Trip to the Underworld

John pants, looking at where the Entity was, "What...the hell...was THAT?!" Benjamin gets up and goes over to his uncle, "It's hard to explain, but please listen..." John stands up, pacing back and forth, "What was that? Who was that? What just happened?" Benjamin tries to calm John down and Esther sighs, "That was the Entity. He's a demon of the underworld and well....you can see that he's the boss of Mr. Hopp, Mr. Stripes, Miss Bo...and now Tux." 

John sits on the floor, running his fingers through his hair, "So...." He looks at Benjamin, "You're telling me....Tux is....like possessed or something?" Benjamin shrugs, "Something like that...." "That explains the other voice." Benjamin looks at his uncle in shock, "You heard him?" John nods, "You were always talking to someone, and I heard someone talk to you back, I just never knew who it was." Esther looks back over at him, "We gotta get them back." Molly looks at her, "But how? How are we supposed to get to where they are?" 

Esther takes a deep breath and looks at John, "Do you have salt, herbs, and nine candles?" John gulps, "You mean you're gonna do a ritual....in my house?" Esther calms him, "Just this once. Please....look at your nephew...." He looks at Benjamin and pets his hair, "There's candles in the bathroom closet, I'll get the salt and whatever herbs needed." Benjamin nods and he runs to the bathroom closet, and grabs nine candles, and John grabs the salt and herbs and they go back to Esther and set it up. 

They all stand in the middle and Benjamin looks at her, "Now what?" Esther closes her eyes and she puts on the necklace of the Six and it glows around her neck. The ground begins to shake and everyone joins hands, their eyes closed and the light glows brighter and they all go through the ritual center and land on the ground. They sit up, coughing and rubbing their heads and John looks around, "Where the hell are we?" Benjamin helps his uncle stand up and Esther helps Molly and Isaac, "The Underworld. Also known as Hell." 

She leads them through the passage ways, avoiding obstacles like swinging blades, shadow fists on the ceiling and protruding spikes. They soon get the where Esther had fought The Amalgamation and stood up to the Entity last time she was here. Shadow minions were roaming, not knowing of their presence and Benjamin hears a loud roar and recognizes it, "Tux!" Esther covers his mouth, to prevent from them getting noticed and they make their way around to where the noises were coming from.

They look around and they get to an area that was surrounded by fire and Benjamin sees Tux laying on the ground, the Entity holding him by the ears and Mr. Hopp, Mr. Stripes and Miss Bo sitting in a huddle, tied up and they were gagged. Tux snarls and hisses, "I won't let you hurt him! You can't make me!" The Entity laughs, "Oh you foolish feline, I'm powerful. More powerful than you think." He grabs the cat, lifting him to his eye level and stares him dead in the eyes, making Tux's eyes glow with his, and Tux struggles, trying to break free and does the same to Mr. Hopp and the others. 

Benjamin looks in terror and he runs to where they were, "PUT HIM DOWN!" The Entity looks at him and smiles, "Glad to." He drops Tux and Benjamin runs to the cat and touches his cheek, "Tux....buddy?" He backs up as Tux was now smiling a wide, toothy smile and soon Mr. Hopp, Mr. Stripes and Miss Bo stand beside the cat, looking at the four children down and John brings Benjamin back and they all speak at the same time familiar words to them, "Give yourself to us." 

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