Hi, I posted a rougher version of this a few weeks ago, and I
god a good enough response to do a little tweaking and addition to it.
Anyways tell me what you think, especially what you think a good title
would be.
Kiyone stood at the entrance to The Corridor. She shuddered to
herself as she contemplated the meeting she was being called to. She
looked at the door just inside. It was bright red with a black 1
painted at its center. Taking a deep breath she entered the gray
hallway wondering how long it would take her to reach the black room
666. The office of the dark angel who ruled Hell, her home since she
had died.
Kiyone walked foreword, distracting herself from her reason for
being here by counting the doors as she passed them. By the time she
reached 600 she was feeling ghost pain throughout her entire lower
body. Ghost pain because she didn't have a real body anymore. Putting
it aside she pressed onward, and paused at door 665 to stare at the
next door, a dull orange door with a red 1 painted on it.
*I guess I've got a longer walk then I thought.*
Kiyone pressed on. And as she walked she found herself unable
to avoid thinking about her life and her death. And the afterlife she
was trapped in as well. It became a distraction from the phantom pain
in her phantom body as she kept up a pace that her mortal self could
never have survived matching.
She thought of her death. Ironically Mihoshi, who she would
have bet everything she had to be it's cause was over a hundred light
years away when it happened. The Galaxy Police had granted them a paid
vacation, and she had managed to insure that she and Mihoshi spent
their vacations on well separated resort planets. Three days later
Kiyone had been walking home from a bar with a guy she had picked up
when she managed to trip and fall over a small bridge and suddenly she
was here in hell.
Hell was something else that didn't match here expectations.
She had expected perpetual torment, but instead the torments occurred
at seemingly random intervals. The rest of the time was a torment of a
more subtle nature. It didn't seem too bad, but the torment arose more
from a lack than anything that she had to deal with. There was no
happiness, no kindness, no hope. And of course the bureaucracy that
she and everyone she knew hated so much was here, with even greater
intensity and power. Agony, emptiness, and frustration. Hell was
worse than she had imagined.
Suddenly the fact that she had passed a black door with the
number 645 intruded on her consciousness. Looking up she accelerated
her pace, coming to a halt as she reached her goal.
She looked at the door. It was utterly black, except for the
red numbers proclaiming it office 666. Kiyone raised her hand and
fought down a wave of fear. Reaching out her hand she prepared to
knock.
"Come in Kiyone." said a deep voice inside the office. Kiyone
blinked a moment, then opened the door and stepped inside.
"You wanted to see me..." What was the proper title to call
him, she wondered.
The fallen angel looked up from a desk that looked like a red
copy of her supervisor's. In fact the entire office looked exactly
like her supervisors only subtly wrong. "That I did. Well it's been
six years Mortal realm since you died, and I was reviewing your case."
Oh no... "My, Case?"
"Actually it was at a request from the opposing realm, but
looking things over I have concluded that you can be released a lot
sooner than expected, right now in face."
Kiyone blinked. She wasn't aware that she could be released
from hell. "Released?"
"To Heaven's care. In fact the angel who'll be looking you
over while you make the transition should be at the gate really soon.
If you'll just fill out the forms,"
Kiyone looked over the firms. *There has to be some sort of
trick.* She thought to herself. *Should I go along and leave? What
am I thinking. This is my chance to get out of hell.* She picked up a
pen and quickly signed her name to the appropriate places.
"Excellent!" He raised his hand and suddenly they were
standing by a large set of Gates, seemingly made of pure iron.
"Heaven's sending the angel who'll be responsible for you while your
adjusting to your new status. She should be here any minute."
"KIYONE!!" Kiyone froze as a figure in white suddenly grabbed
her. She was all in white, she now sprouted wings, but the blond hair
and that awful voice were exactly as she remembered.
"Oh Kiyone!" Mihoshi continued. "It was so awful after you
died, I mean I tried to do my best to make you proud, but the chief
kept yelling at me, and there were those partners who went crazy and
had to be locked up, and finally I wasn't paying enough attention and a
smuggler managed to shoot me. But the worst part of it was that when I
got to Heaven I couldn't find you. I looked all over and I even tried
to check with Hells records at a friends advice. I can't believe that
anyone actually thought you belonged in hell. Well don't worry, I'm
here now and we'll be together forever!"
"F-Forever?" Kiyone slowly turned her head and looked at the
Devil, who was closing the gates of hell behind him with a big grin on
his face.
"Wait! I changed my mind! " Kiyone screamed as she ran for
the gates.
Satan smiled as he walked away from the gates of Hell,
listening to Kiyone's screams. "The mind is it's own place and can
make a Heaven of Hell, A Hell of Heaven." He chuckled to himself.