365 Days With You

Chapter V - Hell's Gate

.Cleo.

Cleo was falling.

'Aaaaahhhh!!!' Cleo screamed. Her screams might've reached America if she just wasn't falling down this deep, deep, deep hole.

Where am I headed? Cleo thought as she felt more relaxed than ever. Although she was still falling, Cleo got used to the feeling so she wasn't too scared anymore, she even stopped screaming.

Just when she was thinking that the falling would never stop, her body hit the ground unharmed somehow.

'My body isn't smashed into particles! What a miracle!' Cleo shouted.

'Greetings, m'lady.' a walking teddy bear said.

'Who is that m'lady you're talking about? You mean m- AHH! A WALKING TEDDY BEAR! AM I IN HEAVEN?' Cleo screamed at the top of her lungs as she approched the teddy bear wanting to hug it.

'Yes, m'lady. I mean you. Now hop on my train and allow me to take you to the castle.' Mr. Teddy Bear calmly replied.

Cleo jumped to hug the teddy bear. She hugged it so tight that she felt it deflating...if that was possible.

'Mr. Teddy Bear, why do you look smaller?' she asked after the teddy bear broke free from her hug.

The teddy bear just sighed and took a glowing sewing kit out of its pocket. It began to sew its stomach which had a big wound. Instead of blood coming from it, cotton did. Mr. Teddy didn't look too worried though, it was as if he was used to it. Afterwards, the wound magically disappeared like it had never been there before.

'Woah, what was that just now?' Cleo gasped.

'Hahahaha. Have you never seen someone sewing before?' Mr. Teddy Bear laughed.

'Of course I have! But the wound or something just magically disappeared as if it was never there. Are you a magician?' Cleo countered.

'Well, we are in a magical place after all, M'lady. Welcome to Hell.'

'Hell? You must be kidding me.' said Cleo.

She couldn't believe what she had heard. The place did seem surreal though. She looked around and only saw red and black. She presumed that those were from the flames of hell which were fed by the hatred of mankind. She then saw something which caught her attention.

'What are those?' Cleo pointed at stuff far away yet still very visible.

'Oh, those are the demons which feed on all evil from the world. They are the souls of those with regrets after they died and they usually haunt the living too.' Mr. Teddy Bear answered.

The place got weirder by every passing second. It looked like the inside of a volcano but it wasn't hot, it was freezing inside. She could also hear lots of screams. Those could've been from the souls here, she thought.

Cleo then hopped on the train. It was a dark grey train with no redeeming features. It looked like a normal train to her.

'Where are you taking me, Mr. Teddy Bear?' Cleo asked.

'Please stop calling me Mr. Teddy Bear. My name is Lance, M'lady. Also, I've told you already, I'm taking you to the castle.' Lance answered.

'Whew, such a manly name for a cute bear. Wait, whose castle?' she asked.

'I'm taking you to Lucifer's Castle of Demons.'