I own nothing hit my OC's. Sorry it's short, it's almost the end of the year and stuff is getting stressful but thank you for being so patient with me.
Ciel was panting and gasping for breath. "Se-Sebastian!" He gasped, said demon butler was behind him.
"Come, put your hands up against the wall please relax a little." The demon said.
Nyra lay on the bed, her hair askew across the pillow and a thin sheen of sweat covered her body as she shakily tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, still panting. Sebastian had already finished with her. "Don't fight it Ciel, it'll only make things harder on you." She gasped.
Ciel finally cried out. "I said my organs are coming right out!" Ciel yelled.
"There has yet to be a woman whose organs came out because of a corset." Sebastian said.
"With your strength Sebastian you could probably make it happen." Nyra sighed. "And why did you have to tie my corset so tight?! You know I can tie it by myself!" The witch yelled, a vein popping in her forehead. Sebastian didn't respond, he just tightened the strings on Ciel's corset.
Ciel's opened his eyes only to find himself bound and blindfolded. He heard the viscount's voice.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please quiet down. Next is the item that everyone has been waiting for." The cover was lifted off of Ciel's cage. Gasps and whispers rang throughout the room.
"You may choose to keep her in the cage, or you could play with her as much as you wish or you could use her in a ceremony." The viscount said. "Or parts of her could be sold according to what the customer prefers this is a hard to get item. Her eyes are bright and beautiful, the color of the sea, yet with a deep contrasting color of the forest. Now I will proceed to show everyone."
'This man...he's the one killing prostitutes and selling their organs in the underground auction!' Ciel thought.
"The starting bid is one thousand!" Viscount Druitt said as an assistant removed Ciel's blindfold.
"The starting bid is one thousand." Druitt said.
"2000!"
"3000!"
"So, who else wishes to make a bid?" The Viscount asked.
Ciel opened both his eyes. "Sebastian, I'm here." Ciel commanded. The room went dark.
Ciel sat in place, motionless as he heard screams and groans of the people being knocked out by the demon and the witch. When the lights came back on Sebastian and Nyra standing by the doors.
"Apart from getting caught, you haven't accomplished anything." Sebastian sighed. "You really are ... You thought I'd come at your bidding, could you really be so careless?"
Having been reminded of unpleasant memories, Nyra was a little more worried about Ciel. She leapt onto the stage and created a glowing ball of light blue energy. With that she blasted the cage and watched as the bars turned to ice. She then simply flicked the bars and the entire cage collapsed in a neat pile of ice dust in a perfect circle around its victim.
"As long as I have this contract, you will come no matter where you are, correct?" Ciel asked, looking up at Sebastian who had stepped onto the stage as well.
"...Well, of course..." Sebastian said with a smirk. "I will follow you wherever you go. Until the very end." He helped Ciel to his feet. "Even if I were to be shattered into pieces, I would never leave your side. I would follow you to the depths of hell. I'm not lying." Sebastian said and with a flick of a finger Ciel's bindings snapped. "Not like those humans."
"That's good then." Ciel said. "You will never lie to me, ever!"
"Yes, young master." Sebastian said, placing a hand over his heart.
"I called the police." Nyra said. "They should be here pretty soon."
"Then we shouldn't stay here any longer." Ciel said, looking down at the Viscount Druitt. "Even if we stayed, those dogs at Scotland Yard would give us a hard time."
"You're current state wouldn't help us either," Sebastian chuckled. "My lady."
Ciel glared at Sebastian with bright cheeks. "Anyway, the incident of Jack the Ripper has been solved." Ciel looked down at the Viscount again. "How disappointing."
Someone shouted from the ballroom, "The police are here!"
"I guess that's out cue." Nyra said.
"Very well." Sebastian said before taking off his glasses before picking up Ciel in one arm and Nyra in the other. "Then we shall take our leave." He said before leaping out a nearby window and landing on the rooftops.
The next morning's paper came as quite a shock. 'Jack the Ripper Returns'.
"If our suspect couldn't carry out the murderers... this could be an imposter...or, it's possible it was someone else from the beginning." Lau said.
"Meaning the Viscount isn't involved." Madam Red said.
Ciel angrily slammed the paper on the table. "What's the meaning of this?! The Viscount didn't go anywhere last night! I have to come up with something again." Ciel turned to his butler. "We have to narrow it down. Sebastian, organize that list."
Sebastian placed his hand over his heart and bowed. "I understand, young master."
A storm hit that night. The rain fell in sheets and hit the windows. Ciel sat in an arm chair with pajamas and a robe on. Deciding to get cozy as well, Nyra slipped into a sleeveless, white night dress and put on a black robe on top of that. She stood by the window, watching the lightning and rain but still paid attention to when Ciel spoke.
"There are 4.5 million people in London alone. During the seasonal party period, there'd be even more. If we relax the requirements the pool of people will increase even more." He said, looking at some of the papers.
"You're still working?" A familiar voice asked.
"Madam Red?" Ciel looked up and saw his red haired aunt holding a chess board, her clumsy butler Grell not far behind.
"Want to relax and play this?" She asked with a big smile. "Sometimes you should take a break from working so hard."
She opened the box and revealed the chess pieces inside. "International chess huh...it brings back memories..." Ciel said.
"Is that so?" She asked. "I got this out from the attic." She then began to pat the table she had set the game up on. "Come! Take a break! Take a break!" Ciel sighed but humored his aunt and took a seat across from her. "Grell, please prepare some tea!"
"It's already late...so I've prepared herb tea made from wild roses." Grell said, holding the serving tray.
Ciel and Madam Red took a sip. Madam Red immediately began to yell at Grell.
"This is disgusting! Why is this tea salty?! And you call yourself a butler?!" Grell cried out in shock at the realization that he'd used salt instead of sugar, and immediately to fulfill Madam Red's wish when she ordered him to make it again.
Madam Red sighed and sat down. "Really..." She looked over at Sebastian and saw that the butler was still making notes on the case. "That butler of yours, I can't tell if he's truly capable or just a workaholic."
"Oh don't worry Madam Red," Nyra said from her spot by the window. She smirked towards the butler. "Old birdbrain is quite easily distracted."
Sebastian smirked but didn't look up from the papers. "With you in the room, how can I not?"
The witch rolled her eyes but felt the edges of her mouth tilt up in a tiny smile. Sometimes he was just too cute.
"Sebastian is perfectly capable." Ciel said before lightly glaring at his servants. "He just enjoys playing around every chance he gets."
"Since he's so capable," Madam Red said, moving a piece. "You should just make him do the investigation on the Viscount instead."
"Sebastian is merely one of my chess pieces. It is not possible to move the chess pieces without me, the person behind it." Ciel said. "If I won using a free moving piece, that would not be to my credit. The one who gives the order will always be the master. Without me command, he will not make a move. But the difference between Sebastian and chess pieces is that he can single handedly take down all the other 'knights.' Just like that." Ciel said, taking his own knight and knocking down one of Madam Red's pieces.
"Doing that is against the rules!" She said, putting the piece back up.
"That's right. If this were a game of international chess..." Ciel smirked. "Unfortunately in reality there is no situation where one can win by merely following the rules. There will be knights that break the rules, and even chess pieces that betray you. In order to maintain the balance in this game, I too must break the rules in order to win, no? If we in England were to be less attentive, we would be finished." Ciel said.
Madam Red looked said. "Apart from being the watchdog of the underworld, you should have another way of living. My sister... your mother would have wanted that for you." She sighed. "You want revenge for my murdered sister?" Ciel didn't say anything.
"My sister would have definitely not...we would not have wanted you to be like this..." Madam Red said.
"I...never thought of taking revenge." Ciel finally said. "Even if I took revenge, the dead would not come back. And I would not get any satisfaction. Whether it be to avenge or take revenge on someone's behalf, these are just petty words, and merely a show of selfishness."
Sebastian even turned to watch the young master. Meanwhile, Nyra thought about why Ciel left her out of his chess piece metaphor. She had an idea for an answer. Unlike Sebastian, Nyra could defy his orders and betray him at any moment if she chose to. She was a wild card on the chess board. Either Ciel trusted her enough to not betray him, or he trusted Sebastian enough to keep him safe from the witch.
"I did not do this for the name of the Phantomhive family. I did it for myself." Ciel said firmly. "I want those who betrayed the Phantomhive family to experience what I did... the same level of humiliation and suffering." He made his final move on the chess board. "Checkmate."
Madam Red sighed. "That makes it a consecutive forty-six losses. You were always so good at chess. I'd always lose when I played with you." She sighed again. "I still remember the day you were born. Ate the time I was still a new nurse, and I was panicking back then... You were so small and cute... I felt I had to protect you." She stood up and walked over to Ciel, placing a hand on his head. "Although I've never had children, I trust you as if you were my own son and so I want you to leave this kind of society."
Ciel brushed Madam Red's hand away. "I am here because this is what I wish and it is what I choose. And so, I won't regret anything and neither will I rely on anyone."
Sebastian finished organizing his reports and Nyra stood up from her spot, leaving by the window.
"It is time for me to retire." Ciel said before kissing his aunt in her cheek. "I had a happy time playing worth you, Madam Red."
Madam Red chuckled and winked at Ciel. "I won't lose next time, Ciel."
"Good night." Ciel said with a small smile.
Grell walked back in, teapot in hand. "I'm here to serve the tea..." Grell was surprised when Ciel walked out but he didn't say anything.
Madam Red sighed. "Why must that child bear that kind of pain and coldness at such a young age..?"
"The young master will work tirelessly towards a goal once he's out his mind to it." Nyra said. "Never mind what kind of path he may travel down, he is very ambitious and determined.'
"And that is why we will remains beside the young master and serve him." Sebastian said.
"I guess even if we wanted to stop him, it would be useless." Madam Red said. "During that child's most painful times, I was not by his side."
"Sebastian, Nyra." The two servants perked up at their names. "It may seem strange to ask this if strangers, but please stay by that child's side. Don't let him lose his way, don't let him be lost on his own."
Sebastian and Nyra both bowed to Madam Red. "We will remain by his side and protect him."
The pair of them then left Madam Red with her butler and left to go to Ciel's room. The young Earl was lying in his bed when they entered. "What is it?" He asked.
"I've considered various possibilities, but it seems apart from the Viscount t, no one else could have been involved." Sebastian said, flipping through the papers.
Ciel ran a hand through his hair. "Then change the conditions of the investigation, alright? The incident yesterday had nothing to do with the Viscount."
"You're right. There is no one else at the Viscount's who could have done such a thing." Sebastian said.
"Anyhow, tomorrow..." Ciel froze and sat up. "Sebastian..." The butler smirked. "Did you..."
Nyra looked at the butler with curiosity. He know doubt could have done it. She didn't know if he would still enjoy such things after being around for so long or if he found such acts to be boring at this point. However, one thing was certain, he had nothing to gain from murdering the prostitutes.
The butler smiled darkly. "I've said it many times, right? I won't lie to you. And furthermore... I will become your power, your knight, your chess piece. The one who decides all this, is you. And for this reason I will become your power. At the end of the day, I'm only a butler so I will not express my opinions too much." Ciel was beginning to look more and more irritated. "That is what you said that day." Sebastian said, referring to the beginning of the contract.
The butler proceeded to bow. "I will only loyally follow my master's orders.
"So it was impossibly for a person who was there?" Ciel asked.
"That is correct." Sebastian replied.
Ciel clenched his teeth angrily. "So that's how it is...you..."
Sebastian chuckled and threw the papers in the air. "One of your orders is for me to be your chess piece, to become your sword." Ciel slowly began to lift his eye patch. "Come, move me to check, my lord."