"Fire can take over only if you allow it"

Her fire eyes open in the darkness. Blackness all around her as the confusion takes its form in her mind. Her body is not laying in the softest bed that she has ever laid in nor is it her bed in house in the human world. She lays on the cold hard ground. Sitting up she looks around herself but all she sees is nothing but the darkness for miles and everywhere she looks. Fright takes a hold in her veins as she doesn't know where she is or how she got there. All she knows is that she fell asleep in the bed in the Underworld and now woke up on the ground.

Her mind takes her to the events that happened when she went into that place where everything was dark and there was nothing for miles no matter how far she walked and the time she discovered her own tears glow which she had forgotten about and how she found human bones. That memory will forever haunt her mind and she never seems to be able to get rid of them no matter how much she tries, she finds it impossible to get rid of them but perhaps they helped create this fearless girl or at least the fearless Queen.

Separating the Queen and the girl one would realize they are two different people. The girl is frightened and naive and childish but kind. The Queen is merciful and a ruler and powerful yet they're still the same person. Arabella stands up from he ground. Realizing that she's practically naked as she's wearing the slightly see through night gown and she does feel exposed, then again she's alone there so it should not be much of a problem for her or that is what she thinks. The young girl is not alone in that place.

She can see her hands which is great because now she can at least use them to help her get back to the castle and back to the one she has been craving for and longing to be with. Being without him even for just a couple of minutes sends this longing inside her that just wants him to hold her and protect her with all his might. However there is this other part of her that no knows that he is keeping more secrets from her and she can't trust a person like that, she refuses to.

"Dear child, you seem to be deep in thoughts. Am I right?" An old woman asks her. The old woman is dressed in a cloak. She holds a torch in her hand that lights up the area around them. Arabella is startled by her but somehow finds herself calm in her presence. "Yes. I am. And it seems I am a bit lost, would you mind helping me find my way back. It would be really kind of you but I fear I have nothing in return" Arabella answers the woman with a kind smile. The old woman doesn't show her face as she has the cloak hood over her face but that doesn't frighten the girl.

"Lost you say? I fear I can not help you. It is up to you to find your way back... however only if you choose to go" The woman speaks before she turns her back and walks off. Arabella gives the back of the woman a confused look as she and the only light source slowly leave. She follows behind the woman. "Choose? I don't understand what you mean" She tells her as she walks beside her. However she doesn't know where the woman is going or where she is taking her but in this moment she doesn't care.

Since waking up in this place she should be panicking and be freaking out, yet somehow through it all she's calm and she knows that she is safe without even knowing in her head, her body feels safety and around this woman there is safety. "Ah... yes... choose my dear Arabella. This is a world where you can either stay or leave but all you have to do is choose whether you'd like to return to chaos and death or be here in peace" The woman tells her.

She doesn't stop walking while she talks. There is darkness all around them except for the few centimeters that the light is able to travel to. The darkness should frighten her but it doesn't, she rather finds it welcoming. "Where am I? If I stay here I need to know where it I am staying" She tells the woman. Her mind is racing to know what to do, the thoughts all around the place and she doesn't know what to do. A part of her wants to go back to Lucifer but another part of her wants to stay.

It is like something is pulling her to stay and she doesn't want to fight back. The fire haired girl does have a lot to think about, indeed. "This my dear child, is the Land of Hope. Here no worries will take you and no harm shall come to you. Here you can have everything you'd ever wish for" The woman speaks however there was something dark in her voice that failed to come to notice by the girl who does think this place does have good meaning, yet she doesn't see where the hope is as she doesn't even see anything.

"What happens if I stay?" She asks. Her mind clouded and she has a hard time remembering things but it will all be all right. Happiness is welcoming itself into her heart, happiness in this place that is making her happy and safe. While the memories of her life don't matter. "You'd be free" The woman spoke before she stops walking. They are in the middle of no where or that is what Arabella thinks, then again there is darkness all around her and she can't really see where they are. All she knows is that she never wants to leave.

She feels safety, safety that she has not felt in a long time. Lucifer did keep her safe, yet on his watch she has died, twice and so many horrible things have happened to her. Perhaps she was never safe with him after all, perhaps her love for him has blinded her yet again with that as it has everything else in her life. This confused girl doesn't know what to trust. "Free?" She asks. None of this is making sense in her mind, and she can't figure any of it out.

The woman turns to face and smiles at her. "My dear child, you'd be free to be whoever you want and do whatever your heart desires. There is no one holding you back. You'd be free and you'd have freedom. The freedom that your heart has been longing for so long and now you can have it. All you have to do is choose to stay here" The woman speaks and looking at her kindly. Every word that she spoke enchants the young girl and what she said sounds like something that she would want and she does want and being free does sound tempting in her mind.

She walks over to the woman and smile at her. "Tell me more" Arabella says to her and continues to smile. The old woman smile again at the girl, yet hidden in her smile is mischief that she is unaware of or doesn't want to see it. "Of course, my dear" The woman speaks and begins walking again with Arabella beside her. Being close to that woman makes me feel something that she has never felt before and she can't explain it but she wants to continue to feel that way as it feels good, like love.

The fire eyed girl's eyes always go to the flame in the torch and it reminds her of something that she should remember but strangely she doesn't. When thinking about it there are a lot of things that she should remember but is unable to remember. "This is a place where everything can come true. Your wildest dreams, your hopes and wonders. All you can ever imagine. If you choose to stay this place shall be your home and you can go wherever you want" The woman begins but Arabella wonders why she always says 'choose to stay' with a strange voice, as if she's trying to tell her that she should stay in a hypnotizing way.

She just shakes her head at that thought, her body and mind have been so paranoid these past few weeks with everything going on in her life and everyone trying to kill her and other things that she can't exactly remember at this moment, it's unreal and perhaps she's just being silly. "If I stay, would you be here?" Arabella sis the woman as they continue to walk in the darkness. Wondering if they will ever get to that place, as far as she knows this place isn't real as she hasn't seen it.

Then again no one thought the Underworld was actually real, there were some that believed Hell was real but only in sense of the world of evil where everyone is tortured and their souls forever lost, yet when she was there it wasn't like that and Hell isn't as bad as the humans told her. "If that is what you wish, then that is my command" The woman tells her but Arabella gives her a strange look. This woman does confuse her more than anything, even more than Lucifer does but there is something else.

Something that she's missing but she can't figure it out. "Is there anything else I should know about this place? I just want to be sure that I'm making the right choice" Arabella speaks. Her heart beats faster in her chest as she speaks of choice this place, however there is this part of her that feels compelled to be here and she can't deny that part any longer. The woman gives her a wicked smile but the girl is oblivious to it. "No, my dear child, now are you ready to make your choice?" She asks, her voice has darkened which frightens the girl a little bit.

She nods her head, throwing her fear out of her body as she can feel it inside her to trust this woman but then there is something else that tells her the complete opposite. Yet, that must be the parts that got ruined by... by... she doesn't remember a woman that she should remember. Memories seem to be hard for her to remember at this point and images in her head are slipping out without her even knowing it. "I see you've already made it. Now... tell me!" The woman orders loudly.

The torch has gone out leaving the two in total darkness that should frighten her but she doesn't. She stands there with her eyes open and she stares into the darkness, lost in a trance that she seems unable to get out of and frankly doesn't want to. The woman grins evilly as she watches the girl open her mouth an utter few words that will seal her destiny and her path but also herself. "I choose to stay here" She spoke in a monotone voice and as if the words have been branded inside her head.

Lucifer sits on his throne, one of the two brothers of his love is kneeling down in front of him. "We wish to leave now, and when we return we shall have what it is you wanted us to have" Grayson spoke, but the pain in his voice doesn't hide from the King and she can only grin wickedly at the man. Lucifer does look rather bored because his love is still fast asleep and he doesn't want to wake her, she needs the rest after everything that has happened, it has overwhelmed her to the limit.

"Yes. Yes. I know. Yet it seems you're missing one brother, am I correct?" Lucifer asks Grayson who has stood up just few seconds before he had spoken. He sighs before he looks up at the cruel King of Hell. "Yes, my brother seems to have wandered off somewhere and I intend to find him before we leave" He tells the man that frightens him to the bone. "There's no need to find him. He's already been found. Sleeping beside a new staff member of this castle. Thalia I believe her name was and they had it pretty good last night. Let us just say neither of them got much sleep" Lucifer says and chuckles darkly as he watches the man pale, as he had not expected those words.

He stands up from his throne and walks past the man and doesn't bother with a second glance and he doesn't even tell him where is brother is. Lucifer walks over to his sister that was leaning against the wall in the darkness, while Grayson watches his go and stares at hm with shock not only because he's going to the dark corner and the words that he had told him which still circle around in his head.

"He's cute. Can I have him?" Luna asks her brother while her eyes stare at the human man in the room which is looking at the two without knowing that she is there, hidden in the shadows. "No!" Her brother harshly says as it was out of the question. "I need him and you will not mess it up" He tells her but she doesn't care about his words. Walking out of the shadows, the midnight black haired girl makes her presence known to Grayson whose jaw has dropped when he sees her.

She walks straight over to him and right before her brother's eyes she takes the man and slams her lips against his. Fury lights its way into Lucifer's eyes as his beast is ready to tear him limp from limp. The kiss is short but Grayson is stunned and confused and shocked all at once. Looking deep into her violet eyes he holds her waist and pulls her closer to him but she pushes him back. "Forgive me but I don't give a second kiss without a reason" She says before she turns her back flicking her hair back she walks out of the throne room.

Leaving the two men with different emotions, one angry while the other one is shocked. "Well, she never had good taste in men" Lucifer says before he goes over to his love's brother which he might even hate more now that his sister has kissed him and that can never be good. Even after ten thousand years she's still playing with men and their hearts, as she was known to do. It seems that has not changed in all those years which does surprise him. "Now, Once you depart you will be told everything and all the details will be revealed to you. However I will personally threaten you, of course" Lucifer says with a wicked smirk on his face.

Grayson only rolls his eyes. He isn't the Devil without the threats, he has come to realize that, it seems he's always threatening them one way or another. "Fail this mission and return empty-handed you shall be skinned alive. Die in there and come here empty-handed you shall burn in Hellfire forever. Run away and not return with what I want you shall be torn limp from limp. If captured and tell then return empty-handed you shall be tortured in every way possible. Do we understand each other?" Lucifer asks him.

He gulps at the threats as he knows that those threats are not empty ones, they're real and it will happen to him of any of those things happen and it will ruin all his chances of ever seeing Arabella again who he did not leave happy when last time they spoke. He nods his head. Lucifer enjoys watching the man squirm with fear of him, he feeds on fear and loves nothing more than inspiring fright to others.

"Now leave before I shall put a sword through your still beating heart" He tells him annoyed but the man hurries to bow once and then he leaves the throne room. Lucifer who still stands on the floor takes that as his cue and also leaves the throne room, only he's going to his bedroom to see his love who he has been missing since she went to bed last night. The red glowing eyed man does not need much sleep as he is immortal and they don't need the basic that human need, however he will put on a show to not frighten his young Queen.

Walking past the new guards that he somehow got and he doesn't want to reveal his secret on that, they all bow before him as they are costumed to do and then they go on their merry way and he does too. The excitement of seeing Arabella is alive in his body and he can't wait to be with her one again. It might have only been a couple of hours, yet he has missed her as if it were years instead of hours and he can't wait until he has her in his arms once more and soon he shall be wed to her.

Getting rid of his wife would be a problem as she always manages to pop up when he doesn't want to however he is the Devil and he always gets what he wants. Not matter what it is and if he wants an annulment with his wife then it shall be done. The bedroom is quiet as he watches the young girl sleep soundly. Her chest softly rising and falling in motion, telling the King that she is still breathing and still very much alive.

In his eyes she looks like an angel and she very well could be, the kindness living inside her tiny body is that of an angel and the beauty she holds could out stand any angel. Perhaps she's not an angel, she's greater than they are. Walking over to her he softly bends over and kisses her forehead before he walks out of the room, leaving the girl to continue with her slumber as she must be tired after everything that has been going on. Unaware that she's not sleeping soundly as he would have thought. Evil has taken over her and now threatens to destroy her from the inside out.