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Chapter 10

After a very long journey, for both Meliodas and Elizabeth, the two of them were in the capital city, Britannia.

Gilthunde took Elizabeth to the castle while Meliodas was on the streets of the city.

Elizabeth's PV

"Gilthunde! Your back!" one of the maids said as she waved to him and ran down the stairs, into the front yard, to where Elizabeth and Gilthunde were.

"Yes. We just got back. Please go and tell the king that I've found the princess and that we will be coming to see him shortly," Gilthunde said as he gave the maid his things and looked back at Elizabeth to make sure she was ok.

I can believe I'm back here so soon. Elizabeth thought to herself as another maid approached her to take her things as well.

"Do you want to see the king now or do you want to go and freshen up a little?" Gilthunde asked her.

"I think I'll go to my room and freshen up," Elizabeth said.

"Ok," Gilthunde said as he turned to the maid, who had taken Elizabeth's things. "Please escort the Princess back to her room."

"As you wish," the maid said.

Meliodas's PV

Where could she be? Meliodas thought to himself as he raced through the streets of the city.

Suddenly, he started to slow down as he came to the familiar streets of the neighborhood, where he used to live. Meliodas was walking down the streets to where his house was, also remembering the fact that he left his father with the "hostage" without telling him or anything.

As he was remembering these things, he came to the front of his house, knowing that his father was probably in there, pissed that he was gone. Even though they had been gone for almost two months, his father wasn't the type to forget betrayal, especially from his own son. Meliodas dashed to the side of the house (where he couldn't be seen) as the door suddenly swung open, revealing his father with a castle guard.

"If you come up with anything else, sir, please let us know," the guard said, about to leave.

"Yeah, yeah. I already told you, that I don't know anything," his father said in a rough tone.

The soldier sighed. As he was about to leave, another soldier came running towards them.

"The princess…," the soldier said, out of breath

"What about her?" the other one said.

"She's back!" he shouted.

"What? She really is?"

"Yeah, Lord Gilthunde brought her back."

Meliodas, still hiding, was shocked that she was at the castle, but then again he figured that someone bringing her back was possible.

"What about my son? Is he with her?" Meliodas's father asked.

"No, sir. He isn't. We are sending out soldiers to see if they can find him where Gilthunde found the princess." the running guard replied.

"But you should know, sir, that even when we do find him, he will most likely be put in jail. He did kidnap the princess after all." The soldier that was original with him said.

"But…" his father started before being interrupted.

"If that's that cause," Meliodas said coming out of the corner, "the take me to Elizabeth."

The guards were stunned, as well as his father, that he would willingly come out of hiding to face the consequences of his actions. The guards quickly took him and the things he was caring, even his sword.

"Ow. you don't have to be so rough," Meliodas said while being taken by them. "Father," Meliodas said, looking back at his father, smiling, "Thank you for everything. Without you, I would have never found someone to protect."

The guards took him towards the place as Meliodas's father fell to the ground, almost in tears.

Elizabeth's PV

The maid took Elizabeth to her room to change her clothes before they went to see her father in his room. The doors open and out came Prince Arthur, Elizabeth's little brother.

"Lizzy! Your back!" Arthur yelled as he jumped into Elizabeth's arms.

"Yep. I'm back, Arthur" Elizabeth said, holding the young prince.

"My lady," The maid said, "We must get you ready to see your father."

"Yes, of course," Elizabeth said. "Arthur, do you want to come with us to see father?"

"Of course! Can I stay with you till we go? I want to hear all about your adventures outside!"

"Ok"

Elizabeth, the maid, and Arthur all went into Elizabeth's room. Elizabeth told Arthur about what she did when she was outside as the maid dressed her. The dress was something simple and easy to move in. The maid knew Elizabeth would prefer something like this and it would save time just to do this in the first place then having to fight about it later with her. As the two of them were talking, Gilthunde knocked on the door.

"May I come in," he said.

"Of course," Elizabeth said as the maid was finishing up dressing her.

"My lady and Prince, the king wishes to see both of you,"

"Now?" Elizabeth asked

"Now," Gilthunde replied.

"What does he want?" Elizabeth asked Gilthunde as they walked towards the king's chambers.

"I'm not sure but, I think he just wants to see his daughter who ran away from home."

"Yeah," Elizabeth said quietly.

Gilthunde, Elizabeth, and Arthur all quickly walked to the king's room. When the three of them got there, Gilthunde opened the door to let them in.

"Your majesty, I have brought the Princess and the Prince, like you've requested," Gilthunde said.

"Thank you, Gilthunde. You may leave. I wish to speak to my children alone," the king said, while laying on his bed and the doctor right next to him. What he said had indicated for everyone to leave, and they did, only leaving Elizabeth and Arthur. The maids and the doctor left the room, while Gilthunde stayed outside with the guards, just in case.

"My children, come to the bed, so I may see you," the king said weakly.

"Of Course father," Elizabeth said as Arthur ran to the bed and she walked.

"Elizabeth, can I ask why you left," the king asked.

"Because, father, I needed it. You can't just keep me here until I rule the land. I want to see what the people are like and how they act.'

"I understand where you're coming from, but you should have talked to me. I could have let you go."

"No, you wouldn't have. Or at least, not the way I wanted to be. You would have just put guards on me and a restriction to where I was allowed to go. That's not what I wanted," Elizabeth said as she sat on her father's bed and looked at him.

Just as she said that, almost if on cue, there were loud noises from outside. Elizabeth went to see what it was, and to her surprise, it was Meliodas bursting through the doors. There were guards coming toward them as he ran to Elizabeth.

"I found you. Did you think that you would be able to get away from me that easily?" Meliodas asked with a stupid smile on his face.

"No, I didn't," Elizabeth said as she ran to him and jumped into his arms for a hug. The guards were there, dumbfounded of what to do. Even Arthur, who had been listening to Elizabeth and his father's conversation, just sat on the bed, wondering what was happening and who the short, young man was.

"Well, I'm not really sure of what to do right now so… Hey! Mister King Guy!" Meliodas called to the king as Elizabeth, still hugging him, turned to her father. "I'm gonna be taking Elizabeth with me, for the time being. I'll bring her back soon!"

Meliodas said all that and without the King saying anything to him or Elizabeth. Elizabeth let go of Meliodas, and the two started to walk out of the King's room and into the hall.

Out into the hall, Gilthunde was trying to get up off the ground. His injuries were not too severe, but there were many of them. Elizabeth and Meliodas walked passed him but stopped when Gilthunde called to them.

Hey! Kid!" he yelled, still trying to get off the ground.

"Yeah, what is it?" Meliodas asked as both of them turned around.

"You have to protect the princess, at all costs."

"Don't you think I already knew that? I would never let anything happen to her." As Meliodas said that to Gilthunde, Elizabeth started to blush, quite hard. Meliodas took Elizabeth by her hand and started walking out of the hall and palace and to the streets of the city, where their amazing adventure was going to start (again).

Arthur's Note:

Hey everyone! I hope you like the LAST chapter of My One and Only Sin. Thank you for reading and putting up with the inconsistent updates and short chapters.

I was planning on splitting this chapter into two, but I thought you guys deserve a VERY long chapter (long for me) after all the short ones. Again, I hope you liked it and thanks for reading!