She Belongs To The Devil

"Whoa! You really were scared huh!" Adeline opened her eyes and whispered to Theodore.

Theodore tightened his hold on Adeline even more. "You bet!"

"And you came for me…" Adeline lightly touched Theodore's chest and pulled away from the hug.

"Of course I did. How could I leave you alone when I was hurting as well?" Theodore held Adeline's palms and gently caressed her rough knuckles with his thumbs. He could also feel the calluses on her palms that she got after excessive training with her sword.

Adeline gave a soft and sad smile to Theodore.

No vampires dared to come near them and disturb their little moment in the middle of the battle. They were not suicidal maniacs who would go near the Devil knowingly.

"Theodore, I should get back to fight." Adeline glared at the Vampire General who was still trying to get up and said, "I still have to kill a lot of them."

Theodore wiped the blood off of Adeline's forehead and her eyes and asked her, "Don't push yourself too hard, Adeline. Let others help you with the small fries."

As if on cue, a werewolf leaped towards the General. And in the next second, that wolf crushed the ribs as well as the heart of that General.

The death of the General sent panic among the few hundred remaining vampires.

Theodore pointed his thumb behind him and said, "Save your energy for that bastard who hasn't even taken out his sword from its scabbard."

Adeline glanced in front of her and as Theodore had said, Reginald really looked unbothered by the fight that was going on around him. Several werewolves and witches and wizards had managed to get in the vicinity of Reginald.

But it seemed like his Royal Guards were surrounding him and were protecting him from physical attacks while that dark witch that Theodore had mentioned was protecting him from all magic attacks.

Adeline's brows and nose wrinkled in disgust and disbelief seeing that sight. "He doesn't even care about his people. He is treating them like his shield and even then they choose to protect him and follow him? I would rather die than be a dead weight like that."

Theodore pursed his lips and replied, "I don't think he is being dead weight. I think he saw you fighting and he is conserving his energy for you… or maybe he is thinking that at some point he might have to fight me as well. Whatever the case, he is being smart."

Theodore held Adeline's shoulder and asked her, "So, don't fight the others now. Go straight for him. Let the others cover for you."

What Theodore said made sense. She looked around her and noticed that the vampires were being slaughtered one by one and there were more than enough werewolves and sorcerers left to take care of them.

Adeline took a deep breath in and nodded. "Okay. But…"

She frantically darted her eyes around the ground and asked, "Have you, by any chance, seen my sword?" She pointed her brows at the dead General and added, "That one threw it somewhere."

"You lost your sword?" Theodore also looked around and said, "Let me search it for you. It must be somewhere around here."

After a few seconds of searching for the sword, both of them heard a loud neighing sound and the sound of hooves approaching them.

Adeline turned around to see that Arion was running in her direction. And to her relief, he had brought back her sword.

Arion proudly stopped beside Adeline and Theodore.

Adeline took the sword from Arion's mouth and gently patted him, "You're the best, Arion."

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"Evans…" Reginald clenched his fists and sneered, "You were so close to killing her, you bastard! If that wolf hadn't killed you then I would have killed you myself!"

"I had told you that she was mine to kill…" Reginald flared his nose and focused his glare on Theodore and Adeline.

He clenched his jaw and thought, "And what the hell are they trying to prove by clinging onto each other in the middle of the battlefield? It makes me want to separate the two of them even more."

His thought was disturbed by a sudden hiss from one of his guards.

"Darn it! Their armors are made out of silver! Be careful!" he warned all the other vampire guards around him who had yet to go in close combat with the pesky sorcerers.

"Did you just say silver?" Reginald asked again to make sure that what he heard was right.

"Yes, Your Majesty. It looks like not just the sorcerers but the human soldiers are also wearing the silver armors." Another guard replied to the King.

And Reginald was forced to ponder, "Is Wyverndale that rich that the armors are made out of silver? Is this just a coincidence or…"

He looked around at the coordinated and tactical battle-formation of Wyverndale soldiers. He looked up at the flares. He looked at the vampire soldiers who were almost extinct. And he mumbled, "Or were we led straight into a trap from the very first day?"

Now that Reginald focused around him instead of just on Adeline, it was clear as day that Wyverndale somehow knew exactly what to do and when. "There was a spy, wasn't there? Or maybe that Devil was eavesdropping on us all this time…"

He smiled grimly and whispered to himself, "And I wondered why the vampires at the frontline were staying inside the circle instead of rampaging and killing half the Wyverndale army…"

Reginald glared at the Devil again and wondered, "But why hasn't that Devil tried to massacre all of my soldiers yet? No, why hasn't he come after me yet? And if he already knew about my plans, why didn't he snuff out the problem in the bud? He could have burned down my whole Kingdom if he wanted to…"

"And from the way how Wyverndale sneak-attacked us, he should have killed me by now. So why wait?" He sighed in frustration because of so many things about that Devil which didn't make any sense.

"Well, whatever the reason, it's good for me." He looked at Gina who had already begun the summoning spell and hoped that she would be able to establish a connection with Lilith sooner.

He wanted the Devil to be taken care of before he would decide to come after him or his army.