A/N: Ok here we are a new story, remember to send in OC's for this story. Hope is creepy and gory that all my fans like and enjoy. If you haven't read this stories prequel 'Messiah', please go and read and review it.

The explosion tore reality apart; the two figures were blasted of the roof of the cathedral, slate slabs falling along with them, twisting and somersaulting to the ground. One of them was a grey hedgehog, his body covered in black veins that glowed as the extreme energy of the explosion coursed through him, killing every cell it found in its way, his brown cloak was being burnt up along with the rest of his clothes. The other figure was a crystal hedgehog, his quill being torn and ripped from his head and back, shards of crystal danced in the air like diamond rain. However both of these figures were now dead, their souls now both vacant from their bodies, both on the journey spiralling towards Purgatory, Limbo…Hell.

Theo Arcreus woke up with a start, his eyes rolled around the blackness trying to see his surroundings, but to no avail; the darkness and the pain pressed in from all sides. He groaned loudly in pain and felt his body, checking for the source of the pain however it came from all over, as if his body had been dunked in boiling water. He tried to stand but the pain was too intense, he screamed and fell back onto the invisible floor, tears streaming from his eyes, he clenched his fist and red lightning crackled around it, he hoped it would light up the area around him but this didn't happen. Theo saw the lightning, he knew it was giving off light but the light wasn't radiating to any other source, the area remained black and it was all quiet. Pain was crushing in from all corners of this hell, Theo cried out, he felt as if his skin was being torn apart slowly, that the membranes that held his skin to the fat layer underneath were being vaporised and that the blood, his precious life energy was beginning to flow out of him, coating the dark land in its ruby sheen.

He had experienced pain like this before, his father Mephiles, had beaten and tortured him for 14 years of his life, he had been burned, scalded, gashed, sliced, butchered until his sprit was all in tatters. But all that had changed, he had broken out of his suburban prison and had been found by GUN, who; interested in Theo's uncontrollable powers, enrolled him and kept him safe. However, 5 years later, a virus broke out that spread quickly across the west coast, after discovering its link to demons, he built a bomb that would suppress the demons DNA and destroy them, however he had rushed it so it had a fatal flaw which resulted in Theo dying along with the rest. And…well here he was. He heard something hit the ground not far away from him, it could have been miles away but it was hard to tell in this world of darkness. With one almighty yell he got to his feet, his calves feeling like they were on fire,

"Hello?" he shouted through his teeth, chattering with pain "Is anyone there?", for a moment there was silence, then there was a sound like a fire scaling up into an inferno, it reverberated around the area for a few seconds, then a small red point of light appeared in the blackness above him, like some kind of surreal start. However the point of light was moving, its light spreading across the whole sky like paint running down a wall, its light mixing and absorbing the darkness around it; looking closer Theo made out the red light to actually be a sky of flames each licking and scrambling around the sky as if searching for something. The heat began to intensify as the sky was covered in the reverse sea of flames, this made the combination of both the pain and the heat unbearable to any mere mortal but Theo simply just continued enduring it, praying for the heat to take hold and for fire to erupt from him which would soon lead to the bliss of unconciousness, but alas that was not meant to be. Out of the haze of tears pouring out of his eyes, Theo could see a figure moving towards him, their outline was flickering and warping by the heat haze, caused by the cosmos of fire above them. Then a voice echoed around the world, getting louder and quieter at various intervals,

"So, death is only the door to something new"

Theo recognised the voice that echoed across the world,

"Mephiles?" the figures features came into view, his crystal body sparkling in the fire above, making him shine like stars. Mephiles's quills were jagged and cracked, as if they had been smashed on something, but his manic green eyes seemed to have been the only bit of him that hadn't changed, when he was a few metres away, Mephiles stopped and smiled,

"Welcome to Hell, Theo"

"What?" Theo grunted through gritted teeth "So…I'm, I'm-"

"Dead and so am I, no wait we've just been cast down here but our bodies have been destroyed" Mephiles chuckled as if this piece of news wasn't anything new or special. Theo staggered forward, as the pain ate away at his legs, his eyes still locked with his fathers,

"Well that explains this fucking pain then" Theo grunted, Mephiles's eyes flashed

"Well now you know true pain, not that weak, dull pain of emotions but the pain of knowing that you're in the place in which you have no hope of escaping. The pain your feeling is the pain of all the billions upon billions of lost souls who have been dragged down here; it is shared between everyone down here".

"How come you don't feel it, then?" Theo asked, his whole body shaking due to the pain.

"I am at one with my sins and I do not regret them, so the pain of the lost does not affect me" Mephiles walked around Theo humming softly "Oh yes", he suddenly said, grinding to a halt "This is for destroying my plans" He darted forward and grabbed him by the throat, his fingers digging into his throat and tossed him back 20ft, Theo crashed onto the ground. Mephiles jumped high into the air towards him, his left arm reforming into a large, long crystal blade; however Theo was too quick, he rolled to the side as Mephiles dived down, the blade becoming lodged into the invisible floor, Theo threw his boot out in a lethal hook kick with caught Mephiles in the side of his head, causing the stretched part of his neck to crack and snap, black blood, poured from the ripped and splintered wound. Mephiles cursed and moulded his arm back to normal, pressing one palm to the wound in his neck, he healed himself, bright light coursing through the gaps in his fingers as the wound repaired itself.

"Is that the best you can do?" he laughed, Theo growled then threw himself at Mephiles, electricity charging up in his left hand, Mephiles darted to the side and grabbed Theo by the throat and threw him up into the air, jumping up high after him, his crystal fingers melting away and lengthening into claws. However Theo span around in the air, and fired a dozen bolts of crimson electricity at Mephiles, who simply swept them aside as if they were just smoke in the air, the crystal hedgehog clawed at the air before his son, however his strikes did not miss, the claws raked across Theos chest, tearing away the jacket and shirt then ripping the skin and fat, leaving the whole skin of his chest hanging off by a few thick strands of tendon and fat. The red muscles underneath began to weep and flow with dark red blood as the claws sliced through the black veins that circled his chest. The pain mounted in Theo's chest but he was in so much pain anyway that he barely felt the pain from that wound.

"I may not be able to kill you, but I'll kick your ass further down into this hell" Theo yelled, the blood flow now increasing from his chest causing the blood to seep over the ledge of skin and fat and down his legs. Mephiles smiled,

"Oh on the contrary, you're the one who'll be screaming in the deepest pit of hell". Mephiles charged at him, claws ready; but Theo threw himself into the air and fired bolts of electricity like a machine gun at Mephiles, red bolt after red bolt hitting Mephiles square in the chest in quick succession, as each bolt struck, bits of his crystal chest were torn off, letting black blood pour out of him like a fountain, Mephiles tried to duck and weave his way around the bolts but, Theo simply moved them with one flick of his hand to home in on Mephiles. With one great roar, Theo launched a huge shockwave of energy at Mephiles, which picked him up and threw him like a rag doll; He landed in a heap, blood pouring from his mouth and chest, Theo landed gracefully, the electricity crackling into the floor as he landed on the invisible ground; He saw Mephiles trying to heal himself, the light from his palm flicked and coughed like an old light bulb as he pressed it to his chest. Theo merely walked slowly towards him, watching his father suffer as the pain tore into him as the blood flowed, majestically out.

For once in all the time he had been down here, he had not noticed the pain that circulated around the empty space, he was only focused on sending Mephiles further down into hell, were he would burn and scream for the rest of eternity, but first thing first, he needed to get out of Hell himself. Theo remembered that his father used portals to travel to and fro from different time periods and places; he only hoped that this could work for him too. He held out his hand and concentrated, praying for a portal to spring to life that would send him back to reality, Mephiles chuckled throatily when he saw Theo's efforts,

"Yes. It's much harder than you think. Isn't it?" blood bubbling out of his diamond lips, he was slowly healing himself so Theo had to be quick or he would be the one tasting his own intestine. A small circle of warped air appeared, similar to a heat haze, Theo cursed to himself, it was going to take a lot of power to rip open the barriers between worlds, he remembered how he had overloaded NICOLE's mainframe and how the resulting implosion had catapulted him into an alternate future. If he wanted to get out of Hell he would need the same amount of power that he had used., but on that occasion, one of his fellow mercenaries had amplified his powers using her own. It then dawned on Theo. Amplified. Amplified. He needed to have his powers amplified by something, last time he had used a person's life force, what was to stop him from using one again. With one hand still pointing at the haze, he pointed his other hand at Mephiles, he jerked as a black mist began to sway from his chest and into Theos palm, Theo felt a rush of energy expel through him, his vein pulsed, causing the bleeding from his chest to intensify; black lightening crackled around his body and out of his hands, the portal began to spin faster and a small black crack began to slowly open in the air, forcing the air apart with numerous cracks of thunder.

"You…can't-" Mephiles choked, as Theo slowly stripped away the energy from his soul.

"Oh yes I can" Theo grunted and bared the fingers in his right hand, causing the energy to flow into him faster, the cracks of electricity began to grow as did the electromagnetic field that surrounded him, his eyes turned black, the iris and the pupil fusing into one. The crack in the air suddenly grew until it was over 60cm wide. Theo spotted his opportunity and jumped forward, the crack began to close , but Theo was travelling quicker, rocketing through the air and through the cracked space-time, with only the sound of flames and Mephiles's screams of rage behind him. He fell into the blackness, darker than any nightmare or any abyss, he gave in and let the darkness consume him.

He took his first lungful of air, panic riddled his mind, had he made it? Was he safe? One thing was for sure, the place was dusty as fuck, he coughed and spat out a mouthful of dust-polluted saliva. He felt around, wood on all sides, rotten and decomposing, he realised he was in a coffin, panicking, he found a crack in the wood and dug his fingers into it, tearing open the wood, dirt began to pour in, if he wasn't fast he would suffocate, he torn the hole wide so he could sit up, he clawed at the dirt clearing it out of his eyes, he couldn't breath, he needed Oxygen, he thrashed upward, climbing out of his grave, with dirt and mud surrounding him on all sides, he felt his hand break through the dirt and into nice, cool air. Grabbing a handful of grass, he pulled himself up, yelling with the effort, his body broke through the soil and became enveloped in the cool wind, he lied on his back, breathing heavily, letting himself become blinded by the street lambs and moonlight that lit up the night. He had made it. He was home.

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