The day of the event had arrived. We were getting ready, I put the red dress on, transfiguring it to purple to match Narnia and his color scheme. Given a purple mask to go along with the theme. I walked into his office; he was working again. He did this but not franticly as he had been in the beginning.

He looked up, his eyes moved down and back up. "You look lovely, are you ready to get Eli back?"

"Yes."

He handed me a picture. "Take us there then." I hooked an arm in his, teleporting us to the front gate.

He handed our invites over and we took the elevator to the six-hundredth and sixty-fifth floor. The room was full of Demons I had never seen before. The vibrations that radiated in the room was eminence. My eyes darted around, the colors of conversation drowning me.

The colors of the costumes line a rainbow had thrown up all over the floor. The only uniformity was in the decorations. Beautiful chandeliers made of crystals of all sizes and shapes, round, square and teardrops.

The floor was a uniform pattern of gold filigree. Vines lined in leaves and ending in red roses. Red curtains draped down the windows to the balcony. The details I skipped when I was just taking not of where I could teleport in and out.

"Show time, here she comes."

Show time, I wasn't ready. This whole room was extremely overwhelming. "She, who?"

"You, how dare you show up hanging on his arm."

I turned. "Red haired girl from the dress shop. I remember you."

Her nose crinkled. "This was the better option for you, she will only humiliate you in the future. She brings bad luck."

My eyes turned in. "The only thing humiliating is your barbaric behavior."

"You devi-huss."

"A devi-huss?"

Narnia whispered in my ear. "She called you a whore of low birth." He smirked.

A smile curled my lips, cupping Narnia's face, and I kissed him. Narnia grinned a devils smile at her. "I suppose that could be true, but my Narnia thinks differently." I spoke.

"Naberius Narnia, I nullify my end of the lawed contract, we are even in terms of infidelity. Enjoy the part time Devi-huss."

"Can I get that in writing." He summoned a paper, she signed it, and he snapped his fingers and it disappeared.

"That honestly worked out way to easy."

"She was on her last straw; you were the final one. Go mingle, and then get to where you need to go."

"Right." I maneuvered around the ballroom; every demon was in costume with a mask. Who was who? A tall slender demon stood out, tall white horns. That must be Grandpa. Iruma was here, he was talking with Asmodeus. I almost forgot he was of nobility too.

I talked with various people, spotting Baal and noting all he was talking to. I escaped out to the balcony, changing and teleported to Baal's castle with the picture I was given. Mask up, I scaled over the wall and landed on the other side.

While I worried about getting caught, I knew I could handle myself. My shadow friend had supplied me with a map of the inside of the castle. I was going to make this as fast as I possibly could. His home was pretty on the inside.

Red curtains over the windows, artwork and other pieces that seemed priceless. He had a portrait of Derkila, but just him. If he was trying to raise him, then he must know how. He had marked another location on the map, Baal's office.

Someone came down the hall, I shielded myself tighter, pressing up against the wall. A housekeeper with a dinner plate. Why would she have that? I followed her to another part of the castle. She entered a room and I saw Eli sitting on the bed. The had moved his room, but now I also knew what it looked like inside.

Baal's office was on the other side of things. I needed to know what he knew. I slinked down the hallway to his office. I opened the door, a heartbeat thumped past me, I was caught. I teleported to Eli, picked him up in front of the housekeeper and teleported away. Dropping my mask, I leaned against the wall letting out a sigh of relief.

"Mommy?"

I looked down. "Hi, baby." I hugged him close, nuzzling him. The scent of milk and honey, my little Eli.

"They said you forgot about me, that you were not coming."

I cupped his head to my neck and chest. "I never forgot you. All this time I had been preparing to get you back." I changed my clothes before anyone saw me. "You need something too." I transformed his outfit to match mine and gave him a mask to wear.

"Wow, so cool. This is the best; Baal was nice too. He said I had an uncle."

"Who?"

"He said that he must be woken up, that he is taking a really long nap. That's it."

That's right, why would they ever tell a child like him anything specific? I had him, I could go home right now. Eli stared out over the balcony, taking in the scenery. His mouth gaped, and he pointed at something, and it was heading this way.

"What is that?"

"I do not know, let us hope it is not coming here."

My ears were smacked, all the sound flooding in, I threw up my shield. I whipped around, but there was no one there. I burst through the doors, getting into a more crowded area. I swam through the people. Narnia was up on the stage, receiving a black band.

Iruma and his friends were also here. I could not leave them here if I knew danger was on its way. Yodh was out of the question for what happened the last time I summoned him in a public place. If he were on my back, I could use my hands to help me summon. I had to protect Eli and be able to move too.

"Eli, monkey mode."

"Are we playing a game."

"Yes." He climbed around my side, resting himself on my back. With the thing in the distance and this crowd. Something was amiss. No heartbeat to sneak up on me, a ghost? It felt unlikely. Baal was talking to someone across the room. Grandpa even further away. Everyone was oblivious to the danger approaching.

The wall busted in; I threw up a shield around demons; planting my feet firmly. I took control of the music and changed it to what would help me concentrate. I danced around, and stopped the debris from falling, holding back the mammoth of a creature from fulling entering the room.

Screams erupted from the room, the three greats moving to protect others. It was huge, this thing and Yodh could be compared if there full form. A gluttonous-like belly screamed as it hit the barrier I had created. I shoved back, taking steps forward.

Eli gripped tighter, and I shielded him tightly to me like a comforting hug. I compressed the demon down, holding on to its lungs. He choked on nothing, gapping like a fish. He flopped down on his stomach, and I released his lungs, but not the barrier that held up the debris up and him down to the floor.

His heart was beating but slowly, sleeping, but I could not keep my eyes from him. Boarder control tied him down, and I moved all the debris to the side where no one was standing. Laying it all down without a sound.

He may have broken in, but I subdued him quickly. I couldn't let go, the thought of almost losing Eli again was tearing at me. I breathed hard, staring the beast down, not again. Not here. Not Eli. A hand was pressed on my shoulder. I whipped around, ready to fight.

Grandpa took his mask off. "You can let go; he is unconscious and tied down. You did well, Viola."

"Great Grandpa." Eli screamed and jumped off. I snatched him from the air. Rolling him in, and to my side.

Whispers erupted, asking who I was and what I was doing with a small child here. It was happening all over again; I wouldn't be reprimanded again, would I? I cupped Eli, what if they took him this time as punishment. The whispers were all over, everyone was looking at me. I played music, manipulating the way others felt, Grandpa blinked, eyes falling.

Narnia waved me over, I left grandpa, and went to him. He could save this whole situation. "Yes?"

"Hello little one, I am Narnia. I helped your mom get you back, but I need her help again."

"What is it?"

"I need to transport him before he wakes up." He showed me a picture of the outside of the building. He was trying to use my abilities.

"Your boarder control, I think you go this."

"Come now, Vi. There is no reason to be like this. This could be your chance to prove to Henri you would be an asset to border patrol. You know it pays well and you will need that if you wish to give him the life he deserves. You could become the third." Is he talking about replacing Fenrir?

I lowered my gaze; it was not that inconvenient. "Viola, my most precious granddaughter." Grandpa called, and I turned.

A heavy built wolf man towered over me. "Who are you?"

I backed up. "Nobody important, Narnia, you needed help." I handed Eli to Grandpa. "Protect him, please. I did not go through all of this to lose him again." I swear if I ever lost him again, I would lose my sanity. There would be no peace.

I teleported Henri to the location first, glaring at Henri the whole time. Then came back for the giant. Narnia told me his name was Behemolt, his power was food related. If he can eat it, then it gives him power. His size is usually smaller than this. I saw something on his neck, one of the black crystals.

I tapped it, the back oozing on to my skin. I recoiled, pulling back. It infested my arm and went through my body. It did not hurt, but it was scaring me. It absorbed in and it was like it never happened. The crystal fell, and Behemolt shrunk a in size. I teleported back.

The more underlings of the organization was already putting things back together. No one sustained an injury because I had blocked everything. I took Eli from Grandpa, hugging and nudging his face. I had him back, my little bug. My heart was complete again.

"Uncle Iruma! I missed you." Eli fought to get out of my arms. I let him go with tears in my eyes.

Eli hugged Iruma. "Um, hello. Who is this?"

"It's Eli."

"Oh, granddaughter of mine. We have much to discuss."

"Please, wait." I turned into a short demon who looked like a flower. Ready to bloom. "My name is Princess Shura." She looked so familiar, but I could not put my finger on it.

"I am Lady Violetta." I curtsied to her and lowered my head. "To what do I owe the pleasure of this greeting."

A flower popped up. 'You saved my life.'

I tilted my head. "I am sorry, but I did not."

A few popped up this time. 'I am right. You stood in front of me and stopped all the boulders from falling on everyone, including me. You are a hero, and I am in debt to you.'

I shook my head. "I have had enough spotlight; can we forget what I did? Just toss it under the rug."

'Why? You were the Heroin of the Deviculum.'

My face fell. "Because I know I am not worthy of such a title. Please excuse my rudeness." I closed my eyes, teleporting home and into my room.

"Mommy, you are a hero."

"You may see it that way, but after you were taken, I was demoted for trying to find you. No one remembered but me. It is one of the reasons it took so long to get to you. Everyone laughed or said I had gone looney."

"Your my hero, you saved me so many times from getting hurt. You rescued me, and then you saved all those people. You are a hero, mom."

I smiled. "Only for you."

Someone knocked on my door, I put my mask up hiding against the wall with Eli in my arms. The door opened and looked right at us. His ears flattened and he then received a phone call. He nodded, not taken his eyes off us. No Eli.

"Eli, is your mom by chance holding you."

I yanked the mask down. "How?"

"Nothing you hold in your hands is disguised, honestly, Narnia taught you nothing."

He knew I was in his office the whole time. The buttons in my hand were floating for them to see. I facepalmed. I never felt so used in my whole life. They led me around and got me to forgive Kalego. Did I even see the white streak? It was not there, I just trusted it. How much was true?

He felt genuine, maybe he knew I did not trust him either. Taking that opportunity to make me think I was learning secrets, or he played me. It was hard to tell. What he said and the books lined up. What if they did have locators on them? I facepalmed again. Did he want me set up for failure?

"He taught me to not trust a word anyone says. Because even if you think you're getting the truth, someone is lying somewhere. It is late, Eli are you tired?"

"A little, you picked me up while I was having my bedtime food."

"Lord Sullivan wishes to speak with you about what happened."

"I do not think I did anything wrong. Well, besides having Eli at the Deviculum."

"I can take Eli, you go talk. It is adult related business."

I huffed, walking up to him. "One hair, Opera, one thing hurt on him. I will lose my calm manor." I handed Eli over to him. I mumbled under my breath. "I just got him back."

"He is in his office now and waiting on you."

I teleported there, sitting in the chair facing his desk. He had his elbows propped up on the desk, staring at me. I wish he would get out with it. This intimidation act was not going to work on me. I knew I had great power, but while I was not educated on his power, I felt I could stop him.

"Well?" I lifted my hand. "Let's hear it. What did I do wrong? What rank will this drop me to now? No longer want me…"

He held his hand up, my mouth was silenced. I touched my shut lips, then crossed my arms. He pointed to his ears and held his hand out. I took them off, placing them in his hand. He inspected them, flipping them over and took something off and crushed it.

"Don't finish that sentence, and I will order you new ones. I know you're going through quite a bit." He flipped a picture around; Eli was in it. "This changed when Kalego came back. He told us what you were up too, and he was quite worried about you doing this on your own. He had a picture of Eli and Baal together." I crossed my arms, and I felt my lips release.

My nose crinkled. "I knew he was a traitor."

"He had every right to tell me. You were not telling us anything anymore. You even feigned forgetting to get us off your trail and all you were doing. That was some quick thinking from you on that part."

"I like to think I have a brain between the shoulders, but it was still not good enough."

"Why?"

"Because all of this could have been solved months ago if I had thought of it. All of you were manipulated on a high scale, I had one thing in my arsenal to reverse it. I could have played my music and wiped out the forgetting in one swoop."

"Even so, you never gave up no matter what you were told. Your power is growing ever stronger by the day, and there will be those you seek to challenge you. That is what worries me about your future. You stopped a former thirteen crown in six seconds, your power had all the whole room talking.

I am not reprimanding you for what you did. You protected everyone in that room and impressed a Princess. You did exceptional and your reflexes and perception are impeccable. I am sure you will be the topic of the next dinner the thirteen crowns have, to which you are mandated to attend."

"If they are worried that I will challenge their authority, then they should worry less. I have the one and only thing I care about."

"They know that you would do anything for that little boy, and there will be people who will try to use that against you."

I had nothing to say to that, because he was right. They knew me better than I realized. "Like trying to recruit me to boarder control so I can provide for him later in life?"

"Exactly like that, the Narnia you seen was not the Narnia I know. He has been tracking and listening to you. While I do trust Narnia to an extent, he is hiding something. Now he is a part of the thirteen crowns. As your guardian I must protect and guide you. I need to know all you have told him."

"Nothing about anyone or anything here, he never asked, nor did I bring it up. We just talked, likes, interests. He seemed only interested in me, and me alone. Is a lawed contract a thing?" I had to be sure, it felt to easy.

"It is, and he used you to get rid of it. She was not the greatest demon to be next to, but it was for his bloodline to grow stronger. Now I am sure he has set his eyes on you for that reason. He is playing with a double edge sword."

"Because I can snuff his bloodline ability?" The Naberius clan bloodline ability was different from other blood lines, it was pure mana infused with Naberius blood. Mana I am sure came from Yodh, also known as Cerberus. While I had not confronted him, the memories spoke for themselves.

He nodded. "I fear he is using you to keep you from doing just that. One person in the whole world that could render him powerless is sitting in my office. Who better to have at his side than someone like that? There would not be a person to defy him, and he is already a terrifying demon."

But I had not seen that part of him. "So, I shouldn't trust him?"

"I am not saying that exactly, just be weary of those who try to use you. If he makes you happy, then by all means, do what makes you happy. Just remember that you have something you can use to control him back, if he dares to cross you in any way you do not like."

I looked down, rubbing my fingers together. I had found myself to like the attention he gave me. While I said we were done, a part of me wanted to see him again. He more than likely was using me for what I was worth, and not for who I am.

"This is why I do not do relationships."

"My sweet and most precious granddaughter, I am not trying to dissuade you from all, only to be weary."

"I have a child already, there is no need for me to look or think of those things. I have been played; Not like I did not gain something, but I still don't like it. Narnia is one smooth person. I am only dropping it because I have Eli back. This for that."

Who was to say that the whole ordeal was not planned from Eli being taken to Narnia swooping in to help me? It was oddly suspicious he was there at the carnival, then bugging my hearing suppressants. The chat he and Khotan had.

It was hard to not see the connections. I was so blinded, I followed. He did not want to do any of the things I had said, and only did if it seemed like it deeply bothered me. I went to kitchen to find something to eat, but I found he wine cellar and I drank it.