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Chapter 8 - His right hand man

Aiden a demon slayer for decades was a demon himself but under the influence of the Shakira. The reason behind his loyalty to such creatures was that they had saved his life when he was much younger. Ramone didn't want to let his friend go today, he had to know why Aiden was so loyal to the Shakira. " will you say something or should I make you?" Ramone said after sitting down quietly for a while, " I can't, it's not a memory I can narrate to you". " so you've been wasting my time, too bad I can't read your mind" Ramone said and stood up" you're leaving" Aiden asked his friend with a smile which wasn't genuine. " sure, I'm not. if you're aren't telling me then I won't let you get a peaceful sleep" Ramone said, " well then suit yourself" Aiden said and turned to the other side of the bed, he knew his friend would soon get angry and leave and he did. He sat back up, " why are you so loyal to king Lucio?" the question Ramone asked him kept ringing in his head. It happened a very long time ago, what happened? the incident that made Aiden so very loyal to king Lucio.

A little Aiden was in his room with his parents when they was a noise outside, his father stood up to check the the trouble" I'll be back" he told Aiden and his mother as he left not knowing that those were going to be his last words to them. Soon the noise got louder and Aiden's mom said " I think I need to check your father, stay here " she said but as she stood up to leave, some men barged into the room. " who are you?, get out!" his mother said as she hid him behind her then they threw a body on the floor next to her feet. The body was covered in blood and his mother screamed in horror when she recognized him as his father, she knelt down and began to sob. " what have you done?" she said as her claws and fangs came out, she now knew that they were Witches and they killed her husband because he was working with the king who chose to marry a witch and the witches were not happy with their alliance. "what do you want?, at least spare my son and I " his mother pleaded with them but they didn't listen and laughed at her. She kept shaking his father telling him to wake up when one of the witches stabbed her. Aiden watched his mother bleed to death, demons could heal quickly from wounds but the dagger used to stab her was poisoned. As young as he was, he knew these people were dangerous but it was already too late they were walking towards him, the one with the dagger came closer to him then suddenly a huge serpent appeared behind them and ate them. Great as if dying in the hands of the witches wasn't good enough, he was going to be killed by a serpent. The serpent shifted back to human form and approached the frightened boy, " don't worry, young man you're safe with me" he said as he gestured for the boy to come with him. Aiden hesitated for a while before getting over his fears and following the man. For years Aiden grew with the fact that witches killed his parents and the Shakira saved him, Lucio who later became king took good care of him and made him a killing machine, Aiden remained ever loyal to his master who made him his right hand man. Aiden was always given various missions and he executed them all perfectly, even though others thought having a demon in the Shakira clan was a bad idea, King Lucio trusted Aiden even though he easily provoked the king. Aiden remembered all the missions he had executed for his master, he had helped him destroy the kingdom of Aretha. A Shakira could not enter a demons home unless someone let them in and that was what they had Aiden do for since he was a demon, he could recall what a maid told him before she was taken away as a prisoner " you betray your own kind, it will all come back to you one day and you will regret this". Sure he would, 12 years had passed by and nothing happened except now he was given a mission to kill the princess of that same kingdom, maybe it will come back to him, the princess might be waiting to have her revenge. He wasn't happy to wipe out an entire family but he shouldn't get involved in their business, they were unlucky. He closed his eyes trying to get some sleep before venturing into the human world tonight.

Aiden woke up just on time although demons didn't need much sleep, he needed to since he was going to hardly get any executing his task. He took his bath and dressed up the human way, he had been there a couple of times, now what to do with his hair. He told Sarah to make a ponytail and called Ramone in his head, demons could do that. Ramone appeared really quickly but wasn't ready " you can come whenever you are ready I have a task" Aiden said ,"more like a death mission for someone else " Ramone said as he went through Aiden's clothes. " what are you doing?" Aiden asked studying his friend clothes. " I thought since I was going to the human world I should dress like them" Ramone replied, " don't you have their clothing?" Aiden asked him. " I do but I left them there, you don't want me to look odd, do you?" Ramone said. Aiden didn't want to argue with Ramone and teleported himself to the human world " whoever would be the princess of Aretha would be so unlucky" Ramone said as he watched his friend vanish. when Aiden arrived at the human world, it was morning just as planned and now it was time for business.