Ruthless

Issues are fixed with Love

A/N- I wanted to show how Zeldris felt, because I feel like Zeldris, Meliodas and Elizabeth are the most affected in this story.

Zeldris was breathing heavily. As soon as they had left the room he had stormed past Gelda and Estarossa. They tried to calm him down.

"Zeldris, I-Its okay..." Gelda had triads to calm him down. She tried to grab his hand but he had shrugged it off.

"Brother. Wait." Estarossa tried.

But Zeldris ignored him and muttered "Go away." Before storming off.

Zeldris had walked away to the field. He looked at the large cherry tree that sat in the middle. Meliodas had said that was where they hung out.

Zeldris couldn't believe it. His entire world was flipped about, and Zeldris was lost. Meliodas was about to marry a goddess, whom his Father had said that they were enemies, and all the sudden kindness and sudden hatred had all these complex emotions swirling around in his brain like a whirlpool.

He also felt really guilty, one he hated experiencing. Meliodas was about to be married, had been kidnapped, hated on, tortured, mentally hurt, and just went through surgery, and yet here Zeldris was, getting upset over a stupid insult. Crying at an outburst.

Crying. Zeldris felt the water drip down his cheeks, and remembered the first time he cried.

"You are a terrible demon! You disgrace!" The Demon King had yelled at 124 year old Zeldris, the equivalent of a nine year old. "You useless, worthless idiot!"

"Why can't you just be like your brothers! Why are you so terrible! A baby could do better than that!" The Demon King raged at the trembling Zeldris. "I hate you, get out of my sight!"

And as Zeldris turned to leave, the Demon King delivered the ultimate insult. "You aren't worthy of being my son."

Zeldris, once out of the office, had ran all the way to his room and faceplates onto his bed. He cried, and got confused when water started falling from his eyes. He continued crying and then Meliodas walked in.

"Hey, you okay?" Meliodas whispered. He took one look at Zeldris's face and simply picked him up, cuddled him and waited until Zeldris stopped crying and fell asleep, leaning on Meliodas.

That was when Meliodas decided that Zeldris needed some extra training.

Zeldris hated that memory, but at the same time treasured it.

Zeldris heard a flapping motion and looked up. He saw Meliodas flying towards him.

Meliodas landed on the ground and staggered a little. Zeldris stood up to help him, but Meliodas recovered quickly and strided over to him.

"Hey, I heard what Diane's been doing from Elizabeth and Estarossa." Meliodas said gently. "You alright? I got told you've had a hard time with, you know, coping with everything."

"Not as bad as you." Zeldris sniffed. "I know more than Elizabeth does, brother. And she knows about your night terrors and breakdowns."

"Crap."

"Yeah. You might wanna try and tame them. Maybe talk to Merlin." Zeldris looked down.

"Maybe. But, I'm more worried about you right now. I did fly all the way here, after all." Meliodas tilted Zeldris's head up to face him, concern written all over Meliodas's face. "I'm going to ask again, Zeldris, are you okay?"

Zeldris bit his lip and shook his head, the tears somehow slipping out his eyes. Meliodas looked at his youngest brother worriedly and pulled him into a hug, deactivating his powers. Zeldris automatically deactivated his.

Zeldris cried against his brother's chest. They sat like that for a while, in their embrace, until Zeldris calmed down.

He sniffed and looked up at Meliodas with emerald eyes mirroring Meliodas's own. "Sorry..."

"It's okay." Meliodas grinned, suddenly ruffling Zeldris's hair. "I'm used to it. Shall we go back?"

"Yeah."

"Two other things?"

"Yes, Brother?"

"Can I kill Diane and you probably want to reactivate your mark?"

"Uhh, I don't recommend killing Diane." Zeldris replied, his powers switched on and his eyes back to being the usual black. "And thanks."

The two demons grew wings and flew back to the fortress. They landed in the corridor outside Zeldris's room and saw Gelda walking down the corridor.

"On you go." Meliodas grinned suddenly, as Gelda tripped, how cliché, pushing Zeldris so he would catch her.

Zeldris reacted immediately, though shocked, and caught her. Gelda looked up into Zeldris's black orbs and did a rare blush.

"T-Thanks..." She squirmed.

"Uhh, no problem?" Zeldris said awkwardly, putting Gelda back upright. Zeldris picked up the rose Gelda had dropped. "You dropped this?" He said, holding out the rose for her to take.

"Thank you, why are you always saving me?" Gelda blushed, Elizabeth had rubbed off on her slightly. Zeldris gestured for Gelda to follow him into his room and she followed him in.

"Go brother!" Meliodas whispered, hidden behind the door.

"One of these days I need to repay the favour." Gelda suddenly smiled. "How about I start with this?" She kissed him.

"Meliodas? What are you doing our of bed?! I've been looking for you!" Elizabeth ran into sight.

"Shhh!" Meliodas dragged Elizabeth behind the door. "I've been with Zeldris. I'm trying to watch."

Elizabeth peeked behind the door. Zeldris and Gelda were kissing very passionately, and Elizabeth went red. "I don't think we should be watching this..." She mumbled.

"Oh really?" Meliodas wiggled his eyebrows suggestively. "We could do something else, then..." He teased. Meliodas looked again.

Right at that moment, Zeldris had Gelda pinned to the bed, they were still making out, and Gelda was hungrily unbuttoning his shirt.

"Right, well... Ummm..." Elizabeth stuttered, bright red.

"Knew it..." Meliodas grinned. "Well, fancy doing what their doing?"

"MELIODAS!"