He's Mine

On their way back, Misty saw a street vendor selling sweet potatoes, she went ahead a bought three pieces. Handing one to the drunk Brock and holding the other two, she went straight to Asher Heart's study.

DHAAM

She opened the door loudly and in front of her sat, the demon lord with his long lashes, looking at some documents turning the pages, he looked up at her.

Another man stood by the table's side, he was wearing bright red clothes, his hair was brown in color and he had a bandana tied around his forehead. Seeing Misty, he leapt towards her encircling around her looking at her from every angle, "Ahh, my lord is she your mistress?" He spoke looking inquisitively towards her.

"Sigh, she is the girl I was talking about earlier, idiot." Asher Heart sighed heavily.

"Heya young lady, the name's Lart Carlon." He spoke smiling brightly, extending his hand.

Misty shook hands with him and introduced herself, Lart is a cheeky person, he has many ways to keep the conversation, changing topics after sometime and cracking some jokes in between. Misty found him extremely cute whenever he pouted while cracking jokes. Asher Heart was still sitting on the table, looking through documents. His mouth didn't even twitch when Lart joked on him or anyone else.

After looking at some documents, he stood up and instructed Lart, "Go ahead, today everyone can take off early, have some family time at home." He handed the documents, Lart jumped up, "Really!!! Thanks a lot, my lord, you know too well, we all have been working till our butt's all flat, you are really great."

Listening to his reaction, Misty first remembered Brock's reaction in morning and thought that they were really working their ass out. She sighed and waited till Lart had left the room. Asher Heart sat down again, picking up some documents from his right side, skimming through them.

Misty looked at him for some time and then placed the sweet potatoes in front of him.

"Here, have them while they are still hot." She said taking one out of the bag and sitting on the chair in front of him.

"You can just call me Ash." He spoke after looking at her for a while.

Misty's fox ears perked up; she was waving her tail frantically, on the inside she was extremely happy since other than Brock she hasn't heard anyone calling him Ash.

"Alright...." She said smiling brightly but in the corner of her heart she felt a bit difficult too, was it really okay for her to call THE demon lord so closely?

Putting those thoughts aside, Misty started blabbering about her day out, she spoke enthusiastically, Ash was a man of less words, he didn't speak a lot but he still looked at her intently in between making some random remarks about Brock, Misty felt like it was very cute and funny at the same time, just from his remarks she could make out that he and Brock were very close. 

After finishing her potato, she stood up and was about to leave when Ash called her out,

"Misty, wanna go to the night festival?"

Her name from his mouth made Misty blank for a minute, his voice was already great to listen to, moreover that deep voice speaking her name so closely, she could feel her cheeks burn up.

"Sure." She turned back and spoke smiling beautifully.

Ash stood up and went towards her, he brushed away some hair strands from her face and went ahead near the door, Misty was stunned for a moment and felt her heart race up a bit. Thinking back now, Misty was quite attached to this person in just two days, he has been taking care of her, helping her in adjusting and has been very vigilant about her comfort and all, but right now Misty was feeling embarrassed, not because she hasn't been of much help but because of some other reason.... which she herself didn't want to know.

"Ah, do you wanna take Brock with us?" Ash asked looking at her confused state.

Misty abruptly said, "No." She herself didn't knew it, but deep down she wanted to be alone with this man.

"Then let's meet after half an hour, you should also go and freshen up." Ash said while opening door.

"Okay." She spoke and went ahead to her room.

Both of them later met in the garden in front of the castle gates.

Ash wore a black colored T-shirt with black pants, Misty wore some bright red flared short skirt accompanied with a three-fourth legging and a pair of flat shoes.

Ash looked at her for a while.

At night, the streets were even more bustling than the day time, many couples were walking past them hand in hand. A person was blowing fire from his mouth, entertaining the customers and showing daring moves, as they were moving, Misty saw a giant wheel in front and looked up at Ash with sparkly eyes, wanting him to make suggestion of riding it, Ash understood her intensions well and went ahead buying tickets for the ride, they sat on the giant wheel and Misty was smiling brightly looking at the scenery from such height, they could see the whole town area showered with light and laughter of children.

After that they went ahead to see an opera, the place was crowded very much and people were moving to and fro from all directions, unconsciously Misty wrapped her hands around Ash's arm. After realizing it herself, she wanted to retreat but a huge blow came from behind, apparently a huge man just went by their side, shoving everyone here and there in his vicinity, Misty was about to fall when a pair of strong arms held her waist

'!!'  

She was shocked at first but then realized that Ash was holding her, bringing her close to him, Misty also placed her hands over his chest.

Trying to change her focus, she looked up at the stage trying to shift her concentration there. But inevitably her eyes again fell on Ash's face, he was not looking at her and had his attention on the stage, the actors on stage were performing dance depicting stories of a woman and man, fighting for their love from the world, in the end of the play, the man died protecting the woman, later woman moved on from him and met another man, marrying him she started her own family.

Misty was quite confused by the play, aren't operas about first true love and even if the man dies, the next instant woman always drinks poison to end her life as well?

While she was collecting all this information-

BHAAMMM

She was startled, at some distance in the forest huge flames could be seen, she was panicked and looked up at Ash, his eyes showed no movements towards the forest and even the people around them didn't seem to be bothered by this, slowly punching Ash on his chest, Misty whispered, "Shouldn't you go and check over that place?"

Ash seemed to tighten his hands around her waist and spelled something under his breath.

The next instant, Misty's head was spinning and she held her head, "Don't worry, you'll be accustomed to it in no time." Ash spoke helping her up.

"What was that exactly?" She spoke, looking around. They were in the forest and the area from where the flames rose was just in front of them.

An ogre and a vampire were fighting all over the place, some other people or one should say ogres, vampires, witches, cyclops, goblins and all different species of demons were shouting and howling excitedly at the fight scene.

"Just as humans celebrate festivals, even demons do." Ash said walking ahead.

Misty followed him, enchanted by the view even though she has seen the demon parties in modern world but in front of this, they were nothing.

Looking at the new visitors, everyone was happy, bringing them cakes and wine to drink, Ash didn't say much but Misty was happy, first she got to have fun in human's party and now she was able to play along the demons.

Looking at her, Ash really did think that it was all good till the time she was happy, he himself knew that he was quite vigilant of her but he didn't think much about it.... probably...he didn't want to lose someone close to him again....

Some women were enchanted by this man's beauty and went ahead, asking Ash several questions, whether he had a girlfriend or whether he was interested spending some quality time with them. Pushing them all aside, a woman came near him and grabbed his arms, squishing her almost revealed bosoms on him.

Misty had already seen many women surrounding Ash and looking at his frowns, she wanted to help him out. But as soon as she saw that woman, in corner of her heart, she was feeling a bit bitter.

She went towards them and tried to bring that woman along with her to enjoy the show in front, but the woman was heedless, looking at the current situation, Misty could not hold it in anymore, pulling Ash towards herself, "Miss, please keep your distance from someone else's man."

Everyone in the crowd was stunned, there were even some officials who knew Ash already and hadn't greeted them at Ash's command. The people around started whispering against the woman.

"Look at her, flirting till the woman was all flustered." One said keeping a hand in front of his mouth.

"Yeah, isn't she a bit too slutty." The other said.

Misty was lamenting inside of what did she just say??

Gathering all her courage, she looked up at Ash, he was speechless and had a hand over his head, trying to play along, Ash pulled her into his embrace and reverted her words back with all his might. Looking at his expression right now one could say that this might have been the first time he has done something like this. All the other times, he either used to endure them or throw them away.

Misty held his hand and then both of them hastily went into the forest, Misty's face was all red and none of them tried to speak first, but afterwards, "Pfft."

Misty heard a very small chuckle behind her, the so-called demon lord had covered half of his face with his hand and was laughing, even it was just for a second, but Misty definitely saw it. All flustered by what they just did she also started laughing.

Later, the air between them again subsided down and both of them decided to go back to castle.

Ash saw Misty till her room and then went back to his study. Misty also lied on her back and tucked one of the pillows in her arms tightly chuckling and then feeling flustered of the fun she had today. 

-To Be Continued-