A: alive: liones castle gets attacked by giants who were hired to do it. Meliodas was just returning from another mission and has to make an impossible decision. Check to see if Elizabeth is okay, or protect the castle.
It was a very quiet evening at Liones Castle. Everybody was fed and settling down for the night. Maids were cleaning, apprentice holy knights were training, and holy knights were guarding the castle. Elizabeth who was 5 at the time, was playing impatiently in her room.
Meliodas is coming back today. He promised me that he would always come back to me alive, but he still makes me worry every time he leaves.
Elizabeth was quietly playing with a teddy bear the Meliodas gave her. She had to be quiet or else princess Veronica would scold her.
A few minutes later, a rush of magic energy pulsed through the castle. This wasn't new, it usually happens when the seven deadly sins come back from another mission. But the pulse of energy was different. It wasn't because the 7 deadly sins returned. Someone new is arriving.
Elizabeth didn't realize the difference in the magic energy. She excitedly jumped up, quickly grabbed her teddy bear, and ran to the door. She could never figure out how to open the door, but today, she was determined to see Meliodas. She jumped up, grabbed the knob and with dangly toes, turned it sideways. The door clicked open. There is nobody outside. She looks left and right. Still nobody. The magic energy is getting stronger.
Elizabeth starts to wander the castle in hopes of finding Meliodas. Then she hears her father's voice coming from every direction.
"We are under attack. 3 giants from the giant clan are coming at the west entrance. Everybody evacuate the castle. We need all holy knights on deck!"
Elizabeth didn't understand half of the words her father said so she still continues to wander the castle. She hears people running and bolting around. She shrugs it off because she still needs to find Meliodas.
Meliodas is returning from a mission to fight off some intruders in Camelot, it was pretty simple, and the rest of the seven deadly sins could have taken care of it.
"Soooo, Cap'n." ban starts, already drunk. "Wanna get moore drinks?"
"I can't sorry ban," he states obviously annoyed.
"Awww why not. Com'on Vanya ale man."
"I said no."
Then the king's voice comes from the intercom. The seven deadly sins are about 1 mile away from the castle but the intercom is loud.
"We are under attack. 3 giants from the giant clan are coming at the west entrance. Everybody evacuate the castle. We need all holy knights on deck!"
Westside… Meliodas thought.
"That's where Elizabeth is!" He yells aloud. His eye fades to black, even with him trying to conceal it.
Meliodas starts to run towards the castle. Right now they are on the east side, so the castle is blocking the giants.
"Captain!" Diane yells. "What do you want us to do?"
He stops, turns towards them with his eyes black and his demon mark on his forehead. "I want you to slaughter those giants." he snarls.
"That doesn't sound like Cap'n" ban slurres.
"Captain's orders," he yells as he runs towards the castle.
The giants are very noticeably at the castle now. He runs as fast as he can towards the west side but a hand catches his wrist. He turns. It's the king outside of the castle.
"Meliodas, you have returned from your mission."
"I have. Tell me, where is Elizabeth?"
The king looks taken back. "Your job is to defeat these giants not play babysitter."
"Has Elizabeth been accounted for?" he snarls.
"Well, I don't know. But as king, I say you need to defeat the giants before anything else."
"She's your daughter, how could she not take priority!?"
"Because I have people searching the castle for her right now!"
He shrugs the king's hand off of his hand and runs away.
This is bullshit. What am I supposed to do now? Do I save Elizabeth, and then the kings scolds me? Or do I defeat, no destroy these giants and then go and find Elizabeth? With the second one, the king would be happy, but I risk losing Elizabeth again. I can't lose her again. Not this young.
Then a giant strikes the castle. A section of it starts to crumble to the ground. The section where Elizabeth is.
"NO!" he yells with red lightning striking all around him. His wrath is unbearable right now. At any second he could destroy the castle. His whole body begins to fade to black. Tears form in his eyes. Please let Elizabeth be alive. Please let Elizabeth be accounted for. Please let Elizabeth not be on that crumbling tower. Meliodas is staring at the tower, not letting his eyes get glassy in case Elizabeth is on the falling tower. Then he sees a little girl with silver hair, falling, tears streaming down her face as she is plummeting to her death. The little girl is clutching a brown teddy bear. The black demon park of him forms wings around his hands. He jumps and dives towards Elizabeth and catches her in his arms. She screams and then stops when she opens her eyes.
"Meliodas?"
"Elizabeth." He sighs. "you're alive."
"well of course I am! I'm worried about you!"
"why?" he gently asks. All if his previous anger fading away as relief rushes all over his body at alarming rates.
"because we're about to fall to our death!"
Meliodas snuggles Elizabeth closer to him. "I won't let you die."
"I don't want you to die either"
"have you already forgot my promise I made to you?"
"well, no. I'm just scared."
"I won't die and neither will you"
"Just let me go and save yourself. I'm just an annoying and useless princess after all."
He pulls her away at arm's length. "who told you that?!" he asks concerned and angry at whoever told her that.
"princess Veronica."
He shakes his head, hiding all of his anger. "well, she is wrong. You aren't annoying or useless."
the ground was spiraling towards them at an alarming rate. Meliodas pulled her back into his chest and kissed her head. Elizabeth looked down and screamed because the ground was closer than she thought. Meliodas held Elizabeth with one hand and held out the other. He pushed her face into his chest gently to hide her eyes for what he was about to do. With his free hand, he uses his demon power to transform it into a wing. He slams the wing down, pushing them into the air at fast rates. Elizabeth screams. He hushed her with a quick shh. Meliodas pulls out the sword from his back with his free hand that was once a wing and slashes it towards the giant that knocked down the castle. Blood spewed out of the giant's wound. Then Meliodas falls swiftly to the ground and lands on his feet. He puts his sword back into its sheath. He sets Elizabeth on her feet and starts walking towards where he talked with the king. He grabbed Elizabeth's hand in his. When she starts to look at the rumble, he uses his other hand to turn her head back.
"what happened Meliodas? I want to go to my room."
"some bad people attacked the castle. They destroyed your room and everything in that area."
Tears form in the corners of her eyes. "Where am I supposed to sleep? My toys, everything?"
Meliodas picked her up again and carried her like a toddler.
"don't worry. You can sleep over in my room until your room is repaired. And your toys will be back too."
Elizabeth wrapped her arms around Meliodas' neck. Electric sparks flew all through Meliodas' body. A smile appeared on his lips.
"Thank you," Elizabeth whispered.
Meliodas carried Elizabeth just like that. With her gripping to his neck like a lifeline and a permanent smile on his face.
About a minute later, they reach the place where the king and the staff of the castle were hiding. Bartra ran up to Meliodas and Elizabeth. Meliodas set Elizabeth down very gently and then took her hand.
"Elizabeth!" Bartra exclaimed. "I'm glad you're safe," he said as he hugged the third princess. Meliodas never let go of her hand.
Bartra looked at Meliodas with annoyance written all over his face. "As I am grateful that you have brought Elizabeth back safely, you didn't follow my instructions."
"If I didn't rescue Elizabeth at that time, she would have plummeted to her death."
Bartra's eyes went wide. "She was on the fallen tower?!"
"Indeed, and it is my duty as her protector to, well, protect and save her from all harm."
"As I told you, I am very grateful that you saved her, but I gave you orders and you disobeyed them."
"But I didn't."
"Huh?! I gave you instructions to fight the giants, not play babysitter!"
"I killed one of the giants."
Elizabeth looked up at Meliodas. Regret flowed all over his body. I shouldn't have said that. Now she will think I'm a monster. Dammit!
"When?" Elizabeth asked in a small voice.
"When we were falling. You didn't see anything because I put your head to my chest." he patted her head.
"So how many giants remain?" Bartra asks.
"Well, I ordered the rest of the seven deadly sins to take care of it. So there should be none."
Right on cue the remaining six of the seven deadly sins walk up to where the king and Meliodas were standing. All of them were a lot taller than Elizabeth and she didn't know any of them so she got scared and hugged Meliodas' leg. He noticed and held out his hand for her to take. She did and she gripped it as hard as she could. Which wasn't that strong, but was still enough for Meliodas to notice her distress.
"They are my friends. They aren't gonna hurt you. I promise."
"Everything is done and taken care of captain. Sorry, we couldn't stop the giant who broke down part of the castle. If only we got there quicker." Escanor says.
"Who's that?" Diane asks. "I didn't know you had a child."
"She's my daughter. Elizabeth." Bartra says.
"Oooooh. So she's the one you're always yappin about." ban says, still drunk. "I don't understand why she's so important to you Cap'n. I mean, she's just a child."
Meliodas first looked at Elizabeth, to see if she was upset about. She has tears in her eyes. Meliodas, filled with rage gently pushed Elizabeth towards Bartra. Bartra, understanding, covered Elizabeth's eyes. Meliodas, now being able to do whatever to Ban, punched him in the stomach with all of his power. Doing so, sent him flying. He decided this was enough and went casually back to Elizabeth as the other seven deadly sin members starred in fear and amazement. Elizabeth was trying to get Bartra to uncover her eyes. Meliodas picked her up like he did previously and poked her nose.
"Where did the tall man go?" Elizabeth asked while looking around.
"He went to get food," Meliodas says casually.
"Captain, that is not what happened. Have you forgotten already?" Gowther starts but Meliodas glares at him. "I will shut up."
Elizabeth yawns. Meliodas notices this. "Let's go home shall we?"
"Where in the world are you taking my daughter?"
"She doesn't have a room because it got destroyed, so she's gonna sleep with me."
"If you try anything funny I kill you," Bartra growls.
"Yes your majesty," he says, but his mind was thinking something else.
You think I would do anything to hurt Elizabeth? If you mean grope her, she has no boobs or butt, so I can't even do that and I wouldn't do that because she is 5. Idiot King.
Meliodas bows to the king and sets Elizabeth down and takes her hand. They start walking in the direction that Meliodas punched Ban. Ban already being healed walked up to Meliodas and bent down to whisper something in his ear.
"Hey Cap'n, sorry for makin you mad. But what is she to you?"
"Everything" he simply says while walking away.
Once they reach Meliodas' house, Meliodas finally let's go of her hand. Elizabeth runs free in his room while he gets changed into his usual sleepwear. A used button-up, and black sweatpants. once he exits the restroom Elizabeth is still running around his room. He kneels down and Elizabeth jump towards him and he catches her. She wraps her arms around his neck and gives him a big hug. Electric tingles shoot up and down his body once more. Meliodas returns the embrace by snaking both of his arms around her waist in a comforting manner.
"Let's sleep, shall we?"
She nods her and Meliodas stands up with Elizabeth still in his arms. He sets her down on the bed. She sits on the right side and he sits next to her. He pulls to cover over both of them and they both lay down.
A few minutes later Elizabeth wraps her arms around his waist. His eyes fly open and he looks at his one and only lover. More tingles shoot up and down his body. He smiles to himself and that's how he fell asleep. Eventually, they both drift off into a sweet sleep.