"Will you be by my side?" Damien x Pip

Chapter 25: Saved

As Gabriel and Damien reached the town, Damien looked at the now even bigger Philip. "Philip... love..." Damien stared, in shock at Philip. "God... he's...."

"Terrifying? Beastly? Demonic?" Gabriel asked.

"Beautiful," Damien whispered.

"What?"

"He is so beautiful," Damien repeated.

Gabriel stared at him, "Ok, um... to each their own, I guess."

"He is... glowing brightly. It's so... pretty," Damien added.

"Ok, Damien! Focus!" Gabriel urged.

Damien shook his head. "Right! Um..." He cupped his hands around his mouth. "Philip! Love! Can you hear me!?"

Philip didn't respond. "I don't think he can hear me from that height." Damien then carefully tried to lift off higher into the sky.

"Be careful! He's been hitting everything out of the air, from other demons to flying machines, to even just flying debris!" Gabriel yells.

Damien nodded and tried to get closer. "Philip!" He went higher and higher, calling Philip's name. Damien was about to reach Philip's waist when he was hit.

"Ow! Philip, it's me!" Damien called. Philip just grabbed him and flung him across the sky. Damien screamed but luckily was able to stop himself before he hit something. "My god..."

"I told you!" Gabriel yelled. "Yeah, yeah..."

As Damien hung in the air, trying to calm himself after being tossed across the sky by Philip, he could see Gabriel's worried expression from a distance. He signaled that he was okay and then turned back to Philip.

Philip was still destroying stuff; in fact, he was starting to block out the hell sun. Damien realized that getting close to Philip wasn't going to be easy. It probably wasn't the best idea to just fly up to him, not with nothing on them.

"Gabriel, we need to come up with a plan!" Damien shouted. "I can't just fly up to him like this. We have to find a way to get his attention without getting squashed." Gabriel nodded in agreement. They needed a strategy, and they needed it fast.

Damien's mind raced as he tried to think of something. "What if we use some of the town's resources? Last time I checked, which was like 5 years ago, there was a beacon in the middle of the town."

Gabriel nodded. "Great, okay. Hurry." They then quickly went to the middle of the destroyed town.

And there it was, amid the chaos, a faint glimmer of hope – the beacon's base.

Damien went up to the base of the beacon, looking at it closely. It was kind of damaged but okay.

With Gabriel's help, they managed to clear away some of the debris and get to what was left of the beacon.

"It looks like the top part is gone," Gabriel said, "but the power source seems intact. We just need something to create a signal with it."

Damien nodded, his mind racing again. "We can use some of the mess around us, like metal scraps or even wood, to make a makeshift reflector. If we concentrate the beacon's light and direct it towards Philip, it might catch his attention."

Gabriel agreed, and they began to look at the surrounding debris for materials. They worked quickly, making a crude but working reflector, adjusting it to focus the beacon's light in the area of Philip.

With their signal ready, they positioned themselves carefully, aiming the beacon's light toward Philip, who was still destroying everything.

"Okay," Damien said, "Let's hope this works." He activated the beacon, sending a powerful beam of light into the sky, aimed at Philip.

When it hit him, Philip put his hands over his eyes; the light was blinding. He then looked at where it was coming from and saw, "Damien?" Philip was shocked. He rubbed his eyes and hit his head, not believing it, but it was him.

Philip was shocked, "Damien!!" Philip then ran over, destroying more as he went.

At first, Damien was worried that Philip was going to crush him, but that's when he realized Philip was shrinking, and fast.

Soon enough, he was back to his normal size and leaped into Damien's arms. "Oh! Hi, hon."

Philip smiled up at him, tears in his eyes. "Blimey, Damien! You're alive! Thought you were a goner! I..." Philip was crying hard, "I thought I'd bloomin' lost you!"

Damien played with Philip's hair a little, stroking it. "No, no, of course not, hon. You're ok. I'm ok. We can be together now.... I love you, and I'm so sorry for making you upset. I will never leave you again, promise."

Philip smiled, "Damien.... thank you." Damien then cupped Philip's face, and Philip held him close as they leaned in for a kiss. But that's when they heard loud, clanging footsteps.

They turned to see guards, lots and lots of guards, all with weapons. "Oh, blimey, what do we do?"

Damien held Philip close. "Don't worry. I got you."

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