Uncharmed

Chapter 1: New Assignment

Most people think that Hell is nothing but a place of eternal suffering and full of fire. It's pretty much almost the opposite of that with a different sort of environment in each ring and with it being Hell, a bit of suffering. Those who have sinned end up in the Pride ring and are unable to traverse to the other rings while those who were born in Hell can. Those Hellbornes are known as imps, incubi, succubi, and many more. They live all throughout the rings of Hell and some of them live in the Pride ring. One of them was an incubus named Ace who shared an apartment room with his best friend Josh. Their other friends Kat, Milky, Apple, Coco, and Kiki also lived in the Pride ring with them but in their own apartment. They occasionally visit their boss Verosika Mayday to take care of any work that needs to be done. Today was one of those days where they were about to be given a new assignment.

"Hey Ace! I just got a text from Verosika!" Josh called out from the living room.

"What?!" Ace said as he ran over. "What'd she say?"

"She's coming over with the others to explain our job for the day," his friend explained.

"Shit.." Ace sighed. "It must be really important if they're coming here instead of us all meeting at work."

Josh gave a small nod then after a while they heard a knock at the door and when Ace went to go open it he saw Verosika and the rest of their friends. Without waiting for him to greet them they immediately walked in and he closed the door while raising an eyebrow at them.

"What? No hello?" he asked.

"Shut the hell up and get your ass over here," Verosika hissed.

"Fine fine," he said as he walked over.

Josh walked over and the others waited for their boss to give them their new work assignment.

"Alright listen up you sluts, this assignment is basically the same as your other assignments except it's more long term," Verosika explained. "You'll be staying up in the human world for three months and fuck as many people as you can to 'feed' on their souls." 

"Wait are you serious? We have to stay up in the human world for three months?" Josh asked. "What are we even supposed to do? Besides our job that is.."

"I had Tex go up to the human world himself to scout a good place for you all to go do your job and he found a college that's full of humans," she explained. "All you have to do is live among them to not raise suspicion that you're not there to literally fuck around."

"How are we going to 'live among them' exactly?" Ace asked

"Don't worry about that, everything is already set up for your three-month stay in the human world," their boss explained. "So get your asses up there pronto."

"You want us to leave now?" Apple asked.

"Yes, now get to it," Verosika said then left.

The group just stood where they were in silence and shared a look with on another.

"Well what are we waiting for? Let's get going," Kiki said. "The sooner we go, the sooner we can do our job."

The others nod then opened a portal that lead to the human world and once they all walked through the portal closed behind them. They took a quick look around and saw that they were standing underneath a tree that was behind a building. When they heard voices coming from around the building they immediately changed into their human disguises then peeked around the corner to see that they were on a college campus.

"Looks like this is it," Kiki said. "Let's figure out where we'll be staying before we do anything else."

The moment they stepped out from behind the building they were suddenly approached by a girl with jet black hair and dark makeup. She wore a pure black short-sleeved dress, fishnet leggings and gloves, black boots, and a black necklace with a single green gem.

"Hello there, are you the new transfer students?" she asked.

"Uhh..yes?" Ace said.

"Great! I'm Nebula and I'll be your guide for the day," the girl said with a smile.

For some reason the group felt slightly creeped out by her smile even though there appeared to be nothing creepy about it.

"Follow me and I'll show you around campus," Nebula said as she walked off.

The group followed her and as she showed them around they took the time to scout out their targets. There were a lot of students either walking around campus, talking to each other, eating, or just looking at their phones.

"So these buildings here are the Visual Arts Department, the Science Department, the Math & English Department, and the History Department," Nebula said. "You can pretty much guess what sort of classes are in those buildings."

When the group looked at the buildings and saw that each one looked different and some have three floors while the others had two. They got a good look at each building then as they walked more Nebula pointed at two other buildings with one having two floors.

"That two-story building is the student center and that smaller one near it is the cafeteria," she said. "The cafeteria is self-explanatory but the student center is where you can go buy supplies from the store, get food which you can take with you, play at the arcade, or just hang out with your friends."

"So where will we be staying exactly?" Coco asked.

"That's next on the tour," Nebula answered. "I will be showing you to your dorms and don't worry, rooms have already been assigned to you so hold any questions about who will be staying with who."

Hearing those words made the group slightly anxious and they hoped that they got to stay with each other instead of a random human so they can discuss their job. They eventually got to the quad where the dorms were and each one had a different exterior design.

"So some of these dorms are for girls only, some for boys only, and some for both," she said then pointed at one of the buildings. "All of you will be staying in that dorm so you don't have to worry about being separated."

"Are we going to be rooming with each other?" Kat asked.

"Of course, you all seem like good friends so we like to have people room with someone they know," Nebula answered. "You'll find out what your room assignments and what your schedules are for the semester."

They went inside the building and came across a lounge area that had a small kitchen, an area with a couple couches and a TV mounted on the wall, two hallways on opposite sides that lead to the rooms, and a door that lead to a stairwell. Near the door was a table and there were several folders that had been neatly set on it with names written on them which were organized in alphabetical order.

"Those folders will have your room assignments and schedules," Nebula said. "If you have any questions you can come see me in my room which down the left hallway and is numbered 116."

"Alright, thanks," Apple said with a smile.

Nebula simply just walked away without saying anything else and left the group alone in the lounge area. They went to the table and grabbed the folders with their names on it then looked inside.

"Looks like I'm rooming with Josh and Kat in room 312," Ace said. "Sweet."

"Yay! I'm rooming with Coco in room 302!" Apple said happily as she hugged Coco.

"And I'm rooming with Milky in room 304," Kiki said.

They all looked happy with who they were rooming with but when they looked at their schedules they got slightly confused.

"It's weird how these were picked out for us don't you guys think?" Milky asked.

"Definitely," Ace said. "But don't forget that Verosika did say that everything was set up for us."

"Fair point," she said.

"Well our schedules don't officially start until tomorrow so let's go check out our rooms then meet out potential targets for the job," Kiki said.

The others nod then as they went up to their room Nebula watched them from down the hall with a creepy smile on her face.

"Having them around will make things much more interesting," she said to herself.

She stood where she was for a few more seconds then entered her dark room without making a sound.