The Demon's Bride

Nine Years-I

One day, on a bright afternoon in a small town located in Runalia, Elise lifted her chin and had her blue eyes directly shone by the bold light of the sun. Seeing the sun that was swallowed by dark clouds for more than a week, she smiled at the sun to have her red burning hair sparkled along from the light above her head. She folded her long sleeve to her forearm and bent her back to take the laundry basket on the backyard which was made of grass. Placing the heavy basket down she took some white fabrics and flapped it to the side for the excess water to sprinkle out from it and hanged it over the wooden frames. In the middle, as she was about to take a new one to hang, Elise swept the sweat on her forehead with the back of her palm and heard a voice calling her name from afar.

"Elise!" A young man jumped over the wooden fence around the backyard with a shovel on his hand. Although his appearance at the moment was covered in dirt, he looked rather charming and adorable, his name was William Scott, Elise's younger brother at her adoptive house, the Scotts.

Elise wiped her drenched hand on the apron over her skirt and wiped the dirt on William's cheeks gently. "What have you been doing? You look very dirty." She glanced over the shovels and slanted her head. "And what's that?"

William giggled, showing his rabbit-like front teeth as he replied, "I have been helping Mr. Wade asked me to help him and exchange my work with this." He pulled a sack filled with turnips that Elise loved.

She patted her adorable little brother to praise, "Good boy, thank you for your hard work."

William received the praise that he had been waiting eagerly to wipe over his face with his hand that only smeared more dirt. "I will help you with that." he glanced down at the laundry to have Elise rejected his offer.

"You're dirty now, so no thank you. How about you go to wash your face first and change your clothes mother had been searching for you the entire morning." as she finished saying, her mother Diana appeared from the backdoor to see her two children in the backyard.

"Elly! I have said not to do any more work today and rest, didn't I?" Diana placed her hand on the waist, scolding Elise the daughter she adopted nine years ago with adorness still visible at her eyes. "Move and take a rest. I will do the rest."

"Mother it's only a light laundry, I can do it on my own." Elise chirped but Diana wouldn't take it easy and noticed her son standing beside Elise with dirt covering him.

"And what have you been doing, Mr. Will?" She turned around to see nothing but mud on his clothes. "Have you been rolling in the mud, for the long afternoon?"

"I haven't!" William puffed his cheeks and showed his shovel to his mother before she began her scoldings again. "I have was lending my hand on Mr. Wade's vegetable crop in exchange for these turnips."

Diana glanced at the turnips but still looked rather unimpressed by his words. Taking the chance, she bent down to dust off the mud on his pants and warned in a hushed tone. "Haven't mother told you not to be acquainted with Mr. Wade? He's working with the dark sorcerer and we do not want to be involved with him for our safety, do you understand?"

William gave a disbelief sigh. As the youngest child of the house, he was the children with the least understanding of the world where they lived. In Runalia, most townfolks are human and sorcerer. Although sorcerers are still seen as normal beings, dark sorcerers are in a different category than the other.

They had been using their magic to corrupt the mythical beings to their use and destroy the towns to make their own lands. For the past three years, the dark sorcerers that everyone thought had disappeared had begun to make their move again. It started by Kisten, the small town that wasn't too far from Alexa, the town where they were living at.