Chapter 1: The Beginning

As the executioner's axe cut off his head clean, blood spurted all over the first front of the plebeians. The jet stream of blood was a spectacle to behold. Aleg's head had a deterred face on it, while it dropped with a loud bump on the ground rolling down the platform and finally landing in front of a plebeians's foot. He took the head and threw it in the middle of the raging mass. No honor was meant to be uphold for the execution of the second Prince. They literally dishonored his very existence from the day since he was born and going even further after his death. The head was being thrown around and spit on, until someone kicked the head in the river.

The King's family watched without any remorse for their actions, since Vlad himself thought, that's what happens to traitors. Arnold was happy for getting his revenge and Meron was just as happy for not being the one with his chopped off head in the river near the castle. His mother had left after his head fell down the floor.

Aleg had no possibility to watch the spectacle going on with his head after the decapitation. The only thing he felt was something glowing was exiting with the jet stream of blood. His soul started floating over the castle walls, flying a bit to the right and a bit to the left. His consciousness slowly faded away as his soul reached the 100 meter height mark. Reason being was the possible fear of heights.

Nobody noticed the soul exiting his body apart from the old man in his dark cell. Aleg's jailmates void eyes had a small spark of light in them as he whispered:"The Soul has been set free. My Lord I will soon join your army." He spurted some more nonsense and with a satisfied smile he turned his face back to the wall and continued doing what he did the past 30 years, he had been imprisoned.

Aleg's consciousness slowly returned with opening his eyes gap by gap. The scenery he saw was indescribable. He was laying on something cushion-like and as he tried to stand up and put power in his arms, he noticed the cushion-like things were white. "What the hell is going on? Where am I?", he asked surprisingly. The birds around him started chirping and the scenery he noticed was just as bewitching. An azure blue sky and the ground was as white as snow. All the pigeons were white combined with a faint blue why they were flying all around him. Their pecks gently touched him indicating the way where he had to go. "No way, this looks like heaven..? How did I even end up here???" he argued with himself, while his eyes flew over the scenery disbelieving what they saw.

He started following the pigeons that had a holy aura around them. As he slowly walked on the cushion-like ground, he felt like a child jumping on a very comfortable bed. Each step he made bounced back his whole weight. He unconsciously grabbed his neck in a hurry just to make sure every limb was in its place. Everything was there where it should be, but around his neck was a faint blood-red line. "The line must be indicating where the executioner decapitated me.", he thought.

The scenery of the ground slowly changed and he noticed white Lotus flowers on the ground paving along the path that suddenly came across his way. The path had a faint glow of yellow and somewhere far away he heard voices, even more beautiful than all the music world had to offer. With each step along the path the voices got louder and even more gracious. After walking for five more minutes, he saw in the approaching distance golden gates and a humanoid like creature.

"Welcome to Heaven.", the angel expressed with a slow motion of his hand. Aleg was basically flabbergasted and he couldn't imagine in his wildest dreams, he would land in Heaven while cursing God and his whole family during his execution.

As if the Angel read his mind he replied with a smile out of this world:"You've been living your whole life without ever hurting a single ant. Your brothers abused you and you took it like a true son of God turning them your other cheek. The prayers for the well-being of your father were heard by God and he was truly moved by the devotion you had for your father. He granted your wish the very same night and cured your father Vlad with his omnipotent power. As for the words you spilled right before your death, God is ready to forgive you, as long as you truly regret it from the very bottom of your soul."

The angel saw Aleg approaching with tears in his eyes and spreading his arms to hug him. While working for God he's never seen a human being moved this much to tears, because he got another chance for heaven and out of pity for that fragile human he prepared himself to hug Aleg. As both their arms were almost reaching each others backs, the angels eyes were wide open staring at the scene unfolding before his eyes. Aleg bit right into his neck and spit out the angel's Adam's apple.

How could I be fooled a creation of God having the privilege to work for Him. Aleg responded to his disturbed face trying to comprehend the situation:"Fuck God, I chose my own Path, even though I'm in the afterlife, I won't ever bow to anyone anymore!"

The angel dropped dead in front of Heaven's Gate and the azure blue sky turned in a big black maliciously thundering cloud. "You dare to kill Michael, I sentence you to be forever bound in chains in the deepest parts of Hell!", growled God and from Aleg's point of view it was like the whole scenery was being absorbed in a black hole after the howls of God.

Aleg was satisfied with his deed, since this would be the beginning of the rise of an incurable disease for all the humans on earth. He was robbed of all his senses and when he tried to move all his muscles hurt as if his body was in a sarcophage. The solid thick iron chains wrapped over his body and only a small gap was visible for his nose to breathe.

In a place deep down in the earth, where the stench of rotten flesh was omnipresent lived demonic creatures, who had never seen the sunlight, only the lava dripping down the wall. The caves and rooms were enlightened in a dark red glow emanating from the Lava, which disappeared even further down. Following the streams of lava, the further you got down the more vile the creatures got and the more maliciousness and evilness they displayed during their huntings. In the deepest part of Hell resided the seven Princes of Hell.

Satan, the Prince of Wrath, was known as the first adversary to God. His wrath made the whole earth tremble once.

Lucifer, the Prince of Pride, originally a fallen Angel. He rebelled against God, because his Pride made him think he was better than him.

Beelzebub, The Prince of Gluttony, his never-ending Gluttony killed many people through starvation.

Mammon, The Prince of Greed, invoked havoc between the rich and poor disturbing the balance of human social abilities.

Asmodeus, The Prince of Lust, spread sexual diseases across the globe.

Belphegor, The prince of Sloth, prolonged the time for humans to evolve themselves due to their laziness.

Leviathan, The prince of Envy, made human romantic relationships shatter and obstructed the growth of human population.

Lucifer was currently in Satan's domain talking about their good old days, when they killed one angel after another. Satan's domain was especially for Angelkillers and since Lucifer, nobody has ever been banished in those deepest parts of Hell. Lucifer was once a fallen Angel, but through massive killings in the Hell realm he earned himself the title of a Prince and his own domain.

Satan's Domain was enveloped by black mist and the ground was scorched black. Suddenly the black mist got more dense and dense until it was as black as the Lands of the void, a part in Hell nobody dared to enter. The black mist spit out a big cross that was wrapped in iron chains. "Lucifer, did you put acid in my drink? I think my eyes are playing pranks on me...", asked him Satan. Lucifer replied with a small grin:"Nope, didn't. I think it's an angelkiller. I was wrapped in the very same things, when I landed here." Satan's devilish smile went from ear to ear, as he thought :" Finally, a worthy creature to join our Ranks! Let us untie him."

Aleg felt some rumbling in his iron sarcophagus and the weights on his head slowly disappeared. The only thing he saw were two pairs of glowing red eyes and his nose smelled the stench of rotten flesh.

"Hello, my dear friend." heard Aleg.