Chapter 9: A new foe.

"Isabella? Are you there?" Elizabeth said as she sat up in bed, suddenly awoken by the loud noises coming from the lobby. She rubbed her tired eyes and clung to her Teddy bear as she awaited a reply.

In an instant, Isabella was at her side, hand over her heart and leaned in a bow. "Yes my mistress, I am here. Are you alright?" She said.

Elizabeth slowly nodded her head and looked around the room. "Is something troubling you, why are you not asleep my lady?" Isabella asked worryingly.

Elizabeth clung to her stuffed bear tighter and nodded her head once more. "It's just, I thought I heard a loud noise. It startled me, that's all."

Isabella stood up straight and placed a hand on the back of Elizabeth's head, laying her back down onto the plush bed. "Everything is alright my lady, you have my word." She said as she pulled the blankets over her chilled body.

"Now my lady, please try and get some res-" Isabella began, but was suddenly cut off due to the sudden temperature change in the room. She paused for a moment and noticed the worried look Elizabeth was giving her.

"What's going on Isabella? What's wrong?" She asked in an innocent voice.

Isabella shook her head and regained her composure. "My lady, my I ask a favor of you?"

Elizabeth nodded her head. "I suppose, what is it?" She asked confusingly.

Isabella began to pull the thick comforter off of Elizabeth as she spoke. "I need you to get into the closet."

Elizabeth furrowed her brows at her odd request. "Whatever for?" She asked, suddenly becoming panicked.

"I need you to trust me my lady, please do not come out until I inform you other wise." Isabella said.

Elizabeth nodded her head and stood from her bed, teddy bear tightly in her grasp. Isabella led her to the closet and opened the door. Elizabeth crawled in and crouched down in the corner and clung to her teddy bear with shaking hands.

"Thank you my lady, just please wait here." Isabella said.

Elizabeth nodded her head and watched in fear as the doors closed and darkness surrounded her. Isabella slowly turned her head only to be met with a pair of glowing red eyes that were filled to the brim with hatred.

"I certainly did not expect to see you here." Isabella whispered quietly, but loud enough so the being could hear her.

"Hello Isabella, it has been a while." The voice replied.

"It has indeed." Isabella said as the figure emerged from the shadows. "Hello Agares."

The man known as Agares, stepped out into the moon light, revealing himself.

Agares was a demon around the same age as Sebastian and Isabella. He was a rather tall man, standing around the height of Alucard. He had scruffy black hair and pale, porcelain skin, and a multitude of piercings ranging from his face to his ears. He had a tattoo perfectly placed on his right shoulder blade and he wore a long sleeve black shirt with a strange logo on the front and simple black pants.

"May I ask what you are doing here?" Isabella said, speaking a little louder.

Agares stepped closer to her with a broad grin plastered to his pale face. "Why I have come for the girl that you have just placed in the closet."

Isabella narrowed her eyes and furrowed her brows. "And may I ask why?"

"Because she is Ciel Phantomhive's betrothed after all, and nothing would warm my heart more than to see him completely obliterated due to the loss of the only person he has left in this world." Agares explained with a maniacal laugh.

Isabella balled her hands into fists at her sides. "If you assume I will even think about letting you lay a single hand on my lady, then you are mistaken." She began angrily as her eyes glowed a deep magenta. "I have devoted my time to her, to protect her at any cost. Even with my own life, and I will not allow you to interfere with that."

Agares' chuckle turned into a fit of laughter with every word she spoke. "Why go through the trouble for that stupid brat? You are not even under a contract. You are a disgrace to the demon name."

Agares ran towards Isabella with a balled up fist, ready to strike her, but Isabella was more than prepared. She grabbed his fist in her hand and squeezed it as she jumped over his head, flipping him and throwing him at the wall. Agares landed with a thud and held his arm that now dangled at an odd angle.

He picked himself up off the floor and ran for her again, this time kicking her legs out from underneath her, but she caught herself. Now it was her turn. Isabella ran for Agares, jumping over him and grabbing his head, she could have pulled it clean off if it were not for the lose grip she had.

Isabella threw him onto the ground and pinned him down by the throat. Agares threw his fist towards her, but the blow meant for her jaw was thrown off by her own hand. She squeezed his fingers as tightly as she could until she heard a snap.

"Ahhh!" Agares cried out in pain, sending a grin to grow across Isabella's face. Every shout and plea was music to her ears, it fueled her hatred. Isabella's eyes glowed brighter, as if that were possible, and the temperature around her grew colder.

While this was taking place, Agares saw the opportunity to strike. He sent his fist flying through the air, Isabella avoiding it, only to collide with another. The blow was sent directly to her rib cage, but the sting quickly wore off.

Agares wrapped his arms around her small torso and threw her into the air, leaving him breathless for a moment or two. While she was in the air, a sudden sense washed over her and she began to move very quickly, so quickly that Agares almost missed seeing her. Isabella's body seemed to move on its own, without any conscious thought.

She ran by him and slid to his left, opposite of the direction he threw her. Her vision became blurred as she rushed towards him. Agares quickly turned his head from left to right a few times as to calculate where exactly she was going to strike next.

But he had not expected her next place to strike would be directly through his chest. Her hand shot through his body like a bullet piercing his skin. A cough was heard from Agares as an alarming amount of blood gushed from his mouth. He fell to his knees and clung to his chest. He watched helplessly and Isabella wrapped her pale fingers around his heart, roughly pulling it out of his body. Simple words could not possibly begin to describe the amount of pain he was experiencing, even for a demon.

He fell to the ground as a puddle of his own blood pooled around him. Being a demon, something as simple as removing the heart would not exactly kill him, and Isabella knew that. She had a rare weapon in her possession; a demon dagger.

A demon dagger was much like the infamous demon sword, only in the form of a small knife, but could still do a number on a body. Even kill if done in the correct way.

Isabella pulled the dagger out from the inside of the garter belt she had wrapped around her ankle, and plunged it into the side of Agares' neck, immediately killing him after a pop was heard.

Isabella pulled the knife from his neck and placed it back into her garter. She began to clean the mess as quickly as she could, because she knew there was a frightened little girl in the dark all alone.

When she was finished cleaning, she opened the doors to the closet as gentle as she could as to not scare Elizabeth.

"My lady, you can come out now. Are you alright?" Isabella asked.

Elizabeth carefully climbed out of the closet and wrapped her arms around Isabella's neck.

Isabella, taken aback a little by her actions, stood as still as she could, careful not to disrespect her new mistress.

"My lady?" She whispered.

Elizabeth pulled away from Isabella and smiled. "My apologies Isabella, I just wanted to thank you for protecting me." She said sweetly.

A small grin grew across Isabella's face as she kneeled on the floor before Elizabeth, placing a hand over her heart in a bow.

"Of course my lady. Even though we are not contracted together, my life is yours to do as you wish. I am your humble servant." She said.

A large smile grew across Elizabeth's face. "Thank you Isabella."

"Of course, my lady."

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