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Lafrenze continued to clear her throat, eventually causing the impatient Luna's excitement to die down, her face turning from on of pure happiness to one of dread. Ciel continued to watch Lafrenze as she continuously cleared her throat, noticing that every time she did, a silent clicking would work as if something were stuck in her throat. After one last gulp, the thing that was stuck in Lafrenze's throat dropped down, making a sound of a coin dropping. Lafrenze blinked. Ciel noted her raging, fierce red eye color which shone in both her fake eyes.
Ciel then narrowed his eyes, seeing something suspicious about her eyes that no typical person would see unless they looked into her eyes as carefully as Ciel was now. Ciel rose an eyebrow in disbelief as he saw something twist and turn in her eyes.
Around the black pupils she had in her eyes, you could faintly see amber cogwheels around it, some pieces large though most of them were miniature. The cogwheels seemed to continue spinning in her eyes, all of them moving in a perfectly harmonized rhythm.
"El," Lafrenze began to speak, her voice seemingly stronger than Luna's soft one was, "who is this boy?"
'El' let out a squeal. "You sound so attractive!" Luna giggled, peering into Lafrenze's red eyes with her dark green ones.
"Thank you," Lafrenze smiled, her smile quickly turning into a scowl as she glared at Ciel from the corner of her eyes, "but who is this child?"
Ciel smirked at her ruthlessness. "I am no child, machine."
Lafrenze did not say anything, but left her frown on as she narrowed her eyes from Ciel to Lunette, who was also frowning upon Ciel's reaction.
"He is... a demon."
Lafrenze couldn't help but gasp. A demon? A real demon? On Earth? Suddenly, her mind began to malfunction at the sudden flow of ideas and questions that she shot at herself. Her whole body began to shake, the cogwheels in her somehow getting stuck. She quickly gave the side of her neck a small, little pinch before returning back to normal, the pinch seemingly having a dramatic effect on her when she malfunctioned like this. Ever since she was made, she'd always have malfunctioning problems since she'd been first created. Her owner taught her how to stop it though. Her neck was her most vulnerable point; it had all the metallic pipes that acted as veins run through it, so it would send her mind a few jolts every time she pinched it.
Lafrenze's eyes hardened visibly as she turned to look at her 'childhood' friend, Elice. "El? Did you make a..?" she was unable to finish her sentence. She already knew that there was no need to finish it, for Luna and Ciel already understood.
"Oui," Luna nodded, her eyes suddenly darkening with regret.
Ciel saw this. He couldn't help but frown at her. She could've said no, but it was his fault that she had to agree. He had threatened her using the outside world as a believable excuse...
Lafrenze sighed. She couldn't do anything to change this; she knew it herself. She had read about things like these- no, it was engraved in her head. It was Luna's life, and she knew that she shouldn't bother with her too much. She had made an oath with Luna after all. The oath being that Lafrenze shall not drag Luna into dangerous situations, so they were practically oath sisters.
"Luna," Ciel cleared his throat before boldly wrapping an arm around her waist, "shall we leave?"
A flicker of emotion passed through Luna eyes, some of them being embarrassment and denial. "No," She once again, pushed herself away from Ciel's gentle grasp, "well at least not until we find my book..."
"Your storybook, I assume is what you are talking about?" Ciel queried, his eye narrowing down at her.
"Yes," Luna chirped.
"Luna?" Lafrenze whispered under her breath, catching attention of all around her. Lafrenze's gaze snapped up to meet Luna's. "You go by the name of 'Luna' now? Not Elice?"
"Lunette," Luna hissed, venom lacing her tone as she remembered that her dad used to call her that, "actually."
"Lunette..." Lafrenze looked down, registering where she had heard this before. Ah, yes, Luna's father used to call her that with such a familiar tone, though it was not her actual name. "I see. But why not Elice?"
"Elice does not suite me," Luna curtly replied before adding on, "I am not the sweet girl I used to be. I am now, Lunette, the harvester- or the lunatic. How my father depicted my in that portrait and in his journal... it was so true."
Lafrenze's movements stilled as her face turned blank. She had changed over the years. Not for the better, but for the worse. Lafrenze smiled falsely, not wanting to show her close friend that she was upset. The silent whirring of her own cogwheels distracted her from thinking anything else. She then frowned. "Why was my creator... him?" She asked herself inwardly. She flung that thought away as she remembered what Luna was still there for. Her book. Lafrenze smiled once more before pointing out the door, "The book rests in your bedroom, Luna." She cooed, liking the way how the name 'Luna' just magically rolled off her fake tongue like melted butter.
"I see," Luna smiled back at her before pivoting around and ambling to the hallway, signaling with a single flick of wrist for Ciel and Lafrenze to follow her as if they were her minions.
Ciel sighed, once again gulping down his pride before following her with Lafrenze at his tail. He still wasn't used to her treatment. He wasn't one to follow typical humans orders, the Queen being an exception, of course. They continued to stroll down the hallway, their footsteps washing through the hallway like water spilling, their footsteps mismatching each others though they paid no mind to such.
Ciel peered down the hallway, noticing a bright light emitting from the very end. The light was almost holy, as if a sign of Nirvana. Covering his eye with a hand, he continued to walk along with the two.
"Welcome, Ciel," Luna paused, taking a glance over to her shoulder to see Ciel and Lafrenze who beamed back at her, "to my Paradise."
The bright light that Ciel thought was once holy apparently emitted from a normal, old, large lantern in the center of the room. Ciel's eye twitched. The room barely had anything in it. It only held a lantern, a few stacks of books which seemed to be covered in must, debris and dust as if nobody had touched them in a long time and a bed.
That was all.
Ciel's smirk twitched along with his eye as he realized that Luna had just called this her 'Paradise'. Her version of paradise was terribly off to a normal one's would be. It was so plain, dirty and disgusting! Ciel then began to wonder to himself. If this was her version of paradise, what was his? Would his be like hers, or would his be something different..? Ciel shook the bothersome thoughts away in his thoughts, though it kept nagging him to the very core of his demonic brain. "Damn," he inwardly cursed, "she's making me feel like that human I was back then..!"
Luna blinked at the sound of Ciel's teeth gritting together, as if chewing something. She swiveled around to face him once more, an eye brow raising, "No need to be...upset, Ciel. Actually, the " She rolled her eyes mentally at her own choice of wording when it came to things like these.
Lafrenze giggled as Ciel blinked twice.
"Pardon me," Ciel respectfully said, making sure that he was making his choice of words matched himself as an upper classed man, "I did not mean to make you think I was... upset," Ciel continued, "I was merely thinking of something I shouldn't have at the time." He smiled coldly at her, liking how her figure slightly shook as his eye stared into hers.
"A-Alright," She slowly said before tentatively walking away from the Earl, heading away from her and near her bed where a rectangular lump was underneath her bedsheets.
Lafrenze blinked as she noted the sudden flash of emotion that ran through her friend's eyes as Ciel smiled at her in a cold way. It was mixed with irritation and something that Lafrenze had never seen or felt before. Lafrenze's eyebrows perked upwards as she tried to remember the word that started with an 'L'. She then brushed it off, feeling that there was no need to overwork the cogwheels in her mind to search for such data inside her small head. She didn't want to cause overheating, that was for sure. That was cause another breakdown...
Luna lifted up the dark, red covers which now looked like rags off her bed to reveal a cute, crimson colored book which had in bold, golden letters: 'El's Storybook' and with little, messy writing at the bottom in black ink: 'From Mama'. She smiled in remorse as she flipped the cover over to unveil a pale white page with her old, neat handwriting. "Mama, Lafrenze and Papa!" She giggled to herself as she read her own handwriting. She looked at the little detailed drawing of her family at the corner, her lips tilting upwards into a smile.
Lafrenze hummed. She yearned for those old memories in the past... though she knew it was no good to keep living in the past.
Ciel let a small smile swoop onto his face at Luna's longing, sweet tone. He then began to feel the same way she did...
Longing for the pointless past.
They were all snapped back to reality when loud thumps and thuds came from above them. Though they were faint, they all heard it. Luna blinked twice. "Sebastian and Evarisse?" Luna looked over to Ciel for an answer which he responded positively to by nodding. Luna smiled, taking the book into her hands and running down and away from the hallway.
Ciel was about to chase after her until Lafrenze got hold of his left wrist, pulling him backwards.
Ciel hissed at the machinery. "What do you want?"
Lafrenze's face darkened, a dramatic dark shadow almost covering the top half of her face as her crimson eyes stared into his dark blue ones. "You mustn't tell Elice."
Ciel immediately became intrigued after she said this. "Tell her what?" He sneered.
Lafrenze's eyes brightened for a moment before reverting back to normal. "Her mother's corpse," she whispered harshly, making Ciel freeze up, "she is here. Along with a few "demons" that I had managed to lock up after they killed her."
Ciel could've sworn that he felt his blood freeze, but instantly he doubted it because he knew he was already cold blooded. He narrowed his eye at her, his eye flashing red. "You kept actual demons?"
Lafrenze smirked. "Locked up," she whispered, pointing to a dark corridor that Ciel hadn't noticed before, "down there. They can't leave because I used a special kind of lock. They should be dead within a matter of weeks from now, though. They've survived quite some years. Her father might've killed Elice's mother physically, but a few demons had to eat her soul up."
Ciel blinked in shock, his face slowly becoming contorted in disbelief. "Her mother made a contract with a demon?"
Lafrenze shook her head, her neck joints moving smoothly, "No..." Lafrenze disagreed, frowning. "Tell me, demon," Lafrenze began, "what attracted you so much that you wanted to make a deal with her? What was it, hm?"
Ciel continued to register what Lafrenze was telling him, trying to figure out what she was trying to tell him. "Her... soul." He responded plainly.
Lafrenze nodded. "Exactly. Her mother had a soul that demons yearned for... same thing with Elice's. She shall be attracting more and more demons to herself without even noticing it within no time. Have you crossed over another demon lately?"
"Yes," Ciel hesitantly answered before finally getting it. Alois Trancy- or Jim Macken... They want her soul too...
Ciel growled at the conclusion he came to, his eye suddenly glowing shades of pink and red wildly, a snarl emitting from him. "I don't like to share."
Lafrenze scowled. "As much as I hate telling this to the person who will take her soul away, I would like it if you were more careful when leaving your home. We all don't want another demon ruthlessly chasing after her."
Ciel smirked with all his pride and glory, "Like they could get to her! I'm the one taking care of her, after all!" Ciel boasted, feeling narcissistic and full of himself. His smirk widened. He would be the one to take her soul. He would be the one to steal her away from everybody. He would make her his in all the ways he could find.
Lafrenze's scowl deepened at his narcissistic remark. "Go ahead and try," she challenged, "but there will be people stronger than you. Prepare yourself for what is to come, demon. Elice is not one to stay at one place and wait. She shall find her way out of messy situations, one way or another."
Ciel made sure that he remembered her words, jotting them down in the back of his mind as a reminder.
"And if I may ask," Lafrenze slowly began, "how did she escape? And why did she make... the pact with you?"
Ciel was about to say something until a loud slap followed by shouting and yelling of a woman and something dropping onto the floor. Ciel's eye snapped down the hallway where Luna had left to, seeing Luna on the floor, clutching a side of her face while a very blood soaked Sebastian and Evarisse stood in front of her, Eva's face contorted in anger as she screamed at the small girl before her. Sebastian seemed too shocked to even stop her rambling.
"Tsk!" Ciel tsked before rushing away to the corridor.
He arrived as fast as the speed of light, kneeling down on one knee beside her. He was about to say something until he noticed a drop of liquid drip down her face, her face shadowed by her hair. He stood up and hissed at Evarisse, wanting to leap onto her throat once more, "What the hell is wrong with you!?"
Eva snickered, "Me!? This girl has a problem with herself! Look at her! She runs around without even telling anyone where she's going! I had to kill again- and killing was definitely not one of the things I've wanted to do. Sebastian got bit by a wolf, though it seemed to heal already, but -!?" Eva was rudely cut off by Lafrenze.
Lafrenze's hood fell of her, resting at her shoulders as her dark red eyes gleamed in anger. "What have you done?"
Eva hissed, "Who the fuck are you?" She snarled dangerously, narrowing her eyes in suspicion.
Lafrenze smiled coldly. "Just a doll, nothing much all in all." She took a step towards Eva which caused Eva to back away. Suddenly, she slammed herself against Eva, an arm pressed up against Eva's neck as an attempt to choke her as she trapped her between the wall and herself. "Now it's my turn to as questions," she responded with a cynical tone, "who are you?" She pressed her arm harder against her neck.
Eva let out a strangled cry before swiftly taking out her dagger from it's holster and stabbing her.
Or at least, she tried to.
Her knife only made a dent on Lafrenze's leg, shocking everyone in the room except for Luna, who continued to 'weep'. The end of the dagger seemed to turn blunt at the sudden action.
"What the-!?" Eva gasped as Lafrenze let go of her before jabbing her elbow into Eva's stomach.
Eva, having all the air taken out of her suddenly all at once, gasped and shrieked, trying to catch the air she needed as she slumped down, her vision blurring and instead of seeing Lafrenze in front of her, she only saw an obscured image.
Luna stood up, shifting around to face Eva's slumped form. She looked up at her so everyone could see her face. She was smiling sweetly. "You shouldn't care. You aren't supposed to. Why don't you just leave me be then, instead of dragging yourself into trouble." Her eyes squinted, her once sweet looking eyes turning dark and evil, almost.
Ciel and Sebastian watched the scene unfold in front of them, both thinking the same thing: "I have underestimated them."
Oh, only if they knew how right they actually were.
Luna giggled, her short giggles slowly turning into a maniac's laughter.
Ciel blinked. A word hit his head. "Lunatic."
She abruptly stopped laughing, a frown on her face. She tilted her head so that some of her hair could fall to the side where she had tilted, "Let's leave." She yawned as if she were suddenly bored.
This girl reminded both Sebastian and Ciel of Alois Trancy. A human with annoying yet simple mood swings that weren't predictable.
Lafrenze frowned. Luna did change. She was no longer Elice, the sweet, innocent girl, but she was now Lunette, the lunatic.
Sebastian took Eva who felt air headed at the time, her senses blunting.
Ciel watched his mistress climb up the ladder with disgust and some sort of new interest. He had never thought for her to be like this, but it seems that he hasn't seen all of her yet, after all...
[Cue music... o_o : Sound Horizonの薔薇の塔で眠る姫君をピアノで演奏してみた ]
In the manor, everyone was silent. They all gathered up in one room for their brunch after Evarisse changed her sullied clothes, excluding Lafrenze who sat pretty on a chair, a frown on her face. Honestly, she did look like a normal doll when she didn't move, and according to Luna, she preferred to stay still instead of moving around unless she became bored. The question why she did this still remained a mystery, yet to be solved.
Luna stared down at her brown colored tea which was set up perfectly in a cute Chinese tea cup. Ever since she'd left her so-called 'paradise', she'd been feeling dull and numb. She had absolutely no energy to do anything while the other continued to sip their tea. She felt no guilt for what had happened to Sebastian or Evarisse at the time. She felt that she needed to just stop her thoughts for awhile, though they continued to urge her to say sorry from the back of her head.
Sebastian, who had mended his jacket and cleared it of all blood stains continued playing tunes that Luna could've sworn she had heard of before. Though it was very far back in her mind, locked away and kept hidden in the very deepest part of her brain, she knew that she had heard these familiar tunes that Sebastian had played to her. She was unsure whether she had heard it from her mother's talented piano skills, the piano being the only one in the abandoned church she lived, hidden in the back of the church where her mother and father's bedroom was.
She slowly placed her head onto the table she sat at, feeling weak. Though her memories were vague, she could hear her mother singing along with her father... those were the happy times of her life. When everything seemed to vivid and beautiful, but now her world seemed dark. She shut her eyes as she traced over the tablecloth as if she were tracing her faded memories. She continued to keep herself busy as she remembered a few of the lyrics that she remembered which went along with the ethereal song Sebastian was playing.
"Dancing in the forest of slumber with endless loneliness,
I, a butterfly withering in the moon's shadow, am having a dream of death." She softly sang, continuously tracing the pale table cloth with one finger, "Siebte schuld..." she said with a haunting voice, knowing very well that what she had said was not English, but was German, "The reason I sleep surrounded by wild roses..." she paused, feeling herself fall into a deep slumber, "is..." she trailed off, finally giving into darkness as her hand fell flat onto the miniature plate which held her teacup filled with cooled down tea, causing it to flip over, the contents of the teacup spilling to her side.
Ciel jumped up and sighed, doing the move that he remembered Sebastian doing. He took the tablecloth with both ends and pulled.
This, however did not help.
The foods on the table splattered onto the floor, the beautiful Chinese tea set he had imported from China falling to the ground and splitting open with a loud crack.
Eva's mood immediately brightened. She snorted before letting out a fit of laughter, mocking Ciel to no ends.
Sebastian also couldn't help but stifle a chuckle at his master's failure of an antic.
Ciel's face grew hot, turning crimson from neck and up as he heard Eva laugh at his failure. "Tch!" He snarled before telling Sebastian to clean it up with a slight flick of a wrist. He walked over to the- somehow- still asleep Lunette Walker, who was now sleeping on the cold, wooden table. He sighed, looking at the tea stain she had made on her overalls and pristine white, long sleeved shirt. He lifted her up, staring at Sebastian as if speaking to him telepathically.
Sebastian, who had apparently received this message, nodded and continued to clean, Evarisse taking over to play the piano.
Ciel wandered over to the double doors of the drawing room and left without a word, making sure he closed the doors behind him. He continued to carry his mistress bridal style, realizing that she'd been tired for most of the hours that passed by everyday. What was causing her to become so exhausted? Was it the lack of blood that she had ever since she lost blood from her eye? He'd been carrying her around like this a lot even though it's only been a couple of days since they first met.
Making his way to her bedroom, he hauled opened the door leading to her room with one hand, glad that the curtains weren't open. He sighed, placing her down on her bed. She let out a moan of relief as soon as her head landed down onto the pillow. Ciel couldn't help but let a small smile make home onto his face until he realized he had to change her clothes. His smile twitched.
He didn't mind changing her, and he usually paid no attention to her body, so he was fine with doing this again.
"I bet you were staring at her chest the whole time!"
Ciel flushed as he remembered the peculiar memory of what Eva had accused him of doing back then. He shook his head. He would never do that. Not to anybody.
Especially not to her.
He rolled his eye at Eva's previous accusation before taking off her overalls, making sure he was careful to not wake her up as he slid it off of her body. He quickly threw it to the side and began to swiftly unbutton her shirt, though he fumbled with the buttons a few times. He took it off her and discarded it, slightly surprised to see bandages wrapping up her chest. He sighed in relief. He didn't want to go through this again. He slipped on a long, white shirt onto her, buttoning it up and taking off her socks as he dumped the pile of clothes to the side.
She rolled over, causing Ciel to stiffen until she eased herself to a sleeping position that she was comfortable with.
He sighed. He then figured out that since he had nothing else better to do, he might as well sleep with her again. He wasn't as worn out as he was before, so he didn't feel sleepy. Then again, it was rare that he was actually feeling this way. Ciel unbuckled his boots and laid them off to the side, sliding his socks off along with them. He laid himself down beside her, careful not to hit her legs as he swung his feet over the bed, placing them down onto the mattress. He let out a sigh. Today... would it be like one of those long days again?
Sebastian blinked at the doll's posture.
The doll, being Lafrenze, of course.
Eva stood still along with Sebastian, both of them eying Lafrenze's figure with sheer curiosity. "She sleeps?"
Lafrenze, was indeed, asleep. Her hands were placed neatly onto her lap, her head tilted off to the side, her eyes closed. She was resting peacefully yet again, the sounds of cogwheels whirring filling the room.
"..."
"..."
Neither of them commented at the whirring of cogwheels for awhile until Eva decided to pipe up.
"...Would this be called snoring?"
"...I'm not sure myself."
"Well then," Eva bit her cheek, a lopsided smile on her face, "I suggest we leave her there while I," she pointed to herself, changing her husky tone to a really annoying high-pitched one, "play my really cool sexy sonata that only I can do because I said so~! Giggle. Giggle. Snort."
Sebastian let out an amused chuckle at her sudden playfulness. "You may go ahead and try, but I shall always be better than you. I bet I can repeat your 'sonata' as well."
Eva stuck her tongue out. "Fine! Battle start!" She laughed, rushing over to the piano, seating herself on the black seat. When Sebastian came near her, she shuffled over so he could sit beside her. Sebastian seated himself beside her.
Eva then stared at his posture and compared it to her own. "Hey Sebastian," she grinned wickedly.
"What is it?" He plainly responded, knowing that she would most likely point out something unnecessary and completely irrelevant to what they were about to do.
"Look at the way you're sitting and look at mine." She smirked.
Sebastian's eyes traveled from hers to her lap and to his. He indeed, after a few seconds, understood what she was talking about. He frowned. "It seems you sit more like a man, and I sit more like a woman."
"Ahaha!" Eva laughed before making her leg space smaller so that Sebastian could sit properly.
Sebastian did as she expected, causing her to giggle until he urged her to continue.
Eva stretched her arms before smirking at him. "Watch and learn, rookie!"
Sebastian narrowed his eyes at her. He knew that she should know very well that he was much more experienced when it came to playing piano. "Lovely taunting," he commented in his head before watching her play.
She smiled peacefully as her fingers worked some magic.
After awhile of just sitting there, Sebastian got bored. So, he decided to be rude and play along with her.
Eva rolled her eyes. "You were supposed to watch, but I guess you got impatient." She rolled her eyes.
"Oh no," Sebastian disagreed with her, smiling as he played familiar notes, "your patterns just got boring. I decided to keep myself interested by adding on."
Eva pouted. "I was going to keep on going."
Sebastian continued to smile. "Let us do a duet," he announced.
"Alright." She agreed simply, not even wanting to bother with his choices.
The more and more they played, the more they got into it. Hours passed as they continued to keep playing music. The only thing that could be heard within the mansion was the silent sound of cogwheels whirring, laughter, chuckles and music. Sebastian and Evarisse seemed to both want to keep this peaceful harmony in the mansion, so they continued on playing until finally, Evarisse's hands got tired. Feeling exhausted she leaned her head onto Sebastian's shoulder for support, which he willingly lent to her with a coy smile.
"Are you still cross?"
Eva blinked. "About what?" She drawled, feeling tired.
"About killing... are you still cross?" He asked once more, not wanting to upset her by making her remember.
Eva frowned for a moment before smiling. "I could get over it. I know there will be worse things in the future though... To the point where one of us might even die... I really do hope none of us do, though..." She silently added.
Sebastian frowned. "Nobody would like that, hm?"
"Yeah..." Eva replied before succumbing to sleep, resting onto Sebastian's shoulder.
Sebastian sighed before once again, resting her head down onto his lap. "Humans," he sighed. He sometimes wished that he could be human again... just to remember the feeling of weariness and...
He stopped his thoughts, not wanting to continue on.
His eyes trailed down to Eva's face, who slept like an angel. He smiled. Ever since she'd stepped into his life, things seemed to be looking more brighter and less murky. He wanted to keep it like this. He wanted everything to stay this way so that he wouldn't have to suffer ever again. She was the light that he needed so badly in this world, and he wanted to keep her all to himself for his own selfish reasons. He won't let anyone touch her other than him... Though he knew this 'light' wouldn't last for too long, he wanted to savor it until that certain time would come. He smiled bitterly, remembering his painful past where he was betrayed and mistrusted.
"Mother," he softly said, "the light is warm."
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Idk what I did there. I think I'll edit a few chapters today. Except for the 10th one. I like the mistake I put there c:
Send me those reviews, lovelies.
Imma add Sebastian's story here. Or well, my version of it. Huehue. I gave a few hints of what would happen in the future here. Just sayin'. SORRYFOR ANY FUCKIN SPELLIN MISTAKESKLDAHS.
