Demon and Angel: This is a story about a female demon from Black Butler, she's been in search of Sebastian and Claude because of a problem in the Underworld. Little does she know, Claude is dead and Sebastian is a tamed demon by his new demon master. She first hears about them in Noah's Ark Circus, nobody except the First Stringers know that she's a demon.

The Queen's Guard Dog

My name is Axel Tachibana, I'm a First Stringer at the Noah's Ark Circus. My stage name is Sparkle, not enjoyable but I deal with it; I became known as this because I do my best to sparkle when I'm performing with the circus. My tent is in between Dagger's tent and Joker's tent, I must say that it get's quite lonely sleeping on my own. I have a secret that only my fellow First Stringers know,

"Sparkle, I'd stay hidden in your tent tonight. A few others are asking why you're never seen eating with us. Sparkle, is it absolutely impossible or would you be able to eat something small?" Dagger asked poking his head in my tent, I turned to face him and glowered.

"I would be able to eat something, but I would have to force myself to vomit it up later. Hence why Demons are supposed to eat souls, not human food. But if I have to, I'll eat wit you; just leave me be afterwards so I have time to sort myself out." I replied, he nodded and waited for me to sort my hair and make-up back into place. Everyone, except me and Snake have been friends since their childhood. I left the tent and walked to the food tent with Dagger, Joker and Doll looked worried to see me there but I shook my head.

"Don't worry, Dagger made a point that people were starting to comment on my absence during dinner time; so I'll come today." I hissed leaning close to Joker, they nodded and passed me a small plate of roast chicken and mashed potatoes; I gagged quietly at the sight of it.

"Oh yeah, you lot; we 'ave an assessment to witness tomorrow. You remember that bloke that Betty bit, 'e showed quite a bit of talent today in Doc's medical tent; so 'im and 'is friend are gonna try out to join our canny circus." Joker announced to us, Beast and Dagger glowered.

"That bastard, touched Miss Beast's leg without her consent!" Dagger growled angrily, I remembered that performance. Earlier today, we'd had a performance. A young man in a dapper get-up had joined us on stage and instead of following the routine, he'd gone right up to Betty and started fawning over her. She'd bitten him and yet he seemed absolutely fine.

"That complete idiot, what the hell was he thinking; walking up to Betty like that?! I'm sorry Beast, it wasn't Betty's or your fault; it was that bastard!" I spat throwing sympathy at Beast, she nodded and smiled slightly. Although, thinking about it now; that bloke that Betty bit looked extremely familiar, I racked my brains as to why he looked familiar.

"Excuse me, sorry to bother you; but could I possibly speak to Axel please?" A stern violent voice asked behind us, we spun around startled; it was Suit. Our newest member, he was asking for me; but barely anyone knew my real name. And he was a lousy back-up performer, I nodded and stood up; he pulled me to the back of the wagons.

"Filthy Demon, why are you here; I will not have my work ruined by filth like you?! And, you're as bad as Mr Tailcoat out there; I've heard he's joining the circus. Of all the filth to join the circus, it had to be you Demons!" He spat, I blinked confused then remembered; I'd been sent here to find two Demons. Sebastian Michaelis and Claude Faustus. If he was calling me filth, then he had to be a Reaper.

"What is a Reaper doing here, you only show up if there's going to be-those First Stringers; their going to die, aren't they? Probably during one of their raids." I realised, he nodded pushing his glasses up with his scythe. I ignored him and walked back to the food tent, Peter and Wendy eyed me up and down when I returned;

"Let me guess, he started his weird Demon and Reaper talk again. We thought he was crazy at first, but then we met you. I must say, it is quite hard to keep quiet about you; but we manage. Axel, why not eat a small mouthful per minute thirty; I can see that you're in pain!" Dagger said, peering cautiously at my screwed up face. I nodded and ladled a small scoop of mush onto my spoon and put it in my mouth, it tasted like the worst thing ever; take mushrooms for example, any human would say they taste like vomit. My food tasted one thousand times worse than that,

"I-I can't!" I cried standing up and running to the back of the wagons, I stuck my fingers down my throat forcing the food back up; it was torturous and I hated it, but it was my life. I heard a twig snap and all of my instincts activated at once, nobody got within a meter of me without me knowing; so how was this sound so close, even now; I couldn't transmit who was in the woods. I peered around ready to attack, all the while I was focused on the woods; for the first time in forever, Joker snuck up behind me.

"What ya doing Sparkle? Is there something oot there?" Joker asked, it was hard getting used to his accent. He had a proper thick geordie/Scottish accent; although, the audience had no problem understanding him. I spun around to see him grinning and waving his prosthetic arm wildly,

"It's malfunctioning, see. I was gonna go see Doc, wanna accompany me Miss Sparkle? Unless you're too busy searching for your thingie." Joker offered, I nodded and stood up. Whatever was in the woods behind me was long gone, we walked past the food tent; Dagger was showing off to Beast while Peter and Wendy discussed their next performance.

"You feeling better Sparkle? Where you off to with Joker?" Dagger said running up to us, I nodded and pointed at Joker's malfunctioning arm;

"He's hardly gonna get very far if his arm has taken control of him!" I smiled, Dagger and Joker blushed profusely and Dagger headed back to the food tent. We got to Doc's tent with no problems and I waited outside while Joker had his arm fixed. I saw a black blur behind the wagon and raced over to it, it tried to run but as I was an acrobat for the circus I caught them with no problems at all. It was the bloke from tonight's performance, he had scruffy black hair and demonic red eyes; he was wearing his dandy tailcoat. He was all too familiar,

"Sebastian?" I asked cautiously stepping off of him; he stood up and looked at me.

"Axel?" He retorted, I cried out in joy; it was Sebastian Michaelis, I rushed over and hugged him close.

"You've gotten taller again!" I moaned, he laughed and brushed his head softly against mine; Sebastian was my biological brother, that was why we were so familiar with each other.

"What's Hell's strongest Demon doing in a circus?" He asked me, I scuffed my feet along the ground awkwardly.

"Actually, my power has depleted quite a lot. Hell's in trouble, it's going down. We've been getting frequent Angel attacks, they sent me to find you and Claude Faustus. Sebastian, do you know where Claude is?" I asked him, he shifted about uncomfortably; it made me look at him curiously.

"Claude, Claude's dead; his master was a complete prick. He started a complete full out war between me and Claude, and as it was my master's life that was at risk; I had to win." He said eventually, I gasped completely taken aback; my brother had killed his once best friend.

"CLAUDE WAS YOUR FRIEND, YOU WENT EVERYWHERE WITH CLAUDE! How, how could you kill him?!" I said as tears strolled down my face, I was shocked at this; I'd never cried once in my entire immortal life, how could I cry now?! I reached out to punch him and then run off, but he caught my fist and wound me into a hug;

"L-Let go of me, I can't believe-I can't believe you'd kill your best friend for a-for a HUMAN!" I shouted pulling away from him, I abandoned the idea of punching him and just ran; I ran to my tent. Shortly afterwards, Doll came into my tent and sat down beside me;

"What's up Sparkle, you ran off so suddenly? You still joining us for the raid tonight?"She asked me, I nodded and wiped my eyes; it was awful how crying made you feel. She seemed taken aback by my tears,

"A-Axel, what's wrong? Why are you crying? I thought Demons didn't cry!" She cried rushing down beside me, I finished wiping my eyes and gave her a wry smile.

"I-I'm fine, just a bit surprised!" I replied, I stood up and stumbled; words were flying through my head one after another.

"Demon!"

"Queen!"

"Guard Dog!"

"Sebastian!"

"Claude!"

I grabbed some paper and wrote down the words, Doll was peering at me curiously; I tried assembling them into a sentence using my own words.

Sebastian and Claude are the Queen's Guard Dog.

Sebastian and the Queen's Guard Dog work with Claude.

Sebastian and the Queen's Guard Dog killed Claude.

The third sentence seemed the most likely, but who on earth was the Queen's Guard Dog?