and George take communion
and are turned into small dragons with very few human features. They spew their
fire and toxins into the air as everyone in the church evacuates except for Julianna
and Grayson who try to stop them. Julianna uses her power to blind them as
Grayson beats down George, however, George doesn’t go down easy and spews Grayson
with his acid. The acid doesn’t affect him that much as he continues his
attack. Susanna goes after Julianna with her flames but is blinded again by her
light. Julianna takes out a grenade launcher loaded with grenades filled with
holy water and shoots three shots at Susanna to take her down. The splash from
the grenades cools the surrounding flames and hits George to help Grayson put
him down. With Susanna and George down, the flames die down and the pools of
acid dissipate.
Julianna looks around the church
and comments, “Huh. That ended better than I hoped.”
The two then go outside to see a panicking
crowd.
“If the priesthood and nuns are
corrupted, then who can help us?” one of the people outside say.
Julianna calms down the crowd by
saying, “Hey, hey! Everyone calm down!”
“How can we calm down if sinners
can transform into dragons?”
“Because you have people like us on
your side. The Church will not fall because of the sinners within it because she’s
always had sinners within its walls to heal them and bring them to Heaven.”
“What about the others that she mentioned?
She said that she was the start.”
“If there are others out there, we’ll
be there to face them. For every duo like them, there are people like Grayson
and me who will defend you all to our dying breath. I promise you that. Just
offer us your prayers and we’ll make it through.”
The crowd talks to themselves
before clapping. Julianna and Grayson bow to show their appreciation.
Meanwhile, they are unaware that they’re being watched not by the people associated
with Susanna and George, but by people, who were inspired by the old Julianna
and Grayson. They move into action to accomplish their goals, which may or may not be good even with their good intentions.
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