Chapter 4

The creature on the screen was a man, but definitely not a human man. His hair was a strange shade of silver, as were his eyes, which gleamed madly on his pale face. He grinned widely, showing startlingly white teeth. He wore a simple dark-blue suit that clung loosely to his somewhat thin body, and it looked as if it was at least two sizes too small.

Ciel, Sebastian, the Doctor, and the young female demon looked up at him with curiosity as he chuckled darkly down at him. Remiel grinned down at the stunned group, his amusement glimmering in his eyes.

"You fell for my trap so easily, Doctor. You're so desperate to help one little girl...yet you've caused so many deaths. So many different people and other species, extinguished by the Doctor's hand. Such filth. Such uncleanliness. Such...impurity! Euugh!" Remiel shuddered.

The Doctor looked up at him with a helpless expression, the first time Ciel and Sebastian had seen anything other than a smile on his face. His eyes held a deep kind of sadness, as if he were suddenly reliving all of the worst things he had ever experienced all at once.

"I help people. I save people!" the Doctor exclaimed desperately.

"All you do is save people to assuage your own loneliness, Doctor. It must be hard to out-live everyone who you've ever cared for, including your entire race. You have such an old soul, Doctor, I believe it is time for it to be extinguished. We have had enough of your meddling. And as for you two, demons." the harsh man turned his attention to Sebastian and the female.

"Demons are the scum of the world, slinking around in the shadows, stealing the souls of pathetic humans such as that child there. You're such noxious beasts, so impure and unclean. We grow tired of you lot as well. I knew that if I used the signal to send the Tardis to the Phantomhive Manor, you and your master would be just too curious to leave the Doctor alone. Now I can purge this world of all of you at once!" Remiel grinned, raising his arms triumphantly.

"How? There's nothing around here you can use to do that. The Sonic Screwdriver didn't detect anything odd in this room besides your projection system, which is more advanced than technology now should be, by the way." the Doctor asked, regaining his composure and glaring up at the man.

"Oh, you think I'm going to do it now? No, no, I want to give you lot a chance to save yourselves, and this planet as well. You aren't my only targets, you see. Just first on the list. Time Lord, gone! Demons, gone! Then the Shinigami, and the human filth as well. But I want to make it kind of like a game. I like games. So I'll let you go, and give you a chance to stop me! Ta-ta for now!" Remiel grinned cheerily and waved before vanishing off the screen.

The group stared up at the screen in silence, letting the obviously deranged man's words sink in. The Doctor walked up to the screen and scanned it with the screwdriver, his eyebrows knit in thought. The others watched him as he paced around slowly, thinking about what had just happened. He stopped and turned on his heel, striding up to the young demon girl.

"Alright, you. Who are you?" he asked, sliding the chair over and sitting in it backwards.

"My name's Ankara. I'm fairly young for a demon." she answered softly.

"Obviously. So, how are you mixed up in all of this?"

"I was just hunting, looking for a meal, and all of a sudden things went black. I woke up here, with that man standing in front of me. He explained all of what he just said to you guys to me, almost exactly word for word. He's absolutely crazy, wants to rid the world of all things he finds impure." Ankara said with a disgusted look.

Ciel turned to look up at Sebastian.

"Do you know what he is, Sebastian?" he asked tensely.

"I'm fairly certain everyone here knows what he is besides you, young master." Sebastian replied with an amused smirk.

"He's an angel. Mind you, a crazed, obsessive angel, but an angel none the less. So, the first thing we need to do is find him." Ankara proclaimed with a smile.

"Hold on, who said you could help? You were part of this, you're still a suspect." the Doctor asked quickly.

"Well, for one, I'm mixed up in all of this now, as he wants me dead as well. Besides, demons and angels get along about as well as demons and Shinigami; not at all. So, I'm helping. Agreed?" Ankara asked with a bit of confidence.

"Agreed. Now, we need to find the real source of that signal, Doctor." Sebastian said before anyone else could protest, his eyes flashing a bit as he cast Ankara a quick, reassuring glance.

"Can't. The Sonic Screwdriver would just keep leading us here. So, we need another way to track our angelic friend. Ha, to think the only angels I used to fear were the weeping ones." the Doctor mused, earning a confused look from the others before Sebastian spoke up.

"Well, we could always try paying a visit to a friend of my lords. It's not his usual line of business, but it is part of his job to keep an eye on the coming and going of goods in the underworld. And this advanced technology surely came from the underworld." the butler said carefully, casting a sweeping gaze over the still buzzing screen.

"Fine, we'll pay Lau a visit." Ciel smirked and looked up at the projection screen.

"I'm glad Remiel likes games, for I like them, too. And I never lose."

Note from the Author-This might not be as good as I wished, for I was a bit distracted by a phone call while I was writing. I know that Remiel's ideals sound familiar (Ashe/Angela, anyone?), but I thought that he/she couldn't be the only angel out there who was a nutcase. I hope you liked it!