DECLAIMER: I do not own the characters and the show and manga, and the whole idea of a crossover. This is a work of fiction based on pre-existed characters and anime or manga they repectively belong to, and they respectively belong to their ownrs. I however own the idea into whatever this fanfiction turns into.
"You mean you did not hear the explosion at all?" Alois asked again in utter bewilderment, Elizabeth solemnly nods
"I had not heard anything, I slept like a lil' babe" She confirms again. The three young men gave each other a quizzical look.
"A lady surely wouldn't have fallen asleep if there was a pea under her mattress, but not to wake with that big explosion is just…" Alois shook his head in disbelieve, the other men were deep in thought.
"You flatter me, Alois, but my dear friend you are comparing me to a princess, I am not a princess though" And then the lady's blonde curls shook as she shakes her head "I could have been killed!" She looks at Ciel wide-eyed "I'm afraid the trip tire me far too much" The lady stands from her seat but then lost her footing due to dizziness
"And this predicament does not help you at all, my lady" Oz said as he gave her a hand to sit back into her seat
"I just can't believe that I slept through that" She looked at Alice and Gilbert who had not talked but instead looked out the window as though awaiting something. "Why would they bomb something?" She eyes Ciel who is deep in thought.
"What could they possibly obtain from such an act?" The question hung within the room with an unwanted presence, although a presence they had to face. It was intoxicating.
"Sebastian and Claude are there to find out what they can" Ciel finally spoke up as he looked at Elizabeth as if she were lost luggage and had no idea what to do with it. Elizabeth caught on but outwardly she held a perfect poker face.
"I sincerely want to be of some service" She says solemnly after a moment of silence. Alice looked away from the window, glances at Oz with a frown she crossed her arms over her chest.
"I'm sure a lady has no use in situations like this" Alice bitterly says to Elizabeth, Elizabeth making a face of utter hurt, not understanding why Alice does not like her in particular.
"I suppose so" Elizabeth says with a frown as she stands up on her heels, tears welling up in her eyes. "I should just go and sleep, huh, since I hadn't heard the explosion, and all. I might just-" Her voice cracked and she ran out of the room, Ciel loudly sighed as his right cheek was resting on his fist.
"What did you do that for Alice!" Oz yelled, the woman pouts
"You just don't get it!" She remarks
"Don't get what?" He asked
"I suppose I have to go talk to Elizabeth" Ciel mutters
"Lady's are handfuls, I'm thankful I am not engaged" Alois says as he leans on the wall.
"Well someone has to get her" The three men says in unison as they look at each other, and for a split second eyed Alice.
"It is her fault why doesn't she get Elizabeth, and patch things up?" Alois says waving his hand so over the whole situation
"That might make things worse, since I'm her fiancée, I suppose I should be the one getting her" Ciel sighs, seeing the whole thing tiring already.
"But I can act as a mediator" Oz says as his eyes stay at Alice "I'm certain she didn't mean what she had said" His eyes gentle as he smiled at Alice. Alice flitch as she rubbed her left arm with her right hand, her eyes avoiding his.
"Or I can" Gilbert shrugs "I understand she wants to protect someone important" He eyes Ciel for a brief second and looks out the window again. Silence claims the room longer than needed.
"She is not in her room" Alice bursts into the room filled with all her male comrades with utter confusion.
"What?" Ciel stand on his feet in shock.
"Maybe she went out" Alois piped in his eyes and hands concentrated with a toy that Ciel's company had made
"And with what happened last night, do you think it is safe?" He angrily asks his companion "What if she got kidnapped?"
"You make things sounds so bad when in reality it isn't even that close to your theory" Alois looks up from the item he was very interested in "I am very thankful I have no fiancée" He sighs as he rocks his chair with a little push from his legs on top of the coffee table.
"We should look for her" Oz says worriedly his eyes stuck with what was happening outside the window, "It's odd"
"It is" Ciel approaches the closest window.
"Wherein last night when the explosions occurred there seemed to be no one in town" Alois says
"And now, when the sun is up, the town is bustling with people" Ciel adds
"And the staff here states that the explosion was nothing" Oz adds
"The receptionist insisted for quite some time that she had not heard anything" Gilbert pipe in
"This town is odd" Alice say as she cross her arms and join Gilbert and Oz to look out on the same window.
"The oddest is that the mansion that burned left nothing but ashes. No clues." Sebastian says as he looks at his Master
"What is the plan Master?"Claude asks his mater who stood up and walks towards the door throwing his last interest onto the coffee table
"Let's figure out what is really happening here, shall we?" He asked as he grabbed his coat and lung it over his shoulder. "We should also find the lady before something bad happens, first to find her gets to decide whether she should be included into this ridiculous farce or not"
"Now this is a race to find my fiancée, and whoever finds her get to decide if she should know something, who does he think he is?" Ciel says irritated as he walks toward the exit "Come, Sebastian, we have to find Elizabeth first before that spider." Before he disappeared into beyond the door her stopped to say to Oz and his company, "I hope if you find her you will make the right decision, she does not need to be mixed up into this kind of world" And he turned to leave.
Oz, Alice and Gilbert looked at each other and stood there for a whole minutes. Completely agreeing that someone who had nothing to do with this whole mess should be kept out, nothing good comes from involving the innocent into the wreck that became the story of their lives.
The three stepped out of the inn, eyes the people passing by bursting with joy and whatnot suspiciously. It was established that the people acted as though nothing had transpired the night before. How could they not hear the explosions, especially one so close, why had they not fear the fire spreading?
But the fact remained the flames had not reached any other home, and people pass by, the ash ruin place as if it was like that for a long time, no one gave it a second glance. This place was certainly odd. They had to find Elizabeth, she had no defense in a place like this. They had questioned the hooded woman. She had helped them, but why? The note, the mansion fire—they were certain the mansion fire was controlled, why else would the fire not lick the other homes near it?
The man did not have a gate. It was just there. Big, eerie and oddly seemingly out of place, although looking perfectly in place as though it belonged. The truth was it stuck out like a sore thumb. They thought nothing of it, perhaps it was the mayor's house or the city hall. But now they had nothing to link the happenings here to that house, like it was perfectly cleaned into a mess.
No one would have noticed anything missing; no one gave the ruin a second glance. Not even the owner complained or filed any papers regarding the incident. They knew something was not right, but what exactly was amiss?
"What relation does this place have with the Baskervilles" Gilbert growls lowly. They had questioned that too. Before the three had gone to sleep they analyzed everything they could any possible connection that could be formed. Nothing made sense, but how certain were they that the informant was trustworthy? Sure she had saved them, but that could be a farce, and they had no other proof.
They had slept with more questions than answers. And they were very very uncertain if this place would give them the answers they seek. They had thought it would, but the tables were turned now, now that the streets were filled with people and carriages. Before they knew it more questions arose.
"We have to find her, Alice" Gilbert glares at Alice, blaming her for the situation they are faced with. He stared at the old beggar on the side of the street, suspiciously. The beggar did nothing, they passed him, and the beggar stood to walk into an alleyway and disappeared.
Ciel was muttering things to himself mad that he had allowed Elizabeth to leave the inn. This place was not safe, Paula however must have came with her, she was not in the room either.
"This is all Oz fault" Ciel muttered
"Young Master, you should not be saying things like that" His butler remarked
"I had not brought you to voice out your opinion" The young blue haired man snapped, at his butler, catching people's attention thus making him walk faster. His butler with long legs catches up effortlessly
"I apologize, my Lord" He placed his right fist near where his hard should be and bowed
"You are forgiven" Ciel says "Where is that girl?" He ran his hand through his hair in frustration
"I can look faster, although that will require you to wait" He eyed the people about "Somewhere safe, we all know this place is odd and odd always has troubled laced with it" Ciel just sighs
It is a known fact that this place is peculiar.
"You found Elizabeth?" Alois asked looking at his raised feet. He was sitting on a stone staircase as his butler Claude approached him.
"Of course, Master" Claude bows
"I suppose you are not entirely useless" Alois swung his legs and stood beside his butler.
"I do not understand what is the point in finding that irritating lady" Clause speaks wherein it was received by his master with a murderous glare.
"Simply because I find it entertaining to irritate Ciel" Alois chuckles to himself, he steals a glance at his butler who looks uninterested.
"So where is goldilocks?" Alois inquires as his servant replies solemnly
After a while of walking he noticed the yellow hair in curls of a familiar lady. She was on the group surrounded by people. He squeezed into the small circle of people surrounding her.
"Ugh" She held her wrist. Alois looked at her questioningly
"What has befallen this lovely lady" Alois asks as he bows and offers a hand to help her up, but with the gesture he notices a familiar shade of blue nearing from across him and in the corner of his eyes a familiar black hat on a tall man wearing black.
"Well he stood out" He mutters to himself in remark to Gilberts appearance
"Pardon?" Elizabeth asks as she accepts his hand and tries to stand
"Elizabeth!" Comes Ciel's voice booming into their ears, Elizabeth winced with the sudden call of her name and the pain that bolted through her right left. She fell into the round bringing Alois with her and using her right hand to break their fall, and then another jolt of pain came from that hand's wrist. She winced again and leaned into Alois, just frankly tired.
"What happened?" Ciel glares at Alois
"It is not his fault Ciel" Elizabeth sighs her voice laced with weakness
"Lady Elizabeth!" Came Paula's voice from in front of them "I leave my eyes on you for a second and then poof, you were gone!" She gasped as she took in the sight
"What happened?" She asks in unison wit Oz and Alice, Elizabeth
"I just…slipped" She replies, down casting her head a small blush creeping into her face "A couple of times" Silence
"Haha" Alois burst into a short fit of laughter, smoothening the atmosphere, he rested his head on Elizabeth for a while with a sigh he says that he was glad it was nothing troublesome. Elizabeth smiled at Alois kindly.
Alois and Elizabeth had become good friends in a short moment of time when Ciel was away. At first Alois had had ulterior motives until he had met the blonde maiden, they grew close and were contented with each other's company. Alois was as though he was someone new around her. And he had grown fond of her in a short moment in time. And then everything fell apart. He should have known. This always happened. He had made the wrong move, he had tried to make a move on Elizabeth in which she took in badly.
Despite Ciel late arrival to come and get her, she stayed faithful to him. Despite his absence her eyes had stayed on Ciel, never faltering. He had wondered if he had someone like Elizabeth in his life, would things have gone differently? Ciel was luck, as he was not. Ciel was blessed, as he was not. And mostly Ciel was loved unconditionally, wherein he could not even tell where his butler's loyalties lie.
He had been given love, for a short brief time. He tasted it and he had received the pain it pays in return. He knew she would give him love, but not the love he wanted from her. Because she was faithful with the man who seemed like he wants nothing to do with her. Elizabeth's smile scratched his heart silently.
"Ugh, I feel so careless" Ciel helped her up. "First I was asleep when the explosion happened and now this" Upon the mention of explosion the air around everyone run cold.
They felt eyes staring at them. It was the people.
This town is odd.
Haha, Elizabeth plays such a big role haha, everyone just loves her. Haha
I'm sleeping night.
Eh two girls why not make them all have a small crush on her?
I am still and Oz x Alice shipper
They are not falling apart here.