What Key had done had not only taken effect on Cecela's mentality, but her physical body as well. She now had wings for her demon form, a beautiful midnight black. And her son Claude was now showing demonic characteristics, such as pink eye's when he was agitated, and once and a while his hair would turn from crimson to black at the roots. Cecela loathed her sister, but she missed her in a way. Key had been her family, the last she had. Cecela also knew that Key would be back and attempt to kill her again, but not for a while. Grell was at her house one day while Cecela was teaching Claude to walk. "I'm sorry about Key, Cecela. I was trying to get… Revenge I guess. I was worried about you and Claude." Cecela caught Claude as he toddled forward taking his first steps. Both Grell and Cecela smiled. "I know Grell. I just don't get it. I hate her, and now that she's even temporally gone, I miss her." Cecela stood Claude up again. "And when she's back I'll probably go back to beating her to a bloody pulp. " Grell watched as his son was quickly learning this thing called walking. "You know Cecela, once you manage to get through that wall you have up all the time, you have soft and gentle heart." Cecela cringed. "What?" "I have that 'wall' up for a reason." "To hide who really are?" "Yes, Grell. I don't like who I am, and if I can't change it, why not hide it." Grell was a bit surprised. "For once, your wrong and I'm right. Who you are isn't a bad thing Cece. Being gentle and having a soft heart isn't a bad thing." She resisted the urge to punch him. "I let my true colors show when I was younger, but at the wonderful age of nineteen they were locked away never to return. Why? I was put with those demons to prove myself because I was a weak hybrid. I was soft and gentle, I actually had feelings. I couldn't fight all of them being gentle and soft, it just wasn't possible. I was getting my ass handed to me, so I got rid of that softy and put a demon in its place. My life depended on it. If I hadn't done what I had, then I would have been dead, and my father would be ruined and considered an utter disgrace. You cannot be a demon and a soft and gentle being at the same time. It just doesn't happen." Grell knew Cecela was pissed. Claude seemed eager to learn, which was a good quality in people, especially children. But that wasn't really important at the moment, what was important was Cecela practically killed her own personality and put something else in its place, then never showed her true self. Really, what lengths did Cecela go to protect others' lives, or even just their titles and feelings?
Sebastian and Ciel were carrying on with their lives. But they were still a bit uneasy with what had happened, or what might happen, after Cecela came back from the dead. Cecela had practically been Ciel and Sebastian's guardian. Their relationship had been endangered several times and Cecela had been there to stop it, and they never really thought about it. "She really is a kind person, My Lord." "I noticed. She just never openly shows her true colors. You have to really dig to find them. Cecela isn't just the bitchy, sarcastic demon every thinks she is." Sebastian smiled at the fact his master actually paid attention to people and their personalities. "No, she is not. I remember the day she was tried at the age of nineteen-" Ciel wore a look of shock. "She was tried at nineteen?" "Yes. Cecela came a scared, gentle girl. We all thought Cecela was going to die up against twenty demons, but she surprised us all. In about five seconds she was an entirely different person than the one we saw put into that field. She quickly defeated the demons she was against and was known as Black Maiden from then on." Ciel thought for a moment. "So it's her personality and fighting ability that named her Black Maiden, not her hair and eye color." "Correct, My Lord." Cecela was a very strong demon, stronger than most.
Cecela started another day at work. It started off normal, until Will and Grell walked in, both very late. Cecela almost spilled her coffee and Ronald did spill his, along with every other Grim Reaper that saw this. When Will got to his desk and Grell to his, Cecela went over to Will. "Umm, what is going on? Your two hours late. Or did you not notice it's twelve?" Cecela immediately smelled Grell on William. That was what was going on. "Oh, it is. Oh shit." "Uh, yeah. Welcome to a world that isn't Grell." She was going to make that 'Grell's cock' but kept that part out. It would be impolite, oh wait. Since when was she polite? What the fuck was wrong with her?
Grim (A.K.A. Undertaker) was watching Claude as he normally did for Cecela because she couldn't bring him with her at this age. He liked children and was happy to look after Claude because he was a well behaved child. He took after his mother, if it wasn't perfect, do it again. Grim had worried that he would have had to prepare Cecela's coffin, but was glad he didn't have to. He didn't want to see Grell in pieces because he lost his best friend, or Claude to have to grow up without a mother. It had been worse when she just stopped feeling. But they were past that, so no need to dwell on the past, or was there?
It wasn't long before it was 26th and Grell insisted that Cecela got a birthday party. It took place in a fairly peaceful meadow away from the city, William, Sebastian, Ciel, Ronald, Grim and a bunch of other Grim Reapers were invited. Cecela wasn't expecting this many people, she was really only expecting Grell. When she came, she was very surprised and Grell was also surprised by the fact that Cecela was smiling a happy smile, not a sarcastic one. The party was a good one (Which is scary because Grell planed it), until around 4 when an uninvited guest arrived. A gun fired and everyone turned to the sound, just to find Cecela on her knees with a bullet embedded in her stomach. Ten feet behind her was an angel. "Fuck, no!" William held Grell back before he got shot as well. Sebastian was about to be ordered by Ciel to kill the angel, when Cecela stood up. "Hmph. I should have expected you to still be in fighting condition after not having your full strength from dying and being shot in the stomach." The angel shot another bullet, Cecela caught it with no trouble. "Is that the best you can do?" Shadow gathered around the demon and wings took form. Her hair turned black, and her nails were now black as well. "Because you're about to meet a real fucking demon." Everyone watched in shock as Cecela killed the angel, when blood was flying everywhere, Sebastian covered Ciel's eyes, and Grell covered Claude's. When the angel was dead, Cecela reverted to her normal self, the bullet hole still there. "Any demons that thing killed or claimed to have killed, were extremely young, or very weak." On that note, Cecela's 131st birthday ended.
In three days Cecela had healed, and was carrying on with life as normal. So were Grell, William, Sebastian, Ciel, Claude and Grim. Sebastian and Ciel, and William and Grell were wrapped in each other, and Cecela protected them as she had before, her true self discovered or not, life carried on. Just as it would for the rest of eternity.
But that my fellow viewer's, is another story.