The entire village was now on high alert, the villagers were now who they really were, released their dogs to pick up the scent of the Green Witch, their priority being to dispose of her before she left the forest. They came to where the path had become two. "Did they split up?" Wolf asked, now in his full military uniform then gave one of the dogs a scrap of cloth with Sieglinde's scent on it. The dog then went down the path of footsteps to the right.
"Our priority is to capture the Green Witch. The main squad lead by Wolfram will go there." one of the female commanders said. "My team will follow the others."
"Ja!"Wolfram said, leading the team on the right. A few hundred yards away, Snake and Bard were running as fast as they could. Snake was carrying Melody on his back, who was dressed liked Sieglinde.
"I can feel their steps! Their coming! says Oscar." Snake called to Bard.
"Snakes' hearing are amazing." Bard commented.
"It's not hearing, we feel vibrations with our skin. says Wordsworth." Snake replied, adjusting his grip on Melody.
"Lady!"
Bard and Snake turned to see the Green witch's butler dressed like a soldier, leading his small army of soldiers. "They're here! Let 'em Dance!" Bard called. Snake stomped his foot, causing a massive amount of snakes fall onto the German soldiers. The soldiers screamed as both poisonous and nonpoisonous snakes rained down on them and their dogs, buying Bard and Snake time to run away. "I had a bad experience with snakes in Arizona but if they're on your side, they're pretty cool!" Bard said, smiling at the chaos the snakes caused.
"It's normal to get bitten if you cut in on a girl's territory, says Emily." Snake replied. Wolfram then began to shoot at them, and Bard began to shoot back.
"I'll buy time! You go on! And don't drop her!" Bard called to Snake.
"Okay! says Oscar." Snake said, then ran ahead. Bard and Wolfram then fought, Wolfram's wild animal style of fighting threw Bard off guard. They fought for several minutes before Wolfram then went after Snake.
"Snake! He's after you!" Bard called. Snake turned just in time to see Wolfram kick him aside, making him drop Melody. Melody groaned, having fallen quite hard on the ground.
"Lady!" Wolfram said, picking her up but went wide-eyed seeing it was Melody.
"You really don't know how to treat a lady, quite a shame." Melody said with a smirk.
"You!" Wolfram said, pinning Melody onto the ground with his legs on hers. "It's all because of You! If you hadn't come, The Lady would be fine!" Wolfram then wrapped his large hand around Melody's throat and tightened it. She tried to kick him off but the lack of air was slowly weakening her.
"ANGEL!" Snake screamed, seeing that Melody was suffocating. Wolfram was about to shoot her when he was kicked away ruffly into a tree, causing him to let go of her and was knocked unconscious. Melody gasped for air, rubbing her neck. "S-Smile?" Snake said, seeing that it was Ciel who had kicked Wolfram away.
"Young Master . . ." Bard said, shocked by Ciel's sudden surge of strength. Ciel scooped Melody up into his arms and frowned, seeing her bruised neck. Melody noticed this and kissed his cheek, causing Ciel to smile a little.
"Like Father, like Son. I thought I'd finally be free." a voice said. They all turned to see a man walking toward them. He appeared to be quite overweight, with short black hair that laid flat on his head and a thick mustache.
"I see you haven't changed, Diederich." Ciel said with a smirk. "Though you're appearance has changed quite a bit." Diedrich scowled.
"Whose fault do you think that is? And don't call me by my first name, I'm not your fag!" he said, then saw that Wolfram was knocked out. "Damn, the little Phantomhive boy has that much strength . . ."
"Ciel, something's coming . . something big . ." Melody said, picking up something. Ciel picked it up too then went wide-eyed.
"Get Down!" he said, getting down and holding Melody close. The others also laid flat on the ground. They heard a loud explosion and something whizzed over their heads, destroying everything in its path. "What the bloody Hell was that?" Ciel asked. Then the ground began to shake . .
"Shit, we're too late." Diederich said.
"Young Master! Miss Melody! Are you okay?" Bard asked, going to them.
"Yeah, we're fine." Melody called out hoarsely. "What the hell was that?" The ground began to shake more and that's when they saw it.
"A . . moving cannon?" Ciel said, going wide-eyed. The moving cannon was large, covered completely in metal and had one visible opening, which is where the cannon ball had come out of.
"Run, you weaklings! Don't be dumbfounded!" Diederich shouted, then all of them began to run away.
"What the hell is that?!" Bard shouted.
"It's the latest model of armored land vehicle! A panzer!" Diedrich said. "Thanks to that thing, now the army can can carry huge cannons on land that before could only be used at sea! Isn't England building them too?!"
"Apparently but they're not complete yet!" Ciel replied. "I didn't know Germany had come this far already!"
"There's no way we can run from that! Son, there's a military railway on the Eastern side of the forest. If the train is still going, we can escape on that!" Diedrich said.
"That's our best bet!" Melody said then tripped, falling flat on the ground. She swore under her breath, remembering the injuries Wolfram inflicted on her, especially her legs.
"MELODY!" Ciel screamed, running back to her.
"Son!" Diedrich shouted, trying to drag him back.
"Fire!" the German crew inside the panzer shouted. There was a loud explosion, sending Bard, Diedrich, and Snake flying backwards.
When the smoke cleared, Ciel was holding Melody close to him and Sebastian over Ciel, shielding both of them."What am I going to do with you, Miss Melody?" Sebastian asked. "You should have left everything to me."
"You know I would never do that, Sebastian." Melody said with a small smirk.
"Come on! there's another one coming!" Diedrich said. Sebastian nodded then Ciel stood up, carrying Melody bridal style. Usually she would argue but she knew she would slow everyone down if she was running.
"Bard! Snake! Go to the railway with Diederich, show Finnie and the others the way with a flare." Ciel ordered. "Diedrich, take the samples of the poisonous gas."
"What?! Why did you give me the worst job?!" Diedrich complained. "Like Father, like . . "
"He trusts you, idiot. that's why." Melody replied, annoyed.
"Young Master, please leave this contraption to me." Sebastian said. "I don't want Miss Melody to be caught up in this one."
"What?! No, we're not leav-" Melody began to say.
"Fine, take care of it quickly Sebastian. That is an order." Ciel said. Sebastian bowed.
"Yes, My Lord." he said then went after the panzer. Ciel nodded and they ran to the railway. Up in the trees were two grim-reapers, waiting to do their job.
"You seem really excited Sascha." the male reaper commented.
"Well, it's going to be interesting Mr. Rudgar!" the female reaper, Sascha said. "That girl that just left, especially. She has an interesting background. It's not everyday we find a half-blood demon!"
"We find one at least once a month. It isn't that exciting." Mr. Rudgar said in a bored tone.
"Ah, but she's not an ordinary half-blood. She's the only grandchild to the King of Hell!" Sascha said. "That makes her much more powerful than an ordinary half-blood. But according to the English branch, she doesn't cause them any trouble."
"I'll admit that's odd . . . which one of his sons sired her?" Mr. Rudgar asked.
"That one," Sascha said, pointing to Sebastian. "He goes by Sebastian Michaelis in the human realm."
"I see . . come on, we have work to do."
Ciel's POV
"It should be here." Diederich said, leading us to a metal door.
"Wait," Melody said, before Diederich opened the door. "There's someone inside . . .six . no seven people. "
"Wait, you can sense that?" Diedrich said, kind of getting into Melody's face then looked at me. "You have some eccentric servants, son."
"Angel is not a servant, says Emily." Snake said.
"Yeah, Miss Melody here is a noble like the Young Master." Bard explained. Diederich went a bit wide-eyed.
"Is that so . ." he said, not believing them.
"Look, I'll give you an explanation later. Right now we have to get on to that train." Melody said. "Can you handle that?" Diedrich scowled at Melody then he and Bard left to take care of the soldiers, Diedrich giving the samples to Snake. After a few minutes, Bard opened the door and the seven soldiers Melody sensed were knocked out.
"Young Master!" We all turned to see Finnie, who was carrying Sieglinde dressed in Melody's clothes. He was shortly followed by Tanaka and Mey-Rin.
"Finnie! Y'all okay?" Bard asked.
"Yeah, and Miss Melody is safe." Finnie said, smiling.
"Uh, Finnie, I'm right here." Melody said awkwardly. "You're carrying Sieglinde."
"What?" Finnie said, looking down at Sieglinde and she nodded in confirmation. "Gah, I'm so sorry Master Sullivan! You just look so much like Miss Melody, I thought you were her . . Im so so sorry . ." Finnie apologized.
"That why we switched places, Finnie." Melody said. "Our first priority was to get Sieglinde out of the forest, which you did." I placed Melody into one of the cars on the train, and Finnie did the same with Sieglinde. Ciel climbed on with them as everyone else prepared the train to leave.
"Melody, what happened?" Sieglinde asked, seeing how beat up Melody looked.
"Your butler, Wolf. He's quite a remarkable fighter . . . and very heavy" Melody replied, rubbing her legs a little. After a few minutes, we were ready to leave and the train began to leave when a door in the station opened to reveal Wolfram.
"Lady!" Wolfram shouted.
"Wolf!" Sieglinde said in surprise. Wolfram raised his gun and aimed it at the two raven-haired girls then fired.
I'm really sorry guys but this story will have to be put on hiatus for a while. Until then, I will continue to write my Harry Potter fic called "Sliver and Gold" so if you're into Harry Potter, why don't you check it out? Until the next update, my lovelies.
