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Thanks for reviewing the last chapter. As I said on my profile, now that I am done with Another Black Tie Affair, I should be able to concentrate more on this one, even though school is starting up soon, but stay tuned! Anyway, onto the second chapter where of course my favorite character makes his entrance!

Disclaimer: Same one from the last chapter. This story is rated M for a reason!

Hell Bent On Love

By: afallenblackrose

Chapter Two:

The Masters of Hell

When I opened my eyes, I was instantly surprised. I hadn't expected to ever open my eyes again; I thought I had been dead. Diamond had slashed my wrists to kill me; I had felt the blood dripping down my arms. I had…wait, I looked closely at my wrists noticing that they weren't bleeding; in fact, they didn't look like they had been cut at all. What was going on here? I looked up and was surprised by my surroundings.

This was not Diamond's hotel room. Where exactly was I? My eyes scanned the rock cut walls for a sign that would inform me of where I had woken up, but they gave away nothing. I got up from my position on the floor and walked towards the wall. This was a different kind of rock than from what I was used to seeing. Where in God's name was I? But that wasn't the only thing that was different about me either. I was fully clothed. I looked down and stared. Someone had dressed me in a simple black spaghetti strapped dress. My feet were also in black stilettos. What the hell? The sound of clacking alerted me to the arrival of someone in the room that I was in. I turned around and instantly felt more questions enter my mind.

Standing behind me was a tall woman with long curly brunette hair, which was up in a ponytail, and she was wearing a deep green dress that looked like it had come out of a Victoria's Secret catalogue. But the woman had the curves and the chest to fill out the dress she was wearing. Simple rose stud earrings were in her ears, she was also wearing a pair of green stilettos, and her green eyes looked at me calmly as if she was expecting me to look…well, surprised at the appearance.

"I don't wish to alarm you," she said calmly, her voice coming out like silk. "I remember how it was the first time I woke up in this room. It was very nerve wracking. You don't know where you are, and you're not sure what is going on. But I can assure you, Serenity that you are not in any danger. You are save here."

"H-how do you know my name?" I stuttered, surprised by her speech. "Who are you? And where am I?"

She smiled lightly, "My name is Lita, and the reason I know your name Serenity is because you are dead and are currently in the waiting room of hell."

My eyes instantly widened, and if I had been a weaker sort of girl, I would have passed out in shock. But I was born strong willed and held my ground. The words that the woman, Lita she said her name was, repeated in my head. So it hadn't been my imagination. Diamond really did kill me. But the question was why was I in hell? Okay, I'll admit that I hadn't been a devoted Christian over the last few years, and sure, the business of killing people for money was probably a bit spotty, but were these deeds so insidious to earn me a place in hell? I hadn't thought so, but apparently, I was wrong.

"You said something that I was in the waiting room of hell?" I asked after a few moments. Lita glanced at me surprised by my reaction. "What exactly does that mean, if you don't mind me asking?"

"Mind you asking?" Lita repeated. "Of course I don't mind you asking, but shouldn't you be freaking out right about now? Aren't you, I don't know, surprised and alarmed that you're in hell?"

I simply shrugged, "Considering the things I've done, I'm not really surprised, even though I had hoped that my actions were justifiable enough to land me a spot above. But maybe I was thinking too highly. But you said that I'm in a waiting room?"

"Yes, you are in a waiting room. In a few minutes a horn will sound and I will be instructed to come and take you and the others to the main hall where the masters of hell will decide what to do with you. Don't be alarmed, the masters may seem cruel and treacherous looking, but really they are rather sweet." She smiled and seemed lost in reminisce. If we had been good friends I would have asked what her relationship with one of the masters was. It was obvious by the look on her face that she was involved with one of them. We lapsed into silence after that, but I was more than thankful for it. So much had happened that I needed time to process everything. My life had been normal, except for the occasional 'job', but now here I was about to be sentenced…in hell. Talk about a weird turn of events, and I couldn't help but growl at the events that had lead me here.

Diamond freaking Chambers had killed me. But the two of us would be the only ones to know that he had murdered me, which was why he had cut my wrists. He would get off with my murder, because he made it look like a suicide. If my sentence wasn't too horrible, I would try to go back up to the world of the living and haunt him and make him regret what he had done to me for the rest of his life. I would make sure that he would be too damn afraid of his own fucking shadow.

A light sound that sounded like a swan infiltrated through the room. Lita looked up and ushered me to follow her. Walking close by her, we walked out of the room and into a larger hallway that was lined with rocks that were similar to the ones that were in the room I was in. Along the hallway, she signaled me to stop and she ducked into another room. When she came out, a blonde who could have passed for my sister came out behind her. She looked at me with sapphire blue eyes, and she was shocked to see me. She was also wearing a black spaghetti strapped dress.

"Serenity this is Mina," Lita said gesturing to the blonde. "She is also going to be judged with you. Mina this is Serenity. Come on, follow me, the masters don't care to be kept waiting." We began to follow the brunette, but we held a quiet conversation on our way to the masters.

"What did you do to wind up in hell?" I broke the ice first; I didn't care for the quiet too much and decided that we needed to pass the time.

"I-I, well, I was a hired escort and slept around with a lot of married men. You?"

"I was a hired assassin and killed a lot of CEOs."

"Really?" Mina asked stunned.

"Yeah."

"But then what happened? Did someone hire someone else to kill you before you could kill him or her? Or did something else happen?"

"The latter. I was on a job earlier, and he was a big shot client. Bigger than what I've killed before, and unlike my others he had to be lulled into a false sense of security. So I dressed up as an escort," I sent a sympathetic look to my blonde companion. "Enticed him to take me back to his room and was just about to get him where I wanted him, when he got the drop on me. He already knew what I had been hired to do and he had his way with me then killed me." I shook my head in disgust. Mina just stared at me in stunned silence. She didn't say much the rest of the walk to the main room, which wasn't too long. Within minutes Lita ushered us into a large room that almost looked like an entrance hall. The same stone that had been in the hallway and my room was also in this room.

But I wasn't too concerned with the décor. My eyes soon flashed over to the back wall of the room where there were four steps of the blackest onyx. But again it was who was on these steps that drew my attention. On the lowest step, on a throne that seemed to be carved of the same stone, sat a blonde-haired man with icy green eyes. He was dressed in a gray suit and was wearing brown boots. A woman with long black hair, it almost looked violet, and a red dress similar to Lita's was perched directly on his lap. I could plainly see one hand on the girl's waist that belonged to the blonde, but the other hand seemed to be, my eyes widened as I took in the blissed out expression on the woman's face. Oh my!

On the step above the blonde's, sat a man with long curly brown hair and brown eyes. He was wearing a similar outfit to the blonde's but seemed to have more embellishments on his suit than the blonde did. Above him on the third step, sat two more men. The man on the right also had long hair but this time it was more amber than brown. It was also pulled back into a ponytail. His gray suit was less embellished than the brown-haired man, but still had more color than the blonde. But I was lucky to be able to make that much out of the man's appearance. For straddling his lap, with her ice blue dress pulled down so her chest was bared to him, and her head thrown back was a blue-haired woman. My eyes widened in surprise. Didn't anyone hear of modesty in this place?

The man on the left was the most interesting of them all, especially because he wore a look of disgust as to what his friend was doing next to him. His hair was pure white and went to his shoulders. He was the tannest out of the four, and his icy blue eyes seemed to flash at our entrance. They also seemed to be totally captivated by Mina. His uniform was different than the other three's. He wore a white cape and his suit was blue-gray than just plain gray.

These must be the masters of hell, but as my eyes traveled up to the last step, the highest of them all, the throne that lay upon it was empty. No man sat there. My eyebrows furrowed. That was quite curious. Where would this fifth person be? I turned back to Mina and we both exchanged glances.

"Where do you think the fifth person is?" Mina asked.

"I don't know, but did you see the one with the white hair?" She blushed at my words. She had noticed him all right, and when I glanced at Lita she seemed to be starting at the brunette. So that was the master she was involved with. But another question seemed to take precedence in my mind. Where were the others that were going to be sentenced? Surely, Mina and I weren't the only ones this day? I didn't get to wonder long for the black-haired woman in the red dress strode off the blonde's lap and sauntered over to Lita. They exchanged a fury of whispers, and Lita's eyes were widening by the minute.

"Are you sure?" I heard her ask the black-haired woman.

"Yes, he sent word a few moments ago."

"But why would he want to come here? What's so different about this time than the other one's he's missed out on over the years?"

The black-haired woman shrugged. "Who are we to question him?" She didn't give Lita a chance to reply as she strode back to the blonde's lap.

"Wonder what that was about?" I turned my attention back to Mina who just shrugged.

"Don't know, maybe it has something to do with the fifth master?"

"Could be," I agreed reluctantly. I was still more concerned that nobody else was being sentenced to judgment but the two of us. Others had been killed today, right? We couldn't be the only ones. Lita turned to us and finally answered one of our questions.

"We are sorry for the delay," she whispered. "But apparently, we have to wait for him to make his appearance." The worried look reappeared on her face.

"Who's he?" I asked. "The fifth master?"

"You could say that," she sighed. "But we just call him the devil."

Mina whipped her head to stare at Lita so fast I was surprised that she didn't stumble where she stood. Her mouth was open in alarm and her eyes were widening in shock. "You mean there's actually a devil?" Lita nodded. "But why is he coming to this judgment? What have we done to deserve this?" She seemed to be near tears. Apparently there was only so much she could take, while me on the other hand, I just learned to take things in stride, even though the display that was happening on that third step was still disturbing to me, and sadly, I also found it pretty erotic.

"Where are the others?" I asked.

"Others?" She asked confused.

"Yes, shouldn't there be others being judged with us? We weren't the only ones to die today and be sent to hell, were we?"

"Oh! Well, you two are special cases," Lita looked uncomfortable talking about this, which only peaked my curiosity. What exactly did she mean that we were 'special' cases? But I didn't get the chance to ask, because while we were talking a flash of flame had appeared on that last step and my mind was completely blown.

Once the flame disappeared, a man who seemed to be taller than the others, and who was wearing a black tuxedo stood by his throne. His messy raven black hair fell haphazardly into his eyes, which I was surprised to see were a deep azure blue. As I have said before, I am not like most other girls, but if I had been my mouth would have been hanging open at the sheer beauty of the man who had just appeared. It didn't help either that those deep azure blue eyes seemed to catch mine in a heated stare, before I looked away (with much reluctance). The men, and women, on the thrones stood and bowed to him as if he were their king, which I guess he kind of was. Lita also bowed, but Mina and I just stood there not really sure if we should bow or not. But it didn't matter, for he ushered them away quickly and took his seat.

"Let the sentencing begin," his voice was deep and husky.

Oh God, was I ever in trouble.