[A/N: Hi, it's me again ;)

I still haven't got a beta reader, but I got two reviews, three favorites and three followers and that made me super happy!

Thank you both guests for reviewing, you're the best ;)

This chapter is a bit shorter than the first, I hope you don't mind!

Ciel is a bit OOC here… I'm ashamed of it…

Onwards with the chapter, Kuroshitsuji doesn't belong to me and the grammar sucks ;)

Enjoy!]

Chapter 2 – One hell of a challenge

After the transportation seal finally vanished, Sebastian went back to his work and Ciel bought me into his study. As he began to explain his situation and being contracted to a demon I thanked God for my crazy fangirl mind. Instead of being shocked by the whole time travelling thing I admired the beautiful Victorian mansion and rather than running away from Sebastian after knowing that he was a demon I wanted to hug him.

Fortunately, he wasn't in the study during my fangirl moment, he seemed like a demon easily put in anger and hugging him might not be the best idea…

[A/N: He explains the whole story to her, including shinigamis and all his previous cases from the anime & manga, so Alecto's knowledge is the same as yours. I was just too lazy to write all the stuff…]

The only thing I had an object against was the selling of Ciel's soul to his demonic butler.

"How could you do that?" I pouted. "Why did you sell your cute soul to creep like Sebastian?"

Ciel was slightly annoyed.

"There was no other demon available…?" He answered with dry sarcasm.

I grunted and Ciel let out a small laugh.

"That is Sebastian… Whether it is for a delicious soul or the music class – he is always on time. I am sure is beloved schedule is the most important thing to him…"

"Tsk, is he from 'Vondervotteimittis'?" [A/N: 'Vondervotteimittis' - 'Wonder-what-time-it-is'; village in E.A. Poe's 'The Devil in the Belfry']

Ciel stared at me.

"You are reading Edgar Allan Poe?"

"Of course – even in the 21st century he is one of the most important authors!"

Again, Ciel gazed at me, his eyes wide opened before he suddenly jumped up and hugged me tightly.

"You are so adorable, Alecto!"

Confused I let him hug me. To me, reading Poe's works wasn't a synonym to being adorable or cuteness but hey – to each his own.

As Sebastian entered the room with the afternoon tea, Ciel was still busy petting my head, ruffling trough my hair and squeezing my cheeks.

My lips formed a silent 'Help me!' towards the demon butler who smirked at the situation.

"Young master, would you mind taking your hands off your new maid?"

Ciel stopped immediately.

"Maid? I want her to be my cute little sister!"

Sebastian seemed pretty annoyed.

"Young Master, could you please go back to your usual self? A sister would cause a ruckus within the society and the underworld would use her against you. Not to mention what the what the queen would say –"

"Yes, yes, Sebastian" Ciel sighted. "You are right. I think I spend too much time with Elizabeth recently…"

Sebastian rubbed his hands.

"So, Miss Alecto, a Phantomhive servant has to have certain qualities. First, do you play an instrument?"

Hehe, I could press the 'Play' button on a keyboard and act if I was playing…

"No, I can't, but I think my singing is…uhm…acceptable."

Singing catchy songs all day long for years had to have a certain learning effect.

Sebastian continued questioning me, hell, I felt like an s-class criminal at an interrogation!

"Can you cook?"

"Uhm… nobody died from my cooking yet."

"What about baking or making desserts?"

"I always eat them, before I'm finished, so I can't really tell you…"

At that comment, Sebastian's eyebrow twitched.

"Can you at least make tea?"

"Err, was the tea bag already invented?"

The demon facepalmed.

"In other words, you are completely useless as a maid."

Hello?! This wasn't my problem, right? I never asked for being a maid, they were the ones who sucked me back into this time!

On the other hand I really hated his all high and mighty smirk and it would be such a pleasure to wipe it out of his face. Unfortunately, he was a demon and that put him into a slight advantage. Grrr.

"I'm not useless!" I snapped at him.

"Oh, really? Why do you not prove it?" Sebastian smirked. "Let's see… What could you do~?"

"Hey!" I interrupted him. "The challenged one chooses the weapons!"

Sebastian's smirked became even more sadistic.

"Do as you please, it's not like you have a chance."

"Tsk, let's fence!" I ranted at him. This stupid demon really drove me angry.

Sebastian's evil smirk grew bigger and bigger.

"What a splendid idea, Miss Alecto. I could not think of anything better."

While I followed Sebastian, I felt very tense. As a demon, he could do nearly anything in absolute perfection and lucky me picked something he was extra good at. Wohoo!

l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-Time change-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l

I gripped my foil as firm as I could. I faced Sebastian and narrowed my eyes sending him my deadliest death glare.

Hey, try to say this fast: deadliest death glare, deadliest death glare, deadl–

I coughed as Sebastian's weapon pierced my stomach. God, he was so strong!

The foils we used were just for sport and not sharp, yet it hurt as hell.

I grind my teeth as I looked in the demon's face and his damned smirk.

"Never let your guard down, Miss Alecto" He said in a mocking voice.

As the fight went on I did my best to defend myself but didn't get a chance to attack the demon myself.

I was very good at fencing, I've done it for ten years now but Sebastian fenced plain A-W-E-S-O-M-E.

Okay, God knows how long he trained and as a demon he had a huge advantage over me.

I smirked. It was time to play dirty.

I parried Sebastian's next attack and dashed forward to kick his stomach. He was surprised by my sudden foul and using his short moment of confusion I pushed my blade against his torso.

Victoire pour moi! I just kicked the ass of a demon, okay not literally, but who cares?

Ciel smirked at his butler.

"Sebastian, we will keep her!"

He walked towards me, patting my head. "Good work."

Sebastian was obviously pissed, but did his best to keep his neutral expression.

"You will work here as my maid" Ciel announced. Too bad, his 'Alec-is-my-cute-little-sister' moment was over.

"Of course that is only your cover." He continued. "The true reason we summoned you back to this time is that we need the help of a person from the future for my work as the Queen's watchdog. We have a little problem dealing with the reapers recently. On top of it a crazy reaper continues to bother my work and Sebastian has his problems with him. Plus, the Death Scythes, the weapons of the reapers, are a lot better developed than ours. We are hoping that you may recognize the weapons they are using and that you know effective ways to destroy or stop them."

I stared at Ciel. I should help him completing his tasks as the evil nobleman?

I wanted to say something, but then an idea popped up in my mind and I smirked.

"So in other words, your demon in incompetent and you need more help."

Sebastian growled and my smirk grew bigger.

I just got a new purpose in life: annoying the hell out of Sebastian.

Let the games begin!

[A/N: I hope you liked the chapter, despite its shortness. I'm still looking for a beta reader for this story, please contact me, if you want to help me ]