Sins of a Butterfly

[🌹 Meliodas & Zeldris 🌹]

𝙷𝚘𝚕𝚢 𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚙, 𝙸 𝚍𝚒𝚍𝚗'𝚝 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚙𝚎𝚎𝚙𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚌𝚛𝚘𝚜𝚜𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚊 𝚕𝚘𝚝. 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚕𝚢, 𝙸 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚒𝚝 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍𝚗'𝚝 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔 𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚞𝚕𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚊𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚌𝚛𝚘𝚜𝚜𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚠𝚎 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚊𝚛𝚎. 𝙰𝚗𝚢𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜, 𝚎𝚗𝚓𝚘𝚢!

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Meliodas finds himself standing in front of a building that stands within a small clearing of the forest, far from any civilization. The greenery around grew without being trimmed, and so vines and weeds dominated the walls of the house. The rose shrubs that Eclipsa loved so also grew out of control. 

 This building is the house that originally belonged to Eclipsa, since she was the one who built it herself soon after she escaped from her dimension. This house was her wedding gift to him and Zeldris. It became their home, though the demon princes had to be discreet out of fear their father might have something against their wife. Which is why they could only stay for a few days before leaving back to their Clan.

 Still within his Assault Mode form, he tears off the front door and tosses it aside and wanders into the building. Since 3,000 years has passed, the entire place inside was covered in dust and cobwebs without anyone to clean it. Since Eclipsa must have been found out and left for her dimension, and somehow with him and Zeldris forgetting everything about her, their daughters, and the house. The musky scent is definitely there, but he closed his eyes as he stands there in the doorway.

 Already, he can smell the lovely scent of his wife's perfume which is obviously rose scented lingering in the room. The scent of her cooking, tea, and chocolates since she always loved them. The faint laughter and the happy squealing of his daughter whenever he came home, even for just a couple days.

 "Baba!"

 "Welcome home, dears!"

 He opens them again, and then it was gone. He went to the hallway to his left corner, knowing there are other rooms in that corridor. One door on the left side, and there's another room in the right side at the end of the hall. The oldest heir of the Demon Clan went to the left door and opens it.

 It was a nursery room.

 Wooden blocks scattered on the ground, with handcrafted dolls nearby made for the infants. There's even a bookshelf close to where the window is, with books that Eclipsa obviously made up based on the folklore from her world. Which of course, the girls obviously loved them. And then finally, two cribs in the middle of the room.

 Both of the cribs are made of wood, with different colored canopies hanging over both of them. The left one has a light green one, while the right one has a crimson lake colored canopy. As though he knew which one belonged to his daughter, which of course he does, Meliodas wanders over to the left one.

 There was grime and dust on the headboard of the crib, which made him rub it off. A name which was etched into was made out visibly for him to read it. The name 'Meteora', with a clover sign above it. Seeing the mauve blanket within, he grabs it from the crib and held it close to his face. Though it reeks of dust, he can faintly smell his daughter's scent.

'Meteora...' he thought, feeling a tear escaping from his right eye.

Getting rid of the stray tear, he looks over to the crib that belonged to Isis. His younger brother's own daughter. He took the maroon blanket of Isis, before grabbing the dolls that rightfully belonged to both of the girls. One doll is a pink bunny, which belonged to Isis while the other doll is a black kitty, which is Meteora's.