“Okay then, magic time eh?” I said in a rush of words that were masking ones that should have been…‘I think it's time to hurry the fuck up.’
Nero smirked and said nothing more before she cupped her hands together and started to pull them apart showing the tendrils of power between them. It was as if she had a sticky rubber ball that was being stretched and manipulated before it became too big to hold. The glowing blue essence stretched out so far, it became a flat disc in front of her as it grew and grew until it was the circumference of the spiral staircase. I took a premature step forward thinking that this was some sort of platform we were supposed to stand on to lower us to the bottom. Thankfully, one of her hands slapped to my chest preventing me from going any further, then with white and red demonic eyes finding my own she told me in an ethereal voice,
“That's not what this is for.” Then before I could ask, the flat glowing blue disc started to spin. my eyes widened at the sight as I no longer had the capability to follow its movements. Seconds later I heard the grinding of stone against stone, a sound so loud it made me believe there was an earthquake beneath us, for the land shook. I looked back over my shoulder to see that we weren't the only ones affected as the hounds of Hell had to contend with some ground they walked on as it split and ruptured.
However, this didn't stop them, it was only a means of slowing them down as they now had to jump over large cracks. I looked back to Nero to find her stood steady whereas I had to have my hands out and my knees slightly bent trying to stay on my feet and gain back my balance. I watched as the bottom of the staircase started getting closer and closer like the whole spiral of stairs now acted like a giant corkscrew. She was unwinding the staircase until eventually the blue spinning disk stopped and the bottom became level with the rest of the land and was one we could now step onto.
But first she raised the large flat disc of glowing blue light enough for us to walk under it. I followed her as she stepped into the centre before making the glowing disc start to spin again only this time in the other direction. This was when the staircase started to go back down, unscrewing itself from where it had been raised up.
I had to admit the motion of this made me feel slightly sick and I found myself having to close my eyes against the dizziness it caused me. As for Nero, she seemed unaffected and completely unfazed by the motion, concentrating instead on the spinning flat surface above us that she continued to keep in motion until we reached the ground.
Once we did she sucked back the power making it form back into how it was first made. First it started to shrink back into a smaller disk until forming that of the ball that she had started off with. One that she eventually could cup between her hands before absorbing it back into her skin. Her eyes slowly morphed back to normal and she took a deep staggering breath making me catch her as she started to fall. I caught her under the armpits, and said,
“Whoa, easy there.” This made her giggle as if she was slightly drunk.
“Are you okay?” I asked helping her back to her feet.
“Oh, hell yeah, I feel great,” She said with a ridiculously big grin.
“Well, I don't know what that was, but it was bloody brilliant!” I shouted, looking back up making her smirk and she granted me a wink telling me,
“That was my game face for magic time.” I had to laugh at the words used, but then looking around the large space I found myself questioning what we were seeing. I bent down to pick up a little gold shell I recognised as a bullet casing.
“Now what could this do be doing down in Hell?” I questioned before scanning the area and seeing that the floor was littered with them. But that was not all to be found scattered around the large circular space.
“Wow, it looks like a lot of things died here,” Nero commented, kicking over one of the bones that looked decades