The Demon’s Bride

Turning the knob, Elise pulled the door in a rush and at once, her shadows came from underneath her to enter the room, holding whoever it was inside the room. Making haste, Elise entered the room. She only narrow her eyes when she saw how her shadow had managed to hold nothing and the room was empty. 

"Shadow," Elise called. The blob of blackness immediately took form of a small chick. "Did you also heard the song?"

The shadow nodded. In incoherent voice and layered whispers, it stated, "..y...yes, milady... we had also heard it once before when you were led by the melody."

"During that time the whispers were you," Elise said in epiphany. It finally dawned to her the ghost-like voice that had warned her not to follow the song and that it was dangerous was the shadows' voice.

"We have been always with y-you... and warned you of those who are dangerous from what we could see," whispered the shadows, "Such as the vampiress. We t-tried to knock down the closest objects and items around us to warned you about her."

"You mean Carmen," said Elise and the shadows nodded its inky eyes. So that was how it is. Elise didn't know this entire time the shadows were trying to protect her. "How long have you've been with me? Under my shadows?"

"F-for long as I can remembered, milady," the shadows slurred over the words he cannot seem to pronounce well, "It was the prince who had ordered us to stay with you. As you are the successor of his bloodline, you also had the power in you and we grew up at the same time as you."

"Is that why you can only come now?" Elise had been wondering about it and only now had the opportunity to ask. The black shadow of the chick brought its head up and down. "The prince you are talking about is it my father, Leviathan?"

"It is the one and only, Prince Leviathan, princess," answered the shadow, the very words unlike the ones it attempted to speak sounded so clear to her ears. 

She didn't know, all this time she didn't know that the shadow had been with her protecting her. Now that she remembered there was a few time when whispers came to her ears and now she could tell those whispers, warnings and talks were all came from the shadows who wanted to help her.

She was thankful to the shadows who worked in hidden, bending down as standing took a lot for her sore muscles, she asked, "Why didn't you show yourself much earlier? And how long had you've been with me that you remembered?"

"It was Prince Levi's s-strict warning not to come out and to protect you from the hidden," the other part of her shadows answered from the pool of blackness underneath her bare feet and the inky chick answered the other question, "We don't know the exact time you ask for us to answer but during the time you were almost attacked by the magical beasts, we were present near you."

Having a kind heart, Elise thought of how thankful she was for the shadow's help. "How much do you know about my father?"

"We are a part of your power your highness, we know much less than you about Prince Leviathan. We only remember his high status... it is in our entire being to respect you and him."

Elise pursed her lips, "Do you know how he looked like?" And the shadows nodded in a languid movement. 

"Prince Leviathan was present in the castle yesterday as well but he had ordered us not to tell you such, our deepest apologies."

She didn't know that this entire time her father was near her. So near her that he had held her hand.

She had questioned whether or not her father truly want to meet her or if there was another reason for him not to. Elise trusted her eyes and she could tell that the person who had walked her down the aisle wished for only her best wishes which mean there must be a reason for him to hide. 

Whatever it is, she hoped to meet him. As a family and a daughter it was her wish and as a person who were under the deadly dangers around her, she wished to have him as her ally. 

"...there is no one here, milady..." answered the shadows after Elise had requested them to look around the place.

Elise stepped out from the room. Deciding to take the problem of the song to Ian and consult to him. On the hallways, she noticed Ian who was standing in front of a man who seemed to have spoken with haste. "...the town folks had been making a ruckus, sire." She heard a little part of the conversation but it was too little for her to know anything.

"What is the ruckus about?" Ian questioned the man who appeared to be wealthy by his clothes and his hands were wrung with the look of nervousness on his entire face as if he was afraid Ian would kill him for what he was about to say.

The man sighed subtly, "There has been a sudden appearance of a large mansion at the end of the steep hill in the town of Bessil. The morning before there had been nothing but trees there but once the morning came a sudden mansion had appeared and all the trees from the forest were gone! People said that it was a ghost's mansion one of the guards went but they never came back again."

Bessil town? Elise felt as though she had heard the name of the town but what was about a mansion suddenly appeared on the hill? A mansion took months or even years to be made but only over the night?

"Is your delusion getting the best out of you, Dussils? A mansion suddenly appeared?" Ian questioned with his brows raised that had Dussils to sweat as he had came here to tear the nonsense he had to report. He was sure the Lord wasn't going to believe in him and he has to serve his head to appease his anger.

"Lord Ian, I swear upon my eyes. I was also one of the people who saw it happen. The hill was not too far to look at and it was right across my house to see. That night I saw nothing but trees when I woke up a mansion had appeared!" Dussils said with a stricken look as it felt to him a horror story had came to life. "I humbly request for your help as we have to be careful of who it is inside the mansion," answered the head of the town.

Ian waved the man to disappear from his presence. It was clear that this was a doing of a demon. First of all, humans need to built house, it doesn't appear or sprout from the ground like a plant. Dark sorcerers avoid doing striking event other than their killing spree which mean it was a demon, a high demon at one of that.

"Do you think it is a doing of a high demon?" Elise came to ask as she had reached the same conclusion as Ian did.

"Possibly someone who Lucifer know," Ian responded with a click of his tongue. He didn't expect any demons to have manner. Hell were the place for the unruly but it appears that they don't know that keeping their profile low was to be better so angels wouldn't come to hunt for them. Not that he cared or fear the angels it was that Ian already had peace in his house and he didn't want because of some stupid mistake others did Elise's existence would be known.

Considering Elise was the granddaughter of both Archangel Ramiel and Satan, her power was over the charts that she wasn't still aware of currently. When the angels knew this, they who wish for nothing but their safety which they labeled as balance would not stay silent over Elise's presence. Worse, they will attack or kill her.

Ian didn't want his wife to be harmed and they already have enough enemy which he didn't want to grow in number.

"Just who is this troublemaker is," Ian said with a tired look on his face. His days of being with Elise hadn't end and some ruffians shortened his honeymoon. He wasn't happy to say the least.

"I know who it is," Elise who stood beside Ian was startled as the third person had came and spoke beside them. 

Appearing within seconds, Lucifer saw his nephew and his niece in law with the signature wily smile of his, "And you two might want to see them quickly. Although knowing him, he wouldn't run or change his position once he had make a house, perfectly just like an aged turtle that he is."

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