Saint Jude

Jude Claud is a saint who fights for the rights of his religion.  He does more then preach, he takes to sword and answers any objection with a swift strike, beheading those who stand against him.  He is most feared by anyone who does not understand him, but he has an honest side which is much liked and so the fear does not rise to become rivalry rather it stews to become something else - acceptance. 

Jude wanders around his kingdom building up an army.  Those who hate him flee, but those who like him join him and they become his men and friends.

Jude begins to grow in fame, and his fame takes him to the road.  He needs to know more then the patch of earth he occupies and so he says goodbye to his friends and walks away.


There are many days and nights of toil and starvation.  Jude is met by many people, and some even let him into their homes so that he might be able to recover from long journey.

Jude discovers there is a lot of acceptance for his ways -  however this is rivalled when he meets the Roman army who are storming over the land to ensure that it is theirs.


One look and the Romans have arrested Jude.  He was a king wearing his spine tall, and the Romans have bent it.  Jude moves with the Romans, he enters their castle of Rome, and there he becomes a prisoner.

"Let me out!"  he screams through night and day.

But he is not allowed out, and so he stews in the depths of an underground jail starving as the Romans feel him water and oil.


Claire Mayonette, a visitor to Rome, hears the stories of a saint sent to the depts of the underworld.  She thinks it is a childrens story and she laughs.  But her laughter is not met with smiles, it is met with hate.

"It is true!"  exclaims a boy.  "He lives in Rome, under its feet, in murder!"  he announces. 

A Roman general approaches, and he slaps the boy in the face.  The boy gasps and runs away, and that is when Claire hides herself.

Claire asks a few questions to some bakers.  Do they know of a saint?  Does he live under Rome?  The nod their heads and smile.

"He was taking down Rome, so Rome put him to prison bed;"  they tell Claire.

Claire gasps.  She then moves to ask her captain permission to visit the saint.  It takes days of wagering, but after a few days she is allowed to visit Jude who is anything but happy to see her.


"What are you?"  asks Jude in a soft but edgy voice.  

"What are you?"  asks Claire as she looks at him through the prison bars.  "What saint are you?"

"Jude;"  tells Jude as he feels his lips chill.

Just talking takes whatever strength he has away from him, it makes him want to faint.

"Why are you in prison?"  asks Claire.  

"I do not know.  I was wandering, talking, getting to know people; and they took me here;"  he answers in a tone that is fit for a Ceaser.

Claire blushes.  His accent his perfect, his mind in-tact, his looks youthful behind the beard that has grown over his lips.  Claire looks at the captain who can already read her thoughts.  She wishes to save the saint, and the captain is ready to say no.  So Claire takes out a key that opens all doors from her pocket, and she uses it to opent he cell and she frees the saint.

"There you are free;"  she mutters with a smile.  "Now go or follow me;"  she orders.

Jude smiles and on knees weak and shaking he walks away from Claire who feels like dirt as she sees her new saint walking away like a poor beggar.

"I am Claire, I live in Verville;"  she tells Jude as he reaches the door.  "I ask you to visit if you find no friends or company;"  she tells him.

Jude turns like a whisp of fire spin in wind, and he scowls.  

"Not likely lady.  I am a King, and I have men, and I shall sack Rome when I find them!"  he exclaims before he dissapears as fast as another whisp of wind.

Claire gasps and she leans on her captain.  She wishes for a fan, buts he has none.  She has just released Rome's greatest enemy, and he has all signs of a saint and god.


Jude wanders back to his land.  His men are there telling tales of monsters when he approaches.  They look to him and fall in love, and then they invite him to a feast.  Jude accepts, and one night of feasting turns into planning for battle, and the next week he marches with his army to Rome.


It is morning when Rome is attacked with bombs of fire.  All Romans scream and they run back and forth in the streets alerting all that they have been bombed.  

The Ceasar comes out of hiding, and he gathers the army for attack.  But there are flames burning all around, and it takes emergence from the walls of Rome to see what they are to attack, and when they emerge they find themselves circled by Jude's army.


"Bow and kneel before Jude, or die!"  tells Jude with sword in hand.

The Romans kneel and they plead for their lives, which Jude gives them as soon as they are chained in Rome's prison cells.

Each legion is starved to death in shackles and chains and behind bars.  Jude then torches the residents of the city, before calling Rome his.

"I am Saint Jude;"  tells Jude as he raises a sword.  "And I have won!"  he yells before a cheering crowd.