Chapter 1
Blood dropped down your face and onto your clothes, some of it yours and some of it others, as you ran. Your heavy breathing and the sounds from your feet pounding on the stone road the only sound you hear as you bolt through the streets. Your heartbeat pounded in your ears as you tried to escape the group of men behind you. You owed a large gang some money and you had failed to pay up by the deadline, and they weren't very happy. You messed up, and now you were paying for it. Your thoughts were filled with fears and prays to the gods, but you were quickly snapped back to reality as you heard shouting ahead of you. You quickly skid to a stop and turn back around, but you were surrounded. 'This is it,' You thought as you looked around you. 'This is how it's gonna end.'
Your thoughts were only confirmed when the sound of a gunshot ran in your ears, and a sharp pain blossom in your chest. It quickly started to spread throughout your chest, and as you look down at yourself, you see a dark red liquid soaking through your shirt. As you slowly reached up and press a hand against your chest, you realized it was blood. You start to fall to your knees, your body shaking as your breathing starts to slow and the world around you starts to go black. You look back up as you fall to the ground, the last thing you see is a guy smirking at you, a gun in hand. "Bye doll, see you in hell." Then, it all went dark.
You suddenly wake up on the ground, a dull ache in your chest and a pounding headache in your head. You groan as you slowly sit up, your eyes slowly opening and looking around.
Everything was dark and gloomy, the sky was a blood red color and in the sky there was a red moon. The building around you were seemingly normal, despite them all being a dark color. Screams of pain, pleasure, and other emotions were the only thing you heard, other than the chatter of the people around you and your own heavy breathing. All around you people walked and talked with each other, each with their different and unique forms. The one thing you noticed was that none of them looked human. They all had some sort of attribute to them that made them different and kind of scary, almost satanic looking. You quickly start to panic and scramble up into a standing position. You look around once more before running down the street and then down into a random alleyway. As you finally reach the end of the alleyway, you notice a cracked mirror leaning against the side of the building. You decide to go check out your wound and see how bad it was, so you go up to it, and that's when you finally notice how different you were.
Your hair was now much longer, instead of it reaching your shoulders it now reached all the way down to your knees. It was also now black, and then halfway through changing to white. Your eyes were completely black except for the pupils, which were glowing white and shaped like a heart. A large crack went down both your eyes from top to bottom, but it somehow didn't affect your vision at all. You had two horns sprouting out of your head, which was white and then fades to a black. You also had a tail, which was the same color of your horns, and a upside down heart at the end of it. You worse a gray dress with fills and bows (picture at the top) and the sleeves were made out of the same material as the bottom part of the dress. The sleeves started at the shoulders where the bows were, and ended at your wrists with another bow. You also wore gray stockings and a lot of darker gray flats, which also had a bow on it. Your skin was pale, almost white. To top it off, you had a gray bow on your hair. Your new appearance looked pretty monotonous, but that's when you realized that you looked almost completely like a doll.
Only now did you start to think about everything. How you most definitely died, but then ended up in this strange place. How your looks changed, and how everyone else's appearance did too. You quickly run out of the alley and up to a random stranger. He looked like a human, except for the horns and tail, and the fact he had a third eye in the middle of his forehead. "E-Excuse me, do you know where I am?" Your voice even sounded more girlish and childish.
"You're in hell, Miss." He replied with a chuckle. "I'm guessing your just woke up. Ahah, I remember when I just like you. Don't worry, you'll get used to it eventually." He patted her shoulder and walked off.
"W-Wait, I!—... Nevermind..." You sighed, and decided to just start walking. Your mind once against started to wander. 'Hell, huh? I would've expected it be more... firey and torturous. This is a lot calmer than I expected...' You sigh and cross your arms over you chest, which you noticed was also a bit bigger as well. You decide to ignore it and push away your thoughts, now just focusing on the world around you. Everyone around you was talking all friendly, but just a few feet away from them a large fight was breaking out. But they paid no mind to it, as if it happened so often that they were just used to it. You decided to ignore that too, which was good because right at that moment someone ran in front of you. They were laughing, and holding a bag of what looked like drugs. You stop and watch them run away, only for them to be crushed by a giant boulder.
Suddenly you heard a gasp behind you, and watched a white and pink spider walked over to the boulder and pick up his bag of drugs. He looked at the bag for a moment before groaning and saying "My drugs! Damnit!"
You somehow found that funny. You let out a quiet giggle as you turn and walk away, though in the back of your mind you were a bit worried. He got robbed easily, what if someone tried mugging you? You didn't have anything on you, so what if they tried doing something else to you instead? You quickly pushed those thoughts away. You were already frightened enough, you didn't want to scare yourself even more.
While lost in your thoughts, you suddenly bump into a person. You look up and quickly apologize, but it seems they didn't even notice. In fact, everyone around him weren't talking, they were just staring at a few TVs in a window of a shop and whispering with each other. You manage to stand on the tips of your toes to see over the crowd of the people and watch the TVs as well. On the screens there seemed to be an interview going on. You couldn't hear what they were saying since you were too far back, but you got enough information from the words on the screen.
"The Queen of Hell, and a... Happy Hotel?" You mumble to yourself, a bit confused. "To rehabilitate people and bring them to heaven... That actually sounds pretty smart! Though, who would go there? It is hell after all..." You listened closely so you could get more information. The only things that you got that was actually important was that there were yearly exterminations. You kept a mental note for that in the future. You also notice that you saw that white spider again, his name being Angel Dust. He was apparently staying at the hotel, but got into some turf war stuff despite being clean for two weeks. Suddenly the princess burst into song, and that's when you decide to leave. You turn around and accidentally bump into another demon. "S-Sorry." You say quickly and start to walk away again.
"It is quite alright!" The demon replied, his voice a bit staticky as if he was talking on an old radio.
You continue to walk away, quickly getting lost in your thoughts once again. You knew you didn't have a place to stay, food, or even a job, so you decide that you would go to the Happy Hotel and see if the princess could you. So you started to make your way down the road, hoping you would get to your destination quickly and without any complications.
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