On My Way: The Demon King Made Me His

Leo woke up startled wondering what happened to him some time back. All he could remember was entering the gates to the Coral Palace, Ariana standing next to him and feeling something on his head, knocked out. Leo looked around the room, and it did look luxurious. Brightly lit room with bluish green walls and a king sized bed. He was lying in them covered in the heavy blankets. It was cozy and warm. "But why?" He wondered. "Why did I pass out? Who could have possibly knocked me out?" He wanted answers.

"You up?" Ariana appeared in the room suddenly. 

"Hey, what's, " Leo was stopped by Ariana soon. She sat next to him closing his mouth with her hands. Leo looked into her eyes sea blue eyes with her maroon hair, 'A mermaid so beautiful,' he thought. Her hands were cold where it touched his skin. "What's going on?" He whispered, taking her hands off his mouth slowly. 

"This is part of our protection protocol," she said. 

"What?"

"First you ran out of sufficient oxygen in your body, second you will never be taken into the Coral Palace while you are conscious. We put you on sleep temporarily and take you in," she explained. 

"But why?" Leo was confused. 

"Because we don't want you to know the place well, the ways how to get in the and our security system inside the gates," 

"In short, you people don't trust me," Leo said.

"Anyone for your information," she said. 

"Interesting," he mocked her and got up from the bed. She pushed him back and put the sheets over the top. "What are you doing?" 

"Shushhhh.." she hushed him. She covered his his mouth and pressed him into the bed. He stopped resisting and laid silently. 

Once the footsteps outside the room faded, she took off the sheets.

"What was that?" He asked her.

"You are not supposed to wake up until next day, but you are up already, it will rise severe problems. Pretend to be asleep until noon tomorrow, I will come get you then," 

"Where am I?" She asked him.

"In the dungeons under Coral Palace," she informed him. 

'What? Why? How? Why... just why?" He asked confused and searching for words. "Hey am a prince not your prisoner it is not right to treat me like that," he said in the end. 

"I know your higness, please do not make trouble and follow the protocol," she said and got uo from the bed. He looked at her for a moment and dropped his head. 

"Fine, whatever, release me as soon as possible," he said. 

Ariana left the room and did not return for the whole day. Prince Leo was well fed in his sleep. He pretended and just laid still whenever people entered the room. He could sense the sea horses entering and leaving the room often with the maids, the guards protecting well. But it kept mesmerising him, lying in the underwater realm for real that only existed in the minds of people as a fictional place, but has been real and in close ties with Water Realm for all these years. If was shocking and very interesting.

He waited until Ariana came for him the next day. He jumped from the bed and got ready. He drank some water and stepped out with her. "Is it day or night?" 

"There is no such a thing in your Realm as day and night," Ariana said. Leo saw all sorts of things, the aquatic plants, coral reefs, fish, mermaids, whales and sharks, all shape shifters. 

"Then how do you keep count?" He was curious. "Of time and..." 

"We rest whence finish our duties, we have shift based on the tasks we take up on, two tasks, two weeks rests if finished as ordered, I can do anything, at that period, I sleep then," she said. She greeted people as she moved forward with him. Her green dress suited her well. 

She led him towards the palace court and there were people, people who resurrected. He walked faster towards them. He took a deep breath and sighed in relief. "Thank god," he said. He did not care about the position he simply hugged the man in front of him. 

The man laughed out loud at his action. "Am fine," he said. 

"So is everyone," Leo said and looked around. There were all of them. Everyone he rescued. 

"I will pay my respects to you, all of us will," King Aenon said.

"There is no need for that your higness, am doing everything under my father's orders and I also believe that only the right and truth can win, we are with you, all of us are," Leo said and smiled. Ariana stood there smiling at him. 'He sure does deserve his title,' she thought. 

Water King patted Leo's shoulders and looked at the King of Underwater Realm, Dylan. 

They all took their places and discussed about various matter concerning the Coral Palace. 

"Don't you plan on telling your daughter?" King Dylan asked King Aenon. 

"I don't want her to be in trouble anymore, and the only place she will be safe right now is Demon Realm, with the King," 

"You mean son of Dritan? I have heard the story, Huo, the youngest and bravest, yet lost his life for the princess," Dylan said.

"Love is tough but blind and foolish all at the same time, you are the most powerful person in your time, then it kills you, and you die like a fly, easily," Aenon chuckled thinking about the life of his children.

"Then there is another one, imprinted for a life time, hopelessly, waiting for the sun to rise at the east," 

"Pain of a father when it comes to handing the daughters over to another men, don't feel bad, I have been through it, it will pass very slowly," Dylan advised him. "But do you think that Aqua will be safe even if she is with Huo'er after showing up in front of Tai? He won't let her slip through his fingers just like that," Dylan spoke about the possibilities. 

"I would not deny that factor, " Queen Rivera stood up. Adrien and Krystal were sitting beside her. The dummy of Milan and Aiden has been put to sleep. 

"What do you reckon would happen?" King Dylan asked the Water Queen Rivera. Ariana was looking at everyone carefully, concentrating well standing close to where Prince Leo was sitting. 

"It's a sure thing that he would provoke my child to fight with him again and finish her off," Rivera said without thinking twice, openly. "And my daughter by her nature, would feel wronged and fight him, taking his bait, since she saw us dying according to her memories, and unaware of the truth. She will fight for her family and her Realm, but unknowingly welcoming danger, and this time the hell getting on the way, offending the heavens, supporting my daughter," 

"So as per you assumptions, Aqua will join hands with Demons and fight the heavens?" Dylan asked her.

"If so, won't she be kicked out of our heavenly realm forever?" Joining hands with the sworn enemies? Whether it's Huo'er with his pure blood or not, he is known as the Demon," Queen Rivera grew silent and could no longer find any words. She looked at her husband who looked equally serious. "I mean isn't that what he wants? What Tai wants?" Dylan put the ideas. 

"My daughter is in danger yes, but I trust her, I trust she will choose the right path," King Aenon said and stopped while his heart grew tensed. He wished to believe what he said but he knows how dangerous and vengeful her daughter is infact. 

"That's why we are here today, to solve this very problem, heaven cannot have a bloody murder like Tai as the Emperor for any longer," Dylan proposed the ideas one by one.

Aenon shot a look at Leo and Adrien. "Don't worry am not talking here to make a deal, I still cannot forgive him for what he did to my good friend," Dylan said. 

"You mean the King....?" Prince Leon asked.

"King Tanwen Yuan, and his son Prince Nuri, Feng'er," 

"Tanwen was the least ambitious king, he did not care what he had but gave plenty to his people, Nuri was the same, a well deserving Celestial Prince," King Aenon shares his thoughts. 

"The last time I met with him was on the day of Nuri's marriage. The amiable couple. Prince Hakan was born and was only a few days old when whole clan got massacred by the fake Phoenixes," King Dylan recalled every moment carefully. Nobody knows the whereabouts of Prince Hakan, who was saved by his mother, sent far away, before her brutal rape and murder," 

"Princess Helia fought until her last breath, and she was given mercy killing, by one of Tai's soldiers itself, feeling bad for her," high Princes Krystal told everyone. "She saved her son but not even she was aware of the place she sent that's the problem, we don't know if he survived," 

"We will have to find out about that," King Dylan said. 

"Why didn't you try to find him all these years?" King Aenon asked Dylan back. A reasonable question to a person who is talking about avenging his friend. 

"Simple, because I cannot risk to send my people out, nor make connections with people outside that would leak the news about a place that exists only in myths and legends," it was fair but not convincing enough for Aenon to believe it. Dylan eyed Ariana and smiled. And she nodded. King Aenon noticed that and looked at his wife.