Eye for an Eye
Eye for an Eye
Ariel didn't speak.
Damien then snarled at her while displaying his elongated fangs, "Thought so!"
Ariel was surprised to see new things about Damien one after another – his rage, his eyes, and now his fangs. When she would think that she had seen it all, Damien would surprise her with a new thing.
"I thought I knew him so well..." she thought to herself.
Damien curled his upper lip in disdain then pointed his finger in the direction of Wyverndale. And he shouted, "Now get lost from here while I am still being nice."
Ariel wiped her tears with both of her palms. She gave a determined look to Damien and she declared, "I will get lost but I am taking you with me."
Ariel reached out her hand to grab Damien but he took a step back.
Ariel clenched her teeth and tried to hug him this time.
But instead of letting her hug him, Damien pushed Ariel with all his might.
Ariel fell on her back, leaving a huge crater below her body.
Ariel immediately got up on her feet. She didn't look hurt, at least physically.
She looked at Damien and politely said, "Damien if you want to fight me then let's do this back in Wyverndale. Let's fight after we know the whole truth."
"What's there to know? You want me to listen to your father describing how he killed my father?"
Damien's heart and mind were so cluttered with all kinds of questions and emotions that he was unable to think rationally. He was not going to listen to any of Ariel's reasoning.
However, Ariel kept on trying, "If my father was really the bad guy then how come your mother is okay with my father being around her? Why isn't she angry at my father for killing your father? Shouldn't she be the most devastated one if your father was really a nice man?"
Damien's frowns softened a little when he heard Ariel asking those questions to him.
But before he could think properly, that Vampire shouted from the side, "Don't listen to her, my lord. She is the daughter of the Devil. Devils are good at manipulating others. Maybe he manipulated your mother just like how he manipulated you."
The frowns on his forehead returned again. Damien even recalled how Joyce had called Ariel a good manipulator for successfully making Zach do her bidding.
"He's right! You are just like your father! A master manipulator." Damien declared.
Ariel scratched her head in irritation. And she tried for the umpteenth time to make Damien understand her position, "Dame, you have full right to call me whatever. You have full right to get angry at me and my father. You have full right to pursue revenge if your father was wronged by my father. All I am asking is for you to sit down with my parents and your mother, know everything that happened, not just superficially but in depth. And then decide what to do."
A disdainful smirk appeared on Damien's lips. And he replied, "I have already decided what to do."
Maybe it was the demon side in him, or maybe the vampire side, he suddenly felt this immense urge to take revenge right then and there.
At that particular moment, he forgot all the happy memories he had with Ariel, all the time Theodore had acted like his father, everything.
The only thing that resonated in his mind was, "An eye for an eye."
Damien manifested his claws and made a deep cut on both of his palms.
Ariel felt a prick in her heart when she saw him hurting himself. But her worry suddenly turned into anger when she heard Damien.
"Your father killed my father. So I am going to kill his daughter. I want him to feel how I am feeling right now."
Ariel furrowed her brows and tightened her fists. And she shouted at Damien, "Are you seriously going to fight with me because of something that happened in the past? Without even knowing the full details? I am your best friend, Damien!"
"Blood ties come before anything," Damien screamed and leaped forward while aiming to punch Ariel in the chest.
However, Ariel swiftly deflected his attack by stepping to the side. And she shouted back in anger, "You've known me your whole life! You don't even know your father's name!"
"And whose fault is that?" Damien jumped again and his palm lightly touched Ariel's knuckles.
"Who killed my father before I was even born?" he shouted again and flicked his blood all over Ariel's body.
Ariel didn't know why Damien was doing that. But she disregarded the blood and threw a kick.
Damien was away from her foot's reach. However, that wasn't a problem for Ariel. The air that came out of Ariel's foot was sharp like a blade and was enough to hurt Damien in the chest.
Damien dug all of his claws into his palms again and threw his blood on Ariel.
This time, several large drops of blood fell on Ariel's face and eyes. She closed her eyes instantly and right at that moment, Damien ran and pressed his bloody palm on Ariel's chest – right where her heart was.
"What the hell?" Ariel released a wave of air from her body and sent Damien flying.
When Damien landed on the ground, she made the ground sink and suck Damien. The ground around him instantly hardened like the strongest metal. Only his head was above the ground.
That Vampire, who had been watching from the sideline ran to attack Ariel.
Ariel flicked her palm without even sparing him a glance. And he was sent flying away. When he opened his eyes, he found himself inside a chair again. This time, his mouth was also covered.
"You've done enough!" Ariel shouted at that Vampire.
She then walked over to Damien and said, "I'm sorry for doing this but bear with me. I will take you home now."
Ariel was thinking of scooping out Damien along with the metal-hard soil that was surrounding him.
However, for some reason, that evil smirk on Damien's face returned.
Damien glared at Ariel again and said in a cold tone, "No, Riri, I am sorry."
Ariel frowned because she knew it wasn't a genuine apology. But she didn't think much of it and held out her palm to take Damien out.
But suddenly – BOOM – Damien's blood which he had splattered all over Ariel's face and body exploded all at once.