Anna
It was surprisingly dark. And cold, Anna thought as she crept down the stairs. She knew it wouldn't stay that way. She drew Eleos and carefully destroyed every door in the circular chamber. The veil was nothing more than a shortcut to the living. Now demons, like every other monster from the Underworld would have to get out through an official door. With permission from Lord Hades, bowing to the control of her *piccolo fratellino Nico.
Demons were new monsters, products of a new religion. Christianity. And Hades, being a busy god, had yet to fully secure the recently completed section of the Underworld hadn't realized that the veil was the name for a room full of short cut escapes. It wasn't even technically his responsibility, but all the Christian souls kept ending up in both the Duat and in the Underworld. Whoever was in charge of the Christian afterlife was big on the slacking. Leaving them in a sort of limbo. So Hades and Osiris had been sharing custody of these new creatures. But that left a lot of gaps in security; these demons were coming and going, and raising souls without any regard for the rules. Life for a life her podex.
Now Anna destroyed them all. Every last door out of hell. The only downside of completing her quest, was that she was now trapped in the newest, largest and most dangerous section of the Fields of Punishment. Trapped between the destroyed paths to the land of the living and Tartarus. One the very outskirts of the Underworld and the Duat; the literal No Man's Land of her insane life. Not even the god of the Underworld himself (Either one of them) would be able to help her now.
Anna had no idea how she was going to get back to the land of the living, still living. The only way she was getting out by traveling through the pits of Hell itself. Then she would have to climb through the upper levels of Tartarus before she was anywhere near Hades' influence. And even then, he probably won't help her. Anna sighed and sheathed her sword, preparing herself for the climb. Her baby sister survived this. Anna could do this. Probably.
By the gods, she was going to see the sun again.
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Translation:
*little brother
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*ass
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AN: And that's a wrap! Thank you to everyone who has stuck by my little (not so little) story for this long.
As always I appreciate comments, even though this story is over, I still love to hear feedback!
I have begun work on a sequel. It's slow going and I can't promise anything published for a long while, but my muse is still working; so look out, because Anna's not done yet!