Lilith was looking around a shivered as a wind blew by her and she wondered how hell could get from burning hot to freezing and breezy. Emilia and Snake-Lilith were oddly quiet and it made Lilith more nervous . She looked around the hallway she was walking down and she noticed the winds getting stronger and hugged herself and rubbed her arms to try and get heat back into her body.

She then came upon a large cavern and was swept away by the wind currents into the air. She screamed and tried to latch onto something, but that something happened to be a person's leg. She let it go and then let out her arms and legs to try and give her more wind resistance and saw people flying around in the air as she was, but they were screaming and they all looked tired and well... not rested.

"This is the second level of hell for those who lust controlled." Snake-Lilith's voice stated.

"These souls may not rest because of the blowing winds." Emilia continued.

Lilith looked around to try and find a way down but she had no clue as to what she was going to use, but she was being thrashed about so much it was hard to tell up from down. She ran into another screaming person and she started to cry from frustration. How was she supposed to set things right if she couldn't even get passed the second of the nine levels?

Lilith then shook her head and was glad that a small mercy was granted upon her by the wind drying her tears. She was determined to do this and would fight this. She looked around and noticed that most of the people were thrashing and some were not fighting at all, but what surprised her was that the ones who fought the least were further towards the edges of the groups and she hopped that those edges were close to the ground.

Lilith tried to real but the thrashing winds didn't let her. She screamed in frustration after about ten more times and just stopped moving or even thinking. If she couldn't think about trying to relax she would just let the winds do it for her.

She then felt herself slowly falling and tried her hardest to let the winds do their own moving. Once she felt the winds die she felt her back be harshly placed on the ground. She stood up and looked at the raging winds and was glad that she was out. She looked around and noticed that another hallway was there and she walked forward. She hopped that this wasn't the same hallway she entered in.

~oOo~

She was walking down the hall for a bit when a combination of Emilia and Snake-Lilith's voices resonated in her head, "After two days in the second level, the third level is now upon you."

Lilith nodded and was shocked that she was struggling around the air for three days; it only felt like a few hours. She then heard a growling, but ignored it because the floor had started to turn into putrid mud. It smelled awful, but she trekked on; there was no way she was going to give up. The growling started to get louder and before she could even ponder as to where it came from, she was hit by a large something and her body hit, hard, against a wall.

She gasped at the pain and looked around but found no one around, and that it was very dark. The stench was still there, but she was forced to crawl on her hands and knees because she felt so badly after that hit. She then felt a large force on her back and she was flattened on the ground with a gasp, and some of the mud entered her mouth.

A deep animalistic voice, that sounded like three in one, asked, "Are you a new glutton?" She shivered because this voice sounded powerful.

"I'm here to travel through the levels to complete my task." Lilith stated, spitting out some of the mud.

The thing laughed and she shivered once again at the feel of evil from it, "Ah I know you. You're lucky I was amused by this proposal or I would've not have let you through. I will warn you though, trying to get out of the realm I protect is difficult when you can't see." the weight on her back was lifted.

Lilith sat up as she heard the thing walk away and asked, "I'm blind?"

The laugh came again and she knew her answer and felt helpless. If it wasn't for her sight she wouldn't be able to tell how to get out of that realm of winds. She covered her hands to her eyes and cried, how was she supposed to get out of this one?

~oOo~

She didn't know how long she was there for. She had no idea how far she progressed to finding her escape, she had no idea if she was alone or not. She would always bump into things, and they did feel like a human body, but after a while, she couldn't tell if it was humans, or mud coated walls.

Emilia and Snake-Lilith would try to cheer her up, but she had no clue as to how she was to escape and they couldn't help her, which just made their talking seem more dampening then helpful. She crawled on the ground and felt hungry; she felt like that soon after she was told she was blind.

After a while she stood up, seeing if that would lead her to any clues, and tripped over something that felt like the soft things she normally ran into. She knew that it wasn't a wall now because it didn't hit her upper body. She smiled for the first time in ages and realized that she wasn't alone.

She had other people, sinners, but people none the less. That gave her the little strength she need to start walking. She tripped a couple of times due, to her equilibrium being not used to a blind body, but she made it to a wall. She felt along the smooth edges and smiled when she felt a wooden texture under her fingers.

The animalistic voice then said, "It seems you passed my realm in four days" it chuckled, "I guess since your body is still alive, I have to let you travel on." She felt a warm, breath on her face and she started to regain her sight. She was so happy, but was soon afraid when a large, three headed canine beast was in front of her with sharp-toothed smirks on each of the faces. "Go on to the fourth level before I change my mind and decide I like to have your company here."

Lilith shivered but nodded and quickly left from the large doors.

But just when she stopped hearing the sorrowful moans of the gluttonous the three-headed dog said, "Say hello to Plutus for me! And tell him to bring more food for his dear Cerberus! I want to taunt my charges."

And she was beginning to believe she met a somewhat kind being in hell, I guess you can't think the best of anyone.

Snake-Lilith then laughed and said, "My children always are charming, but Cerberus was always my favorite."

Lilith shook her head and continued on.

~oOo~

When she reached the end of her hall a man stood with a white cloth wrapped around his eyes, and he was dressed in a white toga that seemed to almost glow when compared to his long black hair. He turned to her and Lilith thought that he looked quite handsome. The man motioned her over with a wave of his hand and Lilith followed his instruction. Once she was next to him he asked, "Does Cerberus have a request of me?"

Lilith nodded, "He said hello, and he wants some food."

The man nodded and said, "He always does. Now my father told me I was to get you in this level. Pick a spot unoccupied and get ready."

Lilith raised an eyebrow and reluctantly walked forward to the first open spot. Before she could even think of what would come, a large boulder ran into her chest and she forced all her strength into holding it back so she wouldn't be crushed. When she looked back she noticed that Plutus was gone and guessed he went to get Cerberus his order.

"Another one of my favorite children" Snake-Lilith stated.

Emilia then asked, "How many more children do you have?"

Snake-Lilith laughed and said, "Well any guardian of the level we see will be the product of the times the Devil bedded me."

If it wasn't for the crushing weight and the crying of the people who committed the sin of greed around her, she would've join the concentration, but there was no way she would be able to at this rate. It was torture, but she was a bit glad that Emilia was asking all the questions she wanted to ask.

"Then why are they here?" Emilia asked.

"Well my children I made with the Devil cannot leave this place, just as he himself cannot leave unless in a spiritual form, but before that restriction on them was placed on them they all fought in the war against Eve and myself. Plutus was the only one permanently damaged by one of the first exorcists slashing at his eyes and blinding him. Though with the lack of sight he gained the gift of prophecy, and after the battle was over they were restricted as their father was."

Emilia and Lilith were satisfied with this answer and were glad that they know knew, but Lilith was constantly plagued by the weight of the boulder and the screams of the damned. She felt as if she was going to explode. Then the ground seemed to change and it was getting harder to hold the boulder off. How the hell were these souls of the damned able to hold off the boulder for the rest of their time in Hell?

Lilith took a deep breath when the boulder seemed to let up a little, but quickly spat out some more of the mud from her mouth that she didn't get to. Everything seemed stronger as adrenaline entered and coursed through her veins. She felt stronger, swifter, and just more alive. She then thought of something and looked to Plutus, who seemed to be in a meditative state as he sat overseeing the greedy souls.

Lilith took a deep breath and then licked her lips and noticed that the muck from the third level was hardening, as well as smelling worse as it mixed with her seat, and she tasted salt. Perspiration slid into her sight and she blinked away the stinging and she wished that the others around her would just be quiet. She didn't realize she was close to the door until she saw that two women and three men were blocking her from the door with the pentagram on it. Lilith concentrated with all her senses; she looked at the group and how they were faring; she felt the ground start to shift around her; she smelled the sweat in the air start to increase; the air started to have a tangy taste to it; and she heard more the agony in the voices start to increase.

She grew nervous and used her adrenaline to push the boulder towards the door; something was going to happen. She was glad she saw the space between a man and a woman or she wouldn't be able to get to the ledge of near the door, and she would've been forced back to the center with more trouble against the souls of the greedy.

She felt a hand on her shoulder and practically jumped back into the fray before she noticed it was Plutus. She was a bit wary of him, but he pointed to the door and it opened. He then said, "It took you five days to get out, and good timing as well."

He then walked away and Lilith asked, "Is he always that nice?"

Snake-Lilith laughed, "He's a good boy. If it wasn't for him being birthed by me and his father, then he might've had a chance to make himself great. He's too good to be forced to Hell."

Lilith nodded and said, "Well on I go."

~oOo~

Another hallway led to another platform that overlooked another hell gate. Though Lilith was a bit afraid of this one. All of the souls in this level were sent here for the sin of wrath and all of them were fighting each other to get to the top of the water in the bog which they were in.

Lilith gulped and just then angels with the most menacing and beautiful wings she's ever seen came flying towards her. Lilith looked at these creatures and none had gender or identity besides their wings, torn and tattered in a beautiful artistic way; Lilith was surprised they could lift their bodies with such wings.

Then it seemed as if each winged creature took a turn to say a word, "You will enter the Styx and will try to get upon the boat. If you are lucky you will get there when Charon is there to row you to the door. If he is not, you will wish you hadn't, for we will toss you right back into the water and not let you to the door."

They flew away except for one, who picked her up and tossed her to the beginning of the Styx.

"Were those your children too?" Lilith asked.

Snake-Lilith stated, "Those were the angels that fell with Lucifer. It's the perfect place for them seeing as how they are angry at God. Also, before you ask later, Charon is not my offspring."

Lilith nodded and then noticed that this area of which she was put was a lot more calm then the middle from which she saw the souls fighting, but she knew that it would get worse later on, which it quickly did.

As Lilith swam, she was soon bombarded by bodies piling on top of her and each other, to try to get to the center. Lilith coughed up some water she had drank and realized that there was a high risk that she wouldn't get out of this level alive unless she partook in the violence of the fellow Styx souls.

Lilith pushed her way past the hoards of wrathful souls, and soon tired after the beatings she had given and received. Multiple times she was forced under the water and she wasn't sure if she hadn't drowned or not on multiple occasions; but she forced her way towards the boat either way.

She was finally so close to the boat she could take five more strides in a normal empty lake and be there, but in the Styx that would equal to five times under water, five more beatings, and the chance that Charon wouldn't be in the boat. She was also getting more angry as she went on die to the more souls that forced her back.

She pushed a man under the waters and she felt the boat knock the back of her head. If she wanted to do this she had to do this now. No way was she going to be able to get this lucky again. She quickly put her hands on the boat and pulled herself up, while kicking off a man who had clung onto her leg, determined to pull her down. Once she was fully on the boat she was breathing heavily, and she collapsed on her back onto the large boats floor.

A figure in a black cloak that hid all features then stood over her and said, "I see that Mistress Lilith, Lilith, and Angel Emilia are entering my boat." Lilith nodded and Charon went on, "Luck seems to be on your side human. Now let me get you across."

As Lilith was taken across the Styx to the door she noticed that the fallen were angry at seeing her go but they couldn't do anything. Lilith looked up and asked, "How long was I here for?"

Charon looked to her as he dropped her off in front of the door, "It has bee seven days." and then he began to row back to the center of the lake.

Lilith exited this level as quickly as she could.

~oOo~

The next level brought her directly into a coffin. On the inside it was very hot and lit to the lightest degree. She look at the coffin lid and saw that it said '.

Lilith grew a little scared at what the turn was to entail.

Emilia sounded grim as she said, "This is the sixth circle of Hell which is for heretics."

Soon flames began to nip at Lilith's skin and then completely engulfed her. Lilith screamed and when the flames stopped, she didn't stop screaming. Her burnt skin was tender to the hard, hot wood, and her nerves would sting at the lightest breezes. She cried, and even that hurt her more.

Her skin began to heal itself in the most painful way possible until it was back to the way it was. Then for another six times the same thing happened as the first. Lilith didn't even know that this happened for seven times. She didn't know that she could get lucky on this next turn and get out to the next level. She was only trying to prepare herself for the pain.

She heard the fires start up and closed her eyes. But the fires never came. Instead a light breeze filled her coffin and she was shocked. She sat up and got out of the coffin and fell to the floor next to it. She was still tender from her skin healing. She then noticed that she had a scar on her now naked hip in the shape of a six in roman numerals. She wondered if she was getting a number like this on each of the levels, but noticed none others on her body. She stood up and then saw a door that had opened for her and she stepped through it. Glad she was alive, but with a still new tender body.

oOo

Lilith was met by another of Snake-Lilith's children, the Minotaur. He looked absolutely strong, and if he could kill her without a second glance. She looked up at him and he stated, "It seems that you passed that last room in eight days." Lilith nodded and the bull man continued, "You shall find a tree to sit under. Since you are a special guest, you will be experiencing all rings of this seventh circle one after another." he smiled viciously.

Lilith did as she was told and a trap door fell open and she fell, completely, into a boiling liquid. She screamed and the liquid, which burned like fire and tasted like blood, entered her body.

Soon she was taken out and Harpies, body of a bird with the head and chest of a human, then landed on her bleeding and burned body and started to eat her. She couldn't scream but it was horrible. She then noticed that a centaur, half man and half horse, stood above her with a cross bow aimed at her heart and another aimed at her head.

Soon her bones were tossed into a desert, that had flames dancing along the sands, and her bones started to dry out and crack. When she was no more than dust, snow flakes fell from the sky. But they weren't snow, they were fire and with their white hot flames, they painfully healed her before placing her body into the flaming blood pit again.

This happened forever but soon a kinder looking centaur came up and asked, "How many times?"

Lilith was still sensitive after the fire flakes fell on her and couldn't answer, and also she just didn't know.

The centaur nodded and then placed her on his horse back and said, "My name is Chiron. I'm the leader of my centaurs so you won't be shot. I was told that you have suffered all the trials in ten days. That means you passed this level."

He leaned her against the door and he then bowed to her and left. Lilith had no idea what got her passed this level but all she cared for was that she was naked, her body in pain, and another level down.

~oOo~

In the hallway leading to the eighth circle she fell and couldn't get up. Snake-Lilith and Emilia were quiet, and Lilith was glad for it. Lilith just needed to sort her emotions out. She leaned against a warm wall, with her whole body protesting, and closed her eyes, taking a deep breath.

She knew now that she would forever fear fire, and burning. She never was afraid of drowning in the wrath room because, due to her constant fighting, she didn't realize if she drowned or not, she wasn't afraid of being alone because she never truly was which was proof in the gluttonous room, she never fell in the lust room, she was never crushed in the greed room. All of those didn't actually affect her, but in the sixth and seventh levels she was burned, hopelessly she was burned, eaten, and regenerated to all of this.

She would never be the same around fire again.