Ciel in Oz
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"Ah!" Ciel Phantomhive woke up in a room that was not his own, after all it was small as a cheap flat in London. The room was a mess, and everything in it was either black or white. He sat up in the bed, looking down at his clothes which were no longer his pajamas. He wore a blue gingham shirt with short sleeves and a white, lace bow tie, with dark blue denim shorts and high white socks and black shoes with no heels. "What the hell? I hate denim." Ciel muttered to himself. He looked around, seeing no one in the room or through any open doors. Usually, Sebastian was there to greet him in the morning, but now in a strange place and nobody in sight, he started to worry. "Sebastian?" He called out.
"Down here, my Lord." He heard Sebastian's smooth voice below him. He looked down, seeing a black Cairn terrier with red-orange eyes and a sulk on his face. "This is positively dreadful. I must be having a nightmare." The dog said.
"Sebastian?" Ciel did his best not to burst out evil-laughing. "Well, you don't sleep, and I don't seem to be dreaming either, so…" He got out of bed. "Where are we?"
"We seem to be in a small house." Sebastian growled. "There's no one here. Unfortunately I can't open the front door in this condition, or do anything for that matter."
"You seriously can't change back?"
"No, and believe me I tried miserably for hours. I was having what I believe you humans call, an 'existential crisis'."
"Shame I missed it." Ciel smiled. "Still, this is pretty bad." He walked into the small bathroom and gazed in the mirror. "Oh no…!" He said, seeing that his normal eye was the one eye-patched, not the contracted one. He removed the eyepatch, opening his eyelid, only to find nothing there. Ciel screamed and fell backward in the tub, his hands over the missing body part.
"Master!" Sebastian scurried over to Ciel, jumping into the tub with him.
"How… How could this possibly happen?!" The Earl said, digging his fingers into his forehead. "How, when I feel no pain… I had both eyes just yesterday! Sebastian, what's the last thing you remember?"
"Tucking you in and blowing out the candles, as usual." Sebastian answered. "Your eye, and my body… what's happening here?"
"I can't go out like this! People will see my contract… wait, do you still have yours?"
"Yes." The demon lifted his left paw, the seal smaller on his tiny paw pad but still there indeed. "My Lord, would you let me look?" He coaxed Ciel into removing his hands from his face. He opened the eyelid and sure enough, there was no eye inside, only a black hole. Yet there was no blood, no veins; it was perfectly extracted with no tools. "This must be magic, and a very powerful magic if it can change me, too."
"Then I suppose we have no choice." Ciel sighed. "We must find the culprit."
"Indeed, however…" Sebastian jumped out of the tub so Ciel could stand up. "I have a feeling we're not in England anymore, my Lord." Suddenly, they heard a knock at the front door.
"Oi, is anybody home?" A familiar voice called.
"Is that Bardroy?" Ciel put the eyepatch over his missing eye quickly and ran to answer the door, still not coming up with an excuse for the pentagram on his right eye. Oh well, this is Bardroy; perhaps he won't notice. He opened the door, but didn't see anybody there.
"Down 'ere!" The voice said. Ciel looked down, seeing a miniature version of Bard wearing a three-piece suit and top hat. "Ello! You an alien? Cuz yer 'ouse fell from the sky!"
"Excuse me?" Ciel was madly confused. "What happened to you, Bardroy?"
"Bardroy, who's that?" The tiny man said. "I'm the Mayor of Munchkinland!" He tipped his hat. "At your service, young man!" Ciel simply had to be dreaming. What the hell was going on: Sebastian's a dog, he's missing an eye, and this man who looks like Bardroy only smaller is claiming to be a mayor and doesn't remember him? "You prob'ly 'urt yourself, fallin' from the sky like that."
"What do you mean, fell from the sky?" The Earl asked, looking down at Sebastian.
"I did feel a thud before I woke up." Sebastian said, forgetting he was a dog.
"I'll be, a talkin' dog!" The mayor seemed delighted instead of scared that a dog just talked. "And yer eye… you must be a wizard, then!" He looked at Ciel.
"Me, a wizard?" Ciel put a hand to his chest.
"'Course! Usually, talkin' animals are also bipedal, so you must have made this dog speak with magic."
"No, I didn't… see, he didn't always look like this…"
"Ah, you transformed 'im! I getcha." The diminutive mayor winked. "What's yer name, young wizard?"
"Uh, I'm Ciel Phantomhive." He answered. "But like I said, I'm not a…"
"Oi, everybody, come out and meet Ciel Phantomhive, our savior!" The mayor said, pulling Ciel out of the house.
"I'm your savior, now?" The boy looked down, making sure Sebastian was following him. He looked around, seeing a colorful town full of little houses and big flowers, with a crystal-blue river running through it. The house that Ciel was in was huge by comparison. The streets were paved with pink and yellow bricks. Elizabeth would love this place, that's for sure. Wait, if Bard was here, then was everybody else?
"Come out, 'e's a good wizard, I promise! Oh, where ya from?"
"England."
"He fell from a star called England!" The mayor shouted. "Ciel of England!" Finally, little people started coming out of everywhere, and some of them did look like Ciel's acquaintances, albeit miniature: Finnian, Mey-Rin, Tanaka, Abberline, Soma, Agni, Edward, Snake, and even Elizabeth. They all said thank you and bowed their heads.
"Lizzie!" Ciel went up to her. She was half the size she usually is, and she wore a cute, pink ballerina outfit with lace and frills all about. "Do you remember me?"
"Remember you? I just met you!" She blushed. "But you are really cute! I'm the captain of the Lullaby League!"
"Do any of you remember me?" He addressed the crowd. They all shook their heads. "What's happening?"
"Who knows?" Sebastian said. "Our enemy could be behind this as well, or we're simply in another dimension."
"Ciel of England dropped this house on our enemy, Aleistor, the Wicked Wizard of the East!" The mayor said.
"I did what?!" Ciel turned to look at the house. Two feet with shining ruby shoes stuck out from under the house.
"The wizard who captured and sexually tortured Oz's women is dead at last!"
"Oz?"
"Oz is our world!" The mayor explained. "Munchkinland is but a quadrant in the Land of Oz."
"I see." Ciel lied. "But really, I didn't do this on purpose. It was a happy accident. I don't even remember it happening! This isn't even my home!"
"But you saved us all the same. And we should thank you! Everyone, let's throw a party!" Everyone cheered.
"Hold on!" A voice echoed through the town. They all turned to see a white bubble floating towards them, the bubble getting bigger and bigger until it popped on the ground in front of the boy, and a man who looked like William T. Spears appeared from it. He was his usual height and wore glasses and a suit, but they were white instead of black. He cradled a binder in his arm and held an overly long magic wand-type thing in his other hand. He pushed up his glasses with it, just like he would do with his Deathscythe.
"It's William, the Wizard of the North!" The mayor said gleefully.
"This is the wizard?" William leaned down, inspecting Ciel. "A bit young, don't you agree?"
"Aye, but 'e's the one!" The mayor said.
"I'm not a bloody wizard!" Ciel had enough of this. "I'm Ciel, Earl Phantomhive!" He checked his hand, making sure the ring was still there. He sighed, happy that it was. He showed it to William. "Look, this proves that I'm an Earl and head of the Phantomhive estate."
"An Earl, hm?" Will checked his binder. "I'm sorry, I don't recognize you as a leader in this land whatsoever. Never heard of the Phantomhives either." He closed the binder quickly, making a loud sound. "But you are indeed NOT a wizard, as I sense no power from you."
"Well, at least you understand something." Ciel said.
"You, on the other hand…" Will eyed the terrier by Ciel's side. "There's something odd about you. And your magic binds with the child."
"You would be correct. Though not a wizard, I am a magical creature." Sebastian smiled, wagging his tail. "Though I can assure you, I had nothing to do with this turn of events, either."
"He didn't always look like a dog. He had a human-like form." Ciel looked at him. "And upon landing here, I found that my eyeball was gone."
"You mean, your eye wasn't always gone?" William asked, looking back and forth between the newcomers. "And your body's different… hm…" He perused through his binder again.
"What is it?" The Earl asked.
"There have been similar cases of organs being taken from people all over Oz. When it happens, strange things happen to their bodies as a result. Yet they don't die, and they can continue to live normally, other than looking totally different than before. And the same thing happens to you, people not even from this world…" He closed the binder again and went over to the remains of the Wicked Wizard, Ciel assuming that he used to look like the Viscount of Druitt, Aleistor Chambers. He didn't feel at all bad about the house landing on him. "He's dead, alright. Just like the Wicked Witch Red before him." Ciel now guessed he spoke of Madame Red. Did everyone here represent someone he knew? "However, he couldn't have done it. If he did, then the spell he used to remove the organs should be broken and everything would return to normal."
"Do you have other suspects?" Sebastian asked.
"Yes, one." William's eyebrow twitched. "The Wicked Witch of the West. Which reminds me…" He waved his wand and the ruby, heeled shoes that were once on the wizard's feet were now on Ciel's.
"Wha…?" Ciel looked at the gaudy shoes that were now on his feet.
"Those shoes used to belong to the Wicked Witch of the West, but she cannot be allowed to have them, as they are imbued with strong magical power. Giving them to you, a moving target, will throw her off the trail, at least for now until I find a suitable owner."
"Why me? I don't want them, they're hideous!" The boy said. Sebastian held back a snicker. "Besides, I'm not going anywhere except home!"
"Without your eye?" Will cocked an eyebrow. "I'm afraid I can't do anything about that, or turn your friend's body back to normal." He pushed up his glasses to hide his paling face. "Your eye's missing, your body's gone, and you cannot get home. There is only one person who can help you with all of that. The Wizard of Oz."
"The Wizard of Oz?" Ciel echoed. All the Munchkins gasped and talked amongst themselves.
"He is the most powerful wizard in all the land. He will be able to help. He lives in the Emerald City, many kilometers from here. However, he doesn't take on every case he comes across, so you must be utterly convincing, as I'm sure you could be. You look like an intelligent lad." William said.
"That doesn't sound reassuring at all!" Ciel yelled. "Can't you at least take me to the wizard?"
"No. I'm far too busy dealing with the Wicked Witch, and I don't completely trust you, anyway." William said. Ciel gritted his teeth in anger. "But I can give you this." He waved his wand, and a wicker basket appeared in the Earl's hand. "And this." He waved it again, and Ciel felt energy rush through him. "I gave you extra stamina, plus two days' worth of food and water for your trip. There's room for your dog in there, as well." He glared at Sebastian. Even in another dimension, some things never change. "To get to the Emerald City, you simply follow the Yellow Brick Road. Hurry, before the witch catches up with you. I'll be busy putting a barrier around this land, hopefully before she arrives." He started to create the white bubble.
"Wait, what if I…"
"Just follow the Yellow Brick Road." William said before fading into the bubble and floating away.
"Thank you!" The Munchkins all said, waving at the bubble.
"What in the bloody blazes is going on?" Ciel rubbed his head.
"Well, you got a long journey ahead of you!" The mayor patted Ciel on the back. "The Yellow Brick Road starts right outside that gate. We wish you luck!" The Munchkins cheered for him.
"Ugh, once again, I have no choice." The Earl looked down at his butler, who was unable to do anything for him in his condition, though their contract was still binding. This was quite a bother. Whoever did this to them will pay. Sebastian and Ciel left Munchkinland through the northern gateway, heading for the Emerald City.
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A/N: So, this is what happens after I watch Todrick Hall's Straight Outta Oz visual album. Yeah. Hope you enjoy!