Alas!
Alas!
But that was exactly what God wanted. Not for them to hurt each other physically but he wanted them to be estranged emotionally.
He wanted Damien out of Ariel's life.
"Don't worry. Children do fight at times." God lightly tapped on his wife's palm and tried to console her.
However, that didn't make the Goddess worry any less. "They are not normal children. If they start to get a little too serious then it might be a disaster, not just for the land they are in but their friendship might also be at risk."
However, God tried to reassure her again, "If it looks like things are about to go out of hand then I will stop them myself. You should know that fights are necessary to make the friendship grow even stronger."
The Goddess didn't want to say much after that. She didn't want to fight with her husband anymore. She was already tired of it.
Besides, she knew that he wouldn't let anything happen to their granddaughter.
The two of them closely monitored Ariel and Damien's fight. The Goddess was already worried as Damien kept on sprinkling blood all over Ariel.
"Don't tell me he is really going to use that deadly power against his best friend," she mumbled to her husband.
"I'm sure he won't stoop that low… even though he is Lilith's son," he replied.
However, just when the two of them thought that the fight was over after Ariel buried Damien in the ground, Damien did exactly what the Goddess had feared.
He used such deadly power against his own friend. In the fit of his rage, he didn't care whether his friend died for real.
God indignantly slammed his palm on his thigh when he read Damien's intention.
BOOM!
Damien's blood exploded all at once. However, the explosion didn't cause any harm to Ariel.
As he had promised his wife, God didn't let Ariel get a scratch on her body.
However, he was furious at Damien for trying to hurt his sweet little granddaughter.
"This vermin! A demon will always be a demon no matter how much you love them! How dare he try to hurt my grandchild?" God roared in anger.
Several thunderbolts ran across the skies of Heaven as well as Earth.
And in the very next second, the land around Damien began to tremble. It almost felt as if a small-scale Earthquake had hit the area.
Ariel was still getting the ringing in her ears and was feeling dizzy after hearing all those loud explosion sounds. She was looking down at her chest since that was where she had heard the loudest explosion from.
She was sure that Damien had done something to her. However, she didn't find anything out of the ordinary with her body.
By the time she came back to her senses, she felt the land shaking violently.
"Earthquake?" Ariel mumbled in shock when she realized that she wasn't feeling dizzy but she was feeling the tremor. And her shock turned into fear when she saw that the land around Damien was crumbling down.
He was desperately clinging to the hand of that vampire. That vampire was trying his best to pull Damien out of that collapsing ground. However, something invisible was pulling Damien down.
"Damien!" Ariel screamed in terror upon seeing Damien dangling helplessly. "Wait, let me help you up."
She immediately used her power to try and close that collapsing land.
"Arghhhhhh! Come on!" Ariel was screaming and trying to manifest her power to control the Earth.
However, no matter how much she tried, it seemed like her power was no match for whatever was opening that hole on the Earth.
She couldn't quite tell that a portal to Hell had opened up. It looked more like an endless pit of darkness. And Ariel was afraid that if her friend fell into that abyss, she would lose him forever.
As her powers weren't working, Ariel flapped out her wings and hovered like a bird above Damien.
She gave him her hand and screamed in desperation, "Damien, grab my hand!"
Damien looked at her with eyes full of tears as reality hit him hard.
He felt relieved to see that Ariel wasn't hurt at all.
However, at the same time, he felt repulsed and disgusted by himself when he recalled how he had tried to kill this very sweet friend of his.
"I tried to kill you, Riri. Why would you still…" he felt a painful lump in his throat and couldn't even speak.
"We don't have time to argue Damien! Just…" Ariel forcefully tried to grab his hand but something wasn't letting her touch him. "Just grab my hand already! You're going to fall!"
Damien shed his tears of regret and whispered painfully, "But I tried to kill you…" He couldn't even look into her innocent eyes anymore.
He knew that he had committed the greatest sin of his life. And he would have to live with it for the rest of his life.
The shaking of the ground hadn't stopped. One of Damien's hands suddenly slipped from that Vampire's arm.
"My lord! Don't fall. Try to pull yourself up," that vampire shouted at him.
Ariel held out both of her hands towards Damien as if she wanted him to jump and embrace her. Her warm tears fell on Damien's forehead.
And she pleaded to him, "You did it in your anger, Damien. You must have been shocked, right? I mean I would have also done the same I guess… if I found out that your father had killed mine."
Damien thought to himself, "Wrong! You wouldn't have stooped as low as me."
"I would have also thrown some tantrum. So please, hold my hands, will you?" Ariel sniffled and kept on extending her hands and trying to break through that invisible barrier between them.
"No, Ariel. I don't deserve to hold your hands anymore," he thought in his head.
Damien was reminded again of how pure and naïve Ariel was. He was reminded how he didn't deserve to be around Ariel anymore.
Considering how naïve she was, he could tell that Ariel would brush off today's incident as if it wasn't a big deal. He knew she would forgive him even when he tried taking her life.
However, he knew that it would only crush him further. He knew that he would be unable to forgive himself for life.
Damien looked up and took one last glance at his friend's angelic face. Yes, she was the most beautiful angel whom he liked a lot. And yes, he tried to kill that very angel.
Streams of tears rolled down his temple. He faintly smiled as he captured the last sight of that angel in his heart.
"Alas! I didn't want our last memory to be this sad…" he thought inwardly.
But he knew that he had brought this upon himself. He knew that he had sinned and that's why he was being dragged back down to Hell.
Damien silently thought, "I hope you will hate me from your core. And I hope that eventually, you will forget me. I don't even deserve to live in your memory."
And he gladly accepted his punishment.
He closed his eyes and whispered, "Goodbye, Ariel. I hope we never meet again."