Heartless

Chapter 12

We walk up the flights of stairs that seem to lead to nowhere. Ugh this is too much walking for one day, geez.

"How much longer?" I ask with a heavy sigh.

"Just a few more." Crypt shrugs. A few for him is a hundred for me.

"What's at the top anyways?" I ask trying to keep up.

"Well the land of insanity and the sins." He tells me. Wait the seven sins, is he kidding me?

"The sins?" I ask making sure we are on the same page.

"Yes, the seven sins. You know Lust, Pride, Wrath and all the others." He says causally. No way, no freaking way.

"Great, and now I'm getting emotional." I laugh and he laughs with me.

"Look we're almost there." He points at the top. Oh thank god, or death. I really don't know anymore.

"Great, because I'm getting tired." I breath out heavily when we reach the top. "That was a lot of stairs." It's true, I'm in hell.

"Yeah it's the stairway to hell." He chuckles.

"That sucked." I shake my head in disappointment.

"What, I was trying." He defends himself. He's changed since we've been here.

"Where are we?" I look around at the spirits walking past us in chains.

"This is the land of insanity,ruled by Lust and Wrath." He explains to me. If you ever need a guide through hell, look no further than Crypt Keeper. Your local reaper who works at a cemetery and is super good looking.

"Do you like being a know it all?" I ask him.

"Maybe." He smirks. I'm sorry if he annoys you on the trip, but he's all I got.

"Alright, where to next?" I stand up tall trying to look perfectly fine, besides being totally exhausted.

"Follow me." He takes my hands again. For some reason I have gotten used to his touch.

"Alright, just slow down." I tell him as he drags me around the spirits. For some reason the spirits don't notice us. That's weird.

"Did I tell you that reapers can go into the shadow realm. You can't see it like I can, but the spirits can't see you." He tells me. That is so cool.

"Interesting." I try to sound not interested, which I totally am.

"Yeah, we are almost there anyways." He nods at me. Where?

All of a sudden I see another flight of stairs that leads to a big dark castle. No way. The whole castle looked like it was made of reflective black lava rock. It was beautiful and dark all at the same time.

Crypt let go of my hand and he took off his hood from his cloak that appeared out of nowhere. "Where did you get that?" I ask confused.

"I always have it. It's usually invisible. It is also a source of a reaper's power." He says as if common knowledge.

"And why is that?" I ask as it disappears. I hate stairs.

"That's just how it is." He shrugs. Look everyone, he didn't know something. Isn't that interesting.

"Wow, you don't even have an answer." I chuckle and shake my head.

"What, I didn't-" he stops when we reach the top and see the seven sins standing in front of us. I maybe scared to death right now, but this is the most awesome thing I've ever seen.

"I'm glad you made it Crypt, just wondering what took you so long." I think Lust says.

"If you don't excuse me, I'm going to see father." He says taking me with him.

"Are you serious about this? Bringing a ghoul here?" I believe Wrath snaps.

"He only did what I asked him to do, so don't judge him!" I yell at them making them just stare as we enter the castle. It's time, I will no longer be Heartless, well not after this.