The hell priest's apprentice. (Completed).

Chapter nine.

Pinhead wasn't always bound to his cathedral or fortress, he often enjoyed walking within the maze and clearing his mind of pressing matters that he'd return to later. To see his creation in the pathway brought a smile to his face, but also confused him on why she wasn't performing her usual duties of patrolling the center. "Bella, my dear, won't you join me?"

He asked, offering his outstretched arm to her as she gingerly took it- hoping that by now, Roxanne was long gone. Their arms entwined as they kept a slow pace down the damp corridor. "I would have thought to invite you if I knew you weren't guarding the inner maze today."

Pinhead mused, hearing the distant screams of a man being tortured. "That's alright, I was let off early by another taking my place....hell seems to be quite today."

He nodded, his mind now wondering to the situation at hand with his Bella and the zombie menace that had more up her sleeve then his poor apprentice realized- but then sighed softly. "Are you alright my priest?"

Commander asked, earning a soft chuckle in response. "When have I ever been alright my dear? I dare to ask you the same question, you have been acting strangely- but so have the others lately."

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Briar appeared to her classes twenty minutes late, earning a scolding from her brood master as he excluded her from the promised hands-on study everybody was talking about within her class of twenty students. Oh well, she would just return home to do something similar with her adoptive mother over dinner. But it did give her time to think, to plan on retrieving the forbidden memories that were deep within the "belly" of Leviathan.

She was once a promising highschooler with everything going for her, until her mother on Earth drove her to the point of breaking down and sent to an institution, with an eating disorder threatening to devour her life and losing her mind completely....until she was given the puzzle box. The box was practically handed to her while the patients were outside one summer day, enjoying the warm weather. A ragged looking man who was silent presented it to her, smiling as if knowing- and she took it.

In some way she connected with Butterball upon their arrival, earning a place within the cenobite's heart as Leviathan was asked to give her a second chance, in hell. Briar was now twelve, being cared for and loved- but it didn't stop her being a hellion. She gave a smirk to the brood master as he came over to assign her studies to bring home, earning another scolding and prolonged time within the corner.

The child ignored the books beside her as she turned to focus on planning out her heist of retrieving the memory her surrogate cousin asked for. Briar could easily slip past the guards with her size, but never had she taken an orb before- She could still remember the past down tale of Kirsty Cotten and the Hell Priest having been stuck within one and braving the nightmares for what they recalled as years when it was only a day.

The brood master sighed softly, wondering if he was too harsh on the small child. He remembered hearing her story from gossiping tales, each one more horrific than the last. From what was passed onto him, Briar was a feast for Laslo and eaten alive until her screams became too much for Leviathan, resulting in her being reversed back and forced to grow up again with the worst Cenobite in Hell's history. He shook his head, gently motioning for her to join them, barely noticing the spark in her eyes.