Dropped Into the World of Black Butler
By TheWickedNeverRest
Chapter 1
"Impossible is found in the dictionary of fools." - Napoleon Bonaparte
I jogged up the shabby apartment's stairs with groceries in a rush to get out of the pouring rain.
"Marie! Marie! Open the door!" I pounded on the cheap wood, attempting to yell over the rain and thunder. The sky was dark with it even with it being 6pm.
"Password please." A sing-song voice came from the other side.
"Phantomhive. Jesus! Just open the door!" There was a sound of jiggling and bolts and the door swung open. I rushed and and slammed the door shut behind myself. Marie's brown eyes glittered with mischief as they looked down on me from her 5'10" form. I glared at my elder sister's retreating back.
"Your obsession with that show is ridiculous I swear. I'm surprised with all the time we spending running away from them that you have time to watch that crap." I muttered as I shook off as much water as possible before moving to the small shabby kitchen. Nine times out of ten we would get into a fist fight over the show but I knew I was safe when the show was on because nothing broke her focus when her love, Ciel Phantomhive appeared. Nothing. I watched her messy brown hair in a high ponytail settle back to her spot on the floor where I'm sure had sunken in a little since we got here.
"This place is actually real you know! Nothing is impossible you know." She shook her fist at me yet did not move her eyes from the box TV she had hooked her computer up to. I shook my head and began unpacking the food. I heard a small yawn and turned. A small child with straight black hair and crystal blue eyes stood there with a pink baby blanket.
"Hey Kaoru." I said softly and kneeled to her height and to sweep the hair out her face.
"I take shower by myself 'cuz Ree not do it for me." I sweatdropped and hugged her. Simultaneously I grabbed the salt container off the counter and threw it at the back of Marie's head. She merely grunted in warning but otherwise did not move.
"It's okay. Next time wait for me okay? I got your favorite snacks ." I grabbed the cinnamon graham crackers box and handed them to her. She immediately brightened.
"Go watch Black Butler with Marie while I make dinner." I pushed her butt towards the room where it served as a bedroom/ living room.
"Yay! Sebbachan-chan." I groaned as it was probably one of her first words she had ever spoken out loud. I heard Marie snicker at my discomfort. She scooped her up in her lap and laughed.
"Yes. Let's watch Sebastian-chan." After about 45 minutes I set the table of course all the tableware was paper and plastic. I sighed. That's what happens when you're on the run. As I set the table I heard Kaoru say, "Do we leave now? We always leave when it rains." I turned to see Marie smile.
"Let's play hide and seek, yes?" I thanked the heavens she had thought Kaoru's favorite game up. Given there weren't a lot of places to hide in the flat but Kaoru did not care.
"Okay. You hide and I'll count. 1, 2, 3…" The child scuttled off in glee and I turned back to the stove.
"Dahlia. She's right you know. " I sighed.
"Yeah. I know. I'll start preparing tonight. You should get some sleep." I spoke. There was some silence. Kaoru was giggling uncontrollably from under the bed.
"I hate this. We're always running from them. I want to have a life. I want Kaoru to have a life. I wish to god we weren't both mages." Marie whispered.
"I know." My body deflated and I suddenly felt extra tired.
"Here, I got this. You go shower." Marie took the the fork out of my hand and shoved me towards the bathroom. I nodded my thanks and went to the shower. I stripped and got in. As I showered I thought about our predicament.
We didn't know it at the time but we were being hunted by MCs, mage catchers. They've been chasing us since our parents died in a car incident. We were all given to our estranged uncle, Allen, who lived mentally on another plane and physically in a mansion. He would mumble nonsense about magic and demons. We would laugh and point at him to which he would get upset and shout, "You'll die if you don't train. Train… Train… The train passes by…" Then he'd slip back into his chair in front of the fire and become quiet. Then his nephew, Nicky, came out of nowhere one day in a carriage which was princely to Marie and me. Kaoru was still a newborn at the time. He had pretty green hair and eyes that made us feel safe. The fact he had green hair did not strike me as odd at the time since I was a child. He made us do weird excersises to be able to push our chi, move objects with the power of sheer will, and yoga or at least I think it was yoga. Either way I did not know if they worked or what their purpose was. I didn't care at the time especially when I was promised cake. I wished I had listened. The first time I witnessed the world of the supernatural was when Marie had gotten upset. Uncle Allen had broken her toys and made them into weapons and began to shout about training. She started to cry then she began to catch fire. Her entire body was on fire and it got worst as the maids tried to console her. Then Nicky came in and touched her even though she was on fire. He didn't catch fire but held her until she calmed herself down. She was 8 and I was 5 but after that we took the Uncle Allen's words seriously as well as Nicky lessons. At times i would get frustrated and want to give up but then Marie would remind me with haunting words, "You don't want to catch fire do you?"
Those words soon became the least of our worries as one night we woke up to gunshots. Marie shot out of bed to go get Kaoru and told me to go get Uncle Allen. That was the first time i saw death. Uncle Allen had shot himself in the head and I…
Kaoru screamed. I jumped out of the shower hurriedly wrapping myself in a towel before grabbing the gun from behind the toilet. I stalked out to the living room only to find Marie tickling Kaoru. Marie glanced my way then stared at the gun.
"Oops." Marie mouthed. I sagged with relief and slunk into the bathroom. I got dressed in my "running" attire. A comfortable black long sleeve shirt and black combat pants with my combat boots with the steel toe. I glanced in the cracked mirror above the sink to see my black eyes and my curly long hair. I braided it into a waist long braid and got the bag from underneath the sink. I grabbed it and went out into the rickety kitchen table. I pulled some small knives out and put them in my boots, my shirt, and pants pockets. As I did this I glanced and saw the light from the kitchen shine on the bed where Marie lay curled up around Kaoru. I smiled. I would protect them both until the very end. I began the routine of packing the ancient books we salvaged from Uncle Allen's house, what little clothes we had, and weapons.
"You need anything? I already dressed Kaoru and packed food." I glanced at my watch. 11:43.
"No we should be fine. Start taking her to the car." She nodded and began to gather Kaoru and two of our bags. I grabbed the rest of the bags and left one month's rent and the keys on the counter. I immediately began to tense and scrutinized everything around us. The rain had gotten heavier. I raced to the car and put the bags in the back seat with Marie and Kaoru and closed the door. I got in the driver's seat and put on my seatbelt. I always made sure after our parents… I checked on Maire who raised her seatbelt to show me and nodded. The air in the car was tense and remained that way until we reached the road. I sighed as the rain started to let up a little the farther we got away from the apartment. In the rearview mirror the storm looking dark and merciless. I sighed and smiled at Marie in the rearview mirror. Her face looked shocked or horrified. On instinct I pressed the gas pedal hard. In front the car was Nicky. I don't know how long we sat and stared at the green-haired man while he stared back.
"What's going on?" Kaoru whined, disturbed from her sleep. There was no way…
"But he's dead…" I whispered. Then everything was black for a couple of minutes or hours.
I groaned as my body began to notify me that my neck my back and my legs didn't want to play this game anymore. I blinked and realized the car was upside down. I turned to look in the backseat but Marie and Kaoru. I unbuckled myself and grunted as I fell and realized that was the only thing keeping me upright. I crawled out with my elbows getting glass in my arms and cuts. I sat up against the car and looked down to my left leg. A piece of metal was lodged in it. My vision started to blur and move and i struggled to get up. I limped to pick up our bags. I looked over the car to see Nicky running toward me. I needed to make sure he was real. That it was him. I clumsily opened the bag and got out a gun. I used the car to keep my arms straight and began to shoot. Nicky began to duck and run around like a chicken without its head.
"Wait! Dolly! Wait!" Dolly? My nickname. It was him. Not an imposter. I slunk down to the ground. I was aware that I was losing blood and I needed to move because the MCs definitely knew we were here. I just needed to rest for a minute. I closed my eyes. I awoke to rough shaking and groaned.
"Five more minutes."
"C'mon. It's not time to be a typical girl in this moment. Dolly?!" At the sound of my nickname, I shot awake. I looked around and saw I was exactly in the same spot. Nicky's green eyes boring into me and it took me a moment to register what he was trying to come out his mouth. I found it was becoming hard to ask him what he was even trying to say.
"We need to get the the light hole!" He started pulling me up. My voice finally caught up to me.
"Marie and Kaoru?"
"They're running. Look!" He was half dragging me half carrying me. I looked up to see Marie carrying Kaoru in front of her running like it was for her life to a bright light about 300 meters away.
"What's going on?" My words were slurred but I didn't care. I felt a pair of swords on my back and the bags I had picked up earlier.
"The MCs are closing in. I could only hold them off for so long. C'mon!" Then I felt the familiar presences of the MCs.
"It's too late. Their in a crescent shape closing in on us." I rasped out. I collapsed to the ground as it was suddenly hard to breathe.
"Hey! Hey! Hey! All you have to do is get to the light, Dolly." I looked ahead to see 2 figures on Marie's tail just before she passed into the light and they were blown back. I clambered up began a slow jog to the light. I was nearing it. 200 meters left. 150 meters left. 100.
"Oy, girly!" A yet again familiar voice shouted. I turned to see Nicky was being beaten to death.
"Sabrina." I sneered. A redheaded supermodel looking woman stood in full battle gear. She had 12 other guys around her completing the semi-circle I had predicted.
"All you have to do is give yourself up and I'll stop the beating."
"Everyone knows you're a liar, Sabrina." She smirked and shrugged.
"True." She began to sprint towards me. I whipped a gun out and instead of shooting her I shot the three MCs beating Nicky. Only two went down and Nicky fought the last one off and disappeared into the trees. I focused on Sabrina who was closer than expected and tackled me. We slid a couple of feet with the amount of force she had. She landed on top of me and drew out a dagger. I used my forearm to stop her aim at my heart. She then pushed down on the piece of metal still stuck in my leg. I screamed and thrashed under her. I grunted as I pulled out my pocket knife and stabbed it into her leg and twisted it. She yelped and I knocked my head against hers to loosen her grip even more. I threw her off me and sprinted the rest of the 150 meters with the rest of the blood pumping through my body. Then I felt a knife in my back. I collapsed and groaned as I tried to get it out. Sabrina had taken the knife out her leg and moved toward me.
"Charge!" She shouted. Before I could start running again, two arrows lodged themselves in my arm and thigh. My vision began to blur and continued my jog/limp to the light. Just to the light. The light that looked like darkness. An MC tried to tackle me from the side but i threw a knife into his throat. I jumped through the light. What I wasn't expecting was to jump into to sky. I also wasn't expecting the sound of thunder to suddenly hit my ears and cause me to go deaf. I was falling through sky and as I came closer to the ground I managed to grab a tree branch but my hands slick with blood slipped. I hit my back and with a series of other hits I landed on the ground. I groaned and thought 'It couldn't be grass or even dirt. It had to be snow. Cold. Wet. Unforgiving.' It was daytime still here. Then everything went dark.
Something wet was pressed against my face. I scrunched up my face and as the pain came back in waves I decided it was the only thing I wanted to move. Then the wet thing whined. I cracked open my eyes and tried not to shout. Two violet eyes sparkled at me and then as my eyes focused on the huge white dog I tried to edge away. It began to prance and bark in place then abruptly sat like it was awaiting an order. 'Well at least I could hear.' I began to get in a sitting position and gasped.
"Well shoot Dahlia down. Stab in the chest. Who gives a fuck about her…" I grumbled as I managed to stand on my one uninjured leg. The huge white dog simply sat and blinked with its tongue out its mouth looking dumb. I rolled my eyes and about 2 miles away I could see something like civilization. I took a step and crumbled. I blocked out the pain jus like a switch and blew the snow from my mouth. The dog then settled with it's head on it paws staring at me. 'Maybe a nice nap might do.' I promptly fell asleep.
I blinked my eyes up to find something was moving under me. I pushed myself and realized the dog was carrying me. It barked softly but it rattled me to my core. Soon enough I found myself in front of a grand mansion. I slid off the dog and gritted my teeth as I suffered through climbing up a couple of stairs. Inside I could hear a conversation.
"No, I waited yesterday! I'm going to look for her." I frowned. That was Marie.
"Please, Miss Marie. I recommend that you don't go out into the snow without the proper attire." A smooth calm voice stated. I opened the door and stepped in. The dog tried to follow me and seemed determined to get in.
"Stay." Then I slammed the door. It was received with whining. My heart nearly broke. I love dogs.
I turned to see a handful of people staring at me in shock. A kid about the age of 13 dressed up like he lived in England during the Revolution. A blonde boy dressed in farmer's attire with a cute innocent baby face. A red head that wore wire glasses and a maid outfit. A grown man dressed as a chef chewing on a piece of wheat. I took a little longer to analyze the butler. He looked familiar. He had black hair and he was tall and lanky. He had a sadistic smile on his face and reddish brown eyes. I narrowed my eyes at him. I didn't trust him.
"Sebbachan-chan!" Shock went through me like a needle. There was no way… Please… Mercy… My eyes locked on Marie and she simply stared at me but didn't say anything. There is something about a sibling staring at you without a reason that is the most annoying in life. I stared back in challenge. The blood I lost and then laying in snow for nearly two days was making my eyesight unfocused. I swayed but caught myself. Then she smirked.
"What the hell are you staring at?" I sneered then I pounced on her. She flicked me in the forehead and that was all it took for me to fall to my ass. She laughed and pranced away.
"You know I'm weak in this state. I'll kill you!" I rolled on my side as the knife in my back nearly severed my spine. I groaned.
"'Lia?" I frowned and reached out to Kaoru. I pat her head.
"You 'kay?" I nodded.
"I'm just tired. Just some sleep." I closed my eyes. There was silence.
"Are you safe?" I whispered.
"Zel and Sebbachan-chan will keep sisters safe." I sighed in relief.
"And Kaoru?"
"Mm?"
"Don't rely on Sebastian. He's trash." I fell into sweet darkness once more.