Ch. 1- Hell [Edited]

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I could hear the ambulance sirens wailing, but the sound was fading as the doctor's kept talking. "Her heart rate is slowing..." I heard a female doctor say. It was really bright in the ambulance, as it rushed me to the hospital. I opened my mouth to speak, but I couldn't find the energy. The wound hurt and I could tell I was close to dying. I heard a male doctor this time, but I couldn't understand what he said. I started to hear a long beep, and my surroundings darkened.

I woke up in this dark reddish room with a front desk. I glanced around more, there was a small light red couch in the corner and green bushes next to the corners of the front desk. I walked towards the desk and a man appeared, wearing a black suit. He had brown wavy hair, and green eyes. He looked handsome. I asked him, "Sir, where am I?" He tilted his head at me, then looked down at what looks to be a profile page of sorts. He then replied, "(f/n) (l/n), age 24, height 5'4, died of blood loss to a gunshot wound." His voice was sort of deep but gentle, soothing to hear. I realized what he just said to me then, that I was dead, and it shocked me for a moment. I tried to calm myself and then asked again, "Where am I?" The man looked up at me and smiled creepily as he said, "Why, my dear, you're at the gateway to Hell!" I didn't expect any less, I mean, what do you expect of a prostitute who did drugs and drank alcohol? I don't think you're supposed to expect any less. I then said to the man, "Go on and send me to Hell then, I believe I'm ready." He laughed hysterically and said, "Sweetheart, thanks for amusing me, I have never heard someone 'be ready' to be sent to Hell!" He then moved out from the front desk and lead me to a door I hadn't seen when I looked over the room. He led me into the small room and told me to stand onto the pentagram, so I walked over and stood on the center. He grabbed a hold of a lever and looked at me. "Since you're a bit strange I'm gonna give you some advice- when I pull this lever the floor is gonna come out and you'll start falling. You will survive the fall, but once you land you will look different from what you look like now okay? That normally freaks people out. One more thing, we just went through an 'extermination' so I'd get inside quickly if I was you." He then pulled the lever and I started falling.

When I first started to fall, I screamed for the first few minutes. I started to feel sick however a few minutes ago, and it's starting to worry me that I may be falling for another few minutes. Maybe it's just the alcohol I had an hour or so before I died. Or the drugs...now that I think about it, I was bound to die young. Either by the way I did die, or possibly for alcohol poisoning or just the side affects of the drugs. I looked down, which yes, is what you should never do while falling, but I saw a reddish light so maybe I wouldn't be falling for much longer. A few seconds later, I stopped feeling sick which surprised me. I looked down again and then I was out of the pit. I was falling directly into a...city?! I thought Hell was a pit of unending pain and suffering and all that bullshit not this! "What the fuck?!"

I hit the ground not too long later after having a small swearing fit, falling onto squishy trash bags in an alleyway and I did not want to know what was in them. I looked down at myself. Holy fuck..."What the-?! What am I?" I have fur?? It's soft and silky but I look like a...a cat? I liked cats but...Hell is not what I imagined...wait..."Oh shit! If they have stripper jobs I probably can't do that anymore! Ugh I'll have to find another way to make money?!" Now I was just pissed. I mean...maybe I can? I'm sure I'm not the only asshole down here that looks like an animal. "Wait...that guy said to get indoors quicky right? Some 'extermination' right? I need to stop talking to myself..." I noticed a small broken hand mirror in the alleyway and picked it up to see my face. I don't know how to word this but I think I look kinda sexy for a cat person. My fur was black with (f/c) highlights and I felt pretty cute. I then noticed I had wings, and they were (f/c) with black highlights with bondage symbols on the inside of the bigger feathers which kind of embarrassed me a little but I was lucky, it looked to just be the inside.

I layed the mirror back down and then noticed that this was considered 'nude'...I started looking around the alleyway and noticed the dumpster a little farther back and walked over to it. I used a box to stand on and look inside because otherwise I could only glance in. There was a female body in there, and it honestly didn't surprise me too much. I bent down and dragged the body out and away from the dumpster and looked over her clothes. (f/c) crop top with a white tank top underneath, black ripped jeans, and dark grey converse shoes. Surprisingly no stains or tears (other than in the pants). I undressed the body and saw she had black laced underwear too, and changed into her clothes. It made me uncomfortable wearing a dead person's clothes, but it didn't bother me as much as it probably should have. I walked out of the alley and then looked up to the building I landed next to, on my right. It was a casino and hotel, so I walked in.

It was very bright and noisy, there were men, women, and animal-like people everywhere. I walked to the bar and sat down at one of the stools. The bartender, a woman wearing a white button up with a red bowtie and black vest with greyish skin, and long blue hair with pretty purple eyes, walked over and said, "Hey there, what can I get you?" I looked up at the bartender and said, "I'm sorry miss, I just got here and I don't have any money." She smiled down at me and then sweetly said, "It's okay sweetheart. Water is free because nobody ever wants it so you can have water if you're thirsty, just no booze." She shrugged her shoulders. "Well in that case may I have some water?" she chuckled and walked away and got a glass and started pouring water into it. I glanced around and noticed there wasn't anyone else at the bar. The lady then asked, "What's your name there? I'm Rose." "Oh my name is (f/n), and Rose is a pretty name." she smiled at me as she walked back over and handed me the glass of water. I took a sip of it. "Well, that's what my dad used to say. He said my mom picked it out in case she had a girl, and she did..." "If you don't mind me asking, how did you die Rose?" "Oh...I died in a car accident...there was a drunk driver and another car with a mother and baby...the mom and her newborn made it out alive, the mother with I think a few broken bones and the child with just a few bruises and cuts, which I think was a miracle. As for me and the driver, well, you see where I am." I took another sip of water.

A man walked up to the bar and sat down on the stool next to me. He was a pale white man. He had blue eyes with the 'whites' of his eyes being a dark black. He had short, wavy, purple hair and the left side covered half his left eye. He was wearing a black tuxedo with a white button up underneath, with a red tie around his neck. Rose smiled at him and rolled her eyes as she then walked to the back of the bar and grabbed a bottle of tequila and poured it into a shot glass and slid it to the man. He swallowed it all down immediately. She then said to the man, "You lost, didn't you Jack?" I'm guessing the man's name is Jack- and if it isn't, it's a nickname. He growled and slouched. "Yeah. That damn cat beat me...I swear he's a fucking cheater!" "I warned you Jack, don't test that kitty on Blackjack OR Poker...he knows how to gamble...and drink 6 bottles of our strongest whiskey and still be sober." Jack looked at me and said, "Oh hey there doll. Need a room? They're $20 bucks a night, they come with two beds so if you got a friend who needs a place to stay we'll just raise it to $30." Rose looked at him and said, "She just died, she doesn't have any money yet." "Oh...well in that case, you can stay in my room with me. Only because you have nowhere else to stay the night." I shook my head and said, "I don't want to be a bother you don't have to do that..." Rose bumped in and said, "We insist. If you're uncomfortable with sharing a room with my brother here, there's a spare bed in my room too." I thought about it for a moment, staying here and in Rose's room wouldn't be that bad. "Thank you both. I'll stay with Rose then I guess." Rose seemed to get super happy and started jumping. I suppose this place isn't too bad...

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And that's the end of the first chapter! I will be releasing the second soon! This is also my first story, so if it is bad I'm sorry...Husk will be in the next chapter though, this was more of a starter! Thank you for reading!

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