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Answer to guest (Anissa): Thank you very much, i'm glad you like the story and is interested in it's development, and yes I have posted it on Wattpad too~
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Third person POV-
"It was a great joy, and honor to have you as a guest here in our kingdom lord Meliodas. I wish you safe travels" Hendrickson, who had escorted Meliodas, Merlin and Arthur to the gates of the city said and bowed slightly to show his respect.
"Thank you Hendrickson, it's much appreciated" Meliodas says with a small smile, as that was all he could muster now..
"Yes, what he said" Arthur said and nudged Meliodas a little with his elbow, and with that the two kings started to head out, but Merlin continued to stand in front of Hendrickson for just a moment longer, looking at him with a unreadable look on her face.
"...lady Merlin..is something-" He Hendrickson started, wanting to ask if something was wrong, but before he could finish Merlin turned on her heels and started to catch up with Meliodas and Arthur, without as much as saying goodbye to the man she had been staring down.
"Oh well" He Hendrickson laughed awkwardly, Merlin did give off that kind of ill mannered mystery wizard so he truly didn't take it that hard.
"Now...onto different matters" Hendrickson muttered, turning around and started to walk towards the old castle...
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It didn't take long before Merlin teleported them all to the portal that would lead them to the demon realm.
There was a few around the world, done lead to places such as the capital, Tartarus, others would lead to smaller cities or desolate areas.
"It's been moved, hasn't it?" Arthur asked as he stepped through the portal located in the side of a cliff.
"Yes, we moved it a while ago as we found too much wildlife falling through" Meliodas explained as he too stepped through, and then Merlin.
Obviously they had taken the portal leading to the capital where the castle was located.
They found themselves by a cliff on the edge of town that had a striking similarity to the cliff where the portal was located in Britannia.
As they walked through town the townspeople greeted their king, glad to have him back home.
Even children came running up to say their hi's to the king, before running off again, laughing.
Through all this, Meliodas dud his best to act like he was the same as he always was. He didn't even notice the sad glances Merlin and Arthur shared.
While Arthur didn't know why, he knew that his uncle was having a hard time with something, and he didn't like it.
"Well well...who do we have here?" A menacing voice said.
Meliodas groaned as they were practically only steps away from entering the castle grounds...he just wanted to go home...not talk to Bellion of all people...
Meliodas looked around him to see if Bellion had brough the other knights of black.
He had, but they stood in the distance, letting Bellion "handle" Meliodas on his own.
"Bellion...now its really the time" Merlin said sternly, but Bellion didn't seem to care.
"Let the king decide that for himself...are you really as much as a child as you look? Having someone else talk for you" Bellion laughed in the face of the unfazed Merlin, who only reacted by squeezing his eyes closed to avoid Bellion's spit flying at him as he laughed.
"I can assure you I speak for myself" Meliodas says calmly, but tiredly.
"Oh yeah?...THEN SPEAK UP!!" Bellion shouted, louder than ever. He was being agitated by Meliodas's lack of interest.
"I'm really tired after this whole political event...maybe later" Meliodas says and was about to turn away to walk into castle grounds.
"Nuh-uh! You don't get to turn your back to me!" Bellion quickly said and grabbed the collar of Meliodas's jacket, picking him up from the ground.
He was ready to fight.
"This time you don't have your dear friend Gowther to come step in"
Meliodas swiped his hand, almost like he was swiping a fly away, but as the back of his hand met with Bellion's chest Bellion let out a pained sound and was then throw a good 30 meters away, where he collided with a pillar, making it crack and splinter on impact.
Meliodas however landed gracefully on the ground.
"I'll make myself clear Bellion...when Gowther stepped in then, it wasn't because he was protecting me from you...he was protecting you..from me" Meliodas says darkly, only looking back up at Bellion during the last two words.
Bellion had begun staggering back towards Meliodas and the others.
"Oh yeah?! You think you're better than me?! That you're stronger?!" Bellion shouted infuriated as he knew that was exactly what Meliodas was thinking.
"Just...sleep on it...will you?" Meliodas's voice sounded, now from behind Bellion.
Bellion's eyes widened as he realized Meliodas wasn't where he had been standing just one second ago.
Then he was smacked into the ground below, creating a large crater around his body.
Meliodas had hit his neck, so Bellion was completely knocked out.
When the other knights of black noticed this they panicked and ran to him to pick him up so they could flee before Meliodas decided they deserved a punishment worse that the couple of broken bones that Bellion had most definitely sustained.
"I really don't like those six knights of black...especially Bellion..." Someone finally said, breaking the silence that had fallen over the group as they continued to walk into the castle.
It was Arthur.
He remembered them from his childhood...
It was around when Arthur was 12 that Bellion has begun to be as vocal as he was now...he often saw him having heavy debates with Meliodas, about making him part of his court, or at least giving the six knights of black a higher ranking status.
When Meliodas would refuse Bellion would become violent...that's what Arthur remembers clearest about him...his unrelenting anger...
"Didn't expect you to...even my father...the worst of the worst couldn't stand him" Meliodas stated.
Silence fell over he group once more, but it wasn't truly that awkward...it was more of a saddening silence...a silence Meliodas was thankful he was given as he mentally still needed to catch up.
"..We're heading to your office?" Merlin asked, a bit hesitantly.
She could tell from the route they were going.
"Yeah...I want to tell Zel that we're back early.." Meliodas explained, using the nickname Zel for his brother Zeldris.
"Hmm" Merlin simply hummed in understanding, and Arthur nodded, even though Meliodas couldn't see as he was walking in front.
Within few moments they had arrived.
"Zel! It's me your older brother. Merlin and Arthur is with me" Meliodas called as he knocked on the doors that lead to his office, which was now occupied by Zeldris.
The question was: was he even here? Or wood he be somewhere else, like the barracks?
The shuffling and cussing, that was clearly panicked sounded from the other side of the door.
'Yeah he's definitely there' Meliodas thought, unfazed by Zeldris's panic.
Then After a few long moments the door opened, and Meliodas, along with those with him wasn't as...unfazed anymore.
"Excuse me...i will be..taking my leave" Gelda said and skipped out of the office, frantically fixing her messed up hair and dress.
"Dear god..." Meliodas muttered in disbelief as he looked to his brother in the door opening.
"You're home early" Zeldris said clearly sweating.
"Dear god no..." Meliodas muttered once more, and clutched his head as he forcefully walked into the office.
"You...did IT...in MY office?!" Meliodas asked his brother, getting more and more panicked with every word.
"WE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!!" Zeldris shouted in defense.
His face was just about as red as his outfit.
The only panicked ones was now the brothers, as Merlin tried her best to hold in a small laugh, while Arthur didn't even try and had to lean against the open door as he let every laugh he had in him escape.
"I want that, and that, and that, and that, and ESPECIALLY THAT, thrown in the fire!!" Meliodas says and pointed around the room to various items and furniture.
"Would you cALM DOWN?!" Zeldris shouted.
He was still so incredibly flustered.
"I AM DOWN" Meliodas said, and with that, as if someone had hit him in the head with facts, he saw the humor of the situation and started laughing, though not as much as Arthur.
And for just a few seconds, Meliodas's mind was taken off of Elizabeth.
But as said it only lasted a few seconds.
"Now that...that is settled...why are you home so early" Zeldris asked, hoping the other subject would be forgotten to time.
"First if all: THAT is not settled.
...Second:...well...rebels attacked liones.." Meliodas explained.
The sadness creeped up on him again at the mention of liones and the attack.
"What?! Why would they-"
"They hope that killing me in another country, during a political event would spur on another war...they were idiots, and highly underestimated me...but I wasn't there fast enough...and people got hurt" Meliodas said and fell onto the couch, before quickly remembering the last subject of conversation, whereas immediately stood up.
"Burn" Meliodas whispered to the couch, and then focused his attention baby to zeldris, who didn't seem to see Meliodas's reaction to the couch as he was still taking in Meliodas's words.
"They actually want war...they don't just want you off the throne but tHeY WanT WaR?!" Zeldris asked, his voice rising and rising. Then he took a deep breath before continuing.
"Nobody wants war...not anymore...or so I thought...what's your sauce?" Zeldris asked, turning professional in the blink of an eye as he was prone to do.
"A scout, a white demon, that I caught a few days before the attack...however at that time I...I believed his lies.." Meliodas said regrettably.
'If only I had been more sceptic...I know I couldn't pushed it out of him'
"Don't blame yourself...you can never truly know"
"And i should've taken that into account!" Meliodas says and slammed his fist down onto the table, making a loud bang sound in the room.
"I should've thought that exact though..." he now whispered, tired from the stress and the anger.
"Rest now, brother" Zeldris said, uncharacteristically kind.
"We can talk
This over in the morning when you feel more up to it"
Meliodas wanted to protest, but there truly wasn't any rush, and he knew, so he ended up just giving one tiny nod.
When Meliodas saw that Zeldris was making the move to escort him he stepped out of reach of Zeldris's hold on his shoulder, and smiled to him as kindly as he could muster.
"I'll find my way...spend time with Arthur! He needs it" Meliodas laughed, clearly a fake laugh, but at lest he was trying.
Meliodas then ruffled Arthur's hair on there way out, and he could hear Zeldris's and Arthur's cheerful greeting out from the hallway.
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Bellion's POV-
A sharp pain is what woke me up, and I immediately sat up in the hard wooden bed that had been provided to me.
"What did he do?!" I shouted angrily at those surrounding me.
I knew the pain I had felt for that split second in my weakening was because of Meliodas.
"Nearly snapped your neck...a human would've immediately died" Galla explained and flung her whip over her shoulder, nearly hitting Derocchio, who was standing behind her.
"Well I'm not a human" I huffed in annoyance and stood up from the rough bed.
"No shit..." Galla muttered under her breath, but I still heard.
She was always the one in the group with the worst attitude...
"what are we gonna do?! What are we gonna do?! Revenge?! Can I spewer him?!" Pump said, suddenly overly exited as he let spiked drenched in poison emerge from his metal-like body.
"Easy pump..." I said with a laugh, pump and I had always been closest despite our different personalities.
What can I say? He's fun to be around.
"There are other ways to get revenge...but not now! We don't have time for such pitiful acts...there's something bigger waiting for us in the horizon" I explained and smirked evilly, and reverted my eyes out the window to gaze at everyone else.
Every demon outside, awaiting orders from me, THEIR ruler.
My rebel army.
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A/N
It's starting to take shape!
The plot thickens!
Told ya I had something waiting!...something dramatic!
jazz hands*
I had to bring in a bit of humor using zeldris and Gelda though! And it was really hard to write, even though it doesn't really says anything descriptive.
I'm the innocent one in my group so it's so out of character for me!! XD XD XD
