Chapter 7: Jack the Ripper arc - part 3~ I used to love red...
I am sooooooooooooo sorry!
How many times does it take for someone to say sorry before it gets annoying?
Either way, I really am. I tried to update last Saturday but I had a report, then I had to run arrands with my mom the next day, then I had to read a book for school Monday, and then yesterday I had a doctors appointment until like nine at night. The other days I was working on this from the minute I got home.
I'm really sorry. But, it seemed like you guys were too. I only got one review last time... oh well, I'm still happy to have one!
Catovia, thanks for wasting five seconds to review! You made my day! Yes, homework is a... oh look a balloon. *turns away to stop myself from saying the word.*
Nope, don't like saying-or typing them out completely. I can do the star thing, but I'm on a tight 'diet' of having a clean mouth. *gets bottle of soap* Nah, I'd never... it tastes really bad. :p
Oh, one last thing, this chapter consists of three chapters of the manga, considering it was so friggin short when I finished with the first one. So, yay! Double whammy in one! sorta... :D
Ok,ok, on with the show... you know the drill... I don't own it... If I did, Catherine would so be a real character... and Sebastian would be mine! *runs away from angry fangirls*
Catherine's POV
Was I insane, or was I really asking to help Sebastian?
Nope, I really was. "Sebastian..." I ask with my tail slightly wagging like a dog's would.
"Hmm?" He looked at me.
"Let me help you!"
He and Ciel both looked shocked. ''You... want to help?"
"Please! Ciel, please. I made a promise to help you protect the Phantomhive family, please allow me to. I won't cause a mess!"
"I don't care..." He waved me off weakly. For a demon, I could have sworn he'd want to do some of the work on his own sometimes.
"Yes!" I wagged my tail happily again.
"What are you, a dog?"
"Wha-" I let out a cat-like hiss at Ciel and began to pout.
All of the sudden, Sebastian began stripping!
Ok, not literally, but he had removed his tail coat and threw it atop Ciel's head. Ciel tried to protest, but Sebastian cut him off. "So that your body won't become cold. When we return home, I'll prepare some hot milk for you. I'll even add honey or brandy to sweeten it."
"I don't need your coat! I'm a demon, you idiot, I don't get cold. Give it to her, she's the one who's the most humane here!"
"Perhaps another time." Sebastian linked arms with me surprisingly before stroking my ears. "Are you ready, M'lady?"
"Hell yeah." I nodded.
"Oi, I won't let you both go so easily!" The Grell-doll whined.
"Oh? Aren't you forgetting someone?" I called to him after a very hooker-like cat call to him.
"Sorry, love, but you aren't my type."
I could hear Ciel trying to muffle his laughter since I had whistled. "Ouch, I thought you liked your possible step-daughter, Grell." I scoffed.
"What?"
"My point. You really are a doll. I shouldn't say, but don't you and Undertaker have...'a thing'?"
"Why you-"
"Too late..." I untied the blue ribbon from my wrist, and it extended to a head-to-waist length. On my wrist it looked like a normal piece of cloth, but once it was out, the edges of it looked sharp and deadly. It was a broad blued steel sword. Its hilt was something like fanned out black wings on the side with a silver jewel in the centre.
*see Legend of Zelda dark/shadow Link Master sword for idea*
Right above where the hilt ended was my family crest. The crest was only an engraving with no colour except from the steel of the sword itself. It was a large shield with a dragon on either side (why dragons and not cats- I have no idea) and broad swords sticking out either side at the top. At the bottom stated my full name(this would change for each member of the family)- Catherine Sakura Demetrio. At the top-middle was another sword, but this sword look just like the sword I was holding. In the centre of the shield was a large D for Demetrio, and behind it was the Faustus mark.
"My, my, it seems your kind really has adapted over the years." Sebastian teased. "Ribbon swords are quite the weapons to have. Rather that, to show it is something as well."
"Hush. Sebastian... do as Ciel says. I will make sure to protect him."
"Oh? Don't you want to play a game with me?"
"Sebastian!"
"My, my, it seems our little girl has a dirty mind."
I blush furiously before flinging my ribbon sword at him cut his cheek angrily. "I swear to God-"
"I understand..." Sebastian stopped me, and took on Grell- who was angry more than anyone I've ever seen.
"If I am to be hunted down," Grell growled. "Then I'd rather be the one to do the hunting, little Sebast! Let us play a wonderful hide and seek!"
"I believe I have said this before..." Sebastian groaned. "But please don't say such nauseating things."
"Oh, you're quite the man, little Sebast! However, this is the real beginning of the show!" I had then noticed, his eyes were not the same- white, pure white, not the green and yellow like usual-, but his weapon was real.
"His weapon, Sebastian! The death scythe!" I yelled. Sebastian glanced to me, but he had seemed to not understand.
"What are you talking about?" Ciel grabbed my arm and looked at me with worried eyes.
"The scythe is real. I don't know how Edward is getting such equipment, but he has it, so it can severely damage him!"
"Yes, I know it can harm him! The problem is that how a doll can manage to handle that!"
"Doll..."
"What?"
"He's a doll... undertaker told me of the incident with Drucell after I had died in the past... he had stuffing in his head, but he died after Sebastian struck him there."
"Are you saying-"
Before he could finish, Sebastian was stuck in the shoulder with the scythe. Blood poured from his shoulder and the cinematic records rolled from his chest after he had fallen. We watched all his life flash before him- becoming Ciel's butler, meeting me the first time, his thoughts about me( which I had not enjoyed hearing much, considering that they were either about the fact that I was a cat demon or the fact that Edward was my butler), watching me die in his arms, and everything and thought after that.
"You sick, ugly gay, red-head!" I growled and clenched the hilt of my sword, swinging it at Grell, but he had dodged it and swung his weapon at me. He had grazed my shoulder, but I stayed upright without falling of even letting my cinematic records roll out.
"How are you still alive?!" Grell yelled.
"Idiot..." I helped Sebastian up with a sigh, seeing that he was pretty much ok. "My step-father was Undertaker for almost all my life. He taught me how to fight back against a death scythe's attack."
"My, my, I'm very impressed." Sebastian teased.
"Shut up." I glared at him. I made my ribbon sword fall back to a normal blue ribbon and tied it around my wrist.
"Go, cover Ciel."
I nodded and returned to said boy. Grell and Sebastian moved at a quick pace, fighting and arguing about something, but I was too bothered by the cinematic records of Sebastian.
(Cinematic Record in Sebastian's POV)
The male standing before me... he is definitely something. I can't quite pin point it.
It was sickening.
Yes, I wanted nothing to do with this putrid home. I truly hope the queen's superstitions fulfill our orders so I can just kill these demons and get over with this. There is something bothering me about this boy and his butler, but I just can't quite mark it.
This boy, he was far too different from the Young Master. He was nice to his butler. He smiled far too much, and he was far too... feminine.
(End)
I can't believe the entire time he'd only want to kill me... but, wait... he was former butler... does that mean those feelings instantly changed when he found out it was me?
As I pondered this more, I could hear Ciel beside me. "Why..."
"Why?" Madame Red mocked. I clenched my fists and put my teeth to the ribbon, ready to pull it free any second. "You're asking me now? How do you expect me to answer? You and I... have become 'Guard Dog' and 'Sinner'. If you were not the 'Guard Dog' and you were the hunted one... then there can only be one path for you!" She pulled out a very familiar dagger and launched towards Ciel.
"NO!" I pushed him away and blocked it with myself. She had scratched my arm and I side, but I was still able to stand without (much) trouble. "Gah..."
I could hear Sebastian gap at the act Madame Red had done.
"Why you... stupid feline!" She shoved me away, and I easily fell. My body couldn't take in the toxins oozing from the blade.
"As a doctor" Cie began, but keeping a close eye on me to make sure I was actually still kicking. "Why did you have to kill people?"
"EVEN IF I TOLD A LITTLE BRAT LIKE YOU, YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND!" Madame Red stood tall and shouted at him. "YOU WOULD NEVER UNDERSTAND!"
Even as I whimpered, trying to stand, I thought about why Ciel was acting so natural with them. They are dolls- creations that a mere demon had made. Something of their very own kind. They can easily be killed, just like Drucell was.
"You... You..." Madame Red raised the dagger high and screamed one last sentence to Ciel. "If you had not been born, that would have been the best!"
"Young Master!" Sebastian shouted from his position from the wall where he was still holding the chainsaw away from him. He quickly mad his way to them and was just about to lie a hand on her when Ciel screamed his name, in a manner of telling him to stop, and telling him not to kill her.
I know why now.
Even as dolls, they are still very similar to the real Grell and Madame Red. They act the same, talk the same, and even look the same. They are replicas.
But, they are still very much fake.
I stand up weakly, holding my side. I unti the ribbon from my wrist and form it into the blued sword. I clench it in my hand and turn to Grell.
Before I can ask him anything, he speaks up. "Kill that brat already."
"I can't." Madame Red replied.
"What?"
"I... can't kill this child." Wrong. Not a child, man. He's twenty-two!
"If you don't kill that little brat, I'll kill you. And if I don't, you know the master would." Bingo. My proof they really are fake.
"This child is my..."
Before I could even bother acting on impulse to stop him, Grell-the-doll had plunged his chainsaw deep into her skull, where the hay and saw dust poured out.
Not just that.
Blood.
Blood poured out as well.
From hers and mine.
I yelped as I could see the blood run across the concrete, pooling around our shoes. I made my sword disappear, but I hadn't managed to tie it back on my wrist, so I let it hang from my bloodied hands. I had whimpered a few times, but Sebastian held me up carefully.
"I have no interest in you," Grell spat at the now dead corpse of the doll. "Who gets carried away by meaningless emotions. You are not fit to wear red." Grell ripped the coat from the dead dolls shoulders and slid it on himself. "Goodbye, Madame."
I scoffed at the fading puppet walking away. Ciel knelt down to the doll of the fake Madame Red, and ran a hand over her eyes. "Even as a puppet of a demon, she was truly loyal to me..."
"They were made that way. Edward wanted you to believe it was really her."
"Ugh... Sebastian... What are you doing?" Sebastian opened his mouth to say something, but he then gave a quizzical look. "Like I said, take down Jack the Ripper! It's not over yet! Don't Hesitate, hurry up and finish him!"
Sebastian stared at him with a shocked look before smiling. "Yes, My Lord." Grell turned around and said something, but my hearing and vision was beginning to fade.
I placed a hand on Ciel's shoulder and leaned against him. "sorry..." I collapsed to my knees beside him weakly.
"Ah, Catherine!" Ciel put a hand over my wound on my side trying to keep the blood from flowing out. "Sebastian, hurry up already!"
He nodded and began colliding with Grell over and over in the air, on the ground, and even on the top of the buildings.
"Oh my," Grell cooed. "A demon and a death god- just like the tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet!"
Sebastian paled and stared wide-eyed at the red head.
Grell continued on with a few things about love and how cute Sebastian was until my cat ears picked up on a single phrase. "If I have your child, I will deffinitly give birth to it!"
Blegh! Ew! No! Sick! Why?!
Why would anyone say that?!
"Can you please stop saying such things?" Sebastian shuddered. "It's disgusting."
Finally Sebastian had Grell pinned down on the roof. I had surely thought Sebastian had it there, but I saw Grell nearing closer and closer-
He then raised his chainsaw and began to swing it at Sebastian. It struck him down across the chest so vilently, knocking him down to the ground where the records once again rolled out, showing more of his life that we had not see the last time. However, Sebastian was already up and kicking(literally). He swung around Grell telling about what the cinamatic records had shown, which was only clips of the trio back at the mansion and all the incidents that hey had caused.
I paid no attention to Sebastian and Grell fighting, for the toxins in my body from the anti-demon blade had nearly taken over completly. I was out of strength.
"Whaaaaaaaat!?" I glanced up to see that Grell's chainsaw was defective. Sebastian had crammed some of his tailcoat into it, clogging the rotating blades. Sebastian stood over grell and beat him sensless until all of his face was pouring blood. Sebastian then picked up the chainsaw and hung it over Grell's head. Just as he was going to slice the puppet's head open, a long silver pole blocked his way.
"Spears..." I whispered. I had my head against Ciel's shoulder as we watched the fight.
"Sorry to interupt." Spears jumped down and picked up the beaten Grell-doll. "I've come to colect him for... questioning."
"Really?" I perk up slightly.
"Yes, Undertaker sent me. He knew you'd get into quite a lot of trouble tonight, but it seems I was too late for that. I'm sorry..."
"Don't sweat it... well... actually, think you can get this toxin out before it kills me?"
"Toxin? Anti-demon blade correct?"
"Yep..."
"No... The toxin isn't harmfull. It only causes your body to temporarilly slow down. Since your type of demon is different from full-fledged demons, you will get better before it even slows down enough for you to not move. You will live." William smirked at me before adjusting his gaze to the whimpering doll on the ground.
"Thank God." I let out a sigh and close my eyes, still leaning on Ciel.
"Alright... He'll come with me. Grell, come!" Grell imediatly obeyed like a puppy, but he still whined about it. "Goodbye, Sakura!"
"heh," I chuckled lightly. "I'm not going there anymore. Didn't he tell you?"
"Yes... it's a habit." William and Grell then disappeared into the darkness.
"Young Master-" Sebastian began.
"Get her first. I can move fine." Ciel snapped.
"Yes, Master." Sebastian carefully picked me up in his arms and ajusted me so I was comfortable.
"Quickly, let's just get out of here. I'm tired of standing around here for nothing."
"Yes, Master." Sebastian bowed his head, but kept it there so he could look into my blue cat eyes. "Such perfect eyes..." He whispered before picking his head up and catching up with the fleeing young demon. "You know, Catherine, you're extremly young, but you just risked you life for the Young Lord, who is hundreds of years older than you. You really should stop wasting your energy on him sometimes. No offense, My Lord."
"No, it's alright. I agree with you. Stop trying to save me all the time. I want you to actually live till a natural cause of death kills you. You can protect me, as long as it doesn't cost you any harm." Ciel waved Sebastian off weakly as we made it to the carriage.
"Alright, but eventually, this war will be my own, and it will cause me harm. I won't be able to stop that. I may still be fifteen..." I lied my head against Sebastian's chest as I thought aloud. "But, I'm not exactly young in strength or wisdom. I know when to back off or get involved."
Yay! It's finally done!
Ok, I didn't like this chapter as much as the others. Maybe because it didn't have the thrills that the others would?
It seems that Catherine always gets hurt... I don't intend it to be that way, I'm just putting it out there as something that she'd b willing to do for others. She will get hurt less and less as the story goes on.
Ok, questions... you know the drill anyone that has shown an appearance but has not died. 'Puppet' Grell cannot be asked any questions because I will most likely accidentally spoil some of the story. The New character that can be questioned is William T. Spears! Yay! Spears for everyone. *gives a free spear to everyone*.
Oh, wait... not real spears? That's his last name? Oh well...:p *continues to hand out spears*
By the way, the reason this is out so late at night is because I fractured my toe tripping over a shoe in my room. How, you ask? It's a sad story which involves me being very stupidly dumb. -.-
Ok, so, I will be seeing you next Saturday when I update! YAY!
Ok, see you! Reviews are highly accepted and requested(even from guests!) Stay safe, my cute little turtles!