On My Way: The Demon King Made Me His

Chapter 144: Will she find them?

Aqua used her powers to search the memories of the cyclops. But he resisted well. She did not wish to hurt him, hence she decided to try another idea. Take him with them and let him perform the magic to open the gates. They weren't sure why he disguised himself as shifu and who sent him to the library to guard. But the audacity was great and brave enough. 

Huo held the cyclops and asked Aiden to help him carry and transfer the cyclops into a coat so that they wouldn't tire him soon while tying to get the information from him. Cyclops tried hard to speak, to say something and Huo gave him the chance. 

"See I know you people are good, I know what you are upto and what you are searching for, and seeing that, you think I wouldn't know, you think you can still?" But Aqua paused him and knocked on his head. 

"What a young dummy cyclops are you?," 

"I cannot tell you the secret," he shouted in the end, looking scared. "They will kill me if I do so,"

"Even if we adopt you?" Aqua gave him a small hope and tinge of trust for him to open up. 

"Adopt me? Nice joke sister," he said. Aqua raised her brows and smiled at him. It looked like this was his initial plan. He did well. He played well and heard what he wanted to. He took out a pocket knife, cut his arm and took out his blood, then he sent them to the power source of the Water Realm, up the moutians, submitting himself to the Realm. Aqua did not stop him. 

"Betraying the Water Realm means death, you know that?" She reminded him. One thought and you will drop dead, those who get adopted in the basis of trust," 

"I know," he said taking those words seriously. He sat on the floor, with his legs crossed. He did not look tensed anymore. 

"Ok tell us now," Huo said to him. 

"Can we trust this Demon?" He gave Huo'er a look and then at Aqua.

Aiden rolled few scrolls of paper and knocked the head of cyclops with it. "Demon King," he reminded.

"Oh sorry, Demon King," Huo'er closed his eyes and shook his head. He sighed. 

"Now," Aqua raised her voice a little.

"I will take you with me," He said "but just you." "I can't take a lot of people together at once," he said.

"Okay," Aqua agreed.

"No," Huo'er disagreed. Cyclops looked between Aqua and Huo. Lovers spat. Aqua asked why she shouldn't and Huo stood explaining his worries.

"It's all in your head, you saw how am capable of killing people," she said and kept her hands on the shoulders of cyclops and patted him. "He will be nothing but a dust," she said confidently. "Don't you think so?" She aksed him.

"Sister, am just a tiny little cyclops, trust me and don't kill me, I have new dreams too, I want to live, am a member of your Realm, you shouldn't hurt me, protect me," he said looking a little scared among the elders. He sounded too genuine. Milan laughed out loud listening to him. 

"Aiden do you have a candy, hand him one, he is about to cry," she said. 

"We don't have time," Aqua said. "Let's go," Huo put something in his mouth while others did not notice anything. "Wait," he said. He walked towards Aqua and kissed her in front of everyone. Aqua was surprised. He had never done such a thing before. But then he passed something on to her mouth. She got it.

"Don't spit it out," he whispered and let her go after planting a kiss on her forehead. "It will help me know where you are," Aiden felt a little weird watching it but he was able to let it go. Milan stood there smiling. Her nine tails playing behind her. 

"Ma'am, your tail, they are all out," Cyclops reminded her and he left with Aqua. 

Aqua walked to the front of the gates, formed a new formation and barrier for people to not enter the palace, and stepped out carefully. She bid farewell temporarily asking her family to take care and she apparated with the boy to the borders of the Realm that will take them to the sea. 

"Why did we not apparate straight to sea from the palace, I saw it is right behind the King's palace," cyclops asked her.

"It's dangerous, the winds and current are too strong if you go that way, and that's a place allowed only for the King to go, not a soul is allowed to step in there, which am sure you did, luckily you escaped or else your head would have been fed to our lions," she tried to scare. 

"But I thought Water Realm is soft and forgiving," 

"Everybody has rules," Aqua said and took him to the shores. "Where are you taking me to?"

She asked him.

"To my home," he said. "You will love it there, but I don't," he said with a sad smile pasted on his face. He was reminded of his family's unforeseen death. 

"Why?" Aqua got curious. She could sense the pain in his words.

"The world should punish a criminal but never an innocent, judging a clan, prejudiced, " he said shortly and let the matter go. 

"I get it more than anybody else," Aqua said. She stood looking towards the sea. The sound of the waves hitting the shores echoing loud. "Are you not afraid of today's consequences?" She asked him. 

"Am not, I don't have much to look forward and live for," he said sadly.

"You can't be that hopeless, you are young and a lot to live through, don't be stupid and throw your life in the gates of hell," she advised him.

"Hell, I thought your boyfriend is Demon and control the gates of hell, bribe him," Cyclopes laughed and winked at her. Aqua smiled. He is right, she is dating the Demon King, keeper of the hell gates, who can decide anything.

"What's your name?" Aqua asked him.

"Jin," 

"You will have a great future, you are incredibly strong for you age," Aqua said and extended her arms. He kept his hands on hers and she apparated. The next moment they were under the ocean, and Aqua looked at him. She had her dagger kept on his neck, about to cut his throat while he performed the magic opening the doors to the Underwater Realm. Aqua just waited watching, anticipating. She couldn't wait to meet her family she thought died in front of her. Jin smiled and counted the seconds. In a minute the sounds echoed inside the water, and a gate opened, right before them. Mermaids swam towards them. Aqua gasped. "My goodness," she whispered. "They are real and still existing."

"Act along and cooperate with me, I was sent to Water Realm to take the books away as a punishment, tell them I got caught and you punished me instead, okay sis?" Jin asked her. 

"Okay," Aqua said and tightened her grip around him and almost slit his throat.

"Don't kill me, I did as you ordered, let me go," he acted well, struggling under hands. "Save me,"

"Calm down princess," one among Mermaids said to her. "Let the child go, calm down," they said to Aqua. Aqua leveled up her power and took her crystals out to protect herself and the boys incase if they attack her.

"What place is this?" She aksed. But a figure appeared towards her. 

"Welcome," he said to her. A man who looked her father's age. 

"Your highness, be careful she is on attack mode," the mermaids warned him.

"Your higness," Jin said. Aqua remained still. 

"Welcome to the Underwater Realm, which is also part of your Water Realm, but working secretly," King Dylan said to her. Aqua smirked. But she was little shocked inside to witness something that doesn't exist to the outside world. "What is it Princess Aqua? Crown Princess of Water Realm, who got banished from heaven, what brings you here?" He smiled. 

"You know what brings me here," she replied boldly. Her voice strong. 

"Do I?" He mocked her. "Well then, come in, let's rest and have some good talk," he welcomed her. Mermaids swam towards her and led the way. 

"Jin, we will discuss about this later," King Dylan said to the cyclops. 

"Jin has nothing to do with this Realm," Aqua said instead. King Dylan shot a look at her and he looked at Jin who remained silent. He had a small cut where the blood appeared on his neck. Aqua moved with the squad. They took her a long way. The moment she entered the gates, she was astonished to see the Realm, existing secretly for all the million years, beautifully. They took her to the court of Coral Palace. King Dylan opened the doors and there stood four figures. Aqua entered the court and stood still. Jin looked at her, marveled to see the strong lady melting like a candle as she stood there watching the people in front of her. She quickly ran inside the court. Tears whelming in her eyes. She did not care about anything else nor who were watching her. She had done it. She finally found them. And she couldn't wait a single second longer. "Ma.. Pa..," she said and hugged them. Her heart pounding loud. She really made it. Her mission accomplished. 

If you work hard, some day you will see the results. And to Aqua this was it. She found her family.