On My Way: The Demon King Made Me His

Aqua was in the middle of the dessert. She took the direction to the border to the Celestial Palace first. She was determined this time. She had put on the thick clothes and used the burka to cover her face well except the eyes. She was also wearing hat covering her face. She had the necessary weapon she remembered to take from Huo'er wardrobe  before she took off and her own crystal sword. She walked through the dessert, without apparating, to save all of her energy, that would needed to fight any time. "You wait for it," she said and took steps. 

Aqua reached the village gates of the heaven and walked through the streets. It was crowded as usual with fairies and beings. She walked towards a food stall and settled down near the few military officers she saw having their lunch. She tried to eavesdrop at their conversation. 

"It's tiring working at the palace these days, lucky you, you got a transfer, look at me, working without break, I had to lie and take leave today to put relax, my hips and knees hurt like anything these day sitting and  standing all day at court," he kept complaining. A guy in a dull gray and navy blue costume. He also had worn a head band. He did not look young. 

"Lucky my foot," the other one sitting opposite the first guy said. Marching 24/7 you think its funny?" 

"Why are they making us all do this?" First guy asked the second and third with full of frustrations.

"Tell me about it, a friend of mine is travelling to the woods everyday, carrying dead girls' bodies. It has become a burial ground now, I was told that the maids are scared to serve his majesty, and his concubines keep distance with him now," third guy told the others. 

"What's happening inside the palace?" The three sat and wondered. 

Aqua sipped her tea and had the steamed buns she ordered silently and got up from the stool after making the payment.

She was immersed in her thoughts. It sounded like how Tai is not himself anymore. Emperor appeared to have lost his mind, to her that's what it sounded like. Unreasonable killing and changing palace officials and guards. It sounded cruel and hurtful. Aqua's blood boiled inside her veins. She went down, along the streets to hear news from the people and slowly walked towards the Celestial Palace. 

The guards rushed towards her. But she fought them all in a single move and everyone fell on the ground with broken bones at different parts of their body. She walked in the gates with a smile. She looked for Tai straight. She went inside the court and stood at the empty hall, looking around, the place she had visited often, all her life with her father next to her, guiding her. She saw her old self standing beside her father waiting for the Emperor, smiling and bowing at him, reporting him about her progress in cultivation. Aqua couldn't help but let a drop of tear slide down her cheek. She walked towards the throne. The golden chair with all the gems and metals embellished. She circled around the throne, slowly running her hands through it. She smirked. All of a sudden, she was moved by the greatest ambition she had ever been hit with. "Take the throne," her voice in her mind said. "Take it away from him," She kept the smirk on the face and walked forward and she settled down on the throne, her legs crossed, one over the other, she changed her costume but she lacked her tiara, she threw away the veil and the burka. She sat there in her blue and white gown, shoulderless and flawless, her free hair lying on the back. She sat with a smile, a satisfaction. She was not scared but angry. She was not afraid of Tai nor any powers in the universe. She sat there, looking straight, as she counted along. The hour glass on the right side of her, kept on the table ran out. She turned them around. And in seconds, he appeared, the Celestial King, Emperor Tai. He kicked the doors open and stood fuming with anger. He saw her. He found her sitting on his throne bravely. 

"Ha," he walked in. He fake laughed. "Darling, you are back again, I was worried about you," he said. 

"Really, oh sorry i made you worried uncle," she said back in the same sarcastic tone he spoke to her. 

"How are you?" He asked her, taking one step at a time towards her. 

"Why do you look worried Uncle Tai?" She kept addressing him as Uncle.  "You're sweating," she said.

"No am fine, be careful while you sit there, it will burn you," he warned her casually. 

"Does it?" She asked looking at the handle if the throne and tapped it. "Its strong, I liked it, am wondering about owning it," she laughed and raised her brows.

"Enough Aqua," he raised his voice. 

"Why? Are you angry? Does it irritate you? Is it irritating?" 

"My silly girl, you don't even know who you are playing with," he said. Aqua laughed loudly. She did not stop. 

"Oh I absolutely know that am here wasting my time talking to a fake Phoenix, how do I know that?' She asked him, still remaining in the throne itself. "My dear Uncle Tai, did you enjoy when you killed my parents?" She went straight to the topic. 

"You," he said and clenched his fists and gritted his teeth. "You, I will teach you a lesson," he said and took out his sword. He let the sword punch straight into her heart. But Aqua took out her crystals and when he reached her heart, the crystals resisted them, keeping the swords a step away from her. The pressure made the sword shiver. Aqua walked forward and thr sword moving backward as she took each step, her crystals covering her like a shield. "You think you can kill me just like that? Did you forget that I was created as your weapon for some stupid cause?" She asked him. The golden sword fell down on her feet. She picked up the sword and touched the blade. "Blunt," she said. "Why does it not still work for you? it looks untamed," she angered the Emperor trying to the words out if his mouth, offendinghim. But he was tight lipped. And out of the blue, she threw the sword at his direction and Tai was shocked and shut his eyes tight. But Aqua had stopped the sword when it reached right in front of his face. She put her arms down and the golden sword fell on the ground. Tai took the immediately and out them back on it's sheath. Aqua understood how it is not the real golden sword of the Phoenix, the one that attacked her months back. This appeared to be the real sword of the fake Phoenix. Or else it wouldn't have been able to tame it no time. 

"Where is my family?" She asked him. 

"You want to know that, I see," he said. He had sweat on his head and neck. He pretended to be fine. 

"You know sometimes I can't help but think what a je..." but Aqua was stopped.

"Don't people of Water Realm adore water and sea?

"You, what did you do?"

"You parents must have had high hopes on you, thinking you would save him, but the daughter let them down, they had no allies in the end, everybody turned against them," he went on. "Alone and nowhere to find shelter, go back to where you came from, Water, isn't that the right choice. The centre of the storm..."

"You buried them at the storm's eye, buried them at sea," she said. Her eyes filled with tears, holding them back, fighting her own heart. 'No I cannot break down, not now, not in front of him,' she told herself. Storm's eye is the centre, the deeper side of the sea the Aquatic beasts circle and hunt for food. "You bastard," she said. 

"Angry now?" He asked her back. 

"Why would I be?" She covered up and smiled. But his words echoed inside her head. 

'Alone and nowhere to find shelter, go back where you came from,Water,' she smiled. It was a success. The tricks worked well. 

"Thank you, I have to say," she said. 

"What?" He got confused see her calm expression. He expected her to busrt with anger but she was unusually cool.

"You don't know how to  choose your words fo you," she said. Some guards by that time ran toward her, to get her. "You think you can contain me in your prison?" She questioned him. The guards reached her. But with a snap of her finger she disappeared and stood behind the the Emperor. "Am here," she said. Emporer Tai turned to face and the guards ran back towards her again. "Beware," Aqua said in a hoarse voice. "It is all just the beginning,"

she snapped her finger again. She disappeared into thin air just like that. Before she did, she remembered to deliver a letter to the Empress asking her to meet up with her soon. Emperor Tai did not even get a second of time to hold her.