Azazel told me to give this coin to him for safe passage to get into Hell.” I screamed as loud as I could. “ I am Kharon.” Said a voice that came from below the ships wooden steps. All of the ghosts began to stand to attention and stop what they were doing, saluting as step by step a figure began to appear from beneath the ship, a fancy stairway carved into the middle of the huge airship. “ You speak Azazel’s name as if you knew him. If you have but one single coin at hand we shall ferry you into Hell.” Said the cloaked figure.
I almost crapped myself looking at this monster. Clearly he was once human but not anymore he was literally bones. A towering eight foot high skeleton dressed in a thick black cloak. This fucker looked more like a grim reaper than a ferryman. “ I need to get out of here quickly, hundreds of angels are right behind me, here take the coin.” I threw the coin at the skeleton figure who caught it and began to bite down on it. “ Tis real. Lads prepare to disembark, man the cannons and shoot anything bigger than a fucking budgie. We will get you to Hell lad, this ship is practically angel proof. Go ahead and admire your new destination because where you’re going is nothing short of paradise.” Kharon tossed the ash coin onto the deck which I now noticed was filled with coins.
Shortly after I arrived the rods anchoring the ship to the shores of Limbo were ripped out as Angels began to appear. Hundreds of them. As they appeared huge cannon turrets began to rise from the deck of the ship, giant rail guns blazing bullets through the air. The ship must have had thirty or so ghosts manning huge cannons but they shot the fuck out the angels, enough to make them retreat. Kharon told me they were nothing but lousy grunts chasing there next promotion, basically the lowest form of angel.
Finally I was free, free of Limbo and on my way to Hell. Time to see my new destination as I approached the front of the airship, the airship beginning to descend slowly through the shroud of blackness. Minutes passed by before we passed through the abyss and there it was in all its glory, the first floor of Hell. Oh I was going to have so much fun down there but for now my only thoughts were of elder Az. He was dead and now I had time to mourn.
Chapter fifteen: Raphael
Whilst Reaper hurtled down towards Limbo with angels in hot pursuit elder Azazel was trapped within a somewhat comfortable cell. Inside the largest and toughest angelic prison situated on floor nine of Heaven elder Azazel is sat within, resting on the edge of a red quilted single bed. The room made of special materials combined with demon proof curse marks made it unbreakable for anyone including angels Several hundred thousand prisoners are within the sprawling mass of cells, each person with their own individual cell. ‘Devinition’ is what the angels called the prison. It was one of seven and each prison was the size of a city. Inside the maximum security prison it was designed in order of sinners. The more hardened sinners were placed on death row like elder Azazel who had for some reason voluntarily given himself up several months ago. Being destructive in Hell earned you sin reputation, this worked like a bounty. Gods eye was one of the only things to judge sins. Basically put elder Azazel had a total worth of nine billion angelic coins, this was the total worth of his sins and reflected his strength as a floor ten demon king although his wasn’t the highest. Still anything over three hundred million angelic coins got you a one way ticket onto death row. In rare circumstances an archangel or even one of the many gods could offer the prisoners a lifeline, if they deemed it beneficial they could offer you to work for them. People that accepted these requests were dubbed dark angels. Heaven had a sin system but there were just as many dark angels as angels so Hell developed a system too. They placed ash currency on their