The eight children jump down into the darkness, the familiar scent of defection and decay swirled around them as the warm air was instead saturated with smoke and fire.
"we're here, and by the looks of it, so was Isaac," Eve said, standing next to a fire pit that was not made from the chest.
"Well, we gotta find him, Any Idea's where he went?" Samson said.
"He's got the mind, so he knows the entire floor, and everything on it, so he's gonna be moving fast."
"But we're gonna be faster, I spawned with the soul and Sacred heart," Eden said.
"It doesn't matter much, the floor didn't change, see these footprints, they would have been wiped if it had changed, but it seems that we are on the same floor Isaac cleared, so let's get moving," Eve said, inspecting the prints.
Meanwhile, Two floors down, Isaac and Shining were Fighting for their lives, because Isaac was Firing Four Dark green extremely tiny shots from his eyes before they orbited and landed all around him, exploding, Isaac had made sure to return himself to normal at the mirrors just in case he couldn't leave the items behind this time.
"This is normal for you, how did you survive for so long?" Shining said as he blasted a group of Yellow gnats that swarmed.
"Well, I and the others are immortal, if we die we come back, I don't know about you though."
"Guess you better watch your aim then, I could give you a few pointers, but it seems like you've done this before."
"You would be surprised."
The battle was over as the smoke cleared, A crumbling doorway was off to the right, and two treasure rooms on either side of them.
"Third Labyrinth curse, I welcome it," Isaac said as he entered the first room, with Shining following him, in the middle of the room was a heart that was on fire, which made Isaac smile.
"what is it?" Shining said, eyeing it with curiosity.
"Pyromaniac, This will make me immortal," Isaac said, touching the Heart, causing his face to be covered in ash and soot, with scarred skin underneath it.
Shining took one look at him and shivered, he forgot that the power Isaac took, cost him, next treasure room held the decapitated head of a goat, that Isaac plopped right on his head, the sickening sound of blood squelching.
Shining heaved in the corner, even though he was a soldier, this was more blood than he ever saw in his life, but for Isaac this was normal.
"Well, coupled with duality I picked up a couple of floors ago, this will greatly increase my damage," Isaac said.
"what does it do?"
"ensures my deals, with either side."
"I'm gonna ask for the thousandth time, but why not just stick to the angel deals only if it costs your life to make the devil deals?"
"Because I need the stuff from the devil, angel room deals can be amazing if I get anything good, but the good stuff from them is few and far between, the devil gives me much better deals, especially since I already know what they are."
Shining said nothing as they made their way back to the boss door, they looked at each other and nodded, before going in, where they found a being with a horn missing, covered in bandages.
"welcome back Isaac, prepare for battle," The being said before flying up into the darkness.
"What is this thing?" Shining said his horn lit with a spell, ready to sling it at whatever this is.
"His name is the adversary and he is one of the devil's servants, be careful this is his more dangerous form," Isaac answered before running to the left, as the adversary struck the floor.
The battle went far better than Isaac expected, for one, the adversary never shot a brimstone beam, ever which surprised Isaac, without the fear of brimstone, he was no harder than his previous form, the dark one, what he dropped was the Latchkey, nothing special as far as Isaac was concerned, but not worth rerolling.
"Well, that was pretty tame so far, by the way, why do so many bosses have the energy laser attack?" Shining asked.
"only the strong ones do, which means the further we go, the more we have to be careful, there will be more poison blood and more lasers."
They went to the next room which contained another of the devil's minions, The Fallen, but he went down easy, only to drop Brimstone, the most sought-after Items Isaac and his friends have encountered, so Isaac took it, shining flinched as the Dark power overtook him, but before they jumped into the trap door, a Purple Light extended from his chest, back the way they came and up into the darkness above.
"Twilight, She's here in the chest, and boy is she mad," Isaac said, gripping the Thread of Light.
"Wait, Twily followed you in here, why?" Shining demanded, his rationality taking a back seat.
"Because she was the first to meet us when we were free, she gave us real food, and found us a real home, she cares for us like we're her own."
Shining for the second time in his Life opened his mouth before his mind could put in the filters, the stress, the blood, the danger, the fear, all came crashing down, knowing that Twilight, was down in this hell was too much for his mind to bear.
"But your not, you're not even a pony, she only cares because your new, and now because of you, she down in this hell, your existence has put my baby sister in peril, because of you, you have let monsters worst then we have ever seen loose in our world, she should have left you in here, she would have been safer!!!" shining ranted, causing Isaac too Tear up, and run to the angel room, the door slamming shut leaving Shining alone, realization flooding him as the bond turned Ice blue, too late he realized what he had said.
"I am full of sin, and I accept my fate, destroy me as it was intended," Isaac said as he rolled a bomb to the angel statue, the bomb exploding, waking up the angel, holding his soul sheet in front of him, as the angel started charging a beam, though this angel looked different, it had six wings and four arms, with a crescent gold band on its back.