Chapter 19 – Starless night sky

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I DO NOT OWN BLACK BUTLER

I saw Bravat whisper something into Sebastian's ear and the expression on his face and Ciel's changed drastically. Ciel who was directly behind Sebastian had flinched.

Bravat let go of Sebastian with a smile and I walked up to the chair that Sebastian was sitting in, standing next to Ciel.

"Caught you off guard didn't I? Ah, but you guys must be thinking that I'm not human either or something right?"

Sebastian put on his calm face,

"May I ask…why do you believe that I am not human?"

The corners of Bravat's lips curled up into a sly grin,

"that's a funny thing to ask. That much, I can just tell by looking at you. You are a darkness that eagerly gobbles up the glimmer of shining stars. Stars that stray from their orbit and become drawn to you will wander into darkness for eternity, yes much like a black hole. It is a shame that you have already started to feast on the glimmer of the dear young lady with the pink hair. Her glimmer is starting to become tainted just because she is near you."

Suddenly the crowd gasped and their faces changed into ones of fear and hatred.

"Gobble up our glimmer?!"

"How Terrifying!"

"Don't let him near our children!"

"LEAVE!"

"LEAVE!"

The crowd began to chant, screaming and screeching at Sebastian to leave. A pair of hands grabbed my shoulder and held me close.

"Poor darling! The evil man has taken some of your glimmer. Stay here with us, we will heal your glimmer."

"Yes, don't go near that evil thing again."

I tried to shake them off and get to Ciel but they held onto me with their iron grips.

I turned to see Sebastian with an extremely uncomfortable expression on his face, and it broke my heart.

"St-"

I was cut off when Bravat lifted his arm and the crowd went silent.

"It appears you have upset our tiny stars. Sorry but I am going to have ask you to leave. Immediately."

Suddenly two men grabbed Sebastian by the shoulders and took him out. Ciel and I tried to stop them but they had already walked off with Sebastian.

"Ciel, what do we do now?"

I whispered to Ciel,

"Follow my lead."

I nodded and some of the ladies came up to me with genuine worry on their faces,

"Did he hurt you?"

"Poor thing."

"If you had come here earlier, I am sure Bravat could have helped you sooner."

I pulled off the biggest white lie ever.

"I didn't know…I thought he was a good person."

The women shook their heads and placed their hands on my shoulders,

"Men like that are never to be around."

"I see…Thank you."

"Don't worry dear, you are safe here."

I nodded and their walked away, whispering and occasionally looking back in my direction. Good riddance.

"Aren't you friends with that guy?"

Ciel turned to Bravat,

"Rather friends, he was a senior in my work place."

Bravat rested his chin on his hand and looked at Ciel with curiosity.

"Hm is that so? Well whatever, you don't seem to be the same type of person he is. Shall I test your fortune?"

"But my senior is-"

"Nihaha, take it easy. We won't harm a pretty little hair on his head."

Ciel gave him a genuine smile and sat down,

"Well in that case, I should give it a go. In all honesty, I was really looking forward to it."

So Bravat pricked Ciel's finger and I watched closely,

"Ah..you're…"

Bravat's eyes widened and he almost leapt with joy,

"Ha it's Sirius! You have divine protection of Sirius!"

Suddenly the whole crowd rushed forward to congratulate Ciel,

"You did it boy! That's a first magnitude star!"

"It's the first time i've seen someone protected by Sirius!"

"I'm so jealous!"

Ciel and I exchanged glances, both of us just as confused as the other.

"What is Sirius?"

Bravat smiled,

"Every person has a star from which they receive divine protection. Sirius, Canopus, Vega and Polaris and among these four the first magnitude star, Sirius is extremely rare. People who are under the protection of Sirius are often geniuses and prodigies and many of them are two-faced. You are hiding a wonderful radiance inside of you. However, that afore mentioned darkness is stalking you light. If you remain idle, you will lose that brilliant light, it would be in your best interest to distance yourself from that man, the sooner the better. Ah that also goes for you young lady. You both best stay away from that man."

Ciel turned to look at me and I gave him a look, I wasn't sure what step we should take now and neither did Ciel.

"If you two can't do it on your own. Shall I lend you a hand?"

Ciel and I communicated through our glance and I nodded,

"I'll think about it, thank you very much!"

"Ah wait a second!"

Ciel and I stopped and faced Bravat who had his hand reaching out to us, in his hands were two small chains with intricate designs.

We both took them, confused as to what it was.

"What is it?"

"It's a charm, with it you should feel the presence of Sirius and for you the presence of Vega."

"Thank you."

"If anything happens, feel free to come visit me anytime."

Ciel and I walked away from the crowd to be greeted by Edward.

"That guy's got some nerve to throw out your butler like that! what's he thinking?!"

Ciel sighed,

"I haven't a clue but this thing here is genuine silver, it is too valuable to be handed out simply for getting your fortune told."

I nodded, this thing was very beautiful but it was indeed pure silver.

"Ciel, everyone here has one. I think each person gets one depending on what star. Mine is different from yours."

"Ah that reminds me, what star was Lizzie?"

Edward stopped to think,

"It was Canopus I think. Lizzie was also told it was rare. He said the others were Vega and Polaris…"

"yeah, mine's Vega."

"Hm… I wonder what it all mea-"

Suddenly the clock rung loudly,

"it's eleven already?!"

But the crowd went crazy for some reason.

"It's time for Carols!"

I frowned, What?! Carols?! This isn't Christmas or anything! What the hell? Today gets weirder and weirder!

"Carols?"

"yeah, at the end of every party, everyone sings together but today seems a bit different."

Some old lady came out of no where and slapped Edward hard on the back, laughing,

"What are you talking about!? Today is the fourth Saturday isn't it!? Look it's starting!"

The lights went out and everyone rushed to the stage. I had a very strange feeling in my heart that something was going to happen. Shame Sebastian wasn't here.

Then robed men came out one after the other. The candle light lit only their mouths downwards, hiding their faces.

Then the middle guy started to sing and everyone else joined in, only Ciel, Edward and I stood watching.

O universal light, sea of stars

O stardust ones whose souls have lost their way

This endless night shall be illuminated

By that pale and shining first-magnitude-star

Let us offer up our own light

To protect that eternal radiance

"That was creepy."

I whispered into Ciel's ear who rolled his eyes at me and continued to watch.

"Thank you for singing along. Everyone, we are all tiny stars merely floating in the enormous expanse of the universe! But even if your light is dim, there is no light like it. And each and every star has enough brilliance to guide any lost and wondering souls!"

"Polaris."

"Vega."

"Canopus."

"Sirius."

"May the radiance of the celestial guardians fall upon you all. Now let us sing! Everyone together now!"

The guys took of their robes to reveal 4 guys, all of which were extremely good looking.

Edward and Ciel's expressions changed into a really shocked look. I had no idea what was going on.

"Ciel, who are they?"

"They were part of a crime at a school that I had to investigate with Sebastian. You were not there as you were ill and at home with the servants."

"Oh you mean that school that you last saw Undertaker?"

"How do you-? Never mind."

Then the 4 started to sing and dance to some upbeat music. It was so incredibly cheesy and lame that I couldn't help but let out a quiet laugh.

"What in the world?"

I heard Ciel say as Edward and Ciel continued to stare with utter confusion. This was a moment that would never be forgotten. The girls were screaming and squealing as the 4 guys say and danced, each getting a solo. (Author note: This part reminded me of Uta no Prince Sama!)

From the intense cheering, I could make out the names of each guy. The smallest and least smiling guy with the hood was Violet, the tallest guy with short cropped blonde hair was Greenhill, the one with glasses was Bluewer and the guy with long whitish blond hair was Redmond.

The performance ended with them joining their fingers together to create a four pointed star.

After that, everyone left and I was still clutching my stomach which was hurting from laughing.

"Well that was out of this world!"

I burst into laughter as Ciel scowled at me.

"Enough Alice, you were laughing the whole time. How was that funny to you?"

"it just is Ciel. I mean they were so into it and the song lyrics were so damn cheesy. I could gag."

Ciel shook his head and turned to Edward who said,

"That was an intense performance."

"I agree."

I wonder where Sebastian is?

"Ah welcome back Young Master."

We immediately recognized that voice and turned to face him only to see two big busted women clinging to his side. I almost fumed and threw knives at them.

Edward went bright red and yelled at him,

"HOW SHAMELESS! YOU ARE ON DUTY!"

However Sebastian ignored him and the women giggled at him,

"My, your face is as red as an apple. How adorable!"

Finally Ciel and Edward managed to shoo them off before I had to do it. We took the carriage home and explained everything to Sebastian who had made tea for Ciel and Edward.

"I see…so that's what happened."

"Yes, it was nothing like opera or ballet performances. It was a completely different genre."

Edward took a sip of his tea,

"On top of that, the audience were singing along and waving their hands like mad people. I've never seen anything like that. On top of that the song was incredibly catchy-"

I huffed,

"Despite it being incredibly cheesy and gag worthy."

Sebastian smirked,

"Could it be this type of song?"

I frowned as he suddenly started to sing and dance just like at the hall.

"Sebastian stop! It's disgusting!"

I said in laughter as he finished with a sly grin in my direction.

"How on earth do you know it? Did you sneak in?"

"No actually-"

Suddenly the door opened and Agni and Soma walked it with a tray of some Indian confectionary looking thing.

"Anyone like a late-night snack?"

"Agni's homemade Sandesh are delicious. Oh by the way, that song that the butler was singing, is it popular in London or something?"

"Huh?"

Soma proudly said,

"When Agni and I were walking around in the market, we heard everyone singing it, even the little kids."

"I see, so they are using Song to pass around a message to help learn things easier and to help with remembering the message quicker."

"Oh like a dogma or something?"

Ciel and Sebastian nodded and I gave them a look,

"Well, it doesn't seem like it's a negative message that's coming from the song, I mean it's all about stars and other cheesy crap uh I mean stuff."

Ciel crossed his arms,

"Also the congregation doesn't receive or collect payment and that the fortune teller, Bravat seems to be handing our pure silver bracelets for free. I can't figure out his motives."

Sebastian pulled out two bracelets which I figured were from the two prostitutes that were clinging to Sebastian like leeches.

"Apparently from the women, there is an even that requires the bracelets to enter. It's an open access Saturday gathering for anybody and a restricted access event for those who have had their fortune read by Bravat."

I took mine out from my pocket in my pants that I had underneath my dress that I had worn to the hall to Ciel, Edward and Sebastian's surprise.

" So I guess, Ciel and I can go to this event since we had our fortunes told by the creep."

"Indeed."

Edward sighed,

"maybe Elizabeth is there too."

Edward left right after that and Sebastian told me to clean up the tea cups and head to bed.

I was on my way to my room after cleaning up in the kitchen when I ran into Sebastian,

"Alice, you were jealous back then weren't you?"

I glared at him and brushed past him,

"No."

"Yes you were. I could feel your jealousy grow inside, how cute."

"Shut up Sebastian. I'm tired and I want to sleep."

He grabbed my wrist and pulled me into his body,

"Come now, I can feel your desire."

His warm breathe tickled my ear as he whispered,

"Will you let me do the honors?"

I could feel myself go red and I pulled away from him,

"Enough, I'm going to bed."

I stomped off like a child and flopped onto my bed. I wasn't in the mood for Sebastian's antics.

The next day Sebastian explained to me that he and I will be investigating something while Ciel was going to the event to investigate. According from Sebastian, only Sirius people were allowed in and in the carriage, I could see Ciel was thinking about his next move,

"Ciel, You know what you are doing right?"

"Of course, I should be the one to ask you that."

"Course I do. Except you have such as serious look on your face, why so Sirius? Haha get it?"

I only got a glare from Ciel which shut me up. He walked into the hall and Sebastian and I stood outside to wait. A stray cat happened to walk by and Sebastian immediately picked it up, only to have it scratch his face and leap out of his arms into mine.

"Hm, that's what you get you crazed cat lover."

"Don't be so mean now Alice-"

He stopped mid sentence,

"What? Did something happen? Tell me you're creeping me out!"

"It seems the Young Master has passed out, or should I say, fallen asleep."

"So what now?"

"Now, we have a look at-"

"Oh! You're Earl Phantomhive's butler and maid!"

Sebastian and I turned to see the detective guy back when we first met Soma and Agni.

"Ah, if it isn't the man from Scotland yard, Inspector…Underline!"

"It's Abberline!"

"I'm just kidding. It's awfully late for oyu to still be on the clock. Has there been an incident of some sort?"

He gave Sebastian a look like he had something to say but wasn't sure if he should say it or not. He whispered into Sebastian's ear and I leaned in to hear what they were talking about,

"You didn't hear this from me but some peculiar corpses have been turning up recently."

"Strange as in how?"

"They all have very visible scars and wounds but they all look like they are in a peaceful sleep, you can barely see any signs of Postmortem lividity ( Author's note: pretty much when all your blood settles to a certain part of your body depending on how you are lying and where gravity has worked it's magic)…We ran tests over the bodies and have identified them to be a prostitute, a post office worker and a shoe maker's assistant. But recently, a nobleman's daughter was added to the body count. And now the Scotland Yard is in a tizzy."

Sebastian gave him a sly and mocking grin,

"So basically, up until now, the bodies have been regarded as random bizarre corpses and now that a high profile socialite has turned up, you are searching with no stone left unturned? How fascinating!"

"yeah, well, you should relay that to your Master and if anything turns up be sure to contact me!"

"Of course!"

The inspector left and I turned to him with a raised eyebrow,

"What to do from here Sebastian?"

"Let's take a look at these corpses shall we?"

"Urgh, do we have to?"

His lips rose into a cheshire's grin and he licked his lips,

"That is unless you are frightened?"

"Purlease Sebastian, I've been through a cruise ship with a bunch of zombies. This couldn't be that bad."

So I followed him as he searched for clues, leaving Ciel in the hall.

"Damn it's cold and creepy in this part of the woods."

"Would you like me to warm you up?"

"No, I rather sleep with the corpses."

He chuckled and we continued to walk through the woods, following Sebastian's keen demon sense of smell. Finally we reached a pile of leaves in the middle of an open part of the woods and in a whole was a bunch of skeletons and two kind of fresh or new corpses.

"Well, I guess it's true then, these corpses are too beautiful."

"You call this beautiful? They look like they've been thrown in a hole. Oh wait, they have."

"You're sense of humour is getting quite strange lately dear Alice."

"I was being sarcastic Sebastian."

"Hm…very interesting….Anyway, we should head back, the young master would be waiting for us."

"Hm? Sure… are you sure you've had a good play with the dead bodies yet? it seems like you want to crawl back into that hole to play with them some more?!"

I put my hands on my hips and gave him a snarl as I began to walk back the way we came.

"You have gotten more feisty lately, I wonder why? Perhaps it's because I have started to taint your 'glimmer'?"

I chuckled,

"Perhaps~"

Sebastian pressed his warm lips onto mine, kissing me hungrily and possessively, licking his lips as he pulled away.

"And I don't plan on stopping."

"Sneaky bastard.."

"I am but one hell of a butler."

I rolled my eyes and together we walked out of the woods to our waiting Master.

End of chapter

I hope you guys liked it! I think that I am quite confused with this arc so far. I dunno what is going on with the P4 and what not. Although I am hoping that Undertaker will show up soon because I miss him! Also does anyone else agree that the P4 are like Uta no Prince Sama?

Please review and tell me what you think! I look forward to seeing you guys next time! Happy readings!