She Belongs To The Devil

Ariel felt her heart tearing apart upon listening to that agonizing scream of Damien. She wanted to say to him that she wasn't going to die so easily. But the condition that she was in right now said otherwise.

Damien held onto Joyce's shoulder and pushed himself upright. And he looked at her and asked, "Joy! What are you doing? Ariel is bleeding out! Heal her!"

"You are also in a bad shape!" Joyce screamed in agony. She felt like crying because everyone around her was getting holes in their bodies. "Oh, how I wish I had a coven here. This sucks! All of you look like you are going to die on me! Whom do I choose to heal?"

"Heal Ariel first…" Damien whispered to her.

And he forced himself to turn around. He saw a proud man observing all the chaos and enjoying everyone's pain.

He instantly knew who that man was. He just knew.

"Michael!" Damien gave a death stare to the son of God and screamed with whatever energy he had left in his body.

He had just learned that Michael was the one to kill his half-sister. And by the looks of it, he was going to kill her again. And not just Joyce, he was also going to kill a lot of people he cared about.

"Look who it is!" Michael looked at the struggling demon and said mockingly, "If it isn't the son of Lilith himself. Did you pop out of Hell just to get stabbed to death by me?"

"If anyone is going to die today then it's going to be you," Damien snarled at Michael. His palm was already grabbing the explosives that were around his waist. He was ready to attack Michael at any moment now.

But the sky lit up again. And this time, it was accompanied by deafeningly loud thunders.

Michael knew that he didn't have the luxury to push his stay on Earth any longer. So he smirked at Damien and said, "It looks like you are in luck, you little demon. My time here is up. Or else, that filthy mouth of yours would have earned you a very unpleasant death."

Michael spread out his wings and decided to fly up to Heaven so that he would be able to hear the screams for a bit longer.

"Where are you running, you murderer! Come back here!" Damien shouted at him in anger. He wasn't done with Michael yet.

So he also spread out his wings to go after Michael. But he regretted that instantly since the daggers that were still intact on his back hurt him even further. The one that was close to the roots of his wings was what gave him immense pain.

"Arghhhhh…" Damien screamed and collapsed to his knees.

Ariel felt as though someone had stabbed her right in her heart when she heard Damien screaming again. She raised her head a little and looked at him, only to find him kneeling down. She tried to get up but Joyce pressed her down and kept on chanting her healing spells.

"Joy! Damien…" Ariel coughed because she almost swallowed the pill that she had hidden in her mouth until now. "Help me up… I need to go to Damien," she asked her cousin.

But Joyce didn't listen to her and kept on chanting the spells.

"Joy…" Ariel breathed in with a lot of difficulties. And she said again, "Damien has a dagger… right next to his weak spot! I need to get it out! Help me up!"

Joyce's healing spell was doing something to Ariel. But the hole was too large for the recovery to be noticeable. And when she looked at Ariel's wound, she felt useless. "Can you heal yourself?" Joyce asked in a shaky breath.

Ariel covered the hole in her stomach with her palm. And she wondered if she should swallow the pill or not. "If I heal myself, then maybe I can heal Damien and Kenneth as well," she thought to herself.

However, fate had some other plans.

Damien collapsed head first on the ground.

"No, no, no… Dame…" Ariel grabbed onto Joyce's hand and pushed herself up even in that condition that she was in. She didn't want to take any chance with Damien. She wanted to heal him first.

Joyce felt sick in her stomach upon witnessing a pool of blood where Ariel was lying until now. She felt sicker upon seeing Ariel's blood-soaked gown. But she gulped and helped Ariel walk to where Damien was.

Ariel also fell down on her knees upon reaching Damien's side. And she began to carefully take out the daggers.

Joyce also helped Ariel in doing that. But she couldn't bear to pull out more than one dagger since the wounds that it made were too deep and Joyce couldn't bring herself to see that gruesome sight of those wounds on Damien.

When Ariel was finally done, she asked Joyce, "Help me to lay Damien on his back."

Joyce did just that.

And Ariel asked her again. "Kenneth needs your attention now. I have a healing pill." She showed the pink pill that was in her mouth to Joyce and said, "I got us covered."

Joyce had a lot of questions in her mind. But time was of utmost value at the moment. So she ran to where Kenneth was without asking anything.

"Damien?" Ariel gently tapped on Damien's cheek and called him. She wanted Damien to have the pill.

But Damien wasn't responding well. He was barely fluttering his eyelashes upon being called.

Ariel was also feeling faint because of the amount of blood she had already lost. "I need to act fast," she thought to herself. And she instantly chewed the pill.

After that, she leaned down and pressed her lips over Damien's lips. She clenched his cheeks to make him open his mouth. And she pushed the chewed pills into his mouth and then lifted her head.

"Damien, swallow it…"

Damien heard Ariel's voice in the distance. He didn't know what she was asking him to swallow. But he obliged even in his subconscious state.

The moment he swallowed, the deep wounds on his back started to heal at the speed of lightning.

On the other hand, Ariel's grip over her own wound loosened. She saw the world around her spinning like crazy.

And finally, she succumbed to the darkness.

"Ariel?"

Ariel didn't know how much time had passed. But she opened her eyes upon seeing an extremely bright light calling out for her.

"I thought you would take that pill for yourself. But I underestimated how compassionate you were."