CHAPTER 2: THE HELL

I woke up in a place that wasn’t familiar to me. I am naked and only a white blanket is covering my body. I removed the blanket because I can’t breathe and I feel hot too. Like my skin will get burnt and that makes it hard for me to breathe. I am sweating a lot. I looked around while wrapping the blanket on me because I am naked. I tried to find my clothes but it’s gone. I don’t know what happened but I remember that our bus fell off a cliff and now I am here. In a dark, hot place that smells like sulfur, garbage, rotten and dead flesh. I don’t know but I feel suddenly scared when I hear voices. They are screaming, crying, mourning and most of them are asking for help and I don’t know why and I don’t even know where the voices came from. It seems that they are everywhere. I feel a little shiver as I continue walking trying to find a way out. Each step that I made I felt stones and sand on my feet and I kept looking around but I didn't see anything, only a thick wall, and big rocks. That looks endless. I keep walking even when the stones hurt my feet a little bit. When I feel something dripping on my forehead and I hear a sound.

“Maaaaa” I looked up and I saw a girl with long hair falling and her broken skull. Slowly falling in front of me. She was tied upside down and her blood was dripping from her broken skull. I saw her face to face and I got scared to see what she looked like. Her eyes are gone that left a hole on her face and she opens her mouth wide while facing me. I got scared and I wanted to run. I turned around but I saw two men. Standing behind me. They look horrible and scary. The man on the left is holding his stomach because it is bleeding. He has a wound there as if he has been stabbed by someone while the other man has a gunshot on his head and the blood is dripping on his head that almost covers his whole face. They tried to grab me but I ran as fast as I could but they were following me. They look so scary and I am scared. I don’t know what they want from me but I can feel their anger towards me as if they know me. 

I saw an open door without hesitation. I went inside and the door suddenly went bang! After I get inside. The room is dark and quiet; I can only hear the sounds of a steel chain dragging on the floor and that is the only sound that I can hear. I walked closer when I  also heard a voice of a woman who suddenly appeared beside me and grabbed my foot. The fire in a torch suddenly lit. I fell to the ground and I got scared when I saw her. Half of her face is rotten and there are worms and insects falling from her mouth. She is almost bald and her skin is burned. She is looking at me while holding my left leg tight as if she doesn't want to let go of me. Her eyes are full of anger that makes me scared more every time I look at her. She slowly crawled near me while crying at the same time laughing. 

“You didn’t know me, didn't you?” She asked me and then she laughed.  I didn’t answer. I want to kick her away from me but I can’t move even though my whole body is shaking. I feel like I am under her spell when she grabs me. 

“I am the most powerful witch on earth,” She said and she turned into a wild dog, then into a black cat then into a snake, and then back to her normal image. 

“Shhh,” She said and she is now at the top of me. She looked at my face to face and with her long nails; As sharp as a blade touched my face. and she screamed with all of her anger.

“IT’S BECAUSE OF YOUR GOD WHY I AM HERE” And she’s about to stab me with her nails when a bird which is twice bigger than me and with human legs pulled her chain up and now she is upside down but she is still looking at me.

“I will curse you to death! I will curse you!” She screamed. I immediately stand up and run to the door. I hurriedly open the door because of the terror that I felt, but I can’t pull it fast because it is too heavy. I think it is made of big rocks and steel and when I finally opened it. I run as fast as I can and I hear her chanting.

“Maledictum… dolor… passio”  And the door suddenly bangs like thunder and I could not hear her voice anymore. 

I don’t know what I just saw but one thing is for sure it scares me. I looked around to check for the two men who were chasing me but they were gone. So I keep on walking to find a way out but every time I walk I feel so hot and sweating. I feel like my skin is burning too and the smell of the sulfur is getting stronger, same with the voices that I can hear; It's getting louder. I saw an open door that I needed to pass so I went inside and checked for the other door. Hoping that this is the way out. I walked slowly again because I could feel grains on my feet that hurt me. As I walked I heard a voice calling me.

“Hey… hey” I looked around to see who was calling me but I didn’t see anyone.

“I am here” He said almost like a whisper. It seems that he is scared that someone might hear him.

“Come here” He said

I saw an old and dirty cellar where the voice is coming from. That is why I went closer to check who was calling me. I saw a man with a steel chain on his legs and half of his body rotten. His eyes were already popped out and there were a lot of different insects eating his flesh and I could almost see his bones. He looked at me and he whispered.

“Get me out of here” And he looked around. He looked so scared that someone might hear him.

“Please,” He begged. He tried to put his arm out of the cellar when a tall, angry and scary beast from the dark pulled him.

“No!!! No!!! Please!!!” He begged but the beast hit him with a whip full of thorns. The insects' splash from his flesh same with his blood.

“You raped and murdered an innocent girl and then right now you will tell me not to whip you” The beast growled and he whipped the man again. Harder than the first whip and then he whipped him again and again and again. His scream gets louder and I can feel his pain until the beast looks at me. That gives me shivers and makes me run. I went to the other door and went out. 

I gasped for air because I couldn't breathe. I saw my feet bleeding too but I don’t feel the pain. I didn't even know that I had wounds on my feet until I saw the blood. Where am I? What kind of place is this? I asked myself because it seems that this place is a never-ending agony. I walked again to find a way out. I know I can get out of here because I don’t belong here. I keep on walking and walking. I saw my blood leave a mark on the grains from each step that I made and I feel like my feet and legs are getting numb but that’s okay. I continue walking because I really want to get out of this place.

Until I heard the grief of a man and it seemed like he was in pain from the door in front of me. I don’t want to get inside the room because I don’t want to see the possible scenario but I heard the voice of the two men who are chasing me. Their voices are getting louder and louder. That means that they are getting nearer and nearer. That makes me more scared and I don’t have a choice but to get inside the door that is standing right in front of me. Inside the room, I looked around and followed the man who was grieving. I saw him inside the jail and like the others, his leg is chained. 

“Please, get me out of here,” He said when he saw me. I looked at him and said nothing. His left leg was chained while the right leg is rotten and I can see his bones. His hands are gone and there’s a lot of ashes that are coming from his mouth with the worms and insects. His eyes popped open too. 

“Please, I don’t want to be here anymore” He begged me while shaking his head in despair.

I want to help him but I don’t know how because even me. I need help. I don’t know how to get out of this place. Each door that I open puts me in a situation of being hopeless. The rotten man went near me. He held the steel that was separating us and he whispered to me.

“I have a lot of money and I can give it to you… just let me out of here” While the sand mixed with his flesh and the worms, insects were falling from his mouth.

I am silently looking at him because I don’t know what to say. When a half lion and half-snake appeared. The body is like a snake and the head is like a lion. It roared so loud like thunder and it pulled the chain that made the man cry hard. His remaining flesh scattered on the floor and his bones were almost broken. 

“Are you done?”The beast asked and smacked his head on a big steel plate that made his skull weak. I heard it was broken so I closed my eyes because I don’t want to see what happened to him.

“You keep on doing illegal drugs while you are living. You killed a family for drugs and now that I am letting you do what you want nonstop… you want to get out of here” The beast growl that made the whole room shake and some debris fall. I opened my eyes and I saw the beast looking at me and it wanted to come near me but I got scared so I ran away. 

I ran away. I ran as fast as I could even though I am already tired from running and I don’t know where to go because each room shows something on me that makes me scared and hopeless. I stepped on the rock that twisted my left foot and made me fall to the ground. I tried to stand up as fast as I could but my left foot really hurts. 

Until I felt someone was trying to grab the blanket that was covering my body. I hold it tight so that it will not be grabbed from me. 

“Give me that,” The voice of the woman from the dark said but I don’t want to let go of the blanket that is covering me.

“Give it to me, I’ve been cold since I came here,” She said while still grabbing my blanket but I am holding it tight for her not to grab it.

Until she reveals herself. She is totally naked and only her messy hair is covering half of her body. Her private part is full of bruises and it is bleeding too. Her right breast is gone; she was chained and she is crying in pain. 

“Give me that!” She screamed but the scary beast appeared again from above. This time he has big, black wings that are shaped like bat wings and he is holding a metal stick that is bigger than the normal human arm.

“No please… no!” Begged by the naked woman who is trying to grab my blanket. 

The beast pulled her chain and laughed and said “You make your pussy for a living… you ruined a family and now you want me to stop” And he put the metal stick that he was holding inside the woman’s vagina. He put it in and pulled it out and put it in again and pulled it out again. repeatedly. I saw the woman’s blood splashing all around and she was crying in vain. I don’t want to see what is next, which is why I closed my eyes and ran from this room. 

I am so tired from running and I am losing hope. I don’t know why I am here. This is hell and I know I don’t deserve this place. With my feet still bleeding. I sat down and cried because I am hopeless and tired. I want to leave this place but how? The cries, agonies, and voices are getting louder and louder. The pains, anger, and hatred are getting heavier and heavier. I want to stop it but I don’t know-how. 

In the distance. I heard a growl and loud breathing from hungry, wild animals. I stopped crying and listened to it. Their breathing is getting nearer and nearer and their footsteps are getting lighter and lighter. I looked behind me and I saw three-headed dogs. I think they are greyhound dogs; with their saliva falling from their mouths and their sharp teeth that is telling that they are ready to rip me apart with their red eyes staring at me. 

“No,” I whispered. I immediately stand up and run away from them but they run after me. They follow me wherever I go. I know they are faster than me, which is why I need to run faster to get away from them. 

I saw a tiny hole between the two big rocks. I went inside there just to save myself from them. Until I almost fall from the cliff if I haven’t stopped myself from running. The twig that I grabbed saved me from falling. I took a deep breath and I looked at the cliff. My skin is getting burnt and I am sweating a lot. The cries, agonies, pains, hatred, and anger are hurting my ears. I can hear them clearly now. It smells like sulfur and burning flesh too. That is why I looked down and I saw an ocean of fire full of souls getting burned. They were trying to reach for me when they saw me. They are asking for help. 

I lifted myself up and looked down again. Their cries touched my heart. I want to help them but I don’t know-how. I cried because I want to have another chance to make myself right. I don’t want to be stuck in this place forever. I stand up and walk to the tiny hole again to go out. This time the three-headed dog is gone. I walk slowly because I am really tired and hopeless. I don’t want to be like them but I don’t know if I can get out of here. 

I heard the scratching from the two men who were chasing me while I was walking to find the way out. The scratching is getting nearer and in an instant, I run even though I am tired and I don't know where to go. I keep on running and running away from them. Until the girl that I saw before our bus fell off the cliff appeared from nowhere and signaled me not to make noise. She immediately grabbed me and we went inside the dark and cold room. The door suddenly closed and she pushed me to the big hole and in an instant, I fell.

I fall and fall like there is no end. “Aaaahh!!!” I shouted because of the never-ending fall. I saw her watching me fall with her cold eyes and emotionless face. I keep on falling like I was falling from a very tall building. The pressure is pulling me down. I don’t know where my falling ends but this is better than getting stuck in a place full of agony and hatred. I keep on falling and falling and falling…