Peppermint wiped his lips with a napkin as a proper gentleman would though at this moment he was anything but.
The meal he had just dined on was something the world and his darling princess would frown upon but it didn't matter to him because he would never allow them to find out.
He looked to the goblin bones before himself and sighed. They had lasted for longer then he thought they would. A month to be exact but now it was gone and the bones were all that remained.
It wasn't as f he were a cannibal, he wasn't eating his own kind, after all Candy people were just too sweet for his taste and many were his best friends but besides that he could never hurt his princess by eating her subjects.
He stood from the table and straightened his bow tie, slicked his short black hair and red tipped hair from his face and then began to press his dark blue suit back into perfection.
He pulled on his red gloves and finally gave his attentions back to the bones. He would have to burn them to destroy the evidence of his shameful deed.
Peppermint knocked the clean white bones into the trash can next to his desk. He tied the bag and took it up and headed for the wall.
There was one place that peppermint could hide the bones so that they would never be found.
The underworld. He'd learned the spell to open the portal from a wizard he'd met before becoming the princesses royal butler, he'd yet to see the wizard since then but the spell he had learned from him had given him an upper hand in his hiding of the bodies he'd eaten.
He'd been going to the underworld for years and had learned the many strange ways of the dead who lived there but in all his years of visiting he'd yet to meet Death himself but the rumors he'd heard of the man had made him happy that he hadn't.
He slipped through the portal and walked down the escalator, in too much of a hurry to wait until the escalator reached the bottom. He strolled to the edge of the rocks at the bottom of the escalator and took up the shovel that was already waiting for him behind it.
He removed his blazer and draped it over the rocks then rolled up his sleeves and began to dig the deep hole that would conceal his deed in the deep gray dirt.
"Do you really think burying the evidence in the underworld will keep your Princess from finding out about your sins minty?"
Peppermint froze and slowly turned to see where the sinister yet sexy voice had come from.
The tall white clad man chuckled and looked to peppermint with light yellow glowing eyes, the whites nonexistent, covered in a deep black that struck the slightest tinge of fear down Peppermint's spine.
"You must be Death."
"And you are Peppermint Butler of the young Princess bubblegum." A smile slashed across his mouth. "Tell me; is she alright after the loss of her dear mommy and daddy?"
Peppermint lost his temper and caught the man's collar. "How dare you say such a thing?" He knew he shouldn't lose his temper while in the company of such a dangerous being but he couldn't help himself. No one should make light on the loss of his king and queen.
Death caught Peppermint's hands and twisted them around his back, peppermint now pressed flush against the death god. He pressed his lips to peppermint's ear and chuckled. "I'll tell her Minty," He licked Peppermint's ear causing the butler to shudder in disgust. "About your hunger for flesh."
Peppermint tried to shove him back but Death jerked him close again.
"With the sudden way they disappeared, do you think she will suspect you ate them?"
Peppermint froze, he had never thought of that outcome but he would ever do such a thing, perhaps his princess knew him better than that. "She would never think that, she knows I wouldn't, she knows I was loyal to them."
Death chuckled and stroked his thumbs over Peppermint's pinned arms. "Ah but do her loyal subject know? They'll run you out of town or worse if this gets out."
Peppermint struggled against death's hold, his arms now stinging from the tight grip. He finally stopped fighting when death gave a hard squeeze. Resistance was obviously futile.
He looked up to Death with hate in his eyes. "What do you propose I do?"
Death grinned and claimed a particularly hard kiss from the Butler.
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Author's note~ No one writes one writes for these guys and I love them so here it is, the first chap in a short chapter series I am going to do for them. :D Hope you like it! ~*CrimsonCross*~
