WW360: The Mage Times

Hell Itself

(Serry POV)

I've been weeping for hours, my eyes felt heavy and puffy. I used the collar of my shirt and cleaned my face off, I've just been so upset since Iven's been taken away. Just the thought of what could be happening to him gets me worked up.
I flicked out a tissue and blew my nose. There was a knock on my door.
"Hey, Serry. I brought you food. Please, let me in, you haven't talked to anyone or ate in weeks..." It was Aria.
No. She held me back, I could have saved him. Aria had to get in the way...
"Stop blaming me. I was saving you, lord only knows what would have been on the other side, plus we had no weapons and good armor. Just our old ones."
"Did you just read my mind?" I blurted.
Aria opened the door. A grin on her face, holding out a tray of what could be a feast. I was hungry...
"Knew you would be!" Aria perked.
"Stop that! It's weird!" I chuckled.
Aria sat on my bed and placed the food. My mouth was watering.
"Then stop staring and eat up." Aria laughed.
"Stop reading my mind!" I held my head.
"Make me..." She challenged.
I thought of the nastiest thing. I smirked and looked her dead in the eye.
"HEY! That's just plain wrong. Where did you even get that thought?!" She lunged backwards, "I'm never going to forget that... Goodbye innocence."
I laughed, panting and catching my breath afterwards.
"There's the smile I want to see!" Aria poked her head up.
I chuckled and shoved some food in my mouth, god it tasted so good. I kept eating, I went for my eleventh fork full only to find my tray empty and a dumb founded Aria.
"You aren't human if you can eat THAT fast..." She raised an eyebrow at me, " oh! I almost forgot, I have a surprise for you!" Aria jumped off my bed, running out the door. After a while she came wheeling on top of a mannequin dressed in red and black armor. Aria herself was on the mannequin's shoulders in a corset dress accessorized with silver armor. She jumped off the armor stand, showing that the dress fell to her knees.
She kicked the mannequin towards my direction with a smirk on her face.
"Put this on, I think you can guess what we're doing." She tightened her ponytail.
I ran up and hugged Aria and swiveled the armor to the bathroom.
After changing I checked myself out in the vintage mirror. I looked pretty hot if I did say so myself. I pushed my hair to one side of my face, I smoothed my hand over the metal torso. I had thick skin leggings and a cape.
I opened the bathroom door, seeing Aria ready to burst with excitement, she grabbed my arm and pulled me down the stairs.
Emersan and Ivy were waiting, Ivy didn't look as pleased.
"Wait is Emersan coming as well?" I asked.
"Well, yeah..." She didn't sound too happy.
Ivy cracked her knuckles, "Alright mother fuckers let's do this and let's do this quick! I have some devil deals to pay up!"
Aria widened her eyes.
"I SAID NOT TO DO THAT ANYMORE!" She yelled.
"WOAH! Hey look the portal is ready, GET IN!" Ivy grabbed all out arms and pushed us near the portal, "Now get in, but don't come out... You'll die and I won't care either way so BYE!" She jump kicked us through the portal, "ALWAYS WANTED TO DO THAT TOO!" Ivy shouted as we were transported to what looked like hell itself.
I pushed myself up. God damn that hurt....
I looked to my left to see if Aria made it.
She fell in face first and was brushing off.
"Aria, whe-" I started to ask. I stopped when I saw her twitching, she shakily walked over to the portal door. Emersan....
"I-I I'm not s-sorry." Aria blankly stated. Her voice was emotionless just like her eyes...
She kicked Emersan back.
"Aria! What are you doing?!" I shouted. She jerked her head towards me. The light was back in her eyes.
"Wh- I... I had to... Something happened to my alter dimension self. She told me to. Well she didn't tell me but she grew a hate for her..." She stuttered.
I stood up, "YOU KILLED HER!"
"No shit Sherlock..." She turned her body around to aline with her head. Walking opposite direction of the dimension door, I had to catch up to her.
"Why did you do that?!" I raised my voice.
"I told you Serry, SOMETHING HAPPENED IN THE ALTER DIMENSION! IF YOU KNEW WHAT IT WAS YOU WOULD HAVE KILLED EMERSAN TOO!" She shouted back.
I jumped and widened my eyes due to her reaction. I kept silent, afraid if I bug her she'll even throw a bigger scream off.
"Serry..." Aria spoke in undertone.
"What?"
"SHHHHTTT!" She shushed.
"What?!"
"Shut up!"
"Why?!" I whispered.
Aria pointed up. Then gave a "I'll fuck you up if this doesn't" look.
"What the living hell is that?!" I muttered
"Literally a living creature in hell...." Aria sounded annoyed.
The creature had burnt auburn scales. It was crawling on the.... Ceiling? Does Hell have a ceiling?
"How are we going to even reach that thing?!"
"Easy," Aria's hands turned into magic wielders. She snapped her fingers and the magic flowed to her wings. "now all you have to do is throw me up there; that'll give me enough force to fly and hit the thing." She smirked.
I stood there like she was out of her mind.
"I am!" She beamed.
I rolled my eyes and kneeled down, holding my hands and welcoming her feet to life her up. Why am I even doing this?!
Aria smirked and took a few steps back for a head start. She dug her feet into the ground, having herself into a running position. She ran, taking a leap into my hands. The magic in her wings were almost solid purple. I threw her up as hard as I can, she flew up; charging magic into her hands. She got ready to kill the creature.
Then it exploded. Just like that... Aria didn't touch it...
She landed on the ground; slightly tripping. She examined the creature.
I looked on the other side of the creature.
Wait.
"A-Aria?" I questioned the figure.
"What?!" Aria replied.
"No...her."
I was staring at a human... No, a cyborg. A robotic arm and heart.
"Hey... Are you okay?" I asked it.
She jumped up pointing her arm at me.
"SERRY LOOK OUT!" Aria jumped after me.
The Aria look alike shot what could have been me, the land behind us exploded.
"What the hell?!" Aria shouted.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?!" The look alike shouted back, "Why do you look like me?!"
"Irie? Irie Jett?" Aria questioned.
"How do you know my name?" So called Irie had one red robotic eye and one blue eye. She had a camouflage uniform on.
"It's Aria... Aria Reis...."
Irie put her arm down.
"Aria? It's you! I though you'd break the universe by encountering your alter dimension self!"
"Well I'm here because of... Seether..." Aria hushed.
"S-Seether? Keep it down. Come on you can meet the guys. We need to talk about this in private..." Irie motioned us to follow.
Seether... Sounds like a familiar name. He took away Iven of course, but I feel like I've heard or seen him before....