HKS Origins: The Ascension

- Nicene Creed

After Mike had died, he saw a great light, but sadly that was not to last. The light was hidden from vision and only darkness remained. Hell. It was what he deserved after all. All of the people dead because of him. All of the lives he ruined by being a hitman. And no amount of religious studying and religious devotion would change his fate. He knew this is what waited for him on the other side.

IT JUST WOULDN'T STOP.

For three days, HKS was subject to torture on every level and sense. Whether is was a physical torture such as being drowned in lava or having all his skin clawed off by demons or a mental torture such as having just enough light in Hell to make you believe that there was some way out when there really wasn't any, it was soul rending all the same. It was an assault on the senses too, poisonous sulfur being inhaled, blistering temperatures, a taste of your own vomit in your mouth, and many other factors that made Hell unbearable. He was also subject to the wailing screams of damned souls that were louder than anything ever heard by mortal ears, and the worst part was that he couldn't die. If your skin was clawed off, it would return just to be clawed off and the pain would be felt again. After two 24 hour days of this nonstop torture of the mind, body, and soul, HKS was able to get off a rational thought through the chaos and he began to make his way to the only thing he could remember from he studies of Hell. In Dante's Inferno, Dante sees a ledge with an abyss before it. At the ledge he notices the many damned souls who are reaching out to the other side of the abyss where he could see Moses and an angel. Dante recognized this as the place where souls who had made their way to heaven could observe the souls being tortured in Hell, but the y could never cross over to save them and vice versa. Mike believed that if he could find his way to the abyss, he might have a chance at salvation. Slowly but surely, Mike waded through the demons and damned to the ledge  where he threw himself at the ground and pleaded to whoever might be listening. For a day he waited until suddenly, a brighter light than he could have imagined beset itself upon him and he saw a figure come down to him. The figure asked him,

The figure lowered himself and the light was so blinding that the other demons and damned recoiled at the sight. He took Mike by the hand and began to raise him. Suddenly a thundering sound could be heard as they were two feet off the ground. With a large grunt, another figure jumped up and sunk it spikes into Mike's left leg. But before Mike could shake it off, they were already spiraling through the light to the material plane.