The next day.
Gelda, Orlondi and Ellaira were walking towards the castle and telling different stories from their lives, and Orlondi was telling what happened to them when they got free. They reached there and there Meliodas was waiting for them.
- Where are the others? - Gelda asked.
- Sleeping, it's still only six o'clock. Do you like to get up so early? - Meliodas asked.
- We're early birds, said Gelda with a grin.
- Why aren't you up then? - Ella asked.
- I can't sleep. And, in fact, I always get up like this, maybe sometimes later, but mostly Mel answered.
- Right. Shit, I forgot to pick something up.
- But you didn't- Orlondi didn't finish, Orlondi said as Gelda shut him up.
- We'll be quick, bye, Gelda said and ran round the corner. Our couple looked in surprise at the fleeing Gelda.
- Maybe we should go for a walk? - Meliodas suggested.
- I wouldn't mind. Especially since it's a nice day, Ella said.
- Come on then, I know a great place near Camelot, Meliodas said with a smile.
- Come on then, said Ella and they walked towards the exit of the kingdom. - Meliodas, this is obviously a personal question for you, but why do I feel a powerful aura from you?
- May be because I'm strong?
- No, no.
- 'I don't know,' Meliodas said, shrugging his shoulders, but he was actually hiding a very important truth from her, as well as everyone else. He didn't want to be feared, especially by Ella.
Meliodas' POV
For many years, I have kept this secret, hiding it from everyone. Afraid of falling in love with someone, but still giving in to the feelings. Liz, Elizabeth. How I loved them. But Elizabeth's betrayal broke my black heart.
- "I'm sorry, Lord Meliodas, but I don't love you. I love someone else and I'm going to live with him."
After everything I've done to her, it's like a knife in the back and a huge scar on my heart. I never thought she could do that. And then, a month later, here it is again. It's like fate repeating itself. Bringing her back together after all those years of wandering pointlessly around Britain. The same meeting, the same ridiculous conversation.
- I'll never give up on someone like you! You're good, not bad Meliodas! You've come! Meliodas?! Meliodas...
These words echo in my memory. It was that meeting that turned my whole life upside down and made it meaningful. I'd been choking on my love for Elizabeth just to forget her loss. And then you reappear in my life, but without a memory.
It was raining. The corpses of slain soldiers, both allied and enemy, lay all around, but the battle continued. Someone could hear everywhere the scraping of metal and the death cries of warriors, but it was as if I didn't hear it and saw nothing but her. I couldn't protect her. If I had gone with her then, this wouldn't be happening now. It's a sin I can't atone for in front of her. I bowed my head to her and paid no attention to anything. Not even my own wounds.
- "Meliodas, promise me that one day we will definitely meet again, that you will wait for my return," Ella said, lying in my arms with a huge wound in her chest, but looking up at me with a smile.
- "I promise I will wait for you, just come back to me," I said, trying to smile somehow, but it was not working well with the accumulated anger, pain and bitterness of future loss.
- "Then we shall surely meet again, my beloved Meliodas," she said, putting her hand to my cheek. I squeezed her hand and cried for so many years of insensibility. - "Don't cry, I'll come back. I promise you," she said with a smile on her face and I felt her hand loosen.
- "No, please don't leave me. I'm nothing without you," I said as I pulled her breathless body against me. But is it possible to get anything in return from the dead? No. Anger consumed me. - Huh?!
That day I lost everything: my beloved girl, the meaning of life, even the emotions she gave me. All I could do was cradle her dead body in my arms and cry my heart out for her loss. I won't survive if you leave me again. I will protect you at all costs and help you remember everything from years ago. I won't let you disappear from my life again.
End of Meliodas' POV
They were in a forest clearing with a large lake until lunchtime. Meliodas was telling how they had suddenly become outlaws, and Ella listened to him intently. Ellaira grabbed herself at the thought that she was enjoying being in Meliodas' company more than with the other guys she had dated.
Ellaira's POV
As I listen to his fascinating story about the past, when they were considered criminals, and how they became heroes, I feel captivated. t and listen.. But I catch myself thinking that I really like being around him. I've dated a lot of guys, but none of them have ever given me that feeling of comfort and security. He makes me feel weak and helpless. I've always been able to take a punch in the face or between the legs when I've dated guys. But with him, it's like I've forgotten all the ills of the world that happened to me. How could Elizabeth leave him? He's free now, though, so maybe he should try. No, it's not worth it. He obviously still loves her, and I don't want to make him love me. Then at least be friends.
- You're not interested? - Meliodas asked. Am I wondering?!
- What? Oh, no, I'm interested. I'm just thinking about something. By the way, don't have the others lost us? - I asked.
- Um, I think so. It's lunchtime, Meliodas said. He stood up and gave me a hand. I accepted his help and stood up, too. We walked back to the inn.
-When are you going to look for an Escanor? - I asked a question. No, seriously, I'm curious.
- So I'm thinking now. And besides, you're coming with us, so I don't see the problem, ni-shi-shi. He laughed, putting his hands behind his head.
- Yeah, I agree, I agreed, looking ahead.
- By the way, shouldn't you and Gelda go shopping for clothes? We can't wear the same clothes all the time.
- If you hadn't reminded me, I would have forgotten, I said, looking at him with a smile.
- You're welcome, he said with a smile. Ten minutes later, we reached the inn. I was immediately jumped on by Gelda and Diana.
- Where have you been for so long? - Gelda asked.
- Was that idiot hitting on you? - Diana asked.
- Guys, stop! I stopped them loudly, and they stopped talking.
- We were in a clearing in the woods near Camelot. And no, he wasn't hitting on me. And, Gelda, we're going shopping. Diana, are you coming with us?
- Yes!
- Wait, Meliodas said and quickly dashed into the inn and just as quickly back out again. - Here, that'll do. Diana's not on you. You've got one.
- Captain, you're a cheapskate! - said Diana with offence.
- 'Come on, Diana,' said Gelda, taking her by the hand and dragging her into the centre of the kingdom, with me by their side.
The sentence is already in the active voice. There is no need to convert it to the active voice..
- No one has spoilt you Diana, it's just that we still have the money Arthur gave us, I said, showing the bag of money and played with my eyebrows.
- Great, Diana said.
- Come on, girls, let's get fancy, said Gelda.
- Oh, yeah, we said and gave each other high fives.
We went shopping for a long time, and I couldn't find the right pyjamas. One was too big, the other looked like a bag, and I'm not even going to mention the third one.
- I think we'll be lucky here, said Gelda.
- I think so, too, said Diana.
They dragged me in there and started picking me out.
- Ella, it's all the same, isn't it? Blue, white, grey and other bright colours? - Gelda asked.
- Yeah, I said, looking at the pyjamas.
- Oh, I found some! Try them on! - Diana said, and before I knew it, I was in the fitting room. All right. I quickly changed and showed myself to the girls. The pyjamas fit me like I made them for me. - Perfect! We'll take it! Change! - She pushed me into the fitting room again. She'll never change with that attitude. I quickly changed and gave my pyjamas to the salesman. The girls and I walked back and started talking.
- So you're travelling with us now. I'm finally not alone.
- But then there's Merlin, Gelda said.
- She's always in the lab.
- It must be boring, living like this, huh? - I asked.
- You wouldn't believe how boring. By the way, Ella, what did you say to Meliodas to make him so cheerful? - Diana asked.
- What do you mean?
- Literally. After Elizabeth left him, he felt depressed, but he was very good at hiding it.. He was like that even when we arrived in Camelot, and now it's as if he's come round again. What did you say to him? - Diana explained and asked.
- I don't know what you mean. I didn't tell him anything, I said, and then I felt a powerful aura coming from the east. This ominous aura — what could it be? The earthquake started suddenly and then stopped just as abruptly.
- What does it mean? - Gelda asked.
- I don't know, I answered. Hmm. It was as if I'd felt this kind of force before, but when...? Half an hour later, there was another jolt.
- What is it this time? - Gelda said. Another jolt, but this time stronger.
- Girls, we have a problem, I said, looking in the direction I felt the force coming from.
- What is it? That ominous aura... said Diana.
- Quickly run to the inn! - I said, and we ran towards the inn. There was another jolt, so strong that we even fell down. - What the hell is that? - What can it be? I turned my head. - Lord, have mercy, I said, as I saw a huge stone creature at least fifty metres high.
- What is it? - Gelda asked.
- I don't know, I said, and then it growled, and I thought it looked at us. - Girls, let's go! - I said, and I stood up quickly, and so did they. We ran away from him. But then I saw him swinge in our direction. - Run!