A Missed Shot

Chapter Twenty-Two

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All of the demons around her are calling out for her name. Whatever is going on is of the utmost importance. Left and right, they all shout to her, "Ellie!"

She shoves them out of the way, walking out of the building as the demons linger behind her, following closely. As she steps outside, it smells of rain and absolutely reeks of blood, death and sulfur. As Ellie inspects the area, there are bodies of her demons, laid out all around the place. Some of the demons weren't even together in one piece; there were strands of large, pink, drenched in blood intestines draping over branches and making vicious visuals of death sadistic murders.

There were two bodies, women, who were laying still on the ground in one piece. She recognized her sister at the base of a nearby tree, out like a light, Destiny's entire right arm and right side of the upper torso soaked in blood. There was another woman laying nearby, however. She had an eclectic arm that lacked a presumably normal glow; it was a pale blue and with a touch of an opaque, yet montone burgundy colour that matches her slightly curly hair that draped a bit past her shoulders.

Ellie gaped at the sight of these two found lifeless on the ground. She signals two demons to bring the other woman's body inside. One of them asks about Destiny's body and Ellie replies with nothing but a small smirk, telling them not to worry about it. The demons obey what Ellie says as Ellie herself goes to grab her sister's corpse.

She slings the body over her right shoulder and trumps inside, her demons with the other woman's body following closely behind. They were headed to separate parts of the building; the demons with the red-haired woman's body went to the second floor balcony whilst Ellie brought her sister down the basement.

Upon arrival to the basement level, Ellie uncovers all of Destiny's equipment. She snarls, letting her sister lay down lifeless on the floor. "Little rat, sneaked into basement," Ellie growls under her breath as she kicked Destiny in the gut, sending her rolling into the base of the wall. Ellie fixes her hair and stoops down to Destiny. "Y'know, you really don't look like you're prepared for a fight. I mean look at you," Ellie begins as she strokes the leather patterns of Destiny's sleeve, "you're dressed up like you're going goth or something. You gotta look. . .formal." Ellie stands and walks over to an old box in the corner of the room. Kicking it open, sending the lid to execute a somersault as a ripple of dust upon landing, she pulls out a grey peacoat and drapes it over her shoulder as she walks towards her sister. She hunches down again and gives a little smirk, "Let's have a little fun." Ellie's eyes began to glow a bright, ruby red as her hair turns into a burning, pale white.

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Scarlet steps through the portal to Hell. The ground below her feet crunch louder than a lion taking a bite into an apple as its burned to a crisp, charred, jagged surface surprises to hold anything. The platform floats around in midair, presumably in a bottomless pit. The sky, the entire 360 degrees, is a dark red and the clouds a pale white. There are floating, torn apart, burning buildings gliding their way past the platform Scarlet stands upon, all which had one huge window. With further inspection, Scarlet can detect a body within each one, unconscious, wrapped in iron chains.

Behind her, the dark oval-shaped portal began to vanish, making it sound like a crowd of whispering children. As the last bit of the portal disappeared behind Scarlet, the whispering came to an abrupt hush as the sounds of Hell kicked in; it is different that what she expected. Rather than screaming souls all around her, it was more so quiet. Thunder boomed in the distance and white lightning flashes across the sky, bouncing from cloud to cloud. There seemed to be a constant low rumbling as well, apart from the thunder, like the sound of a distant earthquake.