SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL: Cheat Codes of the Universe

SUMMARY: Claude, Hannah and Sebastian thought that taking jobs as body guards to three overly privileged children would be easy. However, their is far more to this job than they ever realized especially when they find themselves running from gunman, dealing with supernatural conspiracies, and having to save those kids from damn near every threat imaginable both of this world and not...

CH 3.
The Adventure Begins

I'm not asking you to believe me. But... if you don't, you can leave tomorrow and never return. However, if you think their is even the slightest chance this could be real then stay and and I'll show you things you've never imagined.

Those words he read haunted him that night. Ciel had not said those words aloud, but Sebastian felt almost as if he could hear them. He barely slept at all, and when he went downstairs in the morning his eyes were bloodshot.

Ciel walked out of his own room looking even more tired than him.

"Did you not sleep well either?" he asked.

Ciel shook his head rubbing his eye groggily. But Sebastian noticed something as he did so. Ciel had bruising around his wrist. "What happened?" he asked genuinely concerned. Ciel blinked, not sure at first what he was referring to. But he followed his gaze to his wrist, and he shrugged it off before heading downstairs.

"Seriously!" Sebastian snapped frowning.

Alois stretched. He was coming down the hallway wearing the same clothes he had on the night before.

"Oh, hello Sebastian."

"Hey," he said frowning. "Do you know what happened to Ciel last night?"

"Why, what's wrong?" he asked looked slightly worried.

"Ciel has bruising around his wrists... They weren't there last night..."

"Oh damnit," Alois frowned. "That was my fault. Sorry, I'll talk to him."

"Your fault, how was it your fault?" he demanded but Alois had already turned walking away. "Hey!"

"He's deaf remember," Claude said coming up behind him. "He can't hear you unless he can see your lips to read them."

"Is that so..." Sebastian frowned.

Hannah helped Luca from his room, and the boy rushed to the railing and used that to guide himself down the hall and down each step.

"Holy shit," Hannah said walking over to the other two. "This kid is a freak, we have to get out of here!"

"Why?" Claude and Sebastian asked together.

"This kid knows everything about me. I mean fucking everything!" she snapped fearfully. "We were talking you know, and I was trying to relate to the kid so I started telling him about this horse I used to have right. I'm at a point we're I haven't said anything more than the horse's name and how much I loved it when he turns around and says, 'you mean the black one with the white tail? He is cute, I'm sorry he broke his leg and your Dad had to shoot it.' I didn't tell him that! And he did this shit our whole conversation. I got so freaked out I went to my room early. Next thing I know this little brat knocks on my door and tells me to not to light a candle in my room (the very second I have the matches in my hand) because he didn't want to die in a fire... again... He said again... Not to mention, he cried almost the whole night and kept knocking on my door saying he was scared, and when I wouldn't answer he'd go back to his bed and cry before getting up a few minutes later and knocking again..."

Claude and Sebastian exchanged glances and turned back to her.

"You're right," Sebastian said.

"Yeah, let's go," Claude agreed.

"When you get to town," Luca said suddenly when they passed him at the bottom of the stairs. "Will you buy me the one with a red bow? I like that one..."

"Okay um kid, I really don't think we're coming back," Hannah said frowning. "But I wish you all the happiness in the world. I really do..."

Hannah grabbed her coat that the maid had hung up by the door. Claude and Sebastian grabbed theirs as well.

"Alright," Luca said frowning. "Just don't get in the first Taxi you hail..."

With that Luca walked with is arm outstretched until he bumped into the doorknob of the kitchen, which he used to open it. Ciel was looking out the kitchen window when he entered.

"Will they be back?" Alois asked him at Ciel's questioning.

"Yup! And Hannah is bringing me a present!" he said cheerfully.

They walked for awhile down the long road to reach town. Having not realized they would be leaving so abruptly they hadn't called a car out to the house to drive them. So once they were in town Sebastian raised a hand the moment he spotted a Taxi. It stopped right before them and Sebastian held the car door open for Hannah.

"No way, remember what the kid said, we can't get in the first one."

"Oh c'mon..."

"I'm not getting in there!" she snapped.

Sebastian frowned. "Fine," he turned to the driver. "Sorry for your trouble. We're gonna take a different one..."

"Tsk, are you saying my cab isn't good enough for you?" the driver snapped.

"No, it's just."

"Fuck you, don't waste my time!" he snapped hurrying off so fast the door closed from the force of it. He turned on his blinker as it headed away down the hill.

"See," Sebastian sighed. "I can't believe we turned down that job... This is probably all just a series of strange coincidences anyway... And that kid is just crazy."

"Whatever, just get another taxi..." Hannah snapped just as an eruption of screaming and tire screeching met their ears. The three of them turned just in time to see the taxi they had been about to get in drive right up over the sidewalk and into the marina water. The cross traffic just before the water had come to a screeching halt to avoid colliding with it.

"Holy shit..." Claude sighed.

"Oh my God..." Hannah gasped.

"Or... maybe that kid just saved our lives..."

Hannah covered her face with her gloved hands and took a seat on the bench nearest to them as citizens began to crowd around the accident.

"We should go back," Sebastian said after a few minutes of stunned silence.

"Look, that Ciel kid told me something the other day. That all of them have powers. I really think it's true now, especially after this. That Luca kid can see the past and the future. Um... Alois can read minds, and Ciel... he makes it so you can only respond to his questions with a truthful answer. I know he showed that one to me..."

"I'm never stepping in that house again," Hannah sighed. "I just can't it's scary. Their creepy! I don't... Oh my god..."

Her eyes suddenly filled with tears.

"Hannah?" Claude asked looking at her. "What's wrong?"

She got to her feet and looking both ways before she crossed the street she rushed over to a toy store window where a number of bears were lined up on a shelf. All of them were wearing different colored ribbons, but only one was red.

"Welcome back," Mei-rin answered the door cheerfully when they arrived back after a half hour of debating later. "We set out seats for you at the table."

Sebastian was about to ask how she knew they would come back, but he didn't bother.

The door opened and Luca without even turning his blindfolded head in the direction of the door he cheered. "Yea! Hannah's back! Can I hug my teddy?"

She handed it too him and he squeezed it tightly smiling. "You can sit next to me Hannah."

She did.

Sebastian and Claude took the other two sets.

"Luca says he didn't make it," Alois said to answer Claude's thought just then.

"Seriously, what the fuck!" Claude snapped suddenly.

"Please don't cuss in front of Luca," Alois spat back. For the first time since they had arrived he looked angry. Then taking a deep breath he proceeded to tell the other two the same story that Ciel had wrote down for him the night before.

Hannah began to cry and Claude took off his glassed to rub his eyes as though that would make this situation clearer.

"Well, that's everything. Now that you guys are staying, we might as well do something fun tonight."

"Whoa, wait." Sebastian leaned back in his chair looking serious. "We never said we were staying yet..."

"Of course you're going to stay," Alois responded with a small laugh. "You three always stay."

"Always?" Claude questioned.

But it had just hit Sebastian again, how the servants had referred to him as though he had met them before.

"Our household," Alois said softly. "Is sort of Immortal, well... What I mean by that is... Their is a ceremony that only be done under the light of a full moon. This ceremony can restore the memories of past lives to your present body. From the day this ceremony is performed we don't age..."

Hannah wiped her eyes looked shocked.

"You three have come to us in your past lives. Each time you die, you get reborn again. We track you down, let you grow, and send you a summons to come work for us as soon as we think you're ready. Then the next full moon after you arrive, we give you back your memories and you stay with us."

Ciel knocked on the table to call Alois' attention. He signed something rapidly to him before returning to his food.

"Oh yeah," Alois said frowning. "In the same way that the three of us sacrifice something, you three have to play host to the demons we are trying to protect the world from."

"Excuse me?" Hannah asked frowning. He hadn't been looking at her so she hit the table like Ciel had done to get his attention. "What do you mean by that?"

"Well," Alois frowned. "Every hundred years the demons gain enough strength to walk the planet again, but when they're within a human form they start to weaken. Imagine it like putting a block of sugar in water. It's going to dissolve until you can't see it anymore. That's what it's like for the demons to reside within a human form. The cool part about that is you'll be able to gain control over some of their powers. You get things like incredible speed and strength, plus wounds are almost never fatal when you have their power."

"So they just lose strength and we somehow magically get all their powers," Claude asked.

"Well, yes and no. I mean, that's where the three of us come in. When the demon is in your bodies they will get weaker and weaker so long as Luca doesn't see, Ciel doesn't speak and I don't hear. If we do those things, they will actually gain strength, and your human side will get weaker and weaker until it's just the demon. But don't worry. Once the demons have a host we have one year to kill them, which means Ciel, Luca and I will only have to keep doing this for one year to seal away the demon. Then we don't have to worry about any of this until around the 90 year mark and that's when their evils will start affect the people once again. At the 98 to 99 year mark is when we have to seal them within another human body and the whole process starts over."

"So... wait a minute, you guys could hear, see and speak if you wanted to?"

Alois nodded to Sebastian's response. Alois turned his head to show them his ear and he pointed out a small wire that looped around his ear. Like one of those hearing aids that are meant to be as discreet as possible. "This stops me from hearing," he explained. "Alois wears that blindfold 24/7 to prevent his seeing, and Ciel simply doesn't speak. In the past however, they used to make things more permanent for us. In the fifteen hundreds they actually..."

He stopped. "Sorry, I don't wanna say. When you tell a story around Luca, he can see it vividly as if he were really there."

"Why do any of this?" Sebastian asked frowning. You kids don't owe the world anything, what would really happen if none of us did anything?"

"World wide war," Alois explained simply. The demons powers would affect the people too strongly. Let me give you an example. If Ciel were to walk into a room and give a speech. He is then putting no filter on Iwazaru's power. You'd have an entire room of people who would begin to say every hateful and truthful thought they have about those around them. This anger and hatred would consume their hearts. Within a matter of minutes you would have a whole room of people near to the point of killing one another. Imagine the same thing happening, except on a world wide scale. Because the size of the location would be much larger than the room Ciel would be speaking to, it would take much more time. But eventually the same thing would occur. However because Ciel's sacrifice serves as a promise to the demon, he can't do much as long as Ciel doesn't speak. Even if he does slip up, it usually only affect the people nearest to him. However if he were to speak every day like nothing was wrong it would begin to affect the whole world working like a ripple from where he is. With the people nearest to him being affected the most first. But us doing this only helps so much, because as I said after 100 years the demons gain enough strength from the natural hatred that exists in the hearts of humans. It feeds their strength and weakens our ability to block it. Which is why after 100 years we have to weaken the demons considerably. It used to be every 500 years, but as the population of Earth has grown, it has shortened the time it takes the demons to regain their strength. If we can contain them within' a host body for just one year they'll be weak enough that we won't have anything to worry about for at least 80 years before they'll slowly start to regain it again."

He paused looking at their faces. "Sorry, that's kind of a lot to take in I guess..."

"So, if we can contain these demons in our bodies for one year, then you guys don't have to worry about any of this for 80?" Claude asked.

"That's right," he answered smiling.

"Okay, I'll do it," Sebastian said and Ciel glanced up at him. Sebastian was looking right at him. "If it means you can speak freely again, I'll do it. Besides I'd kind of like to hear that voice of yours."

Ciel look away, his face had started feeling slightly hot.

"I'm in too, I guess," Claude said and Alois smiled.

"Thank you, I love playing the piano. Did you know that? Man, I can't wait to hear it again..."

Luca turned to Hannah. Even though he was blind folded he seemed to be trying to see her. "Please say you will too Hannah. I'd like to watch cartoons and play video games! But that's hard to do when you're not supposed to look at the screen..."

It was such a childish answer, and adorable as well. She smiled softly. "Alright."

He smiled and leaned over to hug her. A very motherly expression came over her face and she patted his head softly. "Alright..." she smiled. "Okay... well. What's the next step?"

"The next full Moon we'll hold the ceremony that will make you get your memories back," Alois thought for a moment. "It'll be about a month. So until then we'll get to know each-other."

"Well, we should probably let your parents know we're staying," Sebastian had suddenly realized it. Where were they anyway?

Alois frowned, "Our father's left this morning."

"Left? Before we gave them our answer?" Claude couldn't believe that...

"Sorry, could you repeat that?" Alois asked. Claude had glanced at Sebastian when he said that so Alois hadn't had a good view of his lips in order to read them. Claude repeated his words and Alois smiled.

"It doesn't matter, they knew you were gonna stay. You always do. Well... almost always..."

Alois glanced at Ciel at that point, who did not look up at him.

I guess, we're really staying... Sebastian thought frowning, he wondered... Just what kind of adventure were they in for?

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