Angel of Vengeance

Chapter 1

Hi. My name is James Tyler Hathaway, and this is my history on how I became the king of Hell.
I was talking in a group text when a friend of mine from the past pops in and blackmails me, and it stopped me from having much to do with anybody. When I came back to the group text after a few weeks, all I saw was people talking smack about me. They saw I was in the chat, and the chat went silent for a moment. After a few seconds, everyone jumped in and started talking to me like I killed someone or something. I got tired of it, and left the chat. It led me to such a depression that I took a knife and slit my throat. After a few days, my body was found sprawled out on my living room couch by my roommate, who was gone for the past few weeks on a vacation. He called nine - one - one.
After a few days, the funeral happened, and it was terrible. My body was lying there in a coffin, and during my mother's speech, a drunk guy walks up and walks up to my coffin, and my corpse rolls out, and my casket falls down in the pit. This led to my mother falling into a fit of rage and beat the drunk guy half to death. Anyway, you're probably wondering, "Did you see a tunnel?" The answer is no.
I felt the air beneath my feet slowly drift away before I looked down, and I fell quickly into a abyss and looked at myself. My feet planted into the ground with this demonic-like figure in front of me. I was almost petrified by what I saw in front of me. The creature looked almost human, but his skin was a pale color. I couldn't make out the color because I was panicking and his face had a grim smirk with a dead look in his eyes, and his eyes where yellow and his pupils where dilated. I looked at the walls, and it was bricks made up of rotting corpses that were chopped up to make the bricks. I was locked in a chamber with shackles on the wall with severed arms hanging from the shackles.
The demonic figure walks toward me and says, "Welcome to Hell! I'm your torturer. I'm gonna be nice for a moment and ask you where should we start first?" A thought came to me that maybe Hell wouldn't be like this if I ruled, or was somewhere inside the higher hierarchy of Hell. So I asked the demonic figure, "Before you start, may I know the name of my torturer?" The demonic creature said to me, "I am Faunus. Now tell me where to start already before I change my mind." The creature's voice was deep and gravely and filled with frustration. I then asked the demonic figure, "I want to be in the hierarchy of Hell. If you help me, I will greatly reward you. Will you join me?" The demonic creature yelled. "No. Now I'm going to hack into you as if you were a tree. Now shut up! I gave you your chance, and now I'm taking it back. You're just procrastinating the torture."
I dodged the slash he used with his knife. I tell the demonic figure that he needs better aim, but it was a nice try and that he could do better. The demonic figure shouts at me as he goes for another swing at my torso.
In response, I jumped back. The blade grazed me on my upper chest. The cut stung like the mixture of fireants biting, papercuts, and over a dozen hornets stinging. Faunus closes the gap between us with a swipe with the knife toward my chest.
I turned to the left to avoid the swing, and I grabbed his arm mid-swing with my right arm and kicked the demon in the leg to make him lose his balance. I then use my left arm to disarm Faunus. Faunus drops the knife. I let go with my right arm and grab the knife as it falls and stabs the demonic figure in the waist. I removed the knife as Faunus stumbled from the pain of being stabbed. He tried to swing at me with his left arm. I tossed the knife to my other arm and caught it upside down. I then blocked with my right arm and stabbed him through the top of the fist, and the blade went out the other side clean. Faunus screamed in pain.
He used his other arm to sling me into the wall with telekinesis. I yelled from the pain of my shoulder almost being thrown out of the socket. I fell to the ground and landed on one knee and got up as Faunus closed in. He takes his right arm and swings at me, and lands the blow on my face. I thought my jaw would've flung out of place, but it didn't, thankfully. I almost fell to the ground from the punch, but I wasn't going to take it. I stood my ground.
Faunus swung again and I stabbed him in the other hand and stabbed him in the chest and drug the knife down his torso as Faunus screamed in agony I then cut him across toward the top of his chest forming a cross on Faunus's torso. Faunus screams in pain as he turns to ash and falls to the ground as a pile of ash.
I realized what I've done, and I thought to myself, "Oh my God, I just killed a demon!"My mouth opens in shock. I stagger for a moment but pull myself together and feel so much pain in mybody and I look around for a way out and see a door and open it and I hear screams of the other souls being I walk out with the knife in hand as I feel so scared but happy that I'm finally free. My fear is that I'm going to be caught. I feel like I should help other souls of the damned. I look at the walls outside of the chamber, and it's just corpses on top of one another that died in numerous ways.
I walk along the halls and see a soul being put through a loop of how they died during life. I didn't see a demon in the chamber, though, so I walked closer to see that it's a man. I grab the man and tug on his arm, and the loop stops. The man slowly looks at me. His eyes enlarged as his face changes into a demonic creature as he howls and screams, and his eyes roll back. I let go and run like hell.
I see the door to this chamber and run out of the chamber and slam the door shut. I stood there holding the door shut scared that if I let go that whatever that was what was going to get me and kill me for sure. I don't know how long I stood there. I'm keeping myself againtst that door. I was petrified from fear. I must've stood there, for I haven't checked on my shoulder yet it still aches along with my cheek. My mouth was bleeding inside from where my teeth scrubbed the inside of my cheek. I don't doubt that my tooth dug into my cheek. I slide to the floor after leaning on the door. I checked my injuries. My shoulder is going to be bruised, and cheek definitely will. I could only see my shoulder and my chest. My chest is going to possibly get infected. I need to press on, but I needed to rest. I sat there for a while till I had a plan. My plan was to only look for those who are tortured by a visible demonic figure and help them escape. Before I can help anyone I need to heal up before I go, but either way there are other souls that indeed in need of help so even tho I'm injured I must help those who I can.
I left the door in search of others who needed help. Besides, my injuries aren't that bad, so I can press on. I continued my journey through the halls of Hell. I eventually came across another chamber where I saw a demon stabbing a woman who looked around my age about 20 or somewhere near that.
The demon didn't seem like he was near as powerful as Faunus or at least not physically anyway. I walked closer to the door of this chamber and analyzed the surroundings. The lady saw me. Her eyes widened in shock. She looked like she had just seen a ghost or something. I put my finger to my mouth to tell her to be quiet. I slowly walked up behind the demonic figure and reached around him quickly and stabbed him under his chin and then pulled out the blade, and slowly lowered the demonic figure to the ground. I then cut a cross on his torso. It made Faunus turn to ash, so I figured this is what truly kills the demonic figures. The demon ended up just like Faunus, a pile of ash on the ground. The woman looked at me like a savior or something. I ask the woman who she was. She told me her name was Lily Morningstar. Some felt off about her, and the name Morningstar sent a shiver down my spine.
I didn't say anything to her about it, though. I'll keep what I'm feeling to myself for now, but I'm definitely going to keep my eye on her
Lily and I leave the chamber and proceed down through the halls of Hell. I hear stomps of something large nearby. I look at Lily and ask her, "Do you hear that?" She responds in a whisper."Yes." I tell her,"let's proceed with caution." She opened her mouth bit then closed it she seemed like she wanted to protest against that, but she didn't say anything.
We keep walking and see the demonic creature.
It stood tall it's face pressed in flat like a pug. Its legs were as strong as a horse. The demonic creature's arms were like a human but so much larger and more muscular than anything I've ever seen. I felt terrified and paralyzed in fear. The creature saw me. The demonic figure walked toward me and slapped me. I saw nothing but a blank area. There is no light but no darkness either. I looked in front of me and saw an orb. It looked like darkness, but it had the properties of light. I reached out and touched it.
I woke up and saw the demonic figure holding Lily by her head and looked like it was getting ready to squeeze her head and crush her head. I was nervous, but I needed to distract the creature, so I yelled. The creature turned its head at me and bellowed a loud roar. It dropped Lily. It charged at me. I put up my arms in protection and closed my eyes. The moment I and the creature made contact with my skin, everything went silent.
Lily shouted, "Holy crap! How did you do that?! What are you?" I put arms down slowly and peeked out my eyes to see the demonic creature paralyzed in stone. I completely opened my eyes. I looked at the creature confused. I thought for sure I was dead meat. I fell to my knees. I then realized I had power. I began to wonder what else can I do.