Chapter 4-Letter
Everything was burnt down in ruins. Brother where are you? Mother father please tell me this is all a dream. Please don't leave me alone! Everyone vanished one by one from than on, on that dreadful day were I used to be happy and smiling. I was than on named cursed for my bad luck. Until one day everything changed again when people came into my relative's house.
"Aunty who are does people?" Ciela asked
"Their here to sell you off. Now than you may take her."
"Yes Ma'm" the men caught her and were now dragging her out of the door. Ciela was struggling.
"No let go off me! Let go! Aunty your not serious of selling me are you? Please it is not my fault that your son died."
"It's your entire fault you cursed child! If you aren't at fault who do you think it was! Take her out of my sight and don't let me see you again!"
"NO! Let go of me! Aunty!"
I was placed in a place were I don't recognize crying and begging to be let out of the cage that imprisoned me but all was futile.
"Hey look at that child over there. Isn't she a beauty and does eyes of hers." A lady whispered.
"Hey don't think of buying her. She's cursed that's what the lady that sold her off said."
"Oh my! But she's only a child."
"Please let me out! I need to wait for my brother let me out! Let me out." I shouted and was shaking the bars of the cage that I was imprisoned. My tears were stained on my face and my voice going raw from many shout of pleads.
"I pity that girl. She's at such a small age and she's getting sold in this auction."
"Yes it's indeed pitiful"
"Okay folks this girl here is getting sold at a high price. You can do whatever you want with her like making her your salve or kill her to get her body parts. We're starting the bet at 1 hundred thousand dollar." A gruffy man wearing a tail coat was setting the bet on a stage. They were in an underground auction. Many shouts were giving off their bets on how much their willing to pay
"6 hundred thousand!"
"20 hundred thousand!"
"60hundred thousand!"
"90 hundred thousand!"
"1 million!"
"1 million going once, twice Sold!"
"Let me out! I don't want to go let me go home! Please! Please! Please let me go! SAVE ME BROTHER!"
"AAAAAHHHHH!" Ciela sit bolted up from her bed. She was panting and sweating profusely that her night gown was stuck to her body. She was gripping the bed sheets so hard that her knuckles were going white. She looks around the room and found a clock near the bedside table that read midnight. She brought her hand over her face and covered it. A knock was than sounded and Ciel and Sebastian walked in.
"Ciela what's wrong we heard you scream."
"It's nothing. It just a night mare that all. A long past that I thought won't happen to play in my head again."
"I see."
"Ciel why aren't you in bed yet? Its midnight already and you're still dressed in your day clothes."
"I was about to retire to bed but than I heard you're scream and came here. And you gave me a scare all of a sudden screaming like you're going to be killed."
"Sorry than."
"Well next time if anything is troubling you than call Sebastian."
"Why must I call Sebastian?"
"Because the young master had this type of screams after coming back to the mansion. I'll always calm him down with milk and a dash of honey with it." Sebastian than went to Ciela and gave her the glass that was filled with milk. And just like he said, it really did calm her down.
"Thanks Sebastian." Ciela returned the cup to him and he went to stand beside his master.
"Than I trust you're filling better Ciela."
"Yes much better."
"All right than I'll excuse myself. Goodnight sister." Ciel said the last part in a whisper and left the room. The next few hours of night was peaceful and soon morning arrived in the manor. Ciela woke up by the streams of sunlight that entered the room as the drapes were being opened. She blinked for a few seconds before sitting up in the bed to find that Sebastian was there pouring tea for her. By the scent of the tea, it was chai for today. Scorns were placed in a plate with some strawberry jam on it. The tea and food was delicious and it warmed her up from the morning cold air. A dress was picked for her from the closet that Sebastian packed for her. Surprisingly, her clothes weren't much at all for a girl for her age. It only covered half of the closet. Just some simple clothes with ribbons and laces. Coats similar to Ciel's. And a few pair of gloves to match off with her shoes and dress. Sebastian didn't have much of a choice from the clothes that she had and chose a red dress and black dress that had the patterns of a chess board around the collar at the end of the sleeves and the whole dress black with a similar pattern of a chess board for the bow around the neck and around the waist. He left the dress on the bed and went to wake his young master. He pushed the cart out and closed the doors leaving Ciela with the morning sun shining down at her. The room was furnished with a table and arm chair near the big window. A night stand beside the bed that had a clock on it that she looked at last night. The canopy bed was draped with blue and the bed sheets were white. The floor was carpeted with blue as well. The wallpapers were in elaborate designs of repeated patterns. She finished her tea and food and got ready to start the day. She was trained to do all this herself after she was bought by the owner. She still remembered the times she took care of her but would beat her if she did it wrongly but not hard to let blood flow out. That lady was kind like a mother to her. She pushed that thought aside and dressed into the dress. The shoes were black with a red rose on it. Ciela went to the full length mirror and looked at her appearance. She took a brush and brushed her black hair. After being satisfied with it, she put on her blue heirloom ring on her index finger and a mechanical pendant around her neck that was shaped into an angel with a sword held in her hands. Her wings were beautifully crafted like the rest of it and it was mechanical as when you put it near your ear, you would hear the ticking of the mechanism. It was given to her by the owner and the angel has been with her ever since. After hiding it underneath her clothes, she went to the dining room were Ciel was already seated and eating his breakfast.
"Good morning Ciel." Ciela went to her seat beside him.
"Ah" They sat in silence after that. Ciela ate her food that was salmon for the main course. Tea was still chai and after that long silence for nearly 48 minutes, Sebastian walks in with two letters on a silver tray and a letter opener. Ciel immediately knew what it was and opened the letter. He scanned through it before passing it Sebastian. He as well read it in silence before Sebastian passed it to Ciel.
"Sebastian give me the next letter."
"I'm sorry young master but this letter is for lady Ciela."
"What? What does the queen want now from my sister?" Sebastian walks to Ciela and she took the letter with a bored expression and opened it." After reading the letter, she immediately put it back into the envelope before speaking.
"It would seem that the queen know that I'm staying here with you and wants me to follow you on this mission Ciel that relates to unexplained deaths on random people. Scotland Yard is without leads anymore and wants you and me to solve it. So do I get to go?" after a few moments of silence, Ciel asked.
"I'll ask questions first before that Ciela."
"What would that be?"
"Have you seen dead people covered in blood and the way their mangled bodies lay in the crime scene? Have you ever captured criminals without fear or shock that he or she may be close to you? Have you ever come across supernatural begins? And have you been another watchdog like me?" it took a few seconds for all this to be answered by Ciela.
"Yes I am another watchdog like you Ciel. I helped the queen into finding those criminals that escaped to France, track people who sell opium's or drugs on board, telling information to the queen, seeing corpse laying on the ground covered in blood since 8 years old till now and for supernatural begins yes I have come across them sometimes. That all I'll answer. So do I consider being in this mission after all the queen gave you permission to either let me go with you."
Ciel could only sighed a hint of boredness in his breathe.
"Sebastian prepare my coat and the carriage. We're going to the crime scene with my sister."
"Yes my lord." Sebastian bowed with his right hand over his heart and he left the room.
The ride through the woods was long as it was an hour long ride. The siblings sat in silence as Sebastian drove the carriage. The only noises are the clops from the hooves of the horse and the bumps from tiny rocks and pebbles from the ground. Ciela stared outside through the window of the carriage looking out at the green scenery of trees. Ciel was reading the letter again and was piecing the information from the newspaper that he read in the morning. The whole situation started when a mans body was found mangled and disheveled covered in blood. The second victim was a young woman in her teens killed and chest stabbed with a weird symbol on the knife. And the third and fourth are the same as the second one except they are much younger. The carriage soon arrived at the crime scene. The place was bustling with people. A lady was kneeling on the floor crying. In the small apartment, policemen's were everywhere than inspector Aberline was reading some stacks of paper when saw the young earl and went to greet him.
"Good morning Ciel what brings you here today?"
"What are you blabbering about? I came to solve the case where Scotland Yard can't solve by the queen's order." Ciel took out the letter that contains the seal and after a moment took the paper that was in the inspectors hands and read it.
"The child's name was Henry Winzel. He was found dead in the house when his mother went to buy something from a store late at night—" the information was than taken away by officer Randal with his usual stiff look on his face as long as Ciel could remember.
"What does the queen's dog want now?"
"Clearing up the mess of the Yard Sir Arthur Randal. Now than could you tell me the information."
"Of course if that girl beside you is involved with you." Officer Randal pointed his finger to Ciela standing beside Ciel. Inspector Aberline turned his head to look at Ciela and smiled at her "Well she does look like you Ciel its like she's your sister."
"She is my sister inspector Aberline." The inspector could only stare at the young boy as if he spoke a foreign language and looked at the girl again. Ciela curtsied and said "It's nice to meet you inspector I am Ciel's sister Ciela Phantomhive. Now than back to the information officer Randal. I also have the queen's letter with me if you want to check."
"Hmph. Fine the information's is that the boy has the same knife stabbed into his heart. He probably let the person in and turned around as there wasn't any sign of struggle."
"Is this the knife?" All heads turn to see Ciela standing beside the boy's corpse pointing to the knife that was still in the chest.
"Oh my gods Ciela don't go to a dead body. You're to young to see such things" inspector Aberline went to Ciela and touched her shoulders but was slapped away in an instant with a cold piercing glare.
"For your information Mr Aberline, I have seen much much more gruesome and horrible things like dead bodies dissembled into many pieces and left on streets in this world since 8 years old. So do not think I'm too young to see such things after seeing this types of things so many times." Aberline was a little taken back at the girl's reaction. She was indeed Ciel's sister by the way she glare and the tone that she gave him.
"Oh sorry Ciela."
"Inspector may I pull out the knife to inspect it?"
"Ah don't use your bare hands—" Aberline expected that Ciela would use her bare hands to pull the knife but was surprised that she put on her gloves to pull the artifact out. Ciela looked at it and found something interesting and walked to Ciel and showed him the knife.
"Ciel does any household have any symbol of two snakes biting at each others tail?"
"No not on the surface world but maybe in the underworld."
"Officer Randal may we borrow this after all you have at least two of this at Scotland Yard."
"Fine but don't lose it. It's important to us."
"Than we'll take our leave." Ciel said it as he walked out of the door that Sebastian opened for him. Ciela handed the knife to Sebastian while walking out of the door and went with her brother while Sebastian followed them back to the carriage. They sat out to a shop that would help them in the investigation as well. Ciela was now standing outside a shop that had a big purple sign board covered in dust and cobwebs. When she went in, she didn't know what looked worse. The outside or the inside of the shop. The whole place was covered in more dust bunnies, cobwebs at every corner of the purple store and coffins lay in every part of the store. She was about to ask her brother what are they doing here when an eerie laughter came into the room.
"Hehehe I knew you would come earl Hehehe." Suddenly a skull rolled past them and hit a wall like a bowling ball. A man with long silver hair wearing black robes with long baggy sleeves covering his arm underneath it, a black top hat with a tail behind it and long black nails came out of the counter. His fringe covered his eyes blocking his sight but he knew were they are and came up to them.
"Undertaker do you have the information about the random killings."
"Hehehe of course earl I have the information that you need from my clients but you must give me laughter earl~"
"Fine Sebastian just give him what he wants."
"Young master than please step outside the store and no peeking and I mean absolutely no peeking."
"Yes yes just give him what he wants already."
"Yes my lord."
"Ciela we need to go outside now." Ciel tug his sisters arm and both were about to go out when "Ciela were have I heard of that name before." The two turned their heads to see undertaker in deep thought and than an "ah" came.
"You're the girl that was crying to go home at that place." Ciela could only freeze at that spot after hearing that sentence.
"My I never would have guessed that you're the earl's sister."
"Undertaker how do you know about Ciela?" Ciel asked.
"Oh that would be a secret between me and her earl. Now than I'm waiting for my payment."
"Ciela lets go out now." Ciel shook his sister's shoulder a bit and than the girl followed her brother outside. They waited for at least 60 seconds before a high pitch laughter was sounded. Side walkers stopped in their tracks before continuing their walk. Ciela was indeed surprised at the sound and was about to ask what happened when Sebastian opened the door with a smirk on his face "You may come in now young master and lady Ciela." When they went inside, undertaker's head was on the table his whole body trembling from the joke that Sebastian told him and he was mumbling something about seeing his paradise at the counter.
"Undertaker you had your laugh now tell me the information about this murder."
"Yes I will tell you earl about this murderer but first take a sit."
"Sit where undertaker?" questioned Ciela.
"On the coffins miss." After undertaker brought teas in beakers, he told Ciel about the information's.
"This few days, the clients are a little boring as they don't need much work to do having only a stabs into the heart with a knife. When I examined them clearly, they would have weird symbols at that part were the knife was driven. It's small and can't be seen when blood is covering it however, I made out the shape. It was two snakes biting on each others tail. It was like the ouroboros but it's not as there is supposedly one snake biting its tail."
"Is it this undertaker?" Sebastian pulled out the knife from underneath his coat.
"Yes, yes that's the one your butler is holding earl. People in Scotland yard call them Shadow."
"Shadow?"
"It's because they attack people late at night where there aren't any lights and that's the nickname that they gave them."
"And that's all the information that you have am I correct undertaker."
"That's all I know of earl. Hehehe."
"Well than we'll be off." Ciel stood up from the sit and was beginning to walk towards the door of the store.
The trip back to the mansion was the same us when they were going to London. Ciel had ordered Sebastian to look for clues in the city and would be back before them is what Ciela heard and believe it was impossible for anyone. But she was dead wrong when the mansion's door swung open to reveal Sebastian with a smirk on his face telling Ciel that he prepared his tea and desserts just as ordered. Ciel immediately gave orders to Sebastian to bring the desserts to the study room and tell him the information that he had gathered and went up stairs. Ciela on the other hand was eating her Chocolate Éclair and sipping her Darjeeling tea with Wedgwood tea set of blue and white. She soon went to the library to find histories on the symbol but came up with only the ouroboros and nothing else. She was exhausted from all those readings and was beginning to feel the sleeping spell on her. She put the last book onto the shelve and than something fell out.
Ciela bent down and picked up a picture that was supposed to be burnt and lost forever. It was a picture of her family with Elizabeth's family in it. It was a very happy occasion on that day so everyone was smiling happily. But she knew on that dreadful day, everything was beyond birthday. She sadly put back the picture in between a book and walked out of the library and towards her room. Ciel was still in his studies doing his investigation on the murder. According to what Sebastian has gathered, it seems that the only ones that had the symbol are the Black Prince brother. It seems they are inviting people to parties in a weeks time friends, family and business partners who wish to cooperate with them could go to the party. That would take place next week at their mansion and that's the chance that they would be going.
"Sebastian make the preparation for next week. We're going to catch them at the party."
"Yes my lord. Do you need me to tell your sister about this?"
"No I'll tell her myself."
"Yes my lord."
And with that discussion done, Ciel continued to do his work. The information would be told to Ciela during dinner as now his desk was pilled with work that needs to be done. Ciela was looking at the scenery from outside the window. It was directly facing towards the garden and she was admiring the white roses from a far. She had taken a nap and had just woken up from her dreamland full of nightmares. The same dream that she had last night came back to haunt her yet again. She sighed for a while before going to the bath room to wash off the sweat that was still on her body. She filled the tub with warm water and added a few drops of Lavender oil into the water. Soon the place was filled with steam making the place foggy. She took of her clothes and put it into a basket her clockwork angel at a shelf with the heirloom ring and the hot air made her hair stand at the edge of her cold clammy skin. More bumps came after she stepped into the water. Once settled, she began scrubbing her self with the body wash. Ciela wasn't use to washing herself when she was little but after that horrible incident, the lady who bought her trained her and drilled the things needed for survival into her head. Up till now, she still can't get use to the way a noble's man daughter should wash herself. She was spoiled in a sense like her brother from their parents as they were precious to them. She stopped scrubbing and washed herself and got out of the now freezing water. She grabbed a nearby towel and went to proceed to dying off and combing her wet jet black hair. She went to put on her treasured blue diamond ring that belongs to her mother and the clockwork angel that would always clam her down when she was angry by its ticks. She went to her closet to get a turquoise dress that goes all the way up to her shin the dress was laced with fills around the button ups and the usual pattern of having a ribbon tying around her neck to match with the dress. A brown coloured boots that covers up the rest of the exposed shin. Went to look in the full length mirror and went out of the room. Before she went out of the room, she took a look at the clock that told her that dinner time was going to start soon and she went downstairs. It surprised her that nobody was there yet and Sebastian was there placing all the food and plates in place. He noticed someone in the room and looked up to see Ciela at there and smiled at her before telling her "Ciela why don't you call the young master down for dinner."
"Erm…okay I'll go call him." Ciela stammered and went to Ciel's study. She knocked on the door once, twice, and thrice and still no answer. She opened the door a little to find Ciel sleeping on top of all the papers that he was working on. A peaceful expression was on his face while he was sleeping. Ciela went to wake her brother up by shaking his shoulder. When that didn't work, she told him that dinner was going to be done soon. Still no reply from the sleeping boy and so she resortered to the old trick that their mother used "Ciel if you don't wake up, your dessert won't be given to you." And than the boy's head snapped up from that statement and glared at her sister.
"You wouldn't dare right Ciela?"
"I would if you didn't wake up just thirty seconds ago. Come on dinner is prepared unless you still want to sleep Ciel." Ciel sluggishly stood up from his comfortable arm chair and walked towards his sister. They went downstairs to the dinning room and ate. Along the way, Ciel told Ciela the plan and she agreed at the idea. The time flew by again like yesterday and soon bed time for the two children's came.
"A place were I was thrown,"
"A place I suffered,"
"A place that I lost in a fire,"
"A home I could never have again,"
"All I know is this,"
"I have a dead soul in a moving body,"
"A soul that died with everything I had,"
"A body moving on its own,"
"Just like a puppet with strings."
A/N: Chapter four is here. This was a little rush as my EOY is coming and I've studied most of my subjects so I took my tight schedule to write this chapter for all of you. I hope you like it^-^ My playlist for this week
-Dance with the Devil by Breaking Benjamin
-The diary of jane by Breaking Benjamin
-Her name is Alice by Shinedown
-You(Just type Kuroshitsuji you)
-Summer time gone in Detective Conan opening
-Tomorrow is the last time in Detective Conan ending
-Kagayaku sora no shijima nni wa by Kalafina
Thats all for this weeks playlist. I hope that you guys liked the song(if you listened to it) R&R please. I dying to know reviews from everyone please so that I can have some ideas. And I have a plan for next month after this murder case that I'm writing. Its about Halloween and I need ideas! Please R&R thank you.