Gillian and Vivian came back to the Boar Hat with Hawk, Melody and Elizabeth. They were all having dinner together. There was a lot to discuss. "So you're a hybrid?" Gillian asks and Melody looks at her and nods.
"Yeah. I'm half goddess and half demon." She says.
"But how does that work?" Vivian asks. "I mean you're literally a combination of both dark and light magic. Wouldn't that...tear you apart." Elizabeth and Melody looked down.
"Not exactly..." Melody explains. "My father could suppress his demonic nature. So I can do the same. The goddess magic helps keep it in check as well."
"So the goddess powers nullify your demon ones?" Gillian asks and Melody nods.
"Yeah. For the first fourteen years of her life we didn't even know she had them." Hawk says from his bowl of scraps and now that had caught Vivian and Gillian's attention.
"You mean, you didn't always have demon powers?" Vivian asks.
"No." Elizabeth says. "I thought she would. Once her goddess ones developed I watched to see if her demon ones would follow suit but...they never came. Until..." Melody gripped the table a bit and became fixated on the brand on her wrist. Elizabeth pulled her daughter into a comforting hug.
"Until that day...I nearly slaughtered half the Ten Commandments." Melody says and buries her face in her mother's shoulder. Vivian and Gillian gasped.
"Slaughtered?!" Vivian exclaims. "How?! The Ten Commandments are the best warriors in the clan!"
"It's a long story." Melody says.
"We have time." Gillian says and gently placed a hand on her cousin's arm.
"It happened a year ago..." Melody starts to explain.
It was just your average day at the Boar Hat. Elizabeth was running the bar and Melody was helping wait tables. "It's almost time for you to preform Mel..." Elizabeth reminds her daughter as she comes over with her tray to take some orders.
"Oh right!" She exclaims and takes the orders. "I'll deliver this last order then play." She says and gives the drinks out to the customers and then picks up her regular violin, that she had had since she was a child, from the corner and plays a song.
Song: watch?v=lrF814OnFQ4
(I love Lindsey Stirling, so yeah a lot of her songs I use as Melody's. In fact all the songs in this part are Lindsey's.)
Elizabeth smiled as she watched the customers relax to her daughter's tune. She remembered the first time Melody played violin. They were walking through town, she was only six and Elizabeth was posting fliers for the Boar Hat and there was an old man playing in the street. He was desperately trying to play the right notes but he just wasn't hitting them. He sighed and looked at his hands. "I'll never be able to play like I used to..." He sighs and then looks up when he sees a little blonde girl with her hair in two braids.
"What's that instrument called?" She asks and he smiles.
"It's called a violin." He says and she looks at it with wide-eyed curiosity.
"Can I play it?" She asks and the man nods. He gives it to her and she of course doesn't know how to play it so he tries his best to instruct her and test her the basics. Soon enough when Elizabeth realized her daughter was missing she ran right over to collect her.
"I'm so sorry if she bothered you." Elizabeth apologized.
"Oh quite the opposite ma'am." The man says. "Your daughter has reminded me of how happy music makes me feel. It seems to make her happy too. In fact she can keep that violin. She loves to play and if she keeps at it she'll be a great player one day."
"Really?" Elizabeth asks and looks at her daughter. "Melody do you like to play the violin?" She asks. Melody nods and smiles.
"Yeah mommy! It's amazing! Can I keep it please!" She begs and gives her mother the sweetest puppy face. Elizabeth smiled at her daughter. She's so much like Meliodas...if only he were here to see this... She gave in.
"Yes sweetheart you can keep it." Elizabeth promises.
"Yay! Thank you mommy!" Melody says and even gives the old man a hug. "I promise I'll practice every day." She says.
"I'm sure you will. You'll be a great player someday." He says and Melody waves as they leave. (lol flashback in a flashback).
And now Melody was a really good player. Thank goodness, because the bar couldn't survive off of just booze. Now they had live music to draw in customers. And it worked. Entire villages would come to hear Melody play and the bar made a killing. That and she really seemed to like music. Maybe it was a coincidence because of her name. Elizabeth had intended her to be named after her father but maybe as an added bonus her name could mean a musical melody as well. A lot of her songs she composed herself. (*cough* Lindsey composed them but I'm just borrowing for Melody *cough*) She finished her song and got a lot of applause from the patrons which made her grin and giggle. Elizabeth smiled, her daughter was always happiest when she was playing. The bar closed and everyone left. Except for one man in the corner. "Excuse me sir but you'll need to go." Elizabeth says.
"Really? You won't make an exception for family?" The man asks and looks up, revealing his face from under his hood. Elizabeth froze. It was Estarossa, Meliodas's brother.
"What are you doing here?" Elizabeth asks in a stern tone.
"I just wanted to hear my niece play." Estarossa says and Melody comes over.
"Niece? Mommy what's he talking about?" Melody asks.
"Not now Mel..." Elizabeth whispers softly.
"Mel?" Estarossa asks. "You named her after her father didn't you?" He chuckles.
"Who are you?" Melody asks.
"I'm your Uncle Estarossa. And me and some of my friends are here to take you to see your grandfather." He explains and other demons burst through the windows and doors. Elizabeth holds her daughter and Hawk close to her.
"Who's my grandfather?" Melody asks.
"The Demon King." Estarossa says and a young looking boy with black hair joins his side.
"So this is our niece?" He asks and studies Melody. "I thought more of a warrior-type girl would come from Meliodas. But then again she was raised by her mother..."
"Because you took her father away!" Elizabeth cries. "What have you done with Meliodas?!"
"Don't worry he's fine." Derieri says. "Tortured but alive."
"Now hand her over quietly or we'll have to take her by force." Zeldris warns and Elizabeth's grip tightens.
"If you take her will she get to see her father and be with him?" Elizabeth asks. Zeldris nods. "How can I trust you?"
"Come with me." Melody says. "That way we can all see him and be a family again." Elizabeth's heart warmed at the thought. Even though she didn't trust these demons, she believed that she would see Meliodas if she went with them.
"Very well." She says. "We'll go with you..."
The demons took them to an old castle and brought them inside what used to be the Great Hall. "Where's Meliodas?" Elizabeth asks. Gloxinia goes over to a crystal ball and waves his hand over it. It gradually gets bigger and an image of Meliodas appears, chained up and badly beaten.
"Meliodas!" Elizabeth cries out and rushes over to the image. Meliodas picks up his head and his eyes widen when he sees Elizabeth.
"Elizabeth...Is that really you?" He asks and tears spring to his eyes. Hers as well.
"Yes it's me I'm here! And so is your daughter Melody!" She exclaims and Melody rushes forward to see her father.
"Daddy!" Melody exclaims and tears fall from her eyes.
"Melody...That's such a great name." Meliodas says and smiles. "You look like me..." He laughs a bit as tears roll down his face from seeing his daughter for the first time. "But you have your mother's beauty..."
"I love you." Melody says to her father and he seems shocked.
"How can you?" He asks. "I left you and your mother and got locked away..."
"She told me stories." Melody says. "About your travels together and how great you are. And how you left to protect us...That's enough to prove that you care about us. That's why I love you."
"I love you too...both of you. So much." Meliodas chokes out. Holding back a sob.
"Hey what about me!" Hawk chimes in from Elizabeth's shoulder.
"You too Hawk." Meliodas laughs.
"Dragon Sin of Wrath, Captain of the Seven Deadly Sins." Zeldris says and walks forward. "The traitor Meliodas... I hope you've enjoyed this time with your family. After all family is very important." He says and narrows his eyes, referring to Meliodas's betrayal. "Especially when time is running out..." he says and smirks. Suddenly Elizabeth is thrown across the room and locked in a cage.
"ELIZABETH!" Meliodas shouts and starts tugging on the chains.
"Mommy!" Melody shouts and runs over to the cage.
"Not so fast kid." Gloxinia laughs and flies in front of her. Melody summons some goddess magic in her hand and points it at him.
"Let go of my mother!" She demands.
"And me!" Hawk wails from inside the cage.
"Goddes powers huh?" Zeldris observes. "I guess we should have considered that given that she's a hybrid. What should we do with her?"
"Use the spell father gave us." Estarossa suggests.
"Good idea." He says and takes out the bead and throws it at Melody. A bubble forms around her and carries her to the other side of the Great Hall where it lands and solidifies. Melody tries to break out but she can't. "You're not getting out of that one!" Zeldris laughs. "It was created by your grandfather. There's no weapon that exists, or magic strong enough to break that glass."
"What are you going to do with my family?" Meliodas demands.
"We're going to leave them in their cages until they die of starvation." Zeldris explains. "It's a win win for us all. We get to torture you by having you watch your wife and child suffer while you can do nothing and we get to torture said wife and child." All the demons laugh. "Don't worry. We won't kill your daughter though. Father wants to recruit her, and use her as a weapon against the other races."
"I'll never let you do that!" Meliodas promises. I'll break out of here and save my family!" He swears and thrashes in his bonds.
"Good luck trying." Gloxinia laughs and shrinks the ball and Meliodas to take with them so they can torment him more. All the demons leave, thinking that they've won.
Melody noticed that her violin was inside the bubble with her. She went over to it and picked it up. "So my father's a demon...does that mean I have demon powers within me?" She watches the demons leave and gently touches the glass. She looks at her violin and gets an idea. "I'll write a song for him...A song of wrath, in honor of his sin, and my anger over what those monsters have done to my family."
Song: watch?v=49tpIMDy9BE
Some of the demons were sitting in the Great Hall, laughing over Elizabeth's futile attempts at escaping. And Hawk couldn't do anything either. They had put a sealing spell around the cage so he couldn't slip through the bars. "Just give up already!" Zeldris calls to her. "You'll never get out!"
"Yes I will! And once I do I'll rescue my daughter and Meliodas!" Elizabeth declares. They all laugh.
"That's so adorable, she thinks she can beat us." Zeldris says.
"Check out Melody." Derieri says and they all look at her furiously playing inside the glass dome.
"Wow. She's pretty good." Zeldris says. "I didn't know we had musical talent in the family."
"I wonder if father would find it amusing." Estarossa says and Zeldris shrugs.
"Do you think we should have left her violin in there with her?" Drole asks. "Could she use it to break out?"
"Impossible." Zeldris says. "She only has goddess powers. If she had demon powers we would have seen them by now. My father infused that containment spell with his power. Only something significantly stronger than him could break it." He says and suddenly they hear a huge crash and look and see that Melody had made a huge dent in the glass.
"WHAT THE-" Zeldris exclaims and Melody makes another one with another note and plays as hard as she can, channeling her anger, and everything her father gave her into this song she wrote for him.
"How the hell is she doing that!" Estarossa exclaims. Suddenly Melody let out a cry of pain. She had cracks forming on her left side in her skin, and dark purple gas was seeping through. It hurt but she kept playing, she had to break out and save her mother and Hawk, and then find out where they were keeping her father and save him too. She felt a pain above her left eye and in the glass's reflection she saw half demon mark forming. She looked at her hand and saw the cracks.
"So it's been inside me all along...and now for my father I'll set it free!" She declares and plays again and cries out in pain as the markings break out from under her skin and cover the left side of her body. And her emerald eye turned black.
"What the hell's going on in there?" Derieri asks and starts to back away, getting a bit nervous when she sees Melody's one demon and one goddess eye.
"Melody?" Elizabeth asks softly, very concerned with what was happening with her daughter in there. Suddenly the glass shattered and all the demons rushed to attack her. With one note she sent out a spell that burst three of Derieri's and four of Drole's hearts. The pain from that powerful attack left them immobile on the ground. Another note and Zeldris and Estarossa had three each burst as well and were left in the same condition. Melody played some more and it broke the spell on her mother's cage and Hawk came out and found the keys to unlock it. Melody's violin started to change, from a normal shape and color, to a weird bright swirl shape that glowed as she played. A brand in the shape of a dove also formed on her wrist.
"Fight with your melodies and hope for the future, Dove Savior of Peace, A Captain like your father. Captain of the Seven Saviors of Britannia." A woman's voice in Melody's head said.
"Melody!" Elizabeth exclaims and embraces her daughter.
"Mommy!" Melody says and hugs her mother. "Are you alright? I was so worried!" She says and pulls away.
"I'm fine! Are you?..." she asks, noticing the change in her daughter's appearance. Elizabeth nods. Melody goes over to Zeldris and steps on his chest, causing him more pain. "Where's my father?" She asks and he smirks.
"I'll never tell." He chokes out.
"If you don't I'll kill you." She threatens and he grimaces as she increases the pressure.
"He's with father..." Zeldris says then loses consciousness.
"We should get out of here before they wake up." Elizabeth says and they both leave. The demon marks had faded and her eye went back to normal but the anger still remained inside. Melody would do whatever it takes to find her father, and she would make the Ten Commandments pay for what they had done.
Vivian and Gillian were speechless after hearing her story. That night Gillian was outside, thinking about it. Melody came out to join her. "You burst their hearts by playing one note?" She asks and Melody nods.
"To be fair it was a bunch of notes played at once but essentially yeah..." She says and fingers her violin.
"And you broke that seal created by the Demon King...That means you're stronger than him!" Gillian exclaims.
"I suppose so..." Melody says.
"I wish I had that kind of power... My whole life I've watched Gilthunder train Holy Knights and run Liones at my mother's side. I hear people say how it's a shame he didn't get a heroic son, but instead got a proper princess for a daughter like her mother. And I've been fine with that. But there are times when I wish I could be the powerful child he wanted...the child he deserves." Gillian says and Melody smirks.
"I can give it to you." Melody says and Gillian seems confused. "I turned my violin into a sacred treasure." She explains and Gillian's jaw drops. "My power is magic composer. I can write a song to do anything. Including unlocking your power." Gillian stands up. "You need the strength to find your father?" She nods and Melody smiles. "I know how you feel...I'll help you out. But I'll need you to help me too."
"How?" Gillian asks.
"Sing a song from the heart." Melody instructs and readies her violin.
Song: watch?v=aTQDPcrPBc4
After the song, Gillian noticed that her hands were a bit colder. Frost was covering them. "Looks like you have ice powers." Melody says. Suddenly Gillian heard a voice in her head.
"Fight hard, and brave like your father, Eagle Savior of Power." A woman's voice said and Gillian looked at her shoulder and saw a crimson eagle with it's wings spread as if it were in flight.
"Welcome to the Seven Saviors of Britannia." Melody says and Gillian smiles brightly.