. . . . . I have really nothing to say, so let's skip the introduction and go straight to the underworld. My mood went south due to the previously mentioned idiot and so it will be translated into my writing. I would apologize, but I think that a lot of you will actually enjoy it. Lot's of content in this shortie.

Comments will be at the end, plus a little farewell-for-now note. :) *fingers crossed*

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Rin POV

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The sky was burning.

Red streaked across the charcoal clouds, singing them scarlet. Weeds ignited and withered as the flames greedily devoured them. People screamed. The edge of a sword glinted red as it cut through an arm, neatly severing it down the bone. Rin watched in horror as it fell, still twitching, onto the ground below. In its hand was a gun.

Flames took it immediately. The skin blistered, bubbled, turned black and fell off of the pale bone. Sinew that had pieced it together caught the flame and burned away. Someone was screaming, the owner of the arm, and fell to his knees before Rin, his turqouise wide as he clutched at the stump of his arm with his other hand, the blood running between his fingers.

Someone was standing above him, laughing. "Pathetic," the man, who Rin recognized as Satan, cackled, and the other raised his sea-blue gaze at the blade, his face hidden from a black hood. The blade the demon was holding fell and neatly cut through the neck. Rin could see the spine as the body slumped and fell, the dirt sopping up the blood like a greedy thing. The hood fell away, revealing the face even as it rolled to a stop in front of Rin.

His breath caught in his throat.

Yukio?

Rin woke up screaming. Sweat plastered his navy-blue hair to his forehead as he jackknifed into a sitting position, displacing the covers that fell to the floor. His heart beat in his chest like a wild thing, his breath caught in his throat as his eyes burned with tears that would not fall.

Hands shaking, he raised them to his face.

"A dream," he told himself, repeated to himself like a mantra. "It was a dream."

But it was too real. Too real. Even now Rin could feel the heat of the flames, could smell the burning flesh in the air, could feel the sticky condensation of the burned fatty lipids on his lips. He licked them; they felt dry and chapped, but otherwise normal.

It didn't taste like blood.

Chest heaving he threw his legs over the bed -

- and lost his balance when his balance when his movement was stopped short. With a strangled cry he fell in a tangle of limbs and chains.

Rin felt as if his veins were replaced with ice.

Chains.

Suddenly a voice said, "Couldn't have you escape, could we?"

Rin's head snapped up, his blood chilling even further. He hadn't noticed anyone else in this room, this room full of dark stone. There was no light to speak up, and the bed itself felt lumpy and soiled. He could only imagine the amount of bugs crawling in the mattress.

He swallowed, trying to vain to wet his throat. "Who are you?" he demanded.

The demon stood upright and grinned, revealing jagged teeth. Blood and pus oozed from his lower lip where the teeth continuously broke the fragile skin. "Hades," he stated, and descended into a mock-bow. "At your service, little Prince."

Rin bared his teeth in a snarl. "Where am I?" he demanded. "Where's Raziele?" He tugged on the chains for good measure; as expected, they burned his skin, but not like before. Rin tried to ignore it.

"You, little Price, are in my realm," Hades informed the younger demon, "and Raziele, as far as I am concerned, is dead."

Rin blinked. That last part hadn't made any sense. "What?"

"That's right," Hades grinned, delighting in the horrified look on Rin's face. "Dead. Heard that he was thrown in some pit and burned."

"You lie!" Rin screamed. His flames ignited on his skin, but only for a moment. The chains suddenly burned against his skin to the point where they began to smoke, and Rin's scream of anger turned into a desperate shout of pain as they burned and burned and burned.

Hades look unimpressed for a moment, then disappeared. Rin stared, a cry lodged in his throat, when suddenly five sharp nails drove into his neck. Rin gasped as they broke the skin and he felt warm, sticky liquid drip down to his collarbone.

"Listen, hybrid," Hades hissed. "I don't care if you're the son of the Big Man himself or fucking god himself, do you understand me?"

Rin wanted to say something to the demon, a whole lot of things in fact, but his windpipe was slowly being crushed. All that came out of his throat was bloody, frothy spit.

Hades smiled and nipped his faintly pointed ear, drawing blood. "Good," he said, and backed off. He wrenched his hand out of Rin's throat; scarlet splattered on the stained sheets and Rin gasped for air, coughing when he inhaled the warm red liquid. "Let me tell you something," the demon continued, leaning against the doorframe. Blood dripped from his fingers and to the floor. "Lord Satan wanted you kept in quarantine until he's ready for you. Until then, you stay put."

"Go . . . to hell," Rin hissed.

At that Hades laughed; it was a harsh sound, echoed off the walls and grated against Rin's ears. "We're already there!" the demon shrieked as he laughed. "Welcome to hell!"

Another short filler chapter, but with a lot of content. Sense the foreshadowing? Yep. And by the way, a lot of people really liked Raziele! That's so cool. I'm considering it a medal of honor that Raziele, a poor and lowly OC, was so loved. Honestly, in the beginning I was wondering if I should actually add him and Xavier, but I'm so happy that I didn't make the wrong choice. Continue being awesome, people.

Emily Blue Paw: Rofl. Not to knock wind out of your sails, but your Azazel pun took me a while. :P :P :P Nah I'm just kidding. You're so punny.

anatric: I'm glad you liked it xD And thank you! :) As soon as I can, I'll upload another chapter.

AnonymousAndrea: Poor Raziele. AND OMG DUDE IT'S SO COOL. I'VE FINALLY CAUGHT UP IN THE MANGA! I'm on chapter three of the anime and I'm gonna try to write another chapter of my novel before I watch it! it's my motivation wahahahah

blackchaosaria2501: and you like SnK toooooo?! Way to go man, you just climbed way up on my list of awesome people!

Dowgma: You're just gonna have to wait and see ;)

Clarity in Scarlet: Yeah dude. Action is gonna be everything these next couple of chapters. And thank you! :) :) :)

All right; comments are done. Shout-out to everyone, thanks for reading this story! You're all the most amazing people and I hope I'll have the honor to write to you all again soon.

Goodbye! Wish me luck tomorrow! I'm going to need it. :)

*fingers crossed* - Rand0mSmil3z