Chapter 1 in the beginning

 

The Tenth circle of Hell

Chapter 1 (In the beginning)

*Enter narrator with a booming yet soothing voice*

I guess you’re wondering how we got here, why you’re hearing me and well what in hell happened or should I say what happened in hell, I’ll need to start at the beginning like any good story for any of this to make sense but don’t worry you’ve got all the time in the ether-world now, times very different from how you might remember in the overworld, sometimes millennia pass and it can feel like a long weekend but recently things have been getting very interesting indeed and it all started with one helpless little child but don’t worry about that we’ll get there.  In the beginning there was the darkness and nothing at all in the universe until the big bang, funnily enough everyone and no one was correct about this there was no “GOD” no celestial beings at all because there was no planets yet no moons no stars, no one to worship or be worshipped. Soon the ash and the dust gathered together forming bonds eventually becoming what you know as Earth or as you’ll come to know it the overworld, you see here there is multiple realms which you will have never seen merely wondered or heard whispers of before. Over time there has been so many different names, religions, beliefs what they can’t see is that they are all correct, Pagans, Norse, Greeks, Egyptian, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, Wiccans, Christians the list goes on and on one big game of Chinese whispers everyone getting just one thing right, there’s someone above them looking to grab power and be in charge of this itty bitty wasteland you call home, you see humans are quite influential even if almost useless whilst alive, they are little more to us than a bargaining chip, the more influential the soul the more weight it carries when it comes to the belief system. I mean check out Tom Cruise and scientology, of all the beliefs this is the funniest to us. But I must abstain from judgement as this is not my job, I’m just here to tell the tale of the tenth circle of hell and how it came to be.

 

An large eerie hand holds its self out to you in a somewhat beckoning way, when you were alive this was the type of thing that would scare you but now it brings you some comfort that someone is there for you, so you take it willingly instantly being transported to a large black room taller than any building you had ever been in seemingly unending you are basked in a warm golden light

 

This gesturing to the room human is the sands of power it shows us the most powerful being at any one time. Our leaders never have we been so divided before, so much sand simply covering the floor doing nothing those my friend are the non-believers the average Jo of the ether-world neither here nor there and useful to no one limbo-ers as we call them, we get given our assignments by those in charge some want anarchy some want peace and some want nothing to do at all but laze and have grapes wine and needless amounts of meat yeah the romans sure were a pain in the arse. Sorry off topic. My point is it’s on us to get the remaining souls on our side for the big one upstairs and we’ll be given a bonus down on the tenth floor. What’s the tenth floor you ask … well it’s paradise my friend and the better we do the longer we get as vacation time there, no one's actually managed it yet or came back at least to tell the story but the rumours are getting more and more with the years. You know of “the circles of hell” right?

 

Well there’s Ten you’ve got Limbo where we are right now distant screams can be heard we’re number one they control the rest of the underworld or hellscape. You’ve got lust for the rapists and abusers not to mention the paedophiles horrid place you don’t wanna visit Two, then comes Three  for the gluttonous taking food from those who were starving or otherwise being wasteful when you could have helped now forced to grovel and starve for eternity, Four greed for the billionaires of the world where it would make no difference if they had but 10% of their wealth as that type of money cannot be spent in a lifetime, next comes Five with anger and wrath the tyrants of the world with nothing better to do than to spread hate where there should be none. Things get a bit more serious with Six and their heretics here lie the forgotten the fallen gods the false profits and the in it for the money cults all in all a very nasty place to end up, basically where they all meet up to fight and gain influence to become the leader of the circle. Seven is for pure needless violence breaking another's things, warmongers every plot to take over the world they all end up here in the end. Eight is for the fraudsters the liars, the tricksters using whatever they can at their disposal to get on top only now to be brought to the bottom. Nine is the worst of the lot treachery these bastards done made the upstairs mad Luci is down there at least we think he is rumours say he’s the one who made TEN  no one knows what it looks like just rumours no one knows if it’s even real or just another of their tricks, wanting to get people into the lower levels knowing they’ll never make it through their souls won’t be able to take the onslaught, and they’ll be stuck with more power.

 

As you stand there with your mouth agape you try to utter your first words in this strange new place, you get a crackly much deeper version than you remember having on earth like morning voice but worse “w... what's your name? Why am I here? Why are you telling me this? I don’t belong here” a snigger comes from their mouth I go by many names Anubis, Hades, Death, narrator and the bookkeeper but it doesn’t matter what you call me the reason you’re here is so I can weigh your heart, your sins and misdeeds against any good you may have done, where do your allegiances lie where do you truly belong it might be limbo but not what you see now this is more of a buffer layer where all the high level demons do their deals and paperwork. Trying to upsell the faithless into their favour it may not look like much, but every grain of sand helps towards the bigger goal of ruling hell being crowned royalty and finally doing what they want. “So, could I trade my way into ten? Make a deal of sorts, if it’s really the good place among the bad I want to get there, what more do you know of it?”

To be quite frank not a lot really all just rumours I think nothing serious as the tale goes there’s a young child that got brought in and got sent straight to their own personal hell without even seeing me, this usually means they’ve done something quite serious, bad enough that they think they deserve the worst we have to offer. The demons have been talking about it for a while now apparently one of them had showed up for a good one on one torture session only to find an 8 year old black girl, the reason I find this so hard to believe is what could a child have done so wrong in the first place not only to get straight past me but to get all the way to Nine it’s not possible I tell you never in my existence have I heard such foolery. But if you’re set on getting to the bottom of this to the bottom of hell then there is only one way for souls like yours  would be to traverse the circles committing atrocities and finding the way out to the level below it’s not going to be as simple as just walking in though I can warn you this much but it’s up to you weather or not you choose to heed it or not.