Prologue
My crisp blue eyes felt as if they were too tired to open...no, too scared to open. With the feeling of hot breath hovering over my face I was far too scared to open my eyes. No, I couldn't possibly open them, what if it was some kind of beast waiting for me to be alive to play with me as its personal ragdoll. No even worse, what if I've been kidnapped and they're just waiting for me to wake up to torture me. Wait, why can't I remember what has happened to me before this moment. Wait, my palms are getting sweaty, I have no thoughts, no memories. I'm searching my mind for something, anything. There is nothing. Absolute darkness fills my mind, but my senses, my senses are still there. Except I'm so far in my brain I can't hear anything, I can't imagine.Why can't I remember my own name, my life, OH GOD I NEED TO OPEN MY EYES! Suddenly, my eyes open. I see darkness, the breathing has stopped, the sweating soaked up, my heart making a new beat, but my eyes, my eyes were still scared.
"Ah so you've finally awoken human"
Awakening
"Wh-where am I?" I ask hesitantly while keeping my eyelids peeled back making sure my eyes were locked with the red eyes above me.
"Hell" it responds.
At this moment my sense of hearing kicks in, it seems it was hard to hear until I was aware of where I was.That's when I heard the screams, the blood curdling screams, the sobbing screams, all the screams you could think of were vibrating within my ears. I looked around, it was still too dark to comprehend my placement.
"H-Hell?" I contemplate asking this but the words leave my mouth before my brain could tell it no.
"That's what I said. Now get up there weren't supposed to be any new arrivals." The dark shadow demanded.
"New arrivals?" Okay I need to stop asking so many questions, if i'm truly in hell nobody here is gonna want to answer so many questions.
"We can explain in the bosses office now let's get moving before I just send you into purgatory" it threatens.
I want to ask what purgatory is but I contain my words and quietly follow. As we walk through what seems like the abyss I attempt to look around but still the absolute darkness takes over me, I can't even see my body but oddly enough I feel it. I make a fist, I feel it. I blink twice, I feel it. I try to kick up, I can't, that's weird why can't I kick? I swing my fist, I can't. I think to myself "so I can't attempt to attack". "We're here, let's go in, be prepared, lost one" the voice soon had a face. A twisted one, one that seemed to be changing as you looked at it. Within seconds the "persons" face went from a man to women, a child to a senior. I wasn't sure what I was witnessing but I do know it made my bones shiver. The color red surrounded us, I could finally see something, a door. A door made of ... ash? I wasn't sure but it definitely was not something I was used to.
"Stop analyzing! You do that here you die" threatened the thing that was now a middle aged man as he grabbed the door handle and swung it open before me.
My eyes widened and my heart beat replicated the beat it had when I first opened my eyes.
"Why have you distrurbed me!" questioned him. I knew the moment I saw it, this was no person, this was no god, in fact this was the complete opposite. This was him, the devil himself. Hooved and horned, tall and angry. This goatlike creature stared at me with his dead eyes, walked to me and said "why are you here Jason ''. He said my name, wait that's my name! I remember my name! How does he know my name? I stare wide eyed, can't make a noise, can't ignore the stare he's giving me waiting for me to speak.
"I don't know" I respond with my voice trembling.
"That's what I thought. Well i'll give you a trial" he responded.
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Deal with the devil
Mystery / ThrillerA teenage boy awakes in an unfamiliar world where he meets his worst nightmare. Was this his fate or was this all a mistake?