"VATIIIIII~!"
After an explosive bolt of movement from downstairs, I dashed through the vast upstairs hallways of Phantomhive Manor gripping my sword tightly that I used to defeat the one and only Elizabeth Midford. My heels clattered the pristine tiled floor passing by the sun shined windows illuminating onto the ancient dusty portraits of Phantomhive predecessors filling the room with a chalky scent.
The strands of my chestnut hair started falling out of the fancy bun and onto my face that Auntie Frances suggested when she insisted that I have my hair up for the sword fight earlier from outside the Manor. I held my head high and looked down often enough to not lose my footing since I was running in heels.
I just have that amazing skill being able to do anything in heels. I had a few scratches here and there but I ran before the maid could patch them up because that's how badly I wanted to tell my father that I won against Lizzy. Not her, me.
Yes, I can be quite the arrogant prick but come on you just gotta embrace your talents and let everyone know that you are the most awesome person ever.
"Lady Charlotte, come back here." I could hear the maid's voice metres away from chasing after me. I grinned and turned my head and stuck my tongue out at her and fastened my pace. When suddenly, I felt someone grab me in midair and onto their shoulders. I looked down to see a patch of blond hair and instantly found out who it was.
"Uncle Chlaus, you gotta take me to Papa before the maid gets me." I said struggling in his iron grip. Chlaus is a middle-aged man with blue eyes and blond hair drawn back in a tidy ponytail. Although, it's pretty rare seeing him around England since he's always busy travelling the world seeing new things. Everytime he'd come back from a country he would speak in a different language from that said country he went to.
"But Lottie, ma chérie," And this time he went to France,"you're clearly injured. Maybe you should go see the mai-"
"Hah no way~! I'm too hardcore for that. I need to show Papa that I'm tough ^-^ ." I smirked devilishly. Uncle Chlaus let out a loud laugh and looked at me.
"But seriously have those wounds patched. You'll look more badass if you had bandages on and then they'll get all worried." Me being the gullible child I am believed him.
I grinned. "Okay." The maid appeared out of nowhere with a bunch of bandages and rubbing alcohol.
"I got you now."
In a spacious nearby room where 2 men and a boy were seated on two maroon wingback chairs in front of a tidy pool table. The 2 men were both in a heated argument sitting across from each other in their respected chairs while the boy was seated on one of the man's lap.
The boy had dark blue hair almost looks black and deep blue eyes and his name was Ciel Phantomhive. The man's lap who he was seated on was his father, Vincent Phantomhive who also had short bluish-black hair but instead had brown eyes, and a beauty mark under his left eye. Lastly, the man who Vincent was conversing who goes by the name of Ludwig Diedrich but often referred to as just Diedrich or Baron Diedrich. He had short black hair with forelocks parted to the right and a robust and athletic body.
"Father, where is Lottie?" A younger Ciel questioned while tugging the sleeve of his father's jacket. Ciel would have asked Diedrich himself if Ciel wasn't too scared to ask him. Vincent looks at his son curiously and also wonders where the younger female look-a-like of his best friend is. Vincent turns to the German noblemen and asks the same question.
"Hey Dee, where's Lottie?" Diedrich scowled at the used of his nickname.
"I don't know. She went off somewhere with your sister." He answered. At that moment, Vincent's sister, Frances Midford who was a tall slender woman with blonde hair and sharp green eyes, walked in narrowing her eyes at them.
"Have you seen Charlotte?" This caused both males turning to her with distraught expressions on their faces. Chlaus came in and took notice of their facial expressions.
"Hey, did I miss something?"
Frances turned to Chlaus and asked the same thing "Have you seen Charlotte?"
He raised an eyebrow at the question. "Yeah...but she should have been here by now."
Diedrich stood up and turned to him with a menacing expression. "Where did you last see her?"
"Well, she was running away from the maid eager to see you. She had a bunch scratches hence the reason why the maid was chasing her. I gave her over to the maid and all I heard was the maid say 'I got you now' but I didn't think it was in a threatening way or something."
"..."
"I suggest we look around the manor before we do anything rash."
"Wow Mr. Tanaka, you're such a good swordsman. Thank you so much for training me and because of it I beat Lizzy and Papa will be so proud of me." I grinned at the elderly man seated across from me. I couldn't find Papa in that usual room he spoke to Uncle Vincent in so instead I noticed Mr. Tanaka from down the hall and I thought I would thank him for helping me prep for my match.
The monocle eyed butler smiled gently and gave me a cup of green tea. "It's not a problem, Lady Charlotte."
"But seriously how are you so good? You had this glowing aura around you. It's like you weren't human," I quickly realized how rude that might of sounded and swiftly corrected myself, "But in a good way of course. I want to be non-human sometimes." Maybe like a unicorn or something.
Tanaka chuckled lightly. "I am not offended by that statement, Lady Charlotte." I blushed like a tomato because of my overreaction of being rude like Papa. He can quite rude sometimes.
"Tanaka! Lady Charlotte is missing, we need help finding her!" I hear Uncle Vincent's voice from what sounds to be coming from the hallway. I'm missing? But I'm right here.
Mr. Tanaka was quite puzzled and stepped outside the room and I heard him say, "But Master, Lady Charlotte is right here drinking some tea."
"What?" I heard some footsteps getting closer and Uncle Vincent walked looking relieved. I smiled and sipped some tea."Hi Uncle Vincent."
"There you are, Lottie, Dee was worried about you."
"Dee?" Surprisingly, it was the first time I've ever heard such a nickname.
"OH, I mean your father." Ooooh he meant Papa maybe I should call him Dee just to irritate him sometimes. I smirked to myself at the thought and I noticed Uncle Vince smirked at me as if you he was reading my mind.
I held onto Uncle Vincent gloved hand as he was leading me to my Papa. I had my sword in my other hand. I told Uncle Vincent that defeated Lizzy and he was quite shocked at first because everyone see's Lizzy as a fencing genius but he congratulated me nonetheless and said Papa will be proud of me.
Eventually he let me go and he opened the door but before he could, he turned to me and smirked, "Okay wait out here. I'm going to trick that I looked everywhere for you and I couldn't find you okay?"
I smirked deviously, "Got it."
And I did as I was told. Until I heard yelling and screaming, there was a few sounds of glasses breaking.
Woah...I didn't think things would get this crazy. I guess this was my cue to walk in. I grasped onto the door handle and swung it open. Ciel stared at me with his mouth agape, Uncle Vincent was smirking and Papa had his back turned to me and his head in his hands.
I carefully walked over to my Vati quietly making sure he doesn't hear me. I appeared next to him and put my sword down. I touched his shoulder.
"Vati?" I called out to him softly and he expeditiously looked up at me. His eyes were bloodshot as if he was crying. Okay, he most likely was. Okay, he did cry.
"S-schätzchen[1], I thought I lost you." He croaked. He blinked away his briny tears from his eyes feeling disconcerted crying in front of his own daughter. I wrap my arms around his torso burying my head into his firm chest closing my eyes. I felt two other people hug around us and I peek to see Uncle Vincent and Ciel joining in our group hug.
Papa was embarrassed about it and I just laughed at his face. Deep down, I know he cares about Uncle Vincent. They were both best friends after all since Weston College. I eventually let go of Papa but I noticed Uncle Vincent was still hugging Papa even though me and Ciel already let go. Papa was as red as a tomato.
"Oi get off me Phantomhive!"
It's been two weeks since the whole prank that Uncle Vincent did on Papa thinking that he couldn't find me. All is good now since it's December and I absolutely love the snow and that me and Ciel both have our birthdays in December. Ciel's in on the 14th and mine is on the 25th, which is Christmas so naturally I would get extra present but we would also go to the orphanage too. This year, we were both going to turn eight.
I'm so excited mostly for the cake and presents but of course Auntie Frances will announce it to the whole world and have a bunch of church-bells[2] swarming around us pinching our cheeks. Just the thought of it gives me the shivers.
Now enough about those pesky church-bells, let's about talk about me and Ciel mostly me of course. We were both out somewhere with our fathers because we begged them to bring us along or else we would have been stuck with Auntie Frances and no one wants to be stranded with her.
At the moment, me and Ciel are out in the streets of Birmingham playing with the snow waiting for our fathers to do their business and by business I do not mean taking a pee but evil noblemen business since they are part of the Aristocrats of Evil which in turn makes their life a dangerous one.
I turn to my blue-eyed friend. "Hey Ciel?"
"What?"
"Do you want to a build a snowman?" I grinned gesturing to big pile of snow.
He grinned and nodded rapidly as we were about to approach the snowbank when suddenly we heard loud bangs. It sounded like gunshots, it was too powerful to sound like a backfiring car. My body went rigid and started to sweat. I've heard gunshots before when I went hunting with Auntie Frances but I don't think these gunshots are for bear hunting. People around us started screaming hysterically running for shelter this could only mean one thing.
The gunshots cracked into the air as loud as thunder but without the raw power of a storm. I didn't know what to do and I cursed my mentally for standing there like an idiot while all the other civilians are running. I looked back at Ciel and I could see fear in his dreamy blue eyes.
"Ciel, I-" Then, I heard something that sounds like glass shattering and I whip my head around to see a crowd of boys and men armed with guns and that they were all wearing the same thing. A grey flat cap and a matching grey suit. One of the men noticed us standing there and smirked evilly and whispered in who looked like the boss of this said organization.
My mind started racing knowing that they might kidnap one of us. "Ciel...I need you to go in there and call Papa for me please."
"But I can't-"
"GOD DAMMIT CIEL JUST LISTEN TO ME AND RUN!" I ordered like a military leader but I was shaking a part of me felt a bit like my father saying that, "Please.." I said softly and he ran. I breathed in knowing that he'll be safe and I looked up at the leader in the eye with such ferocity.
Ciel was scared for his friend. He thought it would be the last time he would ever see her. The Yard came over and they found traces of Charlotte's blood. Diedrich was devastated. Vincent went out to the balcony to comfort his friend of his sudden loss. Rachel was holding Ciel close to him. Everyone was shocked by the sudden disappearance of the young girl.
Ciel felt bad for Diedrich. He lost his wife and now his daughter. Although, Ciel refuses to believe that his friend is dead. He believes she's out there somewhere fighting like she always did. Fight. All she did was fight. And that's what Ciel is going to do. Fight.
[1] Schätzchen (German)=Sweetie, Poppet, Pet and etc.
[2] Church-bell (Victorian slang)= Talkative women
A/N Hi guys, Pooks here now before some of you start questioning me about why I deleted my stories and the answer to that is because I just wasn't feeling it anymore but don't worry that doesn't mean I deleted it forever. It just means that you will have to wait a long while before I could update any of those stories. Anyway, I hope you like this story and please give me some constructive criticism because I worked really hard on it hoping it would be as great as those other fanfictions out there.