Chapter 10~ Final Bow: Part 1

Flashes and memories overwhelmed my mind as we descended into the darkness of the basement. I didn't like the underground, it reminded me too much of my past and being caged. I was doomed from the minute I stepped on the elevator, if I can't keep myself in check I would lose control. When that happens, one can only hope that they are not the one I kill. I go into a blank state, like I did when I tortured my captors and my parents, everything goes dead and all I think about is the kill.

We walk down and the baron tells of his first encounter with the Phantomhives. As we continue I learn that this, vermin, became so obsessed with matching or being able to stand beside the dark beauty and appeal of the Phantomhives, the Villainous Nobles, that he constantly surgically changed himself. Searching tirelessly for pure beauty. When he found out about Ciel's kidnapping, one of his associates was the one that recognized Ciel and told him. They treated the whole thing like a sick twisted game or show to entertain themselves. I'm glad Ciel had the ones that imprisoned him killed by Sebastian, it reminds me that I'm not the only one that thinks this way.

Once Baron Kelvin finished speaking, we had reached the large doors that opened up to a large room resembling...Ciel's sacrificing room. I was shocked and angry, but most of all worried. The way that things were going neither me nor Ciel will be able to think rationally like normal, and we won't be able to listen to reason either. Out of the corner of my eye I see Ciel physically freeze with shock and dread while he gasped out of recognition and a slight almost undetectable shred of fear etched into his voice and brain permanently because of his years of torment and cruelty.

"I know now that one cannot turn back time, but then I thought why not just do it again!" Baron Kelvin lead us to the center of the room, "I have made sure that everything is the same as that day!"

I grabbed Ciel's hand and squeezed it in reassurance. He calmed slightly but was very edgy. I knew that I had to let him finish his job, then I heard pounding...like a heartbeat. I froze and began to sway on my feet, my vision blurring and my hearing going blank. Bits of the conversation were clear while others were fuzzy. I felt something strange, no! My voice...I haven't sung in a while so now it must be acting this way.

A fun fact about sirens in my family that I found out was that if we don't sing for a long time our voices start to act up and we go through slight changes in personality and emotion. Basically I have to sing at least once everyday or else my siren voice leaks out into my normal speaking and controls people. Since I haven't sung in a long while and my gift of charm speak is present as well I have a slight problem.

BANG! I look up startled from my thoughts and see Kelvin in his wheel chair shot through the stomach. Ciel held the gun up, it still smoking from the shot, with a frightening and desperate look in is angered face. Looking around I realized that I had sat down to watch. I stood up slowly with a cold glare. I suppose this time I could afford to give in to my nature as a siren. In a flash I was between Ciel and Joker.

Joker was startled that his knife missed the intended target and hit me instead. He backed away frightened and regretful. With a sickening rip I pulled the knife out of my heart, an action that should have killed me then and there, but I was stronger. I had more power than the gods themselves. Immortal, unchanging, above everyone else. That is what I was taught, my pride, my arrogance will aid me. As long as I know myself and my limits and have complete faith in my abilities I will not fail. I will not die..I refuse to die like this!

To the shock of everyone my blood stopped flowing and my wound sealed itself. A thin scar ran down between my breasts. My eyes flashed a bright red as the siren took over, one thing clear. He needed to die.

Blood covered the front of me as I stalked towards my prey. I held the knife loosely in my hand and smirked devilishly.

"No one harms him..." I spoke with the sirens voice, it sounded feminine with many voices layered on top of each other. Sebastian was by Ciel in seconds, standing in front of him once he realized what had happened. The siren had come out to play, my bloodlust needed to be quenched, someone needed to die. Ciel looked on with a mixture of curiosity, fear, and slight attraction.

"Siren..." Joker mumbled as he fell back.

"Did you know? Sirens in myths were known to sing in order to lure men to their deaths at sea." I giggled, "but the thing is, that not the truth..." I pouted when they were too frightened to respond.

"Oh~? Then what is the truth miss Siren?" Sebastian called as his eyes flashed a demonic red. Ciel waited for an answer.

I was in front of them now, speed was one of my talents, death does sneak up on people sometimes. "We sing so that we don't kill, when we stop singing for a long time our instincts take over. Seek out and kill." I returned to my place in front of Joker, "It's nothing personal Joker, after all you did take care of me!"

"Why Siren, I though'..." he looked betrayed.

I laughed cruelly, "It's just instincts...like survival..." his eyes widened in realization before closing in pain. I heard the squish of flesh as the knife buried itself into his stomach.

When I stepped away he fell to the floor.

"Please! Siren, Ciel! No matter what he was, the baron was our savior!" he was panting from the loss of blood, "we have tons of younger siblings that would be hungry and lost on the streets if it weren't for him! They are still at the warehouse! That's why!"

I laughed, "That's why? That's why you followed his orders? Why you kidnapped those children and killed those people? All for the sake of protecting yourselves!"

Ciel moved out from behind Sebastian and over to the almost dead baron, "How pathetic..."

"Indeed, in this world the weak are picked on by the stronger, the wealthier. In this world the only thing that matters is how much money or status one has..." I spoke from beside Ciel, making him jump slightly. I gripped his hand.

"Only two kinds of people exist in this world, those who steal and those who are stolen from," Ciel spoke to Joker.

"Today we steal your futures..." I finished with a devilish smirk.

Much to the shock of Ciel and I, Joker started to laugh. "There's a reason people never found out we were taking the children...it's cause no one ever lived afterwards. At this very moment the other first stringers are heading to your mansion...no one will be left!" Joker started to laugh again.

Ciel gasped, "Lizzie,"

A pang of jealousy went through me as he said this. If only he would be yours alone...the siren spoke with sweet words. I would never harm her or anyone just to have him for myself. I would never lower myself to those levels. The siren is only a part of myself, I am more...

"Ha!" Ciel spoke to Joker, "The servants of the Phantomhive household are not mere workers, they were hand picked by Sebastian and myself in order to protect the manor as well as myself."

Joker's smile dropped as he thought about what could happen, "They won't die! I know they won't, they are pros too!"

"Are you forgetting Joker? They were chosen by Ciel and Sebastian..." I spoke, now back to my normal self. The sirens bloodlust quenched. I glared coldly, "Even I can guess what has happened to them by now..."

"No..." Joker silently sobbed until it was quieted.

There was a moment of relief and silence, but I knew it was only the calm before the storm. I knew, call it instincts or a guy feeling, but I knew that something was going to go wrong...