#3 7 Rings Of Hell

Chapter 7: The Return

Morning arrives and Luke wakes up looking at Azora sleeping infront of him. Luke blushed, let out a small scream, and fell from the bed onto the back of his head.

Azora woke up from the commotion and looked over at Luke on the ground. "Luke, are you okay?!" Azora asked as she helped Luke back up. "I'm okay, I just hit my head... on the ground." Luke said as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Did we win the fight yesterday?" Luke asked. "Yes, we did, you were there, don't you remember?" Azora asked. "I can barely remember after all the energy I used." Luke said. "I see." Azora said.

"Shit, we're still dirty from the fight!" Luke said. "Not to worry, I can clean us up in an instant." Azora said as she snapped her fingers, cleaning them right up. "You angels are full of surprises." Luke added.

Luke and Azora walk out of the room and down the stairs but noticed Sean was pacing back and forth in the living room.

"You okay Sean?" Luke asked. "I'm fine, just thinking." Sean said. "Amazing, Sean can think." Luke added. "Very funny, but I do have one question." Sean said.

"Did you kill Chris?" Sean asked. "Yeah, with my sword pierced through his back." Luke said. "And what ability did you use?" Sean asked. "Look, I've had this question asked by Azora already, and if he is alive, wouldn't he be finish his so called mission?" Luke added, right before pouring himself a glass of water.

"You got a point there, it's just I saw a demon outside looking through the window, and it tried to poison us." Sean said. "And your point is?" Luke asked right before drinking the water. "It had pink eyes, just like Chris's eyes..." Sean added.

Luke's eyes widened, almost choking with his water. "Wait wait wait, so you're saying he's alive?!" Luke asked. "I'm not 100 percent sure because he was there at the void where the rest of us were, but I have a feeling he managed to bring himself back." Sean said.

"Just wonderful, first I have to worry about a fucking war, and now, I have to worry about Chris being alive!" Luke said frustrated. "Just to make sure, we need to go to our burials you made in the forest, and if his body is gone, then we could be in trouble." Sean added.

"Right, Azora, you stay here and if Camille asks where we are, just say we you don't know because you woke up late." Luke said. "Understood." Azora said.

Sean and Luke both rush out of the house and fly back to the forest to see if what Sean said was true. Once they arrived to the burials, they noticed multiple dead bodies around, some were human, and some were demons.

"Did he do this?" Luke asked. "Only one way to find out." Sean said as he walked towards my grave.

Sean looked inside and was frozen in place, full of fear. Luke finally looked inside the grave and sure enough, he also froze in fear... the grave was empty.

Suddenly, they could hear someone cackling in the distance. "Who's there?!" Luke said. Sean quickly covered Luke's mouth. "We don't know if he's still corrupted you idiot." Sean whispered. "What if, whoever is cackling isn't Chris, did you think about that?" Luke asked. Sean still signaled Luke to stay quiet.

"Well... well... well... if it isn't the 7th ruler!" An echoing voice said. Luke squinted his eyes to see his Hell Crown was fading.

(Hell Crowns are only visible to the Rulers of Hell)

"Nevermind, it is him!" Luke said in a panic.

A loud thud hit the ground behind them, making the dirt rise and block their vision. Sean and Luke turn around to see pink glowing eyes staring back at them.

"How long has it been?" I asked. "About a month or two." Luke responded, summoning his sword.

"Don't bother summoning your sword, you are no match for me, none of you are." I said. "Then how come I won last time?" Luke asked. "Did you really think you won that easy, I had to heal you during our fight!" I added.