Chapter Two: A Defining silences
The Library was quiet and empty, the halls echoed with emptiness. Undertaker hated it, he had been a Shinigami for well over a millennia before retiring and never in any of his years had it been quite in the Library.
In the Reaper realm the Library wasn't quiet, it was noisy, filled with the sounds of Reapers rushing around, moving from realm to realm, chatter and… well noise. It was the only way Undertaker new how to describe it, so for the Library to be so silent, it was defining.
With a loud sigh he walked out onto one of the many balconies of the Library, "Hm, what are we going to do? The world needs us but he isn't ready to take on this sort of responsibility… and I can't do it alone again" the sun in their world was setting, and behind him Undertaker could hear the sound of heels clicking on the marble flooring.
"Ah, so you've decided to leave your room at last m'dear" the older of the two reapers said turning around to look at the redhead, "Undertaker? There is know nice or easy way for me to say this so I'm just going to say it, I'm leaving, I'm going to find somebody and get him to help me so I can destroy them all, no matter the cost"
Undertakers face fell slightly, he didn't think the other was going to change his mind, he'd hoped he would but he new the redhead and once he'd made up his mind there was no changing it.
"… Just promise me one thing Grell," the older Reaper asked looking Grell in the eye, "What is it?" Undertaker moved over to the other and pulled him into a hug, "please comes back, Alive. I can't loose you too"
After a moment Grell slowly moved back and gave Undertaker a small weak smile, "Promise" and with that Grell left Undertaker standing there alone with only the clicking of his heels on the marble tiles echoing off the walls the only sound to be heard.
"I so am not slacking off!" the redheaded reaper said looking over at his partner, "Oh yeah you are, and you have been for a while" Will replied giving Grell a slight nudge.
"Well if I'm slacking off then how do you explain me being allowed to take my grey metal exam three years early, huh?" The redhead replied nudging his partner back.
"Yeah and that just further my point about you slacking off, how long ago did you find out you got to take your exam?" Grell gave his partner an odd look "About a week or so ago, why?"
"That proves it, your even slaking in your bragging, normally you would have come and teased me about it not even fifteen minutes after finding something like that out" William replied re-adjusting his glasses.
"Holy crap your right, oh god what's happened to me, I'm turning into a slacker, this is just horrible, what ever will I do?" Grell exclaimed melodramatically.
"Quit being such a drama queen Sutcliff, just pick your game back up, and quit picking up bad habits from Slingby."
Sitting down at their desks, William pulled out the paperwork they had to fill in for the six souls' they'd collected that day, "Right! Pass me what you need me to do, no more slacking off, I can't let you look better then me" Grell replied seating himself on the corner of William's desk.
"Teh, like you would ever let that happen, here fill this half out. You get the gruesome murder of those twins and the suicide, I've got the guy why was mugged and shot, the drowning and the kid who was poisoned."
Grell took the paper work from William and moved into his seat. "Hm, alright! No more slacking, time to get some work done"
The Island of the dead was dark and gave off an aura of death, Grell could see the appeal to demons and why they called it a sanctuary.
Grell followed the dark pressure he felt from the Demon he was looking for, it was faint but he could still feel it and he was getting closer to it.
"Hanna, where are you Hanna, I know you're here, come out and talk to me, I don't like playing hid and go seek." The redhead called out. The small presents Grell had been feeling suddenly flared right behind him. "Hm, what are you doing here, my dear Reaper, you know your kind aren't meant to step foot here." A sickly sweet voice whispered into his ear.
Grell quickly turned around and came face to face with the Demon he'd been looking for, "Hm. I came looking for you, Hanna, I heard you were staying here and hoped you'd be ever so kind as to give me some information that I needed." The redhead replied with the same sick tone the Demon had used.
Hanna gave a small laugh, turning away from the reaper "Would this little visit of yours have anything to do with the demonic decree to have all Grim Reapers wiped from existents?"
"It might, why what do you know of it?" "Well I only know that the decree was passed and that a few Demons came to ask me to join the war against your kind, but I turned them down, so I don't know much, I'm sorry."
"A Demonic decree was passed for the elimination of my kind… Why? I know that Demons and Reapers have never gotten along, but to exterminate us, why?" Hanna looked back at Grell with pity, "Your name is Grell right?"
Grell let out a soft sigh before replying "Yeah it is." The female Demon walked back over to him, "If I knew why the rest of my kind did what they did I'd tell you, but I don't."
"I didn't expect you'd know, that's not what I came to ask you, I came it ask you where I can find somebody, he and his partner owe me a favor and I intent to collect it, and well, you're the only person I know who may still be able to help me find them."
"Ah, I was wondering what you wanted to ask me, so you wish to find them, well that I can help you with but first I want you to tell me something." Grell smirked; he'd been waiting for her to ask why he was searching out the demons. "Ask away my dear."
"What do you intend to gain form trying to wipe out the occupants of hell, I mean I don't really see a point in you throwing your life away just for revenge." There was curiosity in Hanna's voice and Grell wanted to laugh, he didn't really know why himself. "I don't know to be honest, but I survived, and yet, I still feel dead inside, I want to make the ones that did this to me and those closest to me pay for what they did!"
"I believe you came all the way here to ask me something" Hanna's eyes began to glow red "What is it you want to know, Reaper Grell?"
"Where can I find Sebastian Michaelis and Ceil Phantomhive."
