Left For Dead

I was now hanging on a chain that was wrapped around my naked body. From my right wrist to the rest of my body. The chains dug into my skin, causing my every move to be agonizing pain. So i just wouldn't move. There was already dried blood covering me. I just hung there........for hours,........days...... Until I saw him. The Devil. He was gorgeous, but he's the Devil of course. What else would he be? He had the darkest black hair I'd ever seen, it was styled to the side. He had captivating dark brown eyes. He wore a black and gray striped button up shirt and black jeans. He just stared at me with hunger in his eyes. I looked away from him to avoid anything else.

"Look at me." He comanded. My head involntaraly turned to look at him again. "Good. So I geuss your my new sacrifice?"

Its true, I am a sacrifice. Every year my town has a festiaval. And on one of the twenty floats......is the sacrifice. This year, it was me. They strung me up with chains and drove the float down into a deep cave. Thats where I am now. For all my town knows, I'm dead by now. But thats not what supposed to happen. The sacrifice marries the devils and has his child. The town picks an eighteen yearold girl for a sacrifice. They never see her again.

"Y-yes." I barely whispered.

"Great! Cleo, get her down!" He called.

A batlike creature with a beatiful woman face flew over to me. She sat on the pole that I was hanging on and bit right threw the metal chain. She caught the chain before I fell. She flew over towards the Devil and let go of me. I shrieked but I wasn't falling. I opened my eyes and say the the Devil was somehow levitating me. He set me down on the ground. I winced with pain because of the tightness of the chains.

"Is the chain too tight?" He asked. It almost sounded like he cared.

"Yes."

"Then let me get rid of them for you." With a wave of his hand, the chains were gone. I no longer felt the pintch of the chains wrapped around my skin. But I didn't have any cloths on before I was wrapped in the chains so I don't have any on now. I instantly pulled my knees to my chest. He snapped his fingers and a black, silk robe appeared on me.

"C'mon, we're going to your new home." He held his hand out to me.

I took his hand and stood up. There was a slight shock when out hands touched. I was guessing it was the silk robe that caused that. The Devil had a worried look on his face. He was still holding my hand when he started to drag me to a boat, floating in mid air. He picked me up by my hips and set me down in the boat. He climbed in. He waved his hand and the boat started to move.

"So, what's your name?" He asked.

"Shelby." I said calmly, "What's yours?"

"Most people callee The Devil, but my real name is Andrew." He said, "But you can call me Andy."

There was an orange and red glow coming from underneath the boat. I looked over the edge and saw something horrifying. Souls trying to claw there way out of the fiery pit. Their screeching became louder and louder and louder, until it hurt my ears. Their screams were filled with pain, agony and sorrow. These people.....we're the damned. The murders, robbers, stalkers and rapists. These were the people who died and came here for a life after death punishment. In the middle of the pit was an island with a grand, black castle. It had skeletons and demons walking in the castle and on the island.

We finally stopped at the island. I climbed off the boat and stood still. Andy called for someone, but I wasn't listening to see who it was.

"Shelby, I have business to attend to, I called Martha to show you around the castle and such." With that, he disappeared in thin air.

A female demon approached me, she must be Martha. She was beautiful. She had purplish tinted skin, dark brown hair tinted with purple also. She had a black and white maids outfit. She had a friendly smile.

"Hi, I'm Martha. Welcome to Hell." Martha giggled, "I'm just kidding, it's not that bad down here. I'll show you around, okay?"

I nodded my head. She brought me to the entrance of the castle. It had a big staircase that split into two on either side. The whole castle was black, red, orange and yellow. She lead me to a huge room with a very tall ceiling. The was a king sized bed with black sheets and blankets. It had black robe stuff hanging above the bed. A crossed from the bed was a black couch and huge TV. There was a mini kitchen in there too. The room had a balcony overlooking the pit. The bathroom was the size of my room at my old house. It was the only thing that had white in it, the bath tub, shower, toilet and sink. The tub was as big as a jacuzzi! It had the air blower things under water too!

"You do not need anything else then what's in this room. You have orders to stay in this room until I am told to come fetch you. So please, stay here, the last time someone didn't, the person that had my job ended up dead." Martha explained

"Don't worry I'll stay in here." I promised.

"Thank you." Martha left after that.

I looked around the room again. I found a dresser and looked through the dresser. I found more black robes and some black dresses. I found some undergarments and a decent black dress and headed for the bathroom. I started to run very hot water in the tub. I found some bubble stuff and poured some in the tub. I took the robe off and looked at myself in the mirror. I had marks all over my skin from the chains. I decided that I wouldn't look at the chain marks, it only brought back memories of the parade. I climbed into the tub and just enjoyed the warmth. I felt so relaxed.

After an hour of soaking in the tub, I got out and dried myself. I looked back in the mirror and saw that all the marks on my skin weren't there anymore. I had no clue why they weren't there, but I was happy. I got dressed. The dress I picked out was a simple black dress with some cool designs on it. I found a blow dryer and dried my hair. I found a brush and styled my hair into a side bang. I started to feel tired so I walked over to my bed and crawled under the covers. I drifted off to a peaceful sleep.