Fernicious. The man who once had been banished to the underworld, for the life that he lived. Kerathus and Onethelli, however, didn't send Fernicious to hell. They wanted to ensure that he couldn't ever escape. Thus, the reason they sent him to the void itself.
In the void, Fernicious meet someone. That person only asked one thing from him: "Do you have a wish?"
Nowadays.
Naraku, the world within the abyss.
*ching* *Klakk*
"Rider, when will we leave this hellscape for once?" - Persephon
"I said when we reached the surface. *Huff* We just by ourselves can't leave." - Rider
The two of them were chased by a pack of scalranight spiders. Scarlet red, meter-high spider with 8 sharp blades as legs.
*bang*
"How did they find us?" - Persephon
"In Pandemonium everything wants you to kill, so it's more like how many find us?" - Rider.
*Bang* *ching*
"Can you watch where you shoot?" - Persephon
*Bang* *Bang*
"They're really tough." - Rider
"Rider! Watch out front of you." - Persephon
*Thump*
"Wha---" - Rider
Scarlanight took him down the floor.
*Ching* *Ching*
The monster's metal teeth are klakking. Preparing to take a bite.
Rider reach for his nexus gun.
The spider bit into his hand.
"Aaugh.... You!!" - Rider
He took the gun pointed at the head.
*Bang*
The life and headless Scarlanight fell.
"This damm spider took me as a chewy toy for dogs" - Rider
"More like food. Don't you think?" - Persephon
"Funny." - Rider
Persephon lifted the dead body of that monster.
"Here, come out." - Persephon
Rider dragged himself out.
"How is your arm?" - Persephon
"It is still functioning. I will meddle with it when we reach Infernicious." - Rider
Rider's arm was still bleeding, the monster's teeth were like a knife. Cut through the flesh till it hit bone.
Persephon, seeing it, looked at Rider.
"Where is Infernicious?" - Persephon
"I left it nearby. The corner of this road." - Rider
There was nothing close by I was able to call a road. Just the baron ground and ruins all over the place.
Persephon looked back.
20 scarlanights were still on their way to get their prey. Them.
They reached the corner.
They did it. But there is a problem.
"Where is the Infernicious?!" - Rider
"It's not here?!" - Persephon
"As you can see, there's only a cold place of it." - Rider
*Shriek*
"The scarlanights!" -Persephon
Rider stepped forward, pointing his gun at them.
*Klakk*
*Klakk*
"..."
"Don't say it's empty" - Persephon
"Okay, I won't say it." - Rider
"..."
The scarlanights came even closer. Ready to pounce on their prey.
A sudden blunt noise could be heard from underground.
The ground shaking, the baron earth opening.
One hellish, earbleeding noise came from literal hell.
*choo-choo*
An Ungodly, abomination crawled under the depths of Naraku. With its mouth it devoured all of the Scarlanight spider. Spiders shriek and the cry of their pain can be heard meters away.
*Crounch* *Crounch*
The beast is chewing on those spiders. While still in the air.
It is Infernicious The Train of Naraku, one hell of a train. One sentient Locomotive with several wagons.
"Here it comes." - Rider
"At least we have more fuel than we actually prepared." - Persephon
Infernicious giving another round of its screaming noise
*choo-choo*
It's head facing slightly downward, preparing to land.
*puff*
The ground once again shakes on it's arrival.
"Now that Infernicious landed, we should go and leave before even more of those come." - Rider
Persephon nodded.
They boarded the train.
"Infernicious, we are all in. You can start now."
*Shriek*
The wheels instantly gained a huge amount of rpm. The engine cried up.
Trains at ever growing speed started moving.
With every sec, it doubled its speed.
Infernicious dive deep into the ground.
"Persephon, sit tight. This will be one hell of a ride." - Rider
Infernicious changing it's road, by upwarding it's head.
They are going toward the surface.
The baron earth opens, the ground shakes.
The Infernicious is taking its leap, giving extra speed to the other engines.
The train flying toward the sky, the end of pandemonium.
The roof of pandemonium
"Brace for impact!!!" - Rider
*Crash*
The infernicious break through the roof of pandemonium.
*shriek*
The train gave notice to Rider and Persephon, in an impish, infernal tongue.
"The next station is Cryohean. 2 hours."
Persephon stood up from his seat. Heading toward the wagon.
For Rider, the world started spinning.
Persephon opened the wagon's door. Suddenly a copperous bug jumped into her face.
She reached for it and took off that bug. Then she threw it on the floor and stepped it to death.
"We got some infestation." - Persephon
She searched for the first aid box.
"Gotcha."
She sprinted back to Rider.
When she reached him, she opened the box. There were only syringes.
"Huh" - Persephon
"Infernicious made all of the first aid boxes. Those syringes are regenerative. A liquid that can heal anything. It's medicine only he can make." - Rider
Persephon gave one dose to Rider. The missing flesh grew back instantly.
"Aaagghhhhh.. This hurts a lot." - Rider
No one said it would work painlessly.
"Infernicious! You had to leave out the painkiller of it, did you?!" - Rider
*fuuuhh-fwahhh*
"Just the way it used to answer." - Persephon
"Infernicious can't talk. It isn't capable of that, but it doesn't have any problem communicating with us." - Rider
"With whistles." - Persephon
Persephon sat back on the seat. Looked at Rider. Forming a question
"Say, how did you meet with Infernicious?" - Persephon
"It was way back. The times that I live on the overworld's surface." Rider started his tale of life.
"You lived there? The highest surface of all?" Asked Persephon with a sudden unwaited curiosity.
"Highest surface of all? I was just as far off it as I'm from my home now. Reaching that high is something that everyone in the overworld wants to achieve. I wasn't an exception to that too." - Rider
"There is even a higher place than the overworld. How is it? Is it better than this pit where we now?" - Persephon
"From where we started, even the elyseum would be a heaven for us. Just this show how worse is our place. Elysium is still in Naraku, which is under the overworld." - Rider
*Clank*
The train shook when it absorbed not just the impact but the cause of that.
"Another creature faced death by Infernicious." - Rider
*cough*
"Let me continue. Back then, I wasn't very different from the others. I had the dream of living on the highest surface. Sadly, it has become an obsession. It is even worse that I wasn't different with this. So many of them had an unhealthy obsession with it." - Rider
"Is that place that good? Is it worth it just to be even higher?" - Persephon
"Sadly, I can't answer you [Is it worth it?], I wasn't there and only heard tales about it.
But I know if the tales are true. Then surely, it is worth it." - Rider
"Why is it so good then?" - Persephon
"Because it protected from any outer power. From the power of the abyss, corruption of entropy and the ruler of Hades's rings." - Rider
"Wow." - Persephon
"Once we get out, the next stop will be the highest surface." - Rider
"Oh sorry. I went out of a tangen. So, continue the story.
I met someone who gave me a tempting promise. One I was foolish to accept."
*flasback start*
"Rider say, you want to go up there? You would give anything for it, wouldn't you?" - Niiruel
"What, why do I need to give you an answer?" - Rider
"But... You DO want to get there. Am I right?" - Niiruel
"And?? What if I want to get there? It's not like the others won't want to get there!" - Rider
"But you got something that others don't have." - Niiruel
"What could that be?" - Rider
"A [wish] from Her." - Niiruel
Rider was found wordless after this.
"Say Rider, do you have a wish?" - Niiruel
"How do you know my name?!" - Rider
"You only need to say what you wish, so I ask you again.
Do you have a wish?" - Niiruel
*Choo-choo*
Infernicious one hell of a train has manifested.
"You can travel with this vehicle to ANYWHERE, but it will always go back to where it started." - Niiruel
*flashback end*
He told how he met with Niiruel and the aftermath of it.
"I accepted her deal. I immediately went to the higher surfaces.
I reached the lowest of the higher surface.
Imagine a wonderful city, with sparking buildings and scenery.
I spend every minute sighteeing.
There was one thing I wasn't aware.
The thing that Infernicious said at the start. 1 Day. Only one day.
The next morning, I woke up to that ungodly, hellish scream which was the whistle of the train. After that..." While Rider was about to tell his story, Infernicious notified them once again. By the speakers.
"Arrived, Arrived."
"Wait so it can speak." - Persephon
"I don't call it speaking, cause those speakers have limited vocabulary, only those words can speak from them, which is already on a regular train. The whistle is another of his communication point. I just need to learn it."
Like which is the next stop, there is a delay expected and how many hours till return." - Rider
"What about the story?" - Persephon
"We will continue it after we get at something. Okay?" - Rider
Cryohean the frostbite surface. Third lowest in Naraku.
"Look, we are here." - Rider
"Wow, everything is, soo, white. There is no sight of buildings here. If those things in the far are that." - Persephon
"Those? These are Leviathans. The smallest is 70km long. We can consider ourselves lucky that they are frozen." - Rider
Persephon counted how many of those leviathans were there.
"What's ya counting on?"
"The leviathans. We really, and I mean really big trouble if, those melts down." - Persephon
"You don't need to worry about it. Cryohean's temperature is a record breaking low. Neither the light of the highest one or the flame of the lowest one could even raise the temperature here. The monster in the very center wouldn't allow them to do it." - Rider
"Rider, you know a lot about the flora of Naraku. Just how many years have you spent living here?" - Persephon
"Too much." - Rider
"Now, I say we should head to the dining cabin. We shouldn't waste our time." - Rider
The dining cabin is two wagons from the living cabin and one wagon away from their warehouse. Which is a wagon itself too.
Rider and Persephon ordered their meal. Rider enjoys a bowl of tonkotsu ramen made from imp meat with selakat grain pastas. Persephon munching on steaks made from imp meat.
"It's so good to eat something, again." - Persephon
"I agree. Even if we can't feel hunger on lower surfaces, it will still affect us." - Rider
There's... is more than one bowl and plates of food in front of them.
"So *gulp* you said you continued your tale *munch* *munch*"
"YeaH, the *gulp* train can go anywhere but always return to where it started.
When I first heard it, I thought it would simply go back to the overworld.
That's where it started." - Rider
"And?" - Persephon
"After that whistle was heard, the train dragged me out of the house where I was and shoved me into one of the wagons. After that, the train dived down at an insane speed.
From the window I've seen the overworld's sky from up and down. As the ground, the building is grow closer. I thought I HOPED it would stop when it reached the surface!" - Rider
Just remembering the sadness and pain that showed in Rider's face.
"It .... It went through Elysium, Cryohean, Pandemonium.
It has gone through all of it! Without a stop or a break.
And i just stood there, watching the unfolding layers of hell. Which we call Naraku." - Rider
"Then where was the starting point for Infernicious?" - Persephon
"Same place where I found you. Inferno, or in other names, Hades's ring." - Rider
"We should rather eat while we can. The point where Infernicious has gone ahead to it return, we have to abadon all food and liquid consumption." - Rider
*Fwuuuh-Fwahhhh*
"Speak of the devil train. We need to go back quickly to the living cabin." - Rider
"Allright" - Persephon
The engine roars, the wheel sparking. Once again, the ground shakes, the earth opens itself.
"Sit in." - Rider
The train is moving at a hellish speed. With the second passing, the train gained more and more momentum.
"Belt in" - Persephon
Infernicious dash straight to the frozen armada of Leviathan. Taking a leap.
"Be aware this will be risky" - Rider
"And one hell of a ride" - Persephon
The head dived down. Like a dolphin, it goes from water to water. This train took the same movement.
An unstoppable force rushed through all Naraku.
"Ahhhhhh---- Why is it soo fast when it is about to return?" - Persephon
"Aahh there ... Goes Pandemonium." - Rider
"Wait .. We have already left ... it?" - Persephon
When Persephon had a chance to utter her sentence, they were already in the atmosphere of Hades's ring.
Infernicious went headfirst to the ground, bounced off atleast one time. There wasn't a lower surface than Hades's ring. That place was the outmost, lowest surface, a place which was dead empty. No one lived there besides three person.
"Ugghhhh every time I get sea sick when I'm here." - Persephon
"I feel you, I'm as sick of this place as you" - Rider
"Ummmm I am really sea sick. Infernicious just plunged itself to the ground. Then writhing like a fish on the shore." - Persephon
"Hades's ring, darn you! Just as empty as I tried to leave it. I wonder why this place is so dead, full of void." - Ride
"I don't know this that well. This floor is supposed to be the most dangerous one. Filled with nightmares." - Persephon
"But it's empty."
A person comes out of the only building on the whole surface. A Tower which in size was as big as an entire castle. It is piercing the sky.
The man waved to them, then suddenly disappeared.
Now they heard a voice from behind
"If you wonder about why this layer doesn't have anything in it except the ones you have already seen. Your answer is close to you. I bet you have even seen it in action." - The 3rd person in Hades's ring
"What are you talking about?" - Rider
"Infernicious. It eats all creatures here. It was considered the uncrowned ruler of the lowest layer. Solely because nothing left exists after it. Or should I say after him." - The 3rd person in Hades's ring
"Huh" - Rider
"Who are you? We didn't see or meet with you." - Persephon
"My apologies, My name is Fernicious. The one who once had a [Wish] and found himself here." - Fernicious