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Dracula.”
    “Vlad was not a vampire until he died and then I killed him again.”
    “Really?”
    “Well, some become demons who come to Hell, I am sure Gunner told you this already.”
    “He told me some stuff, I mean I just got here.”
    “Well, we all had a choice, we all went through Lucifer’s trial and some become Hellhounds like us, but many fail and become demons, giving into their own evil.”
    “So why does Lucifer allow us to exist at all?”
    “Oh, it is not up to him little one.” Ari said as he stepped forward.
    “How? He rules Hell.”
    “Yes, but he does not rule the soul. Freewill, that was a little trick God put in there that makes it impossible for him to just take a soul. Kind of like a failsafe after the fact ‘fuck you’ his brother did to trip him up.”
    “His brother?” I asked and Dorin nodded and spoke up.
    “God is not Lucifer’s Father, he is his brother.”
    “Wow, so what? This is like some sibling rivalry thing then?”
    “You could call it that.” Dorin said as he gripped his sword. “But for now we have to get you ready.”
    “Ready for what?”
    “Slaying demons of course.” He said and with that he lunged at me.
    ***
    I sat on my new bed as I rubbed my side. I looked down and saw the bruise on it. I assumed when I was sparring that I could not be hurt, but it seems that I can. I heard a tap to my door and I looked up to see Gunner in the doorway with food on a tray. It smelled so good I quickly forgot the bruise and the slight pain that came along with it.
    “Hungry?” he asked me and I nodded.
    He walked up to me and I smelled the soup in the bowl. Chicken noodle, my favorite. I grinned as if the memory of Mom filled the room. I did love her; she always knew how to make me feel better regardless of what was going on. I guess I could have hated her for what my father did to me, but the truth was he had done far worse to her and when she realized what he was doing to me she left him and took me with her. I always thought of her as my guardian angel and still do, long after she had died from cancer. I eyes became glossy.
    “Are you in pain?” he said as he sat down next to me and looked me over.
    “No, I was just thinking about my Mom, she did the soup thing.”
    “Your Mother is in heaven Halo.”
    I then looked up at him. I had never really thought about it after she died as to where she went to. I just knew she was gone for me.
    “Thank you for that.” I said to him and he nodded to me. He stood up and turned to leave and I felt compelled to talk to him after all he done for me so far.
    “So, how did you end up here, I mean…as a Hellhound.”
    He stopped and then turned back to me, hesitating for a minute and then deciding to speak to me, which I appreciated more than I could express.
    “As I said before, I helped kill Caesar.”
    “Yeah, I mean. If history was correct, which I have to question now, it was an assassination of Julius Caesar and the result of a conspiracy by many Roman senators who called themselves Liberators. Led by Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Brutus, they stabbed Julius Caesar to death in a location adjacent to the Theatre of Pompey on the Ides of March (March 15), 44 BC. Caesar was the dictator of the Roman Republic at the time, having recently been declared dictator perpetuo by the Senate. This declaration made several senators claim to fear that Caesar wanted to overthrow the Senate in favor of tyranny, yet under the guise of avoiding Cæsar's tyranny, the end result is that they established a tyranny of their own, as they never restored The Republic. The ramifications of the assassination led to the Liberators' civil war and, ultimately, to the Principate period of the Roman Empire.” I stopped rambling as my geeky knowledge of Roman history had spilled out of me.
    “I am sorry, I studied it. I always thought Rome was so interesting.”
    Gunner stood there for a minute and then started to walk out again. I got up and