The Bladed Rose

Chapter seven: Sinners

   I know where I am. This fiery, burning, angry place. I'm in Hell. Now one may make the argument that Hell and its counterpart Heaven are part of Earth, a spiritual plane so to speak. However that is not the case, Heaven and Hell are in fact different realities. Just separate places entirely. Clarification with Samantha -anime thumbs up- I hate everything and everyone down here, but I'm happy that they're suffering for their Sins. I decide to wander around.

   I keep wandering before coming across a torrent of purple flames, I have the bright idea of going inside of the flames and inside I saw one of the most scarring things I'll ever see in my life... Jax. Jax was hooked down and being slowly burnt with these purple flames. In my horror I asked, "J-Jax? That you?"

   He wasn't even screaming, usually newcomers would be constantly screaming.... He vacantly lifted his head, focusing his haunted eyes on me looking confused. He just stared at me, as if trying to remember something yet being unable to say something on the tip of his tongue. He didn't remember me... the bastard said he wouldn't forget me! I was angry, but sad at the same time, I couldn't really blame him. He lives for thousands of years, I only saw him for ten.

   "Jax... do you remember me? It's me... Sam." I say, hoping to jar his memory.

   It took a few minutes but his eyes widened, gaining a bit of clarity as he shakily said, "Sam... picture's signature?" He tried to reach his hand out, but being hooked there he couldn't really move, so he just clenched his fists towards me instead.

   "Yeah... I took that picture. And those knives, yeah they're the ones I gave you when I... got kicked out of your reality..." I reply solemnly.

   He was crying, but smiled. He smiled, in Hell. So does he remember me? "Sam... I missed you..." That's a yup! I rush over and unhook him before hugging him tightly, crying. "I missed you to you old bastard! You fucking dickbag, how could you forget me?!" I yell in my cries.

   "Centuries... but I.. remembered... You saved me....." He said slowly, hugging back through all the pain he was feeling physical and mental. Somehow these weirdly colored flames weren't affecting me, probably cause of what I am?? I have no fucking clue. I don't know whether I wanna know why Jax is down here after the time we spent... What happened to him?

   I take in a deep breath, "What do you mean I saved you?"

   "My sanity... You returned it..." He smiled a bit more, even if it was also a grimace.

   He sounded in so much pain, and no fucking wonder cause he is on fire in Hell, but there seems to be a lot of emotions in his words... Also how the Hell did I return his sanity to him? What in the world could have taken it from him?! "Jax... tell me everything that led you here. Now."

   "Hehe, long story short... I went insane and..." At this his smile completely dropped, him pausing a few moments before continuing. "I killed horribly... I burned, ravaged, destroyed... My revenge was almost blind for those bastards...."

    What. He did what? He burned and ravaged? There was a... sound in my head, my red eye began to glow brightly as I pushed him away so he could see. "How could you?" There was no emotion in my voice.

   "Insanity.... I... I'm not feeling all they did... only.. A fraction..." He said incredibly sadly, he obviously greatly regrets... but insanity? That is his excuse?! You don't ravage and destroy because of insanity! I growl. My eye grew brighter.

   "That is not an excuse. Let it be known that I am DESPERATELY refraining from beating you to a bloody pulp." There was a duty driven anger in my voice and my fists were clenched.

   "Revenge, Insanity, what I did was inexcusable I know... I'm sorry... I deserve anything harmful... " He actually said sorry, as if that would fix anything?! Revenge? I know revenge can be justifiable, so I'm refraining but there is a line you don't cross, and he did something that landed him here. In Hell.

   Sure that could count but what kind of Hellbent revenge should have all that happen?! "What revenge?" I asked still angry.

   "You want... the whole story? It'll take... a long time... of course.. We do have eternity... haha." His laugh was humorless, and eternity? I go past that! I never end, as has been shown. Wooooo.

   "Heh... I have even longer than that." I say quietly.

   He stays silent for a few moments before sighing, saying, "Alright... It all started when a special crystal came to the bank by someone of the name Jonathan Fluteise, heh, quite ironic I guess..."

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   He told me the whole story up until he ended down here. He was damned for good reason... but... I honestly wish I was the one who killed him. It would've helped him back into heaven... but I don't think he's going there. But... no one said I can't let him out. That is, if I can get myself out. "I see... what you did... is deserving of this hell. But how long have you been here?" I question desperately.

   "I... I don't know... I've lost track after the flames just ached... they burned, and oh how I screamed, but eventually I just, stopped... I almost can't feel anymore to be honest..." He looked so downcast.

   Ok, that has got to be a few centuries to have him be at that point. Or millenia, depending. I sigh, "Ok buster, time to leave... I think Shade will be happy to see you came back from predation due to good behavior." I reply happily as I help him up.

   "I-I can see her?... But I deserve this hell.... I don't know if she is in heaven now or not even... if I return I won't be welcomed, anywhere..." He had looked hopeful for a second, but quickly went back to depressed.

   I know... that's why I'm taking you and her and finding a way to take you with me throughout these broken timelines. "I can find her, I have a mental record of all souls in heaven. She's there. And I'm thinking, if she'll allow, to take you both on my inter-dimensional adventures. And I'm what is called a Sin Eater, I have absolute control over where souls can go. So yeah you can leave."

   He looked up at me with eyes so widened they looked like they could pop right out of his head, he looked very hopeful now. "R-r-really?!" he smiled very widely, his silent tears no longer silent as shaky sobs started wracking his body, lowering his head to me, he just wouldn't stop crying... So I wiped his tears. Ironic, usually it would be me sobbing and him wiping my tears... He was amazing like that, a father to me after I turned my real one to mince meat.

   "C'mon you. Let's get out of here." I say as I walk him to the point where I woke up and a bright and warm light shown down on us before we were transported to heaven.