She Belongs To The Devil

"I don't want to go back. I want to go to dada."

Ariel ran as fast as her tiny feet could carry her. However, she could feel that Bennett was catching up to her. She hated the idea of going back with him.

She closed her eyes and thought, "I want dada. I want to go to the cave with him and mom."

Suddenly, Ariel felt something funny in her body. She felt like some invisible hands were tickling her.

And before she knew what was happening to her, Ariel teleported away.

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"Ariel! No!" Adeline panicked when her daughter vanished right in front of her eyes.

Bennett, on the other hand, was shocked. He pointed at the spot where Ariel was standing just a while ago and asked, "Did she just teleport?"

"I think so," Adeline hurriedly closed her eyes and thought of teleporting to the place where Ariel was.

This was the first time that Ariel had ever teleported. And to add to that, she did that alone! Adeline was worried sick. She wanted to find her daughter as soon as she could. She didn't want her daughter to get scared or lost.

Adeline felt the buzzing sensation all over her body. However, when she opened her eyes, she was still standing next to Bennett.

She closed her eyes again and tried to teleport. However, no matter how many times she tried, she couldn't reach her daughter.

"Bennett, will you ask the guards to look for Ariel in the quarter and around the Palace? Maybe she teleported somewhere near." Adeline ordered Bennett because she thought that it was her teleportation that was not working.

"I will ask them right away, Your Majesty," Bennett nodded nervously and ran away.

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When Ariel opened her eyes, she found herself in a strange and barren place instead of the Palace.

It was all dark and red everywhere. The ground, the clouds, the dead trees, everything looked scary. The temperature was hotter. And the air felt very different and suffocating.

"Momma?" she hurriedly turned around to look for her mother. But she found neither her mother nor Bennett behind her.

At first, Ariel thought that her mother was trying to scare her because she was being a bad girl. Her father would show her some illusions and tricks sometimes. And she thought her mother was doing the same, but scarier.

So she tried calling her mother several times in scared little squeals, "Mom, are you there? Momma? Momma, can you hear me? I promise I will read. Please let me out. Momma?"

However, there was no reply. Nor did that scary illusion go away.

The corner of Ariel's lips dropped down. She was already on the verge of tears.

Still, she darted her amber eyes around the place to see if she could catch a glimpse of her mother or at least someone who could take her back to her mother.

To her disappointment, she didn't see anyone. She didn't know what she was supposed to do to get out of that scary place. Neither did she know where to go because all she saw around her was vast empty land and some scary-looking trees.

So she tightly clutched her skirt with both of her hands and broke down into tears.

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Adeline wiped the sweat beads which had formed over her upper lip and recalled what Ariel had said earlier, "She was asking me to take her to Lucifer."

Adeline furrowed her brows when a dreaded thought crossed her mind. "Did she… did she teleport to Hell?"

And to confirm that it wasn't the case, she tried to teleport to her workroom, expecting to fail. However, to her dismay, she could. Which only meant one thing…

She clasped her mouth with her palm and uttered in a terrified tone, "She did teleport to Hell, didn't she?"

Because Adeline wasn't born a celestial, Heaven and Hell were still off-limits to her. And when her teleportation was working but she still couldn't teleport to where her daughter was, the only logical explanation that she could come up with was that her daughter had gone where she couldn't go.

She was now terrified at that thought. She was terrified that Ariel would come across some demon or other dangerous beings of Hell.

However, Adeline closed her eyes and tried to think properly, "But she has never seen Lucifer before. Maybe she was thinking about Theo when she teleported? Yes! She was saying she wanted to go to dada."

Adeline clasped her hands together to prevent them from shaking visibly and thought, "If she had thought about Theo before vanishing then he must have found her by now. Maybe he already brought her back to our quarter?"

She teleported to her daughter's room in an instant only to scare a few of the guards who had just reached there.

"Did anyone find her yet?" Adeline asked the guards.

And in response, the guards lowered their heads and denied, "No. Not until now, Your Majesty."

Adeline gave a nod and ordered, "Alright, keep on looking."

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Ariel was crying very loudly. She was thinking that she was lost. And she was hurt thinking that she would never get to see her mother or father again.

After a while, she felt as though she saw a shadow. She rubbed her eyes and looked above in the sky to see a very peculiar sight.

She saw a boy with a pair of wings flying down towards her.

Ariel had never seen her parents' winged forms until now.

Adeline and Theodore had never shown that form to their daughter because for one, they didn't want to scare their daughter. And second, they didn't want their curious child to jump off from somewhere thinking she would grow wings. Read first at m-v le-mpyr

They wanted to reveal all the crazy things to their daughter nice and slow.

So when she saw that boy with bat-like wings, she was amazed as well as scared. She wanted to run away but at the same time, she wanted to get a closer glance at that strange boy.

That boy landed not too far away from Ariel.

Ariel sniffled and stared at that boy's wings. And she whispered, "Demon?"

He looked like he was a few years older than her. He had short reddish-brown hair. His eyes were winter grey in color. And above all, he looked far too cute to be a demon.

And that boy was also equally curious about Ariel.

He had never seen such a cute creature before. Everyone he had seen until now either had wings or tails or horns or everything. And when he saw her, he whispered, "Angel?"

And he dared to go a little closer to that creature and asked a few questions, "What are you? Why are you crying? Are you lost?"

Ariel only caught the last question of that boy. She nodded her head and answered, "I am lost." And she started to sob again.

That boy felt bad when she cried. He walked closer to her and tilted his head to look at her face. And he said to her, "Don't cry, Angel. Angels shouldn't cry."

But Ariel kept on crying and said, "I am not Angel. I am Ariel."

The boy wiped Ariel's tears and lightly pinched her cheeks. "But you look like an Angel." And he offered to help her, "Come with me. My mother will help you find your home."

However, Ariel shook her head and declined, "My mom said not to go with strangers."

That boy then smiled at her and introduced himself, "My name is Damien. We know each other now."

"Damien," Ariel repeated his name and nodded her head.

Damien then held Ariel's hand and said again, "Let's go to my home now."

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Adeline frantically lifted her hand and looked at her ring. "I should ask him to search Hell."

But she contemplated for a while rather than kissing the ring instantly, "What if Theodore is in the middle of the gambling house and Ariel is also there? She might get into trouble if I summoned him before he can hold her. But what if she isn't there but some other part of Hell?"

Adeline was utterly confused as to what she was supposed to do. "I'll wait for 30 seconds," she thought to herself and began tapping her feet restlessly.

When the 30 seconds were over, there were still no signs of her daughter and her husband. So she didn't delay any further and kissed the ring.

Theodore appeared in front of her in no time. "Wow, you haven't used that in a long ti–" Theodore abruptly stopped when he saw the tearful eyes of his wife. And he asked in a concerned voice, "What happened? What's wrong?"

Adeline grabbed Theodore's hands and answered, "Ariel. I think she teleported to Hell."

"What? She can teleport?" Theodore was baffled by that statement from his wife. But he didn't waste any breath in asking how or when.

He closed his eyes and used his vision to look for his daughter.

He let out a sigh of relief and opened his eyes. And he said in a reassuring voice, "She is alright. I will bring her back right away."