There were quite a few requests to rewrite this end chapter. And though I didn't have much time to do this, I hope it's at least a little more satisfactory. :)
~Fate~
"We're gonna dieeee..." Alois sniffled. "I always knew master never loved me..all he talks about is you..hmph."
"Nyaa..I could have gone the rest of this day without knowing that." Ciel said back as Undertaker approached and stopped at the front of the kennel. Sending a whiff of milk-bone scent and morgue in their direction.
"Hehehe, you may try all you may but you'll never escape me hehehe..."
"Not even if I get you to laugh?" Ciel said all knowingly, Alois looked up at him with a confused expression.
"Hmhm, perhaps I would consider it if it were possible..hehe, but theres really no way you would be able to. It's not easy to get this old reaper to really laugh hmhm.." Undertaker smiled as he opened the gate.
"Won't you at least give me a chance nya? Hmhm.." It was a slim chance, but if he could manage, not only would the reaper probably respect him more, but it would get them out of this fix.
The ex-reaper sighed and gave a cheshire grin below his bangs silvery bangs.
"Oh very well..hmhm, but if you don't I'll charge your master extra for wasting my time hehehe.." That's how he was going to play was it?
The door was closed again leaving Alois in the kennel but Ciel walked away with Undertaker.
"Ciel! Don't leave me alone! Everyone leaves me! Don't you do it too!" The blonde cried out but was ignored. He sat down and watched as the two others disappeared down a hall way. He put his blonde ears down and wrapped his tail around his small body as he sat down and leaned against the cold wall.
"That imbecile. I hope he fails and gets punished again for charging more money.." The blonde Neko ranted as he tapped the floor with his nail, seeing a small bug and smirking evilly and crushing it with his thumb. "Hmm...it looks like-" He started to talk again but was interrupted by the enormous boom of laughter that could only be identified as belonging to the more than quirky Undertaker. The sound rattled the walls and send waves of rumbles through the floor, and it wasn't five minutes later that the two came walking back, the vintage reaper giggling still and wiping tears from his eyes from laughing so hard. Ciel had a victorious smile on his face and walked silently back to the kennel where he opened the door and took Alois and walked out of the building with undertaker propping himself against a wall with his hand, still trying to quiet his laughter.
"Hmhm..well that went well.." Ciel said as he opened the door but found himself greeted by his once loyal butler looking down at him with a curious, innocent expression. "S..Seb-"
"My, my..you just never quit do you..hmhm...I congratulate you for making him laugh but unfortunately you're attempts were in vain. I need you properly groomed little Ciel." Sebastian mused and the ash colored neko tried to back up to maybe run the other way but Undertaker was strategically placed behind him. With a heavy sigh the phantomhive boy growled a little under his breath.
"I thought you and Claude left nya."
"We were only just down the street when we heard Undertaker's thunderous laughter..hmhm..and so I wondered what you two kittens could possibly be up to now, please though little lord, back inside.."
Ciel gritted his teeth at his butlers not so innocent insults, and put his ears down and followed the ex-reaper back to the back room with Alois.
"Hmhm, too bad, too bad...it was a rich joke too hehe.." The reaper snickered as he promptly returned to his work and filled a tub with water. "So then! Let's get down to business, whose first?"
Ciel shoved his almost companion Alois towards the man and stood against the wall.
After about an hour both had been properly bathed with some sort of special shampoo and conditioner as well as for god knows what reason, an anti flee solution. The two boys were fuming as the man combed their hair and compared different bows to put in them.
"Nyyaaaaaaa.." The little blonde boy with cat ears whined as his hair was combed. His young blue eyes glossing as they watered.
"You're not really going to put those in our hair are you? Nya. You do realize we're men right.."
"Hehe..of course.." The man said as he brought out a new outfit for each of the boys, dressing them properly and then filing down their nails and cleaning their large cat ears. The two had already tried numerous, quite intelligent, pranks to stop the man but some how he saw through all of them. For example, Alois had propped up a bowl full of shampoo on top of a door frame and it was supposed to fall on the reaper as he walked under it through the door, but the boys had watched in disbelief as the reaper had opened the door but spun around as he hummed a tune in a circle just enough to dodge the falling bowl which instead fell and shattered on the floor. The reaper had snickered and looked down at it and simply said "Oh dear, I wonder where that came from hehe.." And then walked out to get the dental equipment for caring for the boys teeth, namely there longer, sharper ones.
There had also been a scheme between the boys in which they thought they could just drive the man mad. Of course, Alois had brought up the fact that he was already mad. Many pranks were tried and attempted and failed, for instance, when little Aloise had smothered the bottoms and backs of each door knob and handle with a anesthetic cream just to annoy the man, but the reaper had coincidentally had his hands full each time with random things and opened the doors with his foot. Ciel had simply twitched and the two had face-palmed. What was this man?! He couldn't possibly tell the future right? Thats what it seemed like though at times. Ciel had then come up with the idea to put glue in the sanitizing dispensers. Which had almost worked, until undertaker had suddenly remembered! Oh, he had a little portable hand sanitizer bottle in his robes. Finally the two had come up with an elaborate plan to kill the man. While the soul reaper had been signing papers for the boys charges they snatched medical syringes and filled them with every bottle of anything that was in the cupboard, and then created a rather fancy mechanism in which when undertaker tripped a line that was stretched across the place he would walk, the trey would be flipped and all the needles would shoot into the mans body. Failing to realize however that there were only so many ways to kill a shinigami. The strategy had been precisely set up, at least to the best ability of two young boys. It seemed they had learned a few things from their demon companions over the years. This prank actually was commended by the make shift mad hatter. When the line had been tripped the man had pulled a massive scyth out of seemingly no where and destroyed the flying weapons before they struck him. Ciel and Alois had actually been slightly terrified at this, the reaper looked so menacing with his crazed smile and his massive grim reapers scyth.
'Good job boys, this has to be the most well thought out attempt on my life from one of my customers. Hmhm..' Undertaker had said and then gone over to the boys, who backed up and found themselves pressed against a wall, as the man hummed a laugh and patted their heads. That was the point that the two called it quits and gave up.
Finally they were finished and it had been two and a half hours. Two and a half painstaking hours of terror that is. Thankfully they were now finished. Ciel had been redressed in a suit that definitely showed his royal standing. Of course, the blue ribbon tied in his hair seemed to soften his hard expression, accenting his feline ears. Alois had a similar outfit on that made him look quite innocent, and the small gold bow in his hair made him look a little more like a girl. Ciel had laughed at him for it. They were brought out on leashes to the front counter where they were put in another set of kennels to keep them from running off or causing trouble while waiting for Sebastian and Claude. Suddenly Undertaker slinked back over to them and grinned deviously.
"Hehe, almost forgot." He said as he spritzed the two boys inside with a flowery scent.
Ciel and Alois both lunged at the man through the kennel, swiping there now filed claws just shy of his pale face, who simply ducked in time and then stood up and wagged a finger at the boys, the same cheshire smile on his mostly hidden features.
"Hehe, ah-ah..no picking fights with soul reapers silly kitties..hmhm..wouldn't want anything bad to happen to you."
"Hmph, some soul reaper..look what you've been demoted to..hmph...a grooming business." Alois spat with a new darkness to him. Again with the mood swings. Ciel looked up at the Undertaker wide eyed and backed up a little.
"What?" Alois asked as he looked up at him and then jumped back, hitting his head on the top of the cage and falling back on his rear. A look of absolute fear on his young features.
The man was standing there with an evil aura, a certain darkness surrounding him and his hair fanning out a little bit in some unknown force, probably his own power.
"Hmm...you have quite the mouth don't you little one..hehe...perhaps I should start an obedience school...I'll let you in free of charge...hmhmhmhm..." The man said in a deadly tone but suddenly it was like the lights were turned back on and he was back to his usual weird, quirky, falsly-innocent self as the door opened and the two butlers walked in.
"Ah my wonderful customers...hmhm.." The man said as he opened the kennel and presented the dolled up kittens to their masters. Sebastian raised a brow and stifled a laugh.
"Don't you say a word." Ciel ordered as he blushed. "Nya." He finished and again became irritated with the mew he simply had no control over. He compared it to when you get a really bad case of hiccups and they attack you every time you try to talk, thus humiliating you in front of people.
"Hmhm, did you enjoy yourself?" Sebastian asked as he attached the boys leash, Ciel shifted uncomfortably at being on a leash again.
"Oh yes, it was quite droll.." The boy said with a fake smile and hidden intent to kill. The demon smiled approvingly. The two paid the Undertaker for the very enthusiastic business and then left back into the carriage where the two both took out the bow and ribbon.
"Stupid fool." Alois said. "If I could I'd rip out his eyes, if he even proved he had any." Claude chuckled as his feisty little feline and pet his ears, which the blonde kitten snuggled into even though he was in a bad mood.
"Hmhm...Aloise, I hope you weren't too much trouble for him.." The more serious butler stated and continued to pet his pet's soft ears, he had missed the child. As much as the boy drove him insane, he still cared for him, and at this point couldn't imagine this dull world without him.
"C...Claude?" Aloise stuttered after hearing the softness in his normally plain butlers voice, but then panicked a little, he knew he would be punished for not calling him 'master'. The golden eyed demon's mouth pulled up into a slight smile and he simply pulled the boy close. Aloise, though a little confused at his masters sudden affection, smiled a little but then his eyes watered and he silently teared over in joy. Something he hadn't truly felt for a very long time. It was then that Claude put the boy in the carriage with Ciel and the blue haired hybrid simply looked on in surprise but then sat against the seat and remained quiet.
The Neko stood quietly, wearing a slight blush as Lady Elizabeth fawned over him and how 'cute' he was. She also danced happily around Aloise but plainly stated that she preferred Ciel because he was her 'destined'.
"Lizzy...please..I'm not really a cat..just..part cat." Ciel tried but only received a pout face from his fiancé.
"Oh hush! Someday when we have children we will have adorable little Neko's! And I'll dress them up just like how I do you..hmhm.." The girl giggled as she danced around in a circle. Ciel blushed ferociously imagining the thought of little Ciel's and Lizzy's running around, not just that, but little Ciel and Lizzy neko's. What a nightmare.
"Uh, Lizzy...are you sure that would be a good idea?" He asked sheepishly thinking about how much chaos that would result in.
"Of course! It's a wonderful idea! You're so positivity adorable!" She sang as she ran back up to him and wrapped her arms around him.
"Hmhm, you smell lovely too. Is that orchid?"
"I'm not sure."
"You mean you don't know what kind of perfume you wear?"
"Lizzy it's not perfume its..."
"Hehehe, it's okay Ciel, lots of men wear it..hmhm.."
"I do believe you mean cologne.."
"Either way you smell wonderful! I think I have orchid too..hmhm...I only wear it on special occasion though, like on the holidays." She snickered happily and Ciel felt hot in the face. That damn Undertaker. He just knew Sebastian had the man do this on purpose to break down his pride once again. To humiliate him a little more.
At that moment, a young blonde neko by the name of Aloise Trancy came up from behind Ciel and simply chuckled at the other boy.
"Ciel Phantomhive, you really have no charm at all. Do it like this.." The blonde said as he stepped right up to Elizabeth who blushed several shades of red and leaned back a little to avoid such close proximity to someone who wasn't her soul mate. She couldn't escape though when the blue eyed boy gently cupped her small chin in his hand, and pulled her close. Nearly close enough for their noses to touch.
"Such beauty, hmhm...such beauty shouldn't be wasted on a charmless tomcat like Ciel. Someone as delicate as you miss Elizabeth, should be with someone as handsome as I. There shall never be another pair like you and I ever again in the world." He continued, as he spoke and romanced Ciel's future wife, the Phantomhive boy made his way to the large fire place, the red eyed demon simply watched to see what he was up to. "You can't heave beauty without sounding out 'you'..and you can't have handsome, without 'me'. Hmhm...So will you-" But he was cut off when Ciel suddenly landed a massive blow to the top of his head with a log from the unlit fireplace.
"GYAAAAA?!It huuurtttss!" Aloise cried out as he shoved away from Lizzy, causing her to step on the back of her dress and fall, but Ciel was there to catch her. The blonde romeo flailed as he hopped up and down and spun in circles at the pain in his poor skull. He threw his hands to his throbbing head, trying to smother out the pain
"Please excuse me Lizzy I'm sorry you had to witness that, but I couldn't have you taken advantage of from such filth. I must return home now.." Ciel said as he kissed Lizzy's hand just to prove he had some charm. Sebastian led him out with an amused smile and put him in the carriage.
"Master, I know that may have damaged my reputation just now, but he was being ridiculous. And as for you sending me away to that psychotic soul reaper, please don't ever send me back ." Ciel spoke in a tired tone as Sebastian smiled.
"Hmhm...we will see.." He said as he closed the door and sighed as he climbed up on the top and drove the carriage home.
The days and months went on, and Ciel grew more accustomed to his form as a Neko with cat ears and a tail. He was a little more warmed up to Sebastian as well, if that's how you could say it. He was more or less numb to it all. But the demon wasn't quite his normally cheery self any more. Of course, there was a good reason why. Ciel and Aloise had managed to trick their demons. Now they didn't have to give up their souls, and their masters were trapped in bondage within contract. These days, Ciel was much more relaxed, more than he'd been in nearly three years. Right now he sat on Sebastian's lap enjoying a cup of tea and snuggling up to the butler. He'd grown quite fond of cuddling the way a cat would and getting his ears scratched and pet. And though he'd lost the boy's soul, he didn't lose him. He still had his precious pet which he loved.
"My lord, today's schedule is empty, is there anything particular that you would like to engage in." Sebastian asked with little emotion. Ciel smiled and opened his eyes revealing a deep crimson color rather than the normal lapiz blue he had usually had. He took another sip of his tea.
"No. I'd simply like to relax today, nya." Ciel answered to the other demon. They had broken all previous ties to people and businesses, Ciel again set the manor a blaze before he and the butler left for good. Sebastian was now permanently bound in contract for the rest of eternity to serve Ciel, being a lowly butler till the end of time. The two were Master's of each other. Ciel master of the demon butler before him, and Sebastian master of the child demon who sat on his lap in a slightly kingly manor. Both slaves to each other.
~END~
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"Cieeelll!"
"...ignore him Ciel...just ignore him..."
"CIELLLLL!"
ciel.- "Damn it Trancy this story is supposed to be over!"
Alois- "Oh no it's not! They didn't even mention me at the end!"
Ciel- "Yes they did..look..right there.."
Alois- "That doesn't count!"
Ciel – (Sigh)... "Alright, Claude and Aloise are here too...they drive me mad every day around tea time...Claude and Sebastian are in an infinite battle of whose the better butler, and Trancy and I play pranks on the demon lord all the time..."
Sebastian- "Which they don't get away with unpunished.."
Claud- "...neither do we.. ."
Aloise- "Haha, yeah, they get punished by the demon king. ^.^ It's hilarious..."
Nekos laugh
Sebastian- "I do believe that's the end of this story...well...the end of this story for a second time.."
Background:Ciel and Alois fighting over who gets to sit in the 'big' chair(throne chair)
Aloise- "Ciellll! You always sit in it! Move your ass! It's my turn!"
Claud- "Aloise! Language!"
Ciel-snicker
Fight breaks out between nekos and furniture is launched around the room and very loud meowing chaos echos.
Sebastian and Claud- (Sigh) "The end..."
The butlers glance at each other in an annoyed way
Sebastian- "La fin.."
Claude glances at him, raised eye brow
Claude- "конец"
Both butlers glare at each other
Sebastian- "終わり"(Smirk)
Claude- (glare) "O Fim..."
Evil aura smothering nekos in background
Sebastian- "Das Ende.."
Ciel/Aloise- "DAMN IT WOULD YOU TWO STOP SAYING THE END IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES?!"
Sebastian/Claude- (Sigh)
Undertaker out of no where- "Hehe...bye bye for now dearies."
Alois in the background- "REVIEW! Nyaaa!" Gets pounced on by Ciel