Chapter 34.

Chapter title/song : Tsuki No Ame

Alt: The countdown Finished, and you'll all cry.

"Thanks." Ciel said, unfocused. He was staring at Sebastian, something was different about him. Face? No. Hair? No. Body? No…He double checked…Body? No. Hair? No. Face? "Sebastian….his eyes." Ciel stared in disbelief. Sebastian's eyes were now a blue that was even lighter then Ciel's, but something about it gave Ciel peace.

"Yeah….that's what happens when you do what Sebastian is doing now." He said, his tone slightly saddened. "That's why you've gotta hurry Sebbie Chan!" The goofy demeanor come back with a vengeance that Ciel thought almost impossible, but he tried his best to ignore it.

Sebastian continued dodging until he felt something pressing up against his arm…something. He looked down at the first chance and saw now that he was surrounded by sharp steel-like spider threads. He pressed his arm against it further and saw black blood drip slowly from the arm.

"Checkmate." Claude said, and brought down one of his spider legs from right above Sebastian's head.

Sebastian smiled slickly and blocked it, allowing the spider's thread to cut through his arm as he blocked it with the sliver cross. He wasn't focused at all and couldn't care less what got cut off or hurt at this point.

"No….not checkmate. Not even check." He whispered, locating a small hole between the threads and jumping through it, his sides cut from the tight squeeze of jumping through them. The cross was left behind however, and Claude was more than happy to try to grab it, but he couldn't hold it. It burned his hands and he immediately dropped it and was grabbed by his hair. "Pay attention."

Sebastian yanked Claude, spider legs and all up into the air from the perch of the house he stood upon and then was slammed into the roof with all the demon's strength. Claude went straight through the roof, then straight through the floor of the house and then through the basement before finally ending his fall making a crater in the ground that shook the area.

"Now it's checkmate."

'Six minutes thirty three seconds.' Ciel thought. He looked at Sebastian who looked around with a happy smile on his face, but unlike all his other smiles there wasn't something behind this one…this was happiness. 'Why is he so happy?'

Angela took a deep breath of pain and picked up a heavy piece of rock, and threw it at the demon, now gaining part his attention. Sebastian rushed forward to fight her, clenching his hands into fists, he began fisting her in hand to hand combat which she was actually surprisingly good at it.

Madame Red and Alois however, had crept their way over to behind Ciel, who was much too busy staring at Sebastian speaking words that no one but he could hear. Madame Red went forward first, slowly and carefully. She stepped up behind him quietly and tapped on his shoulder, Ciel turned around and jumped back, taking a defensive position.

"You!" Ciel hissed in anger and hatred. "Why would you strike Sebastian like that?"

"Ciel baby please don't be angry with me, I did it for your own good." Her attempt to calm him down only made the young 'baby' angrier.

"Bullshit!" Ciel spat and turned around, breathing heavily from his rage. "NOTHING you did there was for my own good. Sebastian is my lover, and no matter what anyone does or says we will ALWAYS be together." Ciel hid behind Grell, hiding himself from the woman he now was close to hating.

"Five minutes twenty seconds." Grell said, watching Sebastian grabbed Angela's arm and twist it, then grab her head and plant a foot firmly on her neck. "Oh that doesn't look comfortable." Grell said in a bored voice as he watched Sebastian rip Angela's head off, blue sparkling blood splattering all over the ground. "Not comfortable at all." He sighed quietly. "Four minutes forty seconds Sebastian!"

The demon dropped the now dying angel's head to the cold cobblestone and focused his eyes on the Alois who was sneakily attempting to retreat. He was back to normal now, normal blond hair replacing the black sleek locks that imitated Ciel's and the rust blue eyes back to normal. He had tried to hide in a nearby house, locked inside and prayed. He prayed long and hard but Sebastian found him and stood in front of him. The young blond boy gasped and pressed himself against a nearby wall as Sebastian came closer and closer.

"You, who imitated my master in an attempt for my life shall die here." He spoke, his left hand going full demon, long black claws scratched against the wall and sparks flew.

"Three minutes ten seconds." Ciel said, looking back at Madame Red with hatred in his eyes. "Why did you do it?"

"I had to do it, he would've killed you and besides…If I did do it then you could live in peace, your soul spared from the horrors of the Armageddon." She looked down in sadness. "That's why I sold my soul to the devil, so I could come back and protect you."

"…You moron." Ciel said, arms crossed in anger. "I would not have hidden from the Armageddon. I welcome the challenge of the ending of the earth with open arms as I am doing right now." He sighed. "In fact, I don't run from anything like the Armageddon. I take it head on as a chess game…and I make it run from me. The selling of your soul however is nothing I can stop, your own foolish actions have prevented you from entering heaven. I must applaud your stupidity." Ciel slowly clapped and a horrendous scream went through the surrounding area, Alois was flung through the air and slammed into the side of a nearby house in a mesh of shattered bones and broken skin.

"Two minutes Sebastian HURRY!" Grell screamed.

"Almost done, take Ciel out of here."

Grell grabbed Ciel and began running away with him. Ciel resisted of course but the shinigami's strength was too much for the young boy, in the end he was carried away as Sebastian finished up.

Alois moaned at the racking pain in his body. He nearly went unconscious twice as the raven stood over him chuckling. He took his time, watching the boy squirm and moan in pain, slowly drinking it in, not caring for the time limit.

"You underestimate what I will do for my Bocchan." He whispered and lifted his foot, bringing it down hard on Alois' chest, right above his heart. "And now, you die for i-" The sentence was broken off by Sebastian's skillful dodge away from a fourteen foot long cross that narrowly missed the side of the near dead Alois' face.

Sebastian looked up to see who had attacked him in this most important moment….

"William!" Sebastian screamed.

"Yes. Eighty seconds by the way." He chuckled.

"How did you come back?"

"I'm a heavenly being doing my job…I'm unkillable…" At that moment Sebastian looked around to find Angela and Claude both desperately injured but alive…and patiently waiting. "You underestimated the powers of our natural regeneration and in fifty seconds you will pay the price."

Sebastian looked left then right. They were right. In just a few moments Sebastian would have to stop fighting and surrender….but he had to make sure. He swiftly jumped to the roof of the house, pushing the other two out of the way and glanced to see Grell a distance away from him, holding a screaming Ciel's hand as they ran back towards the nearby lake.

'Ahh…good.' Sebastian jumped down off the house and slowly walked to the center of the circle, the other three closely followed.

"I have to admit that I have never seen a braver demon." William respectfully nodded his head. "Twenty seconds."

"I must agree, you truly did well." Claude clapped a few times to show his approval.

"I wasn't expecting to get my head ripped off like that…That was close." Ash said, ignoring the comments given by the other two. Her head was still regenerating itself, skin covering the cartilage of her ears and her hair growing back rapidly.

Sebastian looked up with a smirk on his face. He did something so crazy, so mind blowingly reckless, that his enemies were actually congratulating him out of respect for his…Bravery? Yes that might be it, he bravely charged into battle like a moron lead by a feeling. A feeling. Something that cannot be touched, and is worth no value in the long run.

'No no…I'm quite out of my mind. They congradulate me for my insanity.' Sebastian shook his head and stood in the middle of the circle. He gave a short nod to Claude who began counting down.

"Ten. Nine. Eight. Seven." Claude began counting down as the rain began, droplets fell upon the raven's skin, they felt so nice.

'Stay in this moment. Live a lifetime forever.' He repeated to himself. This was it, the insanity of his previous actions had brought him here…. 'Time is relative…stay in this perfect moment of peace…' He looked up in wonder, he had never stopped to see the rain coming down on him like this...his eyes moved from droplet to droplet...and he thought of Ciel. Kicking, screaming, wanting nothing but to be near Sebastian to see exactly what the countdown was all about. Then at that moment the raven was pulled out of his thoughts by the same human who dominated them.

"SEBASTIAN, LIVE!" Ciel screamed, his voice echoed through the town and Sebastian suddenly turned towards it, it was faint, but he could hear it….

"3."

"I will…."

"2."

"I will live for you!" He screamed back with a smile on his face. 'Such a lie. I'm such a liar, always weaving tales and promise to that boy….that sweet hearted child…I'm so sorry.' He thought a mile a minute, silently scared of what would happen in the next few seconds. Angela respectfully bowed, as did Claude. William looked away.

"1."

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