The Demon's Lover (Meliodas)

Chapter 25

Ayano opens her eyes to see herself back in the cave with Zaneri and Elizabeth.

"Lady Ayano you're back" Elizabeth smiles then looks panicked "you need to help sir Meliodas, sir King is attacking him!"

Ayano quickly runs out of the cave and finds Meliodas and King fighting

"Stop it you two!" Ayano shouts before putting her hand out "enchanted bubble!"

Two red bubbles surrounded them, trapping them inside. King hit the bubble but it didn't break.

"King please calm down" Ayano approaches him

"why should i?!" King shouts "he's a demon!"

"And? So am I" Ayano says "is Meliodas any different than before? does he treat anyone of us different?"

King looked down "No but-"

"no buts" Ayano releases them from her bubbles "Meliodas is sill the same captain of the deadly sins that everyone knows him to be"

"..." King looks away

"thanks for stepping in honey" Meliodas smiles as he walks over to her

Ayano turns to him "you know I had forgotten about how we met"

"...you remember now?" Meliodas asks, looking a bit worried

"Although you knew I forgot" Ayano sighs "I can't blame you for not remindingSo, did you pass?" Meliodas asks

"Of course" Ayano smiles

"Well then, can we have our power back now?" Meliodas asks Jenna

"I want to say no, but you leave me with no choice," Jenna replies then sighs "I'll give Meliodas's his first then Ayano's"

Jenna chants, aiming her staff to the sky, and a large amber appears "Everyone please stand back, this is Meliodas's power"

Everyone steps back as the gem breaks and darkness fills the sky. Jenna chants again and the powers rush into Meliodas a large surge of strong wind surrounds them, pushing everyone away.

"Now Meliodas, Ayano, please swap," Jenna says

Meliodas steps back as Ayano walks forward

"And we might all want to stand farther back" Meliodas says as he gently pushes Elizabeth back with him, the others glance at each other before doing the same

Jenna chants and another large amber appears in the sky.

"oh boy" Ayano turns to Meliodas "now honey make sure to take those seals off of me once it hits, remember I'll only die if you don't"

"yeah no problem" Meliodas replies with a smile "I got it"

Ayano looks up at the amber as it breaks in the sky, a large beam of bright red light exploded from it and everyone looked away to not be blinded. Ayano takes a deep breath as the beam of light hits her, a familiar feeling overtook her as she felt her powers return to her.

Then she heard Meliodas's voice "Dragon Seals, Release!"

And here comes the rest of it. Ayano's back burned and she shouted in pain as she fell to her knees.

"Ayano" Meliodas ran over to her worried "What's wrong? Does it hurt?"

"No honey, instantly regrowing angel wings doesn't hurt at all" Ayano replies sarcastically before whining in pain

"Alright take it easy" Meliodas says as he wraps his arms around her and holds her close

"Meli it hurts" Ayano whines and holds onto him

Meliodas kisses her forehead "I know, it'll be over soon"

Everyone stands and watches with concern. Ayano suddenly grips onto Meliodas tightly as she feels her wings instantly rip through her back and come out. Everyone gasps and just stares at the sight of her black feathered wings that were covered in blood.

"There we go, all done" Meliodas smiles

Ayano stretches her wings out "they're a bit sore but it feels good to have them back" she stands up and wipes the blood from parts of her wings that she could reach "Meli can you help me" after a bit of no response she looks over to see Meliodas just staring at her "Meli" she waves a hand in front of his face

"huh?" he looks into her eyes

Ayano giggles "silly, I need your help wiping the blood off my wings"

"oh yeah sorry" Meliodas chuckles before standing up and wiping off her wings "I was just captivated by you... my little goddess"

Ayano blushes at the sound of her old nickname

"A-Ayano" King speaks up "you have angel wings!"

"hm?" Ayano looks at him "yeah.. oh I'm sorry I forgot to explain" she smiles "I'm the Demon Sin of Lust Ayano, a fallen angel"

"A fallen angel?" Elizabeth looks confused

"Does that mean you were once a goddess?!" Hawk shouts

"You got that right" Merlin walks over "Ayano is what the goddess race refers to as their fallen princess"

"Wait you're the fallen princess, you've got to be over 3,000 years old" King says "according to the tales passed down in the forest, you were kidnapped and made into a demon, you then went on a rampage killing thousands of goddesses against your own will"

Meliodas rubs the back of his head while chuckling "It's kind of a shock I know"

"You're so old" Hawk says

"Hey" Ayano looks annoyed "I've died plenty of times, so technically my age resets every time I come back to life"

"Alright honey you don't have to explain your life story to them all" Meliodas rubs her head

"How in the world did you and the captain end up as fiancé's?" King asks

"Well you know" Meliodas wraps his arm around Ayano's waist "I met her, we fought a bit, we fell in love, and now here we are"

"way to sum it up" Ayano jokes

"This is so amazing" Elizabeth says excitedly "this means you're really powerful right Lady Ayano?"

"I suppose so" Ayano smiles

"this is great" Elizabeth smiles as well

"I might be a bit rusty though" Ayano rubs the back of her head "I haven't used my full power in thousand of years, I'm not sure how powerful I am"

"Well.. why don't we test them honey?" Meliodas smirks and wraps both his arms around Ayano waist "and give a little greeting"

"oh really?" Ayano smirks "sounds like fun" she jumps on Meliodas's back and he catches her legs "let's go"

"Hey Merlin, can you teleport us to where the Ten Commandments are?" Meliodas asks turning to her

"Have you both lost your mind?! Charging straight to the enemy?!" Gilthunder shouts

"Well why not?" Ayano tilts her head with a smile

"It's possible, I know for certain where I need to teleport you to put you close to Galand. However, it will take ten seconds before I can bring you both back here once you've been sent there and I have a hard time believing they will just twiddle their thumbs and do nothing during that time. In other words, you must hold them at bay for ten seconds by yourself, or you will return to us as a corpse... do you still want to proceed with this?" Merlin asks.

"Yep, let's do it!" Meliodas nods

"Hell yeah!" Ayano shouts excitedly from Meliodas's back

"Are you really going to be teleported with her on you're back?" King asks

"yep" Meliodas replies holding onto Ayano's legs a bit more secure

"Sir Meliodas it's just as Gilthunder said! The Ten Commandments are too powerful!!" Hendrickson shouts

Meliodas smiles "don't worry-"

"-we're just going to say hi" Ayano finishes with a giggle