The dark throne

Chapter 14

Third person POV-

"It was a great joy, and honor to have you as a guest here in our kingdom lord Meliodas. I wish you safe travels" Hendrickson, who had escorted Meliodas, Merlin and Arthur to the gates of the city said and bowed slightly to show his respect.

"Thank you Hendrickson, it's much appreciated" Meliodas says with a small smile, as that was all he could muster now..

"Yes, what he said" Arthur said and nudged Meliodas a little with his elbow, and with that the two kings started to head out, but Merlin continued to stand in front of Hendrickson for just a moment longer, looking at him with a unreadable look on her face.

"...lady Merlin..is something-" He Hendrickson started, wanting to ask if something was wrong, but before he could finish Merlin turned on her heels and started to catch up with Meliodas and Arthur, without as much as saying goodbye to the man she had been staring down.

"Oh well" He Hendrickson laughed awkwardly, Merlin did give off that kind of ill mannered mystery wizard so he truly didn't take it that hard.

"Now...onto different matters" Hendrickson muttered, turning around and started to walk towards the old castle...

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It didn't take long before Merlin teleported them all to the portal that would lead them to the demon realm.
There was a few around the world, done lead to places such as the capital, Tartarus, others would lead to smaller cities or desolate areas.

"It's been moved, hasn't it?" Arthur asked as he stepped through the portal located in the side of a cliff.

"Yes, we moved it a while ago as we found too much wildlife falling through" Meliodas explained as he too stepped through, and then Merlin.

Obviously they had taken the portal leading to the capital where the castle was located.

They found themselves by a cliff on the edge of town that had a striking similarity to the cliff where the portal was located in Britannia.

As they walked through town the townspeople greeted their king, glad to have him back home.
Even children came running up to say their hi's to the king, before running off again, laughing.
Through all this, Meliodas dud his best to act like he was the same as he always was. He didn't even notice the sad glances Merlin and Arthur shared.

While Arthur didn't know why, he knew that his uncle was having a hard time with something, and he didn't like it.

"Well well...who do we have here?" A menacing voice said.
Meliodas groaned as they were practically only steps away from entering the castle grounds...he just wanted to go home...not talk to Bellion of all people...

Meliodas looked around him to see if Bellion had brough the other knights of black.
He had, but they stood in the distance, letting Bellion "handle" Meliodas on his own.

"Bellion...now its really the time" Merlin said sternly, but Bellion didn't seem to care.

"Let the king decide that for himself...are you really as much as a child as you look? Having someone else talk for you" Bellion laughed in the face of the unfazed Merlin, who only reacted by squeezing his eyes closed to avoid Bellion's spit flying at him as he laughed.

"I can assure you I speak for myself" Meliodas says calmly, but tiredly.

"Oh yeah?....THEN SPEAK UP!!" Bellion shouted, louder than ever. He was being agitated by Meliodas's lack of interest.

"I'm really tired after this whole political event...maybe later" Meliodas says and was about to turn away to walk into castle grounds.

"Nuh-uh! You don't get to turn your back to me!" Bellion quickly said and grabbed the collar of Meliodas's jacket, picking him up from the ground.
He was ready to fight.
"This time you don't have your dear friend Gowther to come step in"