Lullaby

Chapter Fourteen

I hit the floor for the millionth time. The pain in my back increased every crash.

The floor is stone... Am I in hell?

I look up at some persons feet. Their nails were long and uncut, their calfs were thick and strong. I pull myself from the rocks to be presented to Satan?

"I-is that you, Satan?" I straighten my posture and realise I'm the same height as him! He's over 6 ft! He laughed, his showing muscles rippled beneath his skin, his stomach tightening. His head, surprisingly full of chocolate brown hair waved about in the smoke.

"Why yes..." He said, his voice not as strong or deep as Gods but it was raw, croaky and powerful. "And what's the reason you're here? An addition to my little family?"
Little?! He has 40% of everyone who has died... Since the beginning!
He sounds sort of genuine thought in. I know thats a lie. A facade, a mask.

"No." I bite my lip with a smile. "I'm a Multi-Dimensional."
Shit! I shouldn't have told him that. Oh well, he was bound to have found out sooner or later; Satan seem an alright guy but I'm not in his debt.

"Oh wow! It's nice to meet you, the last MD was Monty Diamond. He was down here before he realised his gift." He howled with laughter, "he's not gonna be happy about you! You better be in for a surprise. He's really something..."
"B-but Monty is dead."
"No no no. Who's been feeding you this bullshit then? Don't listen to the weaklings, the servants of the afterlife, listen to me, but by the looks of you, you look like a God worshiper."

He means religious?

"I'm not. I heard it from a friend in the Side world."
"I was gonna say, the Side world? Nobody runs that place, all disorganised. If I ran that place... I'd put them all back into line." He frowned.

"Whatever." I turn towards the mirror, my back to Satan.
"Attitude, eh? Haha... Just look out for Monty, he's quite the un-predictable Grim Reaper."

"Wait... What was that?!" I exclaim.
"Grim, they called him that because he was aggressive. It soon developed into the Grim Reaper. You're the next Grim Reaper."

Wow.

"I'm speechless."
"Really? Was it that hard to guess?"
"Yeah."
He tilted his head back and shoved me into the mirror...

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Into an Angels arms.
"An MD?!" She gasped, her wings flapped in shock, her long golden blond locks drifted through the clouds.
"I knew Angels existed!" I turn my hand into a fist an pull it in. "Result!"
"You're really heavy!" She whined, plopping me onto my feet. "We need to get you to the almighty."
"Don't you ever get annoyed at his arrogance?"
She looked at me as if butter wouldn't melt and an innocence crept in her eyes. She ignored the question and pulled me to Gods gates.

She called on him and in a puff of smoke he appeared.
"What?" He spat.
"This man is an MD." She shook my shoulder.
"You expect me to believe this?"
"Yes." I groan, looking up to the sky and tapping my foot.
"Go ahead," he clicked an app on his phone and a mirror zoomed over to us. "Jump in, prove to me you're the next Grim Reaper."
So I do, angrily i swing my fist out and through it. Adrenaline pulsing through my veins... I yell,
"Good enough for you, 'your majesty'?!" I mocked, tearing my arm out. He stood in shock but showed no anger. Held his hand out in front of him, and a black mist peeled from it, forming into an object.

"To be a Grim Reaper you gotta look like one too."