The Human Soul
Hotel Roof
Under the Sign
1:30 PM
December 28
3 days before The Cleanse
The extermination will soon be upon the people of Hell.
All demons from every corner of the Pentagram was preparing their homes.
Some preparing to fight the Angles that would soon be sent from above, in hopes of collecting their Armor and Weapons to ether sell, or keep for themselves.
Charlie Magne, Daughter of Lucifer, Princess of Hell, watched with pain in her soul as everyone went about their day, knowing of those faces would not be around after the new year.
How many souls would be taken this year? How long must this slaughter of souls go on for?
The Hotel she stands on, once belonged to her family. Charlie could make a guess on what this hotel was used for, just by the name itself.
Also, it was left in a real bad state, Dust and cobwebs filled the place up. a lot of stains both blood and …other's and furniture, broken and teared up.
But thanks to her and lover, Vaggie who was standing right next to her, as they look out over the city. They managed to clean the place up a bit.
She had this Hotel for little over 3 months now.
The first month was basically checking over every room in the hotel and fixing everything.
Well…trying as best as they can…
Such as putting the furniture back in the right spot cleaning the rooms, replacing any fabrics that were ripped or need to be cleaned, was the easy part
checking the water, heat, AC, and electric…
They will have to find a professional for all those things, without proper maintenance, this whole place could end up in smoke, and her whole operation.
.
The reason for this Hotel, was to save as many souls as she could, and aims to redeem demons and send them to Heaven via rehabilitation, thereby curbing Hell's ongoing overpopulation problem.
Charlie thought she could save at least one soul, before the end of the year, even going to the local mall and setting up a booth handing out flyers to passing demons.
Even putting them on every street corner in the city to spread the message about what she was trying to do.
But it all ended the same way.
Getting laughed, mocked and ridiculed, by every demon in Hell.
But by far the worst Offender, was her father.
He laughed at the idea, but his words cut though her soul even worse than anybody else.
Her mother believed in her, so… why not her father.
The worse was when she was told she was a failure and a disgrace to the family.
Vaggie could see the pain in her eyes.
"Charlie… are you okay?" She asked with concern.
"…No… Im Not" she responded sadly.
The truth was, Charlie was stress out, tired, and frustrated.
"I could not save one" she said.
"Honey, don't worry, after the extermination, will get on the news and broadcast your message across the city, then people will start showing up."
"But what if they don't". She started to have doubts. "Im a failure, Vaggie"
"Woah woah woah, where is this coming from, Your never usually like this?"
"I just been thinking about what everyone was saying about this hotel, this plan, …and me… Including my dad."
"OH FORGET THAT ASSHOLE, AND EVERYONE ELES." She yelled as she grabbed her shoulders.
"We will make this work. I promise you".
Charlie walked away, there she stood, in the middle of the roof.
She stood still, as every word from every demon and her farther, bounced around in her mind.
The insults and laugher, bounced around in her head, as well as her father's harsh words and lectures.
The sounds of her mother and Vaggie, tried to push back, the voices of reassurance, motivation, and happiness was drowned out by everything else.
Then all that remained was the laughter and her father.
The words cut deep into her soul, so much so that her form was changing.
The air around her changed, her hair waving on its own, her nails and teeth became sharp, her horns started growing tall.
And her eyes changed from white to red with yellow pupils.
Her Farther and the laughter grew louder as her transformation came to its end, tears leaked out of the corners of her eyes, as she clutched her head with her fists.
And when she was complete in her demon form, the laughter stopped…and her father said the one thing that pushed her over the edge.
"You're a failure, and a disgrace to this family"
…
…
Like glass shattering in pieces, her sorrow, turn into hatred and rage, she growled as she began speaking her father's old forgotten language.
Red demonic symbols floated around her as she continued ranting, and snarling at everything, cursing at all those demons who mocked her, and her father.
A large circular symbol formed around her, and started rotating, then another one inside of the larger one, but rotating the other way. A Pentagram slowly formed on top of them rotating in the same direction as the middle one.
Then in an instant she was surrounded by fire, thou no harm came to her as it danced around the circle.
All this time she was still ranting. Tears were rapidly flowing down her face.
She was in her own little world.
It was not until Vaggie screamed at the top of her lungs, which brought her out of her rage.
"CHARLIE CALM DOWN, EVERYTING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT" she called out from the other side of the fire.
Charlie looked at Vaggie with a disappointed look. Her girlfriend very much worried about her current state.
Charlie sighed, as the rage came back.
"No, Vaggie…everything is not alright" Charlie then growled as she looked at Vaggie.
"EVERYTHING I DO, I DO FOR THEM, MY PEOPLE, MY HOME!
NO MATTER WHAT I DO, IT ALL GETS SPIT BACK INTO MY FACE!" She yelled back, and closed her eyes. Tears flowing down her face again.
"I AM THE PRINCESS OF HELL, I WANT TO HELP MY PEOPLE, AND END THIS YEARLY MASSACRE.
"BUT WHAT IS THE POINT, IF NO ONE WILL ACCEPT THE HELP IM GIVING?!
WHY CAN'T MY PEOPLE SEE THE WAY OUT?"
She opened her eyes and looked at Vaggie.
"WHY CAN'T MY FATHER ACCEPT ME FOR WHO I AM?! WHY CAN'T HE SEE WHAT IM TRYING TO DO IS GOING TO HELP OUR PEOPLE."
Unknown to Charlie, the symbols on the ground and in the air around her glowed brighter and brighter.
"IM TRIED OF THIS, IM TIRED OF THE LAUGHING, THE INSULTS, AND BEING CALLED A FAILURE"
The symbols turn red to white.
"Uhm, Charlie?" Vaggie said with concern, but her comment fell deaf to Charlie's ears.
"I JUST NEED A LITTLE HELP; I NEED SOME HELP WITH THIS. A LITTLE PUSH IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. SOMETHING UNTIL THIS PLAN GETS IN MOTOIN.
She looked up towards the pentagram and faintly see the gates to heaven up above on a white cloud. She closed her eyes, and with all the energy she had left…
"I JUST WISH I HAD SOME GODDAMM HELP!"
Charlie screamed as she stomped her right foot down on the ground, and all the fire and symbols, shot up towards the sky. Disappearing as if nothing was there.
She collapsed on her hands and knees and began crying again.
"Oh honey" Vaggie said softy walking over to her and wrapping her arms around her. Charlie then did the same. Vaggie slowly rubbing her back
"It's going to be alright honey. Now matter what happens, I will be with you, side by side until the end of time. We will pull through, and I will make your dreams come true…Even if it's the last thing I do."
Charlie pulled away and looked at Vaggie, whipping her tears away and giving sniff of air.
"You…really mean that?" she slowly smiled back.
"Always" Vaggie then kissed her on the lips, Charlie returning the same level of passion.
"What ever come's our way, we will handle it, together…"
"Thanks, Vaggie" Charlie replied.
"Feeling better now? Got everything out of your system.? She asked.
Charlie's bubble cute attitude came back. As she took a deep breath in.
"YES! Much Better" She smiled.
Charlie stood up with newfound confidence, as she turned to look out at the city.
"I will prove them wrong, we will make this work, and then will see who will be laughing at who" she said turning back to Vaggie.
"No matter what life throws at us we will prevail, COME ON HELL! SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!"
BOOM
The Sound of Thunder
…
Charlie and Vaggie became shocked and silent.
"…Uh What was that?"
They both looked up, as dark clouds formed above the Hotel. Swirling around
"Charlie…What's happening?"
"I don't know…I never seen anything like this before."
All of a sudden, a red portal appeared, 15ft above the roof. The wind was picking up
"What is going on, what could have caused this. This is not weather, or someone entering hell."
Charlie called to Vaggie.
"I think it's a summoning portal!" she responded
"WHAT!" She called back. "BUT WE DIDN'T- "
Charlie stopped, her eyes widen in realization, the fire, the symbols, it was not just her rage, but her magic. She caused this.
"I DID THIS!"
"WHAT!" Vaggie screamed.
"I somehow did this…But it makes no sense, there should be candles, skulls, the symbol has to be draw out and the words must be read from a book. How is this possible?"
They looked up as something came through…slowly. It was not a being of hell…
But what looked like to be… a part of a house? A single room in which both girls could see the door that lead to the inside of the room.
Once it fully emerged from the portal… The clouds and red vortex stopped…and disappear.
Then the room dropped down.
…
"LOOK OUT!" Vaggie yelled as she tackled Charlie to the ground, using her body to protect her.
The Room crashed on top of the hotel roof as bits and pieces shot out from the outside of the room, mostly nails and pieces of broken wood.
Once the dust settled. Vaggie and Charlie stood up and looked at the building and noticed a demonic symbol appear on the door before quickly disappearing.
"What have I done" Charlie quietly said to herself.
Vaggie walked over to the door, spear in hand as she opened the door, Charlie following right behind her.
The door opened halfway before soothing heavy stopped it.
Charlie gasped as she looked down.
There on the ground laid a body, but not a demon body.
A HUMAN Body
White male to be exact. Young, in his early to mid-20's. wearing a black hoodie and black sweatpants.
Lying face down, as a small pool of blood, leaked out of his forehead…
and a demonic symbol on the back of his right hand…
END OF CHAPTER 1
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