The Hammer Commission by Van Stry John

Author:Van Stry, John
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: John Van Stry
Published: 2013-04-15T16:00:00+00:00

"That's a good woman in there," Father Otto said as they drove back to the Church.

"Too bad she didn't know anything that would have helped us," Mark said. "Oh, I forgot to ask you," he said looking at Judith. "Do you speak French?"

"No, but she wasn't, so no biggie."

Father Otto started to laugh rather loudly.

"What?"

"She was speaking French." Mark said smirking.

"Looks like somebody got the gift of tongues!" Father Otto said still laughing.

"What?!" Judith said looking from one to the other.

"Looks like you just got promoted," Mark said flooring the car and running a red light. "Good thing too. Father, what kind of a devil is that behind us?"

Father Otto turned around in the back seat to look out the rear window. "Well I'll be. Haven't seen one of those since we blessed the catacombs back in fifty-three. It's a subterranean devil. Fast little stinkers. Nasty claws too."

Mark took the next corner hard, sideswiping a taxi in the process as he leaned on the horn. "Is it a minion or a lesser?"

"It’s a lesser devil." Father Otto said pulling a bible out of his robes and taking his cross into his hands.

"It's gaining on us!" Judith warned.

"Turn left onto Rue De Rivoli!" Father Otto said from the backseat. "Tour St. Jacques will be a good place to confront it."

"I don't know where that is Father!" Mark said, sliding the car around another corner as he made the left turn Father Otto told him about.

"Big tower on your right with a park around it. Can't miss it."

Mark nodded and weaved around another taxi, dodged a bus and sideswiped a UPS truck.

"There!" Judith said pointing.

"Okay, I'll lure it off," Mark said. "Judith, you get the holy water and crosses out of the trunk. Father, can you dismiss that thing?"

"I can build a ward to trap it, but it will take a minute or two. Not a young man anymore."

"Brace yourselves!" Mark said and turning up onto the curb drove into the park. Jamming the car in park as he locked the breaks he opened the door and jumped from the car as it came to a stop.

"Yo! Pigface!" He yelled running at the devil and pulling out the small cross he kept in his pocket.

Sure enough it turned right for him.

"Begone devil! Back to the pits of Hell with you!" and he thrust the cross at it.

Unsurprisingly the cross burst into flames, it wasn't one with any serious power and he hadn't expected it to hold. But it did piss the devil off and it followed him as he turned and ran.

He could hear the sirens as he ran around the tower, running straight for a tree. It grabbed his jacket, and he shed it without a thought then jumped as the tree came near and hitting it feet first rebounded from it. The devil however ran right into it with a loud 'smack'. It took a moment to gather its wits and then with a roar chased after him again.

Mark was able to do that three more times until it learned what he was doing.

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