Well hello, didn't see you coming there…
Is this hell? No it can't be…isn't hell supposed to hurt, something about eternal damnation or whatever…
"Stop! Please stop! No more I beg you no more! I aaaarghhhh…" The brief exclamation was followed by a scream of agony, and then a cackle of mad, sadistic laughter.
Yep, this is hell.
Consciousness found Goku in a cavern that smelled rather unpleasantly of blood. It was a corridor more than a cavern with grey walls that extended forward. Goku could see no sign of the hole that had led to him falling into this place which was disorienting enough as it was, not counting the fact that there was a pathway behind him as well.
He decided to go left. The passageway was ridiculously long, for some time Goku was worried that he was stuck in an endless loop of walking; he could imagine few things worse than walking infinitely in either direction without ever reaching any destination. However not much later he encountered a wall with a small door set into it, Goku pushed the door open…and immediately wished he hadn't.
The door gave way to a brutal scene, a giant creature sat on the ground, well maybe sat wasn't appropriate. The lower half of its body was either buried underground or, something more ominous that Goku didn't want to think about. It was visible up from its naked torso and its head reached a high of at least ten stories, in its hands and jaws were the bloody remains of many unfortunate souls, apparently these souls were being fed to this ten story tall demon who would swallow them and excrete them out of his belly button and eat them over and over again. These were being forced to relive the torture of being eaten alive over and over and over. Goku shuddered to think what anyone could have done to deserve this agony. He watched the monster shoot a soul out into his waiting hand. The soul cried out "No god no! Not again, forgive me, forgive me, and forgive aaaarghhhh!" The creature had a thorn like long protrusion on his tongue; he impaled the man on his thorn thingy and grabbed another poor woman, from her screams as she was impaled on the monsters tongue, Goku realized that this was the same woman he had heard crying out earlier, he couldn't bear it any longer he turned and ran, back to the ajar door, through the corridor, thinking whatever was at the other end couldn't be worse than what he had just seen. He was wrong.
Fresh screams alerted him as to what he should expect, but no one could have expected this. The end of the corridor revealed an area that could have been a bathing area in a prestigious hotel, except for the blood all over the floor and the misshapen walls, and the fact that the bathing pools were filled with boiling oil. And in the pools of boiling oil were people. There flesh was burned and blackened to the point where it could get no worse without killing them, yet death seemed infinitely preferable to what they were going through. They screamed and kicked and thrashed in the oil, but whenever they managed to reach the pools they were stabbed with sharpened staffs of wood and iron. These staffs were wielded by demons that stood at the pool, laughing as they forced people back into their unending torture. Suddenly one of them saw Goku; he screamed for him to help and was promptly struck by a spear in the neck. He and the spear disappeared under the boiling oil, the spear soon flew out back into the hand of the demon but the man took a longer while in resurfacing.
Goku did help in a way, he distracted the demons. By calling out to him, the man had pointed the demons attention towards Goku. They laughed maliciously and ran towards him obviously wanting to put him under the oily depths of their torture chamber. They however could not sense energy. Goku snapped his fingers; a shockwave blasted them all back. The demons snarled, but the inhabitants of hell aren't exactly geniuses. They started throwing their spears at him, Goku moved.
He became a blur and the spears seemed to freeze in space, he ducked, jumped, twisted and turn, in about a two hundredth of a second the spears were at him back and he stood face to face with the demons. One fault in logic that he failed to comprehend was why they kept the best fighter upstairs and sent the pathetic ones like these down to guard the real criminals, he dealt blow after murderous blow, and the demons were sparks of hellfire, the essence of hell. As Goku struck them, sometimes in the abdomen the stomach and sometimes even in the face they exploded into flames that dissolved in midair, all that marked their existence were the ashes on the ground. In less than five seconds all that was left were the rapidly disseminating fiery remains. Then things got messy.
The ashes started smoking, then burning, and then suddenly there were fully fledged flames in the air. And these flames started getting molded into shape, the shapes of the demons that Goku had just killed. And la presto, before him stood the demons as if nothing had happened, all this happened in a matter of seconds. Goku didn't expect much better results but he attacked them again, until they were nothing but ashes. But once again they reappeared from the burning ashes, suddenly Goku had an idea, he killed all of them and quickly before they could reform he mixed the demon ashes together. The result was a horrendous ten foot tall demon with multiple heads, this one too fell before Goku but the ashes were still mixed up, Goku tried scattering them across the room, throwing them into the boiling oil and even incinerating the ashes but nothing seemed to work, the ashes were indestructible.
The room was cubicle in shape and the poor souls Goku had freed ran out of the only opening, Goku too distracted in killing and re-killing the demons to spare them much thought but as he heard fresh screams from the direction of the corridor he was struck with a horrific realization, he had just saved some people from one torture and pushed them into a new one. He turned and ran, caring no more about the demons that for some mysterious reasons did not pursue him.
When he reached the end of the corridor, and saw what he expected but was still unprepared for, for the first time in his life he felt like falling onto his knees and begging for forgiveness. The demon was laughing and tossing the people around, the wretched were screaming at yelling and begging. The demon was either deaf, or merciless for those that he chooses not to eat he threw about. What had he done?
His fear was suddenly replaced with hate, and without any thought (for the most emitted no energy signature) Goku charged. He crashed headfirst into the monsters chest for he had taken to the air mid-charge. The monster was frozen in place for one terrifying moment and then he let out a colossal roar and burst into flames. He burned like that for a decent amount of time and then was nothing more than a pile of ashes, and from those ashes raised the wretched that were still in his stomach at the time of its death. For a moment there was deathly silence. Then the entire cavern erupted in a huge cheer. The people were falling at his feet, hugging him, chanting their gratitude into the air. For the first time Goku was the hero not the tyrant. He felt loved, intoxicated. Ironically he had found his humility in hell; he lost himself in the love of the ones he had saved, until he smelled the smoke.
He looked down and saw the ashes of the demon he had just killed were smoking and there was the hint of fire at the edge of the ashes, he should've known, should have expected this. He had seen this enough times, he looked around wildly and saw to his relief a doorway at the edge of the cavern.
"RUN!" he screamed, and ran towards the doorway.
Well, that's it, what did you guys think?
If you have any questions feel free to ask I'll try to answer them in the next one, thanks for reading and looking forward to your reviews guys later!
REPLIES
To Jay: Thanks mate you made my day. Really, your appreciation means a lot to me. Yeah Gabe's really powerful, he's the boss after all (of angels that is) and there's really no name for Goku's new form. It's just…evolution, I guess we could call it Goku version 3.0 lol