Warnings: Contains dark themes: eg mentions of rape, physical abuse and drug abuse. It might be moved up to M rated later on. OOCness, sorry about that.
Sumary: It's been 15 years since Ciel was pronounced 'dead' to the world. So much has changed since then. So when Sebastian and Ciel return it is a shock to them to see the hell that has become London. They find out the reapers are losing badly and that Grell's health has taken a turn for the worse. Will they held the reapers or will they be the end of the grim reapers after all?
" Lord are you sure you want to continue to London?" Sebastian asked his master. " After all everything has changed." Ciel turned away from the window to look at his butler.
" Thank you Sebastian for pointing out the obvious. I know it has changed but it is time I return home." Ciel snapped. Sebastian just lowered his head breaking eye contact with his temperamental master.
" Of corse my lord." He replied a smile gracing his lips.
" I wonder if that red mess has keeled over and died yet." Ciel said out loud.
" Most likely sir London is in a state of a war between reapers, demons and angels." Sebastian told Ciel.
" Oh really this should be interesting then." Ciel stated.
Thirty miles out of London people had bars across the windows on their houses and Brass instead of wooden doors. Their was a few dints in the floor from an accident here and there but the damage only got worse as they edged closer to their destination. Most of the buildings in london had been burnt to the floor or had chunks missing from them. Their was no movement. Ash covered the floor and every surface. Sebastian helped his master out of the carriage. Ciel gasped at the view, a new fire slowly dying down in the background catching his attention. Tears built up in his eyes. There was a few skeletons of humans on the floor, and a few newly killed ones. One in particularly caught Ciel's eye. The body, no girl, was wearing a pink dress. Ciel wandered over and turned the body to see who it was.
" Elizabeth." Ciel said allowing one tear to fall.
" Who's their!?" Someone shouted.
" Now now ..." The second one was cut off by a coughing fit." Mr Spears *cough* there's no need to be so harsh. It's only a two low ran-" The second person sounded so familiar yet so different.
" You fool I told them you wasn't ready to be dismissed. It isn't going to be happy if I don't get you back." The first person or William snapped.
" S-sorry Mr Spears. I was just saying it's only two low ranking demons, nothing we can't handle even with out our death scythes." The second person finally said weakly.
" Come. We'll quickly check then let's get you back, he'll be worrying about you." Ciel wanted to panick, they was coming to them and they clearly didn't want to be friendly. Ciel knew he needed to talk to him. The two people talking soon wandered around the corner. Their dubbel, green, iris' and glasses gave away they was reapers. The first one in sight had black hair that reached half way down his neck. He was wearing a suit with a black tie. A scar ran down what was view able of his neck. The second was a smaller man, with two colored hair. The man was dragging a lawnmower along. The smaller man was leaning heavily on the taller. There was also a third one, a man in a tall black hat with long grey hair covering his eyes. Sebastian's eyes widened at the recognition of the reapers.
" Ah Mr William T. Spears, would you please explain what is going on here?" Sebastian asked politely. Ciel stood there in shock, in front of them was two grim reapers. They were both demons, should they not be attacking each other.
" I will if first you answer two questions. I might tell you then depending on your answers. My first question is, Do you work with the demons or angels? My second is which side do you choose to fight on ?" William told Sebastian. Sebastian looked at his young master.
" We will not be fighting with the demons if that is what you are thinking." Sebastian replied, he knew they needed to worm their way into the reapers headquarters to find out what was going on. " We will fight with you."
" Follow me." William said before stalking off, the other two following calmly behind. Sebastian and Ciel followed. Eventually they stopped.
" We will transport you to our dispatch now. Keep a good grip on us or you will be lost." William grabbed Ciel's arm before fazing out to the reapers hide out. Ronald grabbed Sebastian before following suit.
They landed in the dispatches office area. Desks where in lines on the left side of the room, with the right side a carpeted area with a sofa and coffee machine. Undertaker was talking to one of the reapers, a look of relief spread over his features. He quickly whispered something to Will who turned and looked at them.
" Come with me, the undertaker and Ronald. There is someone who we must speak to and I don't trust demons to wander around on their own." William said coldly before stalking off in the left direction. Ronald followed briskly behind, the undertaker taking the easier option of fazing there. Sebastian sighed and followed also knowing Ciel would follow behind. As they walked Sebastian noticed the walls had become a pale grey color. There was the aesthetic smell of a hospital which told his they was in the medical wing. All doors was white with dark green writing except for one. This door was black with a grey pattern on the bottom with red righting, but this was not the door that was pushed open by Will, in fact the door Will was at was at the bottom of the corridor.
The room they walk into was almost completely empty except for a light blue sofa and a vase with blue flowers on the window sill, the fire was still burning showing someone was in fact in the apartment type place. Will knocked on a door on the left wall. A replied was mumbled before William pushed the door open. There was two reapers laid in the bed, one was laid against the head bord, this one looked healthy, the other was laid against the reaper who was resting against the headboard.
" This reaper is Alan Humphries. He along side seven other reapers where captured by angels. Only three survived fully the others wear turned into a vegetable state or can no longer perform the job correctly due to having no control over the blader or other vital organs. Alan was lucky he was infected with a strange viruse that our health center is working on a cure for now. He however is not the one I was scared to death for." William said his voice going quitter towards the end. Alan said something to the other reaper who politely asked them to leave. They soon left the room and went towards the colorful door. William pushed the door open without knocking giving Sebastian the impression that he knew this reaper well.
The walls inside the room was a pale brown, it was matched up with a dark brown patterned carpet, giving it a warm feel to it. On the front wall there was a large window with a windowsill big enough for two people to sit on, the fire was on the wall to the right of this with a door next to it, and on the left wall was a two doors. Will walked up to the closest one to the window on the left side and knocked on it softly. It looked like it used to be a dining room or something to that effect.
" M'lady said you can all come it." The undertaker said threw the door.
" I will warn you now. This reaper was hurt very badly. Though he will hopefully return to dutie though if his infection gets worse he will not be returning. If that happens the likely fact is he will probably die from it."
" I will tell you now, he is an abuse and rape victim." Ronald Knox said softly. Will pushed the door open. This room had three light brown walls with one wall papered with a red pattern on it, the carpet was a warm pale brown making the red stand out brightly, there was a sofa on the back wall as you walk into the room and the window was on the opposite wall to the sofa. There was a door opposite the left of the sofa, which was pushed against the wall that had the door they just walked through on. The undertaker was sat on the left side of the sofa with one leg on the floor the other running down the length of the back of it,with a red mass held tightly to his chest. Ciel could just make out, red hair, sharp shark like teeth and double green iris'. Sebastian couldn't hide the gasp that came from him as realisation dawned on him, the reaper who was so badly hurt was Grell Sutcliff. The reaper, no Grell said something to the undertaker who moved and stood up. He helped the weak death god of the sofa and towards William and Ronald.
Grell smiled weakly before pulling both William and Ronald into a hug. The undertaker was still supporting Grell heavily. Grell said something to the undertaker who shock his head vigorously, Grell just sighed and leaned on his more.
" Grell. I understand you're in a lot of pain so we will leave you with the undertaker. I will come around later to check on you and to get you report." William said. " Would you like me to bring Sebastian and Ciel so you don't have to tell the tale twice ?" William asked Grell clearly concerned. Grell nodded. " If you have gone to sleep when we return it does not matter I will send Eric in the morning. Your health is much more important than a report at this minuet in time." With that they all exited the room.
" He's one of the lucky ones. Some of the other reapers have been turned into a vegetable like state and was... well forced to pass on. Some of the others can't even tell if their blader is full. Alan although still has full use of his body, mind and can tell us everything a normal reaper can will not be returning to any physical work. Though he his getting better he is far from recovery. For the past seven months he has been a full-time resident in the hospital. Due to the war though he hasn't been able to get the proper help that he needs. Eric has been here with the reaper for the past six months when the war started to keep him safe. Shamefully if the war doesn't end soon, Alan will not be getting the proper medication needed. Then there's Grell who was returned to us only two nights ago. The hospital is doing everything they can to stop the infection spreading, but to get rid of it he'll need an operation that we can't perform because we don't know when the next attack will be or who it'll becoming from. I fear for their lives they both need high-end operations, Grell to sort the infection that is currently residing in the wounds on his chest, arms, neck and maybe somewhere else. Alan needs a operation to remover the effected parts of his internal organs" Will said looking at the floor. " That is why we need your help. If you don't help us win this war Grell, Alan and many more from all three sides will die. I can't believe it came down to this but, Sebastian, and Ciel will you help us fight this war?"
A/N: Well what do ya's think? love it? hate it? got some tips? just let me know. This is in fact my seconds fanfic so it won't be all that great.
