My First posted story- part 2

Chapter 3- The Banker

The first stop and the first true target for Grey was Serves D'Angenlo. During the war Serves financially backed Grey and his allies. The entire time Grey was fighting, Serves was setting him up to take the fall. Paying off officials to warrant Grey's arrest and making sure he didn't get a trial. He got richer after the war using his influence to buy out banks, but all that money did was make him easier to find. All Grey and Millia had to do was ask around, everyone they talked to pointed them in Serves' direction. Serves used his vast wealth to buy an estate. Grey also discovered Francisco financed a group of mercenaries known as the Black Wolves as his own personal guard.

Grey wipes through the lower ranked members of the group as if they weren't even there, as he made his way up the estate, he was never forced to draw his sword. He reached the top and was greeted by the eight founding members of the group. The first two come at Grey, the first swings his sword. Grey grabs his arm and forces his blade into his partners face, Grey draws his sword and cut the second member in half, Grey then throws his sword to impale a third member

The remaining five members watch as Grey pulls the sword from the face of his slain foe. The five come at Grey, one swings his sword, Grey ducks and cut the back of his knee and grabs a second member behind the first's leg and trip him. Grey then plunges the sword through both men the first in the chest and the second in the torso. As Grey goes to stand another members attacks, Grey slams him through the nearby window and drives his neck into a jagged edge of the broken glass. As Grey tries to regain his composer another member comes at him, Grey pulls the dying member back into the room and out of the window seal, removes the glass lodged in his neck and drives it into the oncoming member's skull.

The last member runs at Grey, Grey slams him against the wall and drives his elbow into the bridge of the man's nose, causing the bone in the nose to shatter and impale his brain and his skull to fracture at the same time, killing him instantly. Grey finally finds Serves hiding in his office. "Hello Serves, did you miss me. I missed you" Grey says as he drags him to his safe, carrying a bucket of kerosene. "You love your money so much, burn with it" Grey says as he pours the kerosene on Serves' money, then Serves himself. Grey lights the money and Serves both on fire, and watches as Serves burns to death in his own pile of greed.

Chapter 4- The Bishop

Grey meets back up with Millia who tells him about the holy city where Francisco Bennet resides as the bishop of the holy church. ".....Grey, Francisco....he told the guard captain to kill mommy...when we are in the city, can we stop to pray for her?" Millia asks. Grey smiles and nods "Of course we can." As the two stop to pray, Grey thinks about Francisco. After the war Grey was considered a living god. But after his incarceration, Francisco started to pass his skill in the magical arts off as miracles, and began proclaiming anyone who worshiped Grey was a heretic, and deserved death. Turning the people against him meant that no one would help him, or question his life imprisonment. "He must've killed Millia's mother because she always brought me food and shown me kindness. I will repay his understanding with a horrible death befitting of a man of his belief" Grey thought to himself.

Suddenly they're silent prayer is interrupted by the start of a sermon led by none other than Francisco himself. The couple sit in the back of the church silently waiting for the mass to end so Grey can send Francisco to see god. As the mass ended Grey had Millia leave with the others. "I was wondering who killed Serves, never imagined it would be you though heretic" Francisco said frowning at Grey. " You look dissapointed, you'll be happy to know that I came all the way from hell to tell you we have room for one more" Grey replied.

"Burn Blasphemer!" shouts Francisco as he unleashes a stream of flames at Grey. "Blasphemer? your the one trying to pass parlor tricks off as miracles, and I'm the one committing blasphemy!?" Grey retorts dodging his attack. "What the people don't know cannot harm them, they needed guidance and I was here. Besides even Jesus had to perform miracles before his words took merit" Francisco shouts while hurtling bolts of lighting at Grey. Grey dodges and rolls behind a pillar. Francisco cuts the pillar down with high speed gusts of wind, while following it with a barrage of wind gusts. "nimble as ever heretic, lets see how you handle this though" Francisco says as he turns the room to Ice.

Grey uses the Ice to get a speed advantage since he cannot kill Francisco at a distance and Francisco is defenseless at close range. As Grey closes the gap between them, Francisco uses earth magic to elevate the ground in Grey's path. Grey maneuvers around the earth being raised in spot after spot. After a while and it becomes far too late to do anything about it, Francisco realizes that Grey was moving in a pattern to close the gap and use the raised earth to get a clean strike at him the entire time. Grey strikes with precision slicing Francisco's stomach wide open. "Let's see if you come back after three days then Jesus number two" Grey remarks. The followers of Francisco come to the church, and see Francisco crucified to the front doors. Above him etched into the stone "which is more terrifying, the god you cannot see or the devil standing in front of you."

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