~Chapter 2~

You know, I shouldn't be so naive minded. As I sat there staring at these three perfectly flawless (okay maybe they are not that amazing) humans, all that was going inside my mind was, there's humans here. I had thought that this "heaven" was filled with demons and stuff, but it makes sense. I mean, why do you need all these therapists for? I sighed and turned my attention back to my book. I don't want to deal with anything that can break me from the inside and the outside. I've had enough. "He said he will only bring a friend. Not three monsters."

There were three girls in total. About the age of 16. My age. The one on the far right whimpered something that I didn't catch. She had orangish blond hair, that were in two high ponytails. The girl wore a tan polo sweater, with a plaid skirt, and high knee socks. She had freckles, and seemed to be dragged into seeing me. Am I really that scary?

"Shut it, Mimi. This bitch is going up or down, and she's not staying here." the shortest one said. She had black curly hair, with bright yellow and blue highlights. She dressed in all black and purple, something that was called "goth." She cracked her knuckles and rolled her head around.

"Sasha! Now, let's do this properly. Hi, Michelle. Ah, I'm...Are-Kay-Dee-E! It's written A-R-C-A-D-I-"

"I know how to spell and talk, stupid." I said.

"Okay, you can not talk to my friend like that!" I heard a flurry of steps and my book flew out of my hand.

"Hey! You can not do-"

She grabbed my shirt. "Listen you little bitch. I have survived nightmares that will probably knock the skin of your bones, so you probably shouldn't be complaining."

"Sasha. I thought we promised that what's in the past is the past." The girl named Arcadia said.

The girl let go of my shirt. "But this bitch needs to learn her lesson." She crossed her arms and blew her hair out of her face.

"Aren't we here to...mi...to make friends with...mi...her?" The girl named Mimi asked.

"Of course!" The girl named Arcadia said. She has green eyes, dirty blonde hair, and seems to be the tallest one in the group. She wore jeans, with a T-shirt that said "Hallephomna". It showed a building with 4 pillars, and a serpent like golden dragon was zig zagging each pillar.

I sighed. If I became the perfect girl they wanted, no cussing or arguing, then they will soon leave me alone right? I bowed my head and mumbled, "I'm Michelle."

Arcadia asked, "Well! Can you walk far, Michelle?"

Sasha stared hard at me. "Of course she can!"

"Great! Mimi, come!" Before I knew what was happening, Mimi came over to me and pulled me onto my feet. She gripped my shoulders hard and steered me out the room.

"Where are we going?" I asked.

"Well, we're giving you a tour! What those little demons don't know is that in order to heal properly, you need people to talk to, and you need exercise. Over there is where you will be eating for the rest of your stay. Remember this plaque, and you wouldn't miss it!"

I glanced at the shiny golden plaque on the door, which had a carving of the serpent like dragon that was on Arcadia's shirt. There were words scribbled below, but we moved before I could read it.

"Now, over there is the garden. People like to take a stroll there to help digest their food. Don't go too far though, because we have a maze as well, and that maze changes its route everyday."

I stared out the glass doors, but all I could see was fog.

"Ah, I forgot. You haven't got your training yet!"

"That's because she denied anybody talking to her." Sasha murmured. Arcadia gave her a sharp look and then beckoned Mimi to stop holding me.

I fell to my feet, breathing hard. Two months had made my muscles gone down the drain. It doesn't help that I have a heavy, wrapped up leg that could get a crack in the bone any moment. A sudden pain in my stomach made me topple over. I looked up to see Sasha with her arms crossed.

"Man up. If you are going to live the luxury of here, you need to learn how to live here. If you exercise, then your leg wouldn't hurt much. You are just babying it and refusing to let it go." She walked to where Mimi was while Arcadia helped me up.

"I'm sorry! Sasha has a bit of a temper problem."

"No." I gave a cold, cruel smile and looked Sasha in the eye, "You're right. I am babying it. I guess I wasn't in my senses until now. Continue on with your tour." Although Arcadia and Mimi didn't realize it, I just made a pact with them. I was going to stick with them until they know where to put me, and I wasn't backing out. Even if things go horribly wrong.

Arcadia gave a smile, while Sasha turned her back to me. We continued the tour, but in a slower pace. "Over here, is where the main room is. Time to time, portals would appear and send people away, or send people here. Sometimes, it's an unpleasant place to be, but this is the most important. We would get messages and meetings, so you must remember the location."

I saw a big room, where demons where hustling back and forth, people in wheelchairs where strolling around, and therapists running to the aid of someone. There was a big spiral staircase in the center, and doors along the wall. What surprised me though, was the amount of noise there were. It was dead silent, as if nobody was there.

"How come there's no noise?" I asked.

"Ah, sometimes the people we receive are betrayers or spies, so there's a magic spell over the whole building. After you receive the training, you will be able to see things that wasn't there, and hear things that isn't possible."

"What happens if I'm a spy?"

"Oh, we rarely come across that situation. You see, before you go through your training, you make a blood oath. Tell a soul, and your blood will boil until you explode, and then your spirit will leave and go through and endless cycle of your most horrible memories, and things you wish you never knew. Your soul would become our servants, but before us shattering it into a million pieces. If your soul still lives, then it won't have any memory or enough power to regain a body."

"Woah. Why is it worth betraying this place then? What is it that is so important to do all that?"

"Well, people want power. We hold the biggest power source and there's revenge. Our president had recently made a pact with the monsters. Before, almost everybody who did one single bad thing like stealing would go to Hell, all because the ruler of Hell was greedy for their souls. Now, our president would examine each and every one and find out who's good or bad. The servants of Hell doesn't like that though, so of course we would get spies every once and a while."

"Why are you here then?"

Arcadia covered her eyes in her bangs for a moment and whispered, "Because-"

The ground began shaking and what was silent was near deafening. There was a terrible scream and beams of light began to appear. They danced around the room, and every time they clashed with one another, they multiplied. The scream made me fell to my feet again, while Sasha and Mimi lost their footing by the ground shaking. Arcadia's eyes widened with fear. "No! This can't be happening! Not yet! It can't be possible-" Whatever she said next was lost by a roar. Cracks began forming along the ground until a beam of light aimed at one. Soon, the lights were forming a portal, and out came...

Richesing Peirver.