We had only begun the fall and I was still mentally tired from the challenge vision that asmodeus and lilith put forward towards me , I couldnt help but wonder myself how deep my sin follows and where I would go when I die and again I forgot only for a second that I was immortal, me my sister Kaliya were demons, and vampires….but what about Ciaran? Did Ciaran live down here will we watch Ciaran die one day?" again the vision of Ciaran on that hospital bed in a coma made me question where this jounrey was going to end us up at? Our hunger our lust we all have a sin that we fallen into despite being pagans despite being Vampires Demons sorcerers..Even now I doubt our long journey we still have and the questions of Ciarans rescue. We had really underestimated how far it took for us to fall and when we hit the solid, it was slippery, goey, it rained and I dont know what it was but it smelled horrid. As we both landed, we slipped and both took a dive into the ground. OW! as my face was in the grossness that I really didnt want to think about I heard my sister speak: "selena I really dont like this circle it stinks, its raining something foul and theres a three headed dog down here" wait what? I looked up at the vision of trenches of flesh or what looks like it I smelled blood and meat and as much as I was hungry I was more grossed out, I sighed as I got up on my feet at the same time that my sister did and I sighed. "Dear sister, Your not supposed to like it Kali we're in hell and…"wait what was that about a three headed dog? thats when I stopped and looked up into the vision of the greek three headed dog demon cerberus from hades the generalised description of a dog with three heads, at fifteen feet tall 457cm with jet black shaggy fur and a sea serpent tail with jaws and two protruding fangs. It was for sure gonna be a bad day for us. Kaliya and I only stared as cerberus was chewing on sinners who ate the very walls of meat. And honestly I think it was better if we left us in lust. Thats when my sister spoke, sliding a glance my way "Wait hes supposed to be in hades? greek mythology what the hell is he doing here?" I blinked at her then back at the beast thats when I involuntarily spoke "kali...lets focus on surviving its appetite first" and Kali and I both swallowed this was gonna be rough thats when Dante and Virgil appeared next to us. "We both find this circle most unpleasant this is the circle of the gluttons What these shades could not satisfy in life, in death, they shall be denied for eternity the hungry and yet the true circle lies INSIDE the body of cerberus" And we both looked at the same time. "HUH?" "we HAVE to be eaten by that beast?" "which end?" I looked at Kali then to virgil and Dante and they both returned the look. "I honestly dont think it matters both ends lead into the true circle…" and I sighed "this is gonna suck"
So with a sigh I pulled out my Katana from my side sheath and handed it to Kali, a look of disbelief in my face. "Your knife isnt gonna work here" and she looked at her knife in her hand and realized that we had a FIGHT this time and her emerald eyes that matched my own widened and she nodded before taking the katana's handle, the sound of metal rattling slightly. "Yeah I think your right sis" thats when again Virgil spoke."you dont have fight him, you have to be eaten by him" and I blinked "how do you expect us to get into…their body? Jump in?" and I realized this. Thats when virgil and dante patted our shoulders."Hurry on, the only way to advance is through killing Cerberus from the inside" and they vaporazed and I sighed at her and she swallowed at me. We then took the walk forward towards the creature that was as big as a house. my pistol was in my rightt hand, my hand was curled around the the hammer and the trigger and I knew that what I was going todo next was not gonna be pleasant and ultimately had to be a case of suicidal tendancies. We got up the trenches where the people here gluttons were eating eating the walls, eating each other, and cerberus were eating them and I took a deep breath, which honestly was saying alot for my mental fortitude and I could hear Kalis step hesitate. I grabbed her hand and looked at her and she did the same her bright green emerald eyes looking fearful and I couldnt blame her we were about to take on one of the most formidable of opponents Ive,we've ever taken on…but I looked at her and grabbed her hand and smiled at her. "They're not gonna get us….ready?" and she nodded. "Lets do this.." and I pointed by Spiritpistol at Cerberus and Pulled my pistol's trigger causing a massive beam to radiate and explode from the barrel with a powerful back recoil that flew forward and landed into cerberus's left head and it for sure was powerful but the electrical fire like radiation beam knocked it for a loop and we could tell that it didnt like it well of course its not like it tickled it growled and turned away and looked at where the beam came from and saw us and it did like we assumed it would…it attacked.
"Well lets do this sis" and I nodded and I drew my claymore from my back sheath and involuntarily sighed did I mention how much this is gonna suck?" and she nodded. "Did I mention how much I
really dont like this circle.." and I nodded. "We can complain all day…or we can jump in you know what we nights are about" and She swallowed and nodded. "We go to the end of the earth for our goals" and we crossed swords "For Ciaran..for caleb…for our brother" and I crossed my sword with her "For our family legacy" and we both nodded and it was in that moment that Cerberus landed and created an earthquake that shook us both and I leaped back at the massive creature created a massive tiger roar and came down on us and it I was in that momen leaped at cerberus and swung at Cerberus's middle face that was chewing the ground that was made of flesh and Kali was sparring against its left head and neck. It wasnt long until the the beast swung its head off the meat ground and swung its right head at me with its jaws open wide and I held my claymore against its jaws, its intense ferociousness and intenseness alot less than I imagined for the greek beast of the underworld, or was it because I was growin stronger? I couldnt tell but I had no time to think as it reared back and brought a paw down on me and this I knew I had to avoid because I couldnt get into his thick paw with my clawmore so I dodged the paw with a sidestep and leaped forward and brought both my hands onto my handle and and swung hard with a grunt and slammed it into his left face and creating an intense cutting beam like energy from my own power into cerberus while little Kali was slashing at its feet at the serpent tail that was swinging and constricting and trying to take her like a pesky fly. "Thats right this is the beast of greek underworld, the hunger of hades, what was I? To this beast…I was…prey we were prey…prey? That idea didnt go down through my mind the way any of us wanted it to..my eyes glistened and turned blood red not from bloodlust, not anger, but resolve…you dont underestimate ANY of the night family…"especially NOT ME" I said, and sheathed my claymore and dodged with exceptional speed and grabbed Kali and leaped straight into its face and pointed my gun it was not prepared for it and as we landed through the sky its face swung up and I pointed my gun its its jawline, and pulled the trigger blasting a good long beam of energy into its face as I barely doded into its jaws and down its throat we both went…..
The fall wasnt as long as the fall from Lust to the circle of glutons but when I fell I feel into shadow it was dark but it didnt smell like death as I thought it would it ws cool, not hot like a breath, it didnt seem liike I fell into the belly of the beas. As I stood up I looked around around didnt see anything but as I started to feel the walls for a light I felt cold walls, solid like brick when I couldnt find it I snaed my fingers and formed energy through my hand that revealed I was in front of a mirror with a drapes over it, dark curtains that was made of…ice? Ice? Where the hell was I? I looked around suddenly the vision came over me as I looked into the mirror of a dream I had not too log ago but why was I having it now?
my bright emerald gaze opened and I was revealed to be in a dungeon' I was weak and my whole body hurt. the lights above in a fire threatened to go out on my' leaving me in the darkness.I slowly picked myself up and found my shoes and socks gone' and in just a shirt and shorts.I shivered' and coughed. "H-hello?" I looked around and only found myself in a dungeon of mirrors' but why? I hated mirrors' I hated my reflection. because there was visions in those eyes of time I looked I saw visions of what I did' brutalized people' hurt the ones I loved,I felt tired and my hand flew to my neck and I felt two holes that were still leaking blood faintly."blood...my blood..."I asked' and walked forward but each image had the showed me, blood red eyes and my fangs glistened as I bent down and picked up a rat with agility. It cried, and bit my fingers, but it hurt little as I looked at the rat, my eyes staring down at the creature, I felt her own fangs, like a viper, a rat and a viper of was not without a cruel sense of irony.I looked at the rat, no I saw into the rat, its veins, its heart, its brain. The rat knew what was coming and it struggled with no avail until my fangs were positioned and I bit into the rat causing it to cry as blood to spray, and boy did I enjoy it, like a squirting red drinking fountain I smiled and pressed my lips on it and drank, and drank and drankI drank pain, drank love, drank instinct, I promised I would take just a little more just a little more...
fifteen minutes later the rat was now no longer sheened and black with life in its eyes, but faded black, dead eyed and I now held the rat, my tongue came out and licked my lips as I reached out and dropped down the rat into her , I woke with a start still in the same dungeon,the lights above in fire threatened to go out on me leaving me in the darkness with myself,I hear voices a choir of singing like satanic chanting something is comingI slowly picked myself up and found my shoes and socks still gone' and I still was in just a shirt and shortsI shivered' and coughed."H-hello?"I looked around and sniffed, and started to cry."why are you doing this? what are you doing to me?" I coughed hard and my eyes started to blur, and the images sensed were of demons, my demons coming forward, each time the torches flickered, did another form of myself step from a mirror."you call yourself a friend?""you abandoned them,Ciaran Kali all those lies you have blood on your hands,"on your hands? you have bathed in it, you know, because I know"another flicker and two more versions of my serpent face stepped out of the mirror."you didn't even try to fight, they they took you, and then took them you failed. You wanted to be what you are, look at yourself you whore.."I closed my eyes, huddled against the wall as they came over to me, getting closer, I started to cry."Stop..Please stop.."soon more and more shadows cornered me and I tried to avoid all the mirrors but they were same. suddenly all the torches went out at once and heard my voice as I screamed.
I turned on the lights and I was still in front of the mirror but this time something was reflecting back at me..creatures horned creatures with skulls on their heads, or were their heads, Ive seen them before but not sure where it just looked at me its eyes red blood red like my own when my vampiric powers go off what is this that I was seeing it just stood in front of me as I moved it moved like my own refection but why? What did it mean then it raised its arm out and through the mirror and grabbed my shoulder quite suddenly and said "Sis, Selena wake up wake up girl we need to keep going" it was Kali's voice and thats when I opened my eyes to grotesque taste and soth mell of putrid flesh and wetness. I coughed and got up to see Kali holding my sword. I coughed and gagged and she nodded. "Yeah tell me about it lets kill this creature and continue on" and thats I nodded to her and got up, the dream still in my head what was that? The curtain the skull creatures? Were they wendigos but why was I seeing them?" and why in that moment? I shook my head and grabbed my swords from Kali and sheathed them thats when VIrgil and Dante looked around at us. "Well done for getting eaten without much fuss" and I nodded and coughed. "This is horrid" and they nodded. Dante spoke after "I think I can speak for both of us when I say we both feel this circle is..most unpleasant" and Kali gagged. "Ugh I can see why talk about like minded individuals" and I smirked of course leave it up to my sister to make me laugh through an unpleasant situation that is in fact Kali's best quality call it her superpower, among the others. I sighed and looked around and saw huge creatures like massive trolls chewing on the damned souls and I sighed. "Ok So whats the score?" I asked and my sister looked at dante and virgil and nodded and they both traded glances. "WHen I came back here once we had to fight cerberus once already and the way to survive this circle is to kill cerberus" and I blinked. "Why did we have to get eaten to make that happen I can kill this creature without it" and thats when Dante and virgil nodded. "Sadly cerberus impenetrable from the outside…lets not bring a knife to a gun fight" and I understood what they meant. I unsheathed my claymore and Handed my katana back to Kali. "lets go give this Fucker a heartattack" however it was not as easy as I thought it would be because between the dead glutton trols eating the other prisoners in this place, the trying souls trying to get us to forgive them, which was something we were not able to do, even if I wanted to I even asked "why do these souls keep coming to us for forgiveness? How do they want me to answer that? We were not full adults yet, we were in our our young adult stage, we didnt know anything about forgiveness and damnation what do they think I could do let alone Kali could do? Thats when Virgil and Dante both spoke. "We are but pure spirit only the living can forgive them" and I sighed "Lets press on, these soul only grate me, I dont like feeling for the living" and Kali turned and ran over to me. "But Selena I..I mean its a stretch maybe I can forgive souls?" and I blinked and looked at her. "You Kali? How?" and she went into her backpack that strangely remained on tact and pulled out her book it had an aura around it and I blinked and looked over the souls that was "the plate of the creatures" and I sighed. "Very well end there misery"and Kali nodded and opened her book and pointed the pages to the corner where the troll lke glutton zombies were chewing on the souls of those that were eaten by Cerberus. The issue happened after where once the food vanished…the tolls needed something..else to chew on. "Great now they are coming this way" and Kali blinked and nodded. "Yeah I didnt think about that lets go time to move" and I nodded and we all started to run through the intestines of the of Cerberus, it seems that the more we ran to get away from them the harder to was to keep track where we were going. Meanwhile the three hawking trolls were pupiless, fat, but muscled and had spikes all along their body that still had skeletons rattling on them that occasionally fell off the more we travelled over the deeper we got tinto its body till we finally got into a wall and thats when we were cornered. "Think we can take them all on?" I asked and she nodded nervously, and unsure. "Maybe taking their food was a bad idea, ok you take the 300 on the left I'll take the 300 on the right" and I nodded and drew my claymore from its sheathe and Kali has my katana thats when something strange happened..they backed up and I diont know why until I heard clapping and I looked up into the eyes of a rather strange individual flying; it looked like a plump attractive purple skinned woman with a fly head of unknown species with human-like skulls tattooed on her wings and a crown on top of her head. But she was covered in black aura and surrounded by flies. She was covered in what looked like a bikini and a cloak over her that hid her fly body and she had knee high boots she blinked, quiet a black aura flowing around her that was added by at least 30 different flies and bees and behind her was what we were looking for or so they knew we were clueless. "What is..THAT?" I asked blinking still aware that there were like 20 different gluttons still in front of us, Kali followed me and nodded. "Thats not in the history books" and Dante spoke afterwards "Its Cerberus's black heart…destroy it quickly" and I spoke. "I had a feeling thats why SHES here? How do you expect us to destroy his heart with Her in the way? And another thing" Kali chipped in. " I'll do one better WHO is that?" and this time Virgil spoke. "That….would be the queen of the gluttons…thats Ba'al Zebub" and I blinked wait if shes the queen of the gluttons why is she inside cerberus" and we all looked up at her "Hey what do you want?" and she seemed like for a second that she was off in her own little world until I pointed my gun at her and that got her attention, but only slightly she looked down at me and blinked her deep black and red eyes on ocaasion and she said "what I want is very simple I want To cause destruction through tyrants,to cause demons to be worshipped among men, to excite priests to lust, to cause jealousies in cities and murderers to bring war basically to be frank Anything that causes chaos or suffering is sure to delight and..excite me" She then started to float down towards me and once again I cursed my actions as she in front of me and I realized she was as tall as I was she seemed alot taller in the sky blocking Cerberus's heart that by the way I had to destroy, but now with this denizen in front of me that seemed alittle harder than before.. I sighed and pointed my gun at her face and she just blinked and staed at it. "Are you really going to shoot me luv?" dont you have other reasons for coming down here?" and Kaliya once again spoke up. "How come theres only you?" and she again blinked her eyes and shrugged. "Im alone here because your wrecking havok ladies and…gents" and suddenly Virgil and Dante were behind me. "Do you really think we havent learned since the last time you killed cerberus? Just because we're immortal doesnt mean that killing us isnt a huge fuckin ordeal, and raising this beast from the dead is no fun chore" she said shaking her head, and thats when Kaliya spoke. "Ok then what will it take for us to go through you to get to the next level because we are on our way to city of dis" thats when she gently dropped onto her feet. "I'll make you a deal, you leave cerberus alive this time and I'll give you passage through I'll bonus it by telling you about your brother, yes I know about him, I was one of the tasks of guarding him while he sleeps" and she held out her hand and suddenly pulled back as I held my Sister from swinging on her. "What did you do to Ciaran?!" and She sighed. "Your brother is accused and therefore tried for heresy and treason by the church lady Alexis and lord Gabriel" and my eyes widened. "Theres that name again, Alexis she was in russia fighting with abel" and I looked back as she held out her hand, and I nodded slightly "Ok Tell us what we can do to rescue him? And we'll let your beast be" and she blinked and thought it over. "Ohh girls you know how to use a bargaining chip, I'll say this Before you reach the City, at the outskirts of the red-hot walls of the City of Dis are the wrathful and those of ill-will. From this point on we find sinners who acted out of malice and wickedness. Immediately within the walls of the City are Heretics like Epicurus, who, having previously disbelieved in immortality, are forever imprisoned in red-hot tombs. Beyond are three rings of those who were violent—to others, to themselves (suicides), or to God (blasphemers).In yet deeper gulfs within the decaying city of Dis are the last two circles, of frauds and corruptors, and finally the traitors…you must steel yourselves and go forward into the city where Caleb is being captured, hes not being tortured because he is the chosen one, but hes not going anywhere until this war with the other deites and races calm down abit, I dont need my men and woman followers slaughtered by the wolves, and vampires of this and the other realm so in the end I will say as you know doubt have noticed violence is not always the answer the demon kings and princess like myself are not above games,wagers, and deals…if you can offer a trade well lets just say you may want to constantly revise your strategy…but.. On the other hand then again can you say theres a soul that are higher worthed than your brother..especially right now?" and I blinked and nodded and she put her hand out "do we have a deal?" and I looked at Dante and Viegil then at Kali and finally I put my gun down and sheathed my sword. "Deal, we'll leave cerberus alive" when we all shook her hand our world went blank…