Another Day
Erin Colleen
Chapter One
Another day and I was so tired. I had been out sick all last week, not even able to show up for the first day of my new, and hopefully improved school.
As I walked onto campus, I saw a few kids standing around idlely. I was just arriveing, late, and lunch was about to start.
"Hey there, freshman. What are you doing out early?" A couple boys near me had obviously noticed my presence. No luck for me, here.
"If I'm early, that must mean you two are as well?" I was being a smart-ass, I know. I couldn't help adding a smirk at their annoyed expressions.
"Hey, girlie, he asked you a question." The fatter boy sat more attentively on the low wall, trying to seem intimidateing.
"Yes, and I happened to respond to him. Didn't you notice?" I made myself sound young and surprised, my smart-alecness more stubtly done.
The two girls they were with had also noticed my sudden appearance, and weren't takeing to it well.
A slim girl with dark hair walked up to me with a bossy air and stopped only a couple feet from me.
"I don't think you understand." The girl before me said this like I was slow, or something. Her hair flipping was already annoying, and none of these people seemed to care what I was actually doing here.
"I understand completely." My tone was condensing and my smile patronizing. I didn't like them, and for that, their lives would now be hell-fire and brimestone.
I grinned at the small group brightly, causeing them all to stare at me uncertainly. What can I say, my expression was supposed to be menacing. I took a moment to look around the courtyard-ish area we stood in. Innocent bystanders were not permitted, they could easily turn into witnesses.
When I had acertained no one was observing me, or close enough to be injured, I used my powers to move the people who had been so rude and uncareing to me.
I heard the girls scream, and the cursing of the boys. This was a simple thing for me, moveing only four people to another dimension. The one I had chosen had monstrous things crawling around us, flames everywhere, and pits releasing poisonous vapors. It wasn't Hell exactly, more like a preliminary level designed to scare mortals so badly that they straightened up. Hell was becoming over populated, and this was an effort to help the over-flow of low-offenders aviod landing themselves in the lower pits, at least.
I wasn't going to allow these kids to be harmed, though they could feel the heat and the picture itself was just plain scary. They had stopped screaming though, finally. Now, they were just stareing at their surrounding in horrified awe.
"I see you all are enjoying your time in Hell?" I sounded courtous and pleasant. I even went so far as to giggle at their expressions.
They were stareing at me, trying to take in what they were seeing, but haveing a difficult time of it. I guess I was something to look at here. I occassionally had different forms in some of the places I went, to allow my body to be unaffected by my traveling and able to hold my powers.
"What the fuck are you!" I stared at the lanky boy who had just shouted an obscentity at me. Well, this one wasn't responding well . . . yet.
"I'm a girl." I turned a confused expression twards him. "Duh."
"I don't think so! No girl looks like you, or could send us to freaking hell!"
"So you're not enjoying your stay?" I shrugged indifferently. "It's just a little preview, is all."
The whole group seemed confused by my words.
"A preview. Cause if you all keep going on as you are . . .", I was closing in on them now as they all huddled into a patheic pile, barely standing on shakeing legs, ". . you'll be going a little deeper than this, I assure you."
As I said this, the scenery changed. We all heard the screams, saw the little creatures pulling the souls deeper into the crevases, smelt the sulfer oozing from cracks in the ground.
I had decided earlier to give them a real show. I could sense the evil from the dark haired girl. That one held a malicious personality, one could almost see the dark, purtid aura. The others however, may just respond well to this little farce. If I could shock them all enough.
"Welcome all, to the First Circle of Hell." I splayed my hands before me, into the vastness of the desolute plane we stood on.
"I can't believe this . . . we shouldn't be here." This came from the snobish black girl and I could see the little lines of tears on her face. One down, three to go.
"Oh, of course you shouldn't." I touched the girls hands in a comforting gesture before leaning into the huddle the two boys made. I finished my thought in a whisper, "You haven't died, yet."
This caused the fat boy to shudder, and the tall, brown haired girl whimpered. I grinned a demonic smile, showing glinting teeth and extended canines. My slitted pupils were a harsh contrast in my usually round, soft eyes. In the mortal's world, I was actually quite plain untill I smiled.
I wanted to finish my show-and-tell of their possible future destination, it was damned hot here!
"Well, if you all are done gawking, I can take you back?" Vast relief. Heh, hate to ruin it. "Course, you only have the rest of your lives. You may find yourselves back here on your own in a mere 30-so years."
"No!" "Please, no!" "I'm not comeing back here!" "What do you mean!"
Shocked comments and lamentations from all of them. The evil girl started crying. Watching their expressions, I loved my life. I wasn't happy to harm their psyche's, I was just proud to see determination in three of the four kids.
I could use this to their advantage.
"Weeeeell, you all are evil and cruel, right?" I asked them sounding like I was considering this myself.
Silence. I continued with them watching me, waiting to see where I was going with this. "All people die, and the cruel and evil ones end up here, in Hell."
We were all suddenly back in their time, their demension. I again looked like a regular girl with my black bookbag over one shoulder, clad in a blue hoodie and my worn hiking boots.
I figured these kids had had enough "demonic influence". They'd choose their paths from here, on their own. Besides, I was almost late for my meeting with some Coach Boomer-guy for power placement.
"If you don't want to end up there, I advise you not to do anything that would warrant another trip." Everyone was looking at me. The boys and girls, all looked ready to passout. "Cause next time, I wont bring you back."
With that said and done, I walked off in the direction I supposed the gym to be. I knew these kids weren't my responsibility, and I'd treat that as such. Least, now that I'd done what I could to 'help' them. All in a day's work.
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This just randomly came out onto my keyboard through my fingers. It is the first year of highschool for Will & Co., and Warren also. And NO, I 'm not into Satanand whatever else. I've never even done the research for the different circles and all that jazz. I got the idea for the crawlies from Constantine. Oh, the kids sent to hell are from the movie, though I've only seen it once, a month ago. It's like, Gwen and that multiplier girl, Lash and the speedy guy. I thought people might get confused since I don't use any names. Sry. :D
Erin