As soon as we entered into the gate we were assaulted by the smell of brimstone, dead flesh and the feeling of high heat, the very air was filled with smoke, thats when I handed Kaliya my scarf that she slipped over her mouth, she didnt speak against it or anything, but I didnt need it thank god for being a vampire. We both started to walk forward to the outside rim that led into jagged cliffs around the opening to the beginning circles that was filled with screams of the damned. Kali and I looked at each other as our guides travelled through the gates with us and thats when I stopped and looked at them. "Ok before we go any further lets make it true that we all dont have anything to hide…I'm Selena, I'm a vampire, I kill, fight but Im a lover for my family and friends, I plan on going to the end here for my brother we have to be clear that none of us have anything this world can use against us" and Kali stepped forward. "I-I'm Kaliya Amber Night, Aka little Kali, I'm 19 about to be 20, Im a krav maga and muay thai fighter that has come to grips with my past that my sister knows and I dont intend to give up when we have made this decision to go through with it" and The dark one spoke. "I am Dante, Dante Alighieri I was born in 1265 in family, of minor nobility, was not wealthy nor especially distinguished; my mother died when I was a child, my father before 1283. At about the age of 20 I married Beatrice,, by whom I had three children. My formal education-it is likely to have included study with the Dominicans, the Augustinians, and the Franciscans in Florence, and at the university in Bologna. In 1295 I entered Florentine politics and in the summer of 1300 he became one of the six governing Priors of Florence. In 1301, the political situation forced me and my party into exile. For the rest of my life I wandered through Italy, perhaps studied at Paris, while depending for refuge on the generosity of various nobles. I continued to write and at some point late in life I took asylum in Ravenna where I completed the Divine Commedia and died, much honoured, in 1321, and soon after found that I…had to travel this godforsaken ninth dimensions of dismal reality….and made it through to the gates above….now I watch those following, or more….warning of why they would want to travel this dimension. I trust your reasons are honorable…but I give you fair warning…like death itself…you will not come out of this world unchanged….be prepared" I nodded and I heard Kali swallow I dont like this, but my sister was brave, and so was I I took a voluntary breath and nodded. "Thank you Dante, and Kaliya as always you know little sister I got your back.." and She nodded and we all looked to the white man and nodded. He also took a breath and spoke."Publius Vergilius Maro my birthday was traditional dates 15 October 70 – 21 September 19 BC , usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, I was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period and Composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, were attributed to me in ancient times, but modern scholars consider my authorship of these poems to be dubious" Dante looked from the sisters expressions then to Virgil again before he continued and basically wrapped things up as such.
"According to the tradition, I traveled to the senatorial province of Achaea in Greece in about 19 BC to revise the Aeneid. After meeting Augustus in Athens and deciding to return home, I caught a fever while visiting a town near Megara. After crossing to Italy by ship, weakened with disease, I died in Brundisium harbor on 21 September 19 BC. Augustus ordered my literary executors, Lucius Varius Rufus and Plotius Tucca, to disregard my own wish that the poem be burned, instead ordering it to be published with as few editorial changes as possible.[15]: 112 As a result, the text of the Aeneid that exists may contain faults which Virgil was planning to correct before publication. However, the only obvious imperfections are a few lines of verse that are metrically unfinished (i.e. not a complete line of dactylic hexameter). Some scholars have argued that I deliberately left these metrically incomplete lines for dramatic alleged imperfections are subject to scholarly debate."
Kali looked at me and then back to him and we nodded. "We follow your work, as traditional italians, we me and my sister are born in venice, Rome, and florence, we have travelled the world you both have traveled" and I nodded and we both bowed to them and they smiled and chuckled slightly. "No need to pass respect when your challenges are getting there, Selena Kaliya your run with Kyries, your run on the ship risking limb for being marooned, under the rebellion of the very church you have put through, but dont blame god, for the vatican has hands in its control…your brother is the key to cleansing the corruption of the vatican city, which is why he…" and then he went quiet before I lowered my gaze to him, and Kali crossed her arms. "You know something…" she said, and I nodded "What more can you tell us?" and thats when the whole world rattled like a category 7 earthquake thats when we both fell to the floor and just held onto each other when I just held Kali in my arms till it ended. SIghing I got up and looked at Virgil and Dante. Finally I spoke. "It doesnt matter what you know, right now our brothers soul at risk for no we must travel to find the seven Sons of judgement and our brother" Kali looked at me and I looked at them and we both nodded and they both walked off the edge and I looked at Kali and she to me and she nodded "For Ciaran…" and She nodded. "For Ciaran..for Caleb" and she and I jumped off the only ledge that that was left of our safety. There would be no sense of safety from then on out..
Vision 11: antagonizing the tiger (is this really a good idea?") part III; Charion and the river styx I dont know how long I was out, I remembered falling with Kali at such an extreme amount of intensity that like someone put a jetpack on them and they fell and fell fast through the world of fire and lava and flaming smoke that as we began falling through, passed the raging flames into shadows and eventually into past the darkness, thats when everything eventually went black…
I woke up what feels like forever passing when my eyes opened and we we were all passsed out on the cave floor. When I finally rose up on my feet, I walked over to Kali and checked her, she was fine,a little scared but otherwise alright. "Come warrior daughters, we've only just begun the trek" I looked over and virgil and Dante was looking at us and blinked at us, feeling their wrists and legs. "Forgot about that time, the fall from grace is a rough beginning but theres no turning bac now" and I blinked and looked at them both and looked up. "Obviously, you can only go back if you fly" and Kali fitted her backpack on herself that had her book, long knife, amulet that she got from her older brother when she wasnt wearing it. She blinked and nodded and turned away from them and walked over to the edge and looked into the river styx where the souls were floating through the rivers, Kali was about to jump in but I pulled her back. "THats not wise luv there are punishments and consequences for those who make contact with the dead" and Kali jumped back and cried out as her hands were shrivelled up and old, but quickly formed back. Sighing she looked over at us and opened her hands like "what the fuck?" and Selena looked at Virgil and dante and they just looked out at the sea as the damned seemed to grow in bigger numbers. Thats when I decided while I was waiting for "our turn" I spoke. "You said that that Ciaran..Caleb was the way to cleanse the church..explain more in detail" and the two men looked at at me and Kali and went silet and I wasnt going to take that "Either you tell us or I'll" and thats when Dante spoke; "You'll do what? Turn this trip around? You knew what you were signing up for are you going to implode first before we get there..?" and Kali looked at me then to them. "What whats wrong?" and I spoke out of desperation for my/our brother future. "They still wont tell us about Ciaran" and that when Virgil put his hands on Selena and Dante on Kali.
"You misunderstand us…we are guardians, we are already dead if you must know we will tell you, you Nights are obviously daring, ok." virgil looked at me then back to Kali and Dante and began. "Ciaran is the prodigal Son in more than name, he is the one that will bring the five factions together the vampires Demons, skinwalkers, Angels, Sorcerers..if he can combat the vatican city who has already betrayed him right now.." before the creaky creepy sound of a boat floating out of the smokey mist echoed and eventually made a view of a ship that was about the size of a rowboat and on it was something like the grim reaper, a shadowy figure in a cloak of black.
It stopped just off the edge of the lip of nearby us and through the the hole of the cloak a breath followed by a gravely voice. "Through me the way to the city of woe, through me the way to everlasting pain, now shall I ferry you through the fire and the cold of the everlasting darkness abandoned hope of all ye who enter here.. " As it stopped it pointed a skin bone finger to us and me and Kali both swallowed. We walked forward and climbed onto the rowboat that shared only 5 seats it was only going to be us.
So we both jumped onto the boat carefully not to get wet by the river styx. Kali looked at me and then to the others as we continued talking. "My brother has been labelled put to death, if not exiled fror a crime he didnt commit, he told me that a war might be coming…how does that label mark him as the one to unite the races that for time immemorial ran amuck the world, I just came back from New orleans and had to fight my way to survive in a war of witches and vampires, and it didnt look like they were wiling to give into anything" and I nodded and touched my sisters shoulder because she often got upset talking about it. Thats when I spoke. "Our family has been cursed since before the world war where hitler and the rest of the death knights attacked us" and thats when Charion picked up abit as he looked at us slightly. "The death knights and the Sons of judgement are one in the same…" and Kali's eyes widened because those that hunted her first family under the holocaust of trieste in Italy was the Nazi Deathknights, and this info made her look down in blank stare. I looked at him and then at virgil dante. "Your saying the ones we are going to…are the same ones that hunted Kali and her family?" virgil looked at Dante clearly trading glances and they both sighed. "Yes Selena the very sons and daughters of judgement are the deathknights that has plagued the world since 1941 with Hitler…but now they dont follow hitler.." and I spoke for them in shock. "They follow Neomi…" thats when I grew worried I knew we were going through hell but to meet the very ones that made our lives hell and to find Caleb? Was Caleb even here. When Finally Kali came back mentally, She grabbed my hand and I felt a serene feeling return to me and I looked over at Kali who was smiling. "We will find him Selena…we arent much farther we've waited for years we can travel through to find him" and I nodded at her thats when virgil continued. "Theres 7 deadly sins the deathknights symbolize, and 9 circles that encompass a prince" I looked at him then to dante who nodded. "Right now we are heading for the first level that the river styx leads to….Limbo" the male charion looked over at us and spoke. "The council of hellions are followed by the nine levels; Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed,Wrath,Heresy,Violence,,Fraud and finally…treachery…." and I looked forward as we travelling into a dimlight forest comiing up, dead trees, cobwebs, the very ideal of limbo…thats where were let off and then as we were travelling into the dead forest did Dante continue. "The princes of hell follow as such; lucifer in charge of pride, beelzelbub in charge of Gluttony, asmodeus in charge of lust,, abaddon in charge of wrath and sloth, Mammon in charge of greed," as we were walking through the forest, I heard the sound of crying babies, meanwhile Kali was asking questions again, such as "And what of the Sons of judgement, the Deathknights" I kept hearing the babies crying and that did not bode well for hell to have kids and babies crying thats when Virgil stopped us and mentioned two words: "we're here"
