Of Love Daemons and a French man

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Mia Aulsa's Part

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White Blaze sat up and smells the air. It was that smell again and this time it was worse than ever. Mia's house was always clean and aired; she was a very clean person. Her house was fresh smelling and
had a light hair to it, but it had a dark heavy smell to it as well. It always bothered him but today it seems to be thicker and it bothers him more. It had to have something to do with this Frenchman, but he
did not smell of this dark air.

The smell was that of dried blood, powder and storm. It smells like... It smells like a demon and a very old demon. He stood up from where he has been laying in the dinning room and took off toward Mia's room. He stops to see this weird shadow, which appears to be carrying something. The shadow went upstairs; White Blaze carefully follows it to Kento and Cye's room. It entered and drops a weird, gift-wrapped box by Kento's bed, opens it up and steals about twenty pieces of candy from it. It then disappears into
nothingness.

Whatever that thing is it is trying to set Kento up! He has to warn Kento, he knew that Sage bought those things for the female he is going to try to court. Kento would be as good as dead when Sage found the evidence; this is definitely the work of a demon. He was very frustrated, how is he going to tell the Ronins what is going on. There has to be a way to communicate with them. Until then he would have to bide his time and see if he could figure out what this demon wanted. If it is Mia then it would have to have her over his dead
body. There has to be something he could do to find out what is going on. It's not like he can walk up to the Frenchman question him.
He doubts that the man spoke white tiger...

Cale!

That Warlord Cale, he had abilities to speak to animals, usually conning them into helping him but still. White Blaze has not seen Cale since that day they defeated Talpa but it was better than nothing. Hopefully Cale has turned over a new leaf and would be willing to help, especially when Mia is in danger. Even someone as dense Cale would have to realize how much he owes Mia. Now how to get into the Nether Realm?

If he could use that armor he could use it to open the Nether Realm, but he only got the armor when Ryo had the White Armor on. He knew how Ryo felt about the White Armor so that could only happen on a blue moon. White Blaze walks to Mia's room, and watches Sage walk out. Something is very wrong with him but he does not stop to try to comfort Sage, in Sage's emotional mood he closes and does not bother to check to see if it shuts. White Blaze nudges the door open with his nose and carefully enters. The smell of incense is in the room but no smoky smell of it being put out. He notices no incense burner and cannot tell the origin of the smell. Every smell had an origin but even his sensitive nose could not find it.

This is very, very, very wrong!

He searches the room, his guard up, not knowing what he will find. By the window, he sees this box that he never had seen before. The carvings on the box are worn, meaning it was very old. The latch
work on the box is done in silver and kept nicely. There is some sort of writing on the box, it did not appear to be Japanese. It was probably a European language. He wishes he could read it but he could
not make heads or tales out of it. He smells the box and he picks up the demonic odor very strong from inside the box.

So this is where the demon is hiding!

It was too big for him to just walk outside and bury it in the forest. He could not fit it in his mouth and would probably get caught. To be so close to Mia's bed it must mean something to her. She cannot know that a demon is in there that is against Mia's nature and good sense. What could make her have something like this? What would have driven her to something like this? She had to know what this was... she is very versed in all things demon and myth. The box even has a dark aura around it; Sage must have been drawn to it.

Opposites do attract after all.

White Blaze knew that Mia had feelings for Sage; her scent would have a musk tint to it whenever he entered the room. This whole thing started when Sage brought the gifts for his ideal mate, could Mia have secretly found out about that and became jealous. Did she not realize that those things were for her? Ah, so this is the demons game. Turning Mia against Sage so she will not go for any courtship but no one benefits that, except to cause trouble. There is no one else who sees Mia in that way. White Blaze new there is something he just is not seeing. There has to be or all of this makes no sense. If only Anubis were here, then he was sure that Anubis would have insisted on better Ronin/Warlord relations and he could easily contact Cale. Of course with the Warlord's knowledge of demons none of this would have happened. Oh this is so frustrating to White Blaze as he left the room and heads outside to get some air to clear his head. There just had to be a way... there just had to be.

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Cale woke up with a start, his mind races with the nightmare he just had. Something, something evil warned him to stay away from the Ronin Warriors and not to interfere or he would kill the woman. He has no plans to visit the Ronin, the gateway between their world and his was locked. Why would this demon have come to him? It didn't make any sense. To warn him off something he wasn't even planning on
doing anyway? Something is very wrong and Cale wants to know what it is and now! The only way to know was to sneak down and spy on the Ronins, spying could not count as interfering. This is one stupid demon; if he hadn't said anything then he wouldn't be traveling to the mortal world now. Why would a demon be so stupid? Another cocky demon for the Ronins and the Warlords to get rid of: no problem.

The daemon held a candy in his hand and watched it melt. Belford was 5,000 years old and a demon from the ancient Sumerian civilization. He had lived through plagues, wars, and other horrors that would turn even the cruelest demons blood cold. He had killed, controlled, conspired, and bought more souls than he could remember. A Priest took all of which from him almost 600 years ago, he was attacked in his safe haven while he was sleeping. He was placed in a box and forced to serve the Priest's sister and was passed down through her family. The de Vernon family always was a smart family and dealt with him very carefully but these last two generations have gotten stupid. Now would be his chance to escape, all he had to do was trick Cale or Sage into breaking the box. Cale was a warrior with the power of darkness or Sage with warrior of light... either power could destroy the spell and he could get back to business, he had Cale, the white tiger and Sage eating right out of his hand. Within the week he would be free and Mia Koji would be his, with her knowledge and his power nothing in the universe could stop them. She would become a powerful force with a little guidance and some power of her own. She would help him get rid of those annoying children, who dared to call her their own, the Ronins and Warlords had to die for their crimes against him.