She Belongs To The Devil

1Theodore was now scared thinking about how Nigel and Rhea would react when they would know that he brought the children to show the demons. And he was even more scared of Adeline. She would eat him alive if anything happened to Ramon.      0

Theodore tried poking and shaking Ramon again to wake him up. "Ramon… Wake up…" And she mumbled in a softer tone, "Or else I will be a dead meat tonight."     

Ariel was looking down at Ramon while still clinging to her father's neck. And when she heard her father saying that he would be a 'dead meat', she had a look of terror in her eyes. She didn't want her father to be dead meat.     

So, in order to protect her father, she knew she had to wake her cousin. She placed her hand on Ramon's head and whispered, "Wake up, Ramon."     

And out of nowhere, Ramon was doused with water.     

Theodore looked at his daughter's tiny hand in surprise.     

Ramon struggled to breathe and squirmed on Theodore's lap. And he screamed at the top of his lungs, "Hhhaaaaaaaaaa…"     

"Ramon! Ramon!" Theodore gently patted Ramon on his chest and said in a comforting voice, "It's okay. You are safe. It's okay. Don't scream. That demon is gone. It is gone already."     

Ramon finally stopped screaming and looked to the side to check if the demon was still there or not. It was not there. But he was still coughing and breathing very heavily.     

Niylah pushed Ramon's hair away from his face and wiped the water. She hugged her younger brother and asked, "Ramon, are you okay?"     

Ramon rested his head on his sister's shoulder and answered, "Yes. I am."     

Ariel also slid down from Theodore's shoulder and hugged both Ramon and Niylah. And she whispered so that Ramon wouldn't be ashamed of himself, "That demon was so scary, right? It was scarier than all the demons I saw yesterday."     

Ramon didn't say anything. But he was at least glad to know that it wasn't just him who found that demon to be terrifying.     

Theodore looked at the kids on his lap and felt very guilty for scaring those tiny ones. He wrapped them all in a hug and then apologized, "I'm really sorry little ones. I shouldn't have shown those demons to you."     

He had thought that the kids would start shouting at him for scaring their souls out of them. However, he heard Ramon's soft voice, "You don't have to apologize, uncle. I was the one who asked you to show me the demon. And all you did was respect my wish."     

Theodore smiled at how mature that six-year-old sounded. He lovingly patted Ramon's head. But he knew that even though Ramon wasn't mad at him, Ramon's parents would definitely reprimand him for his action.     

Theodore used his power to dry all of them. And then he said, "Okay, let's go back to the Palace then. We don't want to worry the others any more than we already have."     

And in the very next moment, he teleported to his workroom to his chair. The kids were still on his lap. And he asked them, "Shall I teleport you all to your respective quarters?"     

Niylah looked at the door and said, "I think Rosie is waiting for us outside. We will go along with her."     

"Okay." Theodore let the twins get down from his lap. They immediately ran out of the workroom.     

Ariel was also about to do the same.     

However, Theodore held his daughter. He had to ask something to her.     

"Ary, can you tell me something? How did you make the water appear out of your hand?" He asked with curiosity.     

Ariel had been displaying these supernatural abilities one after another. And he didn't know whether she was displaying them because it was time for her to do so. Or if someone, in particular, was contacting his daughter and was teaching her all those things.     

Ariel innocently looked at her father and questioned him instead, "I made the water appear? I thought dada did that."     

Theodore curled his brows and asked again, "Have you met some old man recently? A man with white hair and white beard?"     

Ariel blinked her eyes and shook her head. "No." She saw her father's frown lines deepening and she thought that her father was disappointed because she had not met the old man he was talking about. So she asked, "Should I have met him? Where can I meet him?"     

Theodore rubbed his forehead to ease his frown and smiled at his daughter. "No, dear. You should not meet that old man. Never. If you see him coming then you should shout and run away. And find me or your mom."     

From the way her father was warning her about that said old man, Ariel felt a chill shiver run down her spine. "Why? Is that old man a bad man?"     

"Yes," Theodore replied without missing a beat. "He is very bad. So you should tell me if you ever see him. And don't trust whatever that man says."     

Ariel resolutely pressed her lips together and gave a nod to her father.     

Theodore heaved a sigh and pressed his daughter's head on his chest. And he kissed her head.     

He hoped that he was just being overly cautious and his father had nothing to do with the recent developments of his daughter. He hoped that his father would stay out of his and his family's matter like he always had.     

However, Theodore still couldn't help but wonder, "How is Ariel able to control the water element?"     

He was surprised because he controlled the dark mist, a branched-out form of the air element. And Adeline controlled coal and ash, a branched-out form of the fire element.     

Most of the immortals controlled only one element. And since Ariel was their child, she should have been able to control some modified form of air or fire element. But she displayed just a while ago that she was able to control the purest form of water element.     

And Theodore thought to himself, "I wonder how that happened…"     

Theodore shook his head as if to shake that uneasiness away from his mind. "But I might be wrong. Is it really necessary that our children inherit our affinity to the element?"     

He thought for a while and wondered, "It's not like we have a large pool of samples. I only have two nephews. Maybe they got the same elemental power as their parent just by chance."     

Theodore caressed his daughter's hair and thought, "Now it's about time I start teaching her how to control her powers… It would have been easier if she had air or fire affinity though. We could also have easily gauged her power level."     

Theodore suddenly smiled and whispered to himself, "But parenting isn't that easy, is it? It's always full of challenges. And I am here for it."