Me: I'm back, baby! WOOT!
Ciel: *drinking tea and reading a book* …oh goodie. Because we all reeeeeeaaaaaaally missed you *roll eyes*
Me: Today I find your emo-ness and sarcasm positively adorable that's how good I feel! I'm super excited to get back into this story… I would like to proudly dedicate this chapter to riuklovlydreams, who reviewed with lots of love and enthusiasm and reminded me of this story's existence! This chapter would not be here without her/him and their reviews put a huge smile on my face when I was otherwise having a pretty bad day…! So, thank you so much for everything and I hope this chapter doesn't disappoint!
Ciel: *looks up at me* Pfft! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *points and laughs at my face*
Me: TT_TT …thanks for ruining the heart-felt moment jerk-face… *feels face and remembers my 'incident' with the gas oven the night before* oh ha ha, right I forgot, yes I suppose me lacking an eyebrow is amusing…
Ciel: *literally ROFL-ing*
Me: *pouts* s-shut up! I tried cooking a snack for myself and there was this fireball that singed off some of my bangs and most of my eyebrow… ('Tis true btw… -_- I am now short an eyebrow for the moment…) sooooooo excuse me if I can't cook as well as your precious Sebastian…!
Sebastian: *walks in with my kitty in his arms*
Me: YAY! YOU'RE BACK! WE MISSED YOU!
Sebastian: *snuggling kitty*
Me: ...So I take it you ditched us for several chapters to track down my cat?
Sebastian: *nods* and I came back to give The Dangerous One a hug as promised…
Me: You promised me a hug! *squee*
Sebastian: No, The lovely reviewer's name is 'The Dangerous One '
Me: oh right… I forgot…
Sebastian: What? You actually think I would regard you as "dangerous"?
Ciel: pfft, yeah, how could an eyebrow-less freak like you consider yourself to be a threat?
Me: Hey! I have one eyebrow! You know, any other day I would be in my emo corner, but today I feel too happy and excited! So Sebastian do your thing so we can get this show on the road!
Sebastian: Yes, my young mistress…*bows*
Me: SQUEEEEE! *faints*
Ciel: *rubs ears in irritation* …was making her scream like that really necessary?
Sebastian: *still petting the kitty* …perhaps.
Ciel: What-ever, just move this along please…
Sebastian: With pleasure, young lord,*bows* *waits expectantly*
Ciel: … *raises eyebrow*
Sebastian: …
Ciel: …*glares*…I'm not going to FrUking faint if that's what you're waiting for.
Sebastian: *sigh of disappointment* …forgive me then. Now, for a virtual hug, kitty-cat and a dog for The Dangerous One for calling the Kuroshitsuji musical 2 reference. *Hugs* *gives the barking puppy over with a sneer of disgust* *holds kitty-cat behind back*
Ciel: …Sebastian… *taps foot*
Sebastian: ….yes?
Ciel: Hand over the cat.
Sebastian: *pouts* *gives kitty-cat to The Dangerous One*
Ciel: Good. Now say the disclaimer so we can start already!
Sebastian: Irene doesn't own the rights to Black Butler.
Ciel: *kicks me* come on! Get up and start the stupid thing already! Oh never-mind…
You lot enjoy the long-awaited next chapter of "Sebby's Kitten"
Ciel, Alois, and Agni approached The Undertaker's shop warily. They heard maniac laughter coming from within that was so loud that the business sign above the doorway fell with a great crash. Ciel raised an eyebrow, but other than that showed no reaction. He walked in without even knocking as it would never have been heard over the laughter anyways. He didn't wait for his two companions to join him before he greeted the cackling undertaker…
"Undertaker, I have some questions for you…"
The Undertaker stopped his mad laughter and sat there grinning like a loony, a thin line of drool trailing down the edge of his mouth and under his chin. He panted slightly as he said
"Ah why if it isn't our little earl Phantomhive… well I suppose you're here to see to the butler…"
At this, Alois ran up to him and demanded "You know where Claude is? Tell me!"
The Undertaker just began laughing hysterically in every sense of the phrase, Alois, in his rage, raised his hand to slap some sense and answers into the annoying silver head, but Agni stopped him without a word. Ciel waited relatively patiently for the man to get ahold of himself. When the Undertaker finally calmed down enough to speak rationally again, he said
"Why yes little one, you're friend Claude is in the next room-"he gestured over to a doorway with a thick black curtain and before he could even finish his sentence, the blond boy dashed to it and disappeared behind the thick veil. This cause the Undertaker to laugh again, but not as nearly as violently as before…
Ciel coughed lightly to get his attention and the Undertaker explained "I woke up from my nap earlier to find a new client, imagine my disappointment when I discovered he was still alive, so I woke him up with some difficulty and the delightful fellow tried to kill me isn't that lovely?"
He broke out in laughter again at the memory of it. Ciel had known him for a while and knew that this was normal for the 'eccentric' man, but poor Agni was very confused at his behavior and was contemplating calling a doctor, instead he just answered
"I hope you are alright sir. My prince and I happened upon Kitten and Claude and we decided to lend a hand. She was tired though and they sent me ahead to bring the injured man here as Kitten said you were a friend of hers and who could help. I apologize that my bringing the gentlemen here was at all dangerous for you…"
The Undertaker looked thoughtful at the mention of Kitten. Ciel was curious at what made him so serious all of sudden. When the Undertaker noticed the earl's attention, he giggled wheezily and said
"So, how is your hilarious butler these days Phantomhive? I noticed he isn't with you for once…"
Ciel nodded, "Actually, that is another reason we've come. I wanted to know if you could explain what this is…"
He handed the clipping of the newspaper with the advertisement for 'The Gray Elixir'. The Undertaker paled and fell silent.
Sky rolled his shoulder and winced. It was still sore from being stabbed with a dinner knife, but regardless, Sky was cheery, even to the point of whistling and twirling his weed-whacker weapon. He followed the men who introduced himself as "Will T. Spears", the dark haired man seemed to be talking to him, but Sky wasn't paying attention. Will had stopped when they reached outside he turned back to the young boy with dull eyes and asked
"Honestly, are you getting any of this?"
Sky awkwardly ran his fingers through his light hair and said "…er, I'm sorry, I only needed to hear the part 'Kitten is in trouble' and I kinda spaced on the rest…"
The man shook his head and said in his usual drawl "I can't blame you, though I am a bit disappointed. However I am willing to repeat myself, I told you that I am Will T Spears, and I am a grim reaper. One of my, more unusual co-workers Grell Sutcliff knows your friend. He has informed me that your friend 'Kitten' seems to have disappeared, as well as an Indian Prince she was traveling with. My co-worker told me that she had a friend of hers who might help. Your friend 'Kitten' seems to have a lot of confidence in you Mr. Bluefields…"
Sky winced at the formality of his name and said "I understand, but please, call me 'Sky', my full name is a bit fruity…" he gave a light laugh "I guess that what I get for having a poet for a mother…"
Will nodded stiffly "It is rather unprofessional, but I will respect your wishes…"
At that moment, the door burst open behind them and Lillian stormed out, blue-green eyes fiery and wild golden hair just short of crackling with furious energy
"Where do you think you're going?" she said to Sky, voice low and menacing. Sky shrugged and walked up to her, placing a kiss on her daintily trembling lips and said softly
"I haven't the faintest idea, but I'd like you to come with me"
She blushed cutely, punched him lightly and playfully and said "Aw, I hate you so much for ditching me to go off on some adventure, but since you asked so nicely, I guess I can forgive you!"
He was about to thank her when she shut his mouth with a kiss of her own and ran off to meet with Will. Sky looked down at his hands to see them sweating slightly and clutching his weed-whacker thing. He grinned slightly. Only Lillian could make him 'loss his cool' like that. He saw Will try to explain things to Lillian without any result. He shook his head and gestured for the two of them to follow him. Lillian latched onto Sky's arm with a dreamy look in her eyes as they walked into the starry night. They turned the corner to see a strange motor car from the Victorian era. Will sat in the driver's seat after hand cranking the motor. The two teens sat in back, the car leapt to life and chugged down the road with odd sounds. Lillian smiled and rested her head on Sky's lean shoulders, the strange sounds coming from the old car reminding her of 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' in a way that made her smile. Sky hummed a lullaby to her while stroking her golden main. She drifted to sleep within minutes. Sky fell silent and rested his head on Lillian's, lulling himself to sleep by breathing in her sweet spicy scent and listening to her soft breathing as the two of them were driven off into the night.
Kitten woke up in some dingy room; it wasn't a jail or anything because the door was wide open. She racked her mind to see if she could remember what happened, oh right, the strange puppet man took her and Prince Soma… with the thought of her golden prince, she shot up and looked around the empty room, she walked over to the open door and walked down the long hallway. She heard a horrid inhuman scream of pain. She picked up a run and sprinted toward the sound, it lead to a locked door. She knocked at the door desperately, wanting to help whatever wretched creature making the sound. She found herself flat on her face when the door opened. She heard some insane laughter as she felt herself being pulled up roughly from the ground. A seductive female voice cooed
"Well well if it isn't my precious Phillip's pussy-cat…"
Kitten viciously struggled against the strange women, something in her un-natural voice sent shivers down the small girl's spine. The women snickered cruelly at the pitiful attempt. She walked over to Sebastian's side, practically holding the girl by the scruff of her neck, and watched as he writhed in pain from the elixir's hold on him. Kitten called out
"Sebastian! What's wrong? What's happening? Who is this lady? I'm scared Sebastian please…"
The pain died down for just long enough for Sebastian to wearily open his eyes and see Kitten, then drop them again in defeat as another wave of pain hit him, his back arching unnaturally and inhumanly from the agony.
Kitten felt hot tears began to roll down her cheeks… what was happening? This had to be a horrid nightmare; she would hear Sebastian's violin play momentarily and he would bring her back to him out of this mortifying dream. He would hold her close and comfort her as she cried into his shoulders. This would all end soon because it was a dream. It had to be. Nowhere in reality would Sebastian ever be in pain like this, to ever be helpless, to be unable to save her, to ever be defeated.
Sebastian's dry, cracked voice brought Kitten out of her praying for this dream to end. His words were hoarse and unintelligible, but the meaning was there. He was begging. Sebastian was begging. This only further convinced Kitten that this was not real. Sylvia giggled in glee and roughly whispered into Kitten's ear
"This will be a very educational experience for the both of us… you've never seen Sebastian's true form have you? Neither have I… it'll be curious to see what a daemon really looks like won't it little pussy-cat…"
She shook Kitten viciously with a growl at the cat comment. A sickening crack rang throughout the room. Sylvia closed her eyes in bliss to soak in the sound. She turned to Sebastian with a hungry look glittering in her dark eyes. She whispered sweetly in Kitten's ears
"…did you hear that pussy? That's the sound of my precious Phillip's human form breaking…"
Kitten was unable to turn her face away from the sight in front of her. Sebastian's mouth began to stretch wide horribly, showing glistening ragged fangs, his eyes glowed red, and his very limbs were beginning to contort into inhuman shapes, black feathers burst through his skin painfully. It was evident that it took all of what was left of his strength to restrain from turning completely into his natural form. Kitten tried to run away. This thing in front of her wasn't her friend. This was all a dream, a horrible nasty evil nightmare. She tried to wake herself up, but Sylvia held onto her with inhuman strength, forcing her to witness her friend's agony. Sylvia herself wasn't scared; in fact, she was practically salivating at the scene in front of her. Her eyes gleamed hungrily at Sebastian's agony. She grinned cruelly when she heard a couple more sickening cracks and snaps, signaling that Sebastian could not restrain from turning anymore. Her deranged cackling rose above the chaos of sounds, joining Sebastian's cries of agony and Kitten's screams of terror
Grell furiously paced back and forth in the courtyard of the Phantomhive estate. He knew that Will is always on time, but that didn't stop him from feeling anxious. His 'womanly intuition' was telling him that there was something horribly wrong going on, and somehow poor little Kitten was in the middle of it. Grell flipped his long red hair back over his shoulder with a flick of his hand and continued pacing. He suddenly heard the spluttering of a car approaching. He ran out to the front to see one of those new cars stumbling down the drive. Grell waved eagerly to his co-worker/boss in the driver's seat when he slowed to a stop next to the effeminate male. Will grumbled slightly and said "Infernal thing, this motor car almost made us late. They don't seem to be one of the more practical human things, but it gets the job done…eventually…"Grell giggled girlishly as Will turned off the spluttering vehicle and got out. During this time, Sky had awoken and stretched his arms with a yawn and gently shook Lillian awake. She gave a yawn as well and opened her wide blue-green eyes in wonder as she took in her surroundings. When Grell noticed them wake up, he ran over to Sky and slammed opened his car door, helped them out and said with his pointed tooth grin "Oh you must be Kitten's friend! I am so glad to meet you I've heard only good things, my my but she never mentioned how handsome you are"
Lillian giggled and said
"aw, see cutie? Even this guy here agrees with me…."Grell shouted indignantly "I AM NOT A MAN YOU BRAT!"
Will hit him over the head with the pole part of his retractable pruning shear death scythe, then used it to casually push his glasses back up his nose. He said in his bored drawl
"Sutcliff, you had a reason to bring us here? Otherwise, I'm working overtime for nothing…"
Grell took a moment to cool down, and then turned to Will with adoring eyes, but his voice held nothing but business
"My Bassy's been kidnapped." Will sneered "You told me this had something to do with someone tampering to the to-die list. I refuse to work over time to just save some daemon scum like him." "Hold on. I'm getting there! You see, when my darling Sebby disappeared, I did a little research and found that one the people who he made a contract with who's supposed to be dead, isn't."
"Impossible, honestly, don't you understand anything about the enemy? Demons most defiantly can only make one contract at a time, and then they eat their soul."
Grell brushed off his comment with a flick of his red hair and said
"I know that! But apparently he didn't want her soul…"
Lillian interrupted "I'm sorry, but we are a little lost, something about demons and souls and stuff…?"
Will raised an eyebrow behind his glasses and said to Grell "I thought you said these were the people who could help your little friend, how is it that they know nothing?"
Grell was silent a moment, then let out a long 'ohhhhh' "It never occurred to me, but maybe Sebastian never told her that he was a demon…"
Lillian spoke up, "Wait, did you say Sebastian? Like her imaginary friend?"
The group heard a silky voice from behind them state
"I apologize, but I must ask you to leave the premises while my young master is out…"
Grell whipped around and saw his Sebastian standing there, the perfect butler as always. He let out a love-struck squeal and ran over to embrace Sebastian, only to end up face-planted as the butler sidestepped the reaper and neatly dodged his affections.
Lillian said with a smile "Wow~ I can't say I disapprove of Kitten's choice in friends…"
Sebastian heard that and asked "And who, may I ask, is this 'Kitten' you speak of?"
Heheh… ok…COME ON! YOU GUYS KNOW ME WELL ENOUGH THAT I LOVE MY SUSPENSE AND MY CLIFF HANGERS! YOU SHOULD NOT BE SURPIRSED AT THIS!
But… I got a couple of confessions here…
I have really lost focus with this story despite my best intentions…
I am having WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY to much fun writing Sylvia then is probably heathy…
And my final confession being…I kinda got lazy toward the end there…
Gosh I'm a horrible person… I forgot about this story for so long and I come back with this crappy short chapter with a cliff-hanger no less…you're welcome to flame… I deserve it… I promise I'll get it right next time…
So please review with anything really…It might help me feel more inspired and stuff to know that people are still interesting in this fail…
I PROMISE I WON'T FORGET ABOUT THIS AGAIN!
Until next time then!