Soulmates From Below ~AlastorxReader~

Chapter 2

Pain

Excruciating pain

"Hey! Wake up! Open your eyes!"

A warm liquid cascaded over your face. You coughed as you tried to keep your eyes still, but they wandered without warning. The light was blocked by a dark shadow. It spoke, but you couldn't understand their words. Sirens. Lights. Talking. Noise.

In your final breaths, you tried to open your eyes and focus as hard as you could. Tears mixed with the blood seeping from your head. It was all you could feel. The rest of your body was numb. Your life flashed before your eyes. You with your family, friends, everyone you had come to know and love. You felt so sad. So alone. Was it really going to end like this? You cried. That was all you could manage.

Finally, with your last bit of strength, you reached toward the sky. You saw deceased relatives and other loved ones. You reached as far as you could. They reached back. You tried desperately to feel some sort of warmth. Some sort of distraction from this cruel fate. Just as it felt like you could reach their hand, darkness engulfed you and you began to fall farther from the light. From their hand. From the warmth and memories and everything that was left on earth. It was all gone.

You fell, deeper and deeper. It could have been hours, minutes, seconds, years...you couldn't tell the difference. It felt like forever. After awhile it was sort of calming. You were still tired, and eventually the black void hugged you...lulling you to sleep.

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"Ugghhhh..." you groaned. Feeling your head, you realized it was dry. There was no blood. You were wearing your same clothes, your server uniform from the bar. It was all tattered, but at least you were wearing something. While your body seemed healed, the pain was still there. Your muscles throbbed and your head pounded like the beat of a tribal drum.

After the pain subsided somewhat, you stood up. It was hard to walk on legs that felt like jelly, but you managed. Stumbling to a nearby streetlamp, you leaned on it for support and looked up. The sky was dark and carried a large, glowing pentagram.

Guess this is what hell is...at least I know now

In the distance you spotted a large clock tower reading, "365 days 'til next cleanse".

Cleanse?

On the floor, a pocket knife covered in blood resided next to your foot. You picked it up. If this really was hell, then you would need some sort of weapon. Standing allowed you some feeling back into your legs, so you continued walking. You didn't know where you were. It just seemed like some sort of city.

As you emerged from an alleyway, you heard a television.

"The pornstar?"

"You fucking would Tom.."

A bunch of people..no...demons were surrounding a video store. A bunch of televisions were broadcasting what seemed like a news station. Something about a hotel that rehab-

Wait

There is a chance to leave this place?

Hell doesn't seem so bad so far. Just a normal city with a bunch of sinners...mind as well be Earth. If hell is like this, then heaven must be amazing.

These thoughts filled your head. You knew your loved ones and their soulmates were in heaven. Since you didn't get the chance to meet your soulmate since you died, then why not join them.

At least then I wouldn't be alone...

You daydreamed about feeling whole again, and decided to go to this Happy Hotel. You didn't care about what these demons thought. If you had a chance to leave, you were going to take it. With this new found determination, you turned around, ready to begin your new journey. Just then, you ran into a..wall? No, a person- wait. Also no. A demon.

You looked up, a little scared. While you had seen them all around you, you have yet to interact with one. Just as you stared up at their face, you met their gaze. Large, glowing red eyes met yours. The burning sensation hit you harder than the truck did. That yearning in your heart grew ten fold. You knew these eyes. You memorized them. Wanted them. Longed for them.

They looked down at you with a smug, haughty look. The air was thick with the pungent smell of superiority. Their smile was maintained and unchanged, but once they really got a good look at you, their eyes showed surprise. Bewilderment. Before you could open your mouth to make even a sound, they disappeared right before you.

Those eyes...

I know those eyes all too well...

You thought it was over. You thought you'd never meet those delicious, ruby eyes that consumed your mind. Although your heart was no longer beating, it jumped in both excitement and fear. You felt confused. You had finally met your soulmate...but never did you ever think that your soulmate...was a demon.