Abyss

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Scarlet POV

I was baffled by what Bella said, she seemed like a genuinely nice and lovely woman who didn't deserve this. Tears welled up in my eyes.

The longer I looked at Bella's face the more familiar it seemed, I tried to shake off these thoughts but they persisted. While I was thinking about this whole situation, I realised that Bella and her sister could be the café owner's daughters who had gone missing.

After a short while of all three of us sitting in silence, unable to process the information. Bella returned with a few things in her hand.

I pulled her to the side and asked her about this. She confirmed my thoughts with just a nod, but didn't say anything else. I sensed a lot of pain, sadness and trauma from her so I decided not to push it.

She gave us three old, dirty cloaks. And three rusty swords. "No matter what happens don't say anything." She warned. She told us the plan. We were going disguised as three of hades' most trusted men, who visit purgatory and heaven once in a decade to check if any souls were wrongfully residing there and avoiding their fate.

She handed us all pendants and pieces of paper with a gold border and a pen, they would help us communicate with her from hell. She told us if we were in trouble, we would have to think of her and hold the pendent and a book, 'Stories of the Unseen Spectacles', would appear and we could look for a solution there. She also told us after a few days of staying there, we could possibly communicate with her, if her theory was right.

We got up, thank her for all the help and began our journey.

While walking to the direction of the screams and weeps, I heard Chae and Jinyoung bickering.

 Chae's POV 

I walked out of the room still in shock, my whole body was numb. But there was a strange sense of excitement and an adrenaline rush.

"I am here because of you!" Jinyoung yelled.

"No, you aren't! Who told you to follow me!"

A LOT of bickering and yelling later...

"Guys! Doesn't matter, we are here now, Let's work together." Scarlet says, in an effort to calm the situation. I let it go.

"let's all be friends. Ok? Friends?" With we all shook each other's hands following Scarlet's lead.

'Friends!" we say in unison.

Looking around I saw the huge pillars bearing the inscription that I have always wanted to see. My whole life I didn't even know if this was real. I went from being not sure of its existence to seeing it with my own eyes in a day. I was going to go to HELL...well if we could convince Charon.

WAIT! What if we don't pass...

"SCARLET! I think I am going to fail! What if I fail? What if I get stuck here? SCARLET! Ahhhhhhhhhhh SCAARLET! I am failing! Pls help someone!"

"We're not going to fail...maybe. Jk we won't, chill, we will get through this. Calm down ok? We got this" scarlet was trying to reassure me but failing miserably.

I am a little lightheaded but it's probably the nerves and excitement of it all.

Before entering, scarlet stopped. We were all anxious messes, well at least I was.

Scarlet's POV

Though, we had been walking for a long time to reach the entrance, it seemed like we had reached it yet to soon. I stood in front of the entrance eyeing it forebodingly, still tongue-tied. I tried to take deep breaths to calm my nerves but I couldn't.

"Chol, best of luck, eurachachaaaaaaaaa!" Chae says.

"hain best of luck. EURAAAAAAAAAACHHAAAACHAAAAAAAAA!" I say trying to think positive.

"were helping each other heree kk?"

I obviously agreed. "i hope it goes well for us."

"ya, same let's survive"

"and i hope we have a reason to be happy in the end" I say.

"we can do thiss, we r the SHS after all!"

"Yess, SHS! All hail SHS!"

"YEYYY!!!" Chae cheers!

"bow down to us, u savages" I say in an effort to make a joke. I agree joking and laughing is a bad coping mechanism.

"of the non-European world –' Chae adds.

I was dying laughing and crying all at once. Ah... I really hope we can get through this. I glanced at Jinyoung's face he looked confused af and was judging us big time.

we finally muster up the courage to enter.  

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Love you Chae Chae!!!💙💜💙💜💙💙💜💜