Chapter 3 - - - - - The Truth

Three hours passed since Ciel and Sebastian had encountered a strange demon by the name of Belial. Even though he was the cause of the strange deaths the Queen had asked her watch dog to find, he didn't know how to punish him for his wrong doing. But he supposed that as long as Belial stopped the soul collection, everything should be fine. Yet he still didn't trust the strange demon, even though Sebastian was treating him like a king.

Sebastian had allowed Belial into Ciel's manner without his permission, but then again, it wasn't the first time unwanted supernatural guests stayed in his estate. It was something he grew accustomed with, much to his annoyance. Although, having another demon around wasn't such a bad idea, but that solely depended on Belial's final decision.

Ciel was in his office overlooking paperwork on various things while Sebastian and Belial were off somewhere in the manner slacking off. The other three servants were probably not doing any better.

"So tell me, why are you roaming around here alone?" Sebastian asked Belial as he handed him a cup of steaming hot Earl Gray tea. Despite the fact that demons don't have a need for eating or drinking anything from the human world, but Belial had requested it regardless.

"That's a long story." He responded, taking the cup and slowly taking a sip.

Sebastian chuckled. "I have time to listen." He said, sitting down across from him.

Belial sighed. "Very well then." He replied, setting the cup down on the tea plate on the table. He looked at Sebastian dead in the eyes and spoke: "I am on the run from a demon who has the ability to kill me."

"The ability to kill you? You of all creatures?" Sebastian questioned.

Belial nodded. "He is somehow more powerful than me which is why I had to flee my home in order to escape death."

"Is that why the Gates of Hell have been closed?" Sebastian asked

.

"I closed the gates so he couldn't get through and fulfill his plan of conquering all three worlds." Belial replied. He pick up his cup again and took a sip, then staring into his reflection from the darkened water. "I'm here alone, trying to gain enough power to take him down." He finished.

Sebastian nodded his head. "Well, you have me as a loyal follower." He said with a smile.

Belial didn't respond to that, he wasn't to comfortable with other demons he didn't trust, and that was rarely anyone. He took one last sip of his tea before crushing the cup into tiny pieces. Sebastian wasn't too pleased with his notion but let it slide just for him.

"How do you plan on gaining more followers?"

"I'm not to sure myself..." Belial answered. "I do know that I need to go to Russia at some point and hunt down one of the surviving Vladimir members." He added.

"Russia is very far from here. But as a demon, it wouldn't too much of a journey." Sebastian said.

Belial sighed. "I cant use much of my supernatural abilities or else I'll be easily detected by traitors who are searching for me."

Sebastian looked at him rather confused. "There are traitors roaming this Earth?"

"Some demons managed to escape Hell before I closed the gates and are now searching for me in the name of Avangel. With me in their possession, they could somehow manage to get me to open the gates again." Belial replied. "So I have to act like a human for now." He finished.

Sebastian thought for a bit. "Well, when humans travel great distances, they use either trains, horses and buggy's, or boats." He said.

"I'm already aware of how to get there, but the fact that I've been cut off from my money supply hinders me quite a bit..."

"Perhaps I can get my Young Master to help." Sebastian said with a smirk. "I'm sure he'll do anything to get you out of his manner." He added.

"What a friendly human." Belial joked.

"If you don't mind me asking, but what exactly happened to the Vladimir family?"

Belial sighed again. "They worked close to me, often acting as my body guards, assassins, and such. Their powers almost reached to mine but there was still a large gap there." He explained. "But when Avangel attacked, he some how managed to switch some of the Vladimir's against each other, causing an inner conflict within the family. They slowly killed each other off, and those who survived were eventually hunted down by other enemies and exterminated in their weakened state." He added, looking away. "Only two survived the family slaughter, and those were the only ones not corrupted by Avangel's lies. The head of the family Nikita, and his second son, Tadao."

"And those are the ones you're trying to find, correct?" Sebastian asked.

"Yes. But I'm mostly looking for Tadao since that's Avangel's primary target right now." Belial replied.

"And why is that?"

"Tadao is...was...my butler and my only friend, so he's rather close to me. And if Avangel gets to him first, I know he'll use him as bait to draw me out."

"Well then, perhaps it's important to get to Russia sooner than later, yes?" Sebastian said, standing up. "I'll go inform my Young Master of this and see what I can do about this matter." He added, walking out of the room.

"Do whatever you like..." Belial said to himself as he watched him leave.

Authors Note:

Another short chapter, hopefully there wont be too many of these.

Not else to say, really.