Jennine looked shocked, her eyes wide. When she looked down at her stomach, she caught sight of black blood that spread on the front of her body. A hand pierced through her front and she staggered forward as Calhoun had attacked her from behind while the demoness was focussed solely on Beth.
“W-what did you do?” asked Jennine, “I cannot die,” the smile on her face faltered.
Calhoun didn’t have the time to be playing and humouring this demoness. Madeline’s life was in danger where his grandfather intended to have her turn as a demon, which he wouldn’t allow.
Calhoun pulled out his hand back, and Jennine took a step backwards with her hand reaching out for Beth. He stepped away from the demoness with black blood dripping down from his hand.
He said, “I believe I am the higher demon here, which would mean if you are fortunate you will end up in the river of souls to repent for your sins or if you have sinned too much, which you have, you will turn to dust and be forgotten even from Hell.”
Jennine fell on her knees, her hands clutching her stomach where blood oozed out.
Madeline came to stand next to Calhoun, and she looked at the demoness, “Is she going to come back again?” she asked in worry.
“This will be the last time. Beth didn’t kill her successfully last time,” said Calhoun before turning his back as he didn’t care about the demoness.
Jennine slowly started to lose her strength, and her body moved sidewards before she tried to lay her back flat on the ground.
“You are so mean, Bethie. Making me your friend and then throwing me away,” whispered Jennine in a trembling voice. “All I wanted was to be your friend, the friend I once had and our friendship.” Beth didn’t dare to move from where she stood, and she looked at Jennine, who stared back at her. “You stopped caring about others and thinking just about yourself. When did you turn like this?”
“Maybe since I met you,” said Beth, her hands tightly clenched into fists.
A bubbling laugh erupted through Jennine’s throat that resulted in blood coming out of her lips. “Come sit. I want to show you something that you forgot,” whispered the demoness.
Though the demoness looked like she was dying, Beth was still apprehensive to step closer to her. Madeline came forward to stand next to Beth for support. Jennine looked at Madeline as if she was the most undeserving person to exist in the world.
“You must be thrilled, to see me dead, but I will be very sad, Bethie, for not being able to be your friend for the last few seconds of my existence,” whispered Jennine.
Beth didn’t understand why Jennine was so obsessed with her being her friend. There were millions of people in the living world, and she could find someone else to befriend with. Hearing the words that the demoness spoke now, her fists tightened.
“You tricked me by impersonating Raphael’s voice to lure me in here!” responded Beth in anger. She had believed it was Raphael the moment she heard her name being called only to come to know that it was this person who had tried to trap her.
“I didn’t know how else to get to talk to you. You wouldn’t have come if you heard me calling you. The one time we met back in the village, you ran away,” Jennine gasped as if she was having a stroke before her face returned back to normal. “Please, I need to show you something. Sit by my side.”
“How do I know you aren’t going to do something?” questioned Beth. “You say you want to be my friend, but all you do is lie.”
Jennine looked sad hearing this, “I promise not to do anything. I would never harm you, Bethie.” This was something hard to believe because the last time they met in the forest, Jennine was intent to kill her so that she could bring her here to Hell. “I am a dying person, won’t you do one last thing? It isn’t much…”
Madeline who was listening to the conversation between the obsessive demoness and her sister Beth, she tried to keep a close eye if the demoness was lying and would pull another stunt. Calhoun had told that Jenine was going to die, and because of that, she placed a hand on Beth’s back.
Beth turned to Madeline and saw her sister give a small nod.
With doubt still on her mind, Beth finally took a step forward while being accompanied by Madeline next to her. She slowly sat down next to where Jennine laid.
“What is it?” came Beth’s cold yet careful voice.
Jennine raised her hand. But when Beth didn’t take it, and the demoness said, “I promise. I won’t do anything.” Beth gritted her teeth, her hand that was still in her werewolf form, she clasped the demonesses hand. “I will die with the thought that the person whom I cared the most was next to me.”
Beth knew that Jennine was delusional and the woman was like that from the very first moment. But she hoped at least by this little peacemaking, if Jennine were ever to return, she wouldn’t come to haunt her.
“Now let me show you something,” came the feeble voice of Jennine and Beth saw her surroundings quickly start to dissolve, and she was transported to another place. For a second, she panicked if Jennine had kidnapped her away from Hell, but then she noticed she was in the village of East Carswell.
She knew the village of East Carswell like the back of her hand. She had lived in this village for almost all of her years, and it made her wonder what she was doing here. She saw people walk past her on the street. Beth, who was still sitting down on the ground, stood up.
She saw a young couple making their way in her direction and realized they were her parents.
Did she go back in time?
