What is that voice? Is someone shouting my name? Am I dreaming?
"Za....Zark...ZARK!" Someone screamed, and I quickly opened my eyes and was met with something with green eyes.
"Get away from me before I kill you!" I told her as she disappeared quickly from my view, and everything in the sky was red.
I turned around and quickly got up from the ground when a young woman with red hair and red eyes stared at me. The wind coming in from the right indicated we were outside. A gigantic wall was in the front, touching into the sky without any ending in sight. There was, though, a building in front of us inside the wall. Wait a minute, They called me to the Office for an assignment to do what?... Ah, Shit!
"We are in Hell! Arent we? I asked them.
The silence explained everything, and I noticed the green-eyed girl I had seen in my dreams. She was the one who captured me from the light. It is strange because she looks much older and wears a skimpy green outfit. Was it to match her eye colour?
"Eh! What are you?" I asked her.
She turned to me and pulled her short hair behind her ears, and right before she was going to speak, I held my hand out to stop her and said:
"I am not a fool! I saw what you tried to do. Don't even try to fool anyone. It is obvious as Hell. We are not in a K-Drama; you can drop your act. Who are you?" I told her with a stern voice.
She was going to bend down but stood up straight with the innocent face gone. With a big disinterest, she told me:
"I am a spirit; my name is Jacqueline Hernandez, and I am here to be the best support someone can be."
"Ugh...Shut the fuck up, boobinator! So what if you look like 22 now, you still sound like a brat." The voice from the redhead came behind me, and I thought for a moment that I had just heard an angel speak the truth, but the red-eyed personality was still hard to read.
I turned around to the red-eyed girl who was giving me a 'go to hell' stare as I was struggling a little bit with why she was even here.
"Who are you?" I asked her.
She stopped looking at me and had her eyes on the ground.
"I am Fierna, a nobody!" She answered.
She refused to face me, and when I was going to ask again, an alarm went on my left wrist. I noticed there was a digital watch as it was counting down from 118 hours. I showed it to Jacqueline, who quickly responded:
"We have 118 hours to save the baby!"
I took a deep breath as I had an awful feeling about this before I opened the front door to the building as we entered. Meet with a dark hallway, I think. It was so dark, which made it impossible to see where it was leading. When we went through the front door, a big wall blocked the hallway with the text Reception and an arrow pointing to the right. There was a door there. It was weird that it was covered in red, which made me guess it might be blood. Fierna led the way and stopped by a desk only a few meters away. I peeked to get a clear picture of what was behind the desk and noticed someone covered with a cloak, but human hands were touching the table. Fierna backed towards us, but it was just a human, so I approached the cloaked individual. I looked down a bit to see if I could see the person more clearly and noticed a man with closed eyes and a beard fibbing with the pen on the registration form. Fierna was furious and whispered towards me:
"Get away from the desk, or you could die."
She must be joking. It is a human in a cloak and hood over its head. What is the worst that can happen?
"Interesting! A man with human blood enters Level Four in Hell. Someone must have been desperate if they sent someone who would attract attention from all demons on this Level." The man spoke, removing his hood and showing his light red eyes.
He looks like a middle-aged man, but he has no pupils in his eyes. What is he?
The man looked away from me and stared at the redhead like she was more interesting.
"The information I got that three passengers would pass through, but a daughter to a demon king?...A spirit and the man in front of me with human blood. Are you three trying to die?" The man told us in a dark, low tone.
Fierna kept her distance, while I was just curious who the red eyes were.
"Question! Who are you, and why is there a desk here?" I asked him.
He turned to me smiling and pushed the registration form paper closer to the edge for me to sign.
"Someone did me a favour many years ago. They sent a message to open a way for three passengers to enter safely. So you are inside now, that means you have entered the building. Please sign the registration form to confirm that you have entered the building without any injuries." He answered.
I looked down at the registration form and noticed three lines on the paper. Did the lines stand for the signatures?
"I will sign it if you tell me who you are!" I said.
"Fine! I am Orobas, a demon prince in Hell. I command 20 legions and a true man or horse of his word. I promise nobody from my 20 legions will attack the three of you, and I can not take any responsibility for the other 29 on this Level. Watch out for Neberius legions. They are dangerous and come in different shapes."
I looked at both girls to get confirmation on Nabarious, held my hands up, and shook my shoulders because I had never heard of Naberius. Jacqueline tried to read my body movements and then shook her head before saying:
"Oh! UH! Naberius, Yes, you are human. You know humans call the demon Cerberus, the one with three heads and is big!" She made movements of a monster with her hands, and I thought, why do we need her on this assignment?
Wait a minute! She was referring to that dog with three heads that grow back out. Or is it serpent heads? Why does that even matter?
"What the Hell! That is guaranteed death for us. We are in the worst-case scenario. What did Veronica think about sending us on a mission for a baby, sacrificing three lives? I mean two lives because you are a spirit, and probably your dead body is somewhere, Jacqueline." I told them in an angry tone.
We will die here. It is worse than an impossible mission.
"Uhm! I forgot to tell you, Zark! You only have 22 hours to live before most of your scars start opening up, which will cause blood loss and will end with your ultimate death." Jacqueline said without any care in the world.
I couldn't handle everything that was going on right now. Am I going to go completely crazy? I squatted down, buried my head in my arms, and quickly got up.
"ARE YOU ALL FUCKING CRAZY, I DON'T EVEN CURSE LIKE BERK DO. IS THE FUCKING AUTHOR COMPLETELY CRAZY? HOW THE FUCK ARE WE GOING TO FUCKING SURVIVE THIS THING WHEN THAT CRAZY FUCKING AUTHOR JUST THROWS US INTO SHIT ALL THE FUCKING TIME. WHO THE FUCK PUTS THREE DOG HEADS AND LEGIONS OF FUCKING 29 OF THEM IN ONE FUCKING LEVEL. HE IS SERIOUSLY TRYING TO WRITE ME OFF FROM THE VAN POLAN UNIVERSE, THAT DAMN BASTARD, NO WONDER HIS READERS FUCKING HATE HIM."
Well, that escalated quite quickly.
"Are you done? We forgot to mention also, my sister, we are going to be free from prison to start a battlefield to save your ass."
"W...Wh...What! A battlefield. Like open space with a mini-war going on? I asked her to get a clear answer.
"Uhm! I think Fierna means that we need to have a lot of demons and corrupt souls around when the battlefield is going on. If I could choose an expression, it would be that we need to create a massacre."
I noticed that Fierna took a deep breath as Jacqueline had killed the mood entirely, with only the Orobas man laughing. I walked away around the corner before stopping. I saw a big crowd in the corridor, but there were a lot of creatures staring at me, some of them drooling. They looked like a smaller version of goblins but were red and couldn't be goblins. I backed slowly back towards the others as they started to growl, but they were not attacking.
"Oh! I am sorry for not presenting one of your obstacles, human. My favour was only valid until the three of you entered the building, so the Dobons kept their distance. I will kill them if they come closer." Orobas said, going up from his chair and leaning towards the desk.
"Please sign so I can leave. The direction you must go after I leave is the same as the Dobons watching you. A door on the other side will lead you to the other side of the wall." Orobas said.
"What is a Dobons?" Fierna asked.
"It is an inbreed born between demons and goblins. They are a little smaller than goblins but have the colours of demons and are great warriors compared to goblins."
Fierna and Jacqueline moved around the corner to check out the small army standing in the office corridor with desks lined up after each other. Fierna and Jacqueline moved quickly and signed the paper as they prepared for battle. Only my signature was left, and I signed the paper to get it over with, and Orobus put it inside his cloak. He put his hand on my shoulder and starred at both the girls and said:
"I will give you some advice, human! If you save them, it will be the end of you. Remember that!"
I looked at both of them and when I turned around, I saw that he was gone. I could hear the Dobons scrambling in the corridor as I hurried to join them in the long corridor office fight.