YAY! Back from my vacation! Now, I can finally spend more time on writing fanfics. So happy (*^o^*) I haven't been updating because of my vacation, but I could probably go back to my normal groove soon. Hope you like this chapter! :D


"I am the lady's most loyal servant, her pet, if you must call me that. She is free to use me whenever she pleases, beat me to pulp if it will ease her heart. Whatever the lady orders, I will follow obediently without complaint. I am not bound to her by contract, but I will answer to her calls, her orders, and does she says." Maria glared at all the gangsters in the warehouse as if she was checking out the prey.

"D…dude, there's no such things as angels' right? This one's just pretending…I mean…she can't be a real…" A thug muttered. But he started backing off when Maria walked closer to them.

"You are lucky that I am not like my brethren, those who are obsessed with eliminating the dirty and the not-perfect. I will not kill that easily. But if someone is to taint my perfect, purified mistress with their filthy hands which had done many sinful things, I will most certainly kill them." Maria said calmly and a wave of white feathers shot out of her wing and aimed themselves at the thugs. Within seconds, all the thugs were down on the ground, dead.

"Maria, you didn't need to go into angel form. You could've easily killed them without turning into an angel." Corinne said. Maria pointed to the ropes bounding Corinne and it snaps. Corinne shook the rope off and stretched.

"I thought they would've agreed to be purified or begged for mercy. Then I would've gladly purified them. Well, this is what sinners get if they dare go against an angel." Maria picked Corinne up like how Sebastian does to Ciel and flew out of the warehouse. "Oh, I almost forgot! To eliminate the dirty and the not-perfect, I must destroy any trace of sin remaining from the scene." Maria gently placed Corinne on the soft grass outside of the warehouse and pulled out a single white feather from the folds of her skirts. She blew at the feather and at least a thousand more feathers blew out and covered the warehouse. When the warehouse was completely covered, Maria snapped her fingers and the feathers flew away, revealing nothing. Everything, the corpses, the warehouse itself, was nowhere to be seen, as if it never existed. Maria scooped Corinne up in her arms when Sebastian and Ciel emerged like a shadow from the nearby forest.

"Who would've known that the kind, happy-go-lucky Maria would be an angel?" Sebastian mused.

"You knew what I was didn't you? You and that shinigami both. That's why you decided to make a joke of it back at that store." Maria said. Ciel's eyes were wide, but if he was shocked, he didn't show it except his eyes.

"Sebastian, stop wasting my time by standing out here in the middle of nowhere. Go back to the manor in London and treat Corinne's wounds once we get there ok?"

"Ciel, even though my maid is an angel, you'll still let us stay at your house?" Corinne asked bewildered.

"You still have to help me find the Red Slasher right? I don't care if your maid is an angel, a demon, or a shinigami as long as she doesn't cause our job to be any slower than it is right now. Besides, I think I can handle hosting an angel when I've dealt with a worse species before." Ciel said, looking at Sebastian. "Let's go home." Sebastian nodded and carried Ciel away. Maria followed, flapping her white wings in the direction of Ciel's house.

"SEBATIAN'S A WHAT?" Corinne screamed, backing away from the smiling butler. Ciel was dressed in his normal clothes again, no longer needing to wear a lady's dress in his own house.

"Be quiet Corinne. I told you just because Maria probably knows already and that you'll find out sooner or later. No one in this house or anyone else knows of this so please keep quiet." Ciel snapped. Sebastian, Ciel, Maria, and Corinne were sitting in the living room of the house, around the fireplace. Maria wrinkled her nose at Sebastian and turned her head away from him.

"Oh I thought something was wrong with him from the beginning. He was filled with sin, everything about him is tainted. That heavenly smile of his is pure, yes, but I can see through that. Even you, Earl Ciel Phantomhive, is tainted by that…that demon's sin. Despicable." Maria said.

"Wait, if Sebastian is a demon and he's your butler, then…" Corinne gasped and looked at Sebastian, then Ciel. "You made a faustic contract with a demon?"

"How many times do I have to tell you not to yell demon so loud in this house? None of the servants in the house knows of this and neither should you! The only reason I told you is because Maria is also someone…supernatural, and thought that you ought to know. So please, don't tell anyone, especially Lizzie, ok?" Ciel lectured. Sebastian poured tea into Ciel's cup, Corinne's, than Maria's. Maria turned away the tea and gave Sebastian a dirty look.

"No thanks. I don't want anything so…so un-pure. I can't believe I actually ate the food that a demon made. Oh, I can already feel that I'm tainted." Maria whined. Sebastian looked pleasingly at Maria which gave her the shivers.

"Then I must ask, Corinne, how did you get an angel to work for you? Angels are hard-cored creatures who hate man-kind because they are "not perfect"." Maria shot a death glare at Sebastian and stood up angrily.

"Excuse me Mr. Demon, but as I believe, not all angels hate humans. Well, maybe it's just me, but still. I'm not obsessed with eliminating humans just because they're "dirty". Nope, that's not me." Maria said.

"It was two months after Meg's death and my father's insanity. It was awful for me, just like losing my entire family. Not only had I lost my sister, but a father as well, because my father was in someplace too far for me to reach. Maria appeared inside my house one day falling from the heavens. She offered to rewrite my past so that my entire family was back: Mother and Meg never died, and father wasn't mad. But I refused because I know the past is the past, so I decided it was better for things to stay the way they are." Corinne explained. Maria looked admiring at her with her gleaming angelic eyes.

"I was surprised that my lady refused my offer. With her life as…as ruined as it is already, I thought she would say yes. But she said no and that sparked my interest and respect for her. At that moment, I decided that instead of rewriting her past, which actually would do harm to her instead of good, I will help her as much as I possibly can." Maria looked at Corinne with much love.

"Well, now that we've had a little chat about ourselves, let's get back to business."Ciel said looking bored, as if knowing Maria was an angel was nothing special and that two other people know Sebastian was a demon was no different in his life. "While we were in London and you were…preoccupied with something else, I found this in one of the newsstands." Ciel handed Corinne a newspaper. On the title page, popping out of the entire paper was the headline: The Red Slasher Strikes Again: Young Girl Found Died in Alley.

"Look at this part of the article: According to the police, the girl died in approximately midnight last night. The body was found around six o'clock a.m. this morning." Ciel pointed to a part of the article and circled it with a red pen.

"Do you think if we stay in London, we'll eventually catch the killer?"

"Yes, and I hate to admit it, but if we keep walking around London, the killer might catch us one day. Sebastian will have to stick right next to me, and Maria has to stay near you, Corinne." But Ciel looked cautiously at Maria. "But Maria, you really have to stay near Corinne."

"Well of course I would! She's my mistress! Even if there's no killer on the loose, I would stay by my lady's side."

"But just today, you let Corinne get captured by a gang of thugs. If thugs can catch her, then the killer can easily too."

"Well…well…it was because…"

"Never mind that. We'll keep it up. In time, we'll be able to catch that killer red-handed." Ciel said. Everyone was nodding in agreement except Maria. She stole glances at Corinne, than bit her lip. Sebastian noticed this, but he kept it to himself.

"Sebastian, I know you might not agree to this, but while you were gone trying to help find Corinne, I asked a special someone to help with the case." Ciel waved at the door and Grell Sutcliffe walked in, in his butler clothes he wore when he served Angelina Durless, a.k.a Madam Red.

"Oh Sebas~chan! I would looooove to help you solve a case, like I always do. Death!" Grell squealed in happiness. Sebastian sighed and shook his head.

"Young master, are you sure you won't regret your choice of helpers here?"

"I never regret my decisions."


You see my fellow readers, one of my fav. characters is Grell, so I just had to add him to my story. And I need a shinigami for the job so...you'll see what I mean later in the following chapters. I didn't spend my whole heart into this chapter because I wrote this while on the beach so...yeah... I had to cut a lot of parts from this chapter so it's a lot shorter then the rest.