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Chapter 2: Abandon All Hope

'Man, it is nice being dead. I can do what I want and no one cares, but then again they aren't quite real, but it doesn't matter I need to get to Kamine Island and fast!; Lelouch thought after he stole a jet ski and was on his way to Kamine Island.

After Lelouch finally got onto the island, the island shook. 'Whoa, earthquake? Wait; with time frozen, there can't be any earthquakes. It must have been Lucifer's doing.' Lelouch thought as he ran through the forest. When he got near the temple's entrance, he saw what the shaking was exactly: Humanoid creatures wielding swords were crawling out of cracks in the ground and standing guard. 'They must be some of Lucifer's minions. He's certainly not making this easy, but I don't have the luxury to find some way around them.' Lelouch ran forward and took out his scythe just as the minions saw them and started running at him.

When of the minions tried to slice Leluoch, but he easily dodged and cut the minion in half at the waist. Lelouch jumped backed and turned the scythe into a spear. "Who want a minion on a stick? Well I should say 'who wants to be a minion on a stick?" Lelouch said as he shot the spear forward and watched as it skewered three minions. 'They don't seem very bright.' Lelouch thought as he pulled the spear back and watch the three skewered minions fall to the ground. Suddenly, the last two minions started to run at Lelouch from his left and right side. "A pincer attack huh? Sorry, but that won't work on me." Lelouch said as the two minions were about to slice down on Lelouch as he jumped out of the way and the minions slashed each other. As Lelouch fell down, he did a quick spin slice with his scythe and cut off both of the minions' heads. 'Now then, with them out of the way, I can enter the temple.' Lelouch thought as he ran inside.

When Lelouch got inside, he saw that temple didn't look any different than it did look when he, C.C. and Suzaku left the temple to start the Zero Requiem. Lelouch walked to the stone block that was also the entrance to C's world and put his hand on it. "God, I know I might not be someone you wish to talk to right now, but please help me."

Silence

"Please God I want to save her!"

Silence

Lelouch then got a very serious look in his eyes and said "Fine, don't answer my prayers, but you owe me one, remember? It was me who saved you from Ragnarok, it was me who saved your life and I'm quite sure that means you owe me one and now I'm calling it in!"

A flash of light blinds Lelouch and he finds himself in C's world.

"Really? Our Holy Father doesn't answer prayers, but answers favors when owed? No wonder atheists are spreading like disease." Lelouch said.

"Well He can't just go about answering prayers like crazy." A voice said as a bright light appeared and took the form of a human with white wings.

"You must be an angel." Lelouch said, slightly dazed from the light of the angel's entrance.

"I'm actually an archangel, just to be exact. My name is Michael." The angel said.

"THE Michael? As in the one who kicked his own brother's ass down to Hell." Lelouch exclaimed.

"I wish you wouldn't put it that way, but yes, that's me."

"So what does the great Michael, who honors me with his presence, want?"

"I'm here to give you a choice of want you want Him to give you." Michael said as to gates appeared: One showed a picture of Pendragon and another showed a picture of Flames.

"One option is that we could reincarnate you. Into a life where you get to experience the fruits of your labors as the Demon Emperor, or maybe into the life of the man who'll marry Nunnaly? I'm sure you'd like that."

"You're right I would, what's the other option?"

"We can send you to hell. We will also summon a shade who will act as your guide through Hell, but that's all we can do."

"So it's settled then." Lelouch said as he walked towards the gate with the images of fire in it.

"Wait, there's one thing I was supposed to give you if you chose Hell." Michael said as a ball of light appeared which then took on the form of a cross that was shaped the same way the cross sewed onto his chest was shaped: Like a normal one except the horizontal bar is the geass sigil.

"What's this for?" Lelouch asked as he grabbed the cross and looked at it. It was white with a small tint of red and had a large, purple jewel in the middle of it.

"This cross has been blessed by He himself, this will serve as your holy weapon to go along with your unholy scythe." Michael said as he snapped his fingers and a satchel looking sheathe appeared on his waist. Lelouch then put the cross in its sheathe. "Good luck, cause where you're going, it shall be your only aid." Michael said as he vanished in a flash of light.

Lelouch looked at the portal and said "Well then, lets see how well these demons fair against the Demon Emperor." Lelouch then proceed towards the portal, but when he entered it he found himself back at the temple. "What, was I tricked?" Lelouch thought, but when he turned around, he didn't see the cave exit, and neither did he see the hole that he sort of caused the first time he came here. "This is not the temple." Lelouch said as almost right on cue, the walls and ceiling fell apart, showing a fiery inferno with what look like people crashing downwards in balls of fire. "That's got to hurt." Lelouch said as suddenly flying creatures appeared down from the inferno.

"Crap they're too far away even for my scythe's extended reach to hit them." Lelouch said as he dodged a fire ball shot by one of them. 'Maybe…' Lelouch thought as his hand moved over his cross. 'No times to worry about it now.' Lelouch thought as he pulled out his cross and pointed it towards the flying creatures. Suddenly, out from the cross, came a light in the color and shape, except bigger, of the cross which headed towards one of the creatures and hit it, but didn't kill it. 'Seems like the cross can shoot light projectiles at enemies, but they are not that powerful.' Lelouch thought as he fired another shot at them. Lelouch kept doing this until he finally killed them all.

'Not really suited for close or even mid-range attacks really, but at least it beats nothing.' Lelouch thought as the ground began to shake. "Whoa!" Lelouch said as the whole platform broke up and fell down. Lelouch quickly tried to maintain his balance, but the platform chunk he was on broke apart and Lelouch began to fall. 'I really should have taken those skydiving classes.' Lelouch thought as he shot his scythe out as he was falling and was able to hook onto something because he stopped falling. Lelouch looked up to see what his scythe hooked on to, but saw that it didn't hook onto anything. Instead, it stabbed one of those flying creatures. 'This could be promising.' Lelouch thought as he climbed up the shaft of the scythe until he was at the top, then he climbed on top of the creature, sat down on it, and took out the scythe. "Ok now, flying creature, unless you want to be skewered, you will take me down, understand?"

Almost as if the thing knew what Lelouch was saying, the flying creature started descending while avoiding the souls that were plummeting down. It was as smooth of a descent one can get in Hell, but before Lelouch could relax, more of the flying creatures appeared and started attacking Lelouch. 'Seems like they show no mercy to the enemy even if one of their own is being held hostage.' Lelouch realized as he pulled out his cross and stood up, trying to maintain balance. "Don't panic, just keep on going, I'll hold them off." Lelouch said to the creature he was standing on as he started shooting the hostiles. Things at first were going smoothly, but nothing lasts and more flying creatures started appearing, with these attacking even faster. "I know I said to keep going, but I kind of meant go faster at the same time." Lelouch said as the creature began to go faster, but not too fast as to knock Lelouch off. "This is better." Lelouch said as he used his scythe to slice an enemy they zoomed past. Eventually, Lelouch saw a walkway and jumped off the creature and onto it. "Thanks for the ride." Lelouch said, but saw that the winged creature vanished.

"You're not even at the gates yet and you already made a pet out of one of Lucifer's creatures. Good job Lelouch." A voice said.

Lelouch turned around and saw the figure of a transparent person. He was wearing a red shirt with the Black Knights jacket over it with only the lower half of the jacket buttoned. He was also wearing the Black Knights pants and had his dark blonde hair in a ponytail. "Diethard? Is that you?" Lelouch asked.

"The one and only." Diethard replied with a smile.

"What are you doing here?"

"Bit of a tale really. When I died I was sent to the circle of Treachery for my betrayal of you, and trust me it's not pleasant there."

"I'd be surprised if it was."

"Yes, well, anyway, after what seemed like an eternity, an angel came down to me."

"Let me guess his name was Michael."

"I see you've met him before. Well, Michael actually offered me a deal: Become you're guide through your journey through Hell and he'll get Him to pardon me of my sins."

"That sounds like a really good deal."

"Oh it gets better. As a bonus, Michael will make me a record keeper."

"A record keeper?"

"Yes, that means that I'll have the right to record all of the information and history of Heaven, Hell, and Earth from the moment I finish my end of the deal. After he told me that deal, I asked for a favor."

"You're asking for a favor from an angel that has your only ticket out of Hell and is giving you a good deal to boot?"

"Yes."

"Well, what was the favor you asked for?"

Diethard then pulled out, or more like conjured, a video camera and said "I asked if I could record your journey through Hell and he agreed."

"A journalist to the end and beyond I see. Well then, oh mighty guide, where am I exactly?"

The video camera in Diethard's hand was replaced by a black staff on which a small video camera was placed on top of. "You are nearing the gates of Hell." Diethard said as he pointed down the walkway towards a big, black, and red door.

Lelouch quickly ran to the gates and noticed strange writing on it. "Hmm, Latin. It says… Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes."

"It means 'Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.'" Diethard said as he had an incredibly serious look on his face. Beyond this door is Hell. Once you enter, there will be no turning back. In Hell, you will be forced to face to sins you have committed, the sins your close ones have committed, and the creatures that punish people for those sins."

"Like those creatures I fought before?"

"No, the human looking ones were just simply minions. They were once souls that were sent to Hell because of their crimes and were eventually corrupted and deformed into soldiers for Lucifer and the other demons. The flying things are known as Pests, they are very common and numerous in all of the nine circles. What you'll have to fight when you get to the lower circles will be even stronger than them. Are you ready to face the terrors behind these doors?"

"You know me Diethard. You know I would never turn my back away from this even if all of Hell is out to get me." Lelouch said with a confident smile.

"Good, because all of Hell is out to get you and it won't stop till they have you head on a plate."

"Sorry for them, but I like my heads attached to their necks and besides, I won't stop till I save C.C. from Lucifer"

"Then you have a long journey ahead of you, and it won't be easy." Diethard said when suddenly, almost as if Hell intends to prove Diethard right, a giant beast with a demon controlling it on top busted through a rock wall. "An Asterian Beast. They are beasts of burden used to-"

"Sorry, but don't really care right now." Lelouch said as he unsheathed his scythe and got ready to fight."

"Yes, but you should know that it's almost impossible to kill an Asterian Beast." Diethard said right before he vanished.

"Good to know." Lelouch said as he rushed towards the beast only to jump out of the way as the best begins to breathe fire at him. "I think you should've mentioned the fire-breathing part also Diethard." Lelouch said as he got far away and fired a couple cross rounds and the best, only to see it unaffected. 'Diethard's right these things are hard to kill.' Lelouch thought as his gaze came upon the best tamer. 'But that doesn't mean its riders aren't.' Lelouch thought as a small plan formed in his mind.

The Beast Tamer, growing impatient, has the beast charge at Lelouch, all of this going to Lelouch's plan. Lelouch jumps out of the way at the last second and watch the beast crash into a wall, dazing it. Lelouch then shoots the scythe out; stabbing it into the beast's left shoulder. Lelouch then pulled himself onto the beast, but the beast quickly snaps out of it and tries to grab Lelouch with its other arm, but everything the beast's doing is going according to Lelouch's plan, or, at least, one of his any plans given changing circumstances. Lelouch jumps onto the arm the beast tried to grab him with and then onto the top of the beast's head. The Beast Tamer pulls out its sword ready to fight Lelouch, but Lelouch just smiles and transforms his scythe into a spear right before stabbing it into the beast's head. The beast roared in pain and thrashed the ground around him uncontrollably, while Lelouch was able to hold thanks to his spear being stuck in the beast's head, but the Tamer wasn't so lucky and fell of the beast. Lelouch quickly repositioned himself at the beast's neck where the Tamer was with the spear now scythe, still stabbed into the beast's head and Lelouch began to control the beast like reins used to control a horse. Lelouch had the beast pick up the Tamer who was still trying to get up and brought him close to Lelouch's face. "Tell your master that I'm coming for him." Lelouch said, but the Tamer said something back at him in some unknown language, but Lelouch figured he was cursing him. "On second thought, I'll tell him myself." Lelouch said before he had the beast crush the life out of the Tamer as it turned to ash and disintegrate.

"Now then, time to open those gates!" Lelouch exclaimed as he directed the beast towards the gates and commanded it to open the gates. The beast, using all of its strength, managed to open the gates, and Lelouch say hundreds and thousands of souls falling as fiery balls down and down. 'Diethard was right, unless I can defy gravity, there really is no turning back.' Lelouch thought as he took his scythe out of the beast and jumped down just before the gates closed of Hell closed. "Hold on C.C., I'm coming!" Lelouch said as a descended into the inferno.

Meanwhile, Elsewhere

"What do you intend to do to me?" C.C. asked as Lucifer stared at her evilly with a smile.

"Just what I said before, I intend to make you my bride." Lucifer proclaimed.

"You know Lelouch is going to come here to save me."

"Oh, but my dear, that's what I'm counting on." Lucifer said right before laughing as C.C. stared at him in fear of what he intends to do to Lelouch.

I intend to add a few of the Damned from the game in here and in case you're wondering who I'm going to punish and who I'm going to absolve, please check out the story A Madman's Guide to Soul Judging by iverniler. It's good, funny, and has strong debates for those Damned that deserve one.