On My Way: The Demon King Made Me His

Chapter 92: The Coronation Part 2

The gigantic drums were banged by the guards marking the beginning of the coronation ceremony. The guests remained silent. Huo looked too glamorous that he left people breathless. 

Aiden and King Aenon from the Water Realm got the seat arrangement in the middle and looked at him not taking their eyes off him. Watching every action closely to know what is going on inside him. He looked cool on the outside. But Aenon was sure that Huo'er is full of secrets. Volca and Hawk did not leave his side at all. Seeing Vocla angered Aiden the most while Water King acted normal keeping his cool act together, often patting Aiden's arms. 

"You seriously need to do something with the temper my son," King Aenon said to his nephew as he sipped his wine. 

"Pa, it's not like that, it's just," Aiden started. 

"It's alright, watch him," Aenon said and caught Volca drooling over Huo'er. And at the same time Huo looked at her asking for something and he smiled. King  Aenon clutched on to the grail tight and the silver cup bend a little spilling the drink on the floor. 

"Pa i think we both should do something with our rotten tempers," Aiden said and laughed loud attracting attention.  King Aenon pinched his arms controlling his laughter, asking him to stay serious and not cause distractions. It was turning s but funny. The duo. Huo look towards them and Aiden nodded at him showing the action of zipping his lip. 

Huo'er shook his head and took a Demonic dagger in his hands. He took a knife and tore his palm a little and fed the dagger with his blood. The blood disappeared instantly. If the blood is drunk by the sword, he is confirmed to be the King of Hell. And those whose blood are rejected can never take the throne. Huo then lifted the dagger and kept them in his hanfu, close to his soul sword. There were several demon priests doing the ceremony in  an order. Next they made Huo summon the Demoness diety and offer her a sacrifice. There was a beast tied up that right side to the stage. Satan pleasers the demons were and they carried on with the rituals that has been followed for years. Huo did not deny doing any of them. Huo'er could see his mother sitting on the front watching him doing everything.  He could sense how his mother must be feeling like an alien seeing everything opposite to what she does in heaven. But she pretending to be a Demoness sat there proudly. Nobody had seen through her fake identity. 

Next the priests asked if he is single or is going to bring any Demon Queen for them to prepare soon for the ceremony to which Huo'er denied straight. Empress nodded her head. But Huo'er was looking at the Water King who slowly got up and left the room. Huo found how upset the king looked all of a sudden and felt bad about it, unaware of his feelings. It then occured to him why he must feel bad for things he is not responsible. He changed his mind. Aiden sat through the whole ceremony while King Aenon did not come back again. 

"We now have the King of Demon Realm , the Hell born, Undefeated, only Son of Dritan, The Guardian of Hell, The Master of Fire, Fearless King Huo," The priest announced after the ceremony giving him the sceptre of fire and Keeping the demon crown on his head. It was a moment meant to be witnessed. Huo sat on the throne proudly with one hand holding the demonic sceptre and the other hand on his thighs, his held high with the heavy golden crown matching his black dragon hanfu," Volca had tears glistening in her eyes while Fiona stood behind the stage watching her daughter carefully. 'I have never seen a fool like her feeling exited and happy to see someone else taking the throne,' she thought and chose to walk away. Everyone inside the room clapped loud  congratulating Huo. The ceremony was offically over and everybody started presenting their gifts to the new King. 

Water king had only one thing to give him which he asked Aiden to present it. An antidote. It was an antidote to detoxify the crystals in his blood Queen Rivera prepared especially asking their royal doctor. They did not want Huo going through a hard time with crystals that would try to control him. 

"Keep them safe and eat them only when you are sick, it is to put the crystals under control when you are in pain," Aiden whispered to Huo while he presented the gifted. Huo nodded smiling a little and placed the pack inside his hanfu while he handed the rest of the gifts to General Hawk.  The court was loud with applause and murmurs and after sometime Huo grew tired of the noises. He decided to step out for a moment while food began to be served. He needed some fresh air. But the thought of Water King leaving his ceremony circled around his head. He walked around the castle and then near the guest accommodation, he saw King Aenon sitting, holding a jug of wine, sitting alone looking at the skies near the fish pond. Huo walked towards Water King trying to get an answer for leaving in the middle. 

"I remember the first time I saw you," King Aenon started talking getting drunk. He asked Huo to sit next to him.  King Aenon once he settled down, put his arms around Huo'er's shoulders, patting him. "To be precise it was the day you were born, few hours after Lihua underwent labour. You were a pretty heavy baby while you were born, none of us were married then, I was only engaged to Queen Rivera. She did not hesitate to help your mother since they were friends, I was happy they got along so well, I expected Lihua to not leave the Water Realm, " 

"My biological mother and Water Queen used to be friends, I know," Huo said. 

"Your birth place is Water Realm, but now you are a Demon King, life sure is unpredictable," King Aenon smirked.  "Do you know what happened the last time? During your previous coronation ceremony?" 

Huo'er who over heard their conversation, nodded his head.

"I know," I said coldly. 

"You know?" King Aenon asked again to confirm and see if he had any feelings left for his late daughter. 

"I know," he said again. "What is the big deal?" Huo had no idea in real what happened, nothing about how Aqua refused him, nothing about how they spent time together, nothing about how he got her pregnant, nothing about how he rescued the whole family from the celestial prison and nothing about his father's sacrifice for him. But Aenon did not know about that, Aenon did not know about Huo'er's amnesia, and the misunderstanding between then only grew larger and larger. Meanwhile Huo pretended to be fine hiding his weakness. 

"If you know, you know, but I know one thing now, sacrifices were for nothing, pain taken was for nothing, you no longer deserve to be loved, I wish I could tell her now about that, and stop her," Aenon stopped talking and continued with drinking, letting Huo'er go. He did not have any hopes, he did not have any trust towards the Demon King and worried about what if he summons his soul back that he gave away for his daughter. Aenon wished that he could leave to earth immediately. He did not want to spend time in the Hell any longer and give a damn about Emperor Tai. He left Aiden alone and apparated in front of Huo itself back to Water Palace. He felt sick and threw up the moment he reached the palace. Queen Rivera was reported about it and she rushed towards her King to see what happened. 

"Your highness, What happened?" She asked the King who was lying down in his bed.

"Am fine, am fine, I just did not want to keep attending the ceremony, I did not fell Aiden, he must be alone there searching for me," 

"Did any thing happen there ?" She asked worried. 

"Nothing happened? Things went well, he took the throne, the ceremony and the title suited him well, he will make it, like Dritan, just that he is too mysterious than he should be," King Aenon made a comment about Huo and decided to take a nap. He did not want to be disturbed and asked everyone to leave the chamber since there were no affair that needed his immediate attention at the court. 

"Write a letter to Emperor Tai and tell him about the ceremony in simple words and how normal it was that it stirred no troubles, ask Aiden if you want to know more and send him," King asked his wife for a favour. "And by the way I forgot say I saw Lihua under disguise there," he informed and slowly drifted off to sleep.

"I came back, Huo said you left, what happened?" Aiden walked in to the room, and Queen Rivera asked him keep silence. "He is drink aunt, I saw him drinking a lot," Aiden informed the queen. 

"Come, we have to write a report and send Emperor Tai about the Coronation, let him rest," Queen Rivera called for Aiden and walked out of the King's bedchamber to Aiden's. 

Aiden was very sure that Tai would 

not like the report since everything went normally there. And just like he expected, when Emperor Tai got the letter delivered and read them, he got really angry and tore the letter straight as he finished reading them crusing the Demons and the Water Realm. Also he was not aware of the fact that Water Realm is going to be taken care by Adrien and Krystal for a while. And utilising this ignorance, King Aenon speeded up his moves and plans,