Trigger warning this chapter has child abuse in it as well as implied sexual abuse. If you do not want th read this part of the chapter skip to when you see ~~~~~~ again.
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"SAY IT!"
"I..I can't." There was a tiny sob.
Zeldris spun around looking where he was. One minute he was going to sleep and now he was in what looked like a jail...and he could hear a snake hissing. In fact he could see snake eyes glaring oyt right through him at where the screaming was coming from. He slowly turned around as he heard the snake creature behind him screaming a Greek name...or word. He didn't know to be honest.
All he heard was Migas.
"Say it now you dirty little half blood!" A women screamed pulling a child up by her hair. It was clearly Aphrodite holding a little girl by the hair as she sobbed. Zeldris found his limbs moving as the words fell out of his mouth.
"Put her down!" He screamed walking closer, images of his own abuse at the hands of his father flashed in front of his eyes as he got closer. Yet, as he walked into the room at the end of the hall, he froze up.
The little girls had opened her tear filled eyes showing one was bloody from clearly a blood clot and the other was a bright green...just like his brother. He watched as the girl sniffled before mumbling.
"Louder." Aphrodite grinned whispering in her ear but loud enough to hear. The girl, who looked no older than seven just sniffled rubbing her eyes.
"I..I need an exorcism." Her voice was so horse from lack of water and as she spoke blood slowly poured down her lips.
"And why is that?" Aphrodite grinned.
"Because I have dirty demon blood running through my veins...."
"And what did that blood do?"
"Destroy your happy family. Destroy your status...killed everything."
"Good now look at him and tell him." She smiled grabbing the girls face and making her look at a man that was definitely a priest in one of her temples. He however...well he was a little underdressed to say the least. The girl fought back tears.
"I..I need an exorcism priest...pl..pl...I can't do it! Mama I can't do it again today!" She sobbed looking up at Aphrodite. Zeldris fell silent as he heard her say it. Aphrodite had inky a few kids and well..to put it bluntly almost all of them had died. Her twins died 150 years ago in battle at an old age. Her son and his wife...well they had been assisnated by a priest of her temple. Of at least that was what he had heard but, he had no idea who this was.
One thing was for sure though, he had never heard of Aphrodite doing this to child..at all.
"YOU WILL SAY IT OR I WILL RIP-YOUR HEARTS OUT AND MAIL THEM TO YOUR FATHER!" She threw the girl to the ground creating a bloody nose before kicking her stomach hard enough to send her flying into a wall. There the girl cried as her mother walked over slowly making her sob louder.
"I NEED AN EXCORISM! Please dear priest save my soul and fuck my bad blood out!" The child sobbed as she hid her face behind her hands. As the words left her mouth Zeldris had to hold in a gag. As for the priest, the damn man walked over grinning as Aphrodite just turned and left the room.
"That'll teach you for asking for second servings." Aphrodite whispered as she left the room.
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Zeldris woke up the Monspeet shaking him. Zeldris sat up blushing ingw I thin second knowing he was crying by that point. Usually when he had nightmares he did that and Chandler would calm him down. However this hadn't happened for year.
"Are you okay?" A voice asked. He turned his head seeing Elizabeth rubbing his back and smiling kindly as Monspeet just have a nervous smile which was off for hi. Then again he had just been acting out of character ever since he and Deriere announced they were having a child.
"I'm fine." Zeldris tried to snap but, his voice cracked just making him blush even redder.
"Do you wanna talk about it?" Monspeet blurted out acting father. In his head Zeldris mentally cursed him training to be the perfect father. Zeldris embarrassingly shook his head no as the body on his face git much much brighter. Monspeet nodded getting up to go back to his room.
"Alright but if you need me, I'm down the hall with Deriere and the floating boy and the vampire poking guy." He smiled getting a tired chuckle of sorts from Zeldris as he left the room to go stay in one cramped bedroom. The second the door close behind him Elizabeth spoke up again.
"Some times sir Meliodas had dreams about his past to. Sometimes it helps to talk about it...just to get your feelings out in the open. It helped him a lot...and I got an ear to listen." She offered sitting a bit closer to try and comfort him. Zeldris wanted to push her away or at the very least sew his mouth shut.
Instead however he wilted, telling her every last little part of his dream. As he described Aphrodite's abuse he found his bod shaking in fear. Then when he got to the part with the naked priest..well it didn't end very well.
He was in tear within seconds. God knows why seeing as demons were not supposed to have emotions. Yet, any demon that had lived on the human realm for longer than two years would tell you that was a lie. Once you lived there, emotions seemed to float out of you all the time. Including sadness and remorse such as what Zeldris thinks he was feeling.
Within second for the first few tears falling, Elizabeth held him close to calm him down. She rubbed circles in his back letting him sob before joining in his tears over what he had seen. It was almost as if she was his older sister or mother.
Hopefully if they got to town in time and Meliodas did wake up, she would be his sister in law. Then they could be as close as they were now.
But for now, all he wants to do is forget this happened. Well that and one other thing.
Who was Migas?