She Belongs To The Devil

A carriage was standing in front of Lillian\'s quarter. Her servants were loading the Queen\'s suitcases in the carriage.

Two squads of her guards were getting ready for the travel. Sixteen of them were foot soldiers while four of them were cavalry. All of them had already dressed up in their battle armors. Some of them were checking their weapons while some of them were tending to their horses.

Right then, Prince Edwin\'s carriage also arrived in front of Lilian\'s quarter along with a squad of his guards.

Edwin got out of his carriage and went to greet his mother. He stood by Lillian\'s personal chamber\'s door and asked, "Mother, are you ready for the journey?"

Lillian was sitting in front of the dressing table when Edwin came. Her maids were giving a final touch-up to her. She glanced towards the door and smiled, "You\'re here! Yes, I am almost ready. Give me a few seconds."

A maid helped Lillian choose a ring. Lillian looked at her reflection one last time and then got up on her feet.

Another maid presented the piece of cloth which Lillian had prepared yesterday night. "Your Majesty, you told me to remind you to take this with you."

"Oh, right!" Lillian grabbed the cloth, folded it into a size of a handkerchief, and then put it inside her pocket.

She gently lifted her gown and elegantly walked towards her son.

Edwin offered his hand to his mother. Then the mother and son walked out of the quarter. Lillian\'s maid, Ida, also followed closely behind.

They reached in front of Lillian\'s carriage. Edwin helped his mother to get inside the carriage. Lillian settled down and the maid was about to climb inside.

But Lillian stopped her and called her son, "Edwin, why don\'t you join me? You will get bored alone in your carriage."

Edwin didn\'t want to say no to his mother\'s \'last wish\' before she would get imprisoned. So he nodded his head, "Sure." He glanced at his mother\'s maid and said, "Why don\'t you go and sit in my carriage? I will ride along with my mother."

Ida was hesitant at first to use the Prince\'s carriage all to herself. She was ready to walk along with the foot soldiers. But Lillian also asked her to get inside Edwin\'s carriage saying that she would only make the journey longer for everyone if she walked.

After everyone settled down and took their respective positions, they finally left for their journey to the doom. Whose doom, it was yet to be found out.

As the carriage approached the main gate of the Palace, Edwin saw his messenger loitering near the gate. He subtly signaled the messenger what he was supposed to do.

And the messenger slowly headed towards Adeline\'s quarter.

Adeline was having her breakfast when he arrived in her quarter. He greeted the Princess and delivered the message, "Your Highness, Prince Edwin sent me to deliver you a message. His Highness has left for Frostford just now and he said that he won\'t be coming to the King\'s Court for a few days."

The main purpose of that message was to inform Adeline that the targets were already on the move.

As Adeline had a mouthful of food when she heard the message, she almost choked on her food. She coughed violently because she tried to swallow down everything at once. She entered the last stage of her restlessness upon hearing that Lillian and Edwin had left the Palace.

"Your Highness, do you need any help?" that messenger asked in a panic. He thought that he had said something that he shouldn\'t have and got scared.

Adeline shook her head and gulped down a glass of water. After wiping her tears and catching her breath, she thanked the messenger and dismissed him.

"Alright! It is now or never." Adeline kept on taking deep breaths in and gave some motivational talk to herself.

After her heartbeat settled down a little, she got up and quickly went to put on her battle armor. She then secured her sword around her waist. She also tied the pair of daggers that Queen Claricia had gifted her around her thighs. On her ankles, she secured small knives.

She then stood in front of the mirror and checked herself. She was making sure if she missed anything important. "Looks like everything is in place."

Adeline confidently looked into her own eyes and whispered, "This is going to be a piece of cake, Adeline. This dessert called revenge cannot get any colder than this. Just eat it today!"

Theodore had already arrived at the meeting point in willow creek. He looked around but didn\'t see any sign of the witches. He furrowed his brows and whispered, "Did I arrive way too quickly, or are those witches late?"

He kept on standing there for a while. Soon, he got bored out of his mind so he began to take a stroll around the place.

He examined the path and its surroundings and took notes of the places where he could teleport Adeline and Raphael later on. He wanted to make sure that he wouldn\'t teleport them in some weird places.

After quite a while, Theodore saw all the thirteen witches of the Mystic Coven slowly approaching the creek. He sighed and whispered to himself, "Ah! Finally, they have arrived. I was starting to think that they had given up even before fighting."

All the witches greeted the Devil Prince after gathering around him. All of them respected Theodore like they did before their memories were snatched away.

After exchanging the greetings, there was nothing that they could do except wait for the carriages to arrive. Theodore was awkwardly standing in the middle of the coven. He wanted to teleport away from there because of the uneasiness he was feeling but he resisted.

Finally, the High Priestess Tabitha suggested, "I think we all should hide. We don\'t want them to spot us from the distance and be on their guard."

"What about you and Sybil? Lillian will be able to detect your auras even if you use the invisibility spell," one of the witches showed her concern.

Tabitha then said, "Sybil and I will stand a little further away from here. Till then, you all can lure her away from the carriage and guards. We will join you all when the fight begins."

Theodore, who was listening to their conversation couldn\'t help but ask them, "High Priestess, don\'t you know how to tone down your aura so that the enemies cannot detect you?"

All of the witches looked at him as if he had spoken something divine… which they didn\'t understand.

"Is that even possible?" Tabitha asked with a spark in her eyes.

Theodore understood that they didn\'t know about it. He smirked and asked, "How do you think none of you are able to sense my aura?"

Now that he mentioned it, all of them realized that they were really unable to detect the aura of a celestial being.

Theodore then politely offered, "I can teach all of you if you want to learn. You don\'t need to worry about Lillian detecting your auras." He glanced at the path which the carriages were supposed to come from and added, "I think we still have some time."

The witches were more than happy to learn the spell from the son of God himself. And Theodore was also happy to help.

All of them learned the spell from Theodore in no time.

After toning down their auras, they cast the invisibility spell on themselves and scattered around. All of them were ready to take their revenge on the witch who had wronged them in more than one way.

After waiting for about 10-15 minutes, Theodore\'s sharp eyes finally caught the sight of horses and carriages in the distance.

He smirked and whispered, "They\'re finally here!"