This story is for yukinothekoneko's July contest.
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"I have a feeling you're going to hell." Lupus stated sarcasticly as he crossed his arms since I, again, refused to answer certain questions.
"It's what I'm aiming for, the question now is; How will I get out?" I added to his assumption.
Everyone stared at me wide-eyed, except general Michio, whom was looking at me worriedly. "Are you insane?" Tamaki exclaimed.
"No. I need answers, and if Hell's horsemen exist, then hell exists; Meaning there has to be some way to talk with 'Satan' or whatever and tell him to back off. I don't know what his problem is, but I can't have him sending his horsemen after me. Lupus almost got killed and," I gestured towards the twins, "They would've been next if I hadn't been able to stop him, and I almost wasn't able to!"
"Raven, if you can barely stand up in an Innocence barrier they set up here," General Michio started, "What makes you think you'll survive hell?"
"Michio." I stated in a bored tone, "You're talking to me. I don't care if something's going to kill me, I dive in headfirst so I can end this war. It's no longer about 'Family Honor', it's about making sure people don't get hurt."
General Michio sighed in annoyance, then said, "Fine, but I'm going with you."
"I'm against it." Racquel stated as she crossed her arms. "I mean, we're you're friends and yet you won't tell us anything. We can help if you'd just let us."
The Ouran teens nodded in agreement. "No." I stated plain and simple. "If I let you 'help', there's no guarantee you'll survive. I mean, Lupus almost died when he helped me."
"Now that I think about it, what was Lupus helping you with when you two were attacked?" Racquel asked after pondering over something a minute.
"Nothing." I answered instantly while avoiding her eyes.
"You're lying." She stated.
"I know." I answered.
"Raven." She stated firmly.
"I ain't sayin' anything." I stated as I crossed my arms.
She glared at me, then turned to Lupus and said sweetly, "Lup-us... Will you please tell me-"
"Tell her and I swear I'll drag you to hell with me and leave you there." I interrupted her as I glared at Lupus.
Lupus glanced at me angrily, then turned to Racquel and said, "As much as I'd love to tell you, I'd much rather stay on earth so I can record history since I know Raven is one to..." He glanced at me a moment, then said, "Keep her word."
Racquel huffed, then turned to me and said, "Sometimes, just sometimes, I wish you weren't the most feared Exorcist. 'Cause then maybe once, once, I might be able to get answers."
"Maybe I'll tell you another time, like after this war is over." I stated boredly. "And Michio," I stated turning towards him, "You can't come with me to hell, I have a different favor I need to ask of you."
Michio cocked an eyebrow, then said, "You're asking me for help? The world will surely end."
"Very funny." I stated boredly, "But could you train my disciples while I take a trip to hell?"
"I suppose I could..." He trailed off.
"Oh, but be warned, if I find a single scratch on them, you can expect imminent doom." I stated sweetly.
"You're still forgetting one thing," Lupus stated calmly, "How are you going to get to hell?"
I rolled my eyes, then asked sweetly, "Who here has elemental type Innocence that controls space?"
Lupus, Michio and I all turned our heads to look at Racquel. The ouran teens looked confused, but Racquel looked surprised.
"Oh no. No no no no no. Non, nada, nicht. NO." Racquel denied firmly.
"Racquel, you just have to open a portal, you don't have to go there yourself. As a matter of fact, you can't go at all." I stated.
"What? Why?" She asked shocked.
"If Innocence can't be used in hell, we'd be trapped there." I stated.
"She makes a good point." Lupus stated to Racquel.
"But! I refuse to send you to hell!" Racquel shouted. I groaned in annoyance as it echoed down the halls.
"I'll take one of your dimensional communicators! That way, if needed, you can make a portal and I can get out of there when I call to tell you to." I stated.
"At least take someone with you!" Racquel demanded stubbornly.
"No. You have to stay here, I can't take any of the ouran teens since they're too weak right now, Michio's going to be training them, and Lupus is injured." I stated.
"Whoopee, I get a break for once." Lupus stated unenthusiasticly.
"Not so fast." I stated, then pulled Timcanpy out of my pocket and let him fly to Lupus before turning towards Tamaki and asking, "You know how to play the piano, right?"
"Yeah." Tamaki answered, surprised about the randomness of the question.
"Good. My schoolbag is still in the music room and in it is my great great grandfather's music book." I then turned towards Lupus and gestured towards Timcanpy. "Timcanpy has a music score in him that's the same as one of the songs in the book, but his is in code. It's the same code as the one on the cards." I turned my head towards Tamaki and said, "I need you to find the right song and match it up with the score Timcanpy has," Then I turned my head back towards Lupus, "And I need you to decipher the code completely and translate the cards."
Everyone stared at me surprised and Lupus asked, "How do you know how to decipher the code?"
I smirked, then said, "I told you; The hero isn't dead." Everyone continued staring at me surprised, so I said, "Alright people, we gotta get movin'. Michio, you take my disciples to the training room and get crackin'. Lupus, you and Tamaki go back to the school and get my grandfather's music book and start deciphering that code. Timcanpy, you better show them the score. Racquel, you go get one of your inter dimensional communicators and I'll go get some med supplies from the infirmary in case I get hurt in hell. I'll also need a weapon in case Innocence doesn't work there. Now let's get movin' people!"
Everyone was shocked for a moment, then they got determined looks on their faces and nodded. Lupus and Tamaki walked to the branch's exit and Michio led my disciples to the training room while Racquel rushed to her room in the branch to get one of the communicators. I walked hurriedly to the infirmary to get some supplies and then went to weapon storage once I got them.
When I walked into the weapon room, I was slightly annoyed about the number of Akuma shield generators and lack of actual weapons. When I got closer to the back of the room and closer to the more primative weapons, I found some tazor sticks. I picked one up, then tested it and smiled slightly when I saw the battery still worked.
"Well, I guess I just have to hope electricity works in hell." I muttered to myself as I turned and left the room. I walked into the training room to check up on my disciples' progress and found Racquel there waiting for me.
"I figured you'd check up on them first, so..." She trailed off, but I knew what she meant. I glanced over at the pit and saw Michio had used his Innocence to create replicas of himself that were each fighting with a different host. The real Michio was sitting on the pit wall, observing their progress and controlling his clones.
"Really? He's using his clones to fight them?" I asked, annoyed.
Racquel shrugged, then said, "At least all of them can train at once."
"But if they find his clones' weakness..." I trailed off.
Racquel shrugged, then handed me something. I looked at it and saw it was one of her inter dimensional earrings. I clipped it on, then watched as she turned on a radio thing and spoke into it, "Your earring and this radio will constantly be on so we don't lose connection."
"Alright." I stated.
"You sure you wanna do this?" She asked me. I nodded my head.
"But, your injuries..." She trailed off.
"Are already mostly healed and don't bug me that much. 'Tis one of the bonuses of being a parasitic type." I answered with a confident smirk.
Racquel sighed, then said, "Fine, but I'm getting you out of there at the first sign of trouble."
"Sure, sure." I waved off the worried comment.
Racquel sighed, then started concentrating on the Innocence in her gloves. Her hands glowed green, then a green portal materialized in front of me. I noticed the teens had stopped fighting to watch. I gave them a small salute, then stepped through.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~IN HELL
As soon as I stepped through, I was surprised to say the least. It wasn't all fire and brimstone like I had expected.
There were only four things I noticed; Endless darkness, an enormous and seemingly endless pile of skulls with red glows to them that I was currently standing on, bone pillars, and weird lizard/turtle things that were scurrying about on the skulls.
"Raven, can you hear me? What's your status? Over." Racquel asked through the communicator.
"Yes I can hear you. I'm fine just..." I paused for a moment and glanced at everything, "Surprised. Are you sure you opened a portal to hell? Over."
"Pretty sure. Why? Over." Racquel answered.
"Well, Hell's not exactly what I'd imagined it'd be. Over." I answered. I started walking around and watched one of the lizard things scurry to close to me for comfort. It sniffed around at the skulls, then ran directly into my leg, then shook its head, surprised.
I briefly wondered if it was blind, then watched as it watched a skull fall from the sky and onto the pile. Okay, so it's not blind. It then turned back towards my leg and poked it with its nose. It seemed harmless enough...
Until it opened its mouth and bit my leg with razor sharp teeth. I yelped, then kicked it off with my other foot and it went flying.
"Raven? What happened?" Racquel asked worriedly.
"Son of a bitch lizard bit me..." I trailed off.
There was silence a moment, then Racquel asked unsurely, "A lizard?... In hell... Bit you?..."
"Hey, that thing is not a normal sized lizard and it has teeth that are sharper then Timcanpy's. It's a good fuckin' thing I brought a med-kit." I hissed at her, then sat down and pulled my left pant leg up to get a better look at the wound.
It wasn't deep, but it was bleeding pretty bad, so I opened the med-pack and pulled out some bandages and disinfectants. I disinfected the cut, the wrapped the bandages around it before returning the med supplies to the pack. I stood up, then continued my search for Satan.
"Tell me, if you were the head honcho of hell, where would you be?" I asked Racquel boredly as I glanced around and avoided the lizards.
"The part that looks the most painful." Racquel stated simply.
"But NOTHING here looks painful." I paused a moment and glanced at the lizards. "Except the damn lizards."
"What does it even look like down there?" Racquel asked.
"Putting it simply? Bone pillars, billions of glowing red skulls," I paused as I watched one of the lizards eat another lizard, "and cannibalistic lizards."
I glanced up, then did a double take. It seemed like the bone pillars were actually holding something up...
"I think I might've found something..." I trailed off as I placed my hand on the pillar.
"What is it?" Racquel asked curiously.
"I don't- HOLY SHIT!" I yelped as my hand was pulled into the pilar, then I found myself going through a long tube and then being thrown into a room. I rubbed my backside as I landed on it and groaned in annoyance.
"Raven? What happened? Are you alright?" Racquel asked hurriedly.
"Peachy." I seethed as I glanced up, then paled. "Racquel, don't say anything."
Apparently, some things I thought didn't exist, did.
Take Cerberus for example. I never believed in him, but here I was, face to face... to face... to face... Oh shit...
It was then I realized he wasn't really looking at me, he was looking around me as if trying to find something.
"Raven?..." Racquel whispered.
"Shh!" I quickly shushed her. I looked fearfully at the three headed dog, but he hadn't acted like he heard anything. I blinked at my stroke of luck, then wondered if it was luck at all. I waved my hand around, practicly in front of his eye, but got not reaction. Couldn't he see me? Actually, now that I thought about it, the lizard didn't really see me either until it ran into me... But even then, it was hesitant, like it wasn't sure if I was there or not...
Well, when one has a theory, it's best to test it. I looked around and noticed a skull or two lying around and stood up and went behind Cerberus where he wouldn't see me, then grabbed a skull and chucked it at him. He immediatly turned towards me and I started side stepping out of view and watched as none of his eyes followed me. He growled and Racquel's voice suddenly asked, "What was that?"
"Shh!" I hissed at her. I watched as Cerberus's black tail sweeped back and forth across the floor. I had to step back to keep it from tripping me.
Okay, two things. One, I was trapped in a room with a three headed dog. Two, It couldn't see me.
Fun.
Well, there were more of the bone pillars in the room... so maybe...
I walked over to one of the pillars, being wary of Cerberus as he searched around the room, then placed my hand on it. Again, I was sucked into it and into a different room. I grunted as I landed on my backside again, then looked around the room, then realized it was a maze I was now in.
"Just lovely..." I muttered to myself.
"Raven, what's going on?" Racquel sounded annoyed.
"I just snuck past Cerberus. Did you know he's real?" I asked sarcasticly.
"You ran into the three headed death hound?" Racquel shouted, making me want to rip the earing off my ear.
"Don't shout! This thing is right next to my fucking ear!" I yelled back, then listened as my voice echoed around the maze. "Creepy..." I muttered to myself as I looked around.
"Raven? Are you alright? Did you really run into Cerberus?" General Michio asked worriedly.
"I didn't run into him, but I was pretty much face to face with him." I answered.
"How did you escape?" Racquel asked.
"He couldn't see me. At least, I don't think he could. I pretty much nailed him on his... head... and he still didn't see me or know where I was." I answered.
"That sounds like a good thing..." Racquel stated.
"Anyway, you should test out your Innocence to see if it works down there." General Michio's voice came on.
I listened for a moment as there was a faint, 'Stop stealing the stupid microphone from me!' and, 'Maybe you should grow a couple of inches so you can keep it out of my grasp then.' which I recognized as General Michio and Racquel arguing.
"Good idea." I said, hoping to catch his attention so Racquel could get the microphone back, which I assumed was a success as I heard Michio shout, 'Hey!' before Racquel asked, "So? What are you waiting for, activate it!"
I rolled my eyes, then tried activating it, but stopped and deactivated it quicker than I thought possible. Immense, electrifying, terrible, horrible, unexplainable pain shot through my body as soon as I had started activating it. The ache in my ribs, the pain from the lizard bite, the curse scars, the pain from them became all too apparent suddenly.
"I take that back, horrible, terrible, idiotic idea. Never again am I listening to one of Michio's idiotic ideas..." I groaned.
"What happened?" Racquel asked worriedly.
"Didn't work... and backfired. I've gone through a lot of shit, but that had to be the most excruciating pain in my life. I'm surprised I didn't fucking scream." I seethed as I panted to catch my breath, wondering when I'd lost it.
I heard a, 'Good job, stupid.' As Racquel belittled Michio. I stood up, using the wall of the maze for support for a moment before becoming confident I wouldn't fall. I glanced around and started walking in a random direction.
"So, now I'm in a maze, any ideas where I should go?" I asked boredly.
"No, yet I find it strange you haven't run into any Akuma yet." Racquel answered over the inter com.
"So do I..." I trailed off as I pondered that, but continued walking. I yawned, then muttered to myself, "When did I become so tired?..."
"Raven? Did you say something?" Racquel asked.
"Nothin', just muttering to myself." I stated boredly. "How's my disciples' progress coming along?" I asked, wanting to change the subject.
"Let's just say, the only thing that's changed is they're tired." Racquel answered.
"And anything from Lupus yet?" I asked.
"They've gone through three of the songs in the book, but none of them match up with the score Timcanpy has." Racquel paused as I yawned. "Raven, are you alright?"
"Hmm? Yeah, just really tired..." I leaned against a wall, then slumped down to the floor. "A nap doesn't sound too bad actually..."
"Raven! Don't fall asleep! Are you mad?" Racquel started yelling at me.
"No, just tired-..." I stopped as I noticed a small hole on the wall of the maze. I looked closer at it and saw some kind of gas being blown from it. "Oh shit..." I muttered as I yawned, but then quickly put my sleeve over my nose and mouth. "They're using sleeping gas..." I trailed off tiredly.
"... Why in the world would hell need sleeping gas?" Racquel asked, confused.
"Shouldn't we focus on... the... problem of it... making me... sleepy?" I asked between yawns. "Damn..."
I stood up, using the wall for support, then noticed something move in one of the paths. Something was down here...
"Raven, you need me to bring you back?" Racquel asked worriedly.
"No, I just saw something." I answered. "I'm gonna follow, see if it can," *yawn* "Lead me out of here."
"Alright... But be careful." Racquel replied.
"Sure." I answered boredly as I followed the object as it went from path way to path way; All the while, keeping my sleeve over my mouth to keep too much of the gas from getting to me. As soon as I turned the millionth corner, I found myself face to face with a giant black door. I blinked in surprise, then said, "I think... I found the exit..." I reached out and turned the handle and the door creaked open.
I suddenly found myself in a canyon of sorts that had flame and brimstone everywhere.
"Okay, now this looks a bit more like hell..." I stated to myself.
"What do you mean?" Racquel asked.
"Flame, brimstone, the basic definition of hell. Well, minus the tortured screams... Now that I think about it, why is it so quiet?" I asked.
"Don't ask me, you're the one there, not me." Racquel answered.
I yawned, then said, "At least there's no sleeping gas here... hopefully."
"I promise you Raven, if you pass out, I am opening a portal and dragging you back here." Racquel warned me.
"Sure, sure, now I just need to find Satan. Hell ain't the funnest place to-" I stopped as I watched a weird ghost like creature just float lifelessly past me. I blinked in surprise, then poked it. I covered my ears as it screeched, then watched as it flew off like it had just been burned.
"What was that?" Racquel asked.
"The very first tortured soul I've seen since coming here." I answered. Note to self, don't poke things. I thought boredly to myself.
A sense of imminent doom overcame me all of a sudden and I stood frozen to my spot for a moment. "I have a feeling I should start running." I whispered to myself.
"Why?" Racquel asked, confused.
Two words popped into my mind when she asked that. "Hell's Horsemen." I whispered. I quickly jumped to the right as an axe came down right where I had been at. I glanced up and saw the horsemen looking right at me, but I had a feeling it really wasn't looking at me. That, and it wasn't the horseman that normally tried killing me.
You should start running. The Noah stated to me. I didn't waste a second in following that suggestion. I started sprinting in any direction that was away from the horseman. I couldn't fight down here, so it was best to just run.
I turned left to behind a rock that was jutting out of the ground and pressed myself flat against it as I glanced around the edge to see if the horseman was following me. The horseman was resting his axe on his shoulder, was still where he was at, and was staring right at me. He then swung his axe off his shoulder and pointed it to his right, and a tunnel was made in the flames.
I blinked in surprise, then the horsemen gestured his head to the right, trying to tell me to go through the tunnel. I narrowed my eyes at the horseman, becoming slightly suspicious. I hid back behind the rock, then set the tazer to its highest volts and hid in my sleeve. I peeked back around the rock to see the horseman hadn't moved an inch.
"Raven!" Racquel's voice shouted through the communicator.
"What? And be quiet!" I whispered harshly.
"What's going on?" Racquel asked annoyed."I've said your name about fifty times and you haven't answered!"
"Sorry I haven't answered! I was just trying to keep an eye on a horseman that tried cutting me in half, then made a tunnel through the frickin' flames!" I seethed. "Now be quiet so I can try and figure out what it's up to!" I thought over something a moment, then said, "And quit asking me about every little thing that happens!"
I quickly snapped my head back towards the horseman to again see he hadn't moved an inch. What the hell was he up to?
"Go." His voice suddenly echoed around the area. I jumped, then glared at him. "You do not trust me, but this is the only exit."
I stepped out from behind the rock, knowing it was useless to hide since he already knew where I was at. "And why would you be helping me?" I spat at it bitterly.
"'Why?' Indeed." It stated. "I take it you do not want to speak to Satan then? He is already aware of your presence in hell."
I flinched slightly, then looked between him, and the tunnel. I glanced once more at the horseman, then started heading towards the tunnel, getting ready to counterstrike at any offensive movement.
Amazingly, I made it to the tunnel, and through it, with no problems. Satan controlled the horsemen, so did this mean he wanted to talk to me? This couldn't be good...
I suddenly fell through a hole that appeared out of nowhere and landed with an, 'oof!' on a chair. I quickly looked around and found I was in a brimstone room with a desk with a chair behind it, but no doors.
I suddenly felt something being pulled from my ear and yelped as I brought my hand up to a now earing-less ear that was bleeding. I turned my head and saw a red skinned male with black horns and red bat wings on his back holding the communicator earring.
"We won't be needing this, now will we?" He said maliciously as he crushed the earring in his hand. I jumped out of the seat and backed away from him.
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"Raven? Raven? Answer me god damnit!" Racquel yelled into the microphone, beyond worried and pissed.
"Signal, lost. Searching for signal... Searching for signal... Searching for signal..." The automatic voice for the communicator began.
Racquel's eyes widened and she dropped the microphone. The room was eerily quiet as those three words echoed around the room. Even the Ouran teens had heard the signal was lost and were staring, shocked, at Racquel. Even Michio was shifting warily on his feet.
"Searching for signal... Signal no longer exists, please try a different frequency." The automatic voice informed them.
"Oh god..." Racquel trailed off, close to tears.
"Are you... Are you serious?" Kaoru asked from his training spot in the pit.
General Michio snapped to his senses and ordered the teens, "Keep training!" He then had his clones start attacking them again. He knew they'd most likely want to go after her, but he had to make sure they stayed safe, even if that meant distracting them with fighting.
He then rushed over to Racquel's side and saw her silently crying. No sobs, just an endless stream of tears down her pink cheeks. She looked frail, like she was going to break.
"Racquel," Michio said quietly, "I know you're shocked, but you need to try and find the last place the signal came from so you can open a portal for Raven. You need to do this before you lose the location."
"She..." Racquel started quietly, "She's an idiot..."
"Belittle her when she gets back, just focus on finding her location." Michio tried comforting her.
Racquel nodded numbly, then started working with the laptop she brought to trace Raven's signal.
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"Satan, I'm presuming?" I hissed. Now that I was standing, and he wasn't behind me, I could better take in his appearance. He was ripped (muscular), shirtless, but wearing black, soot stained slacks. He was bare... hoof? He had hooves, not feet. He also had a spaded tail swinging lazily back and forth behind him. He had a human appearance from the waist up, not counting the black horns that curled around themselves on his head. His eyes were completely black and he seemed to be judging me, as I was judging him.
"You're presumption would be..." He trailed off, starting to circle me, so I did the same. "Correct. But, I can hardly believe you're even a Walker descendant."
My eyes widened, then narrowed, "How much do you know about me?"
"Everything, my dear. Ev. Ry. Thing." He emphasized the syllables.
"Even..." I trailed off as my eyes grew wide.
He laughed, then said, "I guess that means four people know your little secret now."
"Four?" I asked worriedly.
"Uh-ah-ah, First," He paused, then glared at me, "You tell me where the key is. Then, you get to go home."
I glared at him, beyond ticked now. "I don't have the fucking key! Nor do I know where it is! That's what I came down here to fucking tell you! So back off, the war's complicated enough as it is!" I yelled at him.
"I know, I just don't care. You see, God and I both acknowledge there has to be a balance between all things, including good and evil, so we rarely interfere with human matters, only when things become too 'good' or too 'evil' does one of us interfere. That doesn't mean we don't like pissing each other off though. For example, when a strange gluttonus creature came saying he could turn some of the most pure of people, the Noah, evil, I just couldn't resist the offer." His face turned into a scowl, "Little did I know, the strange being wanted to become the God and Satan of his own world, using the Noah as puppets." He then glanced at me and said, "But you have the key that I can use to get to him so I can destroy him. I'm not letting you leave here until you give me the key."
I narrowed my eyes at him and said, "This is just a matter of revenge, isn't it?"
He shrugged, then said, "Revenge, duty, when you're me, there's really no difference."
"Well, sucks to be you. I don't have the key and Allen won't tell me where it is." I hissed crossing my arms.
"Allen? As in, the Allen Walker?" Satan asked.
"Who else could it be?" I hissed.
"You talked with him?" Satan pressed.
"You're point?" I snarled.
A wicked grin spread across his face and he hummed, mostly to himself, "Interesting..." I cocked my eyebrow and watched as he went behind the desk and sat in the chair. "You know, I can't let you leave now that I know you've talked with him."
"You can't stop me from leaving." I stated.
"Tell me, can someone walk out a door if their legs are broken?" Satan asked with a smug grin.
"Tell me," I said mocking him, "Can you even lay a finger on me without it being cut off?"
Satan laughed, then said, "Of course! You may be an apostle of god, but you trespassed into the territory of hell. God can't help you here."
"Trust me, you'll be the one begging him for mercy." I seethed.
Satan laughed, then said, "Not too shabby kid. And here I thought all Apostles of god were goody two shoes."
"You'd be wrong." I hissed at him. I thought over something for a moment, then asked, "If you hate the Earl so much, why wait until now to try and kill him?"
Satan became obviously annoyed, then said, "There has to be a certain amount of good and evil balanced on earth. I wanted to go kill him myself, but there was an overabundance of evil on earth, so it was up to God to send enough good to balance out the evil and eliminate the source of the unnesecary evil."
I thought over this a moment, then asked, "And why is it I've run into cannibalistic lizards, Cerberus, ghosts, and a horseman, but haven't seen any Akuma?"
Satan slammed his fist on his desk, then shouted, "Blame the damn Earl! Akuma were supposed to be my own toys used to punish evil spirits, but he made all mine self destruct and took the egg!"
My eyes widened in shock and I said, "Whoa whoa whoa, back up; You had the egg?"
"Shocker, isn't it." He growled sarcasticly. "I had the egg, God had the heart, that's how the power was supposed to be balanced. We each used the objects' special abilities to our advantage. The egg could create or direct souls to where they were supposed to stay, I used it to place souls in Akuma. The heart, however, created life, and it was what first started the first few beings on earth. However, when the Earl stole the egg and took it to earth, God had no choice but to send the heart to earth as well to keep balance."
"Wait, the egg creates souls?" I asked, amazed by all this information.
"Yes, and thanks to you humans being misinformed, you've shattered it, twice and haven't once seen the damage it's caused." Satan grunted.
"What damage?" I asked, confused.
"The egg creates souls, the heart creates life. If the egg is shattered, life continues, but newborns are born without souls until the egg is repaired. If the heart is shattered, no one is born at all and souls build up, causing paranormal activity. I believe humans call them, 'hauntings'." Satan elaborated. "If the egg is shattered one more time though, too many souls will have no where to go, causing a disastorous shift in balance-"
"Meaning the world would be destroyed..." I whispered, shocked.
"You catch on quickly." Satan stated.
"But, I'm still confused about the heart. Why is it Innocence is destroyed if the heart's destroyed?" I asked.
"They're connected. Tell me kid, could you survive if your heart was ripped out?" Satan asked boredly.
"Touché." I replied.
There was silence for a moment, then Satan asked, "What? No more twenty questions?"
"One; How do I get out of here?" I asked.
Satan chuckled, then said, "Like I said before, you're not leaving here."
"And you think you can stop me?" I asked boredly.
"Yes." He stated simply.
"If it's about the key, I don't know where the hell it is." I seethed.
"Yes, but only Walkers can get the key, and since you're the last Walker, you'll find it eventually." Satan said smugly.
I sighed in annoyance, then said, "Look, I don't care about your agenda or whatever, but I have a war to fight and I can't sit it out down here. You just want the Earl dead, right? Doesn't matter who, doesn't matter where, so long as it's soon, right?" Satan cocked an eyebrow, then gestured for me to continue. "I can't stay down here, so whenever I find the key or whatever, I'll kill the Earl myself. That enough to get you to let me out of here?"
"Do you even think you can kill the Earl?" Satan asked, slightly amused.
"No, but with the help of Allen and..." I glanced down at my hand, "Maybe tapping into some of the Noah's power, I might be able to."
"Might?" Satan asked, amused.
"Will." I corrected myself.
Satan chuckled, then said, "You realize you're an apostle making a deal with the devil, right?"
"But my soul's not part of the deal. I kill someone we both want dead, and you let me out of here. Seems like a simple deal." I answered.
"Touché." Satan stated. "Alright, it's a deal. I let you out of here, and you kill the Earl."
"And no more sending the horsemen after me." I added. "That's the main reason I came down here."
"You came down here, just to get my horsemen off your back?" Satan asked amused.
"They hurt my friend." I stated coldly, directing a murderous gaze towards Satan.
"Ooh, the evil eye." Satan joked. "Well, we have our deal, you know more than you should, and my horsemen won't come after you. I'd find this deal dropping heavily on my end if it wasn't for the fact the Earl's death is on yours."
"Please, I would've killed him even if I hadn't come down here." I stated with my own smug smile.
Satan looked as if he was about to say something, but a familiar green portal began opening up near me.
I smirked and said, "Look at that, no communicator and she still knows where to open it up at."
"Well kid, you made history." Satan stated as he leaned back in his chair and propped his feet- er, hooves- up on his desk and said, "You just made a deal with the devil that didn't involve your soul."
"Wouldn't have really mattered," I stated, earning an actually confused look from Satan, "I know it's damned to burn in hell anyway." I stepped through the portal, and back into the earth dimension.
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Satan smirked as he watched the white haired teen leave through a portal. He didn't think she knew, but apparently, she did.
All cursed souls end up in hell, even if they're innocent.
"Although, she just might be an exception if she can really kill the Earl..." Satan bemused to himself.
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LONG! Not really. Anyway, LOTS of information here. And yes, she just talked with satan and he was not entirely evil because he just represents the evil half of the good and evil balance.
That, and I'm terrible at making bad guys. So sue me.
Actually, don't. I don't have any money to spare... So...
Reviews for the poor please!
Also, what they were talking about at the beggining of the chapter will be explained in the next one.