Of Hell and Heaven

   How I got there I cannot be certain as my travels take me to so many random and fantastic places. All I can remember from my disjointed mind is going through a door and being in the midst of this old wooden mansion. As is my nature, by that higher hand to insist I take over a mortal body or else appear in a standard construct of the plane in which I emerge; thus limiting my power so as not to distort reality. So it is written that by my very presence unshielded that man becomes beast, beast becomes man, plant becomes man and beast, and so on in such un-accustomed manners. Thus I must take on these weaker forms, my immense power limited either by the spiritual potential and physiology of my host or built in limitations of the construct bodies I find myself within. So it is in this way that I found myself in the shell of a man foreign to me. I knew the air of this place all too well, for once again I had wandered into some corner of Hell.

 

 

    As I wandered through this dank, dark, wooden maze of a mansion I came across a curios sight for hell. I found huddled in an old wooden manual elevator a disheveled woman, in her arms several small children. She was trying to pull the rope of the elevator so as to go up while attempting to hold onto the children. Her cries were simple, should the elevator fall they would be trapped back in “the master’s” dark pit, should they make it to the roof they may see heaven. If only they could go through the door in the elevator, a window that was clearly a direct (portal) to a part of heaven known as the Crystal Kingdom. It was clearly there only to tease them as it was locked, only to be opened by a key kept by the lord of this mansion.

 

    It is in this moment that my mischievous side took hold, or perhaps valor would be the word; although as I am now I cannot say; perhaps an influence by the shell I was inhabiting forcing moral thoughts forward as it would the soul of a human in the same conditions. As such I took flight, through the halls, sensing the exact location of the lord of this mansion. There I found the beast, a laughable sight. In a large room stood a long table with tiny stools around which sat children of a uniformed appearance wearing clothes of a bygone human era of great depression. Above them stood a man one could mistake for a movie vampire dressed in such ludicrous dress. The man laughed and ordered his children to attack. Their heads morphed into oversized shadowy things with glowing orbs for eyes and mouths like a cartoon bear trap. I simply flew above them and with a swing of my arm the single word of “burn” ignited the beasts melting them into boiling black slag. Their master’s mouth opened in much the same manner, without teeth but flesh pointed as metal wedges. From within the shell my shadow came forth over the shell’s arms and hands to form claws. I plunged them into the self proclaimed vampire’s mouth, his metal fangs of little consequence to my eternal shadow. With a gesture as though opening a clam shell I split the mechanical beast’s head in two, tossing the body aside. I shook the lid of an upper head as one would a bucket and out popped a golden key, which landed in my now corpse free hand.

 

   I gave the key to the woman, her elevator barely any higher than it had been prior to my altercation and elimination of this mansion’s lord. She and her kids were free to leave into heaven, the portal turning dark and into solid wall behind them so nothing else may follow from this dark place. The game done, and the demon dead I felt no need to be limited by the shell any longer, sprang forth now my eternal shadow wrapping around the shell, dissolving it within. Now as a might flying darkness with great wings I breached all the floors and the roof of this place and out into the darkness. Beyond the crimson dark glow of hell was a greater darkness near the mansion; the netherworld. So close was this place to my home; or rather place of power; domain perhaps, whatever the case is, no wander I could free myself from the confines of the shell so easily would be the follow up thought to it.

 

    As I flew into the darkness, not far away strange lights, like those of a city caught my attention. I flew in their direction; a strange force came upon me as I approached. It required as much force to move towards it, through this unseen force as flying through a mighty tempest of a giant gas planet; yet there was no wind only a preventive force. I was able to move forward and suddenly, quite unexpectently found myself in a place full of light.

 

    My shadow vanished as a new body emerged for me to inhabit; a beautiful East Asian woman in a blue bikini. This alone was not the strangest thing as the city I thought I saw was made of cake and candy, and to it I was quite giant. It was not long after I began to pick candies to eat, that a swarm of women of similar appearance, and similar attire, of many colors, appeared, giggling as they descended upon the cake city, licking the icing, and eating the cake. One in a yellow bikini came beside me and licked the icing near me, her eyes inviting me closer. Upon becoming closer I discovered that our bikinis were strangely adhesive; not mightily so, but enough to insist upon some…fun rubbing encounters as we all enjoyed the festive edible landscape. I became lost in the fun, even ignored contradictions like a woman in a purple bikini with violet spots pointing out “yucky candy” shaped like fish and chicken legs.

 

    Not long after, soon enough that my amorous nature was not able to take too strong a hold after my stomach was filled that an older man and woman appeared handing us all clear plastic containers telling us we could fill them with cake for us to take home. I did as the others did; and it was then that things became weirder as a random human convenience store appeared and we were told we could each pick out seven edible items to take home. Something about this bugged at my mind; but the body I had taken on was lost, the mental state programmed into this soul body one of dream like acceptance of even the most bizarre situations. It was not until after I was questioned about grabbing too many edible items and some of it plane things such as water, that my mind was able to assert control again and realize what was happening. This was heaven, where food is a luxury, something that never goes bad here, and yet gluttony frowned upon. As they continued to inform what they perceived as “the new girl” as they put it, one of their charges; I knew these were angels in disguise for these naïve soul bodies. Despite wanting to follow the attractive forms back to their homes, especially the one that had approached me, I laughed despite my intentions, relaying a story of an older heaven where food flowed like water and feasting was part of that heaven. Astonished, and myself quite revealed I took this soul body into myself, saving it for further use as a heaven body is a useful thing with few limitations and interesting to explore personality implants as well as useful for various things including being disarming if controlled correctly. I became a brilliant version of myself from which the angels had to shield their eyes as I flew up and proclaimed a return to life. Returning once more to the winds of infinite multiverse.