The Demon’s Bride

Ian narrowed his eyes at where Thomas was looking and he looked back at Elise. "I'll come there soon," he promised her and Elise nodded her head with a smile on her lips.

"I know I can't kill you but would you like to see how many times I turn you into ashes until you leave this world for good?" Ian's red eyes gleamed upon spotting the fear raising on Thomas' eyes.

"Wait... wait!" Thomas's smile faltered, "You are not going to kill me that quickly, are you? Don't you still want to know who had ordered me here? I know him. I have seen the dark sorcerer Lord."

Ian at first looked disinterested but then he nodded his head. "Well then tell me. How does he look like exactly?" Thomas raised the corner of his lips until Ian shook his head, "On second thought can you tell me you really do know him? For all I know you might lie which you and I know that I can easily tell your lies if you did. But there's another way for him to hide his identity from you, correct? Maybe you don't know him either."

Thomas' eyes widened as he didn't expect this, "There is no way that's true. The Dark Sorcerer Lord trust me. No one amongst us know him other than ourselves...." but who was he to have the warrant that the Dark Sorcerer Lord hadn't lied to him?

"See, you don't even know him." 

"No I know! His name is Trevor Ascot! That is his true name! I know who he is as I had seen his face and heard his voice. He always put his upmost trust to me—" Thomas had blurted a lot of things until it finally dawned to him what had happened. When he looked down, he was met with Ian whose smile was wide on his lips. "You tricked me..." his words came as he was hit by realization. "You tricked me!" 

"I thought you had known it better than me that the world is unfair. You are still naive, I see. See you again if we met in Hell. I will try to treat you better," Ian snapped his finger once, enveloping Thomas in a blazing fire. The man screamed for help and when the fire subsided, he tried to heal but before he could, Ian had snapped his fingers again, repeating the same process until Thomas was incarnated to nothing but bones.

Yet as if he had put a magic of his own which he had also put on the corpses he controlled, his skeleton crawled over the floor. Ian could kill him but instead, he watched what the man was trying to do. Pointing his finger Thomas murmured. "...not help me?"

Ian frowned as he thought the man was speaking but that was his last words before finally he stopped all his animated movement. With a raise of his leg, Ian stomped the skull, grinding it to dust. Once he had made sure that Thomas wouldn't move, Ian made his way to Elise who was surrounded by her shadow to protect herself.

"All good?" Ian questioned her and Elise smiled while looking at him, nodding her head without replying. Taking his hand, Elise had a smile on her lips. "I knew you would be able to take care of him. You always do."

"I am here for you, aren't I?" Ian smiled back at her. "Wherever you are, I would be here."

Elise stared back at him with her bright blue eyes. "Yes I know, you would always be there for me. Every time I need you to."

"We should move somewhere saver," Ian put up his suggestion. As Elise had said, if she felt worried about leaving him alone, he can't blame her as he knew how difficult it was to be in her position now where people surrounding her was expecting her time to kill him even though he knew it wouldn't happen. Not unless there was a circumstances. It was best for them to be together, he decided.

"Okay," Elise agreed without putting any more thoughts. When they were about to leave, her eyes looked at Thomas who had been turned into skeleton before she turned her face away and followed Ian. As she walked, the sunlight that shine pass through the windows passed by her but there was no jewelry she wore that reflected the light as the cross on her neck had disappeared.

In the first floor, Maroon's eyes narrowed at Harriet. The woman had looked different and she had spoken to him as if they had known each other since a long time ago which he couldn't pull it in his memory when. 

"Admiring me?" A voice come beside his ears. Maroon's eyes snapped to his right where Harriet had apparated. "How do I look?"

Maroon didn't answer but raised his hand a black circle appeared from his eyes and Lilith ran across the corridor, to avoid all the black balls that he manifest from his palms. She rolled her body on the ground and when a larger black ball had appeared before her, she pulled the nearest lifeless body on the ground to use it as her shield for both her front and her back as the two black balls had appeared at the same time, her eyes widened to see the black ball sucking in the body in a twisted manner. It continue to pull the body inside its small circle and ate it until it was no where to be found. The other body she had used to shield her back had disappeared as well. 

"This is your power?" Lilith questioned as she ran again, escaping the black balls. 

"I don't know what obsession you have with me but it would be better if you drop that obsession and fight right away. Unlike you, I am in no mood to play," Maroon answered. His stoic answer was as firm as ever.

"Why not? Is this not interesting? How about this—" Lilith disappeared again from his side all of a sudden and before he knew it the woman had stood behind him, "—If you can win me, I might tell you a little about your dearest wife, Lilith Salyn."