Seohwa rubbed her eyes sleepily as she sat up on the bed. It's quite early in the morning, Seohwa is, like her mother, an early-bird. Yonghwa was surprised when he saw the little demon girl already jumping out of his bed when he entered his bedroom.

"Appa~" she greeted sleepily, walking slowly to Yonghwa.

Yonghwa smiled sheepishly. Being called a 'dad' is a magical feeling he can't describe somehow. He kneeled down on one of his knees and open both of his arms, letting his daughter hug him good morning. "Good morning to you too, princess." he smiled, kissing Seohwa's cheeks.

He lifted Seohwa up to his arms, slowly peeking out from his room to another hallway on his floor. He ran out from his room and let out his scaly edgy black wings and fly down to the first floor. Seohwa hugging him close, gripping his suit tight. Her eyes showing so many questions she wants to ask him.

Seohwa landed on the ground after Yonghwa put her down. He then grabbed her small hand and lead her to a door that she doesn't like one bit. Nor its color, its shape, or its smell. But since her dad is leading her in there, she obeyed without complaints.

When the door opened, Seohwa couldn't see anything in there, partially because it's really dark in there. Gripping Yonghwa's hand tighter, the two walked down the stairs from the door that lead them to a long, dark, dusty hallway.

"It smells like blood in here." Seohwa whined, jumping up and down with her hands up, asking Yonghwa to carry her instead.

He smiled, understanding how scared the little demon girl must've been. True enough, there are so many blood spilled in there before. Many lost their lives in that place. Seohwa must've sensed that it's not a playground down there. Without hesitation, Yonghwa picked up the little demon girl into his arms, walking further from the door.

When they almost reached the end of the hallway, Yonghwa stopped. Seohwa who's been hiding her face in the crook of Yonghwa's neck looked up. Looking around, her eyes locked at a figure that's standing behind bars, locking her up.

"Umma!" Seohwa called happily, completely forgetting that she's inside a demon's dungeon.

Seohyun who was absentmindedly walking back and forth looking at the ground smiled at the voice who called her. She immediately run to the door of her cell, shaking the bars to open it. "Seohwa-yah~" she called back cheerfully.

Yonghwa make sure Seohwa held tight to him as he only held her in one arm. Another arm of his taking the keys that's hanging on the wall to open the lock on Seohyun's cell door. With a click, the door opened.

As if she never learns from her mistakes, Seohyun tried running out from her cell again, and like the past two times she tried, she was thrown backwards again. Yonghwa can only sigh and Seohwa looked at the two of them in confusion. Yonghwa put Seohwa down and the second he did, Seohwa ran into the cell, jumping to hug her mother.

Seohyun hugged her back. "You seriously have to tell umma if you want to go to somebody's house. I was really worried." she scolded the little demon.

"I left you a letter." Seohwa defended herself, only to look down in shame when Seohyun glared at her.

Yonghwa couldn't stop himself from smiling slightly at the sight of his two favorite girls in the world. He spun around and walked out from the cell.

A little hand stopped him. "Where are you going, appa?" he turned around to see Seohwa pulling him back into the cell and forced him to sat down on the dirty ground of the cell.

"You go have fun with your umma." Yonghwa told her as he get ready to stand up again. Fortunately, Seohwa is faster as she sat herself down on Yonghwa's lap, preventing him from getting up.

"No! You have to play with me and umma too!" she pouted cutely, making Yonghwa fell for everything. "Umma! This is my appa!" Seohwa announced, poking Yonghwa's cheeks. "You know him!"

Seohyun smiled and sat in front of them, nodding. "Yes, I know him." she replied, locking her gaze with Yonghwa's only to have the latter looking away from her.

"Appa! This is my umma!" Seohwa introduced Seohyun this time. "You know her too, right?"

Yonghwa nodded stiffly, not replying anything. On the other hand, Seohwa looks quite satisfied with his nod and smiled widely. When the little demon girl didn't say anything, the silence between them feels so awkward.

But then Seohwa looks around the filthy cell, with spider webs at the corner of the ceilings, a rat hole, and also a mountain of sticks that looks like used to be bones piled at a certain corner of the room. She turned to his appa. "Appa, why are you keeping umma in a place like this?"

Both Seohyun and Yonghwa's eyes opened widely at the question.They exchanged looks, ignoring their daughter's confused look, looking back and forth to the two of them in curiosity. Seohwa suspected they're talking with their minds.

Seohyun decided that she should answer that question. "Umma is an angel, remember? The only place the angels are welcomed in Underworld is in this place." she explained, hoping not to offend Yonghwa.

"But that's ridiculous. I'm an angel and I'm allowed to-" Seohwa stopped herself abruptly, looking down on her dress and finding it still black. She touch her head and felt a pair of horns on top of it. Without knowing it herself, she started crying silently, slowly standing up and run to her mother's arms instead.

It hurts Yonghwa's feelings.

"It's okay, baby. Nothing changed." Seohyun patted Seohwa's head as the latter cried into her neck. "You're still as pretty and as nice as before."

She sniffed loudly. "But now my angel friends won't play with me anymore. They'll think I'm a bad naughty demon. Then they'll put me in the demon class with the other naughty demons. Sure Leo and Hyunwoo aren't that bad. But still, I saw a demon kid stabbing his friend in the eye with pencil the other day-"

"PENCIL IN THE EYE?!" Seohyun exclaimed in surprise, looking at Yonghwa in disbelief.

Yonghwa huffed angrily and walked out the cell. "We demons play rudely that way because nobody taught us how to show our affection. It's not our fault! I'm not going to say sorry because we can play worse than that."

Shocked, Seohyun put Seohwa down and stood up. "Excuse me, but I don't want my daughter playing like that!"

"But your daughter is a demon now and what can we do about that?!"

The demon shook his head to calm himself down when he saw Seohwa hiding herself behind her mother's legs, probably scared of him now. He sighed. It seems that everything he was doing is all wrong. He squatted down and opened his arms for Seohwa.

For a second there, Seohwa really thought that her father hates her. But as he asked for a hug, she only took a second to stare before running into his arms.

"I'm sorry, sweety. Appa is just frustrated. I-" he couldn't say anything else as he saw Seohyun staring at them with tears in her eyes.

"Appa, did I hurt your feelings?" Seohwa asked in a small low voice. "I'm sorry but I don't like it being a demon. I don't want to be hated like most demons."

Understanding, Yonghwa nodded a few times. He ruffled the demon girl's hair. "You kinda did, but I get it. Being a demon ." he chuckled to himself, Seohyun smiling at him. "I kinda wish I'm not a demon either sometimes. But what can I do? I was born a demon. And you are too now, Seohwa." he announced sadly.

It wasn't something that Seohwa wants to hear. Annoyed, she pulled away from Yonghwa and ran away, far away, out of the underground dungeon, probably up to the bedroom. Seohyun tried running after her, but (like usual) she was thrown backwards back to her cell.

"Must be your stubborn genes." Yonghwa blamed. "It was one of the reasons I loved you back then though." he absentmindedly added.

Seohyun couldn't help but smile bitterly. "And the fact that you're so blunt is one of the reasons I love you until now."

He looked at her with wide eyes. Seohyun sighed and understood that it wasn't the right time to talk about their relationship by then.

Their daughter has just ran away from them, upset that she's a demon and Seohyun herself is locked in a small cubic of a disgusting cell of an underground dungeon with no way to escape. There are always things that come first than their relationship that it sickens both of them.

Both Yonghwa and Seohyun fell into silence. It wasn't uncomfortable but it wasn't exactly comfortable either. He was staring at her and she was staring back at him, it feels foreign to do that again but at the same time it feels like home.

"Can I just asked you one thing?" Seohyun started. Yonghwa nodded. "Do you still love me?"

"No." was Yonghwa's firm answer.

It wasn't something she didn't expect. After all, she did hurt him bad. Real badly. But she was not going to give up that soon. After all, people do call her the stubborn one. It was also one of the reason Yonghwa loved her. She smiled, hopes don't vanish just like that. Like what her sister said, once a person set her mind into something, they can do it.

And suddenly, it's almost like a light bulb appeared above her head. - Her sister!

"Yong!" she called quickly. "We can fix this! Mel unnie studied biology and genetics of angels and demons in her school days! Get her! We can fix this! She'll know how to change Seohwa back into an angel! She did it when Seohwa was a baby!"

"That's a second priority. Seohwa will be fine being a demon for a little longer. But you? My brother wants to drive you nuts in here. We have to get you out of here first." Yonghwa sighed. "So this morning I woke up so early just to go to the library and get information."

She couldn't be more touched. "You went to the library?! For me?!" cause she knows how much he hates books.

A tint of pink crept up to his cheeks. "N-no! I was just wandering around and accidentally passed the library so I walked in." was his lame excuse. Seohyun smiled at him. He coughed awkwardly. "Look, I was searching about the charm that Joon hyung used on you so I can take it off and set you free. But there's nothing I can find."

"Your brother is 7 years ahead of you in learning. He would use a charm you wouldn't know about." Seohyun concluded. "I tried some spell of mine too. I even burnt the bars of the cells but it won't break."

"I think we really needed to go to your sister then." Yonghwa decided.

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Books scattered everywhere, Lee Joon sprawled in the middle of it. He yelled and yelled, grunted and grunted, screamed and screamed in frustration. No matter how much he looked, it always seems like the stupid angel queen is always winning.

Joon's eyes were red. Not from the lack of sleep, but from too much reading in hours. The demon is not a knowledgable person back in his school days. The fact that he graduated is a miracle back then. But now that he's leading a kingdom, it seems like it's a must to be a smartass.

He studies a lot after the death of his father. One because he knows that he'll be in charged of Underworld, and two, he needs a know-how on revenge.

Seo Mel, he shivered at the name. She was always a two-faced even back then when they were in the same class in Sky Institute. He fell behind a year and she was smarter than anyone in her class, skipped a year of school. They may be two years apart, but he felt a whole lot more immature than her if he thinks about it now.

Being the smartass she is, she can always finds out his schemes and plans. It drives Joon nuts how the angel queen seems to be a step ahead from him. Just because of that one step, he always loses her.

Not that he has seen her this whole 14 years. But that is actually what he hates most. He can't see her, and his revenge can't be procedeed. Somehow the angel knows how to shield herself from him, making him blind when it comes to her. She disappear and he hasn't got a clue of how he can get her. Thinking about it, Joon clenched his fist tightly.

"Joonie samcheon~ What are you doing?" Seohwa called suddenly.

Lee Joon threw the book he was holding to the air in shock. He was really surprised with the sudden visit from his niece. The book he was reading fell onto the floor, opened. "What are you doing here so early, princess?" he asked.

Seohwa giggled and poked his cheeks. "You know, sometimes you're so scary and sometimes you're so goofy." she commented.

The demon king laughed and poked the demon girl back. "Sometimes you're cute and sometimes you're just poking into people's business!" he replied cheekily.

"And what am I now?"

"Both. Being cute and poking into my business." Joon laughed, followed with a series of giggles from Seohwa.

He was amused at the little demon. He couldn't help but feeling something familiar from the little demon girl too. He feels really good, not fakely good when she's around. Something about her is so irresistable for him. Just like she was.

He can only watch as his niece pulled away from him to run around the big library again, not even noticing the red star scar he drew on the back of her neck. He sighed, smiled, and ran after her, making ruckus in the big, dusty library.

His book long forgotten, on the floor, opened on the 92nd page, on it written; Chapter IV: Self-Disappearing Spells.

Author's Note

Okay, I know it is really mean of me to not post for such a long time.

To tell you the truth, I was waiting for 100 subscribers to post again.
But it didn't happen TT.TT

I'm sorry to say that I think I'll post every two weeks or three from now on.
Every week if I have time.
Cause as I said I'm in my last year of junior high and the tests (every single kinds of it) are coming up after the Christmas and New Year holidays simultaneously.

It's midnight in my country and if my umma found out I'm still up;

But my umma will look less attractive than Taemin's umma.

On to the story;

I'm taking it slow, I edited here and there. I gave away too much part of the story.
I think you deserve it for waiting so long though.

I wanna be nice and summarize everything up for you;
1. Seohyun is still held in the Dark Castle and Joon is the only one who can free her, unless Yonghwa manages to find another way.
2. Seohyun still wants to fix her relationship with Yonghwa, in hope to live happily with him and Seohwa as a family.
3. Seohwa is not happy that she's a demon. Demons are bad (your arguments are invalid).
4. Yonghwa is going to ask for Mel's help. In case anyone forgot, she's Seohyun's older sister - the Angel Queen.
5. Lee Joon - the Demon King, has something againts Mel - the Angel Queen and he is thirsty for revenge; he'll do anything.

I know there's no Yongseo in here. I'm sorry! I love reading fluffs. A LOT.
But I just can't write it.
I'll have to ask for my sis' help and she's out of town when I was writing this chapter so- ..

That's it for now I guess~
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