『 m a g e s ? 』

COULD THERE BE magic here too? Is Sebastian some kind of being with supernatural powers? [Name] couldn't help with overthinking this topic. He always had his suspicions about Sebastian and his master. The five Hogwarts students were currently standing by the side, as Ciel played Chess with his beloved Aunt.

"You were so tiny and fragile, I remember thinking, "No matter what, I have to protect him". Madam Red spoke, she moved her chosen chess piece across the patterned board. "You know I was never able to have a child, but there was you. And I've come to think of you as my very own son." Her smile became a frown. "Which is why I wish you would quit this." She finished, placing her palm against her nephew's head.

Ciel reaches for her hand and removes it from his head. A small frown present on his lips. "This is a task I freely chosen. It is still my choice to make, and no ones else's. I also don't regret my decision, and I won't be coddled by anyone." He said as he received a look of sorrow from his aunt.

[Name] grabbed Madam Red's coat and helped her put it on as she was getting ready to leave. She smiled at him. "Thank you. Also, did anyone every tell you that you have the most gorgeous eyes?" She turned to the teenage wizard.

Pink reached up to his neck and cheeks. He wasn't used to complements. "U-Uh few times. Most would say I have my mother's eyes." Madam red smiled softly, her face did, but her eyes didn't. Oh, how much she wanted to be called a mother.

"Can I tell you something?" The red-headed woman whispered to [Name]. The wizard nodded. "Promise me: say you'll never leave Ciel's side." [Name] was quite shocked at the request Madam Red had requested, but never the less nodded. "I promise, Madam Red. And when I make a promise. . . I never break it."

why did i say that? i know that me and the others will have to go back to our world eventually!
[Name] thought with slight panic.

Madam Red smiled once more as she patted his raven locks.

"I'm here to escort you back home, my lady." A voice said. Madam Red turned her head to the door, it was Grell poking his head out of the door frame.

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"Well then?" Said Ciel, watching the five Hogwarts students and Sebastian walk into his office.

"No matter how I look at it, the results are still the same." Sebastian answered first. "Yesterday's murder— the Viscount couldn't have done it." Harry answered second. "Correct. No one in the mansion couldn't have done it, either." Hermione said lastly.

Ciel crosses his arms, "indeed. . . No person could ever move that quickly. Anyway, tomorrow we'll start searching." He then looked back up at Sebastian and the five witch and wizards. "You didn't. ."

"Of course I didn't, my lord. I told you, I never lie." Sebastian answered.

"We would never do such thing like that, Mr. Phantomhive." Hermione said with a sass like tone.

Ciel raised a brow, but never the less, decided to forget he ever accused them. "Now, involved in medicine, ties to secret society or black magic, lacking alibis for the nights the bodies were found: The only person who fits all criteria is Viscount Druitt." Sebastian informed the small teen.

Ciel knitted brows. "You know more about this then you're letting on, don't you?" He said, slowly getting frustrated.

"But I'm simply one hell of a butler. As you know, I only carry out those orders my master has directly given to me." The raven said as he threw the papers he had in his hands in the air, making them all scatter like snow. "You only need to say the words, my lord, I become either your pawn or your knight. Now, master, move me into check." He said in a sly tone.

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"So. . . If we stake out in this place, he'll show. I'm I correct?" Ciel asked, leading against a brick wall. "Yes. That is correct." Hermione answered.

"You know. . . I've come to realize the murder prostitutes had other things on common besides their profession." The blue haired teen said.

"The most beautiful, glossy black hair." Sebastian said, getting distracted by something. Ciel didn't seem to take notice and kept talking. "But I still don't understand why he had to kill them all."

"I agree. I've never seen such a pretty creature." [Name] said also getting distracted. Ciel still hasn't noticed. "And what's more, I. . ." Ciel finally turned his head to Sebastian and the others.

Sebastian and [Name] hunched over there knees, gazing at a small black furry cat. The other four just stared at the two with amused faces. Draco rolled his eyes (lowkey enjoying the way [Name] looked so fascinated by a cat).

"Listen when I'm talking to you!" Ciel demanded. "Oh, I apologize, sir, but she's so beautiful. And so soft. ." Sebastian responded. "Indeed. And would you calm your arse? It's not like someone is going to scream at us for doing something wrong." Said [Name]. air quoting the word 'wrong.'

Then a scream was heard from afar. "Did not expect that." The raven haired teen said with a deadpanned face.

"How could someone get past us?" Said Ciel, surprised. "Let's go, sir." Sebastian said as the seven of them ran to the building of the scream that was heard.

Ciel slam open the door to the building, eyes went wide; he felt something warm land on his cheek. He was meet with a gruesome scene. Sebastian quickly covered his master's eyes.

Sebastian stared in the slightly dark room. "You've made quite a bloody mess of things in their, Jack the Ripper. . . or should I say, Grell Sutcliff?" He said with a cheeky tone.

A figure slowly walked out of the building, revealing as Grell, all covered in a bloody mess. She quickly spoke in a stammering way. "N-no, you're wrong! I. . . I-I heard the scream and rushed to help, but-"

Sebastian glared at Grell. "You can drop the innocent act, Grell. It's over now. You know, I didn't know this would be the first time that I would meet someone like you in the human world. You played the "Helpless Butler" well, your act almost has everyone fooled." The raven said.

[Name] gripped on his wand from inside his pocket. so there is magical being in this world?

"You. . . you think so?" Grell grinned widely, revealing her sharp pointy teeth. "How kind of you." Her appearance stared to change, her hair turned red, eyes turned to a yellow green. "That's fantastic [beasts *cough*] to hear. After all, I am an actress. And quite a good one at that. Of course you're not really "Sebastian" either, are you?" Grell asked. The red head then looked at the four Hogwarts students.

"And you five are not ordinary humans. . . Are you?"

"Sebastian is the name my master gave me, that is who I am. . for now."

Draco looked towards Sebastian.
what type of earl names their butler? he thought.

"That wouldn't be any of your concern, Grell." Harry said in a dangerous tone.

Grell chuckled at the teen, putting on her glasses, "ah, you're playing the "faithful dogs." Well, you two are handsome enough to get away with it."

you two? wait- harry?
[Name] held in a laugh.

"Anyway, here we are. No, I'll give you a nickname!" First, she pointed to Sebastian, "I'll name you Bassy." She then, pointed to Harry, "and I'll name you two. . . My little darlings!" [Name] was quick to notice, and frown instantly.

i did not want to be apart of this. .

"Now, let me introduce myself: The Burnett butler, Grell Sutcliff." She said, grind widening, if even possible. "Let's get along, shall we?" Grell said, blowing a kiss.

"It's so nice to talk to you in my true form! I'll admit I was surprised when I first meet you, I've never seen a demon playing a butler." Said Grell.

DEMON?!
The five students fell in shock.

it all makes since now.
[Name] glanced at Harry, nodding in his direction.

"But I could say the same thing about you. I never thought I'd find one of your kind playing a butler either. You're supposed to be an intermediary between man and God— a Grim Reaper." Sebastian said.

"What? A grim reaper?" Hermione whisper shouted to her friends. "Well, he looks different than the ones we have." Said [Name]. "Yeah, way different." Ron agreed with a deep gulp.

"For now lets just say that it was out of love for a certain woman." Grell said with a grin ever so wide. Sebastian questions, "and that woman would be?"

"You don't really need to ask, do you?" An all too familiar voice asked. The figure walked out slowly, revealing a certain red-headed woman.

i had my suspicions, but i didn't want to believe it. [Name] thought with sweat going down his neck.

"Madam. . ."

"Well I hadn't counted on this. I didn't think anyone would be able to tell who Grell really was." Madam Red stated with a cheeky tone. Ciel's hands clinched to his sides as he spoke, "naturally you where on the suspect list from the very beginning." He then gave a stern look. "But all of your alibis seemed flawless." He finished informing.

"You mean you actually suspected your own aunt?" Madam Red questions.

"I was looking for a murderer; degree of relation to me did not matter. None of the humans on the suspect list could have responsible for all the murders." Ciel continued.

"But one of them had an inhuman accomplice, and that would change the game completely. It had to be someone who could enter and leave the room without being noticed; someone who could travel from Viscount's to the East end instantaneously. In the end, you two were the only ones who could be Jack the Ripper, Madam Red and Grell Sutcliff."

[Name] then spoke. "Beginning to look into what else the victims had in common besides prostitution. And then, I noticed that they'd all undergone a certain surgery at the hospital that you work at. The cuts on your fingers looked new, yet you said that you'd have a few weeks off. Which was quite odd to say." He gazed at her.

"So we made a list of all of the patients from your hospital. The only one that was still alive, was a woman by the name of Mary Kelly. We knew if we waited near here you would eventually come for her. But we were too late. . ." He finished explaining to Madam Red.

Madam Red sighed softly. Facing to Ciel. "My darling nephew, how unfortunate this turned out to be. . If you had let it go, we could have played chess again. But now. . . You've taken everything!" Madam Red yelled out, her calming features changed to a pure raging one.

Grell lunged at Ciel with a chainsaw, [Name] quickly pointed his wand to Grell's running figure. 

"Expelliarmus!" He shouted out forcefully, a dazzling flash of scarlet light shot out of the wand; Grell was blasted off her feet: she flew backward into the air, crashing harshly to the bricked floor, and slid across it to a sprawl.

"What was that?" Ciel asked. Hermione faced the blue-headed teen, "it's a disarming charm, that makes whatever the targets holding fly out of their hands; if said forcefully it will knock down the target." Ciel sighed. "Not that. That." He pointed to the chainsaw that was a few inches away from the fallen Grell.

"Oh. ." Hermione sweat dropped.

"Grim Reapers use tools for harvesting souls. That is his reaper scythe." Sebastian answered.

Grell quickly got up to her feet grabbing her scythe while doing so. "Don't you dare call it that! This is much more then a scythe; I've worked very hard on customizing it! This is a special "death scythe" of my own design. It can hack anyone into tiny pieces!" She then grinds again, "I'm getting out of shape. I would love to exercise my skills, so shall we play?" Grell then, started to give kissy faces.

"Perhaps you could be a bit more respectful of our position. . . We are on duty, you know?" [Name] said dangerously low, pointing his wand at her threateningly.

"What a stoic boy you are! That makes me want to crush you even more!" Grell gave a sicking smile. "You know, Red is my favorite color. It's perfect for hair, clothes, and lipstick. So, I painted all those women with pretty, pretty red blood. Now, all of you, I'll make you all look gorgeous. I'll tear you up from the inside, believe me I'll make you love it. You'll be lovely as scattered rose pedals."

Sebastian then started to talk to Grell about her being a grim reaper and butler; failing as both of them. Grell seemed hurt by his words.

Ciel had enough of this, he reached his hand to his patched eye; his emotionless face changed to annoyed and angered one, as he ordered, "in my name and that of the queen, I order you, Sebastian, you five: put an end to them!"

Hermione was the first to react. "What? You want us to end them?!" Ciel gave a threatening glare. "Did I stutter? You're all my pawns now. And you'll do as I say." He responded deadly.

Hermione and the four other Hogwarts students flinched at his sayings. Sebastian never the less bowed, and said one of his infamous words, "as you wish, my young lord."

Grell took the opportunity to lunge Sebastian and the five witch and wizards, luckily they all had a chance to dodge the attack. Grell decides to go after Sebastian, since he was the nearest to her. "Oh, yes! Please run away. We can play tag together, Bassy! But least see when you're not fast enough," Grell said, slashing her Death scythe at Sebastian, but missing every slash she made. The raven was not paying attention as he was going to hit against a wall.

Harry being the nearest to him, pulling out his wand from out his pocket and pointed at Sebastian. Sebastian was then moved out of the way, as then Harry took the demon's place. "Oh, what a hero you are!" Grell said backing slightly away from the now pointing wand to him.

Madam Red smiled cheekily, then frowned at Ciel. "You're still the Queen's guard dog, which means that I'm now your prey. But if it's going to be hunt or to be hunted. . . Then there's only one thing to do!" She cried, running to Ciel in full speed, while holding a sharp object. [Name's] eyes widened, horrorstruck at the scene in front of him. Madam Red Struck Ciel in his arm with the knife she had in her hand. This caught the servants' attention.

"Aren't you a doctor? How could you do such a thing?" [Name] asked, in shock that madam Red was the one who caused all those murders, and also the fact that she just sliced Ciel's arm open. Madam Red whipped her head at the young teen. "You wouldn't understand even if I told you. You're just a child!" [Name] frowned at madam Red's words.

The red-head turned her head back to Ciel. "And you. You should have never been born in the first place!" She exclaimed, holding Ciel by the neck, slowly chocking him.

She raised the knife up ready to strike again. . . but stopped her actions. She lets go of Ciel's neck; he dropped to the floor gasping for air.

". . . I can't."

Madam Red whispered, a small whisper. That only ghosts could hear.

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hewo !
hope you enjoyed this re-written chapter !
even if i didn't like how it came out- ㅠㅠ