Chapter 29
Supervisor
"Good to see your sense of humor is still intact, even after death. Do you know who we are and why we are here?" he asked the boy. "Yes, you are the supervisors. You judge those who have been unworthy, which is why I would like to know why I am here?" he asked in return. "For an angel you have quite a track record, Massacre's, Exterminatus, Torture, and many more. He said opening the binder in front of him. "Sounds like me, but I still don't see the problem. You know everything I've done and why I've done it. Where's the problem?" he asked "You have done some things out of pure emotion that are looked down upon by us and our council." He responded. "We are just talking to you as a kindness, you are going to be put on a council and tried. More than likely convicted of many crimes, and sentenced to a hell unlike no other. I apologize for what is going to happened to you, there is nothing that can be done." He told the boy, as what he was saying dawned upon him.
"Hell sounds like no fun, is there anything I can do to reason with the council?" he asked. He shook his head, "I'm sorry there is nothing that can be done." He said "I would rather not listen to the council blabber on about how bad I am, is there any way you can skip that for me?" he asked. "Yes, I can send you straight there, without council approval, but only if that is your choice." He told him as he opened a small menu on the table, "Before you send me down there can you do 2 things for me, as a personal favor." He asked "Name it." "Can you send this message to my friends and family, and once they see it stop time in their universe." He asked "the first one I can do, but why the second one?" he asked grabbing the flash drive from him.
"I don't want them to miss me for too long because it's just a matter of time before I get out of there." He said slyly before pressing the confirmation button on the menu in front of him. A portal of fire opened in the wall next to him. "You know, there has never been anyone who has lived through more than a few millennia of hell, right?" he said to the kid who was already walking towards the opening. "There's a first time for everything." He said saluting the couple and walking through the doorway. He was instantly bombarded with a shifting tunnel of fire, he ran through it and he accidentally ran off a cliff where the tunnel ended. He was met with a being that was bigger than he ever imagined could exist, with power that rivaled that of God himself.
He fell into a cavern that was larger than he had ever seen before. As he fell the creature turned to him and roared. The force roar slammed him against the side of the cavern. Then the creature grabbed him in one of its immense hands. He tried to activate his angelic power but nothing happened. He tried again and still nothing, the creature laughed and opened his palm. "You are in my home now, your powers don't work here." The creature chuckled. "I still have my strength" he said lashing out at the hand and breaking it open. He lept away from the creature towards the wall. He landed and grabbed a rock that was extending from the wall. "You think you can fight me? Beat me even. In my own home. You fool, what do you think you are doing?" the creature's voice boomed against the walls. He gritted his teeth and jumped towards the creature again.
A battle like no other ensued, the two battled with ferocity and it was a battle to end all battles. Except it didn't end in a day, it was years. Colin was strong and his endurance was almost limitless, almost. He was strong, but Satan was stronger, faster, more intelligent, and too cunning. He was fighting a losing battle, but he had to fight. The thoughts of his family and friends were all that kept him going through the many years he fought. They both knew he was going to lose, they had even talked about it and to his surprise Satan was very good with words. As he had expected there were so many chances for him to give up., 10-ish years into what was the longest and worst fight of his life. He had a very interesting conversation that peaked his interest. "Where is everyone else." He asked one day during a break in their fighting when he was hiding in a cave. "They are in the dungeons, I came up here to deal with the first angel in hell myself." He said in the same deep silky voice.
"So I'm the first, how has it been, you first experience with angels that is?" he asked sneaking around the rocks and catching a brief glimpse of Keys. The demon had been changing into his close friends and family for years now. He had learned his lesson when he had got into an extended fight with his late step mother. Who had almost knocked him out, and he only escaped by the skin on his teeth. Sheila had kept him alive for quite some time and was the only reason he was still alive. And it was Sheila who had notified him that his step mom wasn't actually his step mom. Not that he needed that obvious hint.
Which got him thinking, how did he know about his family? Mind reading, couldn't be, Sheila was monitoring his brain waves. And he knew Satan had no contact with the outside world, but his demons did. And that was his master plan, hijack a demon to the outside world. But his encounters with demons had been few and far between, and when they had been near they left, quickly. He had never been able to sneak up on them, ever. They either fought or ran, and when they fought, they died pretty quick or killed themselves before he had time to get information out of them. But he needed it, he was on his last legs. His internal organs were in the worst shape possible, he was scarred and burned all over.
He was either going to die or he was going to get out. But first he needed to get some information out of him before he left. He snuck around some more rocks and took cover around some stalactites. "So, how familiar are you with an entity of pure darkness and overwhelming power?" He asked throwing his voice. "Ooh, you meet the Aether. That how you got down here isn't it?" Satan cooed back changing into a form of shifting darkness. "You woke an ancient entity of immense power, a war machine of god. Nobody has ever lived to tell the tale of being in contact with it. As you can attest to." He said as he started walking down a path away from Colin. "Just being touched by such a thing is incomprehensible pain, much less dying to one. You are an ever growing mystery." He said before walking behind a rock and out of sight. He quickly followed and didn't realize his mistake until it was too late and he had been punched into a wall.
He slid off the wall and down onto the ground. "Uuh, why do you have to be so rude?" he asked as he got back up to face his attacker. Satan chuckled and got into a fighting stance and charged at Colin. Colin got up to fight and they started throwing punches, but Colin was weakening and his punches showed. He missed a strike and received a massive kick to the chest. Putting him back into the wall he got up from. Two demons appeared next to him and picked him up by his arms and kneeled him down. "You have been a gigantic thorn in my side for 10 years, but now…" he punched Colin in the face "I can have some fun with you." He said punching him again. He smiled through the blood, bruises, cuts, and sweat. "I win." He smiled "No, I win, it just might take you some years to find that out." He said punching him again. "Demon, go to my personal room and prepare my tools." He said.
The demon nodded and turned, made a portal and started walking through it. Then Colin took his chance, he lept forward throwing the guise of being hurt aside and jumping on the demons back and throwing them both through the portal. They hit the floor and he stabbed the demon right through its spine. He looked around at the huge room he was in. There were 6 hallways and in them were thousands of people strapped to torture chairs. But no one was around, no screams or other noises. He slowly walked over to a room and peaked inside. There was a middle aged man who looked about 40, he kicked the door in and pulled the man's restraints off. "Thank you sir" he said "Get everyone else out." He said pointing the man in the direction of the dead demon "He has keys" The man nodded and quickly walked over to the keys and started going down the halls releasing people. Meanwhile Colin went into another room.
