I will be posting this in parts as the days go by. Comments/critique will really be appreciated considering its had a few re-writes and it is very important to me. ^_^
A Hero’s Death
Part 1 of 4
The sound of crying loved ones shouting at him and pleading him to turn back, the voices of yelling followers foreshadowing their feelings of helplessness without him, and the screaming noise of a man who betrayed him begging for his forgiveness, all had muffled to an eerie hum of echoes faded behind his deep thoughts.
Renart held his hands in prayer. His tight grip was around a black-beaded rosary that tumbled and waved throughout his fingers. The cold sweat that broke within his palms, soon after, began to drip down his back and gather on his forehead. It was not fear that struck him down, but fate, When he finished the holy rosary and spoke his final words of prayer he recounted the story of Jesus, his savior. Although every single person had their connection with the lord whether they knew it or not, Renart’s connection was somehow special.
He gazed upward at the high cathedral church ceiling that resembled an early Roman Catholic Church. Colors of gold and detailed enlightened stone work were of grasping beauty. The fact that his death was so near made all of his surroundings just a little bit more significant, a little bit more breathtaking. The round dome in the ceiling painted with angels and a nursing Mary gave him a sentimental purpose to carry on. He imagined the crucifix sitting high atop the dome outside on that darkening delightful day. The church was long and shaped like a cross. The long vertical part of the crucifix began with the front doors and ended at the altar; all along the way was hand carved antique pews. A three-quarter walk up the vertical stretch is where the horizontal piece of the cross extended; both ways there were more pews positioned on an angle towards the altar that laid perpendicular to one another. The ceiling was high and the windows where shaped similar to a sword’s end. Each window was of the stain glass kind and was presented according to the fourteen Stations of the Cross. The outside was brick and faced with stone while the five front doors stood almost ten feet tall and were surrounded with hand carved stone-work. There were pillars that supported a lip that led off the roof and over the twelve large steps that bended towards the five front doors. Peaks sat upon each corner of the church, tall and pleasing to the eye from afar, but up close were weathered and a rusty-like-black color. The garden that surrounded the church was followed by an interlock pattern of slight, colored stones. The walkway led to the seating area just outside the left end of the cross, then back around other side meeting with the front door steps. The church was old, but was a gorgeous sight, for many days and months of work were put into every aspect of art in, and upon, this architectural land mark. It was Renart’s home and it was the perfect place for him to stare fate right in the eye.
He was a dark haired man of thirty-three and had defiant features that gave him a natural confidence in appearance. He had a powerful jaw and a stare of deep, but intense, green eyes. Everything about his appearance was mystical. Although he had a powerful appearance he had a tender aura about him. A simple gesture or kind look from him made people felt at ease. His bottom lip was tenderly bigger then his top, thus his smile was broader and more capturing because of it. Built like a boxer, but postured like a well-made business man, he was a gorgeous male in everyway. His short hair, usually styled to his liking, was messy and thick of an un-showered shine. His face was rough and dark, for he had not shaven that day. Mattox Renart was at his worse, but he felt at home in his church.
With one look back at his crying love his defiant and confident features slouched to and insecure and tired expression. His eyes, a bright green, faded to a dull shade of grey. His shoulders slouched, his arms drooped loosely and his knees shook in a weakened state. Every little thing that felt right about those moments, felt twice as wrong. He knew, however, that the Holy Spirit was there for him and that this day was the best thing he could do for those he loved.