Meliodas has a Daughter?!

Fever

"Squirt ... "

"Mehhhh - "

Meliodas watched as his daughter grumbled once again, tossing and turning due to the heat of her fever that she had contracted after she passed out. He changed out the cloth on her head for a new one, taking a moment to swipe a strand of hair from her sweaty face.

"Why did this have to happen ... " He growled from between his clenched teeth. "I promised I would protect you."

"It hurts Papa... "

Meliodas quickly freed himself from his thoughts and grabbed his daughter's outstretched hand. Her breathing started to ease a little before becoming more intense than it was previously.

"Is it still your head?" She tried to shake her head, but it seemed to painfull of a task. Meliodas sighed, pressing a small kiss on her forehead.

"Just rest for awhile, ok."

Meliodas gave her one last smile before leaving the room. He walked outside to look for solace in the clouds of the blue sky.

"How's she doing sir Meliodas?" Elizabeth asked as she came back from the forest.

"Just fine! A little more bed rest and she'll be her usual self!" Meliodas's voice was it's usual carefree tone, but Elizabeth knew that he was hurting on the inside.

She would act as if everything was normal for his ake.

"Ah that's good."

The two sat in comfortable silence for a while, watching the clouds pass them by, before heading back inside to set up shop for the day.

...

"The stars are very pretty, don't you think so?"

"They lose their luster if you look at them too much."

"You're no fun ... "

"I'm terribly sorry about that."

...

Meliodas hurried as fast as he could into her room once he heard her screams. He nearly busted the door off its hinges as ran to her side.

"Squirt! Tell me what's wrong!"

She couldn't hear her father through all her pained screaming. She threw herself from her bed onto the cold floor, grabbing at her silver hair and pulling at it with all her might.

"IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS!" Her screams grew louder with each passing second, her mind only consumed with pain that plagued her. Meliodas watched as she thrashed around the room, trying to scramble his brain to find a way to stop it.

The others had finally decided to arrive, freezing at the scene in front of them. Ban stepped up and trapped Squirt's small body in a tight grip, but that did little to spot her.

"What the hell is wrong with her?!" Ban yelled, looking to his best friend for answers.

"If I could tell you I would! All that matters is helping her right now!"

"SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!" Squirt repeated those words as her hands moved to her ears, stomping on Ban's foot and crushing the bones in it.

She kept stomping her foot on the floor, creating a serious dent that would need to be fixed later. Meliodas went to grab his daughter but she kept moving away from him. It was almost a game of cat and mouse that ended with the window right behind Squirt.

"You need to tell me - " Meliodas couldn't finish his sentence as he watched his daughter throw herself out the window.

"SQUIRT!"

Two people flung themselves out the window to catch her. Surprisingly, it wasn't Meliodas who caught her.

Once Meliodas landed on the ground he rushed over to his daughter's side.

"She seems to be having a severe nightmare."

Gowther stared down at the small girl in his arms, curiously watching her movement.

"Is there anything you can do to help her?!" Meliodas practically begged his ally. "Most likely so."

Gowther held up his hand and shot a small arrow of light at the girl's head. Something unexpected happened, the arrow glided straight through her head without pause to the ground.

"That is most unusual." Gowther craned his neck to the side as he went over what just happened in his head.

"Why didn't the arrow stay in her head?!" Meliodas yelled as he watched as his daughter try and escape the iron grip of the doll. "She rejected it, simple as that."

Gowther's response threw Meliodas into a frenzy, everything he could think of hadn't worked so what was he supposed to do now?

"I can try a more forceful approach, though I doubt you would like it very much."

"What is it?!" If what Gowther was talking about could help her, Meliodas wouldn't mind the consequences.

"I would lodge my hand in her stomach and force my magic through her body."

Meliodas didn't think. "JUST DO IT!"

Gowther stabbed the girl with his hand and closed his eyes so he could focus on the task. He pumped her body full of his magic, eventually invaded her mind.

...

"Oh, it's you."

"Who are you?" Gowther questioned the figure cloaked in black, trying to identify them based on voice but failing. The figure didn't answer his question, instead they brought their hand up to their mouth and giggled.

"What's so funny?"

The figure broke out into heavy laughter at his question, their body crumbling as light began to consume the subspace.

"You."

...

Gowther retracted his hand as the girl's body began to relax. Meliodas sighed in relief before sending Gowther a dark glare and whispering in his ear.

"What did you see?" He asked in a serious tone. Gowther shook his head, passing Squirt to her father. "A dark figure, but nothing else. Why do you ask?"

Meliodas left out a sigh of relief as he watched the gaping wound in Squirt's stomach magically heal itself.

"Just wanted to know ... "