Chapter#1

Once Upon a Dream

A/N: I know, I know I"m just adding yet ANOTHER pain in the ass to deal with. But I've been having writers block lately with my other stories, and I"m editing the older ones, and adding new chapters to some of them, and ARG ! On another note I"m hoping to get outta this funk so I can actually write the fifth chapter to troublemaker, because it seems that I can do everything BUT that. Like ride a bike, or read a book, or annoy the hell outta my therapist on purpose because I'm a horrible fuck. But anyway, this story is dedicated to my fan Martucka. She is a Hispanic fanfic reader, and apparently she's learning english from mine I guess, cause she only reviews in Spanish. Lucky her I can read and understand It but, can't speak it to save my life. Ew I talk too much, on with the story ! Oh ! And HIIIIIIIIIIII

" Hm, hmm, hmm." A small voice sang into the reflection in front of him as he brushed his cobalt hair. Heterochromatic eyes - blue and purple- stared back at him intently. It was a peaceful day in the Inferno kingdom, children sang nursery rhymes and played games in the garden. Birds chirped, and the beautiful flowers that surrounded the kingdom swayed with the spring breeze. It seemed normal and quiet in the Phantomhive Castle... Too quiet.

" 5, 4, 3, 2..."mumbled the young boy quietly as he pointed a finger to the door, indicating that he heard the pounding footsteps come towards his room. " MASTER PHAN'OMIVE 'ERE ARE YOU ?!'" A heavy English accent yelled, looking across the room in search of the boy she was in charge of. " Mey-Rin, two things. How many times do I have to tell you ? Its been six years now, call me Ciel, and are you mad ? I'm standing right here." Ciel said stepping away from his mirror to face his maid.

'' Oh, sorry about that," she said as she took her glasses off and removed the fog that accumulated there. Mey-Rin cleared her throat. " Again, sorry I don't have a clue why my speech went like that sir and yes, I'm quite aware of the time we've spent together Master Ciel, but its not easy getting used to such kind people." She smiled. " And you've been so kind as to address me by my real name as well."

Yes this was the head maid of the Phantomhive castle, Mey-Rin. The maid had pinkish-red hair that she tied into messy twin ponytails when she went to work, and wore freakishly huge, round glasses to hide her unique colored eyes. Six years ago, Ciel was kidnapped and held for ransom, the Phantomhive family hired her to go rescue their son, and decided she'd be better protection than the castle guards. Ciel worshiped her from that day on and the two grew up together happily smiling.

16 year old Mey-Rin was a young assassin at the time and had no place to go, she usually slept in the human world, -in abandoned churches no less- before the family found her. After that she had been eternally grateful and vowed to protect the young prince with her
life. She was like a second mother to the young Prince. Taking care of him when his parents were away, making sure he was dressed well for the day, she was the one who taught him to tie his shoes even- which was pretty pathetic for a twelve year old -. Mey-Rin was always there, and whenever Ciel needed someone she'd be there. In a way, the girl was one of his closest friends.

" Now Mey-Rin, what is it that you took the time to barge into my room screaming like a madwoman ? Guest ? A message from the Queen ? Perhaps little Timothy has fallen down the Well again, or are you just Crying Wolf ?" Ciel snickered at his maid who began to scowl at her Masters' tomfoolery. Turning away to calm her nerves, she picked back up her practiced speech- apparently she was not understood from her old speech- and said with an evil glare towards the young Prince before speaking.

" Not at all My Prince, the King and Queen have come back from their trip back from the Akuma Kingdom, and they request an audience with you immediately." Mey-Rin said the last word over her glasses like she meant to say, 'Oh honey, you better go if you want to see 19.'

Ciel blanched, it was never a good thing whenever his parents got back from the feuding kingdom. " Oh Freaking Hell, Mey-Rin fetch me my coat, we have to run or else someone might loose a head. The Prince said as he checked over his appearance to see if anything was out of place and made a mad dash for the door. Ciel ran through the corridor, passing by dozen of family portraits until finally skidding to a stop right in front of the throne room doors. With a deep breath, Ciel straitened himself out before pushing the doors open, and entering his doom.

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" Announcing, Prince Ciel Phantomhive." the Harold yelled loudly, banging his cane as he introduce the young Prince to the King and Queen. Ciel winced at the noise, but recovered quickly before running up to his parents and giving them a big hug. " Mother Father ! I'm so glad to see that you've come back safely home and you wanted to see me first !" The boy thought it was probably better to butter his parents up before they thought of nuclear warfare, and he knew what happened last time they tried that.

"Ciel ! It's so wonderful to see you in such a good mood, I'm happy to see you as well." the Queen said smiling down at her son with genuine delight. The Phantomhive family was a happy- if not jubilated- one. You could always find one of them smiling, or laughing at the silliest things. In fact, the only thing that seemed to truly piss them off was... Well you know. Anyway, the family was kind in everyway, letting the younger citizens of the kingdom play in the castle, or helping the kingdom out with smaller problems like petty theft and such.

So Ciel's sudden outburst of emotion wasn't really unexpected or unusual.

" So," the prince said letting his parents go finally. "Mey-Rin told me you would like a word with me ?" The King smiled widely at his son, eyes shining with mirth and what seemed like a little bit of fear. " Ah, why yes my boy. As you know we have just came back from the Demon Kingdom;" he spoke, still smiling at his son.

Ciel gulped, 'Here it comes' he thought and waited for the loud ranting of his parents that never came. The Prince looked up only to still see smiles on both of his parents faces. He was puzzled for a second, this was not normal. Not on a day like this, something was terribly wrong. " Um, that's good and all guys but, what's with the smiles ?- Not that I hate it- but this isn't like you." Ciel said, uneasily backing up away from his parents to not catch their crazy.

" Well Ciel, for once we've gotten good news from them." the Queen said with excitement. " The feud is over !" The Prince cocked his head to the side. Over ? The big fight that's been going on for centuries just... Stopped ? No fighting, screaming, kicking or punching from either sides ? Oh no, something was up and Ciel could sense it.

" What do you mean over ? It cat be done just like that ! How long we're you gone ? When did this happen ? Mother, Father, what on earth ?" the Prince asked, bombarding his parents with questions and trying to get a decent answer to his parents burst of insanity.

" Ciel, calm down and if you let us, we will explain to you. The King said softly, looking his son in the eye. " I'm listening." the boy said crossing his arms and taking a firm stance. The young couple sighed and began to speak. " Recently, there has been a problem facing the kingdom lately, an unknown organization of sorts. We have word now that they are gathering people, to usurp both the Inferno, and the Demon kingdom,"

The King furrowed his brow, these next couple of sentences were going to be tricky, and he hated it when things somehow got complicated.

" So we thought it would be best if we stopped the feud and join together to defeat the Usurpers." the Queen said as she clasped her hands together eyes sparkling like blue diamonds. " And what better way to do that by a marriage ?!"

" I'm getting MARRIED ?!" Ciel asked irrediculously. " What ? Wait ? Why ? Nya !" Ciel said getting more and more upset by the minute. His parents eyes widened, " Sweetheart, please calm down, we thought you'd take this a little better but jeez,! Look at you, your shifting !" The Queen said.

Ciel turned to face one of the many windows in the castle, only to be met with a pair of cobalt-blue ears, and a tail to match.

Yes, he like everyone else in the Kingdom, was a demon. A cat demon to be precise. In fact, he came from a long line of them, very few in his family weren't and those of them who didn't sport a pair of neko ears were usually a product of a demon who had more dominant genes.

" Ack!" Ciel squeaked before turning back to his parents and apologizing furiously. " I'm so sorry ! I know we aren't supposed to change unless we need to but I got a little upset, and you know how I get when that happens. Please excuse my rudeness Mother, Father." The Young Prince looked down in disgust. He never did like it whenever he changed, most of the time it happened whenever he didn't like something, and it made him feel like a brat.

" Its quite alright son, now we still have to speak about this and sort it out, I'm sorry but this is something dire to us." the King said looking at his wife as if to say; 'Alright, I'm done pissing him off your turn.' she simple rolled her eyes cleared her throat to get her sons' attention off of the floor and onto her. The Queen smiled and pointed at her son as she spoke. " You Ciel, shall be married to the eldest child of the Michaelis Castle. From there you two will both receive training on protection, and how to act like civil partners towards one another.

The Queen finished her explanation and lowered her hand to focus on her son, who was making no facial expression whatsoever. Ciel took a deep breath before returning his mother's stare. How bad could this marriage be anyway. He was sure that the eldest daughter wasn't anything to sneeze at. He heard that the entire family was actually pretty... Pretty, although there was always a snarling comment about their personalities that seemed to come up.

" So, who is she ?" The prince spoke giving both of his parents a defeated look. " She ?" the king asked, gawking at his son in confusion. " My betrothed of course, the girl I am to wed ?" Ciel asked turning away from his parents once more and looking at his parents and walking to the window to look at the castle grounds and to calm his nerves. " Sweetheart, I think your mistaken, the eldest child of the Michaelis Castle is not a female, but in fact a male"

The Queen said with a nervous smile gracing her lips.

" A who now ?" the Prince turned around and asked, this question sounding more surprised than exasperated. " Your betrothed is the eldest son of the Akuma kingdom, Sebastian Michaelis to be a little more specific." the King said in a 'matter of fact' tone, clarifying for his wife . The young Prince turned whiter than a sheet. " What ?" he said touching his -paler- cheek. " I-I'm a boy I-I.." " Yes we know this to be a fact love, but as you know, we are demons and gender doesn't matter here. Don't worry Ciel, you'll still be able to have children,- granted you'll probably be the one car-"

Ciel cut his father off with a sharp edge in his voice. " NO, I don't want that ! What about getting to know each other ? Or love ? Why would you set me up like this knowing that I can't possibly go through with this?"

The boy was in shock and hysteria, this whole ordeal went against all of his morals. He was taught that he should love and never expect love in return yes, but to never hate. And what ever this monstrosity was, he was sure 'love' wasn't going to fit into this. " That's why we gave you two a month Dear." " He will be staying at our castle within a week, and from there you two will go on regular courting sessions. This is what's best my little prince, please see that we only want you to be safe, and happy, and that we want the same for our Kingdom as well. We mean no harm."

the Queen said, taking her son by the hand and gesturing for her husband to do the same.

"Please Ciel, do not hate us for this selfish thing we have done. We promise you that this was our only choice, we need this even this nasty feud to end. We cannot fight family, therefore we thought it was best if they became one of them. So understand and realize that we love you dear, we will always love you but when you are to rule the new Kingdom, we don't want you ruling without someone as strong as you by your side."

the king told his son softly not noticing the subtle swaying his son was doing.

" Ciel, Ciel please. Ciel ?" the couple looked at each other with worry, etched on both of their faces. What the two didn't notice, was their grasp on their son had come loose and their was a faint 'thump' noise that came from the ground.

The King and Queen looked down and screamed, causing the castle guards to become alarmed and come rushing through. " Lady Rachel, Lord Vincent, what's the matter ?" one of the men asked, darting his eyes around to see the cause of his employers distress. " The Prince ! He's fainted !" she wailed, despair laced in her voice.

At that moment, Ciel's maid Mey-Rin came in to see what the ruckus was about. She looked down and saw her master, in a pitiful heap of limbs on the floor. Tsking, she pushed her glasses off of her face and grabbed the young Lord. " Sorry about that. It seems my master has forgotten to eat breakfast this morning." she said before hoisting her lord onto her shoulders and simply waling away.

Notes:

A:N/ Yay ! I'm done with this one ! I think I'm going to post two chapters up this week to see how it goes. Apparently people love neko Ciel, I mean yeah, he looks good in cat ears and all but jeez keep it in your pants girls you don't have to freak out every second you see an erotica picture of it. But then again, I'm not one to talk considering I become a mushy mess whenever I READ the words " I love you". Urg enough Ranting, review and I'll send you baked goods that aren't poisoned