[ WP ] A maintenance worker heads for the elevator after finishing up a shift in the lowest basement of an office building . As the elevator starts to move , he realizes two things : he forgot to hit a button , and the elevator is moving down ...

Jeydon Newman just finished some business in the basement of his work and he was excited to get home to his waiting wife and three kids. Jeydon ’ s thoughts drifted towards the images of a warm dinner that flashed through his head, as he stepped into the elevator. The thoughts distracted him for a few minutes as the doors closed around him, and the elevator started to move downwards. Nothing clicked in this young man ’ s mind about how odd this could possibly be, until he remembered where he was and how he had never pressed the button. 
 Suddenly, the lights around him started to flicker as he flipped out his phone. No service. Of course, this was starting to look a lot like a typical horror movie. There ’ s no cell service, a killer comes out, there ’ s no one to call, and boom, that ’ s where your story ends. The tall brunette of a guy stood in the elevator and looked around. He tried finding ways to project the elevator back upward, out of the ground, but the elevator started smoking. Not a normal smoke, it reeked of sulfur and decaying bodies. 
 
 ‘ Welcome, Jeydon, we ’ ve been expecting you. I just didn ’ t think you ’ d come this early. ’ A voice boomed through the elevator. Soon, it stopped, but the doors stayed closed. Jeydon was shaking and didn ’ t know what to do. Where had the voice come from and why were they waiting for him? He heard a familiar DING and hoped that this was all just a bad dream. He pinched himself as he hoped his eyes and stepped out into the dank and dusty area of what looked to be underground. 
 Jeydon was a big guy, not fat, but muscular. Nothing really scared him, not even thoughts of Heaven or Hell. There was no way that a soul could be destined to a high place or a low place, it just wasn ’ t in his forte of thinking, but this place surely resembled a lot of what Hell is described as. His gulp sounded loud and lodged itself in his throat as he stepped out of the elevator. It quickly closed behind him, and shot back up. He tried to examine his surroundings, but everything looked the same, but different all at once. He saw shadows lurking as his eyes adjusted to the light, it was like his eyes were blurred over with a milky film, either that, or the shadows were. 
 
 ‘ Come on, boy, don ’ t be afraid, you knew this day would come, and I ’ m here to introduce to you your new family, we are so nice and loving. ’ The voice boomed again, this time, with as much sarcasm as it could manage and a hearty chuckle at the end. 
 
 “ Who are you, and what do you want? Listen, I appreciate the fact that my coworkers worked this hard to get me back for when I pranked them the other month, but I really have to get home, my wife and kids are expecting me home! ” his voice squeaked out into the air, and it soon dropped dead. There was no echo, there was no faint repeating of his words, nothing. 
 
 It sent shivers down his spine the way that the air seemed to stand so still but to knock everything out of him at once. Before Jeydon could do anything, something stepped out of the shadows. It was a beautiful angel looking thing, but you could tell it was no angel. It reminded him of his times in Sunday school, how Satan himself was thrown out of heaven because of something and how he was a beautiful angel. No, this couldn ’ t be, he couldn ’ t be in the one place he never thought existed. 
 
 “ Am I dead? ” of course, that was his first reaction, he reminded himself that if he got out of here alive, if he even was alive still, that he would kick his hind quarters all the way to timbucktwo for that comment. It was completely naïve, and incredibly inconvenient. He needed answers as to where he was, not his current state of being. What appeared to be Satan, that ’ s what he was going to call him until he got answers, started to step closer. His laugh was resonating off the walls and he was clapping, probably more towards the stupidity of the question than the fact of anything else. 
 
 ‘ Oh, dear Jeydon, are you dead? No, you ’ re not, but that silly God of yours up there was trying His hardest to stop this from happening. You ’ re in Hell, my dear friend, and it ’ s run by yours truly. ’ A guttural growl produced from his mouth and it made Jeydon cringe. What God was this man talking about? Had this been a mistake? Jeydon didn ’ t believe in a God, he believe in pepperoni pizza more than he did a God! He wished this was a horrible nightmare and that he would wake up any second, but the more he breathed in the air around him the more he realized it wasn ’ t as fake as he thought. 
 
 “ What God? I don ’ t serve any God, you must have me mistaken. You ’ re probably thinking about my brother, he ’ s the one that ’ s the church going bible dweller, not me. ” He practically spit the words at the imitation Satan. He was trying to stand his ground but as the beautiful creature towered over him he started to slink back. “ If I were you, I ’ d rethink this. I don ’ t belong here. Now let me home, now! ” It was a bad decision on his part, and he soon realized it when the Satan person roared and flung flames up from the ground. 
 
 ‘ HOW DARE YOU TRY AND TELL ME, THE GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD WHAT TO DO. ’ His teeth turned inward and there was a snarl on his face. So was this really the Lucifer that was talked about in bible times? Did that mean that there was a heaven and a hell? It didn ’ t make sense to him. If there was a God then why hadn ’ t he come through all these years? He needed him when his parents died in the car crash, when his sister walked out on his family, where was this mighty God then? A laugh was heard bouncing around now. ‘ You have one more chance to fix this, this will be your future if you don ’ t change things, do you want that Mr. Newman? We are a pretty lovely bunch, I have so many jobs for you as well. It would be a blast! ’ 
 
 Jeydon gulped the vomit that was trying to sneak up down back into the pits of his rumbling stomach. He didn ’ t have time for this, he wasn ’ t about to pray to a silly God when there had been no answer before. It just wasn ’ t working out that way. “ I ’ d rather spend an eternity listening to my grandfather drone out my thoughts with his nonsensical talk than to stay here or pray to that God above! ” A loud bang clattered off the walls of the underworld as the rocks started to tumble down. Something happened within Jeydon and he wasn ’ t liking it. Maybe there was a God after all. 
 
 Soon a loud and death piercing wail was coming from across the room, ‘ WHAT IS GOING ON!? YOU CAN ’ T INVADE MY HOME LIKE THIS, I DESTROYED YOU. ’ He shouted towards the sky. There was light that was infiltrating into the darkness and piercing everything. Another voice started to pierce the crumbling rocks, but Jeydon was now lying on the ground trying to hide from everything. 
 ‘ You haven ’ t destroyed me, I destroyed you. Death, where is your sting? ’ the voice was calm, calmer than the Satan that was screaming. Jeydon didn ’ t know what to do. He started to cry and wail and beat on the hard ground until his hands were bloody and his clothes was caked with the blood. It was getting lighter and lighter in the dark room he was in and he soon felt chains wrapping around his arms and legs. 
 
 ‘ You can ’ t take him, he ’ s already heading towards me, you can ’ t save him. Look, he ’ s already shackled to my demons, your weakness can ’ t save him now. ’ Satan said as he laughed and continued to have Jeydon being tied up with shackles. A body emerged from the light and Jeydon was trying his hardest not to pass out when he saw it. It looked oddly like Jesus from Sunday school. This was all a dream, he was going to wake up, and he ’ ll be able to tell everyone what happened, right? 
 
 One by one shackles started ripping off of Jeydon as Jeydon was raised to his feet and started walking towards the man in the light. ‘ Death where is your sting? I defeated you when I overcame the grave, and so have my followers. I would like to take My Child back. ’ The man in the light stood his ground, it was obvious he wasn ’ t afraid of this Satan looking man. All the while Jeydon had no idea what was going on, so he prayed. “ Lord, if you ’ re real, please stop this. I don ’ t want to end up in this place, I don ’ t want to end up dead right yet, I still have so much going for my life ” his prayer was stopped midway through when a hand was laid on his shoulder. 
 
 ‘ Your sins are forgiven, come and walk in the light. ’ With that he headed back up into the basement and up into the cool lobby. Jeydon was wobbling as he looked around and felt his body. This couldn ’ t have been real, it was all a bad dream, and he was just now waking up. He probably hit his head while he was in the basement and it probably knocked him out. ‘ You can wake up now, body, any second would be great ’ he ushered himself to think. The brightness of the lights shook him. He fell over and started to weep. “ Thank you. ” He said to the floor, not knowing why he said it, but he said it anyway. He felt this sense of peace wash over him as he wept. 
 
 Maybe there was hope for his life.. and maybe he would have to get in contact with his brother to ask him about it. A smile formed on his face as the tears streamed down… 

