She Belongs To The Devil

"Cold…"

Damien finally opened his eyes after falling deep down into the depths of hell. He didn't know how much time had passed since he fell down. He didn't know where he was because all he could see was pitch dark.

"Why is it so cold here?"

Damien curled into a ball and tried to keep himself warm. He brought his palms closer to his mouth and blew hot air to warm his hand. But nothing worked.

He looked around and tried to make sense of where he was. However, even with his sharp eyes, he couldn't see a thing.

"I thought I was back in Hell. But why is it so cold here? And why is it so dark?"

Damien closed his eyes again and thought, "Did I get purged?"

He extended his claws and made a cut in his palm.

"It hurts! And I'm bleeding. That means... I'm not dead?"

Damien turned and lay flat on his back. He looked up at the endless darkness. He didn't know if he was under the open sky or under a ceiling.

But he believed that it was his personal Hell. He believed he would get stuck here in the dark pit of Hell for the rest of eternity.

"I deserve this…"

---

"What do you mean by Damien is already here in Hell?" Lilith sprung up from the sofa and demanded an answer from Theodore.

She was already shocked enough to know that Damien and Ariel had run off to Mihir, and Damien found out who his father was. And she was greatly shocked as well as saddened to hear that he tried to kill Ariel.

Lilith had apologized to Theodore for what Damien had attempted. And she had also agreed to clear things up for Damien, she needed to.

And now, Theodore was telling her that he didn't bring Damien with him because Damien was back already.

"If he was back then why isn't he home yet?" she was starting to get worried.

Theodore took a deep breath in and explained in short, "The old man who you hate happened to see their fight. And according to my mother, he was angered when Damien tried to blast Ariel using his blood magic. So he opened the por–"

Lilith held her hair as if she was ready to pull it out and asked in an exasperated whisper, "Since when does he know blood magic? Why am I hearing about this just now?"

Lilith was giving an accusing glare to Theodore thinking he already knew about it yet he didn't share it with her.

"I also happened to know about it when mother showed me," Theodore replied honestly.

Lilith dropped back on the sofa. And she asked again, "So, what did that old man do again?"

Theodore briefed further, "He opened the portal to Hell and dropped him back. But even mother couldn't tell where he was. I tried to find him before I came here but I couldn't. I had hoped that he was already back here, but it looks like he isn't."

Lilith dug her claws into the sofa upon hearing what her creator had done to her son. She gritted her teeth and closed her eyes. She tried to teleport to her son's current location.

However, just like what she had thought, she couldn't reach him. How could she when Damien's location was concealed even from the Goddess?

Lilith got up and roared at the ceiling in rage. She grabbed the sofa and tossed it on the wall. It broke into several pieces and its splinters scattered all over the room.

And she growled again, "Why can't he just leave me and my kids alone? He already killed my daughter! And now he is after my son?"

Lilith spread out her bird-like wings and flew right through the ceiling.

Theodore covered his head with his arm and coughed. He also instantly spread out his wings and flew right through that hole.

He caught up to Lilith in no time and shouted, "Lilith! Where do you think you are going?"

He asked that because it didn't look like she was going to look for her son. She kept on flying straight into the sky.

"I'm going to burn the Heaven down along with that old man!"

Theodore nodded as if he also had the same idea. However, he knew it was impossible to do so, even when he was to assume that Lilith somehow got to the Heaven realm.

So he shouted at her again, "Lilith, come back to your senses, please! Damien could be trapped somewhere. We have to find him at the earliest time possible."

Theodore was able to slow Lilith down.

"You are right. We need to find him first," Lilith took a deep breath in and started to fly down.

---

"Light?"

Damien saw a dim light very far away from where he was right now.

However, no matter how far that source of light was from him, he spotted it in an instant since that was the only thing that was visible to him at the moment.

"Is someone here to rescue me?"

Damien stared at that light source for quite a while. It looked like someone was carrying a lantern.

"Is it even coming closer to me? That lantern?" he thought to himself when he started to get bored of staring at that lantern.

Damien sat up and kept on staring at it. After what felt like an hour to him, he saw that it wasn't a lantern but it was a ball of glowing fire. It was quite close to him now.

"Why is it moving on its own?" he got curious.

By now, he could tell that no one was there to save him because he could see that no one was in the vicinity of that fire.

Damien blankly gazed at the flickering orange and red fire. He didn't have anything better to do anyway.

The fire stopped coming any closer at one point. And it abruptly died.

Damien mirthlessly smiled.

He was alone in the darkness again.

"I'm stuck here for good, aren't I?" he thought to himself.

He didn't even feel sad because he had accepted his punishment when he let go of that Vampire's hand.

"At least I won't cause any harm to Ar–"

Suddenly, he heard the sound of the flap of the wings. He saw a man standing where the fire had died down earlier.

He had glowing flames of fire around the edges of his wings.

"Who's there?" Damien squinted his eyes and tried to recognize the silhouette of that man.

A sudden rage ran inside his heart when he recognized that face.

He immediately got up on his feet and flapped out his own wings.

He flew towards that man while shouting aggressively, "Why did you hide the fact that you killed my father, Prince Theodo–"

Damien suddenly stopped flying any closer when he saw that the man in front of him had silver hair instead of pitch black.

He landed on his feet and bowed respectfully, "Your Majesty."

He looked back at Lucifer's face and asked, "What brings you here?"

"Your mother is worried about you. And so are everyone." Lucifer gestured for Damien to walk to him and said, "Come. Let's get you home."

However, Damien didn't move an inch.

He looked down and whispered, "I don't deserve to go back. I tried to kill your niece."