Heaven and Hell: The Grand Story

IX.

"Hell?" Kelsey asked. "Here? Really?"
"Yep." replied Thomas. "Right here."
Kelsey looked at the group of three trees sprouting off of each other. Thomas took out his angel blade and stabbed the center, where all trees met into one. Black goo spilled out from around it, dripping onto the ground and making a perfect circle around Kelsey and Thomas. Then, suddenly, the ground sank down, getting stuck every few feet. Rocks fell down from the sides of the ground that didn't go with them, and dirt from up at the top fell onto their heads. The grassy elevator stopped one last time and dissolved into another puddle of black goop.
The puddle filled the bottom of the pit, and then soaked into the ground. Kelsey helped Thomas lift up an old wood pallet and leaned it against the dirt wall. Where the pallet once was, now was a hole. She sat down and slipped through it, Thomas following closely behind.
The temperature immediately got hotter. She pushed a few stray bricks out of the way and stepped onto the black marble floor. She started her descent down a long hallway. This was just a part of hell, just a hallway, how would they find them in all of it?
"There," whispered Thomas in her ear from behind her, "at the end of the hallway."
The door at the very end was unlike all the others. All doors were red, adding to the red lights attached to the ceiling. The door at the end of the hallway was a shiny black, with swirls and scribes and all sorts of ornate engravings around the edges. The handle was a glowing silver knob; it was the brightest thing in sight. Kelsey walked toward it without thinking, but Thomas caught up to her and grabbed her shoulder and turned her around to face her.
"You can't just go barging in there, the Winchesters are behind that door; there's probably a defense mechanism or a security measure or something. You're gonna need to..." He paused, looking for the right words. "Not look like that."
Kelsey got the hint. She saw a demon round the corner of a hallway a few paces back. She thought of his face, his body, his mannerisms, everything. Soon enough, Thomas was looking at a demon, even complete with black eyes and an iron bar.
"You know, you're gonna need to do something too."
Thomas, taking her advice, made is eyes completely black and changed his hair to a white blonde color. He ran his fingers through it a few times for good measure.
They strolled up to the door at the end of the hallway, passing a demon on the way. Thomas nodded once at him and tried to avoid his eyes. Once they finally got to the door, Kelsey jiggled the handle. It was locked.
"What do we do now?" She whispered.
Thomas held up a ring of about 10 keys on it. "Stole it from the one we passed by."
Kelsey smiled and rolled her eyes; she took the keys and tried them on the door. The fourth one turned; the lock clicked and the door swung open. Sam, Dean, Cole, and Claire were sitting down on the floor inside. Dean immediately stood up. "What do you want, Malcolm?" He asked.
Kelsey thought about it for a moment. "You no longer have a use to us," she said, but Malcolm's voice came out, "so we will take you up to earth. But you're finding your way home."
They all looked at each other, probably deciding whether or not it was safe to go. Kelsey pulled out her angel blade.
It caught the angels' eyes. Cole reluctantly followed behind Claire, followed by Sam, then Dean.
Kelsey lead them down the long hallway, Thomas in the back, disguised as another demon.
Thomas saw a few demons, but he sent them going back the direction they came from before they got too close.
At the end of the hall, Kelsey extended her hand, removing almost all the bricks from the wall at once and climbed through it. When she resurfaced, she wasn't in the pit, but back by the trees. She helped Claire out, followed by Cole, and both her and Claire had to help Sam and Dean out. Thomas grabbed his knife from the three trees, and Kelsey turned back into the form she was used to.
"Kelsey?" Sam asked. "You had...you turned into Malcolm. How did you know?"
"Just lucky, I guess." Kelsey replied. "I saw him in the hallway, thought it wouldn't look that bad."
The hole on the ground closed itself, and all that was left was a clump of dirt where the center used to be.
"Why did they want you guys down there anyway?" Thomas asked.
"I don't know," Dean answered, "but-"
"Ugh," Kelsey interrupted, "it was swimming around in that guy's head the whole time we were down there.
They knew the Winchesters would be the ones to try to stop it, so the only thing they knew what to do with you is lock you up until it was done."
"And the thing is..." Dean asked.
"Hell is open. That's how we could get through so easily. There's a gate in the U.S., in Tennessee, and just a few hours ago, it broke open. The bad thing is, it doesn't exactly have doors, so it can't exactly be closed."
"Wha-how did it even open in the first place?" Dean asked.
"Well, it's more of a structure," she explained, "an arch. It's an air seal that's actually breaking, which is really hard to close; almost impossible."
"Alright."
Kelsey suddenly looked up at Dean. She looked like she couldn't breathe. Dean caught her body as Kelsey fell to the grass.
"Kelsey?" Claire yelled. She kneeled down beside her, beside Dean, trying to find any sign of life.
Nothing.
"Kelsey!"