I looked around me, trying my best to make sense of what just happened. Where the hell was I? It looked like a whole new world. No lie. Did I just leave the planet? It seriously looked like it. Everything was dark or vivid red. This place was full of rock formations I have never seen before. Could I have actually left Earth?
And just who the hell was this guy? Why was he staring at me like I was a acience expirament he needed to solve? Like I was the most beautiful and expensive piece of horseflesh he had ever laid eyes on.
I mean seriously I'm not that intersting, beautiful, or expensive looking.
I was just about to open my mouth and ask this when he answered my unspoken question.
"I am Apollyn, I'm a Demon. I'm sort of important around these parts." He puffed out his chest somewhat like he thought he was all important and I should be honored to be speaking with him.
"Well where am I? I've never heard of you before. If you're such a big deal, why have I never heard of you?" I asked with a bit of attitude in my voice.
It took me a couple of minutes to realize I had never actually opened my mouth to ask who he was. I started to wonder if maybe he somehow knew what I was thinking. Could he read my mind?
"Probably because we are no longer in your world, where I am less known," he answered not sounding at all happy that his name is not spoken so often in 'my world'.
I rubbed my hands down my arm and winced when one of my palms ran across the cut on my arm from the mirror. My hand came away from my injured arm covered in red.
"Well maybe you could tell me where the hell I am." I say coming to the tail end of my patience.
"Exactly. You're in Hell."
"Couldn't be," I countered, "it's not very hot here. Isn't it supposed to be scorching?"
"Don't believe everything you read on the internet." He said this with a note of pride in his voice. Like he was proud of his home. His home in Hell.
"Oh, you're being for real. If you are a for real life demon I would think you could take care of this with no problem." I waved my red hand at my injured arm, which was still weeping tears of scarlett down my arm. I started to freak out a little, internally. Suddenly I realized I needed to get a grip. I had to find out how I got here and why I was here. In Hell. "And please, Apollyn, important Demon of Hell, could you tell me how and why I'm here?"
"But of course. You'll find out soon enough anyway. I brought you here through the mirror, but don't think for a minute that you can get out that way. You have to be a certain level Demon to control that power. Besides once you give it a chance you might not want to leave. You might just want to stay here with me." Apollyn said as he drew his finger over the cut in my arm and waved his hand at my scarlett hand.
"Why would I want to stay with you?" I asked him as politely as I could. I was staring at my now healed arm. All red magically disappeared from my skin. I was entranced.
"Well that's the answer to your second question. I brought you here because I fell in love you the very first time I saw you and I want to make you mine. Forever together. Think of the life we could have together."
He was crazy. Out of his damn mind. There was no way I was gonna be his. I would get the hell out of here. Maybe not today or tomorrow but I had already made up my mind. I was out of here first chance I got. And I am a woman that fights for what she wants.
"Why me? Why not Jammie? We all know it's a fact she is prettier than me. She's better than me in every way. I mean don't get me wrong, I wouldn't have wanted you to take her anyway. She's my best friend and I need her." I rambled.
"I thought about taking her but then I saw you with that blonde hair and those fire emerald eyes. I just had to have you. So far you are not a disappointment. I am very happy with the choice I made. I even find your attitude quaint. But don't think for a second that means I will put up with backtalk from you."
"And what if I never want you the way you want me?"
"It doesn't really matter. You're here now."
Well since I'm here and it looks like I'm stuck I might as well be compliant for the time being. I could learn a lot about my surroundings from this....Demon. If I'm any good at acting he won't know what I'm about until its to late.
Although I'm not exactly sure if I can pay the amount of attention needed to actually pull off an escape right now. I am feeling very calm and at ease next to him and honestly I'm pretty sure I don't want to be away from his sway.
Then I suddenly remembered he said I couldn't get out through the mirror that he brought me in though and I wondered why. So of course I asked.
"like I already told you, you can't get out because you aren't even a demon let alone the level demon you need to be to access that power. And no Jammie can't see or hear us anymore because I don't want her to. I have blocked all access to the mirror so you can't even see her."
How was I going to let her know I was okay... for the most part? I'd figure out a way to do that too. She needed to know that I was mostly safe. I would not let Jammie suffer guilt or any other emotion linked to my 'disappearance'.
Then on top of all that I just found out that I am either going to have to kidnap or persuade a higher level demon to help me access the mirror to get home.
Wow it was going to be busy down here.