She Belongs To The Devil

"She should have put up the barrier by now," God thought to himself and then used his divine vision to see the Wyverndale Palace.

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"What?" God opened his eyes feeling very confused. "I can see the barrier around the Palace… I can even see the Palace but… Why can\'t I see anyone inside the Palace? Not even a bee! Is something wrong with me?"

He took a deep breath in and then closed his eyes again. He used his divine vision again to peek past the barrier that the Goddess had created.

However, he couldn\'t see anything, neither the people inside the barrier nor his precious granddaughter.

He furiously opened his eyes again and growled, "Asherah! What have you done?"

He instantly tried to teleport inside the Wyverndale Palace. But as he had suspected, he couldn\'t teleport there as well.

And in an attempt to break the barrier put up by his wife, he teleported outside the Wyverndale Palace. But without the usual extravagant display of his power.

"How am I supposed to watch over and guide Ariel if I cannot even see or meet her?" he was furiously mumbling to himself as he slammed his hand on the barrier.

The celestials who were inside the barrier were able to feel his presence.

"He is outside, isn\'t he?" Theodore\'s eyes were burning with rage when he felt their father\'s presence.

Azriel was equally angry when he felt that powerful aura of their father which he was shamelessly exuding and was not even trying to hide.

Azriel glanced towards the area from where they were sensing his aura and gritted from between his teeth, "Yes, I can smell his tyrannical aura right up in my throat."

The Goddess smiled and then said in an almost believable voice, "I think he is here to check the sturdiness of the barrier. Isn\'t he lovely?"

"I\'m not going to let him meet Ariel though. If that is why he came here." Theodore clenched his fists and growled, "Not just meet, I won\'t even let him see her."

The Goddess kept on giving that faint and serene smile to Theodore. And she said while walking towards Adeline and Theodore\'s quarter, "Don\'t worry. He won\'t be able to see Ariel unless she walks out of the Palace boundaries."

And she casually said, "If you don\'t want him to see her then don\'t take her out."

"Right." Theodore absentmindedly nodded his head but then quickly came back to his senses. He caught up to his mother and then asked in a surprised voice, "He won\'t be able to see Ariel when she is inside? Wh-Why? How?"

The Goddess gave a smug smile and then replied, "The barrier that I just put up is spy-proof. They won\'t be able to see any living being inside the Palace boundaries. And as the celestials cannot enter inside, they can never know what is going on inside here. Not even my husband."

Theodore stopped in order to process what his mother just said. And he happily jumped to hug his mother. "Thank you so much, mother! I was worried about him always watching over Ariel. She has already shown so much promise and I feared that he would–"

Bang!

A loud sound resounded throughout the area as if there was an explosion nearby.

"That he would do something like this," Theodore turned his head in the direction from where the noise came from and then sighed.

Everyone stopped walking and glanced in the same direction.

They weren\'t able to see what God was doing from the place they were standing at. But they all could guess what he was trying to do.

God was pouring his power and was making an effort to break that barrier that was trying to separate him from his granddaughter.

The Goddess, on the other hand, smiled because she knew that he wouldn\'t be able to break it unless he decided to destroy the whole place.

"There\'s no need to worry about him. Pay no attention," The Goddess reassured her worried sons. She then simply waves her hand and minimized the explosion noise so that the people inside the Palace wouldn\'t get scared.

The explosion sound was still faintly audible to the ones with sharp hearing though.

When the explosion sound didn\'t stop for quite some time, Adeline was worried that God was angry at them for hiding inside the barrier. And that he was trying to break the barrier so that he could once again wage a war with his wife and his sons for no particular reason.

She was feeling like a fugitive even when they had done nothing wrong.

Azriel also felt the same way as Adeline. And he asked his mother, "Mother, are you sure there is no need to worry about him? It doesn\'t sound like he is just trying to check the durability of the barrier. It sounds like he is trying to annihilate it."

"As I told you earlier, he is checking the durability. Don\'t worry about it." The Goddess had that constant smile on her face as she confidently said that.

Her serene voice and soft smile were somewhat soothing down the fear of Adeline.

"Let\'s go and meet Ariel. I would love to meet her before I go." The Goddess started to head towards the quarter again.

And the three celestials also followed her.

God kept on trying to break the barrier in his blinding fury. He didn\'t care if the humans were able to see his glow or if they were scared of his continuous attack on the barrier. All he cared about at that moment was breaking the barrier and scolding his wife.

However, no matter how much he tried, he was unsuccessful in his attempts. And the feeling of powerlessness enraged him even more.

He was the most superior being in the universe but his wife was not any inferior to him in terms of power.

And it felt maddening to him, the sense of powerlessness and the sense of inferiority. "I shouldn\'t have trusted you with the task of putting up the barrier. I should have done it myself!" .net

Feeling defeated as well as betrayed by his wife, he vanished from there while thinking, "I will ask her to take down this stupid barrier once she returns home. We are going to have a long chat today."

When the Goddess finally stopped hearing the explosion noise, she was certain of one thing, "He definitely has some hidden agenda. Else why would he get so worked up when I conceal the home of the son that he once wanted to kill."

"He wants Ariel for some grand scheme of his…" The Goddess could guess what that grand scheme was. "He is tired of playing house and now he wants Ariel to be his replacement."

"Else why would he try to conceal Ariel\'s powers from Michael? He could have simply denied it to him if he didn\'t have any intention of bringing Ariel to Heaven."

The Goddess then sighed and thought resolutely, "I am not going to let you taint my precious granddaughter\'s mind with your grand plan and unnecessary burden."