Chapter 3:
That Maid: Demon's Apprentice.
The first thing I become aware of is the gentel feel of something soft brushing under my hand. I am also aware of the fact that whatever I am laying on is not the cobblestone ally-way that I had blacked out in. It is plush with padding that embraces my weary body. I am weary? I did not think that possiable any more. The soft thing under my hand begins to vibrate and humm. Alliona? I know it is her, though I dare not open my eyes as I remember who I was with when I fell victom to my own weakness. That man's face flashes up in my minds' eye: all white and black with ruby eyes that gleem with a dark, mischievous light that could only come from another of my kind. A demon. I would have thought that I was the only demon in this area for I had never once seen one before in either of my lives.
"Why did you bring her here, Sebastian?" The voice of a child interupted my inner wonderings at the invisable dark world that I lived in. Where had I heard that voice before?
"But Young Lord, she is a Lady in need. You wouldn't want anyone to think that you are an unkindly man for leaving her out in the streets when she could very well be ill." That coolly sly voice speaks again and I have to force back a shudder of fear and resentment. Resentment because of the fear that he makes me feel. I thought when I started this new life that fear would nolonger be my constent companion. It appears that I was wrong. Though the voice also seems to be mocking it's 'Young Master' and for that I almost feel like laughing. Laughing? At a time like this? I must have left my sanity in that ally...
"Tisk, fine! She can stay until you finish assesing her physical health. But after that you are to take her home, and no I don't care if that home is in the gutter that you found her in!" I can almost hear the angry scowl that must have been on the Young Master's face. The face...ah, it is the boy that the demon - Sebastian was what the boy called him a moment again, was it not? - was with. I see the boys' face in my minds' eye now, all white and blue with slight accents of black. Both of them truely do have stunning features for a demon with a mask and a noble brat.
"Besides, she is waking up right now." I stiffen as I feel him moving closer to where I lay. "Isn't that right, young lady?" The humming vibration under my hand stops and is replaced by one that is far more violent in nature. The furious hissing echos through the now silent room until I feel him move back a few steps. I really wish Alli would just run from here, run far away from where ever we are. They would not waste there time traking down a little kitten, would they?
"A cat that does not injoy your company? That's a first." I hear the boy snicker at his servent as Alli quiets down.
"Indeed, My Lord. There is something odd about the cat and it's owner too, I just can't seem to put my fingure on it." The butler stated back sounding both courious and frusturated. And purhaps a bit hurt at Alli's dislike of him. That thought almost made me laugh again. I feel truly spent, more tired than I think I have ever felt, even when I was a human. Purhaps I am what they call 'slap happy'? I need to sleep... but I thought that I nolonger required sleep? What is going on here?
Knowing that my questions can only be answered if I do something, I do the only thing that I can do in a situaltion like this: I open my eyes and sit up. Alli crawls onto my knee and perches there in a half sitting half standing position. If we were not in serious danger I would laugh at the protective stance she has taken. A tiny kitten hissing and spitting in an attempt to protect me; an eternally powerful demon.
"Oh look, My Lord, our guest has woken up," Sebatian said with mock surprise and welcoming in his voice. I can see that in truth he hates having me here, but he can't know what I am, can he? I wonder this as he takes another step towards me with a kind but sly smile playing on his lips and a hand outstretched towards me. Alli starts 'protecting' me again immeditely.
"Hush now, Alliona," I say as I place my hand over her to try and consol her and make her stop verbally assulting our captures. Her hussing seems to simply echo out from under my hand, making it even louder. Her angry protests do nothing to slow his aproch this time, though the look in his eyes is truly sincere as he kneel down infront of us.
"She doesn't like me much, does she?" He asked kindly as he looked at the tiny paws with miniscule claws that were protruding from my hands that had become Alli's temporary prision.
"She does not like anyone who takes us captive, never has." I say almost as cooly as him. I will not let on how frightened I am in this moment in time. Frightened for Alli, not myself. After I speak Alli seems to calm slightly, though she continues to make an angry sound reminisnet of a growl, but I feel that it is safe to remove my top hand and free her. Maybe she will take the chance and run. Or maybe I will ride out of this place on the back of a dragon to a beautiful world, I think sarcasticly.
"You are not captive, m'lady. I simply brought you here after you had a fit of the vapors in an ally after our little game. Now that you have woken up you are free to leave at any time. That is, if you can walk." The whole time Sebastian is speaking he has a devious smirk on his perfect face with a voice like liquid silk being poured over ice shards. At the very end of his gentlemanly speech, his eyes shine a bright blood red and if I had not already known what he was, I would have by then. I felt my own eyes react to the threat in his and I did not need to see my own face to know that mine are also red; but I can see the glow in the mirror on the wall behind Sebastian.
"She's a-" I heard the young noble boy exclame in the background, though the final word seemed to get stuck in his throat. I dared not look away from Sebastian, who now resembled a cat about to pounce on a mouse he had been toying with.
"Demon," Sebastian finished his masters' thought and stands up so fast that if I were still human it would have been nothing but a blur; kneeling one second and in the same second he is on his feet. "Who is your master?" he asks me with cold malice. Though I know that he meens to frighten and possable kill me, I cannot help but to respond to his words.
"I have no master! I am not a dog nor am I a slave anymore!" I spit the words in his face - I have stood, though I do not remember standing - injecting as much venom into them as I could. I feel Alli climb up my dress skirt to my shoulder where she springs at the demon infrount of us. I was about to reach out and grab her to stop her attack, but Sebastian beet me to it. He caught her in his steely grasp and held her as gentley as if she were made of glass, though tight enough to restrain her and stop her assult.
"A familiar? I have never met a demon who could have a soul mate as such before, for they had never had a life before-" Sebastian cuts off in his speculating and looks from the tiny white kitten in his hand to me and back. A devious smirk appears on his lips as he looks once again to me. "Very interesting. Were you once human by any chance, m'lady?"
"H-How did you know that?" I was eyeing Alliona who was struggling in his grasp, though it seemed he was not hurting her, it still made me nervous. "May I have Alliona back?" He looks at the tiny kitten in his hand almost as if he had forgoting the little thing that looked like she thought she was a tiger and longed to rip his throat out. He hands the hissing ball of fur back to me and I hold her to my chest, silently telling her to quiet down. So does much to my surprise. Now that she is safe - well, safer - I feel my body slump back down onto the couch, utterly exausted. What was wrong with me?
"So you were once human. How long have you been a demon, m'lady?" Now the look on Sebastian's face is almost gentle, as if he were looking at a child. How annoying!
"A few months now I think. All the days run together." I say tiredly as I close my eyes again. Here it comes; he's going to kill us. I greatly hope he spares Alli, though I wont hold my breath.
"When was the last time you fed, young one?" I opened my eyes and look at him in confusion. Fed, as in eatting? But I don't have to eat anymore, right? I realive that I had spoken out loud when he answered me.
"Even demons needs food to survive, young demons more than older ones. You have never fed before?" He sounded incredulous as he wondered this.
"What do demons feed off of?" I sit up with much difficulty to try and stay awake long enough to get the answer. I did not have to wait long.
"Human souls," The voice came from the young boy who had walked to Sebastian's side while my eyes were closed. He placed a hand over his own patch covered eye as he spoke. "Demons make deals with people who are on there death beds and want a wish granted before they die. In exchange, the demon gets there soul." The young nobleman lifts his eye patch and opened his eye at the same time that Sebastian pulls his right glove off with his teeth to reveal identical marks; Sebastians on the back of his hand and the boys' in his right eye. I pull my own gloves off to look at the mark on my own hand.
"Is that what this mark is for?" I was surprised when a drop of blood fell onto my marked hand. I wipe my hand over my eyes and look at it. It is slick with blood!
"There is no need to cry young one," Sebastian kneels again and pulls out a hankerchif from his pocket and hands it to me before standing again and turning to his young master.
"A young, untrained demon roaming throught the streets of London could cause trouble for us in the future, My Lord. May a make a proposition?" The noble boy nods and Sebastian continues, "I could train her is the ways of being a demon butler, teach her to cook and clean and protect her future Lords and Ladies as well as control her hunger so that she does not cause troubles for you, the Queen's Gaurd Dog, in the future." He smirks at the end, knowing that this boy will see that he is indeed right.
"Fine, she can stay. But she's your headach, not mine." He looks at me as if I am nothing but vermin before looking at Alli with an even more distasteful look. "The cat has to go though."
"NO!" I scream as I dart back up and fall into Sebastians arms. I am weaker than I thought I was. "Alliona is all I have left! Please. please m'lord, don't make me get rid of her! She is the only family I have left!" I feel the bloody tears cascading down my face. He sighs and pinches the bridge of his nose between his thumb and forefinger before looking at me again.
"Fine! But if she uses anything but the litter box she's gone, got it?" He turns on his heel to leave as I slump back down again, this time on the floor. Am I fainting again?
"My Lord, I should get some food into our new employee, but in order to teach her I may have to consume other souls. Would this be alright with you?"
"Do whatever it takes to teach her as fast as you can so we can get them out of my mansion. That's an order, Sebastian."
"Yes, My Lord." I feel strong arms pick me up from the floor and I open my eyes again to see Sebastian's face smilling down at me as if he found my fainting amusing. Bastard! "Now, what is your name?"
"It's Beset Aahuti Kafele." I can hardly hear what I said myself, but it seems he heard me.
"Well Beset, let's get some food into you, shall we?" And with that he carries me out of the room - his young lord must have left while Sebastian was asking my name - and out a window into the dark embrase of night. This is bound to be an eventful learning experiance, is the last thought that goes through my head before I once again lose consciousness.
Hi guys! I'm so sorry that this chapter took so long, there's a lot going on right now where I am...:(
So Sebby has agreed to teach Beset in the ways of a demon and what wass that about familiars? Keep reading to find out! ^-^
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