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Chapter 3: Hell

            “Amano,” asked Miyuki. “Are you alright? You seemed distracted after coming with me to that temple…”

            “Huh?” said Amano. “Oh, I’m fine, just… thinking…”

            “Well, if you need anything feel free to ask me.”

            Miyuki got up and left, leaving Amano with his thoughts. He had a feeling he wouldn’t find the answers to his past here. He looked over at the door that transported people to Heaven or Hell. Maybe…

            Amano got up and walked towards the door, for a split second he felt a heartbeat. Was it his? No, it came from the door? He walked forward and placed a hand on the door. It sprung open and sucked him in!

            “What’s going on?!” asked a really freaked out Amano as he fell into a pit of fire.

            Strange thing about the fire was, it didn’t hurt him… It surrounded him and when he opened his eyes once more he realized that he was wearing a completely different set of clothes!  He now wore a black shirt with a design of fire stitched into them and a pair of black jeans and boots.

            “This is weird…” muttered Amano. Then he realized that he was floating in the air… “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

            Splash! Amano slowly crawled out of the crimson colored river and coughed out water. He was soaking wet and resembled a drowned rat.

            “Ha ha hah,” laughed a voice.

Amano looked over to his right and saw a girl about the age of sixteen. She had long midnight black hair, which was tied back into a ponytail and she wore a shirt that had one long sleeve while the other didn’t have one and it showed he stomach. She also wore a pair of short, shorts and boots. Amano also noticed that she had gray wings and elf-like ears, a devil-girl…

“Need a hand?” asked the devil reaching out to help him. Amano was surprised she managed to pull him out with one try. “You must be new around here, cause I’ve never seen you here before. I’m Taeko.”

“My name’s Amano,” said Amano, still dripping wet. “Where am I?”

“Wha? Don’t you know? You’re in hell.”

“Hell?”

“Are you alright?”

“…”

“Hey! You’re that kid everyone’s talking about!”

“I am?”

“I didn’t know you chose to be with hell on this war…”

“I didn’t…”

“Then how’d you get here?”

“I don’t really know…”

“…Well, since you’re here I might as well give you a tour.”

Amano was amazed at what he saw, Hell wasn’t just a pit of fire, it was the place where the sun never sets. It was beautiful. They mostly used boast to travel the waters of hell, which glowed a bright crimson color. Then they came to an abandoned looking temple…Strange, why did he feel like he had been here before?

“And that’s the Temple of Time,” said Taeko. “But for some reason no one has been able to enter it…”

“No one?” asked Amano.

“No one,” replied Taeko.

Amano walked up to the temple door and suddenly his staff appeared in his hand. The tip of the blade glowed and the doors slowly creaked open. Both Amano and Taeko stood there opened-mouthed and wide-eyed.

“What did you do?” asked Taeko.

“I don’t know…”

“Let’s check the place out!”

The two entered the building, it was only one room, a hallway leading to a picture… A picture of a girl with her eyes closed, being held back by trends. The treads of time? Wait! How did Amano know that?

“The inscriptions on this gravestone is too faded to read,” said Taeko. “Let’s go back. It looked like there’s nothing more to see…”

Amano nodded and was about to leave with her when he turned around to get one last look at the girl and realized she was one of the girls in his dream!

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