chapter 1: to hell and back

it wasn't bright outside in fact it was the opposite, it was dark, very dark, past many children's bed time around were I was.

The moon high in the sky shining its lunar light down onto the streets along with the yellow and red streaks of busy car signals driving around as if that was all they could do was run.

There was none but me and a few workers in the shop everyone else was clearly having the time of there lives with there friends and I, I was stuck shopping, shopping for my boyfriend who was laying in there bed sick with the flew.

"that will be forty-six thertey-five please?" the cashier said looking at me as he bagged my shopping away for me.

I smiled happily at the cashier and payed the amount of money they had asked me for happily.

walking into the dark, all the noise surrounds me at once.

I walked down the cold, solid, grey concreate pavement looking at the bright lights that lit the way to the way I was going home.

In my head i keeped thinking about how chaise was in a very high range of danger of losing his life because he keeps smoking.

The doctor told him it would kill him if he carried on with the rate he was already going at, but of course he never listens to anyone but himself.

My arms were cold and so was my legs as the wind brushed against my warm blooded skin.

Looking up to the sky i see the stars are out shineing brightly alongside the large, round moon and smile happily with the tingle of happyness and joy within me that the stars always caused me to have.

The buildings bricks were bummpe and rough around all corners the lights trying to shadow over them all.

As i walked further down the path, I felt a sudden gush of cold, frosted air wash over my back like someone was following behind me and didn't want me to see them.

I started to walk faster and faster after a wile, slowly building up my speed to keep going away from the feeling of someone watching over me in such a way that it felt horrific.

I ran and ran till I fell onto the cold, frosted, dusty floor covered in all typed of old gum, horrid germs and the crushed bodys of dead insects.

I turned around to look over my sholdure only to see a man with black hair that was as dark as the night, his eyes was a pearsing blue that looked almost as deep as the depths of the ocean as they steered at me in the face and into my sole.

He had a devilish smile covering all his face growing from ear to ear as if he was the Cheshire cat or Jack the killer; now I was sceared he was who I assumed him to be.

He pulled me up vishously by the hand as he looked me in the eyes then looked up and down at my body.

"W-who are you" I stutterd out in fear as I look at the man who stands before me with fright crossing my face.

"I'm none, my sweet" he replies to my question.

His voice was husky and deep in tone it made my breath hitch as I tried to ignore him.

I huff at him and turned around nervously walking away from him after I pushed myself out of his strong and uptight grip.

The man followed me walking slightly behind me but not enough for my comfort.

"Don't you want to save chaise?"

I stop abruptly in my path way hearing chaise's name come out of the man's bewitching, evil smile.

I could save him?

"what does he mean I could save him?" I wonder to myself

I mean it was more then likely a trick so I would stop and talk to this man, but then again, I looked back at the man and looked at him for a few seconds as I over though on what to actually think about all of this, weather I could save him or not.

After a while my mind was made and i decided not to believe him.

I walked away from him breathing slowly as I held onto my shopping with tight, clamped shut fists around the handles.

I looked back to see if the man was there still but he was gone as if he was just a figment of my imagination the hole time but he felt so real so he had to have been.

I shook my head and carried on walking home with my bags, the feeling that someone was still watching me as I walked home to chaise.

The male appeared in front of me as he looked down at me and my small figure smirking yet again from ear to ear.

He grabbed my chin gently bringing my face to look up at his.

His eyes were darker then before and his hair was a total mess poking up in random places as the top three buttons of his shirt was undone and the bottom untucked.

I bit down on my bottom lip surprised that he had appeared in front of me again, I was even more surprised that he was holding my chin as if he was in love with me at first sight.

I pushed him away and wondered was he telling the truth about what he said, how I could save chaise from his own death if i said yes to him.

'This could be a trick' i thought to myself as i looked back at him holding my bags of shopping tightly closed into my fists as if they was my life, as if everything i knew was at hand.

"I could save him?...." i hesitated to ask him the rest but he didn't really answer me, instead he just nodded at me and his body stood in the shadows bringing out his pail skin and showing his sparkling eyes that almost looked as if they was burning into my heart.

"how?" I ask the man demandingly as I try to put a brave and stern voice into my words but it sounded more concerned and scared.

The man shot me a wicked and evil grin making me regret the trust I was putting into him, but what was the point in not listening, he may be saying the truth and if I can help chaise then it's worth it.

"I mean chaise loves me and would do the same for me if he had the chance to, I just know he would... well I hope he would do the same for me" i say thinking to myself

The male rolled his eyes and asked "Do you know who I am my dear?"

"what i do for a living"

I shook my head at him slightly.

He placed one of his warm fingers on my chin, yet at the same time, they made chills run down my spine as if they was as cold as ice.

I pulled my head to the side so he hadn't got ahold of my chin anylonger, but that wasn't for a long time. he pulled it to look back at him once again only this time...

I couldn't look away from him as if I had no choice but to look at him the hole night long.

I stared into his dark storm, night, blue eyes and started to get lost into them as twisters swerved the colours of light and dark blue together leading a door way of darkness to his iris, it was like i was being pulled deeper and deeper into him intill I shook it louse stopping myself from going that far into his bewildering gaze of the night shaded winds of darkness and light being poured into one and another causing more then just black and white but so much grey along with it.

He asked me the question once again.

I shake my head lightly at him.

The man grins once again chuckaling a bit at me with thoes bright shinning teeth and consuming black hair that seemed to pull me into this plot or trap he had created; this time, he seems more like a sadistic man with phsycopathic traits coming threw at the worst timing ever possible for me.

"I'm the son of Satan, I am the devil himself, Are you really going to make a deal with me, the devil for a boy? A stupid boy?" the man asked me with a viscous and proud tone as he rases one of his brows making me want to question myself at this moment in time but, I still went with the same choice and answer as before.

I stood there looking at him thinking of how he was the son of Satan.

The man who lived in hell taking lives under so many names that the world would have called him.

In his eyes you could now see it all. The frozen yet warm flames that brought life to death down in hell and why would he even want to be on earth when he could just be sitting on a thrown rather then being on the scraggy dirty land called earth.

Once he had finished talking to me I had noticed his eyes had glimpses of dark red in them and had small sparks of fire coming off of his left hand, he truly was the devil, he wasn't lying he really was the real deal.

"You still want to help your friend out little girly" he askes me again smugly, his hands growing intense with the amount of small flickering flames flying off of it at once; in front of her he quickly went from strange to just plain creepy in a matter of minuets.

I node at the male slightly, fear struck into my eyes.

"Yes I want to help him, what's the deal?" I say igerly without another thought as I take a step towards the devil quickly looking up at him.

"I will keep your beloved chaise alive, but on one condition-" he tells me with a long pause in the middle of his sentance drawing me closer to him and giveing him all the attention i now had pulling it away from the dark city, the quiet night, twinkling stars that brought the slightest bit of kindness into the darkened night sky, but on the ground there was hardly any of that light coming from anywhere other then the moon, the stars, and the luminous street lights that hardly ever worked at all.

The lights would normally flicker on and off getting on everyone's nerves when they did.

people had gone missing in the dark and sometimes they was just out of nowhere, some was taken from groups and others were taken when they was alone but none knows for sure why they go missing or were to.

if there lucky they come back and if not then they are found dead on the streets days latter after they had gone missing.

One had even been one if my best friends from work.

"-if you two begin to grow apart or he hurts you in anyway you have to come to hell with me. Is that a Deal my dear?" he asks.

I look at him for a breef second then noded in agreement to his deal.

He puts his hand out infront of me for me to grab and close the deal.

his hand was supriseingly large and very warm fore someone that had been told to be so cold blooded.

I looked at his hand and saw a triangle imprinted Or scared into his hand but it was more like something had engraved it into his hand.

His hand glowed with a few small sparking flames.

I grabbed his hand with sudden hesitation and shook it once taking the deal and with that it was sealed.

"Deal"

The man's hand glowed passing the small, black flickering flames onto mine.

The same triangle that he had on his hand had now appeared embedded into my skin so it was now forever there on my hand for all of my life till the devil decided the deal was off but i didn't believe that would happen.

I pulled my hand away from his once the deal was done and looked up at him he still had that wicked and evil grin on his face as it went from ear to ear I looked down at my hand to see if the marking had gone or healed up but, it hasn't it was still there.

The wierd thing was that it didn't even sting or hurt me in the slightest.

I went to look up at him again but when I did he was gone, Nowere to be seen, Nowere in sight there was just No trace left of him like he was never there in the first place as if he was a ghost lost in the street once again, he had gone into thin air.

I started to walk again after a wile as I headed to chaises house to see if the deal had worked or not.

As i walked deeper into the street i started hearing sighrens sudenly go of on the police cars and the winds whistling around me.

Walking into the house it was cold and as always chaise had left the windows wide open alowing the frost to take over the house.

The stairs were covered with cloths and a large amount of mess as always, left behind from were he had been.

I smiled as i approached his bedroom door, but when I opened the door to his room I found chaise but it wasn't a sight I would ever want to see again.

He was in bed with me best friend cora both of them stripped down bare behind the blanket away from sight. 'how could they do this to me' I though.

I thought they cared about me and loved me but obviously not if they did this to me behind my back.

Chaise instantly moved away from my best friend or at least the person who was my best friend, his eyes were filled with concern and worry as he looked my way.

The crule bit was he didn't even have any adasity to get changed so I wouldn't think it was on perpos but clearly it was.

Cora pulled the quilt up high on her body covering her rounded and purked up breasts looking at me in shook as she covered her breasts and bare chest up more like i was stearing right through to her.

"Lucy it's not what it looks like" chaise said quickly but when he got up he kept trying to grab me with his filthy hands and not Cora because she knew not to touch me when i was angry.

I steer at both of them with tears swelling and building up in my eyes threatening to fall from my eyes. they finally start to fall down my cheek after i closed my eyes shut then reopening them causing a stream go form on my cheek.

"Not what It looks like!, not what It looks like!. I made a deal with the devil for you!, to keep you alive and you sleep with my best friend!" I screech.

I storm out of the room with anger filling me but that slowly turned into sadness as i began to run off down the dangerous streets.

slamming the door to the house behind me and throwing the keys into the Bush so I never had to go there again in my hole life.

I run all the way to my house still crying with streams of tears in my face.

I open the door to my house with frustration and anger.

I slam the door with as much force as i possibly can and go to my room, collapse on my bed with my face deep into the large pillow and once again started to cry to myself, but this time it lasted for hours causing the pillow to become soaked.

I had almost calmed down and drifted off to sleep till I felt a breeze go over my back just like the one I had earlier when the devil came to me and told me that stupid deal.

I groaned and slowly sat up a bit looking at the male in annoyance how he was really playing along to his role as the so called "devil".

I flipped onto my back slowly to see the man steering down at me with a large smirk as always spread across his face as if inprinted onto him for eternity.

"Looks like your coming with me then my little laidy" he chuckles evily grabbing my arm and pulling me close to him and into his chest.

I had closed my eyes incase he was going to something to me, but i felt nothing.

I opened my eyes to see if anything had happened to the both of us only he was gone again and now i was all alone in a room that was foren to me.

I look at the room in amazement it was strange.

First I was in my room then the next thing I know is I'm In a dull black room with hints of grey and red around me as I hear a few faint screams from below my feet, some was so loud making me grind them together as they made that horrid sound that I hated them making.

I looked around the room only to see the devil who took me, The devil who gave me that deal was nowere to be seen around the room.

I keeped looking around the large room just to make sure I wasn't just being blind or ignorante, but he really wasn't in the room with me.

The room wasn't like what I expected it to be really, but then again i hadn't rally expected to be left in a bedroom in the first place.

The room had things a normal human, or person would have such as a TV on the wall and a lovely king sized bed with a red duvet that looked so cosy to sleep in but then again this seamed more like a king then a Comonor and average day person.

Dark silked curtains drapped over the bed hiding the posts ever so slightly from the naked eye, the closet and bed side cabinet draws were a dark black-ish brown matching with the hole colour sceam of the room.

My head snapped to the direction of the door when i hurde it open with a loud creek.

when the door was fully pushed open i saw the devil himself leaning on the door frame looking at me as if seeing a small impressed child with there brand new play things.

He had a smug grin on his face and I didn't like it not one bit, but it sceared me more then anything in the world ever could, "i can see why they call him the devil now" i said to myself without even intending to.

"who knew the devil was so crule looking with that smile plastered on his lips all the time" i thought as another snarky comment flew into my mind.

It was brighter in the room then what it was outside so I could actually see all his feachers laying in his face and all the other parts of his body, he was more clear looking to me now not just a shadow in the night.

"do you like the room?" he askes me with his smug smile.

I look up at him and move away from him. i didn't want to be so close to him but moveing backyards more made me hit the bed post standing right behind me without me even reliseing it was there.

He stood by the bed in front of me looking down at me with a his smirk now growing larger.

"What do you want from me?" I ask

him as i keeped myself far away from him and pushed my back up against the bed post tightly wanting go get away from him in fear.

He now had black curly horns with sparks flying off the pair of horns now and then like a peace of wood in the fier place slowly being burnt away but never killing the spark that lay within the dieing tinder peace.

His hair was all messed up like he had only just woke up from bed and couldn't be bothered to tidy up his hair makeing it look like a stuck out thorn ready to trap and hand in its strong grasp.

The devil laughs at me slightly and smiled happily cupping my cheek gently with his hands once again.

"I wanted to help you that's all, why?, what's wrong?" he askes me gently.

He was now looking into my eyes deeply as if searching for something.

I looked directly at him not answering his question but not out of aragence, but with confusion as to why he cared that much about what was wrong with me and why i was that way.

I moved my head just slightly and looked behind him.

A small girl with light grey skin mixed in with a pail white peach colour and a slight bit of brown on her cheeks.

She had small black pointed horns, a thin tail that went down to the floor with a point at the end of it looking like a head from a set of arrows and a small pair of black bat wings that went nicely with her demonic looking feachures, not to mention the dark hazel eyes with specks of black here and there around the iris of her eye, her hair a lovely dark silver.

She coughed quietly and lightly to get a sign of the the devils atention but it didn't seem to work, The only reason i knew she did it was because i was looking at her in the corner of my eyes.

"Ummm- master asher- devil sir" the girl stuttered out quality cowering in fear at the door.

The devil shoot the girl a daggering and deadly glare and no longer had his gentel face on now.

It had turned wicked to replace the kind smile that was once there in suit.

"WHAT" he barked loudly at the girl.

His voice echo through out the large room bouncing off of the walls.

The girl shook non-stop as her knees wobbled under her and her feet bucked inwards pointing to one and anther like a small ballerina would.

Her wings closed behind her back as she qwiverd in fright from the devil yelling at her so loudly.

She started to stutter out words but I couldn't hear any of them not even one which caused the devil to frown apone her.

"Speak up" he demanded her.

"Y.....your brother wants to s...see you" she repeats still with a scared stutter in her voice so they was broken up into smaller bits, but you could tell what she was saying to him.

The small demon girl looked back down at the floor spreading her wings back out behind her as she shook waiting for the devil to leave the room so she could do the rest of her dueties.

The devil huffed and rolled his eyes in annoyance, looked back at me with a smile on his face then walked towards the door a bit.

Before he left the room he turned back and looked at me.

"Stay here, and don't go enywere" he tells me roughly but also in a kind way and walks off, out of the door, shoving the small demon child out of his way grumply and pushing her to the floor like a real monster would do to his pet dog.

The small demon girl held her arm over her chest when she had finaly relaxed and untenced her body.

She flaped her wings stretching them out wide behind her back as she looks back over to me and gives me a slightly small smiles but it was hardly a real one, you could tell it was more forced to be upon her face just so I wouldn't feel so scared or intimidated by her so called "master" but it was to late for that.

I ran over to the little girl quickly, crouch down by her side so I'm the same hight as her and helped to pick her back up into her small and denty feet.

"Are you ok?" I ask her as politely as I could wile holding onto her arm gently, helping her back up for the support in her body.

The girl nods at my question and looks at the floor as she stands back up showing me her small hight again.

"How can you stand him" I ask abruptly standing back up to my own hight as well but it didn't really matter since I was bigger then her in both hight and in wight because of how small she was but maybe there was a reason to that.

She looks up at me with her small smile, And her tail swaying from side to side from behind her.

"He's not that bad, he can be very nice but, he can be very protective over his belongings or deals" she replies gently wile exsplaining everything to me with her small smile still resting on her face like nothing mattered in the world to her but defending the devil.

A loud voice was hurd yelling from down the hall, a boy that looked a lot like the little girl flew up to her slightly out of breath but catching it back quicker then I thought anyone possibly could do.

He looked alot like her the only diffrent was he didn't look to be a demon more like a angel if anything or a half breed between the two.

"Varsity we need to go, our masters are geting impationt!" he yells at her, grabing her arm and pulling her away from the spot she once stud at ever so confidently but, in a flash she was gone with the boy away from my sight.

I watched them run off quickly down the halls of the devil's house or mansion.

"What do you actualy call this place" i wondered to myself slightly.

Looking around the room, i only just relised that I may never be getting back to my home, ever again.

Since i was bord I looked around at the room i was in, thinking to myself of what to do since I was now alone with me, myself and my thoughts.

I looked around the place In curiosity and wonder, i mean it's hell you just have to look around to see what happened to people when they died.

I heard a clutter of loud clanging and shouting from some were but I couldn't make out were from or even the direction it was comeing from proporly without hearing it from the other direction as well.

I looked down both sides of the hall, i could see millions of doors down the hall, they went down as far as I could see only to see nothing at the end of thw corridor because it was still carrying on further down.

I came out of the room I was in and followed were i thought i hurd the sound was coming.

I walked down a long flight of wooden stairs holding onto the cold, glossy, brown rayling just so I wouldn't trip over like I normally did

I had always been a bit clumsy when it came to my curiousity and my wild growing imagination, it never did stop me though.

The noises slowly started to get louder and louder and louder as I made my way down the stairs, it looked like the stairs were centuries old and would need fixing or replacing at some point in time that would be sooner rather then later.

A becony was by the second flight of stairs, it was made if a white marble and looked to clean to be even true, I would have at least thought there would be some type if red dust or moss growing on it from how old this place must been.

"How is this place not dirty" i wonder to myself as i looked off of the belcony and into the world of hell.

"there are so many tails of the devil and hell you can't even count how many there really are" I was thìnking for a rather long time till i snapped out of my thouhts.

nobody had the time to ponder on about hell so much when they had better things to do in there life, the devil would have had the time he liked to do that.

I carried on walking down the stairs and onto the balcony, looking out onto the grounds of hell.

I saw red marble and all diffrent tipes of other red building structures along with other strange things growing from the ground, the people and creatures I saw, they were even more amazing who knew that the devil could make such a beautiful place among the dead.

A river of red liquid flowed across the floor that cut off all the other side of the land.

The water was leading to a lot of different areas of hell full of small houses and homes to the inhabitants who lived down here.

I heard a scream coming from down the stairs, followed the sounds again not even bothering to over think my actions before I leaped into the belly of the beast like always and like I did with the deal I made with the devil.

When I finally got to the bottom of all the stairs I saw people in cages and cells being torched and beat over and over again by loads of demons holding many diffrent tipes of wepons lined up on the wall and tables with stained blood marks left behind on them from previous beatings on the flesh and tired worn out skin on all the people makeing the metal look red to my eyes.

A man let out a load shreek when being hit by a wip making me wonder why anyone would ever deserves to have this happening to them, what they did to even get this deep in hell.

I mean there was no way so many people was this bad in the world at least I hope not if there truly is I would never have kids not in this world at least it was to tanted for anyone's own good.

I went to step forwards to see more and maybe try to help some of them out but a strong grip pulled me back from the steps i was going to take.

They pinned me to the wall pushing me against it roughly, as hard as they could with there strength and for a few seconds I didn't think of who it was in till there sharp words hit my ear drums so hard I wanted to yelp out in agony.

It was the devil, the one and only devil, oh what a surprise that was how was I so stupid not to know it was him in the first place; he brought me here and I didn't listen to him so it had to be him and none else.

who else would be crazy enough to be down here other then him? and obviously me as well then again that would explain why I was so stupid to date chaise in the first place and same with being friends with Cora honestly I must be crazy.

He looked mad;

he looked very mad, mad at me to be more procise with you and I believe it is because I didn't listen to him when I was told to do so, but what did he expect from a teenager like me and mostly one who dated a fuck boy.

He looked me straight in the eye as if he was looking down into the deep dark depths of my sole and heart, but thinking about that made a shiver go down my spine and goosebumps arise onto my skin like non had before.

"I told you to stay in the room" he growls out at me agrily, holding my arm and waist tightly squeezing them as hard as he could just to keep me in place and who could blame him for doing so I mean it's his job after all anyways.

"Why did you leave the room I told you not to" he bellows at me and into my face as he holds onto me still keeping my body pressed against the wall as if I was somehow going to get away with the pressure he already had put into me.

I looked at this face and looked over all the features I could see such as, his eyes, his hair and hid devilish handsome face.

His eyes were jet black as he looked at me but I moved my head to the side avoiding eye contact with him.

He keeped putting more and more preshure onto me making me wince out in pain now and tgem as he kept me as still as he could.

"I heard screaming and clanging so I came to have a look. What did they do?" I ask him knowing it's the most stupid question to ask the devil ever and to ask about anyone in hell I mean they was all here for a resin not for fun.

He looked at me strait in the eyes with a now hitched smile as it crooked up more on the one side of his face more then the other side, And chuckled at me a bit me guessing he was now amused by my question as he was very slow to let go of me but he still slightly kepped his firm hand grip on my waist so I couldn't run away from him still.

"What did they do? What they did is not forgiven bye enyone they hurt inacent people and did bad things they are worse then me" he said with a chuckle in his voice as he spat venom out the hole time he talked to me about them in the other room or in the prison should I say.

I roled my eyes at him laughing at me, what a surprise he was laughing at me, not really it was expected really. But at least he isn,t mad at me that would be so much more worse if he was mad at me but I think he was more conserned about my safety then being mad at me and shouting at me like a small disobidiant child. He's the devil and he thinks there was worse then him how crazy was he.

He moved his hands from my waist and grabbed my arm pulling me back up the glossed wooden flights of stairs and back into the room I was brought into.

"How are they worse then you your the devil" I ask with a frown on my face. He looks at me with suprise then chuckles at my question him probably thinking it was meaningless and not of use to me in any way but I wanted to know.

"There worse because of who they hurt. Some killed, some murderd, some raped, some robed and some did all of them that's how there worse I give them what they diserve and my brother agrees with me" he replyed with an slight anoyed tone in his harsh and cruel cascaded voice.

Was he anoyed with me why? What had I done to make him so mad at me when all I did was follow my instincts and went to the notice of hurt men and women, surely not all of them deserved all of that like he said they did there was no way they all did.

"Now stay here" he growled out at me walking off out of the room and never looking back at me to make sure I stayed were I was. Once again I was sat on my own in the dark alone holding that maybe I had a chance of getting my old life back and make it all better again but I highly doubt that will happen now with all of what was going on around me.