Claude's Beginnings
Crack!AUStory about how Claude Faustus came to be. Tale is based upon random conversations in a Forum RP. As the story goes on it will include other characters of the Kuroshitsuji cast and how they all come to turn into one BIG happy family.
Ever since Claude Faustus first appeared onto the Kuroshitsuji Stage, it had been speculated that he looked to be the love child of Sebastian Michaelis and William T. Spears. Well what if that small little fact turned out to be true? Blame Catnip Tequila and one night of passionate lovemaking, and your end result is Claude Faustus. However, there is more to this story; join Claude as he goes through life experiencing heartbreaks and happiness and slowly but surely comes to find his place in life and somewhere to belong. Possible pairings: SebastianxSoma, WillxGrell, (added as story goes on)
Chapter Two: The First Encounter
Last chapter, after a drunken night full of passionate lovemaking; Claude Faustus was born. However, immediately right after being born Claude was rejected by his mother, William T. Spears, and Sebastian Michaelis, the father, never saw William again after that night.
Our story picks up again decades later in the Demon world. Claude Faustus was growing up a respectable demon just like his father. Claude knew he did not have a mother, but he was just fine having his father with him. Claude only asked about his mother once in his lifetime, and Sebastian told him that it was another demon like themselves but who had tragically died shortly after giving birth to Claude. He knew that talking about his mother brought Sebastian great sorrow, though he tried to hide it, so Claude never asked again.
While growing up Sebastian taught him everything he needed to know to survive in both the demon world and the human world. Now Claude was very curious about the human world and he eagerly wanted to visit it, however Sebastian felt he was not ready yet.
That is until Claude's 10th Birthday.
"Wake up! Wake up, Claude! Today is a special day!" Sebastian burst into the young boy's room banging on pots and pans. The reason why Sebastian banged on the pots and pans was because Claude was a very heavy sleeper and only the sound of something slamming hard against itself, wakes him up. Claude didn't know why this was so but it was the only way.
"Ugh…I'm up, I'm up." Claude slowly rose from his bed, his hair very disheveled.
Claude began looking around the room, "Where did I put my glasses? Ah here they are."
Once Claude put his glasses on Sebastian was brought back thinking about William, he was not kidding when he said they looked so much alike, it was sort of odd how alike really.
Claude looked at his dad, "Well dad, what's so special about today?"
Sebastian was brought back to present day, "Oh um well today is your 10th birthday and you are finally old enough to go explore the human world!" he clapped his hands together.
Claude grew excited. "Are you serious Dad?" Sebastian nodded.
"Awesome! Well let's go!" Claude went dashing to the door. However Sebastian caught him by the collar just in time and set him down on the ground.
"Not yet though Claude, you have to get your things ready before we leave, and once we get there you do not leave my side for anything, Understood?"
Claude nodded his head. He very quickly finished his assignments and was waiting at the door in a blink of an eye. Sebastian was surprised.
"Very well, let's be on own way…" Sebastian grabbed a hold of Claude's hand and both of them walked through the portal.
In the Human world…
"Okay, we're here!" Sebastian swiftly jumped onto the London sidewalk and looked around, what he walked into was the beginning of industrial London. People all around were covered in filth and buildings were pouring out black smoke by the gallons.
"Wow, things sure have changed around here…" Sebastian coughed taking in the new air.
"Where are we father?" said Claude, disappointment coming into his voice.
"We are not at our destination, come follow me. But keep in mind you are not to wander in this part of town."
"Yes Father."
As both father and son walked through the London town did the surroundings around them begin to change, slowly the environment was becoming more civilized and less of a run-down alley. Finally Sebastian brought Claude to their destination. London Park.
The scene that lay before Claude left him speechless. He saw families enjoying themselves and kids running around everywhere. However Claude did not understand where his father brought him.
"Where are we father? What is this place?"
"We are in a park, I know I have explained this to you but this is your first time actually seeing one, so what do you think?"
Claude smiled. "I like it…it looks so green."
Sebastian laughed, "Well go enjoy yourself! And remember do not stray too far where I cannot see you."
"Okay Dad!" And with that Claude was off running into the field. Soon enough Claude came around other children his age. Thankfully by this time Sebastian had taught Claude how to disguise his demon power around humans so that he could better interact them, and good timing too because here were a group of kids approaching Claude quickly, and they were holding a red ball with them.
"Hey, Glasses Boy!" The first child spoke to Claude.
"Who me?" Claude pointed to himself.
"Yes you, want to come play with us?" The boy said lifting the red ball into the air.
"Okay I'll join!" Claude smiled and laughed.
"Then come on! Hey by the way what's your name? I'm Marcus."
"My name is Claude, pleasure to meet you."
"He talks funny!" One girl giggled. "Sounds too polite!"
Claude blushed. "Aw let him be Selma, he's probably not used to hanging around kids like us." Marcus defended.
"Oh alright Marcus, well let's go!" Selma exclaimed.
So Claude went off to play with his new friends and he enjoyed himself quite a lot despite the awkwardness in the beginning. Suddenly Marcus kicked the red ball a little too hard and it bounced away into the fog of trees.
"I'll go get it!" so Claude went and chased the ball into the forest. Walking deeper in and further in, he could not find the red ball anywhere. Then Claude came upon something that intrigued him completely and made him forget about the red ball.
A spider.
Until now he did not know what he demon form consisted of, and his father would not tell him. The only thing Sebastian told him was that when he encounters the animal that represented his demon form he would understand right away.
Claude watched as the spider spun its thread and carefully walked on its web, and when a butterfly landed on the web, how the spider would walk over to it and carefully wrap it to eat later.
Meanwhile the children in the field were starting to worry about Claude, and walked to the edge of the beginning of the forest and called out Claude's name. They received no response. Then they noticed the red ball just lying there. Marcus picked up the ball.
"Well here's the ball but not Claude…"
"He must have been called back home by his mom and dad, let's go back to the field and play because soon it will time for us to leave as well." Selma responded.
"I guess…" and with one final look into the forest, Marcus turned and returned to the field.
Had the children try calling Claude once again he probably would of heard them, however Claude was too intrigued by the spider to notice. Suddenly Claude felt a rumbling in the ground and that movement was growing stronger by the second. The spider Claude was looking at skidded away to safety and Claude lost track of it. With the spider gone Claude realized that he had strayed too far from his father. Just as he was about to go back, Claude hearing a terrifying splitting of the earth, an Earthquake was hitting London.
Sebastian had been watching over Claude and smiled when he saw he had found some friends and went off to play. Then he saw Claude chase after a red ball, the minutes went by and Claude did not come back with the ball but instead the group of kids who were with him did. Concerned he was about to go to the kids and ask about his son had he not felt the rumbling within the earth first.
A massive earthquake hit London and the city was sent into chaos.
Claude was frightened, even though he was a demon he had yet to encounter any major tragic events. He did not know what to do, well he decided to get out of the forest firsthand. Reaching the edge of the forest he came upon the London run-down part of town.
Uh oh…father told me not to come to this part of town…I'm lost!
Claude did the only thing he could think of, to keep walking, Claude figured that if he followed the route his father took him through that he would eventually hit the park once more. The idea seemed just fine, if not for the earthquake shaking up the city. Claude lost all his sense of direction and decided to just huddle on the side of a run-down building.
Dad will find me…please let me dad find me…Claude whispered to himself in tears while holding his legs close to him.
Besides the sounds of buildings coming crashing down and people dying all around him Claude heard an odd voice.
"Ronald! Are you so preoccupied at the moment that you cannot focus on collecting these souls?"
Souls? Claude brought his head up. To Claude, the only other person who talked using the term souls were demons such as himself and his father. Well demons and one other type of person, he remembers his father telling him, Shinigami.
Sebastian didn't talk about Shinigami much and told Claude that he was to avoid them at all costs. However, Claude thought, there could be an exception to the rule given the circumstances.
Claude crawled out of his hiding place and looked up to the sky to see a group of young men, dressed in suits, with garden supplies and poking the dead people of London and bringing out forth what Claude could only assume was their souls.
One young man in particular noticed Claude looking at them, Ronald his name was, and he called William's attention to figure out why.
"Hey Boss!" Ronald said waving his arm to gram William's attention. "I think that child down there can see us!"
William turned to Ronald giving him a small glare. "Nonsense, no human can see or sense us for that matter."
Ronald leaned on his Death Scythe Lawnmower, "Yeah but I don't think that child is human, I'm getting an odd feeling from him."
Odd Feelings…Oh how William hated those two words together, it back memories he would rather keep suppressed. William decided to check the reason why the child was looking at them and then drive the child away.
William landed on the ground next to the child and it was then that he knew Ronald was right, the child was looking at them in particular and it was not human. So he can see us…interesting…
William spoke, "Just what are you child? How is it that you can see us?" he adjusted his glasses.
Claude hesitated. "I-I am a Demon…"
Just as I suspected…filthy demon… "Well what reason do you have being here, if you think about stealing our souls then you have another thing coming." William said sternly.
"N-no I wouldn't think of s-stealing y-your souls mister…I just got separated from my dad…and was w-wondering if you c-can help m-me…" Claude fidgeted with his glasses and mostly kept looking at the ground.
William noticed that when Claude was fidgeting with his glasses that the child bore some resemblance to him… William stiffened at his realization and grew angry.
"No. I cannot help you find your demon father, and it would be best if you were on your way. Perhaps if you trying walking in the opposite direction you can encounter your Dad…"
Claude nodded and walked away. William watched the child go and was suddenly found in a great headache. He sighed…Great…
When William returned to the sky Ronald noticed that he looked a bit pale.
"Hey Boss, are you okay?"
William adjusted his glasses once more. "No, I do not feel okay. We have a lot of work to do and it is not getting done quickly enough. Overtime! For all of you! Now get back to work!"
Meanwhile, running from one end of the city to the other, Sebastian could not find his son.
"Claude! Claude, where are you?" Sebastian worried for Claude, he knew Claude must of disguised his demon senses so that he could better interact with the children, but due to the events that happened he must of forgot to reveal his senses, so Sebastian had no way of finding him.
"Claude!" Sebastian yelled again, but this time he received a response.
"Dad! Dad, I'm down here!" Claude raised his arms to make himself seen more.
"Claude!" Sebastian ran over to his son and gave him a tight hug. "Do not disappear from me like that again, you hear me!"
"Yes Dad." Claude replied returning the hug to his father.
"Well let's go home shall we? I think this town has some things to fix." Sebastian once again held Claude's hand and walked them to the portal back into the Demon world.
Once back in the Demon world Sebastian asked Claude if he enjoyed his day despite the mishaps.
Claude nodded, "I did enjoy my day Dad, I found my demon form!" he smiled.
Sebastian grinned, "I knew you would! So, what is it?"
"It's a spider!" Claude then made hand motions describing how the spider looked like and how it walked.
"Aw it was so cool dad, wish you could have seen it."
"Well the next time we go to the human world, you can show me a spider then."
Claude nodded in excitement. "It's a promise!"
"So nothing else happened besides finding your spider?" Sebastian asked.
Claude thought and then he remembered the incident with the Shinigami.
"Hey dad," Sebastian looked at Claude, "Do you know a Shinigami who wears glasses?"