"Sebastian, after her!" a voice called as I hurried across the roof tops of buildings of the near by town my sister and I lived near carrying a bag full of tools and gems I had taken . A cool breeze blew through the calm night as the full moon lit my way. Jumping from a roof top I landed on the ground and continued down the street before I am stopped by a rather tall, slender raven black haired man with unnatural red eyes and wore the attire of that of a butler.
"I must say, you run fast for a child. Now I hardly want to hurt you so- why don't you be a dear and hand over the jewels you've taken and well go our separate ways?" his voice was natural when he spoke, but it also had that icy bad boy sound to it as well. I stood there in silence staring the man down before I spoke.
"Sorry, I cant do that-" I stated plainly as I took out a few throwing knives and tossed them at the man. Almost in the blink of an eye, the man reflected my attack with what looked like mere silver wear from a dinning room set. "Nice, who'd thought that silver wear could be used to fight with?" I complimented the man flipping out of the way of a few butter knives he had tossed at me.
"My dear- anything can be used as a weapon,"
"well, maybe next time we meet you can teach me a few things, hehe- till next time sire" I said as if I were giving a performance and bowed before throwing down a smoke bomb which flooded the area giving me the chance to slip into the towns sewers unnoticed and escaping the chance of being caught .
"Lady Raven," a familiar male voice called as I laid in the garden of our mansion in a dreamless sleep. A book laid on my face shielding it from the glare of the sun the shined over head since I hadn't sleep all night. "Lady Raven-" The voice called again, this time it sounded a bit more agitated. Without opening my eyes or even budging an inch from where I laid I answered.
"What is it Demetri?"
"Lady Raven, Your sister has requested you join her on the Company trip to the Phantomhive manor this morning," I laid there in silence again before picking up the book I was reading off my face and sat up looking at my sister's personal butler who hadn't aged a bit since we were kids.
"That's today?" I asked with a yawn as I reached up and scratched my head.
"Yes- and seeing as you're in charge of Company Finances, she has asked for you to join her."
I groaned before standing and brushing off my dress, "alright, I guess I can go-it's not like I have anything important planned today. Anyways. Now- do you know where melody is?"
"Yes, your sister is out in the carriage waiting for us. So please lets get going. The Earl of the Phantomhive manor expects us to be at his mansion by noon and I hardly want to show up any later than the time your sister had originally set."
"Talk about being a stickler for time Demetri, you should really try to ease up a bit, or it could be the death of you Mr. White Rabbit," I said with a laugh as I made my way back up to the mansion with Demetri and outside to the carriage where my sister waited. "Well Id rather be the White Rabbit then some Snarky attituded cat," Demetri retaliated opening the carriage door allowing me to get in. "snarky? Please." I said before taking my seat and facing my dear twin sister Melody.
A smile lit her perfectly tinted white face giving her lovely ocean blue eyes an almost unnatural glow of happiness to them. Her long brown hair was pulled down and hung in curls and she wore her favorite pink and white dress accompanied with white gloves and a rose necklace which had once belonged to our mother.
"Were you and Demetri talking about that book you read again? What was it called? Alice in Wonderland?" she asked, her British accent came out soft and sweet. "Yes, but only because I called him a stickler for time, It gets annoying- I honestly don't see how you can deal with it." I answered as the carriage began to move leaving the Valentine manor.
"Well you learn to deal with it- Demetri is only doing his job so could you please just cut him some slack, Raven" I rolled my eyes at my sisters favor. To be honest, Its not that I didn't like Demetri-actually he was like family, an older bother if you will, but it's just I always had so much fun for me to pick on him.
I guess you could say we had a "special relationship" since when my parents were alive they only took my sister out with them to parties and kept me home because I was a sickly child and were afraid id have complication's with my heart. So I was stuck home with our or my fathers butler at the time and he and I would joke around with the other, but our fun and games turned into bickering fights as I grew up- now he and I just compare each other to characters in books my favorite of all in Alice in Wonderland if you hadn't noticed.
Anyways it was a while before Melody decided to speak up again. "Raven, Why couldn't you dress nicer for this company meeting?"
"why would I want to? This Earl is probably some perverted old man like all the others we met."
"True- but you could have at least put some effort into looking nice. I mean- why don't you do something nice with your hair instead of always wearing it in pig tails. I think you'd lovely with
you hair down," she said with a smile . It was weird, it was almost as if I could see the gears in her head move at top speed as her eyes got that starry look in them.
Clearing my throat I brought my sister back to reality. "When I find a guy I like then Ill start dressing nicer, till then- I'm staying the way I am and don't think that'll change any time soon."
Melody began to give me her pouty face, the one she usually got when she wasn't able to get her way with our parents were alive. Putting my hand to my head I sighed. "Alright, if this goes well and the guys not a pervert, I promise to dress nicer, alright? Just please can we drop it now?"
"yes," she said happily pulling back the curtains to the carriage window and looking out watching as the country side passed by. I watched as she got lost in her memories- happy, sad, mad- all flashed on her face in a matter of minuets.
After a couple of hours of sitting in the carriage we had finally pulled up to a rather expensive estate. When we had finally stopped, Demetri climbed off the driver seat and opened the door helping the two of us out.
Both Melody and I put our hands over our eyes and looked to the top of the mansion in awe. The sun just barely peeked over the top. "Not bad, but I like ours better:3 it looks like a castle," I chimmed as Melody giggled as the two of us made our way to the mansions front door with Demetri behind us.
Reaching out I knocked then turned to melody.
"So- how old do you think this guy is?"
"Hmmm- I don't know, after seeing the mansion, Id say he's at least in his sixties. "
"Nah- I think he's older than that. My guess, will probably me 80-86" I replied and then the two of us giggled in unison before the front door opened revealing the man from last night who's name I hadn't had caught. My eye's widened as I got a better look at the guy and almost immediately my face was flushed and I could feel the hot blush burn my cheeks.
"Ah- Hello there, you two must be the Valentines, My name is Sebastian Michaelis"
"Yes, we are. I'm Melody and this is my sister Raven,"
"it's nice to meet the two of you. My young master have been waiting for your arrival. Please- do come in," he kindly said Melody started in to the mansion and without looking up I followed after and caught up grabbing a hold of her arm . "Th-the butler isn't half bad looking, " I whispered in her ear. Melody giggled. "cute-" she said before Sebastian asked us to follow him before stopping at a set of doors up stairs. "If you don't mind, could you wait here? It'll only be a moment , I just have to inform my master you have arrived.," He said with a smile. Unable to speak Melody nodded in agreement and Sebastian walked in to the room closing the door behind him. After a few moments Sebastian emerged from behind the doors, "My master will see you now-" he said stepping aside allowing me, my sister and her butler entrance. As we walked in our eyes fell on to the figure of a boy, one around our age with short black hair dressed in a deep blue outfit . An eye patch covered on of his eyes.
I don't know about my sister but I could feel my mouth drop. Quickly regaining my composer I glanced at Melody from the corner of my eye.
"I think we were off about his age Melody-"
"Way off," She whispered back with a slow nod before making her way over to the boys desk talking a seat. I followed
I don't know about my sister but I could feel my mouth drop. Quickly regaining my composer I glanced at Melody from the corner of my eye.
"I think we were off about his age Melody-"
"Way off," She whispered back with a slow nod before making her way over to the boys desk talking a seat. I followed