wahaha! 2 chapters in a day! 3 Well. I mean, I've already written it and all... No big deal. :) I should really plan for the chapters ahead. I find myself getting stumped by a lot of things. I should just start watching Kuroshitsuji again and refresh my memory. Trololol. Well, here you go.
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"Will you form a contract with me?" The demon asked.
The mockery and arrogance in his voice had almost all gone. Ciel felt as if he had walked straight into a solid stone wall. There was no way he would form a contract with him. He had no reason to. He did not know the demon's reasons either. There was no discussion of conditions whatsoever. Most importantly, he already had a contract with Sebastian.
This thought felt thoroughly used and false, as though it were all just a lie he used to comfort himself time and again.
"There's not much to it." the same, resigned voice sighed, its owner turning to face Ciel who was staring attentively at the white phoenix in the cage, eyes determined not to look at the one talking to him.
"You will help me escape from hell. I will restore your contract in return."
The grave tone in which that was said did not seem to reach Ciel. Once fixated eyes widened in shock once again, another feeble attempt to be level-headed as he turned to alabaster demon and grabbed the words nearest to the surface of his mind and threw it out of his mouth.
"Ridiculous. There is no way."
Lacias sniggered, swishing his tail here and there. "I thought so. Why would that be?"
"For one, I have no idea how to help you escape," Ciel said stiffly. "And even then, I wouldn't anyway. Whoever imprisoned you must have had a good reason for doing so. For committing heinous crimes perhaps?"
There was an uncomfortable silence after this was said. Ciel came up with his last reason that had supposedly been the most obvious one.
"I don't need you to restore Sebastian and my contract. Our word and trust is more than enough. A cheap barrier like yours will not be enough to nullify our contract" he said, the Phantomhive's voice now significantly stronger.
"Hold it right there young man," Lacias spoke patiently. "What did you say about this barrier of mine again?"
Ciel remained silent, believing he had been clear enough.
"Now, as you said just now, I have been imprisoned for eternity in hell to starve in immortality, as I have expected Sebastian to have told you. Suppose it was because I have, indeed, committed countless heinous crimes, unforgiveable, atrocious, nefarious ones in existence; would you truly think that they would have imprisoned me in order to merely punish me?"
There was a pause where Lacias waited for a response. However, there was none.
"Indeed, I have executed the stated, flagrant actions; mainly casting barriers over human-demon contracts, which had not been a crime until I had, supposedly, abused this power of mine, and committed Theft of Prey, the unspoken law of demon's. I find this law utterly ridiculous, by the nature of us. We do not live by any laws. We live by our own principles which honour only our pride and life and those alone. My sole power to cast barriers had been my pride, my source of life. Yet, I have been exiled because of living by my own principles, as other demons all do.
"The unfairness of this, do you not see? I clever one like yourself should. Such like children your age sleeping in their parents' beds every night, listening to their mothers tell stories before they sleep. While you, dear child, sleep alone in your oversized bed, one you find so cold under your thick blankets, a night so quiet cuh that it is filled with your breathing alone."
Lacias laughed briefly to himself, sadistcally amused by the look on Ciel's face. Indescribable contempt and fear buried in the cores of his eyes. The injustice. He knew Ciel felt it more than he wanted to.
"They imprison me because they fear me." Lacias continued, breaking off from the subject that had sparked such fright and agony in his guest. "They want to make sure I don't run rampant with my powers of blackmail. They are afraid. They are weak. They have no courage in themselves. They remove anyone who threatens their existence by force. Contemptuous, their actions are. Disgusting and abhorrent, their dastardly cowardice drives beings like myself into cages they have, rolling about in their grimy hands like dies."
Lacias looked up at the white phoenix, trapped and crying. His eyes were narrowed, eyebrows furrowed, mouth bent in a frown so unlike his usual, annoying smirk. His face was overflowing with indignance and abomination, his tail now stiff in anger, wings evidently tensed, fists clenched. His teeth were grinding against each other in his mouth, Ciel could tell, grinding in the repulsive fury seething from him.
"I will use you to free myself. Break this cage. My wings have grown back, due to their neglect, they forget to clip my wings and tighten the ropes around my ankles. Snap these bars in two," Lacias paused, in dramatic effect, "Candor and brazen I shall be once more, my captors found in dried blood hanging in cages of their own."
Ciel realised the bird in the cage was Lacias. Said demon's unmistakeable infurity had promptly been replaced by madness as this was said, as the demon started laughing haughtily to himself at the thought of his keepers dead.
"My barrier, now set upon your contract, will cut off its very existence from every memory and trace of it in this universe, with the exception of me, and you, and Sebastian. Ciel Phantomhive. You are aware that now, your sould is free for all to claim? You are no longer connected to your beloves Sebastian in any deeper way than servant and master. Demons will come and make you their prey-"
"Sebastian will protect me." Ciel cut off.
"Naive, naive child. What makes you think Sebastian is capable of protecting you?" Lacias scoffed loudly, glaring at Ciel. "Sebastian, capable of protecting you from the entire demon world? Who do you think he is, some kind of king? He is not. Invincible. He is not. The most powerful. There are thousands more powerful. More intelligent. More perfect then Sebastian ever will be. So very, dreadfully, naive, to think that Sebastian would be able to protect from anything and everything. All he has done is save you from those measly humans. They are utterly pathetic. Just like him. The only reason why you have not been attacked by any other demon was because of that contract of yours that others like myself cease to bother, not wanting to breach the Theft of Prey.
"And now." Lacias snarled. "You will form the contract. There will be no questions asked. Besides the restoration of your contract, once I am free I will cause neither of you any trouble. Is there any other condition you have?"
Ciel was mildly impressed by Lacias' eloquence, despite being so worked up. He had the depth to negotiate, understanding that he was not to be an unreasonable brat. Of course, it was no time to be impressed. Ciel had to make a decision now, or he would never wake up. His mind was fairly blank, to a point where he could not form speech in his throat.
Lacias waited, anger slowly ebbing away. He stared intently at the white, crying phoenix, one that depicted himself. Ironic, how the statue was shining purely white, how it was of an elegant phoenix, both possible symbols of absolute innocence and purity when it illustrated horrifying rage and hatred, fear and enmity, one of the unkept, demented soul of a demon.
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