Title: The Demon on Academy Street
Genre: romance, tragedy, horror
Rating: M for language, violence, and suggested themes
Pairings: JohanXJudai (spiritshipping); hinted others
Summary: Based on "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street". After fifteen hard years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, Johan Andersen, now adopting the name Jehu Ralleigh, returns to London to find his beloved husband supposedly dead and his son in the hands of the evil Lord Viper. In his anger, Johan goes on a murderous rampage on all London. With the help of Ms. Asuka Tenjoin, an old friend of his, he opens a barber shop in which he lures his victims with a charming smile before casually ending their lives with a flick of his razor across their necks. But not one man nor ten thousand men killed can satisfy Johan's lust for vengeance on those who've caused his years of pain and the loneliness of losing his family. But to get his revenge, all he needs to do now is try to convince the wicked lord who accused him of the crime, raped his husband and drove him to supposedly committing suicide, and stole his son, to sit in his chair of death.
Me: All right, guys! I know that you all must be thinking that this is yet another story of mine, but I assure you that this is probably going to be complete by either tomorrow night or Monday night!
Lucy: We had this idea, and it will not leave us alone, so here we are, typing it up!
Me: We got the idea when watching "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street", directed by Tim Burton! He's a barking genius! Anyway, we hope you will all stick with this story and like it as much as we do!
Lucy: Please enjoy our prologue!!
Prologue
This is not a happy tale. Though you might have come here expecting a happy story without much dilemma and toil, then you are sadly mistaken. This is a story of nothing but tragedy, and maybe... redemption?
This is a story about a young man, accused of a crime he had not commited, forced to spend fifteen years in a prison, in the year 1846. This is the story of a man who escaped that prison and vanished across sea, back to London, the land in which he had been falsely accused and ripped from so long ago.
This is the story of a man who had the two people that meant the world to him ripped from his arms and taken away. For fifteen years, he was constantly worried if they were still alive, and if he would ever hold them in his arms again.
This is a story of one man's pain, and his approach at revenge.
Attend the tale of Jehu Ralleigh.
His skin was pale and his eyes were odd.
He shaved the faces of gentlemen
who never thereafter were heard of again.
He trod a path that few have trod
Did Jehu Ralleigh
The demon barber of Academy Street.
He kept a shop in London town.
He was just a simple barber, and he had a husband. They were happy as a couple could be. They never fought. They never argued. They were so madly in love.
This is a story about how this barber returned to London, seeking revenge on the man that had him imprisoned for so many countless years, and left him to suffer the heart-break of not holding his precious husband and his infant son in his arms.
Of fancy clients and good renown
And what if none of their souls were saved
They went to their maker impeccably shaved.
By Jehu,
By Jehu Ralleigh
The demon barber of Academy Street.
Swing your razor wide!
Jehu, hold it to the skies.
Freely flows the blood of those who moralize.
His needs were few, his room was bare.
A lavabo and a fancy chair.
A mug of suds, and a leather strop,
An apron, a towel, a pail, and a mop.
For neatness he deserves a nod,
Does Jehu Ralleigh,
The demon barber of Academy Street.
Now, do not get me wrong, this story might not be entirely full of tragedy. There might be redemption. There might be a small chance that this revenge-seeking man will see those he loves again.
If they even still live...
Inconspicuous Jehu was,
Quick, and quiet and clean he was.
Back of his smile, under his word,
Jehu heard music that nobody heard.
Jehu pondered and Jehu planned,
Like a perfect machine he planned,
Jehu was smooth, Jehu was subtle,
Jehu would blink, and rats would scuttle
Jehu was smooth, Jehu was subtle
Jehu would blink, and rats would scuttle
Will he ever hold his family in his arms again? This thought constantly drove him mad. All those nights in prison, he would lay with his arms encircled around his own body, wishing desperately that his husband would be there in his arms when he awoke. He would awake with a great heartbreak when he could not see the man he loved.
Jehu was smooth, Jehu was subtle,
Jehu would blink, and rats would scuttle
Jehu was smooth, Jehu was subtle
Jehu would blink, and rats would scuttle
Jehu! Jehu! Jehu! Jehu!
Jehu!
Jehu Ralleigh
His crushing loneliness made him turn to unspeakable things. Things that even he could not imagine he would ever be able to do. But he would have his husband and child back in his arms if it killed him.
This transformed him into a monster, a madman bent on vengeance.
Attend the tale of Jehu Ralleigh!
Attend the tale of Jehu Ralleigh!
Jehu Ralleigh
He served a dark and avengeful God!
He served a dark and avengeful God!
Jehu Ralleigh
This monster would end countless lives, all in an attempt to gain vengeance for his lost family, who were forever kept away from him. Those ten years destroyed him, made him a monster.
He learned two things.
Never forget. Never forgive.
What happened then, well that's the play,
And he wouldn't want us to give it away...
Not Jehu
Not Jehu Ralleigh
The demon barber of Academy...
Street...
And this is where our tale begins...
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Me: Okay! The first chapter will be Johan's arrival in London after fifteen years of being in prison on a false charge! By the way, the prison he was in was in America, while his true home, and the story, are in London, England.
Lucy: Now, we hope to update "Love is Blind", "Mary's Play House", and "Break", by their this evening or by tomorrow in the morning! We will be working on our stories for as long as we can, and have no fears, we will not tire ourselves out, and we have the fullest intensions of finishing our stories, reposting the ones from our animehime20 account, and finishing them soon!
Me: So, if you would all please, please enjoy this story, as it will be completed soon! We would, however, appreciate it if people would read our comments and review on each of the chapters, because we like hearing what people liked about the chapters, as in their favorite scene and such.
Lucy: It makes us happy to get reviews, that are kind, from our beloved readers, and we shall update our fics as soon as we are able, so please have no worries about that, guys!
Me: Please, please, please review this chapter, as well as the others to come, because we like having lots of reviews on our stories, rather than just a few. So please review!