She Belongs To The Devil

"I tried to kill your niece."

"Then do you want me to kill you? It will be easier to just die than to stay here in the darkness, don't you think?" Lucifer asked casually as though he was asking Damien if he would like to have some candy.

Lucifer even pointed at the flames coming out of his wings and added, "These are the flames of hellfire. You'll burn along with your soul. Do you want me to kill you right now?"

Damien felt a pang in his heart. And he stared at Lucifer trying to figure out if he was hallucinating or if the King was crazy.

Lucifer chuckled after seeing that terrified and confused expression on Damien's face. "Relax kid, I was just trying to make a joke to lighten the mood. But you took it too seriously."

Damien screamed in his mind, "You didn't look like you were joking!"

But Damien did realize one thing. And it was that he didn't want to die. The thought of perishing into nothingness was too much for him.

Lucifer held out his hand towards the scared little demon and asked again, "Now let's go, shall we?"

Damien was hesitating yet again, so Lucifer said, "Don't you want to know what really happened between your father and Theodore?"

Damien wanted to know. He wanted to know why the one who he respected so much had killed his father. They were in a war, sure. But why destroy his soul?

And yet, Damien shook his head. "Please leave me here."

Lucifer was trying not to lose his patience. He didn't want to scare the kid anymore.

"What if your mother got angry because you didn't return and she went to Earth to kill Ariel?" Lucifer spun up the most bizarre scenario to get into Damien's head.

Damien's eyes widened in shock. And he stuttered, "Why would s-she even d-do that? She loves Ariel."

"Didn't you love her too?" Lucifer asked him the most obvious question.

Damien felt as if someone had punched a hole in his heart.

Seeing the frown lines on Damien's forehead, Lucifer further added fuel to the fire, "Before I came here, Lilith was saying that she was going to kill Ariel's whole family, including Ariel. She blames Ariel for taking you to Mihir. She believes that you died. She has gone mad now."

Of course, Lucifer was spinning lies, mostly. He did so to urge Damien to come with him.

Lucifer held out his hand again and said in a serious tone, "If you don't hurry up, she will massacre Ariel's whole family. Will you stop your mother or will you stay stuck in this darkness?"

Lucifer didn't need to ask twice.

Damien grabbed Lucifer's hand and shouted, "Let's go!"

The moment he said that, the pitch-black darkness around them cleared in less than a second. Damien looked around to find himself at the front door of his mansion.

Damien was confused because he was sure that the two of them hadn't even teleported.

Lucifer retracted his flaming wings and nudged Damien. "Go inside and find your mother. Quick."

Damien ran at the top of his speed to find his mother.

Lucifer let out a sigh of relief.

Damien wasn't thrown into that darkness by God. God had just thrown him back to Hell.

It was Damien who imprisoned himself in that darkness because of the immense guilt that he carried in his heart while he dropped down.

All this time, he was in the depth of his despair. Literally.

Lucifer was able to track Damien because of the aura of his own spell that he had cast on Damien's inhibitors. It wasn't an easy task but he had found him somehow.

However, even though Lucifer was able to break inside the prison that Damien had trapped himself in, he was unsure if he would be able to bring Damien out of it.

As Damien was the one who created it, it had to be Damien who broke it.

And Lucifer was glad that he was able to bring Damien back with him regardless of how long it took.

Damien ran inside to find his mother. She was lying down on the floor of her room. There was not a single piece of furniture that was intact in that room, not even her bed.

And Lilith looked like someone had sucked the life out of her. Her hair looked all messy and dirty. Her clothes were torn in several places. Her eyes and cheeks had sunken. She looked like a living corpse.

"Mother?" Damien stood at the door and called her. He was trying to figure out if his mother had indeed massacred everyone in Ariel's family.

Lilith slowly turned her head and glanced at Damien. She blinked and then looked away without saying a word.

"Mother! What happened?" Damien shouted at the top of his lungs.

Lilith got startled from her daze. Finally, her dead expression changed into that of happiness when she realized that he wasn't a hallucination but real. She got up on her feet in an instant and ran to hug her son.

"Oh, Damien…" She hugged Damien so tightly that he had difficulty in breathing.

She then looked at Damien's face as the tears of joy rolled down like a never-ending river. "My baby is okay! My baby…" she whispered while crying and kissing Damien all over his face.

Damien didn't know why his mother was behaving like this.

"Mother, what happened to you?" Damien asked again.

Lilith looked into her son's winter grey eyes and mumbled while sobbing, "You were gone for 23 days, Damien! I thought you were dead!"

Damien was shocked to his core.

"I was lost for 23 days?" Damien asked in disbelief. "But I thought I was in the darkness for an hour or so."

Lilith pulled her son close to her chest again and kept him there. "I'm so sorry that I didn't clearly say everything to you when you had asked several times. I am sorry for thinking that I was protecting you from the bitter truth when in reality I was only hurting you. I'm sorry, baby. I'm sorry!"

Damien had never seen his mother crying ever before. And to see his strong mother breaking down like this, it broke his heart as well. He didn't realize that he was also crying.

Before asking anything else, Damien needed to know one thing, "Mother, is Ariel okay?"

Lilith glanced at Damien's worried face and gave a soft smile. "She will be, once you meet her."

Damien sighed in relief.

Lilith wiped his tears and further told him, "Theodore came here daily to know if you were back or not. He didn't say it but I know Ariel greatly worries about you. If it wasn't for Ariel then I know that Theodore would never step here again. You did some bad things, didn't you?"

Damien felt as if he had been stabbed repeatedly in his chest. He swallowed his tears and looked down, unable to meet his mother's eyes.

"I don't deserve Ariel. Why would she still worry about me? I want her to forget a demon like me," he mumbled as warm tears dropped down to the floor.

Lilith couldn't say anything to her son. She felt a bad lump in her throat upon seeing her son like that.

She could see that he hated himself from his gut. And she could see that he was hurting a lot.

She hugged him again and cried along with him.

She hoped that eventually, her son would be able to forgive himself.