"No! I can't die like this" Bell Cranel shrieked as he tore around a corner, almost tripping and stumbling due to the many rocks that protruded from the floor. His legs were working twice as fast as his mind just to make sure that he didn't fall to the giant beast that thundered behind him. The very ground tremored as it roared mere meters behind him.

"Please, Goddess I don't want to die!" Bell shouted for his Goddess to miraculously appear and deliver him from harm, but she did not appear. However, that didn't mean that his plight did not go unnoticed.

His lungs were burning more than even his body as he pushed himself beyond his limits.

Darkness was beginning to fill his vision, and he began to feel an icy chill traveling up his legs from the ground, and even as he ran, he began to shiver. Not just because of this strange chill, but because the very world around him began to feel wrong. Yet still he ran, deeper and deeper into the dark. It took him a few minutes to realize that the minotaur was no longer chasing him.

That was good. He must have outran it through the dark.

Wait a second. The fifth floor was not this dark, and what was this strange splashing and skittering noise?

He stopped and put his hands on his knees, hunching over and breathing heavily as he tried to recover his stamina.

That's when he noticed them. The dark red walls and floors of flesh all around him were covered in eyes of various shapes. Some like those of a cat, some like a goat. Others like those of snakes and various other strange creatures, and they were all unblinkingly focused directly on him. Small centipedes and insects skittered around and all across the place, completely ignored by the eyes.

Bell stood there taking in the horrible sense of wrongness, and deep in his heart, he knew this was a place far beyond the Gods and Goddesses light that should not exist. He shivered again, feeling his very being dirtied by this unholy place.

Gods above, this place stunk in ways he couldn't begin to describe, and he was holding back from throwing up and passing out.

Mustering his bravery, he stood up and took a step forward. Right onto a staring eye.

Squelch

The sound of his boot stepping onto the soft and cold eye made him flinch, but when nothing happened he let out a breath he didn't know he was holding in. Taking another step, his foot crushed a centipede.

Crunch

The sound of it's body cracking and crunching under the boy's weight was disgusting.

Closing his eyes, he prepared for the worst, but when nothing happened, he opened them. The rest of the insects did not swarm him. Not wanting to take any chances, he made up his mind to find a way out of here.

The quick flapping of leathery wings was heard above him, and what looked similar to a bat had just flown down from the fleshy ceiling and down the corridor. Then he realized something. That bat thing had a strangely twisted human face. Suppressing a shiver and not wanting to meet that strange bat creature, he struck out in the opposite direction and began searching for an exit.

He walked and walked, yet somehow it felt that he hadn't moved an inch, as no matter how far he walked, everything looked exactly the same, and he swore that he could hear the flapping of those leathery wings behind him occasionally.

Beginning to feel frightened, Bell began running, uncaring of how many creatures he stepped on.

He ran and ran through the never ending corridors until he saw a light up ahead. It was white and faint, but it was there. Pushing further and further, the light began growing and growing until it was blinding.

Stepping out of the corridors of flesh and into a colossal white room easily as big as a colosseum, Bell fell onto the white stone floor in exhaustion, breathing heavily. After a few moments of catching his breath and letting his heart stop beathing so violently, he stood up and looked behind him. The fleshy corridors were behind him, dark and menacing, and in front of him was this large white brightly lit room.

Where was this?

Something broke him out of his questioning as he felt an immense wave up fear and turned towards whatever it was, and with a massive spike of pain, it felt like his chest had been torn open. He screamed in terror.

Then he woke up in Aiz's lap.