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" Oh but don't you love him?"
Damn that voice in my head! What are you thinking Ciel that could never happen between the two of you. He's only with you because of the damn contract. He's only waiting to rub it in your face that you won't become his number one anymore. There's someone that's he's going to care about more than you, someone he might actually love. I felt my heart sink as I thought about that. 'We've been together for nine years what's made my feelings change now of all times!' I thought to myself. It started right after that damn party when we suddenly acted differently towards one another, dammit I wonder how this came to be.
I groaned in frustration and just finished my paperwork before I go back to Ignatius and Jones' house. Ignatius was there to greet me at their door with a cup of tea.
" I heard from the fox that you had a rough time. Right now the dragon's trying to keep an eye on his colleague from going back to bother you." He informed. I raised an eye brow having no clue who the fox and dragon were, but the colleague I know exactly.
" Well that's a comfort to know." I muttered. " Come now young one let's get on with your lessons before Axel comes in here again." He said guiding me back to training arena. Alfred was already there waiting eating a sort of food that I didn't recognize.
" Shell! Shway ju chu roog kike her a hout da shy?" He asked while food was still in his mouth. Ignatius looked at him with a criticizing look as he went to his side and smacked him on the back of his head making him choke on his food as he was swallowing.
" Jones! What have I told you about eating with your mouth full! You git! Where have all the manners we've went through gone?" He scolded his mate.
" Oh come on Iggy! Just because we were contracted and you taught me manners doesn't mean I'll always use'em. 'Sides I'm in my own home with my beautiful and devious little bride." He smirked making Ignatius glare and blush at the same time.
" You idiot, you still need to use your manners when we're expecting guest!" He sighed. " Now what did you say? I couldn't even understand any of that gibberish you were spewing out." He asked. Jones batted his eyes for a minute before looking back towards me.
" I said. 'Ciel, why do you look like you're about to cry?' " He restated. I looked at him with furrowed brows and shook my head.
" What do you mean I'm about to cry?" I asked. He looked at me with wide eyes before smirking. He took off his glasses and wiped it on his shirt before putting them back on.
" Oh then don't bother, I was probably confused since my glasses were a bit foggy." He said pushing them on the bridge of his nose. Stretching in his chair as he shot up in the air. " So you ready?" He asked. I sighed inwardly as I took my stance ready for another lesson.
After the combat lesson I was sitting in their dinning room trying to catch my breath again as Ignatius handed me a cup of tea.
"Alright now Ciel I'm about to tell you something that most demons don't learn about till they actually encounter it. It usually comes as a shock to them thus becoming a sort of element of surprise giving them the upper hand. You see when there is a demon there is an angel." Ignatius said with a strange object in front of him tapping on the objects surface making a strange black reflective object come down from the ceiling. I heard a click come from the box in Ignatius's hand making a picture show on the sheet. This must be like one of those things that Grell has for the cinematic records. I looked at the screen in intrigue not paying attention to what he was trying to tell me.
" Uh, babe. I don't think squirt is paying any attention to what you're sayin'." I heard Jones say from the background apparently I was caught. Ignatius looked towards Jones and gave him a slight glare.
" Of course he was paying attention. I was watching him the whole time." Ignatius corrected. Jones shook his head.
" Uh uh, he was looking at the tv and your laptop. Remember Igs Ciel here 's from the Victorian era. They haven't come up with this stuff yet." Jones reminded. Ignatius looked at me with an embarrassed look on his face.
" Oh 'm so sorry little one. I didn't mean to confuse you with future technology. I should have explained what these are first." He appologized towards me. " Thank you for reminding me, love." He said towards Jones.
" Of course darlin, a hero always has to be there to help you out." Jones said letting out a hearty laugh. " Idiot." I heard Ignatius mumble before turning towards me again.
" Alright Ciel at least your first time seeing these are here instead of the meeting halls. If you did..."
" You'd so be a laughing stock for a week." Jones interjected getting a glare from Ignatius.
" Jones would you just leave him alone already! Why is it that you always try to give everyone a hard time around you honestly." I was already tuning the two out as I looked at their interaction with one another. Seeing them bicker reminded me of Sebastian and how we were before. Back at the mansion I'd argue wth him and he'd send me one of his smart-aleck replies. Before at least we were always able to have times to ourselves and had a sort of peace. Though if I didn't go through this I wouldn't...move on Ciel, move on. Think of something else other than that.
" Wait isn't that earlier that you said that you both had a contract?" I asked the two stopping their loving banter.
" Why, yes." " Totally, that's how we got together in the first place!" They answered making Ignatius smack Jones.
" I thought that there was only one contract, and that's between a demon and a contractor for an exchange of a soul?" I said questioningly. Both gave each other a look which was starting to annoy the hell out of me.
" There are actually many contracts Cerulean. We will discuss contracts in a later time when you have a greater amount of knowledge of magic and spells later in our lessons. I don't want to teach them to you now, but I will tell you that Jones and I had a contract for the military. The terms of our contract were that I teach a goon from the lower slums of the fourth ring of hell." Ignatius said offending Jones.
"Hey don't talk bad about me and my brother!" He growled.
" I'm not making fun of you, idiot. I'm just telling Ciel what my exact orders were, and beside you and Bernard turned out fine and powerful demons. For now please shush, love." Ignatius said rolling his eyes.
" This was a mentor and pupil contract saying that he had to follow and listen to everything I told him to and in return I would help him become whatever he desired and when I said everything I meant everything. It's actually a more complicated contract, but this is a more simpler way to put it." He said. " Now back to where we were before. What I am using in front of me is called a laptop. Its something that holds all of my files and cases basically is like my office put into one little object and has everything when I need it, though I do still an office where I have things this is something I like to take on the go. The television or as Jones called it a tv, is used as entertainment and as an informant to get news to spread around more quickly than newspaper. For now I will use it to educate you." He said pointing at both objects as he described each one.
" Alright back to what my Iggy was saying. One of the biggest weaknesses to a demon is an angel." Jones said butting in and taking Ignatius' laptop already enough and wanting to move on. " Not just any angel though their other half, the good half." He groaned. I heard him tapping on the laptop and on the screen showed both of them and what looks like their opposite. Both their opposites were exactly like them the only difference was that both had blonde hair Jones' golden blond and Ignatius' a more straw color.
" Jones' other half is known as Alfred while mine is known as Arthur, and devil me are they awful!" Ignatius scoffed. Jones nodded in agreement.
" If those are your's then there's everyone else's as well?" I asked. They both nodded.
" Oh yes there are others." They said as they went on with the slide showing Roxanne sitting on Axel's lap and both glaring at the couple sitting next to them in the same position. A silver haired man glaring at Axel held a brunette haired girl in his lap as she pouted like a kicked puppy towards Roxanne.
" The silver haired one is Axel's counter part Riku though I don't really see why Riku is an angel he is probably one of the most devious angels I know. Skyla is of course Roxanne's. Now her we completely understand why she's an angel." Ignatius sighed.
" Yeah she's a freaking goody-two-shoes. There's nothing that kid has ever done wrong! Well that's probably because she was taught by Arthur and brought up her freaking older brother Micheal." Jones said. I looked at him with wide eyes.
" You mean Micheal?" I questioned. They nodded their heads showing another picture of Sebastian and a blonde haired blue eyed man sitting with each other having a conversation and smiling towards one another. I smile to myself knowing that Sebastian has a nicer smile than that and the smile on Sebastian's face is a forced one. It's like the one that he always gave Claude before whenever we were around them, he really just wants to kill him.
" Yes, Sebastian and the archangel are opposites, but out of all of us they get along the most. Well more like to be civil with each other it seems." Ignatius rolled his eyes. " You will see everyone later and to tell you the truth..." Ignatius sighed.
" It's one Hell of a Family Reunion." they both groaned.
" You're gonna end up meeting your own too Ciel. You'll end up meeting each other at the turn of the century." Jones said.
" The reason we're telling you this is because one day there will be a time you will have to fight that counter part. Meaning you're going to have to find out how to defeat yourself. That is going to be our first lesson your going to have to go through before I teach you about contracts." He said. Contracts though seem to be the ones I should learn first though since I will have to start using contracts.
" Ya might be thinking why fighting yourself instead of learning how to do contracts, but learning to fight yourself is actually the best since it's not only to fight against your angel, but it's something every demon has to go through to become a true and full blooded demon. For the position you're going to become this is something you need to learn very quickly." Jones informed. As they went into details I seemed to wander else where in my mind. How everything seemed to change while I got here.
Now that I think about ever since we came back down here everyone seems to be secretive and protective as if they're waiting for something. First it starts with his parents they accept me just like that, not knowing how I'm like and not really caring that I'm weak, then there's his siblings who seem so excited over something, then the arrival of Rowina the others are on edge, and finally these two dropping hints and just taking me in as a pupil. I can tell what they're teaching me now must be something that takes years to learn but it seems that they're trying to make it in a shorter time. I wonder why.
Well there you have it. The next chapter to the story I know it's a little bland but that's what I could come up with for now with testing season coming up for school. I thought this would be a nice chapter for information later on in the story and I can't wait for later, you will all actually see all the counter parts. I can't wait to write it who knows what's going to happen in that chapter. Who knows there even might be a cute little bundle with them in the mess ;D. I wonder if I actually do it will you remember this AN. I love seeing excited reviews it makes me want to work.
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