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This one takes place during 'Heroes, Vampires and Slayers' around the time the Seed of Wonder got sent to Hell by Doctor Doom.

Warning: Sexual assault attempts in this chapter

Guest: I think Drakkon takes it.

Chapter 60- A pure soul saved

Tara Maclay still couldn't believe she had been sent to a Hell Dimension after her death. Even if she didn't consider herself worthy of Heaven, she did not think she would get any kind of Hell either.

Until of course she had found out that her father and brother had done some spell to bind her soul to a Hell Dimension whenever she died as punishment for having ditched them.

Seems like the men in the family did know some magic after all, they were just jealous that the women did it better, which was why they had made up the Demon lie to control and manipulate all of them, including her mother and herself.

She just wished she could somehow escape this place, and perhaps return to the land of the living, or anywhere better than here.

The torture she'd experienced by the Demons here had weakened her too, so using magic right now was just not an option, because she'd be too weak to do it in this condition.

Her clothes were ripped at places, and she looked quite trashed, with a black eye, and a split lip, and blood at various spots of her body, all due to the torture that the Demon of this Hell Dimension had put her through.

But today, she had managed to gather enough willpower to at least try to sneak away, due to something she'd heard the Demons discussing. Apparently, she was a pure soul, and a pure soul had a high value.

So they were going to carry out an auction which various Hell-Lords would attend, and she would be sold to the highest bidder. And this was actually part of the deal that her father and brother had made with these Demons alongside the spell to bind her here, meaning her blood kin was willing to these lengths to punish her for ditching them.

That was something she didn't want to let happen. These Demons were already bad enough, Hell-Lords would be even worse, so she was going to escape, or try to at least.

Unfortunately, she could not make it out of this Dimension at all, as she felt a Demon grab her by the hair, making her gasp as it threw her down, and she groaned, while it stood over her with four more by its side.

"Trying to escape now, are we?" The Demon leered at her as it knelt down towards her. "Too bad, you can't."

Getting a rush of adrenaline, Tara kicked that one on the chest, sending it staggering back as it growled in anger, and then the other ones tried to restrain her, as the main Demon glared at her, all of them having lecherous looks, and it was clear to Tara what their intentions were.

"No", she whispered, trying to stop them in vain. "No…."

The main one pointed his sword towards her as well.

"STOP!"

Another Demon appeared in the way, unarmed, but just as big as them, and grasping the main Demon's blade, shoved him back a bit.

"What are you doing another?" Another Demon asked him.

"You plan to sell her in an auction, do you not?" The unarmed one asked all of them. "Pure souls have high value. If you do this, the purity might get stained, and then we can bid goodbye to the money that we will be getting."

The main Demon realized this one had a point. "Pity, but what can you do?" All of them left, the unarmed one waiting for all of them to be completely out of earshot, before he knelt near Tara.

"Are you all right?" He asked her in a voice that was surprisingly calm, and Tara nodded.

"For now…" she whispered in a hoarse voice, grateful to this Demon for having saved her. While he had said to the others that it was to save her market value, she just got the feeling that he had said that as an excuse to make the others back off, and he actually was not too bad.

"If only I can stop them every time they try this", he muttered, confirming Tara's suspicions as he helped her stand up.

Tara then saw his hand was bleeding due to having grasped that main Demon's blade. "Your hand!"

The Demon looked at it, as Tara ripped off a piece of her already ripped clothes, and tied it around his hand to stop the bleeding.

"I am very grateful to you", the Demon told her. "I shall repay you for every thread of this cloth a hundred times over."


A while later

Lucifer was going to return to Hell, unaware of the power takeover by Dromos using the Seed of Wonder alongside Glory, when suddenly the unarmed Demon appeared in front of him.

"Now who are you?" Lucifer asked him.

"Just someone who serves you, my Lord", the Demon told him, before revealing. "There is an auction in Hell, and they didn't invite you."

"Auction? What kind of auction?" Lucifer asked in confusion.

"One of a pure soul", the Demon explained. "You know how they've high market values and all that. But they didn't invite you as you've stopped ruling Hell. But I think it is just wrong that the real Devil does not get an invitation to something like this. I think you should really go there."

Lucifer didn't look very pleased at the sound of such an auction, and it wasn't because he wasn't invited.

"Thanks for letting me know, mate", Lucifer said, before his wings appeared, and he disappeared.

The unarmed Demon smirked.

Suryaputra Karna Shri Krishna Govinda Hare Murari plays

And then, he transformed into Lord Krishna, smiling, knowing what Lucifer would do.


In the Hell Dimension, the auction was ongoing, and the Hell-Lords were attending from their realms, present in this Dimension as astral projections.

Tara was completely frightened by this now. The Demons had cleaned up her wounds and healed them, and managed to use their power to repair her clothes too, so that she would be presented at her best in this auction.

"I bet a million souls!" One Hell-Lord suddenly cried out, while Mephisto rolled his eyes.

"Child's play", he muttered, as he planned to give the best offer at the end of this and get this pure soul for himself.

"Wait!" Another, more lecherous Hell-Lord suddenly said. "I want confirmation she is pure!"

"Is our word not enough?" The main Demon from before said.

"No!" Another one snarled. "Why don't you lot strip her so we can see for ourselves?"

"Yeah, we'd see how pure she looks in the nude!" Another one said as well, and now Mephisto was annoyed, because as bad as he was, he just found this kind of lecherous behavior to be pathetic.

And it was delaying his inevitable acquisition of Tara anyways.

Tara was frightened as the main Demon said. "Oh yeah, we can do that!"

"No! Please!" She begged the main Demon. "You don't need to-"

"Silence!" He said, marching towards her as Tara backed off slowly, wishing that unarmed Demon was here still, even if he couldn't have saved her from this, sadly.


Krishna felt Tara thinking of him, or at least who she had met him as. And then he realized what was happening, which made a tear roll down his cheek, as he remembered the last time it had happened to someone too.

He raised his hand where Tara had tied her cloth on seeing him bleed.


The main Demon was marching closer to the frightened Tara now.


Mahabharata 2013 Yada Yada Hi Dharmasya plays

The tear rolling down Krishna's cheek fell to the ground, causing it to burn while everything shook.


The Hell Dimension suddenly shook as well, causing all Demons and Hell-Lords to look around in utter shock while the flames went out.


Krishna grasped the piece of cloth, starting to slowly unwrap it from his hand.


The Demons suddenly found themselves stripped of what they were wearing one by one, and the Hell-Lords too, while Mephisto looked at himself in shock.

"Huh?" He muttered.

The main Demon found himself stripped too.


Krishna continued unwrapping the cloth piece from his hand, before holding the hand out, the cloth now fluttering in his hand.


In the Hell Dimension, a bright light glowed, forming a shape of a figure as the Hell-Lords and Demons watched in horror, while the figure seemed to be holding out its hand.


Krishna had his hand held out, as the fluttering cloth suddenly started extending.


From the bright figure in the Hell Dimension, a cloth extended, surrounding Tara now, who felt a tear roll down her cheek at this, and the cloth grew in size, covering her from head to toe now.

Most of them were blinded and covered their eyes, as the main Demon snarled and grabbed the cloth now, trying to pull it down.


Mahabharata 2013 Shri Krishna Govinda Hare Murari plays

Krishna looked down at his hand, the cloth continuing to extend from it.


The main Demon continued pulling the cloth but it just kept extending out from the bright figure holding out its hand.

Tara could feel something divine and comforting near her, and joined her hands in a praying gesture, a happy tear rolling down her cheek.

The main Demon looked down, seeing how much cloth he had pulled, yet it still surrounded Tara from head to toe. And he was tiring out now.


Krishna looked at his hand, as the extending cloth finally unwrapped itself, and hovered in the air, before falling to the ground.


The main Demon fell to the ground in utter exhaustion now, panting heavily, while everyone else was just stunned.

The cloth around Tara faded away, as did the bright figure, when suddenly everything shook and then Lucifer was there.

"Time for me to go", Mephisto muttered before disappearing.

"For Dad's sake, put on some clothes!" Lucifer cried out to all the Demons and Hell-Lords around, as they were nude, before seeing Tara.

Everyone was frightened by him appearing as he said. "So you all decided to have an auction for a pure soul and not invite me. I am so touched…..NOT!"

Then, many souls suddenly flew out of nowhere and went into a container, Lucifer telling the Demons. "These are all the souls I have, the vilest ones, and its more than the rest combined can offer you. So I'll be taking her."

Before any of them could say a thing, Lucifer grasped Tara, and they disappeared.


Lucifer let Tara go, as she asked him. "Who are you?"

"Oh! I'm the Devil!" He told her with a smirk, making her eyes widen, as she realized from what she sensed in him, that he was telling the truth.

"You….." she stuttered a little. "But you….you saved me."

Lucifer simply nodded, before turning away, as Tara realized he was different from what she had imagined.

"Thank you", she finally said gratefully to him, and looking up, she said again. "Thank you." This was to whoever was up there, because she knew divine intervention had protected her before.

"You're welcome", Lucifer said to her.


Krishna smiled, glad that he had managed to save this pure soul and Paragon from everlasting torture, and the path he had now put her on would soon lead to her resurrection as well.

Krishna transformed back into Lord Vishnu, and then disappeared from Earth.


Soon enough, when Buffy and some Heroes from the Multiverse came to Hell to reclaim the Seed of Wonder, Tara helped them out, and at the end of it, was brought back to life, reunited with Willow, Dawn, and all of her other loved ones as well.


And that's one more done. I'm a huge fan of how Krishna saved Draupadi in Mahabharata so I used that for Tara too.

Hated treating Tara like this but these are Hell-Demons, so such horrible things will happen. But now she has been saved.

Hope all enjoyed and see you all next time with another chapter.