It is wet and dark and stormy, yet I do not care for my own well being. Just the well being of my Tamer, and the case he is carrying. I growl lowly back at the thunder that rumbles tauntingly down at us. I'd ask my Tamer if he was sure that the stuff would be where we're going, but I can't talk in this form. The downside to being a rather over grown ten tailed wolf. However, it is not long until we make it to our destination, and I am pleased.
"Phobia, it will be fine now. If I'm dry, then my words will be thrown away," my Sebastian tells me as we are about ten or so yards away from the front door.
I let out a grunt before darkness that dances like fire encases me and I take to my more human form. The darkness, this time flowing like water, flows over my form to dress me in a black suit with a crimson button up shirt. Sebastian knocks, and the door is answered by a tall man with glasses.
"It is cold and wet out," Sebastian states, "Would it be possible for the two of us to take shelter here?
"Who is it Claude? Oh! Two poor and dirty men!" The boy before us coos. However, he gets close to Sebastian and takes a sniff. I hold back a growl. Damn brat, getting close to my brother. "Yet, you smell good". He takes a turn to take in my scent as well, and again he smiles, "As do you. We have an extra room that they can stay in, right Claude?"
And so, we end up sharing a room for whatever reason. I don't mind sleeping in the same bed as my brother, however it's still odd that he gave us one room off the bat. The room is nice, but even so not as nice as Ciel's. A pretty dark skinned woman with a blue eye and long silver knocks before entering, a pitcher in her hand. My brows furrow.
"What happened to you?" Sebastian questions.
"Oh...Umm...Nothing," the woman stutters out, and takes the pitcher that was already here, taking away the cold water.
"Oh? Hanna, what are you doing here? You come in here with a bandage, thinking you can get some sympathy from the two Mr. Travelers?" The blonde boy from here, who apparently is the Lord of the household, walks into the room without a care. He then knocks the water out of her hand, and it crashes to the ground, getting water everywhere. "Get out of her you dumb whore! Leave!" The woman takes a kick and then quickly leaves the room with a bow. My hands clench into fists in my pockets. Damn brat.
"I'm sorry about that," the boy addresses us. "Say! What's in that chest you've got here? Is it clothing? Maybe treasure?" He comes between us and hangs off of our beloved package. "You both are lucky, being able to travel. I wish I could; this mansion is boring"
"We heard that there's something amazing down below this mansion," Sebastian speaks up. If you take us there, we'll show you what's in the trunk".
"Really?!"
"We wouldn't lie to you, sir," I tell him, a smile hidden by jacket.
"Alright! I'll show you the way!" The boy grins out, and we head down stairs. He opens a door that he doesn't have to bend down to go through, however Sebastian and I do. I grunt and look Sebastian's way; someone is following us. He gives me a look that tells me to let him take care of this, and I nod.
"This must be it," we stop in front of a shelf, and the boy takes the box down.
"This?"
"New Moon Drop. I've heard that tea leaves freshly picked on the night of a full moon have a soft and sweet scent. But picking them on nights of the new moon, the leaves are given a scent that resembles a bottomless darkness. It's also called 'Motion of the Soul'," Sebastian reaches forward to take the box.
"Hold on, this still isn't enough," the boy pulls his hand away.
"Still?" I question.
"I'll show you. But before that-"
"Before that, I will have you hand over that trunk to me," the voice of the bespectacled butler speaks up. We turn around, and golden knives are thrown at our hats and coats. "Sebastian Michaelis, and Phobia Syn".
Keep your gloves on, Phobia, let him do this, I tell myself. There's another wave of knives that come at us, and while Sebastian throws up his coat to block them, I take the tea leaves while he carries our luggage with him. When he passes Claude, I dip down to trip the demon smoothly, and then dart up the stairs after my brother.
"Don't kill him! You mustn't kill him! Just capture him, Claude!" I hear the boy order the demon from below. I look over my shoulder to see more knives coming at us as Sebastian moves to cover the trunk. I in the mean time turn and with impressive speed pluck most of the knives but two out of the air. The two that didn't get plucked out of the air land in my right shoulder.
"You're risking your lives for that trunk...What is in there I wonder?" Claude throws a plate at us, and we move to dodge it. However, Sebastian's hold on the trunk is improper, and he ends up having to come to a sitting position so that the sleeping Ciel- that is now shown to the boy and demon- doesn't hit the ground via falling.
"Ciel Phantomhive!" Claude announces.
"Ciel Phantomhive! Finally, I have my hands on him!" The boy brightly beams.
"No you don't!" Sebastian states lowly, and pulls the knives from my shoulder as I sit on his right. They fly at the boy, only for Claude to catch him. "We cannot allow you to touch him. If he were touched by someone as low as you, who also owns a low grade servant...Would only hurt Bocchan". He takes off and lands on a food cart.
"What?!" The boy exclaims.
I in the mean time follow up on his attack with the knives by lunging at the boy. Claude is fast to react, however, and he grabs my hand in an attempt to break it. My free hand grabs his throat and I promptly slam him into the floor. "You'll die before you touch my Master," I snarl out, showing a set of fangs. I leave it at that and in order to cover more ground, I run on all fours after my Tamer.
"To touch something that is meant to transport food with one's shoes is a disgrace for a butler. And running on all fours only shows the world but are nothing but a beast," Claude gets up quickly.
"Ahh, but I am nothing but a-...Oh, it's too early for that," Sebastian chuckles out.
"Come now, brother, you know you want to say it," I chuckle back from my position on all fours. My Tamer ramps the food cart onto a railing of the two sets of main stairs that curve towards the middle of the room. I merely run down the stairs until the bottom and then jump onto the ceiling whilst Claude lands on the floor after sliding down his railing. Little hooks of darkness appear on my fingers and feet, acting like the same hooks on a spider's legs that allows it to stick to something they shouldn't be able to.
"Your way is 'Light into Dark, sugar into salt, and blue turned to gold'. We will make gold pitch black," Sebastian declares, and forces the chandelier to fall and take everything into darkness. The boy cries in shock and fear, and I break through a window with Sebastian following after. Fire made of darkness licks my skin, and soon enough I'm in my wolven form with my brother on my back, a hand buried in my fur to keep with the motion of my running and Ciel resting in front of him with his arm holding it tightly. "You have what we need?"
"Woof!" I nod my head to show him that I do. It's hidden in my shadow.
"Good boy," Sebastian smirks.
"Aarf!" I'd wag my tail if I weren't busy getting us away.
I sigh as I let the sun soak into my hair and sit next to a certain pink clad girl. Sebastian rows our boat smoothly while the boy that's laying down rests his eyes for a good while. That is, until he opens his eyes and looks around.
"Have a good sleep?" I ask with a tilt of my head.
"That was a long break you took, Bocchan, time to get to work," Sebastian announces once the boy is done seeing that not only are Sebastian and I here, but so are Lady Elizabeth, Bard, Meirin, and Finny. The latter three being in a boat which Bard steers along. "We're almost to our destination".
Where we end up is a water gate, which has a red ribbon tied around it with us standing on the gate. Sebastian and I stand at each of Ciel's sides, he in his butler's uniform and I in my black suit with a red button up shirt and black tie. "These waters have been haunted. However, with your help we managed to create another water gate within the Phantomhive estate which pleases me to the utmost. Just like the generations before me, who have focused on the project 'flood control' I will do my best to do the same". He takes a bow, and the people around us clap with praise. We walk off of the gate, Sebastian and I flanking him on each side as should be, and greet those that come to us. After politely placing some other nobles in their spots, Elizabeth comes to Ciel with something that could be considered interesting.
"A deer?" Ciel intones.
"It's a really rare deer that only shows up a few times every couple of years," she explains.
"Rare deer?"
"A white deer! It's known to bring happiness!~"
"A white deer was considered a good omen and to work better than any medicine," Sebastian explains, "It's said that it will bring happiness to anyone who gets it's message".
"Exactly! As expected Sebastian!" Elizabeth exclaims. To me though, it just sounds like it'd be a pretty good dinner.
"Heh, it's just a fairy tail. Things like this don't really exist," Ciel denies.
"Come now, you can't be like that, Master," I lightly coo.
"So mean," Elizabeth tears up as the boy turns to face her, "Ciel you're so mean!" And here come the tears.
"Oh? To make his fiancee is something that he shouldn't do, doesn't he know that?" One man speaks to another.
"They may be engaged, but it's still just like playing house," a woman speaks up from behind her fan.
"This might put a stop to their engagement; perhaps my niece has a chance now?" A second woman wonders. All of this is heard by Ciel.
"Lady Elizabeth," Ciel swallows his pride, "I would like to make an inspection down the river. And I happen to hear that the phantom white deer lives there. Would you care to accompany me?"
"I'd love to!" Talk about control of tears, she stopped right away, "I'll accompany you with pleasure!" This pleases the people around us.
While Elizabeth is off trying to pick out an outfit for the little boating expedition, Sebastian is fixing Ciel's bow tie. I in the mean time am playing the role of guardian and looking for enemies. However, I already know that there are none near by."What happened to your plans of returning right away/" The black haired demon asks.
"Change of mind. It's my duty after all. Keeping control of the river, making my fiancee happy, which are brought along with my duties of the Phantomhives' supposed status; are my duties," Ciel sighs out.
"I will go check on the boat," my brother bows before taking his leave.
"You forgot to mention that you'd have a bad taste in your mout if you let that be as it were," I smile to the boy as he takes in the look of the river.
"That's besides the point," Ciel sighs out.
"Oh? Looks like she's ready to go," I smirk to the boy and motion to the girl not too far from us. I bow to the girl who will grow up to be a fine woman, and push Ciel towards her. "Go make her happy".
As I join Sebastian again while Ciel helps Elizabeth into the boat, I sigh. "Hey Sebastian, is this really necessary?" Bard questions the butler.
"Unfortunately yes. High society has a lot of enemies in it," Sebastian answers simply, eyes glued to the writing pad in his hand.
"Enemies?" Bard and Meirin intone together.
"There's a lot of people here who want them to cancel their engagement," I explain.
"CANCEL?!" The three exclaim, and I put a hand over the ear they just blew out.
"Calm down, it's not going to happen," I assure casually. "Shall we get going then, brother?"
"But of course," Sebastian nods out.
Before I turn to follow them, my eyes narrow and I turn to face the trio, "Stay calm. Sebastian and I have this all under control. Understand?" That said, I again turn to follow and actually follow through with doing so. However, as we go down the river, Sebastian at the paddle, the trio didn't heed my words. The ended up catching everything but a deer- rabbits for Meirin, a horse for Finny and three geese for Bard. Idiots. In the end, we end up tying the boat off for lunch.
"Man, I was hoping we'd find Mr. Deer before lunch," Elizabeth sighs out as she sits down across from Ciel. "Sebastian, what's for lunch today?" She asks as while he handles the boxes that he had put on the boat.
"Today's picnic lunch features shrimp salad, salmon pate, and sandwiches with Cheshire cheese," the butler answers. Me? I'm standing guard, but I'm not far from the three of them. However, my attention goes to my brother as I hear the sound of a pig. Shit. It better not be those idiots' doing again. However, when I see birds flying out of the other box, I sigh. "Please excuse me," he smiles out.
"Huh? Where's Sebastian going with our food?" Elizabeth asks me.
I smile and bow slightly, a gloved hand over my heart, "There was a slight mix up of the boxes I'm afraid. He'll return momentarily".
"A mix up? Is Sebastian having an off day today?" She asks.
"Unfortunately you could call it that," I tell her, bloody red eyes meeting curious green.
"Oh! Well, everyone has their off days, even Sebastian. He's only human after all," she forgives.
"You are a saintess," I tell her picking myself up from my bow.
Not long after I've said this, he returns and begins to put plates down, "A souffle made of Kase and lobster, also, roasted pigeons in bouillon".
"Amazing! But it sounds different from the menu you mentioned earlier," little Elizabeth mentions.
"I changed the menu to fit our surroundings," Sebastian tells her smoothly. Once they're done with that, he places down a small cup, "This is a strawberry parfait". Again, the lady is pleased. And again, we head out to search for the deer. However, because it's begun to rain like it's no one's business, it has to be done on foot. And not only that, but Ciel decided to stop catering to Elizabeth's will and offered to simply put a bounty on the deer. Of course, this upset her, her telling him that he doesn't understand her feelings at all. And really, he doesn't. And now, off she goes into the rain.
"Oh? You upset the lady," a voice intones from behind us.
"Lau?" Ciel's honestly surprised.
"Pleasing the lady is a man's job isn't it? What a shame that an Englishman like you couldn't hold up to such standards. Oh, and it would be tragic if she got hurt, wouldn't it?" Lau smiles out.
"Phobia," Sebastian states, "Stay with Lady Elizabeth until we find the deer. Understood?"
"Understood, my Tamer," I bow to him playfully.
"There's no time to be fooling around. Go now," Sebastian sighs out, but I can see the amusement in my Tamer's eyes.
"Of course not, I was being serious," I smirk, knowing that he knows that I wasn't being serious at all. However, my smirk falls and I bow to my Master before running after the girl. Her scent is already gone. However, her footsteps haven't been washed away just yet. Unfortunately, what I find isn't all too good. There, on a boat in the raging river, is Elizabeth. What she's doing there, I haven't the slightest clue. Bard, Meirin and Finny are there as well. I grunt my eyes narrow. "Finny," I call to him, "Go get Master and Sebastian. Run as fast as you can; hurry!" The boy wastes no time at all.
"What are you going to do?" Bard asks, eyes wide with worry.
"There's not much I really can do at the moment. Ciel has to be here; this is his job," I tell him.
"You're going to risk her life just so Bocchan can make amends with her?!" Bard snaps.
"I'll make sure she doesn't die, I assure you of that," I tell him, glare set on his own, "And she won't. Not even when Ciel comes for her". I bend down to give the human a hand with the rope.
"What's going on?!" Ciel demands
"Ciel! I saw that deer on the other bank," Elizabeth calls out to him over the rushing waters, grabbing the ore behind her only to fall back to the floor of the boat. "I'm going to bring happiness to you, Ciel!" She vows, now reaching for the rope that keeps her from floating off.
"Lizzy! Stay where you are! I'm going to come get you!" Ciel tells her, "Sebastian, Phobia, this is an order: stop the flood".
"And what of yourself, Master?" I question as I continue to hold the rope.
"I'm going to get Lizzy," he tells me.
"Why doesn't Sebastian stop the flood, and I'll get her?" I suggest.
"No. It has to be me. Now go," he states determinedly.
I sigh, and bow before taking off with Sebastian at my side. "I'll break the gate," I tell my brother, "You get the others to help us because I figure that's what you were planning in the first place".
"You sure you don't want to gather the others?" Sebastian raises a brow.
"I got this, "I assure him, taking off a glove to show the retracted claws there. I curl my claw covered fingers into a fist and look to the black haired demon. "Get moving," I tell him. He takes off, and seconds later my fist comes crashing down into the brick. It wastes no time in breaking under my strike, and I leap a way in the direction that Sebastian went. What I come up to is everyone working to redirect the rush of water that has already by far washed away the children.
Long story short, Sebastian fished out our Master and his lady out of the river and we revived them both. Ciel was second of the two to wake up. When he asked why we broke the gate and caused the river to flood completely, we explained ourselves. We had redirected the river with the help of everyone as mentioned, each of us working at a fast and almost fevered pace as to make sure everything works. The end result was us creating a giant white deer out of the water, as the shape had been engraved into the ground over and over over the years. This caused a massive amount of happiness from lady Elizabeth, and a look of pleasantness to come over Ciel's. In the end, everybody wins with Sebastian and I doing our jobs as we should.