Melanie's pov:
after Seth fainted like Meg, came the turn of Katy, Stacy and I.
"sis what are you reading?" I was 7 or 8 maybe at the time.
"you are a bit too young for this"
"come on sis!"
"no I'm sorry" I pouted and waited for her to set to newspaper down to sneak over and open it to read it.
'last week in a freak accident George Carl's a teacher at Hope Academy was sentenced to be exiled on the killers' island for having have kidnapped and killed 10 young girls found in the school's basement from the ages of 5 to 13, only one survivor was recorded, the pour girl was in such a deranged mental state she would try to attack anyone that was attempting to touch her, she finally was calmed down when noise cancelling headphones were placed over her ears to keep noises around her from hurting bothering her and scaring her, the girl's name is S--" "Melanie!"
I jerked awake and sat up.
"good you are awake" Katy sighed.
"yeah" I looked around to see we were in a room carved in stone with lights on the ceiling going out of the room.
"everyone is here other than our killer friend" Meg said as I stood up.
"well we can do nothing but look around, we all have our stuff still on us" I said, noticing I even had my knife.
I walked in front with our single weapon in hands.
"something is written on the wall" I muttered at a cross section of hallway.
"I'm Latin I can read that it says...... 9th circle treachery, are you ready for the greater sacrifice? what could that mean?" Stacy asked us.
"hmmm...." I hummed when a buzz was heard, we all looked up and saw a camera.
"hello my lovelies, welcome to hell, the lowest point of hell~" a voice came out of speakers above the camera.
"lowest in hell.... we are in the ninth layer of hell, where the worst criminal end up right?" I asked, easily doing the connection now that this female voice told us that.
"that right and you are here because you weren't pure enough to go to heaven"
"we should go" Katy said and we walked down one of the hallway.
"but everyone can repent! they need to accept the word of god and let it elevate you to the top!"
"so there is a way out" Meg whispered.
we came upon a large cubic room with a stone table, four bowls and four holes leading in to darkness in the wall in the wall with more Latin stuff on the wall.
"I will give my tears of joy and sadness, I will give my blood on a selfless act to help the unfortunate, I will give my lawful labours sweat, I will cut of limb to give you flesh, I give my everything to god all four time" read Stacy as the ground shook and a door closed, closing us in the room.
"fuck!" I pushed the door and ran at it but only hurt myself and it didn't budge.
"I will give my tears of joy and sadness" muttered, looking around, picking up one of the metal bowl in my hands.
"what are you thinking?" Katy asked.
"I'm sorry for what I will do" I made a pile of dust and grabbed her head before throwing it at her eyes.
"fuck! you bitch!" I held her as she punched me in the stomach and I stuck the bowl to her face.
I was shoved away after a while as the other two hugged her.
I looked in the bowl, it was shinier so it had tears in it.
I pushed the bowl in the first hole and the ground shook, the hole being closed with a metallic panel that slammed down.
"4 offerings, 4 people and 4 bowls" I faced the others who were now staring at me since I did something. "each one of us needs to give something from the text to the holes as they 'lead to god'.... sorry Katy but I needed to test it and if I made myself blind I might not have been able to figure this out"
"you are so lucky I didn't go blind and it worked" she said angrily but in understanding.
"I will give my blood on a selfless act to help the unfortunate" I muttered, placing a bowl closer to me and bringing my knife up, searching for a place to cut that might not hinder me later.
"Melanie wait!" but I had already to a deep breath with closed eyes and pulled the blade across the outer side of my right forearm.
I kind of screamed a little, breathing fast and dropping the blade, pressing my hand over the cut before I shakily pulled it away and whipped my hand in the bowl in front of me and letting a bit nor flow out of my arm, I needed to selfless and don't go with the bare minimum that would have been selfish.
I struggled to push the bowl in the hole since my hands were shaking because of the adrenaline and my vision was blurred with the tears but did it in the end and the metal panel fell down.
"fuck Melanie you stupider then I thought with the dust!" Katy yelled, cutting part of her T-shirt to wrap my arm as the others helped me sit down without collapsing in the oncoming shock.
"s-sorry" I shuttered.
"I will give my lawful labours sweat and I will cut of limb to give you flesh are left I take the last" Meg said.
"why?!"
"I already lost a finger and I can't let another one of us be handicapped like me so I do that"
"t-then I need to get sweaty right?"
"yeah Stacy do sit ups or something"
I had time to evacuate the stress I caused myself since Stacy had the easiest thing to do so it was fast done.
"are you sure you want us to do this?" Katy was holding the knife while I held Meg's hand to the table with both hands as she was kneeling on the ground to not fall over if she fainted, Stacy was still holding her.
she told us to cut off her ring finger on the hand that was already missing a finger.
"it's a body part they want so yes do it already!" I felt her hand shake in me owns. "it would be much easier if that killer was here with her axe"
"you are talking of your friend? she's on the 7th layer of violence, she at least has enough pride to never lie unlike you!"
we ignored the voice and Katy put the knife at the base of the first knuckle with a deep sigh and brought her other arm up and slammed her palm on the back of the blade.
instantly almost I was fighting the to keep Meg from moving just as Stacy did as she screamed, Katy hesitated and didn't hit strong enough, needing a third try to sever everything.
I gulp, feeling like barking as the screams didn't get quieter as I gagged as I put her finger in the bowl and in the hole.
the room shook and a bit door opened on the same wall where the holes were with stairs leading upstairs.
"there you go, you see the pain masked the other pain" I said calmly to a Meg that was like a ghost, pale as dead and silent as I stitched her hand fast and put new T-shirt bandages on her hand. we had let her relax a bit.
"we should go up" Katy whispered, everyone was feeling sick because of what was done a few minutes ago if the wristwatch was still working right.
"come on let's go" Stacy helped a ghostly Meg stand as I picked up the bloody knife and wiped it on my T-shirt, it already had Seth's bloody hand print on it so this would not change much.
I walked in front with the knife, Stacy and Meg in the middle with Katy in the end as we climbed the narrow stairs silently, everyone dealing with this as much as we can.
I glanced at our friend's jacket on Stacy.... just where are you Seth and what on that 7th layer?