Chapter Twenty: The Gates

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    All of us put our things in the back of the van and then got in. Gerard said that we had to drive up to the Hollywood sign to find the entrance to Hell. It was a long drive, about an hour. We parked the van along the side of the road in the trees. The pathway was a dirt road in the woods. We walked about a mile on the path before we were standing in front of big black iron gates. All of us just stopped and stared blankly at the gates. 

    Behind the gates was all fog. You couldn't see anything. There was a chain with a padlock rapped around the bars. This made it seemed locked, but it probably wasn't. I unwrapped my hand from Ray's and stepped forward. He tried to pull me back but I kept straight ahead. My stomach was knotting and my breath was shaky. 

    I was standing arm length away from the gates. I put my hands around the chain and untied it. It was no surprise to me that it wasn't locked. I began to push it open but it violently creaked. I shuttered hoping nothing would happen. The gates were fully opened and I turned around to the guys and smiled. All of us were hopeful.

    I went through the gates first, followed by the guys. None of us knew what was up ahead on our journey. I was scared. What if my dreams came true? The crashing to the ground, the flames, Morgan in the cage? I turned around to look at Gerard. He was smiling. How could he look so happy? He wasn't a heartless killer. It's a shame we have to do this, but it's all for Morgan. 

**(Listen to the song Dead Walker Texas Ranger by Sleeping With Sirens. In the side bar.)**

   We continued to walk through the woods. Then out of no where I heard screaming. It made us all jump. We were on top of Hell. None of us wanted to go forward, but we knew we had to. One part of my dream, I'm sure would come to reality. I kept a close look at the ground searching for any holes, but I found none. 

    "HA HA HA! I am the master of all tricks. You will fall into my trap," boomed a deep growling voice. Can you guess who that is? After the voice stopped the sky went gray and the wind whirled. Then about a foot away from me the ground caved in. Down the hole were the flames of Hell. I tried to run back to Ray, but caught in the wind. The guys weren't going to let me go alone, so they had to follow me.

    We all crashed to the rocks. They weren't flat, but jagged. The only thing is we didn't get hurt by them. I stood up and looked across the room to were I knew the cage was. Gerard had already seen Morgan and ran across to her. He was on his knees, hands on the bars, and in a crying breakdown. In my dreams Morgan looked real, but now, in person, she was ghost like. Hell was hot, with black coal walls with fire everywhere. Then the ground shook. I let out a little scream afraid of what would happen.

    A man around seven feet tall came from behind the corner. He was wearing all black and looked human. His eyes were a purple color and he was pale. 

    "And why are you here? What are you anyway," the Devil growled down at us. 

    "We are humans, from Earth. We want Morgan," Gerard told him in a small voice. 

    "I didn't get a call about you. Why do you want HER." 

    "Well we are alive. Morgan, my girlfriend, was shot, and I couldn't save her. She doesn't deserve to be here. And Cassandra has been having nightmares about here."

    "That's not my problem. So have you come to make a deal with me?"

    "Yeah. That's right, we have come to make a deal. To collect the souls of a thousand evil men."

    "Hummm...wise thinking. You have a deal. But you only have three days to collect the souls. If you don't then she stays here! HA HA HA!"

    My spine tingles. We only have three days, and where are we going to find one thousand evil men? This was when my brain kicked into overdrive. I couldn't think straight at all. Breathe, breathe, BREATH! I screamed to myself in my head. I don't think I can do this anymore, just let me die here!

    "Don't you want to save her," said the Devil's growling voice in my head. I looked over the where he was, but he had left. I had to keep going for Gerard and Morgan. 

    " Hey, come on. Were going," I heard a distant voice say to me. I snapped out of my trance. It was Frank who was trying to catch my attention.

    He put his arm around me in a friendly way and asked, "You okay?"

    I looked him in the eye and said, "Yeah. I was just thinking through some stuff." He nodded and then walked back to Gerard, Mikey, and Ray. I was behind them, then Ray came to join me. 

    "Anything like you imagined?"

    "I just want to get out of here, can we?"

    "Yeah, yeah. Sorry. Come on."

    We made our way back to the rocks we landed on. The wind pulled us up and we came in contact with real ground. All of us were walking in silence back to the gates. Honestly I didn't think it would be so easy. Maybe we could start at a prison to find people? But were they all evil men? Guilty? No one really knows. 

    We made it back to the van and got in. Gerard started it but he didn't drive. He just sat at the wheel, totally out of it. 

    "We can start at a prison tomorrow. There will be souls there," I told him. He turned around in his seat, dumbfounded. 

    "It's not gonna be that easy! What the fuck do you think we can just get right in there? NO! There's guards! Why in the hell did we bring you?" 

    I just looked at him in total shock. What had I done? I was only trying to be as helpful as I could! Then I started to cry. Ray got up from the middle of the van and came to the back to sit with me. He held me close, trying to calm me down the best he could. 

    "You went too far this time," Ray snapped at Gerard. 

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