The Demon’s Bride

What Elise had heard from her grandfather was far from this. He didn't told her about her having the entire world under her feet. Does he know about this? Is this the true reason why her grandfather had insisted to have her in Hell and never to come back from it? Because he knew it from the future said by Asmodeus that soon enough the world will be hers.

But Elise didn't need the world to be hers. She didn't need all living beings to obey every of her words either. If she has to kill Ian for it to happen, she would never need anything.

"You are mistaken," Elise said, her blue eyes glistening with anger.

"I am not, milady. I understand how you fear to kill your husband. If I were in your place, I would have..." Thomas pursed his lips when something dawned to him. "No, I think I can kill my wife if it was for the world to obey me."

"Even if the world obeys me I wouldn't obey the likes you," Elise stated when Thomas was about to speak from underneath him, spikes of black crystal appeared from the floor, piercing all his vital spots. All this time, Elise hadn't speak with the man out of interest but to buy some time in order to take the man on his weakest spot. "Now, go to the room," Elise ushered Mila after seeing Thomas who was unmoving.

"Not with you," Mila told tight grasp to her hand.

"I will come soon with you. I will now go and find Ian. He should be the safest for me as well as everyone. I can't stay here without assisting him when he is in danger," Elise helped her to pass across Thomas. The man remained unmoving as the black icicles continue to pierce his body. Once they passed by, the one minute they took while passing the man felt like an hour. They entered the room and Elise left Mila there before using the other staircase to go down and find Ian.

She went across the floor. Although Elise still and couldn't make peace with the deaths surrounding her, she continue to run. Searching for Ian in Esther's room, she found him had disappeared from the place, possibility fighting somewhere else. Therefore, she followed the noise, going to where she heard the the loudest sound came from. 

Ian who had just ripped the head of a dark sorcerer suddenly felt Elise near him. He turned his head, surprised when all of a sudden a large monster with furry body appeared behind Elise. Its head was so large that it hit the ceiling of the mansion as if the place couldn't contain him here. On both hand was a shield made out of ice while the axe had been heated in the burning fire giving a very eerie glow.

Ian narrowed his eyes and reached out his hand but before he could, Elise's shadow had came from underneath her bursting like a firework and went to slice the head of the monster at once. Elise didn't look back and continue to run to her husband. "You're alright?" She asked him.

"Very fine. What happened, why are you not in you room?" He questioned with an amount of gentleness. A small lesser demon ran toward them and without looking back, Ian had blew fire to burn of the entire head of the monster.

Elise tear her eyes from the demon and remained unperturbed. "I couldn't stay still," she said. "I don't know why but I don't have a great feeling and I was afraid you will get hurt." It was as if something inside her was warning her to quickly find Ian. 

"Then stay with me," Ian smiled gently and leaned forward to wipe away the blood which had covered her face. "We are stronger when we are together, after all."

"That's very endearing," a voice came from behind the two of them. Elise turned to look behind. She wouldn't be surprised if it was another enemy except this time, it was the same enemy and it had been Thomas.

His body held holes in it and blood drenched his shoulder, neck, and mostly his torso. The eye catching cavity which form on his heart didn't seem to deter him at all.

"It was a very terrible greeting, milady. To stab me when I haven't finished my words," Thomas clicked his tongue in a disappointment.

Elise's eyes were wide because she had been sure Thomas had died earlier. "What's wrong, Elise?" Ian's voice rang beside her. "Have you seen him before?"

"I had stabbed him with my shadows earlier but he still moves," Elise expressed her concern. 

"I would like it if we can share a moment to tal—" Thomas were unable to complete his words as in the next following seconds red fire blazed into a small tornado, bringing him into the smalle cyclone.

"If we burn him, he shouldn't come back alive unless he is not a human," Ian stated as if he was teaching Elise a lesson. The tornado slowly stopped, and from above the cyclone, Thomas' body fell flat on the ground, scorched to the point its skin had turned black and coarse.

They stared at the body for a couple of second when the fingers of the man begin to move. A hoarse laughter escaped from him which gradually grew louder in time. 

"Yes, milord. Surely you are right. If I am a human, I would have been died long ago but unfortunately for you, I am indeed not a human. I haven't been a human since I was born," Thomas crack his head that had turned three-sixty degree and his body slowly moved in a cracking movement.

Elise narrowed her eyes and summoned her shadows once again to pierce the man. For a moment he stop moving but it didn't take long before his body begin to start into motion.

"What are you?" Elise questioned in puzzle. This power— the power to never die— this was Ian's power, the curse of the demons who passed the title of Diablo but Thomas wasn't one... he wasn't even a demon. 

"Well to know that answer, you will have to find out by yourself," chuckled the man as he reached out his hand. Nothing happened for the first two seconds. Elise's eyes ventured to find out what changes around her when Ian tapped her shoulders lightly before tipping out his chin, "There," he whispered.

Elise realized that the attack wasn't directed to her. From behind him, the dead monster whom she had killed earlier slowly begin to move again, cracking its body even though its head had been severed from his neck.

"This is your power?" Ian narrowed his eyes.

"A necromancer. That's what I am. I wanted to perfect my skill but nothing went perfect," Thomas reached out his hand to swipe his five fingers over the furry body of the monster that had been drenched with blood. "However, I am able to keep here."

"Is this also a mission directed by the dark sorcerer Lord?" Elise interrogated the man while watching all the dead bodies, including the ones Ian had killed along the way which was more than a hundred begin to move again.

"The Lord?" Thomas chuckled, "No, no you got it wrong. I wanted to be the strongest. The dark sorcerer Lord is the strongest now but not if I have you. If I have you, I know I would be stronger than all other beings ever made."

"Yap yap," Ian opened and closed his finger, mimicking the movement of a mouth opening and closing. "You can drop the talk. Let's see if you an still talk when all of this end."

"Don't be cocky, sire. I have a way to kill you and I will enjoy every last second of doing it."