The P.O.E. & a Gateway in the Basement

Chapter Sixteen

Jacob grabs his sword and places it into its sheath. He then grabs Britney's hand so they can walk out into the living room to meet up with Rebecca, Nick & Frank. They are all ready to go and are standing beside the front door waiting on Jacob & Britney.

"Are you two ready?" Rebecca asks.

"Not really. But let's go and get this over with." Jacob sighs. He is overwhelmed about where they are about to venture. So with everybody ready to go into Hell, they exit out of the apartment door, walk down two small flight of steps and enter another door, which leads to the laundry room. Once inside there they see the gateway is the size of an automobile and now there are at least a dozen headstones surrounding the gateway itself. Jacob does not feel like counting every single one of them because he sees hands slowly digging themselves out of the ground in front of the headstones. "I think that we need to get out of here... now." He quickly admits to the horrors of what he sees in front of him.

"I see them too, Jacob. We need to hurry and get inside that gateway." Rebecca advises. She steps in front of everybody. "Follow me in a single file line and take out your weapons." She begins to carefully step through the small cemetery. If they are able to get inside that gateway undetected they will have one advantage, the element of surprise. Everybody else sees Rebecca getting ready to defend herself. As now there are two arms grasping the dirt in front of their feet, trying to pull themselves out of their own graves. Once heads begin to form out of the ground; everybody begins to cut off the heads, as they walk by them, making their way to the gateway. A few of the zombies that are closest to the gateway, grabs Britney's left ankle. Jacob quickly chops off that specific zombies head and then its arms go lifeless. A zombie grabs her other ankle from the opposite side of her. Jacob chops off its zombie head as well. Some of the undead corpses have made it out of their graves and now are lurking and quietly moaning towards them.

"All right team. I don't know how this is going to feel. So hold your breath and cross your fingers." Rebecca advises. She cuts off a couple more zombie heads and then jumps into the gateway disappearing into nothingness. Everybody else quickly jumps in behind her one after another. They leave a couple zombies behind. So whoever gets to come back through can kill them then. They all land safely upon a squishy floor. Once they see Rebecca they walk over towards her.

"Welcome to Hell." She says. It is nothing like any of them expected. The floors and walls are made out of human flesh and they are actually beating like a normal heart would. There are screams and moans from tortured souls coming from every direction. But nothing compares to the rancid smell. It is so bad Britney & Jacob both hold their noses with their free hands, it is so bad the closest they can describe it is wonder if you have a dead body out in the hot sun all summer. It is just so bad that everybody's stomach begins to curl up.

"What are these?" Britney asks. She walks over towards one of the walls and notices that there are doors with small cracks in them all the way down both sides of the hallway.

"Those are cells for the souls that crossed Lucifer. They are waiting for Legion so he can slowly and painfully change them into demons." Some of the moans and groans are coming out of the little cracks from inside each and every cell. "What we like to call them are tortured souls. Can we move on?" Rebecca begins to walk further down the small corridor making sure to check and make sure that nothing sneaks up on them.

"Hold on a minute, Rebecca. I think that Britney is stuck." Jacob admits. As somebodys hands have a tight hold on Britney's ankles.

"What the hell?" Britney is just surprised as everybody else. Who would have thought that something would grab your ankles from inside a wall?