A/N: This story is a collaboration between Vega Sailor and myself. It was written based on both of our ideas but the original story was written by her. This story is a sequel. (By the way I suggest you read her story first because you won't really know what's going on here if you haven't read The Seventh Circle)
Prologue
It was over.
Jeff Hardy got into the waiting car in front of the hospital with his brother Matt and put an arm around Maria. He would finally be able to sleep at night without the threat of Chiron hanging over his head.
Matt smiled at his little brother in the rearview mirror from the passenger seat.
"Let's hit it" he told Ashley. She started the car and they drove off.
Meanwhile the Brothers of Destruction were watching the car form Jeff's hospital room window.
"I can't believe he survived" Kane said shaking his head in disbelief.
"He's a tough kid" Taker agreed then he stretched "C'mon we should head back. If we're late for Smackdown Vince will kill us"
Kane chuckled "Bro come on we've faced worse."
"Yeah but sometimes I wonder why Grim doesn't tell us a Hell Keeper is possessing him it would make a hell of a lot more sense" Taker replied as they started to walk out of the room.
The moment Undertaker stepped over the threshold of the door an ice cold voice rang in his ears. 'You will not be rid of me so easy reaper'
Taker felt dizzy all of a sudden. He leaned against the door frame to steady himself.
"You alright?" Kane asked turning back.
Taker shook the dizziness out of his head. "Yeah, yeah I'm fine"
000
Deep in the Seventh Layer of Hell Chiron sat on his throne of skulls beaten and bloody but not broken. He would have his revenge. But not on the mortal, he was no longer important. There were people who would willingly give him use of their bodies. Like those in his cult.
'But wait' he thought 'Why use them when the reaper who protected the mortal would be much more sufficient?'
That was it he would go after the reaper, and he knew just how to do it.
However, He first had to escape his prison and then hell itself before he could exact his revenge. This time he would not be so subtle about exiting the layers as he had been before. And this time it would not be nearly as difficult.
Hell was currently in a state of chaos. During his short term absence from the Seventh Layer, while possessing the mortal Jeff Hardy, many of the violent souls he watched over escaped his layer and infiltrated others layers in an attempt to escape their punishment. This left the other Hell Keepers scrambling to track them all down and put them back. On top of all this they had not had time to choose a successor to guard the seventh layer, so the keepers Dis and Malebolge traded off watching over the seventh layer and their own layers to prevent more souls from escaping.
In other words, his fellow keepers and Lucifer himself would be nice and distracted, while Chiron made his escape.
After all, March was soon upon them, during the third month, the third gate would be open…