She Belongs To The Devil

All the Royal children were gathered in one of the rooms of Zachariah's quarter.

Since this was the first time Zachariah had insisted on inviting everyone to have some fun at his quarter, Nefriti had given a lot of effort into making sure that her son would have the best night with his cousins.

She had literally turned one of the rooms into a fortress made out of mattresses, pillows, and bed sheets.

The children had gathered inside one of the largest 'fortress'. There were lots of snacks in the middle of the fortress and the children were sitting in circles around the snacks.

They had just lit up a single candle in that large room so that they could get the spooky vibe when they told horror stories to each other.

At that moment, Zach was telling the story to the others. He was laying down on his stomach and was whispering while trying to sound scary, "That man was carrying a bag on his back. There was no single source of light where that man was walking."

"The road of the forest got quieter and quieter. And all he could hear were the sounds of the crickets and…" Zach gave a smoldering gaze to everyone and spoke in a chilling voice, "… Ting! Ting! Ting! That man heard some sound coming from behind him."

Zach was even doing some hand gestures to increase the impact of his horror story, "He stopped and then that sound also stopped. So he slowly turned his head to check what was after him."

"What was after him?" Ramon gulped and asked in a whisper. He was the only one who already looked scared.

Zach met his gaze with Ramon and said in an even chilling voice, "Nothing."

"He walked again and he heard the same sound." Zach was now on his fours and he crawled towards Ramon as if Ramon was his prey. "Ting! Ting! Ting!"

"O-Oi!" Ramon slowly pushed himself closer to Damien while nervously trying to shoo Zach. "Don't come near me. Just tell the story from there."

But Zach kept on advancing toward Ramon while telling the story. Or rather, making the noise, "Ting! Ting! Ting!"

Ramon's back was already touching Damien's arm.

"Stop sticking to me, Ray. You're not a kid anymore!" If Damien hadn't pushed Ramon's head then Ramon would have already sat on Damien's lap by now.

But instead of moving away, Ramon grabbed Damien's hand and wrapped it around his shoulder and chest. "Let's stay like this until the story is over. Please."

Ramon wasn't even ashamed to admit that he was indeed scared. He swiftly wiped the sweat from his forehead and scolded Zach, "Stop saying 'Ting! Ting!' and say what happens next already!"

"And then he swiftly jumped behind to check if a ghost wearing a long white gown was chasing after him. But again, there was no one. The road was empty. But you know what happened next?"

"What?" Ramon tightened his hold on Damien's arm.

Zach then sat right in front of Ramon and gave an eerie smile. And he whispered, "And then that man realized that there was something in his bag."

"Wh-What was in his bag?" Ramon pulled Damien's other arm as well and practically used Damien's body to shield his back so that no ghost would attack him from the back.

Damien just let Ramon use him because he didn't want Ramon to faint.

Zach then grinned and spoke in his normal voice, "That man realized that he kept his spoon inside his empty lunch box. And when he walked, that box made the sound. There weren't any ghosts. Ehehehe…"

Everyone burst into laughter at that stupid story of Zach except Ramon.

Ramon was mad at Zach for scaring him for no reason. "You idiot! There wasn't even a ghost and you scared me so much!"

Damien instantly pushed Ramon away from him while saying, "Now stop clinging."

After teasing Ramon for a while, the others also started telling spooky stories and trying to scare Ramon.

The story that Damien told, although he simply recounted one of his normal days, was the scariest of them all. He would give such a detailed description of the looks of the monsters that the children would get goosebumps.

It was almost 11 at the night when they finished all the snacks and headed to get some sleep.

All the girls headed towards one of the rooms. There wasn't any debate there.

However, the boys faced a problem.

Zach had asked to prepare a separate room for Ramon since he wanted Damien all to himself. But Ramon refused to sleep alone after hearing all those terrifying stories from everyone.

"I would rather die than sleep alone today. Because I will die anyway!" Ramon, a thirteen-year-old, shouted at a five-year-old.

Damien was already getting agitated because he wanted the two of them to fall asleep faster. The faster everyone fell asleep, the faster he would get to sneak out.

"Fine, you two sleep together. I will sleep alone," he whispered aggressively and stepped towards the room assigned to Ramon.

However, both Ramon and Zach grabbed Damien by his arm and dragged him inside Zach's room.

Ramon didn't trust a five-year-old to protect him from possible ghost attacks while Zach wasn't going to let the chance to witness Damien's horns even if it meant that one more person would be in for the secret.

Even though another bed had been temporarily added inside Zach's room, all three of them ended up sleeping in the same bed. Damien was in the middle and the other two were clinging on to his arm.

"Goodnight," Zach yawned and mumbled before closing his eyes to pretend to sleep. He was happy that Damien didn't try to run away to the next room even when his 'secret' was at risk.

Ramon was the first one to fall asleep. And even though Zach was pretending to fall asleep at first, he was deep in his sleep after just 10 minutes.

Damien waited for 10 more minutes just to be safe. And after he was sure that both the boys were asleep and wouldn't follow him, he slowly stepped out of the bed. It took quite some time for him to get out of both Zach and Ramon's hold. But he did get out without awaking any of one of them.

When he reached the hallway that led to the door to the girls' room, he noticed Ariel's familiar light blue aura.

"She's already invisible," Damien took note.

Humans didn't have a massive aura like the angels and demons so he didn't really see where Joyce was. And he happened to step on her toe while trying to get close to Ariel.

Joyce did her best not to scream in pain and instantly pushed Damien a little.

The three of them had already discussed before that they were not to make a sound after they got inside the bedchamber. Fenris was in the quarter so they didn't want to speak or make a sound and wake him up.

Without exchanging another word, Joyce put the invisibility spell on Damien too.

Joyce could see both Ariel and Damien since she was the one to cast the spell. However, those two couldn't see each other, nor could they see Joyce.

So Joyce put another spell so that Damien and Ariel could see each other.

Then Joyce lightly tapped on their shoulders as if to tell them that they were ready to head out towards their freedom.

The two of them started moving their feet as lightly as they could. They were so focused on watching their feet that they forgot to look ahead.

Joyce got a mini heart attack when she watched them almost bumping into the patrol guards. But they managed to safely avoid the guards. And soon, they were out of Joyce's sight.

Joyce was about to go back inside the room when she heard a passing whisper, "Go…"

Joyce inhaled sharply thinking someone had found her in the hallway even when she was invisible. She looked behind and around her but she didn't find anyone.

She then remembered Zach's stupid horror story and smiled to herself. "I must be so scared that now I am imagining hearing voices."

She turned to go back inside the room only to get startled by another whisper again, "She… needs help… Go…"

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