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That Butler, Shadowing 3
≤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.
=†=†=†=†= scene shift/time shift
Previously:
"But West knows what you three look like, right?" Lau pointed out.
"That he does." Ciel said, furrowing his brow slightly as he sweat dropped. That could complicate things a bit...
"What if I knocked him out really fast from behind...?" Chêne suggested thoughtfully, as she tried to think of a way she could possibly pull that off without being seen.
"Please let me handle it." Sebastian said, smirking slightly. "I have a good idea." Chêne raised an eyebrow at the demon butler.
This ought to be good...
"Agni, what is wrong with you!? Explain yourself!" Soma yelled anxiously. Why wasn't Agni listening to his orders anymore!?
"I..." Agni said, his face cast partially in shadow as he sweated nervously. "I have nothing to tell you." Agni said, furrowing his brow and grimacing, as though he were in pain. "Please leave now."
"Wh—" Soma said, shocked. He stared at Agni, eyes wide, in disbelief. "What are you say—" West smirked evilly, his teeth holding his cigar in his mouth.
"Good boy." West said patronizingly.
"You bastard!! What have you done to him!?" Soma demanded furiously as he grabbed West by the front of his suit jacket, much to West's displeasure.
"Please stop!" Agni begged Soma as he pulled his prince off of West, restraining him as best as he could without hurting him.
"Let me go, Agni! Why are you doing as he says!?" Soma cried, feeling confused and betrayed.
"Well, I never!" West huffed indignantly as he brushed himself off, and tried to straighten out his suit. "My Gieves & Hawkes suit is all wrinkled!" West said, grimacing in distaste as a vein mark throbbed on his forehead.
"Agni! Get your hands off me!" Soma cried as he struggled to break free so he could get at West. Agni squeezed his eyes shut sadly and grit his teeth as he held on tightly to his prince. If he let Soma go now... then it would all be for nothing...
"Y'know for those chaps who are a bit hard of hearing, a good beating always does the trick!" West said thoughtfully, smirking. "Agni. Give his highness the prince a good whack to shut him up." West ordered.
"!?" Soma said, alarmed, as he and Agni both flinched in shock. He wanted Agni to hurt him!?
"Ha-ha! What's wrong?" West asked in mock concern as bullets of sweat dripped down Agni's face. The Indian man was clearly horrified at the thought of harming the prince he served. "I'm not ordering you to kill him." West said as Agni's right hand trembled. "I'm only telling you to rough him up a bit to get him to bite his tongue. Aren't I a nice fellow?" West asked, smirking slightly, knowing that what he was asking Agni to do wasn't 'nice' at all.
"Agni..." Soma said nervously, paling slightly when he saw the look on his khansama's face. Agni's brow was furrowed in frustration, his eyes were wide, and his face was cast in shadow as he sweated heavily. He no longer resembled the kind and confident man they had all come to know. He looked like a man tormented by demons.
"Agni!" West said firmly, letting the poor Indian man know he wasn't going to wait forever, smirking deviously. Agni squeezed his eyes shut tightly, unable to bare to look at Soma's pained and frightened expression as he raised his hand against his prince and god. Soma flinched in shock and horror as Agni's hand flew towards him, too stunned by Agni's betrayal to move.
SLAP!
The loud sound echoed through the room as Agni's arm slammed into not Soma, but someone else's arm, as they blocked the attack intended for the prince, standing in between Agni and Soma.
"!?" Agni and Soma said when they realized what had happened, their eyes widening in shock. Soma's mysterious rescuer... was wearing a butler's uniform and what appeared to be... a deer's head...
'A deer?' Soma and Agni thought, positively stunned, giving the deer-man a blank stare. They were so shocked, that they had both turned into white chibis...
"Wh-Wh-Who the hell iiiiis thiiiiiis!?" West demanded incredulously, turning blue with shock, and breaking out into a nervous sweat. It was like he had just witnessed a UFO crashing in Roswell, and they were making first contact with an alien. Deer-man whipped his head around to stare at West. "Eep!" West yelped, squealing like a little girl.
"I, naught but a humble dear, have come for this prince." Deer-man said politely as he placed a hand over his chest and gave West a deep bow, displaying the proper etiquette for greeting the master of the house. West flinched in surprised, totally wigged out.
"Putting on that mounted deer head and going in was a stroke of brilliance, Master Butler~!" Lau praised as he stared at the empty spot on the wall in the hallway where the deer head had been previously mounted, before Sebastian had found a better use for it.
"Are we talking about the same 'idea' here?" Ciel asked, chagrined. This was officially getting ridiculous now. "He did hide his face but..." Ciel sweat dropped as he glanced at Chêne, who was sitting on the floor, shaking as she tried to hold in her laughter. Chêne knew she shouldn't laugh. This was a serious situation, after all, but... Sebastian was wearing a deer head, for crying out loud—!! West was yelling something about Sebastian's clever, clever disguise, demanding to know who he was and where he came from as he ran over to Agni, probably thinking that was the safest place to be with a deer-man in the room.
"Fo-Forget the prince, this might be one of the enemy's spies! Agni!" West commanded shrilly. He was getting hysterical now. Did he have some kind of deer related phobia? Agni flinched, startled. He was glad that he no longer had to harm his prince, but he recognized that uniform...
"Nothing of the sort. I am simply one hell of a deer—" Sebastian, aka 'Deer-man,' started to say calmly.
"—Pfft!!" Chêne burst out, unable to contain herself any longer, once she heard that line. Chêne was laughing so hard, that no sound came out, because she couldn't breathe, and she was rolling around on the hallway floor, silently laughing uncontrollably. Sebastian was going to kill her with laughter if he kept this up! Ciel sweat dropped as he watched her. Well, at least she was being quiet... though she was starting to turn red in the face...
"Kill him!!" West yelled, thankfully too distracted by Sebastian's disguise to notice Chêne's laugh from out in the hall.
"Kill—!" Agni yelled, horrified. It was one thing to rough someone up, but murder!? "I cannot do such—" He protested.
"Shut up!" West yelled harshly. "Do you want me to renege on that promise!? I'm ordering you!" West shouted, vein mark throbbing on his forehead. "Do it!!" Agni flinched and furrowed his brow, bowing his head, causing his facial expression to be hidden from them.
"I... I...!" Agni said painfully, clenching his fists as he trembled slightly.
DRIP. PLIP.
Chêne's eyes widened in shock and horror. She was no longer laughing when a certain metallic scent hit her nose. She peeked into the room nervously, hoping she was mistaken. She wasn't. A red, metallic-scented substance was flowing from Agni's eyes like tears, dripping from his face, and onto the floor... Agni was crying blood. Agni collapsed to the floor as bloody tears streamed down his face.
"My God... my Master... is but one and no other... and for he alone would I use my right hand... So I had vowed." Agni said shakily. He gritted his teeth. "Now I shall commit a sin by betraying that god..."
"Agni... No...!" Soma cried in alarm.
"Please forgive me!" Agni cried as he ripped the bandages from his right hand. "OHHHH!!" Agni roared, letting loose a mighty and pained war cry as he charged at Sebastian. Soma turned blue with shock and fear as Sebastian just stood there calmly and readjusted his gloves as Agni rushed towards him.
WHAM!
Agni's fist smashed into a beautifully carved wooden chest when Sebastian swiftly dodged his attack and grabbed Soma, taking the prince with him, as ordered by Ciel. The chest, as well as part of the wall behind it, crumbled to pieces, leaving a huge hole in the wall. The power behind Agni's attacks was on a completely different level now.
"Gyaaaaah! Not the chest I bought at General Tradiiiiinnng!" West screamed, paling slightly as he held his face in his hands, doing a marvelous impression of the painting of 'The Scream.' Inside the deer head, Sebastian smirked evilly. That gave him an excellent idea for how to get even with West for the inappropriate behavior that he had exhibited against his Chêne... wait, 'his Chêne'...? Sebastian shook his head. Now was not the time for that. He came to a stop in front of a rather expensive looking lamp, and waited for Agni to attack again.
WHAM! CRASH!
Just as before, Sebastian dodged the attack at the last minute, causing Agni to destroy the lamp in his stead. The lovely lamp had been obliterated and shattered to pieces by Agni's powerful attack.
"Stoppp! That's a one of a kind Galle lamp from Thomas Goode!" West shrieked, but Agni didn't stop. He kept pursuing Sebastian, who kept finding valuable things to direct Agni's destructive force at.
CRASH!
"My Royal Worcester tablewaaare! My Lock & Co. Haaat!" West cried in agony as his material goods continued to be destroyed, one after another.
SLAM! WHAM!
"Whoa!" Chêne said, surprised when a few small pieces of the ceiling's plaster decorations started to break loose from the force of the vibrations shaking the house from Sebastian and Agni's fight, and fall around them.
"Uwah!" Ciel cried in surprise when he was suddenly lifted up into someone's arms.
"This is all starting to look a might dangerous. We should take our leave now, Earl, Miss Maid." Lau said calmly as he held Ciel like you would a toddler, much to the young earl's chagrin.
"I agree. As fun as this is, it won't be a laughing matter if the house collapses on us from all their rough housing." Chêne said, sweat dropping.
"Let's go!" Chêne yelled at Sebastian from the hallway, so that West wouldn't see her face. Sebastian didn't seem to be ready to leave yet, as he made no move to follow them, but Lau was done waiting, and he took off, pulling Chêne with him, as he carried Ciel to safety. He couldn't let such entertaining people die on him, now could he?
"...!" Chêne said, surprised when Lau started dragging her away.
"Hey!" Ciel said indignantly. "People will start taking note of this commotion! Once you've grabbed the prince, you'd better run for it too!" Ciel ordered Sebastian.
"As you wish." Sebastian said calmly as he carried Soma over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes, not seeming to be at all concerned that Agni was charging at him again. Reassured that Sebastian was getting the heck out of dodge, Chêne immediately stopped resisting Lau's efforts to pull her to safety, and they mad their getaway. She trusted that Sebastian could handle himself.
WHAM!
Sebastian kicked open the window and jumped out, still holding Soma, just as Agni's fist slammed into the windowsill, where he had been standing just a moment ago. An explosion of rubble from the house's stone wall rained down as Sebastian landed gracefully on the ground, despite having just jumped from the second floor. The deer-headed butler glanced back at Agni over his shoulder for a brief moment before escaping off into the night.
"..." Agni said as he stared after the English butler and his prince, panting from exhaustion, as tears of blood stained his cheeks. It was all over now... he had crossed a line, and he knew his prince would never forgive him...
"Not my poor house toooo!" West wailed miserably, totally oblivious to the pained expression on Agni's face.
