As Sophie stood there helpless watching damons body burn and fall apart from the inside out she couldn't help but continue to throw her fire at him one after the other while on her knees crying. She was right there watching one of the kids she raised die in front of her and even with her healing magic from hell, she was unable to help. watching as his hair fell out as his skin peeled away from the bone every part was grotesque.
"Damon please don't die just let me heal you, why aren't you letting me heal you!" Sophie screamed as she held damons hand her hand sizzling from the contact.
"Y-y-you think I want to die like this" Damon responded while fighting back the pain, it felt like he was being torn apart by a poison attribute mutated bear. It was like his insides where rotting and causing his body to fall apart he knew everytime he moved his flesh would tear more but be was powerless, his body was reacting out of the immense pain he was going through but at the same time the pain only lasted for a minute before it dulled and he felt like it wasn't even his body that was melting anymore.
As his flesh melted further Damon was left laying in a pool of his own blood flesh and phecal matter, he had lost all controll of his body that his bowels just realesed and he could feel himself losing vision as his eyes began to liquefy and join the rest of his body on the ground.
It wasn't untill around 10minutes after this started that Rufus arrived, but when he did he saw somthing he wasn't expecting from the pool of liquid on the ground the skeleton stoop up and stared at both Rufus and Sophie. Before it curled up into a ball and the liquid flesh and guts stared to cover the skeleton like a cocoon.
"What the fuck is going on Sophie, where is Damon" he asked panicking grabbing Sophie by the shoulders looking for answers.
"That is Damon, that-that demon is Damon" she exclaimed historically before getting on her knees and began praying.
Rufus was unsure of what was happening but he knew it wasn't somthing he could possibly understand so he took damons chrysalis and ran to the cottage at the edge of the woods where he met up with Cordelia.
"What do we do, Damon he was reduced to bones and his flesh and organs formed this cocoon around him" he explained in a hurry. Unsure if Cordelia believed him.
"So that's what you are little man i cant wait to see how you grow in the future untill then I will at least help you take your first step into the new world" Cordelia spoke seemingly to herself with a slight smile on her face.
She then grabbed the chrysalis from Rufus and sent him home before heading back to the tree in the forest. Once there she placed damons cocoon in the hole and started carving words into the tree trunk. [൱ኑ ᥔҶᕂҶ ኳ൱ኲኑᖊ൩ ൱ꔒ ᖊҶ൩ኲኑ Ҷኡᘉ ኒᕂꔒᖊ, ꔎ൱ኳᖊ ꔒ൱൩የየҶ൩ᘉ Ҷኡᘉ ኑᖊኒɱ ኲኑᕂኴ ꔎ൩ᖊҶኲየ൩ᖊ ൱ꔒ ኲኑᖊ ᥔ൱ᘉኴ ᕴᖊꔎ൱ኳᖊ ൱ኡᖊ የየᕂኲኑ ᕂኲኴᖊኒꔒ Ҷኡᘉ ኴኲҶ൩ኲ ᕂኲኴ ኒ൱ኡᥔ ൩൱Ҷᘉ ൱ꔒ ᖊየ൱ኒየኲᕂ൱ኡ Ҷኡᘉ ൩ᕂኴᖊ ኲ൱ ኲኑᖊ ᖊየᖊ൩ ᥔ൩൱የየᕂኡᥔ ኴኲ൩ᖊኡᥔኲኑ ൱ꔒ Ҷ ኳኚኲኑᕂꔎ ൩Ҷꔎᖊ]
Upon completing the inscription she placed her hands on the ground and released her mana into the ground awakening the tree that has been in slumber for the last 10years. "Come on you've helped him once you may aswell help him again" a small smile crept on her face as she watched a tendril coming straight at her.
But as it reached her it only tore her left arm from her body and dragged it back into itself. Cordelia heaved a sigh of relief although she would accept death if this tree decided it was necessary she was not looking forward to it as there was much she had yet to accomplish. 3 days later and the tree had opened up revealing a young boy naked curled up in a ball.
The boy was around 145cm tall, he was lean with well defined muscles and what looked to be scars covering his chest back arms legs and neck, but Cordelia knew they were the mark of an ability. The boy also had jet black hair and delicate facial features a small sloped nose and thin arched eyebrows and a almost symmetrical face apart from the small feckle above his left eyebrow.
"Damon you put us all through a whole heap of trouble I hope it was all worth it" Cordelia said to the sleeping boy as she bent down to pick him up. She then carried him back to Rufus' house, having wrapped Damon in a rag before leaving the forrest.
After arriving at Rufus' house she placed Damon on the couch and began discussing things with Rufus about what to do with Damon. "We can't send him back to the orphanage, although they treat him well there after Sophie called him a demon I'm not sure they will take him back, I think its best if we tell her that Damon died" Rufus explained his line of thought.
"While your not completely wrong im not really agreeing with that idea, all damons friends are there and he loved that place" Cordelia stated "but he's 10 and awakend so you could keep good on the deal between us and send him to a specialist school once he recovers enough to travel" she finished.
Rufus didn't have much to say in response so he just nodded his head and agreed they then spend the next hour going over the details of what school and how far from the town. They decided that Damon will pick what type of school but that he will be going to the neighbouring country and he will not be told about them telling Sophie and the others he died.
after their chat Sophie took her leave and went back home and Rufus went to the orphanage to collect all damons belongings and tell Sophie that Damon had died. Contrary to what Rufus believed Sophie was actually distraught and started crying and apologising. "I'm sorry I couldn't save him, I tired but I was no help and-and I'm sorry Damon I didn't mean to call you a demon i was just scared for you life"
Rufus wasn't sure what to say so he just held her head in his arms as she cried herself to sleep.