"Take that back right now!" Ciel seethed.
Sebastian turned his head with the ghost of his smirk on his face, "What do you mean?"
"I don't like you TAUNTING me!" Ciel snapped and Sebastian smiled "Master, Earlier you informed me of some business to take care of, this business of yours, did it include endangering yourself?"
Ciel frowned and Sebastian looked up and his gaze did not fail to fall upon Eloise and the Ex-Cirque frowned as well, "I tried Sebastian, I really did. I saved Ciel and somewhat... myself." She lowered her gaze and she thought to herself sadly, "I couldn't save Lizzie though."
"Do you remember what you said at the Frost Fair, that your body, about your ring. What you had said that they had been shattered and reborn and you no longer had any fear of being broken yourself."
"I remember," Ciel, said grimly "You don't have to remind me."
'Broken'
The word reverberated through Eloise's head and she looked back up to Sebastian who had that ever present smirk on his face before her hand wandered to the seam of her dress and felt the cold porcelain of her leg.
She grit her teeth together and leant forward, just as the music began.
"Build it up with iron and steel, iron and steel, iron and steel; build it up with iron and steel, my Fair Lady."
Eloise's large violet eyes widened and with the old fright being burned again, it surged through her body. She pushed off the door and hauled herself to unsteady legs as Ciel ran to the centre of the room and spun around to face the door.
Eloise shook her head biting down the weariness that beat at her and stood by Ciel's side. Trying not to show the trembles that ran up and down her body. She couldn't allow Sebastian to see a weakness; he would never let her live it down otherwise.
Though she was expecting it, Eloise still jumped when the large doors burst open and numerous girls with a dead look in their eyes strode in.
Ciel stepped back, his large eye wide; "Those things defeated Grell," he said more so to himself.
Eloise looked to the left of Ciel and saw Sebastian walking towards them in his usual confident swagger.
"Interesting" he said as he came to stand beside Ciel "They seem to be controlled to the singing of that song."
"Such a genius" Eloise snorted "I think we could have fathomed that ourselves without your input Sebastian. I'm the one that seems to be suffering by it though." She held up her glistening hand and Ciel said disapprovingly "Why didn't you inform me that you were suffering because of it?"
"I had to save you" Eloise insisted, "I'm no more than a lowly Ex-Cirque with nothing to go home to and don't you dare say anything against that. The Manor is not my home, because I refuse to live with him." Her eyes scrutinised Sebastian who only smirked as the girls came closer.
"Whatever you say Miss Eloise" he smirked.
Then, much to Eloise's surprise, Sebastian raised his hand and in his deep voice, he began to sing as well.
"Iron and steel will bend and bow, bend and bow…"
Eloise looked back to the girls who began to freeze in their movements as Sebastian continued to sing.
"Iron and steel will bend and bow, bend and bow, bend and bow, Iron and steel will bend and bow, my Fair Lady."
"I see what he's doing," she whispered.
Sebastian launched himself into the middle of the group of girls who had completely stopped at his singing. His hands reached around the neck of a girl and almost easily broke her neck. She was made completely out of steel.
The rest of the girls began to sway to the music and Sebastian walked along the line and continued to break their necks, as they were merely twigs.
"There's too many for him to break" Eloise said before she clamped her hands together and added her own harmony to Sebastian's singing.
"Iron and Steel will bend and bow… My Fair Lady…"
Eloise stepped forward into the fray of the swaying girls and put her strength behind her to help break the necks while keeping in tune with Sebastian in their chorus and harmonies.
As the last girls, necks were broken, Sebastian held out his hands before sweeping them to his chest and kneeling down in front of Ciel who looked at him with his livid blue eye as the last words were sung.
"My Fair Lady…"
"Who are you calling a lady?" Ciel said coldly and Sebastian only smirked "Well I can't be singing to you then Young Master, the only other was here is Miss Eloise."
"Shut it" Eloise said coldly from behind them, "You're just antagonising Ciel, I can see it."
Sebastian stood up "Now Young Master" he said smoothly "Let us go?"
He went to go stride beside Ciel before there was a loud gasp from Eloise as a familiar, disjointed voice came from the darkness.
In the doorway stood Drocell. His hands were on a large wind up music box, strapped around his neck and he almost seemed to state "Ciel Phantomhive and his little Lady Miss…Eloise are the property to my Master now."
"Property?" Ciel barked, as Eloise seethed "No way."
"Who do you think you…?" Drocell cut off Ciel.
"The proof is there, you're marked by the ring you're wearing," he said, his dark indigo eyes flashing in the beams of the moonlight.
"It's a Hope piece" Drocell seemed to drone on, "The very piece my Master sends out to those who are to become his dolls."
"Master?" Sebastian enquired with a frown on his face.
Drocell opened his arms, taking them away from his music box, "If Ciel Phantomhive is going to become a doll, an exquisite doll made up of silver and gold."
Eloise's limp hand was grabbed, she turned her head as she was dragged back and Ciel looked up at her with his dark eyes. "Stay close Eloise" she murmured.
Sebastian smirked at Drocell before he pointed his finger and waved at him.
"Silver and gold will be stolen away, stolen away, stolen away. Silver and Gold will be stolen away my Fair Lady."
Drocell's face was incorrigible and Eloise felt a knot tighten in her stomach as his fingers twitched. He brought them back to his music box and Eloise's eyes widened as Sebastian picked Ciel up and made a dash to the window.
Leaving her behind.
"Wait" she cried, running after them "Sebastian wait till I-…" her lower body slammed against the window pane as she watched the two disappear into the darkness. "He left me" she whispered, "That damned Demon…" her fists clenched on the windowsill and she heard Drocell slump to the floor behind her.
"I'm thinking to myself" the words came out "That Ciel Phantomhive shall return, after all, he won't leave you behind Miss."
His dark eyes framed by his large hat, locked with Eloise's "You will do for now" he droned. He held out his hand and Eloise screamed.
Sebastian landed on a bridge, far away from the mansion where he had left Eloise and Elizabeth. He sat Ciel down whose face was twisting in anger as an echo of a scream was heard through the still, night air.
"There we are" Sebastian said looking down to his Master "You're safe."
He couldn't help but looked surprised when Ciel reached up and slapped him clean across his face. It left a small stinging mark and the Demon could only look down to the livid Master.
"You left BOTH Lizzie and Eloise! They're still in there! You abandoned Eloise in the room with Drocell, who knows what he has done to her!"
"I ordered you to investigate the string of kidnappings did I not? Lizzie and Eloise are kidnapped victims. Eloise is injured! You-…"
"That order negated the contract" Sebastian smoothly cut in "You safety is the first priority with me, not anybody else. I have devoted myself to your service and protection; it has been more than two years now."
The moon was obscured by clouds and Ciel was able to see the glowing red irises that was the Demonic Butler "I cannot let somebody steal you away from me now can I?" he asked. Without another word, Ciel reached into his coat, pulled out the smaller Hope diamond piece, and put it on his finger above the first.
"Apparently they show the next target" he smirked "I have two of them, so that means I have been doubly marked, protecting me is going to prove quite difficult."
Sebastian only returned Ciel's smirk "I'm not afraid of hard work," he drawled putting a hand on his chest before a piercing howl sliced through the air.
A howl that was unmistakably Pluto's.
"I searched the mansion top to bottom," Sebastian said, his gaze following to where the howl was heard. "I found no sign of Lady Elizabeth, the only place left is that sealed-off tower."
Said tower, not looking very inviting or safe at all.
"Where have you taken me?" Eloise snapped as she flailed her legs, "I gave you no permission to hoist me up the way you did. Put me down you brute!"
Eloise was thrown to the floor and the darkness concealing her eyes was taken away as there was a piercing howl through the air.
She scrambled around as silence fell upon her and her wrists came unbound. She shook her tangled hair away from her face, fell back on her good leg, and saw a candle lit room. In the centre of it, Elizabeth sat, looking very…porcelain.
"Lizzie!" Eloise gasped struggling to her feet "I'm going to murder that brainless dolt." She looked around the tower room "Come down Drocell, I'm going to introduce you to a place called Hell! You will wish you never put your hands on Lady Elizabeth!"
She backed into a table that was seated in the middle of the room and her eyes scanned over the scribbled chalked words on the stone.
Mannequin pieces were strewn all over the table and she searched the rooftops for any sign of the man.
He couldn't have simply disappeared.
When she heard footsteps, was when her hands and feet began to burn.
She froze on the spot, immobilised by searing hot pain as the door to the room opened and she saw Ciel, Sebastian and an audacious red head Eloise hadn't met before.
"Eloise!" Sebastian said, his red eyes widening "What-…"
"No" Eloise snarled, trying to fight the sensations in her arms and legs, "Guys, you have to-…" she followed with an agonising scream. Her arms snapped forward and she almost seemed to growl to Ciel "G-Get to Lizzie! He's-…"
Sebastian pushed Ciel forward who began to run towards Elizabeth and Eloise's eyes focused on Sebastian "He's controlling me, please…stop this. He'll hurt L-…" another scream came from her and as she tried to fight the bonds that surrounded her, large cuts appeared on her hands and dark red blood began to stream from her hands, decorating her dress, shoes and the floor.
Her arms reached up and she was pulled up into the air, just as Elizabeth was pulled up into the air as well. High from the roof beams, Drocell's voice came out, "You see how their bodies move without them meaning too? They're my dolls, my puppets."
"Let her go!" Eloise shouted, straining against the strings in her hands. The more she struggled, the more her hands ripped and the blood was flowing everywhere, the dark read patches soaking her shoes and dripping through as well.
She saw a large blade fly towards Elizabeth and Drocell's voice sounded almost gleeful. "Will she harm the one that she loves the most?"
Elizabeth's large green eyes widened and as she shot forward lifting the axe, she could only scream. "No!"
Sebastian got Ciel out of the way and dodged the attacks dealt by Elizabeth and Sebastian called out to the one they called Grell.
Eloise felt her muscles tensing as she watched the fight below her, her hands began to involuntarily twitch and the sharp pain came washing back as she tried to fight the feelings come over her. Her hands continued to bleed, her hands came together, and through the candle light, she began to manifest a blade of fire using the candle flame.
"It's a puppet string," Sebastian said coolly as he investigated the translucent string. "He's controlling them."
"Look OUT!" Eloise shouted as she was suddenly plunged to the ground swinging her flaming axe. Sebastian got Ciel and Elizabeth out of the way again, he raised his hand as time escaped him and the blade Eloise was wielding cut through his sleeve and his skin.
"Get out" Eloise begged "He's using my powers, please, Sebastian… Get everybody out of here. If Drocell finds out…" she swung the axe again and Sebastian dodged away each and every time. His dark scarlet eyes locked with Eloise's violet "Don't worry Eloise" he assured "I'll get us all out of this. You've done your part."
The axe flared, the flames licking the blade as tears fell from Eloise's eyes. "I'm sorry" she whimpered "I-I failed everybody, he's manipulated me and using my powers to harm the people I care about."
She struggled to open her fingers to relinquish the hold on the flaming axe and as she forced her hands open, her skin spilt and more dark, almost black blood splashed to the floor, dirtying Sebastian's pristine, shined shoes.
The axe dissipated in a bunch of small embers and the room was plunged into darkness. "So then I thought to myself."
Eloise was hoisted back into the air and her strings were wrapped as Drocell splayed open his other fingers and string enveloped Sebastian, Ciel and Grell.
"I have two dolls at my disposal now" he seemed to question, "What materials shall I use this time?"
"Indeed" Sebastian looked up at him "And of what materials are you made?"
Drocell's face seemed shocked and he drew back with wide eyes "Me?" he looked up thoughtfully "Oh, I don't know. What am I made out of?"
"Well I'm not sure" Sebastian kept up his tirade, nobody sure on what he was intending. "I'm sure the materials that were used don't seem to be of the highest quality."
"I-I always thought of myself to be human" Drocell stammered "Lately, I've been finding termite crawling out of my ears. Isn't that strange?" he began to scratch his ear, bits of sawdust falling around Sebastian.
Eloise struggled to the roof beam where she was situated, keeping an eye on the distracted Drocell. Then as his eyes wandered, Sebastian kicked up the axe Lizzie had swung around. It landed neatly on the top of his foot and with brute strength, he kicked it up. It hit Drocell on the chin and the puppeteer stumbled back with a gasp.
The strings holding the three on the ground slackened and Sebastian was able to catch the falling axe and jump up neatly.
However, as Drocell stumbled back, the strings around Eloise tightened and she was swung around, her body cracking against the wooden beam. Sebastian cut three of the four strings around her as he aimed for Drocell, but her prosthetic was still connected and Sebastian was forced back onto the floorboards as Drocell used Eloise as a shield.
Eloise clutched at her fake leg trying to keep her weight even. She had other functions of her limbs working, but she needed to free her leg from the grasp of Drocell.
Not to mention, that she now had to manoeuvre herself so none of the people below her could see up her dress.
"So then I thought to myself" Drocell said "I shall use this dying puppet as a shield."
Eloise felt more tears fall from her eyes and deftly, her arms slid up her leg and to the band where the prosthetic band connected to the skin. Sebastian used Grell's face as leverage to propel himself upwards yet again, he raised the axe.
Eloise hesitated for one more moment before she wrenched the bands connecting to her leg as Drocell prepared to pull her up again. There was a sickening, wet riip as the prosthetic came away, slicing Eloise's stump.
Through the stream of blood that spattered everywhere, Eloise came away from her fake leg and she fell back to the wooden surface below. Just as Sebastian swung the axe down, Drocell's hands coming up to try and stop the attack.
The blade just piecing the top of his head.
Eloise fell to the floor with a dead 'thunk' struggling up in a pool of red blood. Sebastian followed with Eloise's leg in his hands. Then Drocell fell, sawdust and sand pooling from his head, his eyes blank.
The Ex Cirque began to whimper in pain, her bloody hands clutching her mangled stump trying to stop the bleeding. She was sitting in a pool of her own blood and Sebastian swept down next to her. He ripped her dress and began to bind it tightly around her wounds and Ciel stared on in horror until Lizzie managed to whisper to him.
"Let's get them home," Ciel said as Sebastian tried to staunch the bleeding on Eloise, "We can treat them there, if we don't hurry; we'll lose her.
"Ciel?"
Her voice was cracked and hoarse, both Ciel and Sebastian looked down to the deathly pale Eloise. "I'll be a-al-alright" she struggled "We saved…Lizzie."
She pulled away from Sebastian, crawled over to the motionless figure of Lizzie, and could only smile down at the blonde haired girl.
"At-At least we saved her."
The experience shocked her and she could only fall back in relief and with teary eyes saw Lizzie's smooth face go back to normal and go back to its rosy complexion.
"Everything will be fine now Lizzie" she croaked in relief "It's over."
Her breath hitched and she swayed around as Ciel bent down and put his hand behind Eloise's back "Thankyou Eloise" he said, his gleaming eyes shining in the moonlight.
Eloise looked tired, but she gave him a weak smile "We saved her Ciel, we got away from Drocell."
Another shaky breath escaped her and Ciel looked to her sternly "Do not exert yourself Eloise, without your help, Sebastian nor I could have saved Elizabeth."
"It was great sacrifice" Sebastian's voice came over "He was manipulating you, using you like a marionette Eloise; I have seen a better side to you after what you had done for us."
The dark Demon loomed over her, his red eyes glinting maliciously and Eloise rolled her violet eyes "I don't have the energy to argue with you Sebastian. C-...Can we just go home?"
Ciel smirked up at his Butler "Home she says."
He looked back softly to Eloise who had finally dropped off into unconsciousness still clutching onto Elizabeth.
"I think she's right," Ciel said "Let's go home Sebastian."
Eloise opened her bleary eyes, it took a moment for her to recognise where she was. Back at the Phantomhive Manor in her allocated bedroom. She saw the ornate, decorated fireplace and felt a surge of comfort wash over her.
She stretched her legs and curled her toes in pleasure and sunk down into her plush pillow pulling the large blanket up and content on going back to sleep. If Sebastian wasn't looming over her then she deemed it all right to go back to sleep.
As she pulled the blanket over herself, she heard an irritated grumble from beside her before the blanket was pulled back.
Eloise froze, her eyes wide open now. She stared at the fireplace, too afraid to turn around to see who was in her bed.
Had she been drunk?
'Please don't let it be Sebastian' she begged herself.
She sucked in a frightened breath as there was movement beside her, then an arm was flung over her.
Eloise then exhaled and shrieked.
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