Author's note: Sorry for the wait, but I needed to take a short break from writing for a bit... but I'll still continue to post regularly! ^_^
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That Butler, Foreign
≤speech in Indian language≥
'thoughts'
"speech"
"Demonic speech"
{setting/stage directions?}
SOUND EFFECTS
An entire sentence like this, without quotes, is narration for dreams or stuff like written letters.
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Previously:
"Well, my Lord. Your stay should be a lively one. Hahaha~!" Lau said, smiling, as he shrugged in a 'what can you do' kind of way while his servants cavorted with the enemy.
"...!" Ciel said darkly, freezing at the horrible thought. No—
"GET OOOOOUT!!" Ciel shouted angrily, multiple vein marks throbbing on his head. The young earls cry of frustration and desperation echoed throughout the chilly, London night air.
"Lord Ciel. It is time for you to wake up." Ciel heard someone say.
"Nn...? Lord... Ciel...?" Ciel said groggily as he stirred in his bed and rubbed the sleep from his eyes.
"Good morning~!" Agni told Ciel cheerfully, smiling brightly, as he loomed over the young earl.
"!?" Ciel shouted in shock and surprise, shaking the whole townhouse.
"≤Namaste jii≥... Lord Ciel." Agni said, smiling brightly at Ciel as he pressed his palms together, as though praying. "Breakfast is ready." He said happily.
"Wh—! What are you doing in my room!?" Ciel demanded incredulously as he quickly covered his right eye, hiding his contract mark.
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"!?" Chêne said, surprised when she heard Ciel's incredulous yelp echo throughout the house. She paused in tying on her bonnet. Chêne sighed as she removed it and her winter coat. It looked like her personal Christmas shopping was going to be delayed... again.
"My, Chêne. You are up awfully early this morning Sebastian remarked as he casually entered her room. She sweat dropped. Sebastian usually woke her up in the morning since she slept through almost anything other than the sound of a human voice or some kind of disaster or fire... Chêne was not a light sleeper.
"I heard one of our guests, Agni, talking out loud to himself as he was wandering around this morning, and it woke me up." Chêne explained, smiling wryly. "So after I helped him, I decided I might as well go do my Christmas shopping since I was supposed to have today off, in order to make up for when I had to cancel my last day off to help you when Bard—"
"Do not even speak of it..." Sebastian said, pinching the bridge of his nose, as he sighed. Just remembering that fiasco gave him a headache.
"Anyway, we should probably check on Ciel. I hope he didn't scream bloody murder just now because someone's trying to kidnap him again..." Chêne said, sighing as she shook her head. She couldn't believe how desensitized she was becoming to situations like this... well it had already happened like 10+ times...
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KNOCK. KNOCK.
Sebastian knocked calmly on the door before entering the room.
"Pardon me... Young—" Sebastian said, freezing when he saw what was going on.
"Breakfast will get cold if you do not hurry." Agni told Ciel cheerfully, smiling brightly as he scooped the young earl up as though he were a small (well, smaller) child. "Come let us go now~!" He said, smiling, as though he was blissfully unaware of the fact that Ciel was clearly against the idea of going with him, and was currently fighting and struggling to get away with all of his might.
"Now just hang on! What the hell!?" Ciel yelled incredulously, blue with shock, as he struggled to break free. "Just let me down!" He yelled angrily, vein mark throbbing on his forehead.
"What's wrong, Sebastian? Why did you sto—" Chêne froze when she peeked around Sebastian, and saw Ciel struggling. The two Phantomhive servants stood there, stunned. Just what was Agni trying to do...?
"Oh? Things are already lively at this hour~!" Lau said curiously as he too popped his head into the open doorway to have a look as Ciel continued to kick up a fuss over being held by Agni.
"Mister Sebastiaaaaaan!!" The three stooges (aka Finni, Mei-Rin, and Bard) yelled frantically as they dashed towards Chêne and Sebastian at full speed.
"You three, you are in the presence of our guests." Sebastian scolded them, furrowing his brow slightly in disapproval.
"Morniiiing~!" Lau said, smiling, not the least bit bothered by their rambunctiousness. Chêne sweat dropped.
'Yeah, that'll really help back up Sebastian's scolding...' She thought sarcastically, smiling wryly. "Good morning to you too." Chêne replied, smiling politely. The three stooges skidded to a halt and panted as they tried to catch their breath.
"What is it? Has something happened again—" Sebastian started to ask them, only to be cut off.
"S-Something's wrong! Really, really wrong! Crazy wrong! Wrong, it is! The food, it's—! The Garden it's—! The laundry it's—!" All three of them yelled together frantically. They looked like their brains were about to implode from shock.
"Wrong...?" Sebastian asked, furrowing his brow slightly in confusion. He had never heard that one from them before... Chêne sweat dropped. So that's what the fuss was all about...
"Don't worry, Sebastian. I know what they're talking about. I'll show you in a minute... but we should probably save Ciel first." She said, smiling wryly as she sweat dropped and pointed her thumb at Agni and Ciel. They were already halfway down the hall from Ciel's room, and Ciel was still only dressed in his nightshirt.
"Put meee doooooown!" Ciel yelled, mortifiedthat he was being treated in such an embarrassing manner, especially in front of the others.
"Come, come~! Let us be off~!" Agni said cheerfully.
"...Perhaps you are right." Sebastian said as they all stared after them.
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{After 'rescuing' Ciel from Agni...}
"This is what all the fuss is about, right?" Chêne asked the three stooges as she showed Sebastian the Laundry, the garden, and that day's breakfast. Mister Tanaka laughed softly and sipped his tea as Chêne showed them around. The laundry was sparkling and clean as it swayed gently in the breeze. A few brightly colored foreign cloths and garments now accompanied the usual British elements of the Laundry basket. The garden was pristine, and not only had all the walkways been shoveled free of snow, but the excess snow had been reshaped into marvelous sculptures of elephants and other exotic creatures, as well as one of the more beautiful Indian goddesses. The breakfast smelled looked and smelled absolutely amazing, and a variety of beautifully arranged exotic dishes covered the entire dining table.
"What in the world...?" Sebastian said, stunned by the brilliance of everything. He glanced at Chêne, wondering if this could possibly be her doing. Chêne shook her head, as if knowing what he was thinking.
"Don't look at me. I only helped a little." Chêne said, smiling wryly as she sweat dropped.
"Ah! I have taken the liberty of handling the morning chores, with the help of Miss Chêne~!" Agni said cheerfully, raising his hand and smiling brightly at them.
"You should not have! I apologize, Chêne should know better." Sebastian said apologetically as he approached the helpful Indian man. Chêne pouted at that.
"Excuse me?" Chêne asked, furrowing her brow slightly.
"You are our guest, so please make yourself at home." Sebastian told Agni politely, ignoring Chêne.
"I could never!" Agni said, holding his hands up. "My prince aside, I... am merely a butler, so... I felt it my duty to help Mister Sebastian." Agni said kindly.
"You weren't there, so you don't know how insistent he was... and you know what they say, 'if you can't beat them, join them'." Chêne said, smiling wryly as she shrugged.
"Mister Agni..." Sebastian said, incredibly moved. The demon butler was so moved by his helpfulness, that he was trembling slightly as he tried to contain his gratitude to the man, and there seemed to be a saintly halo shining around the smiling Indian man. Chêne smiled as she patted him on the back in a 'there, there' manner. She could understand how Sebastian felt. That had been her initial reaction as well. After being the only two 'useful' servants in Ciel's service, they had gotten used to shouldering the burden of the other's mistakes on their own, and having to do everything by themselves. Agni was a saint... in fact, that was Chêne's new nickname for him— Saint Agni. Sebastian quickly recovered himself and glanced back stoically at the other three servants for a moment, before flashing them a radiant, sparkling shit-eating grin.
"Why do you three not kowtow and beg Muster Agni for the dirt under his nails?" Sebastian said as he smiled so brilliantly, that Chêne had to shield her eyes. "Your lives might gain a little value that way." Mei-Rin, Bard, and Finni stared blankly at him for a moment as they processed what he had just said.
"Gimme the dirt under your nails, dirt!!" Bard yelled as he and the others suddenly swarmed Agni. Poor Agni turned blue with shock and surprise as he threw his hands up in the air, and tried to back away.
"Me tooooooo!" Finni cried as he tackled him along with Bard.
"Eeh!?What is going on!?" Poor Agni cried, bewildered. Was this some strange English custom!?
"Me three!" Mei-Rin cried as she wormed her way into the dog-pile.
"Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!" Mister Tanaka said as he calmly sipped his tea despite the chaos just behind him.
"Keh!" Sebastian said darkly, clicking his tongue as he turned to walk away, and prepare Ciel for the day. Chêne sweat dropped. What was his problem? She remembered that Sebastian had once mentioned demons being territorial... maybe that was it? But what was he being territorial about...?
"That wasn't very nice of you, Sebastian. Who put a bee in your bonnet?" Chêne asked him, furrowing her brow slightly in disapproval as she walked with him. Sebastian glanced at her for a moment.
"Heh. Wouldn't you like to know." Sebastian said, smirking slightly to himself as he turned away from the petite maid and continued on his way.
