Michikosama

Episode 6: Welcome To Hell!

If Hell was a place not mean for the living, then why was I here? What was I?

'You're part demon.' Ruben's voice comes to mind. 'Half human and half demon' Ah- so that's what I am. If that is the case I could survive among the living and the dead, which leads me in my current position, in Hell. Ruben has taken me here in search of my demonic powers, which I doubt i'll have. As I try to make sense of this world I realized I can't, because nothing adds up. Just like the first time I met Ruben. Hell isn't the place I read in the books or heard from people around town. Where was the pit of fire? Where was the tortured souls or the people being burned alive? Where was this Hell they spoke of?

"Are you sure this is Hell?" I tugged on Ruben's sleeves to get his attention.

"Why do you ask?" He looks down at me.

I gazed around our surroundings just to make sure everything I was seeing was not my imagination. "Where's the fire? Where are the people who sinned?"

He stops walking, causing me to run into his back. "Well..Hell is based on what you believe and what you fear. It looks different for everyone. It adapts to the person's mind." He picks his pace back up, and I follow closely behind.

"I see... Hell is what you make of it." I smiled at my conclusion.

"Indeed." Ruben smiles down at me, patting my head like a dog. "Good observation." He adds as we walked through the gates of Hell. It reminded me of a lost city, but with demons roaming around acting like us humans. I was too amazed in awe to take notice of the creature in front of me until it spoke.

"Nice to see you made it back, Satan." The demon greeted. He had a frog head, and a bunny torso. Why mix something cute with something disgusting? Being unfamiliar to this setting and the creature in front of me, I hid behind Ruben. The demon eyes made contact with mine, which sent an eerie feeling throughout my body. "Who's this?" He points at me, and Ruben eyes follows his rude index finger which lands on me.

"This is Michikosama. Lucifer's daughter." Ruben introduced me, but that only made me creep farther behind him.

"So, she's the half demon they spoke of." He rubs his chin, trying to catch a good look at me, but I won't let him. Who was they? Why were they talking about me?

"Correct." Ruben reaches his hands back, and places it on my back. I was pinned against him almost like reassurance he wasn't going to let anything bad happen to me. "Where is Kitsune yuo konsan?"

"Why do you ask?" The Frog demon asks with suspicion in his facial expression and voice.

"That's confidential." Ruben states.

"It couldn't be if you brought her to Hell." I heard the Frog demon say under his breath. "He's in the graveyard of souls."

"Thank you." Ruben bows respectively, and we begin on ward to the graveyard of souls.

"Why are you still in that hideous disguise?" The Frog demon ask, and our short journey comes to a halt. "Are you still trying to pretend to be human?" He had an antagonizing tone.

"That is none of your concern." And, with that being said we pick up where we left off.

We have been walking for I don't know how long, but I know long enough for me to get hungry. Good thing I packed my blue mini book bag filled with food. Ruben said I might not enjoy what demons have on a daily occasion, and I didn't question him about it. I pulled out some Ocha Pocky Sticks, gobbling them down as quickly as I could. From the side of my eyes I catch Ruben looking at me in horror as he witness me eat a whole box of Pocky by my self.

"I've got another one." I quickly say, with my mouth full of the delicious sweet biscuits. I began looking for the Strawberry Pocky, but Ruben declined my offer.

"No, you should eat as much as you can for the trip." He said.

It's not like I was hoping he would refuse, but I was glade he did. I didn't like sharing the sweet buscuit treat, especially the Ocha flavor Pocky. "Ok." I chomped on the Strawberry flavor biscuit stick as we continued onward. Who would of thought I would be in hell right now or that i'd be half a demon? This is a dream. A dream I have yet to wake up to ,but somehow this doesn't sit well in the pit of my stomach. It tells me this is reality, you have to be here to know the truth. Truth cannot be represented into words, pictures, books, thoughts and etc. You have to be here, in this moment to know truth in this reality. And, in this moment I am in Hell. This Hell they called a sin, I am here. I have done nothing wrong, but yet I am still in Hell. As I walk this journey in a forbidden land, I want to hold on to last humanity I have let. I want to at-least dream a little while longer. That is all I ask.