Ciel kept falling. He had no idea for how long but when he finally reached the bottom, he landed in a drift of snow. Feet now turning bluish black, he tried to walk as if he'd been a reanimated corpse. He stumbled and tripped several times before reaching an innermost chamber. He paid no attention to the frozen corpses stuck within the ice. He just wanted to reach the pedestal in the middle. The spirit jumped back out of him and his vision very slowly became focused. He shivered as he tucked in on himself.

"Leave me alone!" He demanded as he cried out from the pain he was in.

The blue orb morphed into the figure of the young girl and stood there with a neutral expression.

"I know you have been given this life, a good one if that, but I don't understand. Why don't you want to stay? Why do you not wish to remember?" The spirit said as the people's souls she had killed wandered aimlessly in the cave.

"I am not your sister. I have my own memories and I haven't had a past life. My parents died in a fire and I have no siblings. You have been killing nobles for no good reason at all."

"No good reason? Do you know how lonely it gets with no companions? The least I can do to burden this curse is take others along for the ride. Then they'll understand. You are no different."

The spirit ran at Ciel and tried to grab at him. Ciel ducked away from the spectral hands and ran deeper into the cave. There were several smaller branches of caves and Ciel ran down a line of those. He hid behind a rock face and waited.

Sebastian...

The demon and reaper up top were distressed. Sebastian tried to pry apart the spiritual energy with his black claws as Grell sighed behind him.

"Hey, reaper with the death scythe can get that for you." He said as Sebastian paid him no attention. Grell waited till he had calmed down and bashed away all his energy at the shield.

Sebastian moved quietly over to the side and let Grell try to cut the barrier open. Grell gripped his chainsaw tight as he brought it down in force. The top of the shield peeled open and he had to hold it firmly, otherwise it would close up again. Sebastian quickly jumped down the dark cave. Grell frowned.

"Anything to be rid of me."

Sebastian landed in the snow drift silently as he searched around for his master. He saw all the corpses and souls wandering around. There had to have been a good group of trapped human phantoms here. The only thing to lit up the dark spaces were the ones that wandered. Sebastian eventually found his master on the brink of death. He cradled him in his arms as he ran back up the ice cave's sides, dodging the falling icicles the angered spirit broke. They ran back to the hotel with the frozen soul hot on their trail. Ciel heard another voice in his head. It was a bright white orb with the voice of a teenage girl.

Bring my sister to the fountain. Her soul has become so cold overtime she's forgotten how to feel. Melt the loneliness of her heart and then will she be released. Even if she refuses.

Then the voice had gone before Ciel had the chance to ask questions. I guess that the other sister's spirit had found a way to contact the living at last.

"Sebastian, stand in the waters. Lure her into them. If that doesn't work, push her in."

"If you say so lord. I can't kill what's already dead."Sebastian said they waited for the spirit to arrive.

The girl's soul burst through the door, sending the wooden pieces across the room. The blue light encompassed the fountain area, trying to reach and grab at Ciel. The warm waters kept her at bay and she was unsure how to get at them. She became enraged as she stared into Ciel's eye and into Sebastians. Eventually she had found a way from touching the waters and jumped back into Ciel. Ciel fought the cold death once again and gave Sebastian an order that he was unsure of.

"Sebastian! Hold me under the water."

Sebastian widened his eyes. "What?"

"Do it while she's inside of my body. You can physically touch me and not her. This is the time to do it!"

"Master?"

"I said hold me under the water! Don't take me out until she's gone!"

Sebastian took off his gloves and held Ciel tightly by the shoulders. He gave his master a stern look. "Yes my lord."

Sebastian held Ciel under the water. Ciel squirmed whenever he had run out of breath and tried to get more. Sebastian was way too strong anyways and after five minutes, he gave up. He lay limp in the water.

Himself and the younger sister floated in what looked like a sky at sunset. The clouds swirled around in circles as a light descended to meet them. The young sister's soul that had once been blue, was now white.

I...I'm no longer cold. It's so warm. She went on to herself as the other light talked to her.

You were trapped for so long in that cave your soul became filled with hatred. You were so desperate for so companionship, you killed some of the living and kept their souls trapped with you.

The younger sister couldn't believe that she had done such a thing. I just wanted to feel again. I didn't even have a life. What can I do to right this? I don't want to spiral into Hell!

There is only one way to prove that you are sorry. You must protect the hotel. Save any body from dying there in the future. Only then will you be with me, free in heaven.

I'm so sorry my sister. I love you. The smaller orb said as she parted once again with her sister.

I love you too.

Ciel was happy that the spirits had met after their time apart, but something was nagging at him the longer he was here. He realized that his soul had been bound in chains, held down to the darkness he saw below. If he died before Sebastian claimed him, this was his fate. The red Gates of Hell became more visible the more he was here. He didn't like it.

Sebastian! Bring me back at once!

Sebastian took his master out of the waters as soon as he saw the spirit leave. He had been doing CPR for a couple minutes. He felt Ciel's pulse weakly.

"Thank god." He said as his master's eyes slowly opened.

Ciel shot up as soon as the near death experience had passed. He collapsed in his butler's arms when he realized how tired and sore he was.

Sebastian..?