This chapter was written by YamiNoDarkness and helped in collaboration by Paxloria
Underline = Contract Communication Mental Link
~ Italics ~ = Flashback/Time-Change
' ' = Thoughts
" " = Speaking
~Flashback Three Years Ago~
"Ciel, Alexis, slow down you two. Alexis Sennen Phantomhive that's not decent and act like a gentlemen Ciel Vincent Phantomhive."
The two eight-year olds roared with laughter as they imitated their parents.
"We've been in the garden since afternoon tea finished, come on cousin let's go find Uncle Vincent and Aunt Rachel they should be still in Uncle Vincent's Study" Alexis said, turning towards the manor. Ciel's mother and father (Alexis's and Alex's Aunt and Uncle) came running over to the two of them along with Alexis's fifteen year old brother, Alex, walking quickly down the path talking loud enough the three of them could put a sentence together:
"Dumbledore said – only way to keep them safe Rachel"
"First my sister in all but blood and her husband then Alice and Frank and this Prophecy about my son and it involves you and Lexi, Alex are you sure it's about my son?" Rachel asked, looking at her nephew.
He brushed his bangs out of his eyes and replied, "The Prophecy said and I quote: 'A child with the name meaning sky as the twelfth month's median approaches born to those who rule the underworld and defied those more than thrice will lose all he knows and loves and sell his soul for revenge.'"
He looked sadly at his Aunt Rachel, "So unfortunately Aunt Rachel, it does involve my cousin."
Alex walked over and picking up Ciel and his sister. Speaking quietly to his Uncle and Aunt, he continued, "The Fidelius Charm will keep you safe I'll be your Secret Keeper no one will suspect a fifteen year old to be a secret keeper for the Fidelius Charm it's perfect and I would still be able to bring Alexis over to play with Ciel. I wont be able to pick her up, though, until next week when I start my fifth year at school so Alexis would have to stay here until June when I would be able to collect her for the summer and her eighth birthday."
He set down the children, letting his sister and Ciel go back to playing again.
~Two months later~
"Mother…Father…Uncle…Aunty…Alex!"
Voices echoed down the burning hallway of the Phantomhive Manor as Ciel and Alexis called out, Ciel to his parents and Alexis to her Aunt, Uncle, and brother.
"Fath-," Ciel's voice stopped as Alexis found him standing in the doorway to his Father's study "UNCLE/FATHER!" the two Nine-year olds Screamed before they were both grabbed and had chloroform soaked rags put over their noses and mouths knocking them both unconscious, and neither of them knowing if the other was still alive, or that they would spend the next two years being beaten, starved, and raped.
~Two Years Later~
Numb, bruised, violated, and starved.
A girl with filthy dark brown and empty blue eyes and a boy with dark blue-gray hair and blue eyes was pulled from their cage and dragged to a white stone alter.
They were forced to lie down, all the while thinking internally, 'God does not exist. God does not exist for if there was a god he would have saved me.' A deep hatred and longing filled their hearts, 'If we're to die here then I wish they'd die with us. They should all die for what they've done. Someone should come and make them all pay, it doesn't matter who.'
Darkness was all they saw now-a-days so they didn't struggle or scream when they were branded or when two knives was thrust in their chest, they simply closed their eyes and waited for it to end.
"You have summoned us that fact will never change. Do you wish to form a contract?"
Alexis's eyes snapped open as she saw white feathers and fur floating down around her, while in front of her was, "Alex," she breathed. The 'Alex' look-a-like chuckled and stepped more clearly into view. She saw that he had a dark aura surrounding him.
"Think carefully should you reject the faith even this once the gates of paradise will forever be out of your reach."
This time it was the blue-eyed boy who chuckled darkly. He looked toward another darkness shrouded figure.
"Do you think two who are among the faithful would summon such creatures as you?"
The children heard both voices chuckling now.
"We'll ask but once more, do you wish to form a contract?"
Furious at the two voices for the delay and doubting their resolve, the boy and girl shouted as one, "We do, now tell us whether or not we have a deal?"
The feathers around the boy turned black and swirled around a crow. The falling fur Blackened and a wolf briefly appeared. The girl could have sworn that for a second she saw Uncle Vincent and Alex before the feathers and fur obscured her vision.
She felt her left eye burn with intense pain and screamed as darkness enveloped her again, this time though she struggled to fight the grasp of unconsciousness that seemed to want to pull her away from her 'Uncle' and 'Brother"
The voices spoke again spoke.
"Now my Lord/Lady, You must give me a name"
"From this day forward you shall be Alex Michaelis Sennen," The girl declared.
"You," shouted the boy, "shall be Sebastian Sennen Michaelis. Don't ever leave us. That's an order."
The two kids clung to each other's hands and ordered the demons to kill everyone and burn the place down, before giving in to the sleep that, for the first time since their kidnapping, was undisturbed by nightmares.
~End Flashback Three Years Ago~
A groan echoed off the high ceiling of the Hospital wing as Alexis Sennen slowly opened her eyes and stared up at the ceiling before moving her eyes over to where Ciel was in the bed next to her sleeping.
"Miss Sennen at least one of you is awake. You and Mr. Phantomhive gave your brother and mister's Michaelis, Sutcliff, and Spears quite a scare when you collapsed in the common room early Monday morning. Hmm… your vitals seem ok."
Madam Pomfrey walked over and waving her wand over Alexis making sure everything was ok then helping her to sit up and handing Alexis her glasses.
"What time is it and what's wrong with Ciel?" Alexis asked, looking over at her cousin who was in the bed next to her, his eye patch and rings on the nightstand next to him.
"It's five in the morning," Madam Pomfrey replied, "and we don't know but Professor Snape said the both of you were locked in your mind due to some kind of childhood trauma that gave you both the level of mental scaring equal to that of being put under the Cruciatus curse for long periods of time with no cha-,"
"You're wrong." Alexis interrupted Madam Pomfrey, "Shortly after our eighth birthday both our manor's were burned," 'My brother was killed' She thought, "My brother lived, but Ciel's parents were killed and we were beaten, raped, and starved for two years before being almost sacrificed for the kidnappers to summon demons. and yet we lived we should've been dead but we lived"
'No almost about it. Needless to say, the demons were summoned but they killed the ones who hurt us and now obey mine and Ciel's orders.'
She heard Ciel scream from the bed, "SEBASTIAN!" before falling silent. She could swear Sebastian was by Ciel's bedside in a blink of an eye and Alex was by her bedside in another blink, bowing low as Madam Pomfrey looked on and whispered, "I think I'm going to pass out," before falling to the floor, allowing Sebastian and Alex to grab their wards and bring them back to the Slytherin common room before she woke up.
"Alexis your back!" Harry said shocked to see her up and away from 'Madam Dragon Lady.'
"Oh," he said looking at Ciel who was in Sebastian's arms and still unconscious.
"What happened to Ciel?" Harry asked worried.
Sebastian smiled, "I'm afraid the Young Earl is feeling under the weather Mr. Potter," He said as Alexis frowned.
Sebastian, did something happen to Ciel when I collapsed from the hit that baka Shinigami's Death Scythe gave me during last nights disagreement? Alexis asked through the link of the contract that allowed all demons and prey to communicate with each other.
As you know the two of you are cousins…
"Really? I had no idea! Tell me something I don't know," Alexis snarled out loud sarcastically, causing Harry to look over at the four and wonder if he should get his head of house.
Let us finish, as you know the two of you are cousins, meaning you are family, which is rare for two members of the same family to be ...ahh... summoning demons at the same time without one of them dying. For this reason the two of you have a connection closer then mere blood ties.
Harry could feel the frustration rolling of Alexis in waves.
Her eyes flashed and she snarled, "Do I have to order you to spit what you mean out akuma tell me why Ciel's not awake like me now!" so lowly he almost missed it.
We're getting there, because two demons had to answer the summons and the two summoners were family, the strong connection that the two of you share was able to save you. Just as your being family saved Bocchan. Your magic saved him from dying, because he was the older of the two of you by a month and a day. Age has precedence, even when it is by as small a margin as this. Under certain circumstances, what can affect one of you can also have an impact on the other.
Harry could feel a demonic like energy come from Alexis as she shouted "TELL ME WHY CIEL WON'T WAKE AND STOP SPEAKING LIKE THE UNDERTAKER!"
Ciel started to stir, "No…Please…not her…please…not…her...NOOOOOOOOOO ALEXIS DAMM YOU, DAMM YOU DEMON GET AWAY FROM HER THIS INSTANT!"
Alexis gasped, "Ciel wake up it's just a dream wake up SEBASTIAN DO SOMETHING!"
Sebastian and Alexis rushed over to the couch that held her cousin and leaned down next to him watching as he twisted violently, lashing out and slapping Sebastian hard enough to, in Harry's opinion, leave a bruise.
Turning to Harry, Alex begged, "Please get Will and Grell, as much as I hate to admit this we're going to need their help to hold Ciel down and then stay in the dorm."
Ciel's screams became shrieks of, "ALEXIS, OUTO-SAN, OKKA-SAN!" that echoed off the common room walls.
Nodding Harry ran, taking the stairs to the first landing then banged on the door only to have the door fly open and a growl of "Who's shrieking like a banshee now?" come from the depths of Will's bed.
"Ciel, Alex said to get you and Grell said they'll need your help to hold Ciel down."
Harry heard Will sigh, then sit up, putting his glasses on and then looking at Grell.
"Harry, go back down and tell Alex I'll be down and am letting Grell sleep and then go straight to your dorm and be grateful it's the weekend."
He answered as Harry nodded. He was just turning to leave, only to see Alex looking pale and say "Anata no shi kama U~Iriamu o motte, shieru wa, kare no omoide ga gyakuten suru koto ga kyōsei-teki ni gureru o kuso futatabi zetsumetsu no kiki ni hinshite shieru no mewosamasu shite iru"
(Bring your death scythe William, Ciel's forcing his memories to be reversed and dammit Grell wake up Ciel's in danger of dying again)
Harry heard Will's breath catch as he choked on the next words
"Watashi wa katsute kare o ushinatta kuso, watashi wa futatabi kare o ushinatte inai yo"
(Dammit I lost him once and I'm not losing him again)
He rushed out the room dragging Grell down the stairs by the front of the robes, leaving their scythes behind. William dragged the redheaded reaper by the wrist with one hand.
As they hurried down, Will explained.
"If I used the scythe his soul would have been lost to the scythe," in answer to the question in everyone's mind.
"Dammit Grell, wake up!" Will shouted, dropping the red haired reaper on the ground causing him to wake up muttering, "Glasses…. Glasses…Glasses. Give me my glasses, Will."
William frowned at Grell.
"You're wearing them Sutcliff"
William felt Grell's forehead and cursed, "Your burning up go back up to bed and stay there."
He walked over to Ciel, closed his eyes, held his hands over Ciel's Cinematic Record, and pushed downward until the record was back in Ciel. The boy's eyes opened as he gasped, "Sebastian I want cake!" causing Alexis to laugh in relief, then get serious and ask, "Ciel do you remember what happened?"
Ciel slowly sat up and nodded, "The manors were destroyed and we were kidnapped, beaten, raped, and starved for two years before Gisei ni sa rete iru"
(being sacrificed.)
She nodded and said, "Do you know who this is?" pointing to Alex, who was still in the robes.
"Your brother," Ciel answered.
"Han akuma, anata no otōto no yō ni mieru Arekkusu to iu namae o tsukemashita."
(Half-Demon you've named Alex that looks like your brother.)
"Further more they are Grell Sutcliff and William T. Spears Shinigami haken kyōkai, tokuni akuma Sebasuchan no kiraide, shinigami, heddomanējāgureru ga sugoi ikioi de dakitsuku Sebasuchan to dainisō no sākasu no menbā ni joōheika kara noanohakobune kēsu-chū ni namae-tsuki sūtsu keikō ga aru node"
(Shinigami, and head manager at the Shinigami Dispatch Society and hater of Demons especially Sebastian because Grell tends to glomp Sebastian and second-tier circus member named Suit during the Noah's ark case from her Majesty.)
He answered, pointing to Grell and Will as I nodded and then asked, "Do you know where we are?"
He looked around then said, "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Slytherin Common Room," before I hugged him.
"He's normal, well as normal as Ciel Phantomhive can be."
Feeling all the adrenalin leave her body, Alexis fell back to the floor in a faint, using Alex as a pillow.
Alexis's POV
I woke up to sunlight hitting her face, and the sound of arguing and groaned.
'Grrrr... I wont get any sleep as long as those people keep arguing. If they wont shut up I'll MAKE them stut up. After all, there's a reason I'm called "The Evil Shadow Queen of Mornings" and it time they found that out!'
I put on my glasses (specially enchanted to hide the contract mark on my eye) and snatched my wand off the nightstand summoned my dark energy to create an demonic aura I stalked down the stair growling loudly in my throat as I flung a kuni between the fighting Demon and Shinigami, and said darkly,
"For your information I went to bed at five in the morning so I don't appreciate being woken up an hour and forty five minutes in to my slumber and would kindly like to go back to sleep so if you want to fight, fight quietly please don't make me come down here again or else."
The aura disappeared as quickly as it came. I flicked my wrist at the kuni that had been embedded in wall, calling it back into my palm, and putting it back in my sleeve. I fixed the wall then turned to Alex saying, "Who told you to leave?" and dragged him by his robes back to our room, sleeping for another few hours.
End Alexis's POV
"Hey guys can I ask you something?" Harry asked Sebastian, Ciel, Grell, and Will after the bedroom door slammed shut as the rest of them sat around the fire.
"Sure Harry, what's on your mind?" Ciel answered.
Harry bit his lip and said, "Promise you won't get mad but I told Professor Snape Alexis seemed to be talking to herself." Then flinched, and continued, "I'm sorry, but I'm worried. I didn't mean to it's just that, my Muggle Uncle, when my Hogwarts letter came he snapped to the point he would talk to himself…"
He stopped talking and looked down, missing the glances they exchanged over his head.
"Can you keep a secret?" Ciel asked.
Harry blinked then replied "Of course but, may I ask why?" then flinched a little bit, as Ciel drew in a sharp breath and his visible eye narrowed.
"The Headmaster… wanted you to be his little pawn, golden boy, and savior. Well we can talk more on that latter." Ciel said his accent heavy with disgust toward the headmaster's manipulation of the boy whom Ciel considered a friend.
He calmed down mentally before opening the link between Master and Servant with his demon.
Sebastian you go get Alex and Alexis, we have to tell Harry the truth about what we are.
His eyes opened when he heard Harry's gasp, and saw Sebastian coming back down the stairs with Alex, who held a sleeping Alexis in his arms.
"What's so important I had to drag my sister from her bed?" Alex demanded.
Ciel gestured to Harry and said out loud, "We're going to tell him the whole truth."
Harry leaned back in the armchair and looked at the other six people present.
"Tell me the truth about what?"
Sitting down Ciel started, "As you probably know, I am the son of Vincent and Rachel Phantomhive and cousin to Alexis Rose and Alexander Michaelis Sennen, I'm head of the noble Phantomhive family, the owner of the Funtom Company, and infamously known as the Queen's Watchdog."
He paused and looked over at Sebastian a moment before he continued.
"On my eighth birthday, Alexis and I were running through the manor and came across my dead mother, father, and dog. I called for help, and ran into Tanaka, who tried to get us to flee. Before he could say much, however, he was attacked from behind from an unseen assailant who then grabbed us.
We were sold. The kidnappers commented that we were "rare" and worth more than two people.
Someone bought us, and our new owners branded us, giving us the mark of a "noble beast". We cried, saying that we are hurt and dirty and we want to go home. We were chained in a cage while masked adults look on, remarking about what a splendid evening they will have. I sadly wonder why no one is there to help us. I did not wonder long.
One of the masked adults then places us on a table for human sacrifice and we is stabbed. The other adults there just looked on gleefully clapping, then Alex and Sebastian appeared and told us that what has been sacrificed will never be returned. Sebastian asked me if I want to make a contract with him to have my wishes granted, Alex asked the same of Alexis. We said that we wanted power to take revenge on those who did this to us.
The cultists tried to stop me from talking, but it was too late.
Ciel and Alexis had already agreed to make a contract.
Sebastian asked me where he should place his seal, saying that the more visible it is, the stronger the contract is.
I told him that anywhere was fine and that I wanted a power stronger that anyone else's.
Sebastian called me greedy and decided to put it on my right eye. Alex put his on Alexis's left eye.
I screamed in pain, and commanded him to kill all the adults there, and then burn down the building.
I ordered Sebastian to protect and never betray me, to obey my orders no matter what, and to never lie to me.
After that, the first place we went to was the Royal Hospital where our aunt worked. She arranged for a carriage to bring us back to my manor.
The four of us viewed the ruined manor, and then visited our family's graves. Sebastian left briefly and by the time we had finished paying our respects and turned around, the manor was as good as new.
I later took my father's place as the Earl of Phantomhive and the Watchdog of Queen Victoria."
Undoing the single black cord that held his eye-patch in place he closed both eyes, then opened them showing Harry the Keiyaku (contract) saying, "Tell me Harry do you believe in demons and Death Gods?"
Harry blinked, "Demons, as in beings of Hell and Death Gods as in Shinigami's?" he asked.
Harry then nodded.
"Yes, I believe in Demons and Shinigami, I mean Demons are Fallen Angels and Shinigami are Gods of Death, so if Witches, Wizards, Vampires, and Werewolves exist, why wouldn't Shinigami, and Demons also exist?"
Ciel, Sebastian, William, Grell and Alex, astounded at how well Harry was taking this, and couldn't help but gap at the boy.
Closing his mouth, Will asked Harry, "Would you keep it a secret that, myself, and Grell are Shinigami and Ciel and Sebastian are Demons? Only Professor Snape, Madam Pomfrey and the Headmaster know that we're demons and shinigami."
Harry nodded then asked, "So Alex and Alexis, are you both human?"
Alexis laughed and said, "I am, but Alex is what is known as a half-demon." causing Harry to fall out of the chair in shock.
"What's a half-demon?" Harry asked.
Surprisingly it was Grell that answered.
"A half-demon is just that a half-human, half-demon, they're all but extinct as well, you see demons mated with humans all the time, but, the only time a child could be conceived was when the female was human, even then, the woman normally lost the child, seeing as how demon's need a very strong soul to live off of when in the womb, most humans couldn't provide that."
Everyone looked at Grell in shock, thinking the same thing: 'How did that stupid flamboyant shinigami know that.'
Harry was the first to recover, "How do you know that, did the Undertaker tell you that Grell?"
Everyone looked over at Harry shocked, "Harry, how do you know the Undertaker?" Ciel, Sebastian, Will, Grell, Alex, and Alexis, said as a group.
"Honestly, it was an accidental meeting." He said, thinking back to when he met the Undertaker:
~Flashback Diagon Ally that summer~
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"Bless my soul, whispered the old bartender, "Harry Potter… what an honor."
Tom hurried out from behind the bar, rushed toward Harry and seized his hand, tears in his eyes. "Welcome back, Mr. Potter, welcome back."
Harry didn't know what to say. Everyone was looking at him. The old woman with the pipe was puffing on it without realizing it had gone out. Hagrid was beaming.
Then there was a great scraping of chairs and the next moment, he found myself shaking hands with everyone in the Leaky Cauldron.
"Doris Crockford, Mr. Potter, can't believe I'm meeting you at last."
"So proud, Mr. Potter, I'm just so proud."
"Always wanted to shake your hand — I'm all of a flutter."
The group pressed around him, trapping him, crushing him. Gasping Harry said softly, "Please leave me alone," But they all came closer.
Harry backed into a chest, was spun around, and then pushed behind the person, who then said, "Stay behind me and do not look up until we exit the bar 'k?" Harry nodded then stood against the stranger as he pulled what seemed to be a scythe out of knowhere, putting it between them and the mob.
"Leave 'im alone you're making him nervous, all he wants to do is do his school shopping."
The stranger barely whispered, but Harry knew everyone in the pub heard him. The man put the scythe in his sleeve again (oh so that's where it came from) and reached behind him, taking a gentle hold of Harry.
"C'mon, let's get your shopping done, Hagrid stay here and have a drink. Do you have the key for his vault? I'll go with the boy and get his school supplies with him." The silver haired man offered.
Hagrid replied, "Blimey, Undertaker, almos' didn' recognize ya.' Sure go 'head." Handing Harry's vault key to the Undertaker, who then gave it to Harry. Harry slipped the key into his pocket.
"Thank you for rescuing me from the mob, but you didn't have to," Harry said then realized he didn't know the man who saved me from the mob in the pub's name "I'm sorry, but I just realized I didn't introduce myself, my name is Harry, Harry Potter." He said holding out his hand for Undertaker to shake.
Undertaker frowned and said, "They call me Undertaker, and I don't know what people you were living with, but they clearly did not care for you, judging by the way you to reacted in there," he replied taking Harry's hand and shaking it, "You look so much like your father, James, except you have your mother, Lily's, eyes" He told Harry.
"You knew my parents?" Harry whispered, as his emerald eyes filled with tears at the thought of being with someone who knew his parents.
"Yes child, I knew your parents until the day they died, they named me your Godfather," Undertaker explained softly as Harry curled in slightly on himself.
"Why?" Asked Harry of Undertaker, tears falling seemingly unchecked down his face, "Why didn't you come for me, didn't you want me?" He whispered, dropping his head as Undertaker approached the silently sobbing boy.
"Oh child, what makes you think I wouldn't want you?" Undertaker said as Harry tensed and looked, as if expecting to be slapped if he looked up.
"I'm a freak, Uncle Vernon said so. Says I'm too much of a bother and no one wants me."
Because he was looking at the floor, Harry missed seeing the murderous look that crossed Undertakers face. Putting a hand under Harry's chin, Undertaker raised the boy's face to meet his own hidden gaze, "You. Are. Not. A. Freak. Do. You. Understand. Me. Your Uncle was wrong, you are not a bother at all, I want you child. Do you understand me?" He said to Harry, gently wiping away the tears from the boys' eyes, before continuing on their shopping.
~End Flashback~
"Until then, I didn't know anyone that knew my parents or that I had a Godfather or anyone that loved me for, well, just, me." Harry said looking at the ground. After a moment he stood up with his fisted hands in his pockets, rushing up the stairs to the room he shared with the siblings, and threw himself on his bed squeezing his eyes trying to block out the tears caused by the painful memories from when he lived with the Dursley's.
"I'm safe, I'm in my cupboard. Uncle Vernon can't get to me. I'm at Hogwarts, in the Slytherin Dorms, not at Number Four Privet Drive."
Harry whispered trying to block out the memories, "I'm safe, safe, safe," he chanted to himself before letting himself relax and fall asleep on top of his bed.
A/N: I finally finished the chapter after a bout writer's block I finally got it done with as of today one month of summer break left for me before college.
Normally I wouldn't tell you the word count for the chapter but this one is 4,441 words without this A/N and with this A/N it's 4,513
Next chapter will be up before the New Year of 2013 that I can promise you.