"This is as far as I can take you." Kaldor Draigo said before staring out at the Castle that laid in the middle of the crater.
"Huh, doesn't seem to far. Thanks Kal." The Doomslayer said as he looked at the castle before looking down at the first ledge.
Kaldor face still held uncertainty. "Are you sure you wish to do this? I assure you going down there by yourself is unwise." Kaldor said as he watched the Marine slowly clamber down.
"It'll be fine, you worry to much. After all, if this a truly a new plane of Hell, then I think I better make a name for myself." The Doomslayer said before leaning forward.
Kaldor realized something. "Wait! You never exactly told me your name!" Kaldor said before the Slayer turned around.
"Just call me Doom." Doom said before jumping down with a whoop.
Kaldor's face saddened.
"Emperor protect you Doom." Kaldor whispered before turning around, ready to face another cycle of the warp.
Avidity
As soon as Doom jumped down, he was almost blinded by the shine.
Gold. It was literally everywhere as well as an endless amount of cash and coins. All around the place laid perfectly made statues and orniary walls.
"Huh, this did not look like the ledge I jumped on before." Doom said as he looked around. "And If I had a guess, this is meant to appease my Greed? Like the seven circles of hell, I like it."
Doom walked forward until he encountered his first body, a bloated corpse that held onto a platinum bar.
"Uegh, Poor Bastard." The Marine said as he approached the corpse, only for it to violently erupt in a bloody haze as a bunch of Daemonic hatchlings erupted from the corpses skin, hissing at the Doomslayer before clambering back into the pile of wealth.
He was able to easily connect the two and two together.
"Alright... Don't go anywhere near the fuckin' gold." Doom marine said as he sidestepped the platinum bar which the corpse held onto.
Looking around again, he could make out a bunch of statues. Some consisted of Humans in strange conquistador looking armor whilst others had futuristic looking carapace armor, to even a full blown space marine which Kaldor talked of on the way to the circles.
"And I'm gonna guess those statues used to be people. Okay, fuck that." As he turned around to look for an exit, he spotted a gate which showed another ledge he could jump off of.
Walking forward, he finally walked out of the strange compound before the gate closed behind him.
"Guess I passed the first test." Doom said before looking down over the ledge
"Here goes." The marine said before jumping down again.
Gluttony
The first sight he was greeted with was a giant river of Wine and Banquet tables on the side of said river.
"Woah that's a lot of wine. I'm more of a beer guy though." The Doom marine thought, much to his surprise, the giant stream from the fountain turned to beer.
"Huh, cool." The Marine said before walking forward again, that was when he caught sight of the first victim.
He wasn't even sure if the thing was a Human or a Demon, but the amount of bloated flesh it possessed was disturbing to say the least as the being stuffed it's face constantly with food before taking great gulps of wine from a giant goblet of gold.
It slumped over the table with it's back turned from him.
"Uh, dude? I think you might have eaten a little too-" The Marine was about to finish before the thing groaned in pain as it's stomach bloated outward even further.
"Oh shit, He's gonna Blow!" The Marine thought before diving away, within an instant a large boom sounded like a balloon popping before entrails and guts rained down with a mist of red rain.
Doom wiped away some of the guts of his shoulder in annoyance, "How the fuck can anybody get seduced by this shit. That was fucking nasty." The marine said.
Washing away the disgusting digested food in annoyance, the Marine spied the gigantic banquet table, kicking it with anger as it tumbled into the river.
He watched as the food on the table was washed away with the current.
It was then he spied where he needed to go next.
Across the river, there appeared to be a strange verdant looking field. Doom groaned as it meant he would need to cross it, and he really didn't feel like swimming in beer right now.
"Unless..." the Marine thought before thinking aloud, "Actually, I'm more of a water guy." He said before the River began to shift, slowly turning into water.
Doom smiled before jumping in, wafting through the water until he reached the other side.
Looking back, he saw the landscape rapidly shift back into it's pinkish rocky looking landscape. The Marine merely huffed before looking forward again.
That was the second circle done.
Carnality
"Damn, where the fuck is the Castle?" Doom said as he looked around.
So far after swimming across, their had been nothing but big open fields with nothing grass and a misleading clear blue sky. Even though it was obvious that it was some sort of illusion.
After looking around some more, the Marine kicked up some grass in frustration. "At least in hell, It was pretty fucking clear on where I needed to go!" The Doomslayer said as he grew increasingly frustrated.
He scanned the place one more time before spotting a few figures in the distance. "Probably Demons, but what the hell I guess." Doom thought before walking towards them, cracking his knuckles.
As he approached closer and closer, their forms became more and more distorted. From the distance they could have fooled him into thinking they were Humans. But his incorruptible soul didn't allow it. Revealing the figures for what they really are.
They looked absolutely hideous, their skin was pale and their forms were feminine but to say they looked female wasn't very much. Their legs were lizard like and their arms were like that of a crab whilst wearing a black corsets and loincloths. Almost like the Demons that he fought before except of the most defining feature of all.
Doom wasn't sure if even a Mother could love a face like the faces they had. Some were stretched as if the skin on their faces was being pulled to the back of their head. Some didn't even look Human at all, Simply bare and sunken soulless eyes with sharp teeth.
The group of Daemonettes sensed his presence, briefly surprised that they did not see him coming before turning to face him.
Supposedly their leader, sporting a almost manly looking face stepped forward.
"A Weary Travellar... You must have come a long distance Hero. Why don't you relax with us?" She/He said with a perfectly deceptive feminine voice. Doomslayer paused as he looked at the whole group of them whilst their leader smiled, thinking he had Doom right in her clutches.
Doom shook his head in disgust. "I think I would rather stick my dick in an Anthill. Like Jesus fucking Christ, Do you guys look at yourselves in the mirror." The Leader of the Daemonettes eyes widened.
"Wait, He can see through our disgui-!" The Leader attempted to finish the word before lightning fast, his famous Double barreled materialized in Dooms hands, and without hesitation, he pulled the trigger.
The result was instant as the entirety of the leader Daemonette upper body being blown completely off, not even a chance to feel any form of pain. The other Daemonettes looked stunned before screeching like harpies and charging forward.
Doom merely smiled behind his helmet before making counting all of them mentally. "5 of them."
The first Daemonette attempted to slash at him, only for him to easily sidestep the attack before bringing his fist down, The Daemonettes body starting from the head, literally imploded like a flower petal.
"4"
Another two Daemonettes attempted to eviscerate him, quickly dashing from the sides with their crab like limbs grasping out to gut him. Doom immediately looked to the sky before jumping straight up, the two Daemonettes could only look up before Doom's trusty rocketlauncher materialized in his hands. Shooting it downwards, the Rocket hit the ground between the two, engulfing the both of them in a fiery explosion as their bits went flying over the place.
"2"
The Doomslayer whilst still in the air, spotted another Daemonnete as it hissed before jumping in the air to meet him with her claw outstretched, her deranged face twisted with anger. However she did not predict to for her chest to meet directly into his foot as Doom kicked the air right in front of him, catching her off guard before her form was forced back to the ground. Doom used her body like a cushion as his blood soaked leggings immediately broke straight through her ribs, drenching it with purple blood.
The Daemonette half screeched and half moaned before Doom raised his other foot and stomped directly on her head. Crushing her skull into a million satisfying pieces.
"1"
The Last Daemonette was already running with her back turned from him. The warp around her being slowly distorted as she attempted to travel through it.
"Oh no you don't Bitch." Doom said before a familiar weapon materialized in his hands. The Gauss cannon in all of it's glory as he held it in both hands. The Weapon took a second to charge before the Doomslayer pulled the trigger. Blue energy quickly drifted out before strike the Daemonettes back, Her entire body literally exploded, leaving nothing behind but a bloodstained corset.
Doom put away the weapon before clasping his hands in satisfaction, what a great way to vent his anger.
And to make things better, the castle materialized before him, apparently he passed the test for this section, if that's how it even worked.
With his new goal set, he continued walking to the castle, leaving behind the blood soaked corpses of Daemonettes behind him.
Paramountcy
After walking towards the castle, the field quickly faded behind him before a grand hallway began to shape before him.
"This is new." The Doomslayer thought. The Hallway finished forming as it revealed a red curtain at the end of it. A single beam of sunlight shined through a gap.
He heard sounds coming from behind it, almost like cheering. Ripping away the curtains, revealed to him an entire crowd of Strange soldiers, Space marines by the looks and description that Kaldor told him about, stretching for miles and miles as far as the eye can see, yelling 4 words.
"All hail the Doomslayer!" He looked around, noticing the hallway he had come from was no longer a hallway but instead the top of a ornate building for everyone to see him
Doom was stunned for a split second as they called out to him, proclaiming him their leader and telling him to lead him against the Daemon hordes.
He grew increasingly angry, angry at himself mostly but angry at the fact that the place seemed to be growing desperate to get him to conform. He balled a fist before yelling.
"NO!"
Within saying that the entire landscape changed, he was no longer atop of a pedestal but instead peering at the next entrance to the next circle. Looking behind him, he knew he made the right choice.
He didn't need an army, he was an Army.
Without further ado, he ran forward, even more pissed than before.
"This place has never seen the likes of me... Good."
Vainglory
Doom noticed a path of white marble begin to form in front of him, leading into a garden looking place. "For Fuck's sake, here we go again." Doom thought before walking inside, the thorny hedge closed behind him.
He continued walking forward, following the marble path before him as it grew more and more covered with vines.
"Conqueror. Hero."
The Doomslayer immediately turned around, looking cautiously. He definitely wasn't alone here.
"Demonslayer. Leader."
Doom promptly ignored them as he kept walking forward the marble path. However the whispers seemed to become more agitated the more he ignored them.
"The Invincible. The Mighty."
The Marine just chuckled before walking onward, He reckoned that it was either because of his incorruptible soul or the fact that he came from a different plain of existance whatsoever that this place couldn't get to him.
He was about to walk forward before he heard another whisper.
"A Father."
The question sounded like a shot at the dark from whatever entity said it, but soon regretted guessing it. Within an instant, Doom reacted.
"WHO THE FUCK SAID THAT!?" The Marine yelled before literally releasing all of his anger on the closest hedge, the entire thorn covered wall exploded like twigs as marble was sent flying everywhere. There was a tiny shrill shriek as a weird thorn like child demon ran off in panic.
Doom was about to chase after it before realizing the path was getting covered by more and more thorns.
"Little shit..." Doom said dismissing the kid, he continued walking the marble path.
Indolency
The marble path slowly dissipated as it got brighter and brighter in contrast to the misty atmosphere of the circles before as the sky slowly turned bright with a few clouds.
The Hellwalker by this point was still pissed about before.
"More Bullshit." He said as he looked around the place, this time taking the appearance of what appeared to be a beach. The Horizon stretched infinitely as water rushed to the sandy shores before pulling back out.
A few chairs sprawled out on the sand, however Doom already had a gut feeling that something was very wrong with this place.
He heard laughter, almost like a kids that sounded off towards the beach. A lone boy who looked to be five years old played in the water.
"Dad!" He called out before giggling out, waving to him.
Doom for the first time in forever, was at a loss for words.
Flashback
"Goooooood. Very goood." The voice said as he walked up the steps of Argent D'nur with the dark red orb. They reached the top of the temple, with a glowing green portal in the middle and a alter in the front of it. "Now place me within the Pedestal."
The Night Sentinel's leader looked unsure for a moment, "And if I do, You will keep your word?"
There was a pause before the voice spoke again, "Of Course. Now quickly, we haven't all century."
The Night Sentinel then slowly walked up to the Alter before activating it, opening it up.
He was about to place the orb before he heard someone yell behind him. "Sir! Are you insane!?"
The Leader looked behind him, reveling four warriors wearing white and black futuristic looking knight armor. Each of them carrying a holy sword of sorts as they looked at their leader with shock.
"Stay out of this you four. I'm doing all of us a favor." There leader said before looking back at the Alter.
"Your Betraying your oath to the wraiths! You can't trust a Demon!" The four knights yelled in unison.
Their leader looked back sadly, before taking off his helmet.
It was the face of a man full of regret and sadness, it was the face of Doom.
"I'm sorry, I want my son back." Before placing the Orb within it.
The effect was instantaneous as the Portal went from Green to red, The Sentinels yelled in pain before disintegrating, there source of power which kept them connected to Argent D'nur disappearing for good.
Within an instant, Demons came pouring through as they roared, ignoring the lone Night Sentinel as he hung his head down in shame. Various Imps and Hell knights went on to destroying the temple and desecrate it as they stomped around, harvesting energy as they pleased.
"Good, Very good Night Sentinel." The voice said, no longer from an Orb but instead all around him as hell claimed Argent D'nur. "Though I must wonder, Why refuse the power that I also offer." The voice said
"I don't care about power, now give me my son."
Their was a laugh from the voice. "Very well. Just step through to my Domain and I shall give him."
The Night Sentinel's eyes narrowed, before hesitatingly walking through. He had been to hell before, easily fighting off the Demons that dared challenge the might of Argent D'nur.
Now he felt a guiltiness like no other being here.
Looking around, he saw no one but a massive dark cavern. The Night Sentinel gritted his teeth, "Well? Where is he?"
There was a pause, as if the voice was grinning before it spoke again. "Can you not see? He is right behind you."
The leader turned around, before looking on with a face of horror. What laid in front of him was not his son, instead a giant skeletal face of what appeared to be a demonic looking goat as it filled the entire cavern.
The Voice laughed again, "Behold! The Icon of Sin! Your Son, Just as you wanted!" The voice jeered.
The Night Sentinels fist balled up, "Y-You... YOU BASTARDS!" The Night Sentinel yelled before a red portal opened up behind him.
"Now... Have fun in Hell, 'Doomslayer'." The Voice said before the man, now revealed to be Doom himself desperately grasped to the ground before slowly getting sucked in.
"I WILL KILL YOU ALL! I WILL NOT REST UNTIL ALL OF YOUR KIND HAS BEEN DRIVEN INTO THE GROUND LIKE THE FUCKING ANIMALS YOU ARE! MARK MY WORDS!" Doom yelled before being dragged into hell.
The voice paused for a second, it hadn't sensed hatred in the likes for centuries. Maybe, just maybe it might have made a mistake. However it dismissed these thoughts.
That was until it started to hear the screams and noises of his kin, being torn apart and murdered swiftly. Each one of them yelling the same thing.
"What have we done!?"
Indolency
Doom blinked at the memory before looking at the boy who was waving at him in the water. He slowly turned around, watching as the kids face turned into that of confusion as he watched the Doomslayer walk off.
His leggings crunched against the sand, now revealed to be skeletal bone meal from the infinite amount who had succumbed to this place previously. The water now merely a guise as the boy slowly disappeared along with it.
Doom didn't look back. And for the first time, he was glad.