Forbidden Flames (on hold)

chapter 35

I woke up in the middle of the night. I heard a scream. I took some time to confirm it. When I again heard the scream, my eyes widened. He was Lucifer. He was screaming.

I made my way to his room where his mother, Alice, and Leopard were standing at the door. I looked at them and they looked at me.

"What's happening?" I asked worriedly.

"It's full moon night," she said.

I remembered the last time when we were in the palace. That night, he was screaming with pain. Blood on his back. I didn't take the time to realize it.

"Why are you not checking him?" I asked Sophelia.

"He...He is with Damon." she looked at the ground.

Lucifer with Damon... His dad...

"But why? Last time he did not answer my question. Why does this happen to him?" I asked.

"He is growing his powers. Soon he will be 24 and he will get his powers as his dad."

We heard Lucifer screaming again.

"I need to go inside. He is in pain." I screamed.

Alice held my arm.

"Lucia, just wait for a minute more."

I waited.

The door opened. I ran inside to see Lucifer on the ground. His whole body was tired. His back was red. A light was coming out of his sword scar.

I reached his level and hugged him. I looked at Damon who again was flying in the air. He looked damn scary. His devil-red eyes were looking straight into my soul. It was my first time seeing him as a person.

In the blink of an eye, he vanished into thin air. Without wasting my time, we put Lucifer on his back on his bed. He was unconscious.

"We should let him sleep," Leopard said.

"He is not sleeping. He is fucking tired." I said with numbed eyes.

"Lucia, you can't talk like that to her!" Alice yelled.

I took them outside with me. They all followed me to the garden.

"Why it's always him?" I yelled.

Why he is always left alone? He does not deserve this. Can you imagine how he got through so much pain, without his parents who were supposed to protect him? Since the day he was born, he has suffered a lot. His mother left him, his dominant father, even though he did not know they were not his real parents, when he finally got me, his brother couldn't leave him alone and safe. Now, he is shocked by his real identity. How do you suppose to take these things so lightly!?" I fell on my knees.

I felt weak. I put my every feeling in words which were settled in my heart a long time ago. Now watching Lucifer like this, I could not hold myself back.

I felt a hand on my shoulder. I was still crying. Sophellia sat beside me and hugged me tightly. I started crying even more. I can't see him in pain. I just can't.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry Luci for hurting you. I wish I could pay back my sins," she whispered.

"Lucia, I know you were not meant to see this. You only were a little girl who accidentally came into our world. This is your..." Alice stopped in half of her sentence and she looked taken back.

I lifted my face to check on her but my eyes only saw that devil-red eyes, I saw a while ago. He was here. Damon was here, in front of me and Sophelia.

"D...DAMON!" Sophelia couldn't speak.

It was her second time seeing him after a long time.

Alice and Leopard bowed in front of him. I was shaking, my legs started shaking. I felt the air getting cold. I tried to collect words from my mind but I was blank.

"Lucia," he spoke for the first time.

My heart was about to explode.

"Yeah," the only word came out of my mouth. Still, I am a little girl.

"I want to talk to you alone," he said and my heart stopped.

"No need to be scared," he said as he read my mind just like Sophelia.

Alice and Leopard left the place. Sophelia did not move. She did not shift her gaze from him.

"I need to talk to you too..." she said.

He nodded once.

He then shifted his wings towards me and said "I need your help."

I was shocked for a moment. I mean he can take and destroy anyone with one snap of the finger.

"I can, but I can't face my son." he again read my thoughts.

"How can I help you?" I asked if it was about Lucifer.

"He is going to be 24 in a few days and this means he will get his all powers back just like I did when I was his age. But this is not the case here. As you have been already told he is the son of a devil and a ... Witch. Our son." he said last part looking at his wife.

I looked at her, she was hearing with curiosity.

"He is going to get the power of a devil and a Witch. Usually, these things happen, the ones you witnessed here and before, are not normal."

"Do you mean his powers are stronger than yours?" Sophelia asked.

"Unfortunately, yes. He is not only getting mine but your powers too," he said.

"Does this mean any danger?" I asked. If the pain now is so powerful, how much it will be when he will get all of his powers?

"You are right, it's going to be hard. You need to prepare Lucifer and yourself too," he said showing his deadly eyes.

"What do you mean to prepare? Huh! For what do we have to be prepared?" she yelled at him as she was crying.

"Lucia, I will get Lucifer from here tomorrow," he said to me without looking at her.