A/N: This is the Second to last chapter in the first of seven stories about Ciel, Sebastian, the Sennen Triplets (Ace is her own person just with out a body), Kyouya and Fuomi, Rene, Hika, and Kao.
I Dark Angel of Life or Paxloria do not own Kuroshitsuji or Harry Potter except for our OC's
It was Quirrell and his face wasn't twitching at all.
"I wondered whether I'd be meeting you five here, Yes I know that you five possess extraordinary powers and abilities, but it doesn't matter, I'm going to kill you all tonight, yes including you Sebastian Michaelis, William T. Spears, and Undertaker."
"Clearly you don't know who your dealing with if you think we, are going to be saved by Harry." Ace said more confident then she felt.
A flicker of fury passed over Quirrell at Ace's words and Ace found herself on the ground under the Cruciatus Curse. Ace's screams of agony echoed off the chamber until Quirrell lifted the curse.
"Of course I know who I'm dealing with," said Quirrell coolly. But as I said it doesn't matter, I'm going to kill you all tonight."
Quirrell snapped his fingers. Ropes sprang out of thin air and wrapped themselves tightly around the five.
"You're all too nosy to live, Scurrying around the school, trying to find out who, and what was after the stone, now, wait quietly you five, I need to examine this interesting mirror."
It was only then that the five realized what was standing behind Quirrell. It was the Mirror of Erised.
"This mirror is the key to finding the Stone," Quirrell murmured, tapping his way around the frame. "Trust Dumbledore to come up with something like this…but he's in London…I'll be far away by the time he gets back…"
All Sebastian could think of doing was to keep Quirrell talking and stop him from concentrating on the mirror.
"I saw you and Snape in the forest —," he blurted out.
"Yes," said Quirrell idly, walking around the mirror to look at the back. "He was on to me by that time, trying to find out how far I'd got. He suspected me all along. Tried to frighten me — as though he could, when I had Lord Voldemort on my side…"
Quirrell came back out from behind the mirror and stared hungrily into it.
I see the Stone…I'm presenting it to my master…but where is it?"
Ace struggled against the ropes binding her, but they didn't give. She had to keep Quirrell from giving his whole attention to the mirror.
"But I heard you a few days ago, sobbing — I thought Snape was threatening you…" She said
For the first time, a spasm of fear flitted across Quirrell's face.
"Sometimes," he said, "I find it hard to follow my master's instructions — he is a great wizard and I am weak —,"
"You mean he was there in the classroom with you?" Kyouya gasped
"He is with me wherever I go," said Quirrell quietly. "I met him when I traveled around the world. A foolish young man I was then, full of ridiculous ideas about good and evil. Lord Voldemort showed me how wrong I was. There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it…Since then, I have served him faithfully, although I have let him down many times. He has had to be very hard on me." Quirrell shivered suddenly.
"He does not forgive mistakes easily. When I failed to steal the stone from Gringotts, he was most displeased. He punished me…decided he would have to keep a closer watch on me…"
Quirrell's voice trailed away. Undertaker was remembering his trip to Diagon Alley — how could he have been so stupid? He'd seen Quirrell there, that very day, shaken hands with him in the Leaky Cauldron.
Quirrell cursed under his breath.
"I don't understand…is the Stone inside the mirror? Should I break it?"
William's mind was racing.
'What I want more than anything else in the world at the moment,' he thought 'is to find the Stone before Quirrell does. So if I look in the mirror, I should see myself finding it — which means I'll see where it's hidden! But how can I look without Quirrell realizing what I'm up to?'
William tried to edge to the left, to get in front of the glass without Quirrell noticing, but the ropes around his ankles were too tight: he tripped and fell over. Quirrell ignored him.
He was still talking to himself.
"What does this mirror do? How does it work? Help me, Master!"
And to the five's horror, a voice answered, and the voice seemed to come from Quirrell himself.
"Use the brown haired Shinigami…Use the brown haired Shinigami…"
Quirrell rounded on William.
"Yes – Spears – come here."
He clapped his hands once, and the ropes binding William fell off.
William slowly got to his feet.
"Come here," Quirrell repeated. "Look in the mirror and tell me what you see.
William walked toward him.
'I must lie,' he thought desperately. 'I must look and lie about what I see, that's all.'
Quirrell moved close behind him. William breathed in the funny smell that seemed to come from Quirrell's turban.
He closed his eyes, stepped in front of the mirror, and opened them again.
It was like looking at his Cinematic Record but with an extra scene, He saw his reflection, pale and scared-looking at first. But a moment later, the reflection smiled at him. It put its hand into its pocket and pulled out a blood-red stone. It winked and put the Stone back in its pocket — and as it did so, Harry felt something heavy drop into his real pocket.
Somehow — incredibly —he'd gotten the Stone.
"Well?" said Quirrell impatiently. "What do you see?"
William quickly teleported it to Ace; who put it in an inter-dimensional pocket as William spoke.
William screwed up his cunning.
"I'm beating the hell out of Grell Sutcliff, for hanging around filth like the damn demon Sebastian Michaelis," He invented. "I'm secretly jealous of the relationship they have."
Quirrell cursed again.
"Get out of the way," he said.
As William moved aside, he looked towards back towards the others. Dare he try to free the others and all five leave?
But he hadn't walked five paces before a high voice spoke, though Quirrell wasn't moving his lips.
"He lies, …He lies…"
"Spears come back here!" Quirrell shouted. "Tell me the truth! What did you just see?"
The high voice spoke again.
"Let me speak to them…face-to-face…"
"Master, you are not strong enough!"
"I have strength enough…for this…"
Quirrell clapped his hands four more times, and the ropes binding Sebastian, Undertaker, Ace, and Kyouya fell of and all five felt as if Devil's Snare was rooting them to the spot. They couldn't move a muscle. Petrified, they watched as Quirrell reached up and began to unwrap his turban. What was going on? The turban fell away. Quirrell's head looked strangely small without it. Then he turned slowly on the spot.
The five would have screamed, but they couldn't make a sound. Where there should have been a back to Quirrell's head, there was a face, the most terrible face the five had ever seen. It was chalk white with glaring red eyes and slits for nostrils, like a snake.
"The Dark Five…" it whispered.
"See what I have become?" the face said. "Mere shadow and vapour…I have form only when I can share another's body…but there have always been those willing to let me into their hearts and minds and once I have the Elixir of Life, I will be able to create a body of my own…Now…Sennen…why don't you give me that Stone in your pocket?"
So he knew. The feeling suddenly surged back into Ace's legs. she stumbled backward.
"Don't be a fool," snarled the face. "Better save your own life and join me…or you'll meet the end as your host's Aunt, Uncle and Brother."
"LIAR!" Ace shouted suddenly.
Quirrell was walking backward at them, so that Voldemort could still see them. The evil face was now smiling.
"How touching…" it hissed. "I always value bravery…Yes, girl, your Aunt, and Uncle and Brother were brave…I killed your Uncle and Brother first; and they put up a courageous fight…but your Aunt needn't have died…she was trying to protect you…Now give me the Stone, unless you want her to have died in vain."
"NEVER!"
Ace sprang toward the flame door, but Voldemort screamed "SEIZE HER!" and the next second, Ace felt Quirrell's hand close on her wrist. At once, a needle-sharp pain seared across Ace's eye; her contract felt as though it was on fire; she yelled, struggling with all her might, and to her surprise, Quirrell let go of her.
The pain in her eye lessened — she looked around wildly to see where Quirrell had gone, and saw him hunched in pain, looking at his fingers — they were blistering before his eyes.
"Seize her! SEIZE HER!" shrieked Voldemort again, and Quirrell lunged, knocking Ace clean off her feet landing on top of her, both hands around Ace's neck —
Ace's contract was almost blinding her with pain, yet she could see Quirrell howling in agony.
"Master, I cannot hold her — my hands — my hands!"
And Quirrell, though pinning Ace to the ground with his knees, let go of her neck and stared, bewildered, at her own palms — Ace could see they looked burned, raw, red, and shiny.
"Then kill her, fool, and be done!" screeched Voldemort.
Quirrell raised his hand to perform a deadly curse, but Ace, by instinct, reached up and grabbed Quirrell's face —
"AAAARGH!"
Quirrell rolled off her, his face blistering, too, and then Ace knew: Quirrell couldn't touch her bare skin, not without suffering terrible pain — her only chance was to keep hold of Quirrell, keep him in enough pain to stop him from doing a curse.
William, Undertaker, Ace, and Kyouya, jumped to their feet, caught Quirrell by the arm, and hung on as tight as they could.
Quirrell screamed and tried to throw the four off — the pain in Ace's eye was building — she couldn't see — she could only hear Quirrell's terrible shrieks and Voldemort's yells of, "KILL THEM! KILL THEM!" her own shriek of "THIS IS AN ORDER, KILL VOLDEMORT SEBASTIAN!" and other voices, maybe in Ace's own head, crying, "Ace! Ace!"
Ace felt Quirrell's arm wrenched from her grasp, knew all was lost, and fell into blackness, down…down…down…
A/N: I'm officially going to murder cuddles (my plot bunny) it left me hanging.
The final chapter, which will be called waking up, one last thing to do, and goodbyes will be the final chapter of this story.
Also, I'm going to post a poll on my page on whether or not you want Kyouya and Fuomi Oshiro, Rene Tamaki, Hika, and Kao Azaikur to continue being in the series.