The nine Circles of Fun

Chapter 2

My head felt swollen and heavy, my body could barely move as I slowly forced myself to get up. I sat there for a few minutes, till I felt my eyes opening. My body still wouldn't move at all, I notice my uniform was stripped off and replaced with a odd dress shirt and black pants. I blinked for a moment until it took me a second to realized that I wasn't in the field anymore, It looked like some sort of chamber, one really big and tall to begin with. I forced my legs to get up, barely standing, looked up to see a huge light blinding me then it faded away, leaving no light available for me to see. The only bit of light was torches with a fire blue light and that was all.

W:"Where I'm I? I've never seen this place before."

Strange sounds echoed through the cavern, odd screeches sounded like they were coming from every direction, I sure didn't know where I was but I didn't want to stay to find out sooner or later. 

W:"Hello? Is anyone out there? Help me!"

My voiced echoed through out the chamber, causing me more panic than I was before. I checked myself to see if a still had my knife on me, but I was stripped clean. I didn't know where to go exact, but I looked down underneath me to see a chilling depth of screams under me. I notice that all of these levels where supported by thin bridges, connecting them together. I slowly walked away from the edge, till I felt a hot feeling on my neck. Out of the whole palace, I saw a torch that was orange, but it was floating in mid air, who could it possible do that? 

???:" Hello Strang-"

I screamed as an unpleasant face appeared from the shadows. I felled on to the ground, backing away from the figure. It's unusual red skin with it's black hair and yellow snakes eyes only meant one thing.

W:" I-I 'am in hell?"

???:" Yup."

W:" Then that means...YOUR SATAN?"

???:" Gods no. Satan is by far, as I know, is way uglier than me." It said as it smiled. 

Those things teeth looked pretty sharp, and I didn't like the look of the guy. He offered his hand, but I slapped it away and got up on my own. 

???:"Rude."

W:" W-Who are you? Why I 'am I here?"

S:" Terribly sorry, even if you were a little bit ungraceful to me, I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Slayton, the one who rules this particular part of hell. And you, my lucky pal, has come to severe as one of me, a-"

W:" SO IM YOUR SLAVE?!"

S:" No! You impatient piece of shit! You are a hell keeper now, which means you Know have a part of hell to rule. Which means-"

Slayton gasped as his smile went a little bigger than before.

S:" Which means were all together!! And if were all together, we can finally finish the plan!!"

W:" What plan?"

S:" To kill Satan."

An eerie silence filled the whole chamber. 

W:"...Aren't you sat-"

S:" For the second time already...NO I'AM NOT SATAN!! I just say it like that because that's what I like about it. Anyways you need to come with me, you are very important to me-* Cough* Us, so if you would be so kind to come with me so we can get this sooner than later." 

Wally walked the other direction that Slayton was going and was stepping over the edge. 

S:" WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU IDIOT?!"

W:" I'm jumping off the edge.

S:" WHY??

W:" Because hell or heaven, doesn't exist. I got shot in the head, so I must be in Acoma, so you don't exist, I'm not dead and sure enough when I hit the ground, I'll wake up back on and in earth. Nice seeing you."

Slayton let out an frustrating grunt as he walked over and grabbed Wally's shirt collar.

S:" You think when you fall down and hit the ground, You'll wake up?"

W:" Ye-"

S:" And do you think you'll survived after that fall? Even though in your file your confirmed dead?

  W:" We- Wait my file?"

Slayton let go of Wally's collar and a cloud of smoke popped up, reveling a brown envelope. He grabbed it and flipped through a few pages till he stopped.

S:" Let's see here, Wally O. Lathpus, age: 33, occupant : Lieutenant. Impressive. Uhm, relationship status...Married?? Eugh, don't tell me you have kids, and~ of course you do, 3  in fact, Disgusting. It says here you went to private school for 7 years, had a few mishaps along the way and~...more stuff that you will remember eventually. "

The cloud smoke repaired and then disappeared, along with the file. Words were in my head, but nothing came out.

W:" I 'am really dead. Wait! No, no, no, no. No! I have to get back up there. I-I need to get back to my family! You must know what it's like to have one, you were born from here! Right?

His smile went weak, he walked passed by me and gave me a sigh.

S:" If you want to get back up there you and I need have to do each other a favor."

W:"....What you want?"

S:" First, I want you to follow me into those pipes. They connect every where in this place, including where I need to take you. Second, I need you to follow this prophecy in this book I stole from your commander, then after that you can be free. Deal?"

He pulled out an book that was the exact same as the one we had on the surface. 

W:" Where did you get that from?"

S:" Oh~ I just thought I took back what was stolen from me. After all I was the one who found it up there."

W:" Wait you were al-"

S:" Wall's, I would love to talk all day, tea and everything, but you can't leave me hanging."

He lifted up his hand, in a exchange for mine.

S:" So? Is it a deal or not? I would hate to have to wait another 100 years for the next one." 

I thought for a moment, it was wrong to make any deal with a demon, but he was the only one who knew around this place and he seemed he knew what he was doing. 

W:" Fine. It's a deal."

I shook his hand, he laughed as he pointed out on something on me.

S:" We better get to the place fast, I don't know how long you can stay, well normal-er than me.

W:" What do you mea-"

I looked at my hand, and I could see it wasn't the same as I got here. The tip of my fingers was really sharp, my nails were long and pointy, and it was turning black. I had no words, only thoughts raced through my head.

I 'am I sick? Will I ever get out? How will Jill think of this? Will I become a monster? Will it go away when I get out? Will I still keep my job after this?

 We quickly made are way to the pipes, once we got in, Slayton shut the door.

W:" Wait, does this thing exactly d-"

It was so fast I couldn't even tell if we were traveling or not. We started going in different directions, slamming into corners and getting skin burns. There were different kinds of places I never saw.

W:" Why are there so many levels down here? I thought is was just you?"

S:" Nope! There's so many of us down here. Why do you mortals think you call it " Dante's inferno" Or whatever. Down here we call it the underworld, but I prefer it "The nine Circles of fun!" because there's more freedom down here then up there. Where almost there, hang on!"

We picked up the speed a little bit, we were going faster than before, probably why he said were almost there. Slayton was having the time of his life, but not me. I was terrified and didn't know what was going on at all. It was over before I knew it. We felled out of the tube, Slayton perfectly landing on the ground, while I failed terribly. I lifted my head before Slayton grabbed me on the shoulders and said:

"Welcome to the seat of the nines!"