Another Love, Another Woe || Wednesday Addams & Enid Sinclair

A Deal In Bunaka

The next morning, Phelros took them all to the waterfall. The boat sat in the water waiting for them, Phelros using magic to hold it in place. "I wish you guys the best of luck, but please, be careful. Arkno is incredibly powerful, don't fight him if you don't have to."

"I make no promises," Wanda said as she crossed her arms and looked to the side.

"We'll be careful and try not to fight him," Enid assured. Then she got in the canoe, the others falling in after her.

But Wanda stopped before getting in. She turned to Phelros and rushed up to him, hugged him goodbye. Then she let go and got in, Phelros releasing his magic so the canoe began to flow toward the waterfall. Once it began to tip over, she smiled and waved at Phelros. "Bye, dad!" The last thing she saw was Phelros smile back before they went over the edge. Then she raised both her arms and shouted, "Woo!"

"How do you enjoy this!" Ajax questioned in bewilderment.

"How do you not!" Her hair was being blow back by the wind right into Enid's face making her sputter and spit out Wanda's hair from her mouth. "This is awesome! Woohoo!"

Soon enough they reached the bottom of the waterfall, Wanda laughing happily as they did, and the canoe hit the ground running, continuing down the river. It was going down a straight shot toward the waterfall in the center of the layer. In the center of the layer was the demon city and Zatia's blue and white cone shaped palace. But it wasn't connected to the rest of the layer. There was a fifty foot gap around the city where the Cocytus river made three waterfalls around it down to the ninth layer. As for the layer itself, the sky was starless and full of choking smoke. It glowed dark blue due to balls of burning copper-chloride and butane. The layer was split into three sections by the Cocytus river, each section punishing a different type of sexual predator. Screams echoed throughout the entire layer, but not just from the river of wails. The punished souls were screaming as well.

"So this is what you guys have been doing?" Wanda wondered. "Just riding a boat through the hells? I don't see what's so bad about it. This is pretty chill."

"Great!" Ajax threw his hands up in exasperation. "You jinxed it!"

"What? How?"

"Every time we say this is going to be easy, we immediately get teleported by the lord of whatever layer we're on," Bianca explained.

"But they can't teleport us, remember? Phelros made sure of that."

Ajax lit up. "You're right! This will be easy!" But then their canoe began to float into the air and start flying toward the palace. Ajax slouched and crossed his arms with a pout. "I hate hell."

Enid leaned forward and rested her chin on Wanda's shoulder in front of her. "And this is why we don't say anything."

"Oh-kay!" Wanda exclaimed defensively. "That would've happened whether I said something or not. This is hardly my fault."

"All in favor of blaming Wanda say aye," Wednesday decided to mess with her.

"Aye," they all said together making Wanda's jaw drop.

"You guys are the worst!" She playfully shoved Wednesdays shoulder in front of her making her huff in amusement.

"So who is the lord here?" Bianca asked seeing that they had some time before the boat would deliver them there.

"Zatia The Salacious," Wanda said dramatically while using her hands to make a rainbow as if showcasing the name. "Overseer of Bunaka, punisher of sexual predators." She dropped her hands and shrugged. "I'm kind of excited."

"I'm not," Wednesday said flatly.

"Why? Did you not like the other lords of hell?"

"Define like," Enid began. "They weren't as bad as we were expecting—"