Chapter 1:
Two years ago:
It was dark. The cries of the innocent rang through the air. He was scared. Scared for his parents, whom he knew deep down were gone forever. Scared for himself, what more could they do to him? And scared for his friend, what cruel fate was awaiting her?
"Ciel?" her soothing voice broke him out of his thoughts.
"What is it?" he asked, genuine curiosity laced in his voice.
"You're crying again" she pulled him into a tight reassuring embrace.
"Ciel you know I will protect you so why are you so scared? Come, let me sing to you again." Ever since he was put into that cage by the evil bastards that kidnapped him, her sweet lullaby was the only thing that let him feel pure serenity.
"Though the night seems dark and cold with fear, if you look around behold you'll see, my love will fight with light and strength and annihilate the pain you feel, so when the dawns bestowed on earth you'll realize those nightmares were never real." Her sweet voice of velvet sang out.
He was right on the verge of succumbing to peace when the door violently swung open. Five masked men stormed in, grabbing him, and once again tearing him away from the one thing that meant the most to him.
"CIEL!" he heard her terror filled, blood curdling scream echo through the whole room as she fought against the masked devils to come to his aid; but this proved to be futile.
The last thing he saw was her crippled body bleeding out onto the cold stone floor, before he to, was plunged into darkness.
Present day:
"Resort! Resort! I'm on cloud nine!" Finny's a little too enthusiastic voice sang out.
"God, what possessed me to bring these imbeciles along with us?" Ciel said more to himself then anyone, his annoyance not hidden in his voice.
"It seems they are grateful to you, young master." Sebastian stated, trying not to show just how much his tiny lord's displeasure pleased him.
Before Ciel had the chance to reply with his usual snide remark, a girls distraught cry brought the carriage to a sudden stop; almost jolting Ciel right out of his seat. He looked out the window to see a group of men mugging and grabbing a young woman quite inappropriately.
"Perverted heathens." He sneered to himself
"Sebastian, go help the girl." He ordered, his voice every bit of authority.
"Yes, my Lord." And with that, Sebastian jumped out of the carriage, and promptly beat the living shit out of the perverse vermin that stood not ten feet away.
Ember's POV:
I had been walking for twelve hours straight. My feet ached and my stomach growled begging for sustenance. When I thought my day couldn't get any worse a group of obvious thugs grabbed me and began stealing the little money I had. I didn't much care for the money, as long as they didn't touch my mother's locket; it was the last thing I had left, besides my haunted memories, to remember the life I once lived.
"Let go of me!" I shouted, trying to sound strong. But this only gained me the hardy laughter of the swine that dared lay their filthy hands on me.
"You're a pretty little thing, it makes me wonder what's hiding underneath all those clothes of yours." One of them said, lust etched into his eyes.
But before he had the chance to act upon his disgusting fantasy, a tall, pale man dressed in all black, forcefully yanked him away from me and with one swift punch; had them all unconscious sprawled out on the ground.
"Using such force on a Lady, honestly, how utterly tasteless." My mysterious 'savior' said as he stared down at their incoherent bodies.
Just as I turned to walk away, a single gloved hand caught my arm twirling me around to face the surprisingly handsome man who had saved me.
"Miss, are you alright?" he asked, though I wasn't sure just how real his concern was.
"I'm fine, trust me I've been through worse." This seemed to trouble him as his once smiling face promptly turned to a frown, though I'm not sure why.
"A Lady should never go through this let alone something worse; and might I point out miss, you're bleeding."
"Huh" I replied, no doubt sounding like a dumb blonde. It was then I finally realized the fresh cut right over my collar bone, letting out a small but steady stream of blood; staining my violet dress a crimson red.
"Oh- well I suppose I am, but that's nothing I can't handle-" before I could finish my attempted excuse of escape, he quite rudely in my opinion, cut me off.
"Don't be ridiculous Miss, please allow me to help you into our carriage and I will personally see to your wound."
I quickly came to realize that his invitation was not optional when he hoisted me up bridal style and proceeded to carry me to said carriage. He gently sat me down on a seat opposite to a boy with navy blue hair and an eye patch over his right eye. The man in black then sat down next to him. The second I saw the boy with the navy blue hair, I knew exactly who he was. Memories of masked men and silent screams flooded my mind.
"Ciel, could it really be you? He hasn't changed a bit aside from the eyepatch" I thought to myself, hoping my face didn't reveal my mind. I was snapped out of my cognition when I noticed the look of growing impatience on the boy's face, and the look of utter amusement on the mans.
"What?" I asked wondering what I had missed.
"I said, my name is Ciel Phantomhive, this is my butler Sebastian; what is your name?" he asked a second time, obviously not happy he had to repeat himself.
"My um…Ember…my name is Ember."
Ciel's POV:
I was beginning to grow impatient at Sebastian obviously taking his time with my order. I was just about to get out of the carriage to see what the holdup was when the door suddenly opened, revealing the demon I had signed my soul away to, and a girl that for some reason I found familiar.
I won't lie; she was quite attractive; her porcelain skin contrasted perfectly with her raven hair darker then the midnight sky that seemed to waterfall down to her waist. Then there were her ice blue eyes that seemed to have the very power to pierce your soul with just one glance.
There was something about her that just screamed "secrets" and I was determined to find out what. But one things for sure, this will be interesting.
A/N: so this was the first chapter of Haunted memories! I really hope you liked it if you did make sure you review and let me know because if nobody tells me they like this story then I'm not goanna continue writing it. Oh and sorry for and spelling/grammar mistakes. If you guys like this story and I continue it I will probably update every Wednesday and Friday so until then Review!