The Demon’s Bride

Elise felt that she had been played but she didn't know what or how he had played her. What did Master Ian meant by wanting her to cry in pain? When she had asked his words Ian didn't reply and she said, "Pain feels hurt."

Ian looked at her and smirked, "Of course I know. Then don't get hurt Elise. Did you forget my words when you hurt your knees last time?" He pulled a white bandaged and wrapped her legs with it. "I should have known that this would happen if I told you I would be taking off your clothes." He looked at her, and his smirked reminded her of the day when he had treated her knees.

Elise felt her head dizzy when he said he would take of her clothes which now she was wearing was only a thin dress. If it wasn't for the room being dark, she wouldn't know how she would be able to see Ian's face. "I didn't wound myself on purpose." Elise didn't want to be misunderstood.

"If you do, I'll have to add a punishment for you." Ian closed the box and went to place the medicine away. Now that Ian had left, Elise fixed her dress and stood properly. "What happened?" he asked her, the details was what he need. He has to know what was going on with his puppy.

"I'm not sure of it myself." Elise brought her hand to her now wrapped ankle. The pain was real and her dream suddenly turns to reality, she never felt this happen before. "I was in my room when I sleep, suddenly I woke up and find myself there. Then, I saw Master Ian and call to you but then something pulled my ankle, I didn't know what or who it was." and recollecting the memories, make her shuddered.

"Have you ever sleep walk?" Ian asked as he leaned toward his bedpost. "Or did anybod your family members claim you ever sleep walk."

Elise shook her head, "I never, at least I think I have never." and it was her first time today.

When Ian's pasts were secret, he also knows how little did he knows about Elise. The girl herself didn't know who she was, what kind of being she is and everything surrounding her was still a mystery. The only clues they have was her aunt and uncle in Runalia but Ian doubt the humans would know much either.

Pushing himself from his bed he grinned and say, "I should bring you to my room this days to avoid you from walking in your sleep." Ian's words had Elise too look at him with wide eye. To Elise who live in village for an unmarried girl to sleep with a man was unheard. She believe Ian wouldn't do anything, but would he? Elise had understood that she was not a child anymore. She had become a woman and to sleep with Ian even without doing anything, what should she say when her future husband ask?

"I can stay in my room." Elise replied her hands clutching to her dress as she felt worried.

"But what if you'll walk in your sleep again?" To the question, Elise had no answer. "Tell me Elise, do you not want to sleep in my room?" He quirked his lips up, teasing her again and again. "My room is big, wide, fit for two people, the bed is fluffy and I can assure you it's warm. If you feel it's still not warm yet, you could cuddle to me."

He offered himself as if he was speaking about adding an extra quilt for her. But the matter wasn't the warm, thought Elise. Now, she felt like someone who was walking in a thin ice. If the ice collapse, she would fall to the icy cold water and unable to walk on the ice again.

"It's not good for a man and a woman to sleep together and to cuddle." She explained, her eyes lifting up and saw him standing there with his hands crossed in front of his chest. "You should ask the question to a person you will want to marry." her fingers fiddled when she said the words, her heart feeling prickled sensation.

In the silence where no lights or flame present but only soundless wind and the sounds made when one of them moved, she heard her heart thudded.

"What if I say that person is you?"

For the first time, Elise felt her heart at lost. She stared at Ian unblinkingly, the words he said repeated on her mind over and over again. Her lips trembled and shake, her fingers did to and a feeling of excitement and adrenaline filled her nerves.

"Go to sleep Elise. Tomorrow is an important day." Being told to leave, Elise left the place but she was still standing in front of the door. Her legs walked and her mind had stopped working. She put a hand on the wall beside her and another hand to her chest to feel her drumming heart. Her body then suddenly inclined to the wall and her shoulders bumped at it.

W-what just happened? asked Elise in her mind. Her eyes left unblinking in a few seconds in shock her poor heart received.

Bringing her hand in front of her chest together, she rubbed at it and her eyes darted around, a late gasp escape her lips.

Was Master Ian serious with his words?

Once Elise dragged her wobbly body back to spend the rest of her night in her room, Ian walked out of his room. His legs stopped when he reached to the wall of stones where Elise had claimed her ankle was wounded at the place. He placed his fingers there. Was it magic that Elise come across with? But she had no magic and there should be no one in the castle who could use magic in the very castle other than him.

He placed his hand to the wall. Pushing one stone, the rest of the stones started to rumble and shakes. In a few seconds, the wall was parted into two sides, left and right. Ian entered the place and walk down the stairs which he created centuries ago. Using the path, he soon arrived at a dungeon. The place were dark and narrow, smells of mold and another heavy pungent was present in the air.

The passage was unclean, the walls had mold, mushrooms, and spider webs appearing. The deeper Ian walked, cells appeared on both his right and left. Some skeletons were present in the very room and he stopped to the last people who were brought to one of the cells. The two maids who had resulted to his puppy being wounded. The girls were lifeless now. Even their souls were not in Hell more Heaven as he had devoured it.

The maids were a descendant of mythical beings but as their blood thinned, they were weaker and was nothing more different than humans. It took less than two days for the girls to die. He thought that he would receive any emotions, whether it was pity, or sympathy toward the maids when they begged for their lives as he had found many of his emotions resurfaced; But he found nothing. Watching them die, he didn't felt anything but an empty and void feeling. If there were emotions, that would only be anger to the maids for hurting Elise and making her to cry.

Ian found what happened tonight was odd. He had dismissed Maroon after their little talk in the gallery and chose to stay there for minutes to assort his thoughts which he always did as night because of how he rarely needed sleep. When he walk out of the room, there he found his sweet girl standing on the end of the corridor, her body was turned and he saw her there in a piece of night gown where lights hit her body to show her womanly curves that had him frown. He wasn't patient enough to see a lovely sight in front of him and ignored it.

But then Elise was wounded. Ian trusted her words because the world where he lived at, everything could happen. It's unthinkable Elise received the wound outside the castle but the wound was something one receive from a feral animal. But that wasn't all.

Elise had began to show her true power. He suspected that the incident today would have things to do with Elise; she was a girl with mysteries as she was born and it could be this mysteries that had her sleep walking tonight. Which he has to find out, thought Ian to himself.

A/N: Let's continue to vote until Sunday to achieve 1000 power stone for mass release~ Good news, there was an increase in power stone daily. We can do this ^^