I'm sorry to say, but I decided to make it so that the this chapter and the next chapter consist of the last four pockets. I was just not in a typing mood today, sorry. Also, just as a heads up, but if the vote to have me make a sequel goes through, don't expect it for at least a month or two. As you know, there's NO Dante's Inferno 2, so I'll have to make it up completely. To do this, though, I'll have to read, Dante's, the real Dante's, second poem: Purgatorio. This is so I know how Dante envisioned it and its residences and base the story off that. This is all, now please enjoy this chapter.

Chapter: 15: From Deceivers to Betrayers

"Are you kidding me?" Lelouch screamed as he looked at the large, zombie-like…dragon.

"What? The Malebolge of the Thieves is home to the dragons so I thought that for someone as fraudulent as you…it would be your just deserts." Marianne said as that last part dripped with malice.

The dragon was mostly intact except for the parts where all forms of skin, flesh, and bone were gone, which was mostly at the wings, and at the chest, consisting of just the ribcage. There were spikes running along the spine and some spikes on the end of its tail. The dragon's skin possessed a green hue, the same green kind of that decaying corpses would have after a few weeks. The dragon stared at Lelouch with its green, same green as his skin, eyes. Then it took a massive inhale of air.

'Oh crap.' Lelouch thought as he hit the floor right before the dragon breathed a green flame in Lelouch's direction. Lelouch got up and shot a cross bolt at the dragon…to which the dragon ate the holy blast. Lelouch couldn't figure out how, but he knew the dragon liked the taste, whatever taste holy magic had, and knew that now it wanted to taste Lelouch.

"Be careful Lelouch." Marianne said sweetly. "I'm sure Diethard told you before you entered that a bite from the serpents and dragons either caused instant combustion or a slow transformation into a dragon or serpent, and we wouldn't want that to happen to you." Marianne said with an obviously fake tone of worry for the last bit.

Lelouch grunted and thought of a way to beat the dragon. 'Ok, the dragon's main form of attacking is his fire breathing attack which goes only forward, so that means that he can only hit places he is facing, meaning his sides and back are his weaknesses. However, with that tail, it might be hard to strike from behind, so my best options are the sides of it. The fact that its body is almost taking up the whole arena will be somewhat hard to deal with…no matter, I will win.' After Lelouch reached his conclusion, he fired a cross bolt. As predicted, the dragon opened its mouth to eat it, but as soon as it did, Lelouch quickly turned his scythe into a spear and launched it into the dragon's mouth, stabbing the tongue. Lelouch pulled it out as the dragon roared in pain and inhaled to breathe fire at Lelouch. Lelouch, in response, ran straight at the dragon's head. Lelouch was right in front of the dragon's head when it breathed its green fire.

When the dragon stopped, Lelouch was no longer there, it figured that Lelouch was burnt to oblivion or fell of the edge, but it then felt something under itself and then on top of its wings. The dragon looked from the corner of its right eye and saw Lelouch getting on top of his wing. The dragon, realizing that Lelouch slid under him at the last second to avoid the blast and his line of sight, become enraged and started to flap its wings, intending to use the vast space of the Malebolge as a good drop off point for his stowaway.

"Whoa!" Lelouch said as he grabbed onto one of the spikes as the dragon flew off. 'Seems like he's determined to shake me off him. Won't be that easy though.' Lelouch smiled as he grabbed hold of the spike in front of him and made his way to the dragon's head.

The dragon jerked right and left to shake Lelouch off, but when he felt Lelouch at the base of his neck, he did a loop. He ended up scraping against the stalactites above, but bore with it when he saw Lelouch had fallen off.

'Didn't think he'd do that!' Lelouch thought as he found himself falling, the spikes to small for Lelouch to get a good grip on while he was upside-down. Lelouch looked at the dragon that was zooming in to swallow him whole. 'Oh cra-!' Lelouch tried to think but the dragon already chomped on him, or tried to. Lelouch managed to place his scythe inside the dragon's mouth, jamming it open. The dragon tried to get it out, all the while Lelouch was charging his cross.

After roughly twenty seconds Lelouch was about to preform to final blow. "You like the taste of these so much, huh? Then eat this!" Lelouch shouted as he fired the super charged cross attack right down the dragon's throat. The dragon, whether it was dead or just unconscious was unknown at the moment, began to go out of control, but was surely descending at a fast rate. Lelouch climbed out of the mouth and onto the head to get a view of where they were crashing. Fortunately and unfortunately, the dragon was heading straight for the raised drawbridge, probably indicating the dragon was still alive. Lelouch pulled his scythe out of the dragon's mouth and moved a bit back, placing him at the base of the neck. Lelouch then braced for impact as the dragon crashed straight through the stone bridged, with the head placed on the elevator platform and most of the body hanging off the ledge. Getting nothing more than a few rocks hitting him, Lelouch jumped off the dragon and onto the elevator platform, right before the dragon slid off the platform and fall down into the abyss that lies above the den of suffering thieves.

"I…am…a Dragonslayer!" Lelouch shouted, triumphant over his victory.

"Good job, Dovahkiin." Marianne said, slightly annoyed that the dragon who she picked herself, has been killed. "Now go on before you start thinking you'll absorb its soul." And with that, the elevator started to move on its own, taking Lelouch with it.

"Congratulations, you slayed a dragon." Diethard said with a smug look on his face as Lelouch exited the elevator.

"Hey, at least I killed a dragon, now I shall take its bones and scales and make dragon armor!" Lelouch declared.

Diethard frowned. "You've played way too much Skyrim."

It was Lelouch's turn to frown now. "It was a joke Diethard, besides, how would you know that I got it from Skyrim?"

Diethard looked startled and started panicking. "Uh…well…I…"

Lelouch gave a smug grin at the sign of his victory. "Thought so."

"Let's just continue, shall we?"

"By all means, continue, Diethard the Dragonborn."

"I take it that means you have blackmail over me now." Diethard sighed. "Well, this is the eighth pocket. This Malebolge is reserved for the Evil Counselors. Those who gave false and/or corrupted advice are set eternally ablaze, speaking tongues of flame. Among the dwellers of this pocket is the Greek here Odysseus, for his deception using the Trojan horse."

"All that work just to end up in Hell, that's got to hurt."

"Agreed." Diethard said as Lelouch pushed open the doors to the arena. This time, there wasn't anything there before he arrived.

When Lelouch reached the center he said. "What now mother? Will you throw the regular soldiers at me or will you throw some fire creature at me. I think Ryūjin Jakka from that T.V. show Bleach would be perfect here." Lelouch grinned.

"Oh shut up, just because a throw in a dragon makes you think I'm out of ideas and starting to use things from T.V. shows and video games, but Ryūjin Jakka would be a good idea, though. No matter, fighting you now will be souls condemned here fighting for their freedom."

"You do realize that I can kill souls in less than a second, right?"

"Oh, but these souls will continue to suffer their punishment as they fight you though." Marianne said with a bit of confidence in her voice.

Lelouch was about to ask what that meant when he saw three bursts of flame appeared in front of him. Each one then began to take the shape of a human wielding a sword made of fire. 'So that's what she meant.' Lelouch thought as he eyed them carefully.

One of the flame souls jumped at him, to which Lelouch easily dodged and swiped at the soul to counter, but the blade phased straight through him. 'They're not just on fire, they are fire!" Lelouch realized as he avoided an attack from another flame soul.

'Dang, they're just like the Malacoda…just…like…the Malacoda. Hmm…let's see if they are just like the Malacoda.' Lelouch thought as he took out his cross and fired four cross bolts at one of the souls. Just like the Malacoda, it reverted back to its solid form, which was a regular soul holding a sword. Lelouch smiled as he quickly cut the soul in half before it could revert back.

The other flame souls, seeing that Lelouch has discovered their weakness, grew frantic and attacked head on. Lelouch just sighed at the stupidity of their actions and fired a slightly charged cross attack at them. It wasn't powerful, but enough to make them solid. The souls looked in fear as Lelouch decapitated them.

"Damn it! Why can't you let them kill you! You deserve it, after everything you put me and your father through; Hell is your only reward!" Marianne's scream seems to have caused the entire pocket to shake, as stalactites were starting to fall. The shaking also, conveniently, caused the drawbridge to come down, but was ready to break in half though. Lelouch wasted no time and started to run across the bridge as it began to break apart. Lelouch managed to get to the platform before the drawbridge fell apart completely. Lelouch gave out a nice, long sigh before he pulled the lever to descend, which went off without any problems, strangely enough.

When the elevator stopped, Lelouch walked out and sat on the ground near the next door. Diethard said nothing as he heard everything Lelouch's mother had said to him.

"Mother, are you truly this angry with me? Father was able to understand, I think. At least he wasn't as angry as you are. Did you really want the end so badly?" Lelouch asked, but knew no one would answer.

Ended it on a angst spot, didn't I? How many off you thought Skyrim when I threw in the dragon? Come on, raise your hands, not that I'd be able to see them of course. I felt like throwing in a Bleach reference just for the heck of it and in case you don't know Bleach, Ryūjin Jakka is basically a very powerful being of fire.