His Butler [Eternally His]: And so it begins…

[Ciel]

"Sebastian!" I gasp with a breath of cold air filling my lungs; the world is a blur as Sebastian runs at speeds I cannot fathom and winds whip my skin which is strangely bare "what am I…Sebastian!" I yell incredulously looking at myself wrapped in just a revealing ragged waist coast. Sebastian pays no attention as I struggle from his tight embrace hurling demands for what took him so long and why I'm naked. His eyes are a fiery red; they pierce the darkness menacingly as he appears to be straining to see something in the darkness around us. Coming more to myself I see we are running on a set of underground roots that are intertwined and suspended over an enormous abyss. "Don't look down, young master." Sebastian whispers urgently as his clawed feet scale the roots without losing a step or even leaning. I look around to a thick darkness and roots dangling in disarray and notice a brown cloak whipping over the roots on the opposite side. "Something is following us." I whisper to Sebastian.

He looks quickly to the side and straight ahead again in the same motion "An ally, young master, at least for now."

I try to ask more questions but he hushes me by holding me closer to muffle my pleas. Feeling a little exhausted I resign for the moment and inspect the being running opposite to us. His hair fans out like many silk pines and his eyes glow liquid silver in the dark, A quick eye is turned to me…An odd expression covers his face and he quickly turns away, pulling up his hood. I make a mental note to investigate him further later on. A stretch of thin roots extends a few meters ahead of us, not even enough to support a child. The being leaps into the darkness and lands on our root quickly jumping ahead. "Listen." He says with a grave and growling voice "We're coming up to the portal, once we enter all hell WILL break loose, literally…you remember what I told you Sebastian...just trust us..."

Sebastian stares at him with flaming eyes still piercing the dark, the same suave growl as before emits clearly as he grins a white fangy smile "For your sake, Silv…you better hope so." He snarls too quietly to be a joke.

[Narrator]

The remaining branches beneath them snap sending the party falling into a pit of dark mass…. "Hold on, bo-chan…"

…..

In a perpetual state of sunset, A sky is spattered a bruising purple and blood red, a single orange orb glowing in the center of it all, the clouds a dusky sick yellow. Desert stretches for miles and miles all around…A large city looms in the center of the dry wasteland, a stack of enormous yellow stoned buildings of various sizes and shapes, collapsed and resting on top of each other, Scratches of a language lost to even time mark everything in sight. An onyx statue of a demonic being with bat's wings stands at the entrance to the desolate city, the only feature…glittering blood red sapphire eyes. Steam rises black and thick from pipes several feet thick jutting from the underground, masking the city in sickly shadows. There are no sounds, no movement…the occasional hiss or inhuman sound is heard slithering through the enormous city but nothing else.

From the northern sky a shimmering green ball with a spark like star fire, flows slowly across the sky, it lands softly into the center of the city….

SFX: Shiiinnng!—

Blood curdling screams emit from within the sickly walls of the city as the buildings are set ablaze in summer green flames that sparkle and crack spreading further and further throughout the city in a fit of explosions. The green smoke emitted from the clouds puffs into the air putting the city under a starry night sky. More screams sound off as the sunset is removed and monstrous bat like creatures covered in prickly hair with beady yellow eyes swarm the city in an effort to protect it and search out an intruder. In a flash, a very different explosion tears through the very heart of the city in a blaze of dark light, an enormous black crow with the eyes of an inferno opens its beak and blasts the large city with a barrage of energy orbs that crackle with dark energy and explode mercilessly throughout the city. A boy of about 13 with wings of silver pokes his head from under a heap of feathers in the large crow only to be ruffled back under. A blazing green orb shines again from the north and in a catastrophic burst melts the stones and burst to pieces leveling the entire city to reveal a dome of mist.

"There you are, now show me where the gate really is…" snarls a silver eyed, green haired being in a brown cloak, hovering over the ruined city.

A set of rusted grey jaws rise up out of the ground and open to reveal a green rippling portal. "There it is! Sebastian! Now!" he yells frantically

"Ennnnoooughhh!" bellows a deep and raging voice out of the ground. "Shit!" Silv curses flying down on strange wings to the source of the sound. A massive beast rises slowly out of miles and miles of sand with a pair of angry black eyes, a hunched figure encased in slick black bumps roars angrily into the sky…
Immediately a hoard of thousands of bats surrounds them on all sides. They blast hundreds and hundreds of them high into the sky to no avail. A bat tears a wing of Sebastian's causing Ciel to dangle helplessly in the air as Sebastian struggles to save both his master and himself from the bats. "Sebastian! What is this! What's going on! I demand to know!" Ciel yells, holding on for dear life. Sebastian growls in pain while trying to swat the hundreds of bats threatening to take them down while Silv does the same.

The head of the demons watches in amusement…he watches Ciel dangling and laughs. In a moment of terror Ciel slips… instinctively, silver wings unfurl from his back and balance him once more. They glisten like morning dew in the spring and shine brilliantly. Ciel shrieks in surprise and hurls demands and insults at the black crow taking bites of hordes of demons, trying to save his life. The head demon looks with wide eyes in disbelief at the wings and roars in inexplicable rage exploding everything into a massive sandstorm, blurring everything. "SO….IT WAS YOU! You're the filthy shit stains that caused Herra's Birth! And you brought that abomination heeerrrreeeee!" It gurgles in maddening rage summoning much stronger demons to the desolate waste land. Silv laughs among the storm, his eyes shining brilliant liquid silver, the red outline blazing as fire. He extends his black wings "Those who would foul the name of Herra…and those she gives birth to…are worthy of death…"

A set of deep blue scratches slowly form across his face as his eyes burn furiously—

A large explosion rips throughout the entire city…An earth shattering call rattles throughout the ancient buildings destroying what's left of it, the raging sandstorm is blown away… "Bo-chan…" a ragged and inhuman voice growls in urgency. Sebastian lies in the form of a large slick crow and gently nudges his master's face which is ashen and white, he breathes heavily and there are two tares on his wings revealing bright red blood…they do not heal….

"No…NO!" Silv yells

In a flash Sebastian turns his head to Silv, his eyes blazing "Enough….enough…"Sebastian snarls quietly

"We have to-!"

With a terrifying snarl Sebastian locks eyes with Silv; his body levitates and is bonded. Silv writhes in pain as Sebastian squeezes his body tighter and tighter, crushing lungs, crushing organs. Silv growls in pain and struggles to break free pleading as to why he's doing this. Sebastian remains silent, repeating angrily the name of his master. After begging for his life and reminding Sebastian of the importance of keeping him alive Sebastian finally lets go, leaving Silv coughing blood and gasping for air. Sebastian gingerly lifts his master with his beak and tucks him in the breast of his large feathers. With that he fly's up into the air in high speed and hovering over the head demon and the minor demons that stare in apprehension he spreads his wings…"

[Sebastian]

A part of me is missing, I've lost my butler façade and all that remains is what I am…Here, I am a demon…a blood thirsty, vicious thing, with a fancy for meticulous detail and unparalleled beauty of all forms…but, on this night…I am just a person…I am just a person who no longer knows what to do for this small thing that has somehow attached to this stained being of mine…I have gotten my master into yet more trouble…Its okay for me…but not for him….As I stare at this destruction before me I summon all the strength I have…from every soul I've taken, from every age and from every time period…My body ignites in a blaze of red and orange flames…I yell angrily into the sky of the Underworlds and hope it reaches that thing called Heaven…If only once I can protect him from all that would seek to destroy him…If I must become Hell, to truly be one hell of a butler…then that is what I will do…

[Narrator]

The sky is illuminated with piercing flames of red and orange from Sebastian's form outward, extending for miles. Thousands of minor demons perish to wisps of ashes that swirl around the flaming bird. The head demon writhes and groans in agony as the flames slowly consume it, due to its large size it can do nothing but sit and burn. Silv stares in awe as the city and everything around is burned to ashes and consumed with fire…"My God…Sebastian…you're a phoenix?..."

[Ciel]

I open my eyes slowly…everything is burning, everything is melting before my eyes…this is just like the day my parents died…everything in flames…those damned flames…I am ruffled deep in feathers, I can't move but I know its Sebastian…He's rambling on about something…destroying everything…for me…I close my eyes and laugh bitterly at my entire life story, that I would be so cursed that even a demon feels compelled to save me…"Sebastian" I say softly, whispering against his glowing feathers. "Sebastian. You have to stop now." I say softly unable to yell from my bleeding wounds. I rub his feathers comfortingly "Destroying everything is just a way of running…we don't run Sebastian, we face life, or death, and bear our scars like royal robes…that is why we are strong, that is why we are alive."

At this Sebastian lessens his flames a bit "I know not of what you speak, I am a demon, nothing more nothing less…this is what I do, destruction, and devastation…this is what I can do…" Flames violently ignite the sands until a sea of flames ensues.

I sigh "You're just being stubborn." I rest my head further against him, getting light headed from the heat "I don't care about what you think you are or if you feel ashamed for not being able to protect me, I'm safe and in your arms now so it doesn't matter! Grow up!" I yell stopping him short of all his fire spewing.

"Bo-chan…Ciel…I..." he struggles with words as he calm's himself

I lean in comfortably as my vision goes blurry "There is only one thing you should be saying to me right now…Sebastian…Michaelis…" I say softly with a smile

I feel the comforting brush of warm feathers touch my face.

"Yes, my lord."

[END]