Chapter 8 – Dance of the dead

I'm sorry that I haven't updated in a while. I've been out and about so I haven't been at home to write~ School starts very soon and I really wish that the holidays would go on for longer! Anyway, please enjoy this chapter!

I DO NOT OWN BLACK BUTLER

~Alice's P.O.V. ~

"A grim reaper!"

"Ronald Knox is the name!"

The grim reaper smiled at me while leaning against his lawn mower.

"These corpses are soulless, cause I definitely got this one's soul about 2 weeks ago."

Ciel and Sebastian seemed to understand but I still had no idea, all I knew was that these things were already dead and the only way to stop them was to smash their heads, Yay! What fun!

"So the dead can't actually be revived, it was just the corpse moving… Let's go, Sebastian, Alice!"

We started to move when suddenly the grim reaper attacked and instantly Sebastian jumped in while I grabbed Ciel and jumped out the way.

Sebastian grabbed the sides of the blades where there was a circular piece which wouldn't shred his hands to bits.

"Since there is a demon on board, doncha think I'll get into sooo much trouble? Besides….i'll totally pass on any overtime. So why don't you just vanish?"

I heard fast paced footsteps behind me and saw the white clothing that Ryan Stoker was wearing slip behind a wall corner,

"Ciel! He's behind that corner!"

"Tsk, Sebastian take care of things here!"

So Ciel and I ran after Ryan. We reached a stair case and because Ciel was pretty weak, it took longer than I thought to run down the stairs.

"Ciel…Do you want me to just jump down there and catch him? It would be easier…"

"Fine but don't go too far, your job is to look after me in Sebastian's place while he plays around with that grim reaper,"

I jump down to where we last saw Ryan running away when suddenly, Ciel screams and I forget about him and sprint up the stairs back to Ciel. Instead all I saw was Ciel in a state of panic at Lizzy holding onto a plate of cake.

"Lizzy, it's dangerous here, go back to Aunt Francis!"

Then Ciel and I ran off leaving her there with cake at the stair case.

We reach the storage room of the ship but it was incredibly dark, I could see ok but it wasn't the best time to be half blind.

Half way into the big, dark room, we heard rustling and Ciel pointed the torch at the source of the sound as he jumped and pulled out his gun and I readied my knives.

And there we found Snake with a plate and his snake friends.

"Snake?!"

He shielded his eyes at the bright light as the snakes instantly went to Snake to protect him,

"T-too bright! Says Wordsworth,"

"What the hell are you doing here?!"

"The food was really good, so I thought I should share it with everyone, says Dan."

Ciel sighs as he puts his gun away and we relaxed.

"Ciel~ Don't leave me~"

"Lizzy?! I told you to go back up!"

But the idiot pouted and I knew, people like this in the world live short lives.

"But I wanted you to eat the cake! It's the cake with strawberries that you like soo much! I even got the biggest piece for you! See!"

She showed us the plate which was now empty. Suddenly we saw a shape right behind Lizzy. To my horror and to Ciel's and Snake's, the zombie came for Lizzy, it's mouth gaping open with bits of the cake still inside.

"LIZZY!"

Ciel grabbed her and pulled her out the way just before the jaws clamped onto Lizzy.

"Ciel! This is a different one from before!"

"That! on the box is the mark of the Aurora Society! Did Ryan bring back another corpse?!"

"Snake! Protect Lizzy! Alice, take care of that thing!"

But Snake's attention was at something else,

"SNAKE?!"

Then he pointed to something and the two snakes on him which I think were Oscar and Emily, yes I remember the snakes, they make good pets!

"The bird marks! There are a lot more over there! Says Oscar,"

What we saw was more than a nightmare, it was a living hell! Rows of coffins with the Aurora Society's crest on them, enough to make getting Ciel and Lizzy to safety a real workout.

The ship shock violently as the string keeping the coffins closed snapped and the zombies began clawing and making their way out and towards us.

Ciel grabbed Lizzy's hand and ran while Snake and I tried to stop them. I pulled out some knives and threw them at the zombies' heads and with great force, grabbed them and sliced them clean through their heads. I watched and readied myself as the first row collapsed only to have the others walk over and continue their pursuit.

"SNAKE! Hold them off for me! I saw something before which might help!"

"Right! Says Emily,"

I ran off and saw near the entrance was a sheath and hopefully inside was a sharpened and ready to use katana. I grabbed it and dashed back only to be stopped by a group of zombies. I unsheathed the sword to see the most beautiful and striking sword I've ever seen. And I've seen quite a lot.

The sharp edge glistened at the strike of light and I knew, this was perfect for me. I ran into the horde and with a clean slice, I cut through at least 4 heads and using the speed and agility as well as power that I had left in me, I danced with the zombies. Dodging their blood covered hands, their gaping jaws and their foul touch. Within a few minutes I was covered in their blood and raced off to find Ciel.

I heard a scream as I turned at the next couple of boxes and saw Ciel, Snake and Lizzy surrounded. Jumping across the boxes, I jumped to Ciel and cut down another row of zombies.

"Ciel get up there! I'll hold them off!"

Ciel started climbing as Lizzy reached down to help Ciel up. Snake used his snakes to bind the zombies long enough for me to cut them down. Snake climbed up too and I jumped to join them.

"Ciel! There are too many! I can't hold out for that long!"

"Alice! You're hurt!"

Lizzy pointed at my arm which had a large claw mark and blood oozing out.

"Shit! Must have been when I was reckless and got this,"

I held up the sword for Ciel to see as he sighed, it wasn't surprising to see that he was very calm, after all, it is Ciel.

The boxes started to tremble as we look down to see the zombies clawing and biting into the crates, trying to get it to capsize and get to the trembling mice up top.

"C-Ciel!"

Lizzy began to whine as she clung onto Ciel and we sat there like sitting ducks.

"Don't worry! I'll definitely protect you at least! No matter what happens!"

Suddenly a calm and familiar voice called out from behind the mob of man eating corpses.

"How very admirable young Master…"

With a flash of silver, one by one, the zombies began to fall as Sebastian and his super scary dining knives sliced through the air and hit dead centre into the zombies' heads.

"SEBASTIAN!? DON'T JUST STAND THERE, CLEAN THEM UP!"

"Yes, My Lord!"

He raced up and began to literally squash their heads, blood spraying everywhere and the bodies lay in heaps. I've never seen Sebastian like this before, it made him seem more like a blood thirsty monster than he was before. It was terrifying, it was horrible, it was hell.

After a few minutes of so, Sebastian called up to us, covered in blood and surrounded by bodies.

"I'm done Young Master!"

Ciel looked grossed out and hesitated to get down, I mean anyone would if they had just witnessed that.

"What's wrong?! Come….Please come over…"

Ciel regained his calm as he began to climb down but glared at Sebastian on the way,

"Don't touch me with those hands…they're filthy!"

Sebastian realised that his hands were covered in blood as he changed his gloves and picked up Ciel and placed him down onto the giant puddle of mess. One by one, Sebastian got us down but Snake and I simply jumped down.

Sebastian went up to me and cupped my face,

"My, what a brave girl…"

I slap his hand away.

"Of course I am, what kind of maid would I be if I couldn't protect the Young Master?"

I smirked as he chuckled, knowing that I stole that line from him.

"Of course."

Ciel grumbled as we made our way out of the mess,

"Why couldn't you have done that more elegantly? Like a savage beast…"

"I'm sorry. It was an emergency."

Suddenly Sebastian threw another couple of knives as it barely missed Ryan Stoker, who I think had been sneaking around when all hell broke loose.

Sebastian , using his terrifying interrogation skills, got some crucial information about the large mass of moving corpses.

"This place is divided into to sections. The boiler separates them. In other words, this ship is divided in to a front and stern. There are two freight storages! And- and in the front storage, we have stored 10 times as many samples as there were here…"

Sebastian was ordered to get over there first and deal with everything leaving Ciel, Snake, Lizzy and I with Ryan who was tied up by a huge python, another one of Snake's friends.

"There is a machine that turns off the moving corpses by exposing them to supersonic waves…"

Ciel pointed the gun at his head,

"Where is it?"

"….in my room in first class."

"Take us there!"

"A-alright…"

So we entered the boiler and we were welcomed by a huge rush of hot air,

"Snake, take your snake off of Ryan, it would be better if we pretended to be comrades with Ryan…"

"Alright! Says Webster,"

Webster was probably the giant python or it could be the one of the four on Snake's shoulder.

Suddenly we run into some old man who Ryan confronted with the same thing Ciel hated most,

"The complete flames in our chests…."

The other guy finished off the sentence as they both jumped into that pose,

"THE PHOENIX!"

In the end, we all had to do the pose too and Ciel went bright red right after. It was so funny but I could laugh because one, Ciel would get pissed, two it would blow our cover and three, it really wasn't the right time to laugh because we were in the middle of a zombie apocalypse.

~MEANWHILE…OUTSIDE OF THE SHIP….~

~no one's P.O.V. ~

Ronald stood on top of the ship as he watched it head straight for a huge iceberg,

"Man~ The guys in management are really asking for the impossible. How can we collect souls when there…are only two of us?"

A voice spoke from the ice berg, flowing red hair fluttered in the cool sea breeze.

"You shouldn't be so rude on a maiden's first night….If you ram such a big thing into her…She…will…break~"

The ship rammed into the ice berg, causing huge damage to the ship. The person on the iceberg jumped and landed onto the ship, a huge chainsaw glistened in the moonlight.

"A broken bloodstained maiden trip… You can't stop! You can't go back! It's too late to turn around! This is like a huge guilt trip of….Death!"

Water began to flood into the hole created by the iceberg. Grell stood at the front of the ship with Ronald holding him, like a terrible remake of the Titanic.

"The salty sea breeze~ It's like my whole body is being CARESSED~"

"UUm… Grell-Senpai! We still have another 1034 of these insects to take care of, and now is probably not the time to slack off…"

"Fine, let's go…"

~Alice's P.O.V. ~

"What was the shock just now?"

Ciel was still holding onto Lizzy when a flood of water came rushing in and everyone ran for their lives. I doubt anyone here could swim except myself and maybe a few others.

A loud alarm rang as the water lock door began to close, anyone on the other side was doomed. And that person just had to be Lizzy. Her huge dress was soaked and heavy making her slower than usual.

Ciel ran after her and so did I, the doors behind us locked for good.

"Ciel why?!"

"I promised to protect you at all costs, besides, Alice is here to help us out!"

He called out to Snake who was on the safe side,

"Snake! GO on ahead!"

"I can't leave you behind! Says Emily!"

"Ciel! The vent up there!"

I point at a duct which was most likely our only way out.

"Snake! We can escape through the duct! Your friends can't stay soaked in water for too long right? GO NOW!"

"Smile! Keats will guide you through the duct! We'll meet up later! Says Emily."

"Yep! Sure!"

So I helped Ciel and Lizzy climb onto the duct where Keats was waiting.

"Lizzy take off those clothes!"

"N-NO!"

"DON'T BE STUBBORN! YOU CAN'T WADE THROUGH WITH THAT HUGE SKIRT!"

"NO WAY! I WANT YOU TO THINK OF ME AS CUTE UNTIL THE END!"

Ciel ran up and tore off her outer dress and they climbed into the vent.

"Um Ciel…"

"What?! Hurry up Alice get in here!"

"I don't think I can fit, unlike you guys…I'm quite big,"

Ciel looked at me in horror as he knew I was right.

"Go on ahead! I'll find another way out!"

Lizzy began to whimper and tear up, "NO! Alice we'll come with you, as much as I know you can handle yourself…I-"

"NO. it's alright, my job is to protect you both so you guys have to hurry and go, I'll be fine!"

I ran and got to high ground to find another place to leave as Ciel and Lizzy disappeared through the vent with Keats.

"Shit!"

The water was getting higher and higher fast. There was only one way out, to bust through the walls into the ocean and get back onto the ship that way, but there is a high chance I will drown before that happens but it is the only way.

So I took off my shoes and stripped until I was only in a thin white dress and stockings and I strapped the katana onto my back as I made my way to the wall. Holding my breath as my head was now fully underwater. Using the katana I tried to cut my way through but it barely did anything. So I swam around looking for something when I found Ciel's gun. I shot a few times at the weak spot where I had previously cut it and it created 5 small holes which lead to the other side.

I felt myself running out of air as I tried to keep calm as breathing now would kill me. Using the katana I cut open the holes and went through it, water poured out of the hole, pushing me out as well.

I gasped for air as I coughed and spat out all the sea water I had swallowed. I lay there trying to catch my breath and recuperate, finally after 5 minutes or so, I got up.

"Time to find Ciel!"

I ran off to find him.

~Sebastian's P.O.V. ~

The young Master fell into my arms from the duct above me.

"Please excuse my tardiness… are you two injured?"

Lady Elizabeth who was waiting for me to get her down replied,

"We're both fine! Ciel protected me!"

I realised that Alice wasn't there and had to ask where she was, after all I cared about her more than Lady Elizabeth and perhaps even the Young Master.

"Is Alice with you?"

Lady Elizabeth looked down with sadness as the Young Master shook his head,

"No, she stayed behind. Alice couldn't fit through the vents."

"I see, do you want me to go get her?"

"No, it's probably too late…"

Suddenly someone smashed through the wall and I threw knives at the hole as I heard a few clangs and there stood Alice with her katana in her undergarments and stockings.

"Sorry I'm late!"

She smirked at us as Lady Elizabeth wailed with joy and Ciel scoffed and smiled.

~Alice's P.O.V. ~

"Alice~"

Lizzy jumped on me and hugged me really hard.

"How did you get out?!"

She said in between sobs.

"I bashed my way through the wall and got out, I almost drowned though…"

Sebastian walked up to me and smirked,

"I guess you're still too stubborn to die…"

I smirked back at him,

"Same goes to you! Anyway, I saw some life boats on the way, we should get Ciel and Lizzy to them…"

"yes, Let's hurry as wel-"

Sebastian pushed Ciel and Lizzy to me as we both looked up to see Ronald and another red headed Shinigami with a chainsaw.

The red head laughed as he, or is it a she?, jumped in front of Sebastian.

"Found you~ Hottie!"

"You're-"

I glanced at Ciel and Sebastian who were very cautious and angered at this guy or girl…

"Grell Sutcliffe!"

I froze in shock as the Grell I knew before looked nothing like the Grell now.

"Grell! It's you?!"

I ran up to him as he smirked at me,

"Ah! It's that Alice girl! You're still alive?! I see you're doing well…"

"What's going on?! You're a Shinigami?!"

"Yes, always have been!"

"How could you…HOW COULD YOU KILL MADAM RED?!"

"She was useless so I disposed of her~"

I jumped at him with the katana as he blocked with his chainsaw and swang at me, but I neatly jumped back, my face full of rage and anger.

Sebastian held me back as he gripped my shoulder and told me to relax.

"Aw~ Sebas-Chan~ It must be fate that we should meet here!"

Sebastian glared at him and his eye glowed.

"No, it's just a coincidence…"

Grell squealed and blushed as he shook himself side to side in excitement,

"AH! So cold! That side of you is lovely as always~"

I snorted and chuckled slightly, finally getting over my anger which for some reason didn't last very long…

"I see, Grell has a thing for you Sebastian!"

"Shut up…"

Sebastian grabbed Ciel as I piggy backed Lizzy and we made a run for it. but Grell realised so he stopped us by attacking Sebastian with his chainsaw. Despite it being really heavy and big, Grell was really fast and I doubt I could have stopped that in this situation.

"I guess, I'll have to use force! Alice, take the Young Master and go!"

"Yes! Lizzy hop off, I'll carry you and piggy back Ciel, it'll be easier that way,"

"O-Ok!"

Grell and Sebastian battled it out in a flash of red and black. But I noticed that Ronald wasn't doing anything.

Suddenly Grell cut through the glass window and water began to pour in.

We were flung out of the room to be confronted by the zombies, I mean what bad timing!

"Shit! Lizzy!"

I got up and rushed to Lizzy, cutting down the zombies and defending her.

"Lizzy! MOVE IT!"

She trembled in fear and wouldn't move a muscle.

I was thrown against the wall as they reached for Lizzy, it was too late to jump in and save her now.

"Ciel~ I wanted you to think of me as cute until the very end~"

"LIZZY!"

To my surprise as to Ciel's and Sebastian's, Lizzy pulled out a rapier and smashed the first zombie's head, like a pro, she cut down all the other's as well. Ok, I sort of take back everything I said about her being weak and pathetic. Right now, she was a totally different person and I was impressed.

Although, I wasn't going to let some noble cutesy girl steal the spot light, besides, I was doing the protecting, she was doing the screaming.

"This time, I will protect you Ciel! I am the daughter of the Leader of the British Knights Marquis Alexis Leon Midford, Elizabeth Midford. And the wife of the Queen's watch dog!"

Then after she demolished the zombies, she headed for Grell but Sebastian stopped her.

"To have a young lady like yourself fight for me, I have failed as a butler, I am deeply sorry. I'll take it from here."

But Grell and Ronald ran off before we could beat them up. I ran up to Ciel who had sprained his ankle.

"Ciel, get on my back, I'll carry you!"

Lizzy offered to carry him but Ciel refused, like the proud gentleman he was.

"Lady Elizabeth, I'll do it, besides…A cute lady like yourself shouldn't have to!"

"Ciel, thinks I'm a scary person~!"

She began to wail as everyone jumped with shock and tried to console her, I thought again, yep! She is still the pathetic cry baby she was before!

After lots of persuasion she finally settled down,

"Then, will you take me as your wife? You don't hate me?!"

"I could never-"

Ciel paused, looked at Sebastian and I then blushed bright red, Sebastian covered his mouth to hold back his laughter as I let myself go.

Ciel began to yell at us as he got onto Sebastian's back and Lizzy got on mine.

"SMILE! LACIE! BLACK!"

I looked up to see Snake running towards us,

"I'm glad you're ok, Says Emily!"

"Where's Ryan?"

"I'm sorry, he got away, says Oscar,"

We got onto the top deck where the Midfords were evacuating the others and Edward cuddled his sister.

"Thank God you are ok! You guys get onto the boat!"

"Instead of us, let this guy on,"

He pointed to Snake. Snake and Lizzy stared at him horrified but Edward agreed.

"NO, if Ciel's not going, then I-"

I slipped behind Lizzy and knocked her out, besides, having her around was going to make our lives harder.

"Sorry Marquis Edward, I had to do this because it would take too long to tell her about everything. I will accept any punishment later…"

"NO, I actually thank you. I wouldn't be able to do that to her…"

"Thank you!"

Ciel yelled at everyone to get off the boat. I carried Ciel as we ran to find Ryan. Instead of finding Ryan, we found the Viscount.

"The Viscount?!"

"Ah! I remember you!"

He ran up to me and grabbed my hands,

"The little Robin who belonged to Madam Red! My, hasn't it been such a long time?! And I see that you are only in your undergarment! My, My… trying to seduce me are you?"

I tried to hide my anger and disgust as Sebastian also pulsated with anger.

"Anyway, those corpses are like puppets to me…Oops, I've said too much, please excuse me."

Suddenly Sebastian and Ciel spoke up,

"The complete flames in our chests…"

The Viscount stopped walked and turned back to us,

"Will not be extinguished by anyone, we are…"

Everyone, including the guys carrying the machine and Ciel and I cried out,

"THE PHOENIX!"

We followed the Viscount who was stupid enough to believe that we were comrades. On the way we noticed one of the people in the back, carrying the machine was Undertaker.

"Undertaker!"

"Ah, Earl, Butler, Little Maid~ I was asked to help carry this machine! And I couldn't stop laughing because you did that Phoenix thing again!"

We reached the main hall where Ryan, Grell, Ronald and everyone found each other.

"I will, with this machine, create a new empire. It will be called, THE AURORA EMPIRE!"

While he was speaking, he danced around the room, doing his version of 'the phoenix'.

"Sebastian, Ciel…Can I please kill him now?"

"No, not yet, we still need him…"

Grell thought the same as he jumped to try and kill the Viscount but he held his wine glass above it, threatening to spill wine on it and get us all doomed.

Ronald stopped Grell who still tried to get down and kill the man, honestly I would have said why not?

Suddenly the zombies came bursting into the room in all directions.

"SHIT! There's way too many! VISCOUNT PLEASE ACTIVATE IT!"

"I am no longer Viscount…I am Caesar…I will activate it if you call me that and get on your knees and beg me~"

"Sebastian, I can't hold it much longer! LET ME AT HIM! I"LL CUT HIS HEAD OFF AND FEED IT TO THE CORPSES!"

I screamed in frustration and pure anger as Grell, Ronald, Sebastian and I battled it out with the corpses.

"OH….OH! This place is like a colosseum of corruption~ And I am watching them from aboce, slowly enjoying a glass of wine like the Emperor Nero!"

Ronald hissed in anger,

"ARGHHH! CAN WE KILL HIM NOW?!"

Grell hissed back,

"You just stopped me before! Hey, you! Make this thing work!"

"Fine… it's time to found my new empire! Come one everybody! Show me the dance of the Phoenix to pledge your loyalty to the Emperor!"

We all stared at each other, in our minds there were only this one sentence repeated over and over again,

"Let's kill him!"

Sebastian, Ciel and I started off who were followed by Grell and Ronald and finished off with the Viscount,

"The complete flame in our chests…."

"Will not be extinguished by anyone…."

"We are…the new incarnation of…"

"THE PHOENIX!"

We all posed in the same style as the Viscount.

HOW MANY TIMES ARE WE GOING TO DO THIS STUPID POSE TODAY?!

Finally he pressed the button.

And not surprisingly, it didn't do shit!

"What?! Why is this happening?!"

Undertaker was now, dying of laughter as he cackled and shook with laughter. Honestly, I was going to laugh as well.

"what a useless farce!"

Grell jumped down and attempted to kill the Viscount.

But he was blocked by Undertaker who had some weird but very strong wooden plank with Japanese characters written on them.

"hehe, it's been such a long time since I had a good laugh like that…TO lose such an amazing man would be like losing the whole world to me…Don't you agree, Shinigami?"

Undertaker flipped out his coat to reveal multiple other wooden plank things. He threw them at Grell who was sent flying into the air and smashed through the glass roof.

"Ahh…how sad…how sad it would be, should laughter disappear,"

Undertaker lifted up his long fringe to reveal, the same beautiful gem like green eyes that Grell, Ronald and Will had.

"Undertaker….You're a Shinigami?!"

"That's right little Maid~"

End of chapter 8

OMG UNDERTAKER IS SOOOOOO HOTTTTTTTT! HE IS PROBS MY FAVOURITE CHARACTER IN BLACK BUTLER! BUT SO IS SEBASTIAN! I SWEAR BLACK BUTLER HAS SUCH HOT GUYS!

ANYWAY….I hope you guys enjoyed that chapter! It was really fun and exciting to write it! please review and give me your thoughts on how my writing is. Please give me advice because it would really help me!

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