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A/N:I'm so nervous! This is my first ever fanfiction, and I was not aware about what would happen to me? Please enjoy and give me your reviews!

Chapter 1

"Will it hurt?"

"Maybe. A little."

"OK. Then try to do it gentle."

"Yes, my Lord."

Ciel closed his eyes, waiting for the demon to devoured his soul. Sebastian gave a wicked smile, then he leaned close to his 'Master'.

"Now... My Lord..."

Ciel felt his lip pressed against Sebastian's. He had this weird, yet strange feeling about this. It didn't feel as painful as he had thought. He felt Sebastian's toungue entering his mouth, licking his own toungue, and he had a sweet sense as his breath came united with the demon. He thought this was just a procedure of devouring one's soul, so that he welcomed Sebastian's tounge and showed no sign of resistance. Then he started to feel breathless, for Sebastian's mouth keep pressing against his and did not allow him to take any breath.

Then everything went black.

Ciel was sure that he was laying against a flat surface. He had this skeptical feeling that he was not dead, yet. His senses were still working, he could hear nothing, but feeling his heart pounding inside his chest. Assuming that he was alive, he opened his eyes.

He was laying on a pure white bed, inside a white crystal chamber which he did not recognized. He looked upon the mirror beside the bed and realized that he was naked, and yet his eyes were united in the color blue. He did not see the demon's mark; which has disappeared from his right eye, it was gone, as he thought the contract was finished, for he did not need it anymore. Everything was totally white, from the high collumns to the three-legged table in the centered of the room. Except for an object that lays upon the table. A ring was placed on a white cushion, yet it was blue, and golden frames were attached around it to make it shines brighter. Ciel realized that this was his ring, a Phantomhive symbol which was passed down from generations. He picked it up, and fit it right into his thumb.

All at the same time, as Ciel put on his ring, it glowed brighter and brighter, until he could see nothing.

And then he heard something. It was the sound of nature. He could hear birds singing, and the movement of the trees, as they swayed with the wind. He felt sunlight upon his face, and he was, again, laying down. But this time, he was laying on grass. He winced, then he saw a tall figure, bending above him. Then everything came into focus. Looking down at him was a thin oval face with a pair of dark crimson eyes, black-haired man. He gave a slight smirk along with Ciel's awaken.

"So you're finally awake, young Master..." Sebastian whisperred into Ciel's ears.

"W-What, why are you here? Wait, why am I here? Where am I?" Ciel blurted out.

"Let us not worry about that right now, young Master. I will explain everything to you at times. Now, if you will permit me..." Sebastian got onto his feet, as he lifted Ciel with his mighty arms.

"What are you doing? Where are you taking me?" Ciel questioned impatiently.

"To...the place, young Master. I apology in advance for not telling you the exact destination, but I assure that you will be able to understand..." Sebastian answered skeptically. Then, he flicked his hand. A gigantic hole seemed to apearred out of nowhere. It hung in mid-air, in a color of black. Purple and red smoke flickered around the hole, as if it was welcoming the entrance of the two people standing before it, like a kind of portal.

Suddenly, Ciel realized what this meant. "You..you don't say, you're taking me to hell ?"

"Precisely. But not quite, my Lord." Sebastian gave a grin. Then he jumped into the hole.

Everything was terrible. It was so hot that it nearly burnt Ciel's skin. Moans and wailings were echoeing through the space. Ciel gave a loud yelp as a fire flickered through his legs.

"Endure it, my Lord. It will hurt just a little, we're nearly there." Sebastian said as he tried to cover Ciel's skin as much as possible with his appeared-out-of-nowhere pair of black-feathered wings.

Ciel gripped onto Sebastian as tightly as he could, and together they flew across the dimension. It felt like hours to Ciel, as he had lost awareness of how long he had been flying with Sebastian, and finally he felt Sebastian decending onto the ground. He step down and did not believe what he saw. In front of his eyes were the Phantomhive manor, for he could not be mistaken with the British structure. But yet, a lot of things changed. The leaves on the trees in the yard was black instead of a shade of green. The blue sky now replaced itself with a bloody red color. There was no Baldroy, Meirin, Finnian nor Tanaka-the servants of the manor awaiting for him. As Ciel look around at the gates, he did not see the usual streets or towns surrounding it. All was red, as if his manor was just swaying inside a midst of eternity.

"This place..." Ciel expressed in surprise.

"Forgive me for my bad work, my Lord. But i cannot assemble the Phantomhive manor as it once looked like, for now we are not, literally, on Earth, anymore." Sebastian bowed deep to his Master.

"You mean...this is your place?" Ciel asked confusingly.

"This is where I stay when there was no contract available, sir." Sebastian replied with his left hand clutching on his chest.

"So why...my manor then? Why did you not make it to look like other places?" Ciel urged.

"Its visual view changes upon the person's environmental desire, my Lord, for I see that you find yourself most comfortable within your own home." Sebastian answered Ciel. "Now, shall we enter, my Lord?" Sebastian asked as he opened the double doors to the Great Hall.

Together they went inside the mansion. Ciel gasped. Every single thing was totally indentical with the original manor: the golden-crystalized chandelier shone brightly upon them, the wooden stair case that led upstairs,the dining room, the kitchen, and Ciel's bedroom, al was well organized. Ciel stood frowning at the place, when Sebastian said: "Very well, my Lord. Shall I take you to bath after this long journey?"

"Fine, then." Ciel half-heartedly agreed, for he felt strange that he was back home, and nothing ever happened.

When Sebastian had left Ciel in his study to prepare for bath, Ciel sat there thinking. What is this all about? Why didn't Sebastian take my soul? And now how the hell did we end up in this place? Ciel rubbed his hair. He walked towards a mirror, and saw his eyepatch clutching his face. The vision of himself while inside the white chamber was different, he was pretty sure that the contract mark had disappeared, yet now it remained on his eye again, as if he was having a dream of some sort. He was still wearing his ring, but whenever he looked into it, he felt a jolt in his stomach, as if he had just lost something really valuable, but what, he couldn't remember.

Ciel was deep in thought when a voice interrupted. "Master, the water is ready. Let me assist you." Sebastian called out. Ciel followed him to the familiar bathroom, get undressed, and finally set himself into the warm water. Then again, this strange feeling came up, as he saw a weird symbol shaped like a circle with red lines inside it tangling somepoint above his waist. He remembered seeing it somewhere before, but couldn't make it out clearly. He asked: "Sebastian, what is going on after all? Why do I have this strange feeling that I had lost something quite important, yet I don't remember. And I was wondering why did you not devour my soul?"

"Ah, yes, my Lord. This has an explaination, but quite confusing for me as I was trying to figure out the whole thing.

"As you recall, our contract was made, and I claimed that your soul belonged to me, and that I would take it after the contract was dealed. But, however, I couldn't manage to get it, because I realized that, technically, no soul was found inside your body, young Master." Sebastian explained.

Hearing the shocking statement, Ciel exclaimed. "What did you mean, no souls ?"

"It basically means, that, either your soul had been ' lost', which is kinda hard to believe, or, your soul had been stolen from another demon. And in this case, right when I lost my left arm while dueling with that Ash the Angel, the contract seal was broken for a split second-" Sebastian stopped in mid-sentence to lift Ciel off the bathtub, and cleaning his body "and I had to say that this demon was quite smart to have used this precious moment to steal away your soul, young Master." Sebastian cast a warning look.

All of this was a shock to Ciel, as now he realized that his soul belonged to another demon. "So why am I living like this then? I should have died when that demon took away my soul!" Ciel said frantically, with seriousness upon his face.

"No quite, my Lord. You are still alive, as long as your soul exists. That demon had just only cast a 'reservation' upon your soul, for it had not completely become his, while the contract was still available between you and me. That is, he cannot devour your soul as long as I am alive.

"When the contract was broken, your soul wandered off, because it was no longer upon my control. It immediately consealed itself inside any possessive objects it could find. And that, is the thing that you were wearing on your thumb, my Lord. The Phantomhive ring. "

Ciel held up his thumb, looking carefully at the ring. "So...you mean, my soul is inside this ring?"

"I am quite positive, my Lord. However, you cannot release it, for it was still in reservation of the other demon. But as long as you keep that ring beside you, you are fine." Sebastian explained.

"But how am I suppose to live without a soul?" Ciel still hadn't give up.

"Like a demon, my Lord. Demons of my kind do not have a soul, because we do not desire the basic needs of life, such as human food, and resting, like sleeping. That is why we don't grow up, and only take the form that suits the contract's owner most. We survive by collecting and eating souls, just to make our lifepan lasts longer. Otherwise, we don't live like you humans do." Sebastian continued, grinning even wider.

Ciel spoke in a slow-motion way. "So...that means..."

"That is, you are now, I assume, living just like a demon. Yes. Without a soul.

"Now, shall I assist you to bed...I mean, now that you don't sleep, do you?" Smirked Sebastian.

Chapter 2 will be continued next week! Please enjoy!