Chapter 6

Harry was grazing on the grass in the forest when he heard shouting from some arena near him. He lifted his head and listened intently. He then sensed that his cub was in mortal danger, and he sprung away, taking long, smooth strides as he galloped to the arena where Ciel's soul was the strongest.

Finny and the other servants plus Tanaka was tied up, and Ciel was chained to the wall while Lord Barrymore was offering a second chance to get out of the town.

The dogs started growling when Harry tilted back his head and bawled, causing everyone below him to freeze.

"That is enough out of you hounds. Touch my cub, and you will regret the day you were born," a voice rang out that shook the very earth, causing the dogs to become silent and bow.

"Huh? What happened to the dogs?"

Sebastian appeared just then and looked around. "Did I miss something?"

"Oh, probably just a deer," Lorabelle smiled when Harry came from another direction.

Harry kneeled down beside the half-dead dog that had been James' dog. "You poor thing," he said softly. He stroked the dog, pouring some of his energy into the poor dog. "You have already died once. I won't allow you to die again," he mumbled. Apparently he had been absorbed in healing the injured dog that he didn't notice anyone else surrounding him.

"Another reason I hate dogs," Sebastian muttered.

Harry froze. "You cold, heartless bastard," he suddenly snarled, getting to his feet.

Lorabelle blinked. Crap, his hormones are acting up again. She then sighed as she approached her brother cautiously. "Harry, listen to me. Sebastian is a cat lover, which means he will favor cats more than any other animal," she stopped at the cold glare.

"I don't want to hear that," Harry snarled at her. His shoulders were shaking badly.

"Tobias, Walter, Amos and Adam, get the three stooges and Tanaka out of here. Take them back to the Barrymore manor," Lorabelle ordered.

"Come on," Tobias told Bard as he steered him away. "You do not want to see this," he said, glancing back to make sure that his brothers were leading the other servants.

Sebastian waited till they were gone before he tried to talk to his mate, who literally startled snarling at him.

"Aiyeesh, this is more trouble than anything," Lorabelle muttered before Harry rounded on her.

"Harry, calm down," Ciel said, hoping Harry wouldn't bite his head off.

"Shut your mouth," Harry snarled, backing up to the wall and glaring at Ciel. "You know nothing," he hissed.

"Don't start on Ciel like that," Sebastian snarled, his eyes glowing crimson.

"Oh dear," Lorabelle swallowed and made her way to Harry's side who was about ready to attack all of them. "Come on now, why don't we take that test," she hummed.

"No," Harry growled, eyes narrowing.

"Harry, fighting with your Soulmate will eventually drive you two apart though you will come back together eventually, but only if Lucifer doesn't try to take you as his mate," Lorabelle growled.

Harry froze at that.

"Do you even want to know why you've been so upset lately?" Lorabelle snarled in a deathly quiet voice.

"I… I, yes," Harry snapped at her.

"Don't become snappy with me mister," Lorabelle grabbed his wrist and dragged him back to the mansion with two of her followers while the other two stayed behind with the butler and Ciel.

"I don't understand. I thought he wanted me as his cub," Ciel said, slightly in shock.

Sebastian sighed as his protective side slowly disappeared. "It will be alright. All I can think of right now is to give him his space," Sebastian said softly, and then he looked at the dog. Then he looked at the two riders. "Would one of you mind getting the dog?" he asked.

The one with his hair in a ponytail nodded and walked forward and picked up the weakened dog that was still breathing.

Harry was still miffed with his sister, but he sat cross-legged on the stone floor in the bathroom that came off of his and Sebastian's room with her with the cursed thing between them and Lorabelle was reading the paper that came with it to determine the results. "Why couldn't we just use magic?" he growled.

"And not embarrass my Riders?" Lorabelle asked with a chuckle.

"How long has it been?" Harry finally asked.

"At least 5 minutes, but we have to wait 10 minutes in order to determine the results accurately," Lorabelle said. "Besides, do you even know the correct diagnostic spells to determine that sort of thing?"

Harry groaned as he leaned against the door. "No," he admitted.

They were silent for another 5 minutes before Lorabelle started comparing results.

"Looks like my theory was correct," she chirped.

"Hm?" Harry leaned forward and took the paper away from her to read his results. "How do you even read this thing?" he grumbled.

"Um, perhaps it would help if you weren't looking at the Spanish section but the English section?" she said with a giggle.

Harry stared at the results once he figured out how to decipher the thing. "You mean that I am… pregnant?" he gulped, any ounce of anger he had earlier was lost instantly, which was replaced with fear. "Is the reason why I'm so emotional is because of the child?"

"Yep, your body is still stabilizing itself, which is creating the hormonal imbalance. It will eventually stabilize though your will be more emotional because you are pregnant, and your hormones will still be on edge," Lorabelle said calmly.

"I've got to find Sebastian," Harry scrambled to his feet. "Uh, would you mind taking care of that?" he asked sheepishly, pointing to the test results.

Lorabelle nodded and gathered up the stuff before disappearing into a shadow.

Harry opened the door to find both Ciel and Sebastian in the room, and he immediately looked down at his feet.

Ciel was tense as he saw Harry come out of the bathroom who looked slightly shocked. He looked between him and his butler, wondering who was going to say something first.

"The dog, uh, I left in Finny's care. I figured he could use a working dog," Sebastian said, trying to placate his mate and standing.

Harry started sniffling then.

"Harry?" Ciel asked before said demon started sobbing uncontrollably. "This is madness," he muttered quietly.

Sebastian approached his mate and pulled him into a somewhat awkward hug. "Hush," he murmured, running a hand through Harry's hair.

"I didn't mean to start screaming at you and Ciel," Harry sobbed.

"Hush, we all know that you've been so emotional lately," Sebastian continued to murmur.

Harry was still sniffling as his grip tightened on the front of Sebastian's tailcoat. "I'm pregnant," he said ever so softly.

Sebastian immediately froze. "Say that again one more time. I didn't exactly here you," he said, looking into Harry's eyes.

"The reason I've been so emotional… is because I'm pregnant," Harry said, still softly, but Ciel heard it just as well as Sebastian did.

"But how? You are both male?" Ciel said incredulously as he pinched the bridge of his nose to stop the oncoming migraine.

Harry finally told Ciel the condensed version about where he came from, but he was not about to tell Ciel that he was once him or another version of him.

"I see," Ciel muttered as he sat there stunned on the bed.

"I'm so sorry; sometimes I don't know what's me and what's not," Harry started crying again.

"Harry, listen to me. This is wonderful news, but Ciel has decided that he would like to be our cub, which means you need to calm down. I have already told him it may take a while before he becomes a demon, but we can at least mark him as ours," Sebastian told his mate.

Harry's eyes widened as he looked between Ciel and Sebastian before he walked over to Ciel who was still on the bed.

Ciel stood, not sure what the emotional demon was about to do until he was picked up and hugged. He wanted to scream to be put back down, but Harry was more or less about to become his 'mother'. He sighed mentally before he hugged the demon back, which made him cry all the harder.

Sebastian approached them and wrapped his arms around Harry as he pulled him into a hug as well.

Harry finally put Ciel down and stopped crying though he was still sniffling.

"I suppose we need to figure out where to place the mark since it must be done in our demonic forms," Sebastian said.

"We should head outside then," Harry sniffed.

"I suppose your humanoid demonic form wouldn't work," Sebastian said with a shake of his head as he steered his family out and into the forest.

"So where will you place it?" Ciel asked, looking up at the butler.

"His eye?" Harry asked his mate.

"I don't see why not since it is already covered by the eye patch," Sebastian said. "This might sting for a while since demons normally don't make their prey their cubs," Sebastian then said before shifting into his demonic form.

Ciel wanted to close his eyes at seeing his butler's true form, but he would have to get used to seeing his butler like this if they decided to return to Hell. He shuddered when he felt his butler's clawed hand remove the eye patch and press the tips of his claws against his eye. Ciel looked at the other demon who was standing towards the back next to a large oak tree with pink flowers and leaves, and something was hanging around it at the ends, like shapes. Ciel gasped when the pain sharpened and Sebastian reverted to his butler form and caught him before he toppled over. "It hurts," he whimpered.

"Well, I did say it would sting," Sebastian said with a shake of his head and then looked at his mate. He blinked at the tree that had most definitely not been there before. "You ready?" he asked.

Harry nodded. "I will shift back here and then approach you," he told Ciel and shifted.

Ciel and Sebastian stared with their mouths open at the large, beautiful deer that took Harry's place.

His back was a dark blue, his underside and most of his face was black except the yellow lines that ran in an intricate pattern down his face while his eyes were now the prettiest blues either one had ever seen. His antlers were golden with different colors on the end.

The stag walked forward with the most benevolent gaze before he lowered his head. He then pressed his nose against Ciel's eye, and his horns glowed a golden-white as he placed his own mark.

Ciel shuddered at the light and then gasped when Harry shifted back and pulled him to a death hug. "Harry, you can let go of me now," Ciel gasped then looked pleading at his chuckling butler.

"Let's get you inside before you catch a cold," Harry suddenly said and started nudging him in the direction of the mansion.

"But it isn't cold out," Ciel said, glancing at his 'father'.

"Come on," Harry kept nudging him before picking him up and carrying back while Sebastian started laughing at Ciel's new predicament.

Harry stared at the corpse of Lord Barrymore at the fighting arena from earlier. It was raining and the villagers had started chanting again. He was slightly hunched over Ciel's form to shield him from most of the rain.

Sebastian studied the stump of Barrymore's right hand, and he then looked at his small family with narrowed eyes. He needed to get Harry back inside before he got himself sick. He stood and looked back at the man that had been alive and imprisoned, but was now dead and free.

"What could have done this?" Ciel asked him quietly.

"I'm not sure, my lord," Sebastian admitted.

"Perhaps it was that Demon Hound," Lorabelle suggested as she walked up to the trio and smiled.

"Have you seen it?" Ciel asked with narrowed eyes and briefly wondered why he wasn't all that wet from the rain.

"Don't have the means to play that game," Lorabelle chirped. "But I did see a strange silvery-gray dog that was about as big as Harry in his Elt form," Lorabelle said with a shrug.

"Then we catch it tomorrow when it isn't raining and where we can actually see," Ciel said and heard a sneeze above him. He had known that Harry had been holding him close to his body, but he hadn't realized that said demon was also shielding him from the rain.

"In you go," Sebastian said and started herding his mate back to the mansion.

Lorabelle followed behind them with Ciel under her umbrella.

"Is he going to get sick?" Ciel asked her.

"More than likely," Lorabelle hummed with a nod.

"Great," Ciel muttered.

Sebastian was standing behind Ciel while he was eating as the three stooges, as Lorabelle called them, discussed on how to save Miss Angela since the Demon Hound was running loose. His mate was upstairs in bed sick with Lorabelle sitting on it, reading him a book out loud to keep him company.

Harry listened to Lorabelle as she read poems and short stories by Edgar Allen Poe, and he made a note not to tell some of these to his cub until he was older and a demon. "Lorabelle?" he interrupted.

"Yes?" Lorabelle lifted her head.

"How long do demon pregnancies last till they give birth?" he finally asked her.

"Didn't want to ask your mate that?" she teased.

Harry blushed. "No, I'm not sure he would even pay attention to those sorts of things," he admitted softly.

"Heh, probably not, though he could go find out," Lorabelle said with a giggle. "Now let me think, human pregnancies last 9 months so demon pregnancies will last 7 months, lucky you," Lorabelle said.

"Yeah, but wouldn't the child be premature? Like with humans?" Harry asked her.

"Nope, demons are too different from humans. Their children while in the mother mature much faster, then they are like a regular child, but then I think they feed off of their energies a little," Lorabelle said with a shrug.

Ciel watched as Sebastian trained the Demon Hound. "Well, I suppose I did tell him to put on a show," he muttered.

Harry appeared beside him, leaning heavily on Lorabelle.

"Oof," Lorabelle grumbled as they stood next to Ciel and watched Sebastian.

Harry blinked. "Collar," he said.

"Collar?" Lorabelle blinked at her brother. "Oh, alternate universe, got it," she said as she tried to put more weight on Harry's feet, but he still toppled over on her.

Harry blinked again. "I can't let that fallen creature put that collar around Pluto's neck," he said and looked at her.

"Right, Riders," Lorabelle mumbled before she closed her eyes. 'Tobias, go into the fallen angel's room and replace the collar with one of my own that I created with Harry,' she sent telepathically.

'Yes Madame,' Tobias answered back. He sent a message back when he had done as he was ordered without leaving a trace that someone had been there.

"It has been done," Lorabelle said once she opened her eyes.

Harry nodded and suppressed a laugh when Pluto licked his mate with water shooting up into the air behind them.

"Pluto!" Angela came running up in her purple dress minus the apron.

"Pluto?" Everyone else except Harry and Lorabelle said in unison and confusion.

Angela explained about Pluto and asked Sebastian to take him.

"No thank you, I'm simply one hell of a butler not one hell of a dog trainer," Sebastian grumbled.

"I don't see why not, this could be entertaining," Ciel said with a smirk.

"Is this an order?" Sebastian asked his cub, narrowing his eyes into a cold death glare.

"Well, yes, it is. Entertaining for me at least," Ciel chuckled and then realized that his 'mother' and 'aunt' were laughing at them. "Harry, what are you doing out of bed?" he barked at the sick demon.

"He ordered me to take him here," Lorabelle said with a sigh. "Besides we both wanted to watch the show Sebastian was putting on," Lorabelle then said with a smirk.

Angela frowned at the two siblings. She knew that the male was a demon, but he smelled funny just as his sister did. Then there was the sister's Riders who were tight-lipped and silent, and no matter how much seduction she had used on them, they hadn't batted an eye or even looked at her.

The Riders were loading up the carriages while Angela fitted the collar around Pluto's neck. To her, it felt kind of light, but she figured she was used to its weight. "There, nice and snug, now be a good boy," she told him.

"And put some bloody clothes on. Don't let it all hang out to blow in the wind!" Bard shouted at Pluto, which Pluto responded with a sour look.

"Perhaps I will come visit the manor," Angela said.

"I wouldn't if I were you. You tamed a Demon Dog, which not many people can do, and it might hinder his training," Sebastian said coldly with a narrowed gaze.

"Bye!" the other servants chorused as the carriages finally pulled away.

"I told you there would be a collar," Harry said to his sister.

"Yes, though what would have happened if she had put the other on?" Lorabelle asked.

"Destruction of London and Phantomhive Manor," Harry said, catching both Sebastian's and Ciel's attention.

"What?" Ciel asked him while Sebastian snorted.

"Hm, I suppose he hasn't told you, but you are aware of alternate universes correct?" Lorabelle asked him.

"Well yeah, Harry mentioned them," Ciel said, glancing at said demon who was currently bundled up and sipping some of the ginger ale.

"Well, this world and the one we come from our similar, but Harry, in the world we come from, was an old soul who was originally a Ciel Phantomhive. A lot of things that you do now are exactly what he did, and the people are even the same, but a lot of things have been changed such as Madame Red and now this. However, most of his memories are still tied up though sometimes a particular memory can unlock another," Lorabelle said, gesturing with her hands while Ciel stared at Harry.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Ciel asked quietly, looking at Harry.

"People who know that I know something generally tend to use me," Harry said even more quietly.

Ciel blinked. "You mean that Dark Lord, Lucius Malfoy and Dumbledore?" he asked.

"Yes," Harry answered. "I'm tired of fighting and running all the time. Ever since I found out about magic, I had to fight for my life and do as I was told in order to stay alive and rarely do what I felt was right," Harry said.

"Which is why I haven't let Lucifer meet you because you would be fighting though I don't think you will have to worry about him or the other two rats much longer, I think a couple more months and you and Sebastian should be fine," Lorabelle mused while her Riders around here cringed ever so slightly.

"What did you do?" Harry asked sharply.

Lorabelle reached into her dress and pulled out a pair of silver scissors. "Oh, just a little cutting," she said with barking laugh.

"Is that the threat you made to Sebastian if I didn't wear the dress?" Harry asked appalled. "And how you keep your Riders in check?"

"Sebastian? No not him. Just a removal of his skin and maybe wings along with stealing his fantastic boots," Lorabelle said with a purr. "I knew you wouldn't be thrilled if I made that threat to your mate. My Riders, hm, yes."

"What threat?" Ciel asked.

"Ah, so innocent," Lorabelle snickered while her Riders shifted uncomfortably in their saddles.

"How did you do it?" Harry asked with a deep sigh.

"Hm? Oh, I simply grabbed your satchel with powdered Hell Root and asked to see Lucifer with his two guards. Tortured Rose a bit more, which had them attacking me, so I just threw the powder at them, and then I did what I have always wanted to do to them. Though the downside is that it will take a couple of months for it to get out of their system, but I don't think they knew what's missing yet. And I think we both know that mates that have it or a whole lot more desirable, plus your magic just might tell Lucifer off as well, and he won't have much of a reason to fight you or Sebastian, especially either," Lorabelle said with a wicked laugh as she pocketed her scissors.

"I'm afraid to ask, but why?" Sebastian glanced over his shoulder at his sister-in-law.

Lorabelle grinned wickedly at him. "Castration, my dear brother-in-law."

Ciel raised an eyebrow as Sebastian stiffened and turned back to his driving. Even Harry and the Riders, especially, became stiff. "Do I even want to know?"

"When you are older Ciel, when you are older," Sebastian said while Lorabelle laughed hysterically.

"Uh, okay," Ciel said, wondering what Lorabelle could have possibly done that had all the men so uptight. You know what, I don't think I even want to know now, he thought as he saw a devilish grin on his 'aunt's' face while she fiddled with the fold of her dress where she kept the scissors.

Ok. Reviews are always good to have along with questions and scene and omake suggestions, especially those.

Only animals can understand Harry when he is in his Elt form. Also his form is modified after Xerneas from Pokemon and the tree is modified after its move Geomancy.

Demons will have a shorter gestation period in this story, so it doesn't have any connections with premature humans.

And Lorabelle... yeah, I can't explain her actions. I kind of feel bad for her Riders now, but it keeps them in line at least.

Poor Ciel though, not being old enough to be told anything and then having an 'aunt' such as Lorabelle.

Well, we might have special guests next chapter though they just might give Ciel a headache, and Harry some weird cravings, suggestions on those to are desired as well.