She Belongs To The Devil

Niylah didn't think much after getting the assurance from Theodore that the demons were good ones and they wouldn't hurt them. She simply closed her eyes and buried her face in Theodore's chest because the corridor seemed scarier than the thought of meeting the demons.

However, Ramon still didn't get the answer as to why the demons would serve Theodore, a magician. "Does uncle control those demons through his magic?" he thought to himself while keeping his eyes on the spooky and awfully long corridor.

Ariel's jaw was wide open and she was darting her eyes around in amazement. She could clearly see every corner of the corridor and the stone ceiling. She was surprised to see that her father's cave wasn't limited to the garden and a room.

And Ariel could already tell that they were very close to the demons. She couldn't explain how she knew but she did somehow.

The four of them then reached the common room. It was completely empty when they reached there.

Theodore put the kids down on the sofa. He also sat along with them and when they were all settled down, he asked them once again, "Are you ready to see the demons?"

"Yes," all three of them replied, some in an excited voice while the other in a scared voice.

"Alright then," Theodore clapped his hands two times.

And when he did, a beautiful lady with long hair entered the room and bowed to them.

"Eh!" Ramon curled his upper lip and furrowed his brows. He had expected to see some unsightly creature with horns and tails sticking out of its body. But the lady looked like a normal human. And he thought that Theodore had duped them.

Theodore pointed at the banshee and explained what she was, "She is a banshee. She can warn me when a close family member of mine is about to die." He looked at the kids to find a rather unimpressed look on their faces.

Theodore then gestured for the banshee to go and then he clapped his hands again. And this time, the dire wolf came inside the room.

"He is called a dire wolf," Theodore let the kids know that it was not a normal wolf and it definitely wasn't a werewolf.

Niylah was excited to see the wolf with a horn on its forehead. She clapped her hands and shouted, "A huge wolf! And look at that horn!" She thought that all the demons looked like normal creatures which they would normally see around.

Ramon, on the other hand, was still unimpressed. He looked up at Theodore and said in a monotone, "Uncle, show us some real demons, please. If you don't have them here then don't lie to us."

Theodore pressed his lips into a thin line and nodded. "Okay, sorry to disappoint you, Ramon. I will show you some real demons then." He then had a devilish smirk on his face when he said, "Hold on tight."

He then asked the dire wolf, "Send Izel. And ask him to give a proper demonstration."

The dire wolf bowed to their master and left the room.

Theodore turned a little to the side so that he could see the expression on the kids' faces. He did that so that he could cut the demonstration short if the kids got too scared.

The next demon didn't show up for a while. The room went awfully quiet. And after a while, they heard a growling noise in the distance that was accompanied by the sound of some kind of weapons slashing along.

Niylah and Ariel looked at each other and then held each other's hands. There was something different in the air that they couldn't quite describe. But they knew one thing, they were going to see something very scary.

Ramon, however, believed that his uncle had asked someone to put on some show by wearing a costume. "I am not going to fall for uncle's trick," he thought to himself.

The three of them curiously stared at the door from which the others were coming earlier. And they saw three sharp blade-like things peeking out of the door.

Niylah was already scared but Ramon didn't think much of it. He was waiting for some clown to jump out.

However, in the very next moment, something unexpected by Ramon happened. They saw a tall and slender thing with long dangling claws jump out of that door. It was petrifyingly pale and grey, making it look like some rotten and starved dead body.

And when it growled once more, their souls left their bodies.

Niylah and Ariel screamed at the top of their lungs and jumped on Theodore. Niylah grabbed Theodore's chest while Ariel leaped and clung to Theodore's neck.

Ramon was the only one who didn't make a sound nor move an inch.

Theodore gestured Izel to go back inside and then he gently stroked Ariel's and Niylah's backs. "Hey, it's alright. It's alright. He already left. He won't do anything to you."

The girls stopped screaming but they didn't stop clinging to Theodore.

"I'm sorry. I didn't think you two would be that scared." Theodore felt a little guilty for having ordered Izel to put on a good demonstration. He never found any of the demons mildly intimidating even when he was a child. So he hadn't imagined that the girls would react that way just at Izel's sight.

Theodore glanced at Ramon. He was still not moving a muscle and was staring at the place where Izel was standing a while ago.

"Ramon? Are you okay?" Theodore asked but there was no answer nor any response. So he gently poked Ramon while calling him, "Ramon?"

But instead of answering, Ramon's eyes rolled up and he flopped down to the side.

The seriousness of the situation finally settled in Theodore's mind. "Ramon!" he reached his hand for Ramon and picked him up.

Ramon had fallen unconscious from extreme shock.

"Ramon…" Niylah also shook Ramon in the hopes of waking him up. She even thought that he was just playing pretend. But Ramon didn't wake up at all.

"Oh no! What did I do?" Theodore was now scared that he had done something bad to Nigel's son.