Vincent is dreaming. He is walking in the meadow with clear blue sky. As he is strolling, he falls into a well. The well is dark and bottomless. He can’t stop falling. All of his abilities are useless in the black void. As he’s about to give up, he hears a voice calling in a distance “Vincent !! Vincent !!! Wake up !” It somehow wakes him up, and he can see the light at the top, and he flies toward it. Vincent opens his eyes, and he sees beautiful angelic eyes of someone familiar. “Jenna?”
“Thank God. I thought I lost you.” Vincent can’t remember the last time someone care about him this much.
He is trying to sit, but still unable to. Jenna helps sit him up, leaning on a huge boulder.
“So…what now?” Vincent weakly gazes at Jenna.
“I don’t know if this is a good idea. But let’s you the morning dew and see how it goes.”
“Do you still have a lot of it?”
“Yeah. Don’t worry about it. Now open wide and say ‘aaaahh’ ”
Vincent opens his mouth, and Jenna carefully put two drops of the elixir. Vincent closes his eyes, and feels rejuvenated in just a matter of seconds. “I’m baaaccckkk !!!”
“Great ! ”Jenna smiles watching him jump around like a little kid.
“I feel that I can take over anything. Let’s go get the Dark Lord now!!!”
“Slow down tiger, we need a plan” Jenna puts everything back in the satchel.
“Let’s fetch the weasel and get him here.”
“I don’t think it’s a good idea to let him know our hideout. The Dark Lord might find us sooner of later if he knows. Let’s go out first and then get him. He can’t track you now anyway.” Jenna’s full knowledge of the book proves useful without her realizing it.
Jenna and Vincent get their things ready, and they just randomly pick a place in the map. After they get out in the open, Jenna opens the limbo and yanks Crocell out. He’s in a really pathetic condition, scared and withering like an old dying tree. Vincent looks at Crocell with disbelief. It seems like he ages 100 years in just a brief moment in time. “What happen?”
“Limbo sucks the energy of beings like me. I might only have minutes left.” Crocell can even barely finish the sentence. “Tell us how to get there!!!”
In his last breath, Crocell takes a medallion from under his cloak. “This will take you there.”
Jenna doesn’t believe him. But when she’s done examining the medallion, she is convinced that Crocell is telling the truth “Why do you change your mind?”
“I have feared the Dark Lord for the rest of my life. This is the one thing that I can do without him being able to get back at me.” Crocell smiles, and slowly from his head to his toes, turns into dust.
Jenna and Vincent are silent for a moment. “Is he telling the truth?”
“Yes. This is the Medal of Styx. It allows travel in the underworld.”
“How do you know?”
“There’s a brilliant brain under here……Hellooo !” Jenna points at her temple while teasing Vincent. Vincent doesn’t look too amused. Jenna stops her mockery and slowly approaches him. “We’ll get him, AND your memory back.”
“So how do we use this?” Vincent plays with the medallion in Jenna’s hand.
“There’s an enchantment to get in or get out of the underworld. Let me look them up.” She opens up the Book of Angel, and pulls up the right section. “Wow. I’m quite sure this wasn’t here.” Jenna is amazed at the content of the book. It seems to grow as she gains more knowledge.
“Ah here we go. Let’s check everything first before we go.” Jenna and Vincent double checks on their equipment, when finally their eyes meet. Vincent inches in, and Jenna follows. “Just in case we don’t make it through this.” Jenna closes her eyes, and Vincent slowly reaches for the back of her head. He hesitates for a moment, but then finally decides to push through. He kisses her, which feels like a firework on the fourth of July meets Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Both smiles and holds the medallion together.
“Shall we?” Jenna chants the foreign magic words. Dark smoke appears out of nowhere, follows by an unbearable heat. The walls look like melting lava, and they can see peculiar creatures flying and crawling.
“Welcome to hell”
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They arrive in what looks like a zoo for gargoyles. All kind of creepy crawlies for the darkest nightmare can be found in ample stock. Vincent and Jenna are in a shock. After awhile, they regain their composure.
“We are in deep in the enemy’s territory.”
“There’s no turning back now.” Vincent holds Jenna’s hand and tries to give her assurance.
“How do we find the Dark Lord fast enough?”
“Let’s grab one of the weak minions.” Jenna and Vincent moves slowly in the area, and finds a demon carrying a basket. Vincent moves slowly, and quickly grabs the unsuspecting demon. He creates a blade from his armor and presses the demon’s neck. “Lead me to the Dark Lord. Now!” The demon seems more afraid of the Dark Lord than the blade, but the holy blade seems to bring a great deal of pain. It has the same effect similar to Holy Water to demonic beings; it dissolves them. Finally, after a long muffled scream, he nods his head. “If you so much even try to squeak, I will pierce this through your skull. Got that?” The demon nods, and he leads them through a long and winding tunnels, until they finally reach a huge double doors. The demon stops right in front of them, and speaks demonic language. Jenna responds “He’s here.” The demon quickly runs back to the top in great fear. Vincent can feel a dark gruesome aura from inside. Slowly, he opens the double door.
Jenna and Vincent walk carefully, and preparing themselves for the fight of their life. They walk pass the mountains of book collections. Wow. I didn’t know that the Dark Lord likes to read. Jenna is laughing at herself to have the weird thought at times like this. They come to the end of the room, where they can see a throne behind a massive table. A dark figure is sitting quietly there, and he catches them by surprise.
“I have been expecting you, Zuriel. Impressive. You manage to avoid all the guards of hell. Must have been some holy artifacts you have.”
Vincent holds his breath. “The Dark Lord?”
“You can call me that. But I prefer Lucifer.” With that end of the sentence, he dashes forward. He throws Vincent hard to the ground and kicks Jenna on the stomach. Jenna is thrown backward, hits the wall, and almost knocked out cold. Jenna never feels anything quite like it. The kick feels she’s being hit by a truck. The armor apparently can’t hold against the Dark Lord’s power.
Helplessly, Jenna watches Vincent being pummeled. The Dark Lord toys with him like he’s nothing. Lucifer delivers uppercuts and swings, cornering Vincent like a pinched boxer in the ring. Lucifer throws body blows to Vincent, so hard that Vincent feels like his whole internal organs are about to come out. Finally, Lucifer lifts Vincent’s body up high with both of his hands, and throws him near Jenna. He lands right next to him. Jenna slowly crawls to Vincent, and slowly shakes his body. “Vincent ! Vincent !”
Vincent can’t even raise his head. “Without my full power, I am no match for him, even with the Holy Artifacts.” Vincent and Jenna feel so hopeless, that they hold hands to prepare for the end.
Seeing this, Lucifer can’t help but to make fun of them “Aw….lovebirds eh ?? Wait till you know what your boyfriend did.”
“Ask him about Ben Rabinowitz. Ask him how he dies” Jenna looks at Lucifer, and then Vincent. She doesn’t want to believe Lucifer, but asks anyway. “How did he die?
Vincent is silent, and tears running down his cheeks. At first he doesn’t have the courage to tell her, but he can’t hold it any longer as it tears him apart everyday he’s with her.
“I killed him”
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