This story starts by repeating the ending of story four, where Liam kills Larna. It is a story about Larna’s adventure through the afterlife, in both hell and a brief stop in heaven. It’s mainly about the battle against the Grim Reaper which Larna is forced to take for a place in heaven.
Hell is where everyone arrives first. It is a tester. If you survive 24 hours in hell you can go up to heaven and challenge the Grim Reaper for entry. However after a couple of hours in hell you start to get living nightmares. Hallucinations that chase you through the never-ending maze they call hell. If the nightmare captures you, or corners you in the maze it forces you into what the devil calls Hell-Rooms. In these rooms the nightmare that caught you will be repeated over and over again for the whole of eternity. A person will be treated by the same living nightmare. These nightmares could be anything from having a wash to watching chess on television, or going to see a relative, to a physical or mental torture that happened to you while you were alive. Seeing a murder and not being able to do anything, being raped, being mugged, anything.
The battle with the Grim Reaper is very dangerous. If you beat him you get to go to heaven. Lose and it’s back into hell with a nightmare of his choosing. These battles can be varied, but are mostly often designed to fit the character of the person being challenged. In Larna’s case she is sent back down to earth as a ghost.
She has to save ten people is ten days. The Reaper gets to chose who she has to save. Being a ghost only the victims can see and hear her. She cannot touch a living thing, but if she concentrates hard enough she can touch non-living things, like a plant pot.
The ten people she has to save are:
- August 9, 1945: A little girl in the city of Nagasaki. Larna has to help her get out of the city before it is destroyed by an atom bomb.
- August 9, 1880: In an old western style village Larna has to save a woman who is carried off and killed by Indians. There is also a gun battle.
- August 9, 1901: A girl is in a Venezuelan village when it is invaded by troops.
- August 9, 1928: Dutch East Indies. A volcano erupts. Larna has to help a pregnant woman get out of the area.
- August 9, 1954: Chinese gunboat. Larna has to help a female prisoner held in the lower decks get off the boat before it gets sunk.
- August 9, 1968: Plane crashed into Germany motorway. Larna has to figure out how to get one of the female passengers off the plane.
- August 9, 1970: Same as above except in Peru.
- August 9, 1982: Cafe is bombed in Paris. Larna has to pursued the waitress to leave.
- August 9, 1921: Famine in Russia, Volga Region of Russia. Larna has to help a woman to get out of the area before she dies of disease.
- August 9, 1999: Woman becomes the target of a serial rapist and killer in Britain.