Part 11 The Hunt
Okay first the title is boring but I am running out of ideas for titles so don't be surprised if some chapters don't have a title. Second your guys' reviews have been reaching me and I have been reading them. Thank you guys so much for your reviews they mean a lot. I am also reminding people that this will NOT be a Lily X someone, I know someone made a suggestion but it has been decided. Sorry if this ends on a cliffhanger and is short but I tend to do that. Now ON WITH THE STORY! :)
Not long later Ciel was walking down an alley where one of the Black Swan's murders happened. He set Sebastian to check out one of the other alley. He was looking around when suddenly he felt a knife being placed at his throat. He stiffened. "Well- look what we have here!" A strained voice chimed from behind Ciel. Then the person moved and started digging in Ciel's pockets. "Now if you give me all your money then maybe I-" He stopped after pulling something out of Ciel's pocket. The man screamed and backed away from Ciel. Ciel rubbed his neck and turned before spotting what the man had pulled. It was the black feather Ciel had gotten from Undertaker. The man started shaking badly while staring at Ciel. "T-The Black Swan!" The man shouted. Ciel raised an eyebrow.
"What do you know about the Black Swan?" Ciel asked, staying away from the man. The man stayed in front of the entrance but shook harder.
"The swan, a being whose soul is as dark as the night it hunts in. Nothing remains from its victim but the carcass, blood and feathers of pure black." The man spewed. Ciel didn't notice as the man got a tighter grip on the knife. Without warning he grabbed Ciel by the throat and raised the knife. Ciel's eye widened as he waited for the man to strike while he clawed at his hand, but to his surprise the man let go and backed away out of fear. The man dropped the knife and it clattered to the ground as the man fell to his knees. Ciel rubbed his neck as he watched the man started pleading for his life. A hand covered Ciel's eyes from behind. Ciel managed to catch one thing before everything went black.
Black feathers that floated down from the sky.
"Young Master…" A voice called far off. "Young Master!" Ciel opened his eyes and first thing he noticed was Sebastian kneeling in front of him. Second thing he noticed was Grell swooning by Sebastian who ignored him. Ciel looked around and saw the man lying dead on the ground behind Sebastian along with feathers. After a while Grell went over to the body.
"This can't be! ANOTHER soul has been reaped before I got here!" Grell whines.
"Another?" Ciel asked.
"Grell." Sebastian calls making said reaper look at him. "You said another, does that mean that this has happened before?" Sebastian asked.
"Yes, why do you ask?" Grell wonders.
"Are we dealing with another reaper?" Sebastian questions.
"Not one I've heard of." Grell says and leans on Sebastian's shoulder while pulling out a book, he opened it. "You see, all of us have to put our name in when we collect the soul but if you look here." Grell points to a marking. "That has been showing up time to time, no one knows who it is but for some reason the souls are collected."
"It looks like a swan midflight." Sebastian comments putting a finger to his chin. "Grell is there something you can tell us about this mysterious reaper?" Grell backs off and closes his book.
"Nothing the William won't get upset about... but" he leaned in close again. "Maybe with the right incentive I could give you some information." Grell whispers, before Sebastian could say anything William came and dragged Grell away.
"Well we are nowhere near closing this case then where we started." Ciel sighed, Sebastian chuckled.
"Actually my lord I believe we are almost to the end of our little hunt. Now all that matters is catching the right bird." Sebastian tells him.
"You know I wondered. Who is stronger? The Swan, or the Crow." Ciel says with a smirk.
"Let us find out tonight." Sebastian said, "but for now let us go before police come." Sebastian then grabbed Ciel and they left just as someone rounded the corner.
It was later that night, CIel and Sebastian stood against the wall by the opening of an alley. "So remind me again how you found out where the Black Swan was going to strike?" Ciel asked, Sebastian was pulling on a glove. He sighed before talking.
"I gave Grell one of my gloves in exchange for him to let me see in his book. This is just a guess, but it seemed to me that the Black Swan prefers to take their kills in an alley. Away from human sight."
"So no one can see them and recognize them. Clever, for a bird." Ciel says then shivers. "When was the murder supposed to happen?" Ciel asks, Sebastian checks his watch then sighs.
"Sadly not for a while." He closes his watch up. "I told Lily we would be home later but maybe I should have asked her to have some dinner prepared for when we got back-" Sebastian was cut off by a loud scream coming from down the alley they were by. "They're early." Sebastian comments as they ran down it. Sebastian pushes Ciel behind him as feathers and knives come flying at them. Sebastian blocks them before launching a few knives of his own down into the alley. He heard a faint grunt as the knives hit someone. Sebastian slowly makes his way further down the tunnel. He stops and smirks. "Well this is surprising. I didn't think that after all of this, the person we were after would be you." Ciel looked around Sebastian at the person. His eyes widened at the sight.
"You seemed to be surprised about a lot of things these days." A familiar voice says.
"And after all this the very bird we were hunting turns out to be the one person who was with us from the beginning. You knew everything we did, didn't you... Lily?" Sebastian said, his eyes going pink. Lily stood there, blood covered her dress and she held a sword. She smirked. "About time you figure it out Sebastian." Lily says turning to them, the knife in her shoulder gleaming a bit. "But did you figure out what I am?" She says tauntingly, her eyes shining green and gold.