Outside Hell

by Milo Spires

  Satan took one look at it with its blue rays dwarfing his flames from lighting up the ground beneath him, and then in response he’d lowered his arms and as if he hadn’t paid the gas bill, suddenly the flames around them that had been spiraling like serpents and growing in their intensity, died away to nothing. Satan looked down at his arms in wild confusion and you could see by his haunched shoulders and his furrowed brows that he was trying in vain to relight them. Then from the light that had almost looked like it was from Heaven, suddenly a beautiful woman with dark straight shoulder length hair and a pale complexion with gleaming blue eyes and a beautiful jawline, stepped out. She was wearing a full length light blue dress that as it flowed out behind her, the end of it de-molecularised and faded away. The woman was wearing simple white shoes that could have been mistaken for maybe ballet shoes, and she’d glowed with a magical force field of pale blue all around her.

  Then and from remembering an old painting in a cave that he’d seen of her and her husband, Dracus dropped to the floor and in the traditional Changalk manner of his people, he’d bowed his head to touch the tarmac beneath him. A moment past and then he’d raised his face and said, “mother you have come for me”.

  The whole crew of friends who were standing there watching almost choked when they’d heard him say mother. Even Bonyious had pulled his face out of his fathers furs to glance up at his dad who’d smiled back at him, and then shrugged his shoulders to let him know that he was unsure too.

  Then back with the horned fool, Satan didn’t care for family reunions in the slightest unless they were souls meeting souls, to burn for eternity in his hell. In his sick twisted mind he was ready to unleash his wrath upon them all and within seconds as his flames engulfed them, they’d all be burning in his hell too. The lady though seemed to be unaffected by his prancing around with his veins pulsating on his face, and as he was screaming for his demons to swarm her, instead she’d turned around and calmly placed her hand upon her son’s shoulder, whilst smiling down loving into his face.

  Then as the demons refused their master fearing the energy that was coming off her, and because of it Satan’s rage spread exponentially throughout him, with flames roaring skywards thousands of feet from his pitchfork, suddenly the woman turned to face him. Her placid peaceful loving energy darkened substantially, and as she’d looked across at Satan her complexion then changed to grey with lines appearing across her forehead. She’d looked at the prince of darkness with a face that looked like a million faces of fury.

  Only as she’d then turned, suddenly and unwillingly Dracus’ who was kneeling on the tarmac vanished from consciousness and his back arched, as his arms fell limp by his sides, and his eyes rolled back into his head. Then as a second past suddenly a swirling pale blue light appeared from his chest that blasted out into a concentrate funnel of extreme energy, roaring up and making the dark sky above appear as day. Only as it beamed out from him and grew in its intensity, the lady then held her hand up and the rays fell down from the sky, roaring into the palm of her hand instead. She’d looked like she was receiving a lightening strike from four or five bolts of lightening at the same time.

  Satan had enough of watching her show of sorcery though, and then with malicious intent he’d turned to look across at the vampires by the door, whilst holding his hand up to blast them with extreme fire. Only as his arms with spiraling flames had pointed in their direction, and Claudius had tried to shield his son from the unknown, nothing happened. The flames that had strangely relit were useless and wouldn’t respond at all. The spiraling serpents of wild flames simply stayed on his arms and wouldn’t leave. Satan was furious and then as he’d tried to lift up a wall of flames from the ground to vaporize them all instead, suddenly the lady raised her hand up to his face and blasted him with a solid shaft of blue light.

  Satan had tried to shield himself from it but found that he couldn’t move. The rays as they’d hit him that were like a concentrated bolt of lightening had channeled themselves directly into his face. A second past and then after she’d lowered her hand she’d fallen limp as if the energy that she’d just used had totally exhausted her. Only as she’d taken a second and with it she’d managed to stand, her glowing pale blue energy around her that had dulled substantially throughout the process suddenly reappeared brightly, and her beautiful looks with her soft smile and loving energy was restored.

  When she’d consumed the beam of energy in her hand and then turned towards Satan with it, the rays that were coming from her son’s chest had suddenly stopped, and his almost lifeless body because of it, had then slumped forwards against the tarmac. Only as a second had past and when his eyes had then wearily opened with the clouds of confusion clearing from his mind, he’d absolutely no idea what had just happened to him.

  The prince of darkness though was now in a whole different situation. The demon’s that were blackening the area in their intensity suddenly swarmed the lady for what she’d done to their master. Only as they’d dived down into her, they were instantly consumed by the light that was radiating from her. The thousands of demons had simply vanished back into hell, but the light from the powers used to protect her had also faded and the lady was substantially weakened.

  Satan was paralyzed and could do nothing from now on except watch in horror as the series of events unfurled themselves before him. His eyes were twice bigger in his skull than before, and his erratic veins on the sides of his forehead were pumping so hard that they’d looked like huge red snakes, wriggling amongst themselves.

  In his mind he was furious and the woman would pay for her crimes against him, only he’d no way to make her pay as the dark energy that had always been there was gone. He could feel absolutely nothing inside of him, except a strange void of nothingness.

  Kaine though who was still sitting on the tarmac with his back against the cliff face journeying into a dark place in his mind, hadn’t reacted when Satan had appeared at all. Since loosing his love his whole world had been completely shattered, and for now as tears streamed down his face, he couldn’t care what happened to him and felt utterly defeated.

  Then and after sensing that the immediate danger from Satan was over, and in response to his cellmate ‘the third vampire’ suffering tormentous sadness beside him, Bonyious let go of his father’s hand and knelt down putting his arms around the big guy to give him a cuddle. Only sadly the gesture of kindness from the young Bavarian did nothing to placate Kaine’s bitter feelings. Then and as Dracus’ mother had reached him, she’d smiled and knelt down in front of him placing her pale blue hand up underneath his chin, and gently raised his tearful gaze up into her eyes. The woman spoke softly to Kaine and said to him that she aware that her son had risked his life to save him and his gorgeous wife, and that afterwards she’d also known that they’d risked their lives to save Dracus too. Then she said that she’d watched him go to the shack in the Carpathian Mountains where his wife had been killed, and that afterwards Satan had locked her soul in a fiery room in HELL. Only as soon as Kaine had heard her words and as if a dam had broken, suddenly more tears streamed down his cheeks. The woman said to Kaine to calm himself awhile because Regina was not in HELL anymore, and then with her glowing fingers she’d reached forwards and gently placed them against his cheek.

  In Kaine’s whole being since Regina had died so savagely in front of him there’d been just the bitter emptiness, and as every minute had passed since it happened, the emptiness had been grown in it’s intensity, completely masking out everything that was going on around him. Kaine’s thoughts were brimming over with the most extreme levels of grief and sadness, whilst sucking him down into a dark place where he could never return. Only as the lady there kneeling before him had told him that Regina wasn’t in hell anymore, and with the softness of her words, the slightest spark of hope that he’d see Regina again had reignited inside of him. Kaine immediately sat forwards and keenly listened as the lady spoke to him. Dracus’ mother explained to him that she was
just in the spirit form and that most of her, and her husband king Rasviulk’s powers had been taken away from them by a dark lord in Eldor. She’d said that over the hundreds of years that she and her husband had been incarcerated in a prison in another dimension, they’d amassed enough energy from around them to visit their son just once, hoping to guide him to freeing them and saving the people of Eldor. Only as they’d both been preparing to visit him they’d become aware of the strong bond that their son had felt towards Kaine and his wife Regina, and when she’d been killed in the shack they’d known they’d the powers to reverse it. Only they’d also known that if they did save her then most of their energy would be used up by the one action, and that it would mean one of them wouldn’t be able to make the journey to see Dracus. She’d also told him that king Rasviulk had been very eager to see his son today, but felt that it was of the utmost importance to ensure that Regina was alive, and that he was very willing to sacrifice his chance to see his son if it meant that Regina would be saved.

  Then and as she’d just finished telling Kaine about king Rasviulk, the lady in pale blue looked down and noticed that her color was beginning to fade beneath her, and then in response she’d said that she had to be quick as the powers that had brought her there were running out.

  A moment passed and then she’d looked out onto the tarmac for the briefest of seconds, before turning back around and then smiling into Kaine’s eye’s and saying,

  “Your wife is over there my darling, look after her because she loves you very much.”

  Kaine instantly looked out into the mile square tarmac and could see nothing. Then as he’d frantically looked from left to right scanning everywhere, and even the deepest shadows over by the tree line, suddenly a huge fireball had burst up in front of Satan that engulfed him too.

  The flame was glorious blue taking up four meters of the tarmac with the edges fading into pale blue, and completely blocking out every ones view of the prince of ugliness that was still paralyzed behind it. Then stepping out from the centre of it but in a much faster way than the lady had from hers, Regina suddenly appeared looking like she was in deep shock. A second past and then as both of her feet had touched the tarmac beneath her; suddenly the biggest smile encroached upon her beautiful face.

  For Regina and only moments before she’d been in her cell next to Raffious screaming in agony whilst enduring the most tormentous pain and suffering; held there for an eternity in her fiery chains. Only through the ardent flames that had masked her vision ever since she’d tried escaping through the air vent and her body had vaporized, she’d seen a blue light appear and as it had grown in its intensity, the cell in front of her was washed in its magical glow. Then as it had faded and as she’d seen the tarmac beneath her, she’d realised that the pain had vanished from within and her old body had come back to her, blessing her again with her former abilities to touch and feel.

  When Kaine had seen her standing there and in mid run to be reunited with her, a huge smile had appeared across his face that had threatened by its very size to make the Cheshire cats grin from Alice in wonderland look somewhat pathetic in comparison. Only when Regina had truly got her bearings back and then fully realized where she was, and also saw her loving husband almost tripping over his crazed rush towards her, she’d had the same massive smile blast across her face as if they’d bought his and hers versions from the local massive smile shop. The two of them full of the most powerful loving energy and like two bolts of lightening, then leapt into each others arms and instantly fused into each others loving embrace.

  Only an hour before though the tarmac had stunk of death, but now as their friends with their own tearful emotions coursing through them watched on, the smell had mysteriously vanished and was replaced by the intense and palpable feeling of love. Kaine was running his hands through Regina’s hair and sliding them around her thin neck as he’d driven his whole being tight into her, and with her arms around him she’d pulled herself tight into him too. Then as the seconds went by he’d slipped his icy fingers under her top and slid them down her back towards her waist, and with one finger he’d slowly ran circles around the base of her spine, reversing the circle and doing figure of eights too. Then as she’d felt it and with the immense happiness of being in his loving arms again, coupled by the passionate memories of their past lives together, suddenly the emotions within came flooding out of her like a huge river, and she’d burst into tears. She’d loved him so much and he’d loved her equally too. Then as they’d stood there only forty feet away from the hangers demolished entrance under the rapidly blinking eyes of the eagles and their young, whilst burrowed into each other’s frames, Regina’s hands slid up the inside of Kaine’s back and by their deep and passionate embrace and because of the loving energy that was clearly flowing between them, the very nature of it had threatened to consume them. Regina kept craning her head back and with tears streaming down her cheeks whilst looking up at him, she could hardly believe that he was real. A moment had past and then after he’d wiped her tears away and before another river equaling that of the Amazon had appeared in her tear ducts, he’d kissed her cold wet cheeks and told her a thousand times just how much he’d loved her.

  Laouse was utterly blown away seeing her alive again, and as his emotions had taken hold of him and he was fighting to hold back the tears, he was also speechless to say the million thank you’s that he’d wanted to tell the lady in blue. Then as Dracus’ mother had turned around with the most radiant smile to look at her son, she’d also held her hand up behind her towards Satan, and the horned idiot then began to slowly slip down through the tarmac on his long journey back into HELL.

  Chapter 40 – Save Us

  Now with Kaine and Regina completely up in the clouds in terms of their emotions, and Laouse pointing up at the eagles nest telling everyone how he’d seen Dracus perform a miracle earlier, queen Siarui addressed her son.

  She’d told him that she’d loved him very much and that she was aware of his plans to lure Satan back to Eldor, hoping to use his magical portal to send him and Vrakug up to the murderously oppressive sun, but he mustn’t because his plan would fail.

  Dracus was shocked that she’d known his plan and then as he was just about to open his mouth to ask her how she’d known, he’d thought that maybe it was better that he’d didn’t, so said nothing and kept schtoom.

  Queen Siarui had told him in her soft and magical voice, “Dracus from here on you will never be plagued by that horned idiot again. You were already powerful from birth because our Goddess Lianor had made it so. When she’d gifted us with these powers, she’d made it that our children are always more powerful than us. You need to find your magic’s core within you and once you do, you must command it to be able to unleash its full potential. Also as you know from our message on the cave wall, when you were a child we’d bestowed all of our own powers into you. These powers coupled with your own, will make you invincible. Together their unity if you learn to harness their power and weald it masterfully, you will be so strong a sorcerer, that even Vrakug will loose when he battles you.“

  Dracus was confused though because so far he’d learnt a handful of spells from her books that he’d taken from her study, and knew a few others spells too like how to create a strange looking beast or make something vanish. He’d felt sure though that if he’d used them, they definitely wouldn’t be powerful enough to defeat Vrakug with.

  Queen Siarui had seen her son’s facial expressions suggesting that he was unsure of her words, and then continued by telling him. “When we gave you our powers, we’d locked them as we’d felt strongly that we couldn’t chance that one day Vrakug might find you. When we’d sent you away with your nanny past the witches cave to stop his spells from following, we’d known that it wasn’t enough. We knew from the powers we’d seen him using against us that he would be able to create vicious beasts loyal to him, and then make those beasts search for you, so we’d locked our magic in you just incase you w
ere ever found, preventing him from taking them. I am the only one with the key to unlocking them and until I was sure that you would use them properly for the good of Eldor, and that you had also become of a manly age to be able to control them, they would be kept away from you. Once unlocked my son and with them, if they feel you are truly the right one to bare them and they lock in with your inner psyche, they will help you to use the ones that you were born with to their fullest potential too. You will become a master sorcerer and unstoppable unless you attempt to carry out an evil act, and then they will vanish and never return.”

  Dracus liked the sound of this. More powers, becoming invincible, having the power to create portals that from then on would be undetectable, and also that fool Satan off his back permanently too; it had all sounded fucking awesome. He was only worried about one thing though. His concerns were; would they actually take to him or would they see him as maybe too weak and then vanish, before he’d even had a chance to play with them?