Chapter 1

Escape

-CIEL-

Ciel was running as fast as he could, dark blue hair sticking to his face because of sweat. His feet were hitting the ground at a quick pace, but he tried to make as little sounds as possible. The "as little sound as possible" was quite hard for him tough, as running was not really his forte especially since he was asthmatic, and not only that but he was also super thin and in a bad shape. But now he was running for his life, so what else he could do than give his best effort at running quickly but silently, even when his best effort was quite bad.

Honestly, what the hell was Alois thinking, when he got the idea of following some shady men and even convinced Ciel to come too. It was without a doubt the worst decision Ciel had ever made and he rarely made any bad decisions. Usually he was always right about everything, so now he was almost doubting his own mental health for doing a stupid thing like this. But, in the end Alois had convinced him quite well, there could be some truth in what he said and why they started to follow those men. Anyway, now it just seemed like a really bad idea and Ciel had lost Alois too while running away from those men.

Panic was starting to get into Ciel, as the footsteps following him got clearer and clearer every second. And the dark-haired boy knew he could not take the running much longer, so he had to come up with something smart. Maybe he could hide behind something? The alleys he was running at seemed very empty tough, so it wasn´t the best option, he needed to come up with something else. There were many different alleys and corners there, so he could try to switch trough many alleys and maybe that way lose the men that were after him… Yes, that was probably his safest bet right now, as he could not really go outside the alleys completely and into the more public places, since people would question why some random men were after him and Ciel would again have to confess that he was following the men first. That wasn´t really the first thing to do, as he didn´t want to get into any trouble.

So, after thinking it for a while, Ciel started turning from every corner he could find into a new alley. He kept that on for a few minutes, but started being really out of breath and could feel an asthma attack coming soon if he would not stop. The boy was also starting to feel quite dizzy and his lungs were burning, he could not take anymore air in. Stumbling and couching he turned around the last corner as his vision started to blur. Ciel was expecting to fall onto the hard ground, but instead felt something softer and could see a blurry silhouette before he passed out.

-SEBASTIAN-

Sebastian had smelled this sensational odor last time quite a few years back, but now it was there again. A sweet, strong smell that he could not resist, a smell that grew his deep, deep hunger stronger than ever before. So the second the smell came into his nose, he was out of the house and hunting for the one whose odor was that delicious. He didn´t want to scare his food right away, so the red eyed creature decided to quietly wander down the streets, getting closer and closer to his next food…

As the demon was closing his dinner, he could slowly start to define the person out of the other smells besides the delicious one. The human seemed like a young girl… no, a boy. A boy that was quite petite and fragile, but gone trough a lot. One smell was very strong tough and it really sticked out. The boy reeked of fear and panic, and that gave Sebastian quite the idea to quickly play with his food before eating and maybe with the toying make the food taste even better…

Oh, and why the food would taste better after playing with it? You see, demons eat human souls as their food and sometimes eat the flesh and drink the blood too. Of course, as with humans, every demon has their own taste with their food, but usually the more suffering the soul has gone trough, the more delicious it is to demons. That is why cruelly playing with the food could make it even more delicious. And that is exactly what Sebastian was going to do.

Actually, Sebastian based nowadays his whole life around finding the best souls and even toying with them first before eating. For many hundred years now he had been doing so and made even some contracts with quite interesting humans. At some point he got tired of playing house and hadn´t made contracts in a bit over hundred years now. Every contact just started feeling the same and he could see into humans life even without it, so why bother. Humans could also be quite the brats sometimes and cause troubles so it was easier to just toy with them without a contract.

Now Sebastian was really close to his new food. He started to slow down his pace and started to listen closer to the sounds he could hear. Three different footsteps, one belonged to the dinner and two were some older men that seemed to be after the boy. The boy also seemed quite out of breath. "Humans", Sebastian chuckled quietly to himself, as he came to the last corner and stopped behind it. Just a quick moment after that the boy he was waiting for pretty much fell into his arms, as the demon was expecting. The demon captured the boy with his other arm and took a firm grip of his dinners body, because just a few seconds later the two men that were after the boy, arrived at the scene. The men looked quite surprised to see Sebastian there, but just in a mere second, the two attacked Sebastian. It probably wasn´t a surprise, that the black haired demon tackled the men easily with just one hand and send them flying to the nearest wall with a lot of power. Both men lost consciousness as their heads hit the wall with a loud bang and then they just dropped to the ground, with some blood stains in the back of their heads and on the wall.

Sebastians lips curved into a small amused smile. "My toy", he whispered as he took the fainted boy now into his arms with both hands and then disappeared into the night.