"Ladies and gentlemen! Step right up!

The Noah's Ark Circus has arrived!

Forget the cold weather and the bleak news…

The show of the century is about to begin!"

"Yes, I am one hell of a butler."

The demon told the man sprawled on the floor. Cedric Brandel, head of the Brandel Tea Company, had tried to "replace" Ciel Phantomhive for being the Queen's Guard Dog but failed miserably, at the cost of his own life. The man had thought that Lau had "sold him out", although the Chinese man was never on his side in the first place.

And now, his haughtiness had led him to this predicament. He was a victim of his own stupidity, so it seems.

"S-S-Stay away!" he yelled in fright.

"Brandel," the young Phantomhive's voice was stern as he called out to the man, "Why do you suppose no one knows what punishment the Queen's Guard Dog inflicts?" The young earl was answered with nothing but incoherent noises.

Ciel reached for his eye-patch and pulled it off, revealing the Faustian Contract between him and the demon butler, Sebastian Michaelis, and his eye glowed. "It's because dead men tell no tales."

At the same time, Sebastian removed his white glove and the contract engraved on his hand turned purple as well, glowing brightly like the one on his master's eye. His usual wine-red eyes were out of sight as it were replaced by his pinkish-fuchsia-purple irises and his pupils that turned into slits.

The shadows emitting from probably, Sebastian's true form, surrounded the terrified man. Brandel looked around him, and screamed as he faced his own demise.

Meanwhile, in some other part of the mansion, away from that dreaded hall, a certain housekeeper named Amelia Midford, is actually Elizabeth's older sister that's believed to be dead. She began working for her cousin five years after her "death" upon being discovered lying unconscious in the kitchen, by the butler. Instead of using her name, "Dorothea", she switched to "Amelia" or "Mia" for her sister, or anyone from her family, not to discover the truth.

The brunette lady walks along a different corridor while holding a bowl filled with milk. She sighed as she placed down the said bowl for the butler's pet that she got for him last Christmas.

She scratched the kitten's ear after it perked up, since it must have heard Brandel's voice. The animal meowed and purred at Amelia's touch, as if it were curious of what it just heard.

"Oh nothing, Ery… it's just another one of those nasty jobs your artful owner, Sebastian Michaelis, and his master—our Young Master—that needs to be done. Now, be a good girl for me and stay here as I have some duties to attend to."

Walking to where the three stooges were, the brunette remained a stern face as she whispered to no one in particular.

"Your scream's a whisper."

After that, Lau entered with Ran-Mao by his side. "All finished, my Lord?" He only stood by the doorway while Ciel remained seated, sipping the freshly-made tea his butler had poured for him.

"Well, you see, someone gave me this," Lau raised his hand up, and in between his index and middle finger was an envelope. The Queen's seal was clear on it and Sebastian walked to Lau so he could let his master read it.

"This is…" Ciel murmured. He looked at Lau once again and asked, "Who gave this to you?"

The Chinese man shrugs, while placing a hand on Ran-Mao's head, "Some lads in white; they seem to have mistaken me for being one of your servants." The earl nodded and proceeded with opening the envelope. But asides from the Queen's letter, with it, there were two lavender colored tickets to "Noah's Ark Circus".

"My, my, those are tickets to the traveling circus coming to town," Lau paused and tried to remember about the chatter he heard from around him.

"The 'Noah's Ark Circus' as I recall."

A/N: Hello everyone! Just a teaser, so you know, I'll see what kind of reactions you dearies will have. I am sorry for not being able to update ADHE for almost two weeks since I was "stuck" and I've been working on articles (a.k.a. my summer job). Don't worry, I won't neglect that story just to focus on this one. I'll continue updating this story every once in a while when I don't feel like hearing Angela/Ash at all. I'll be piecing them all together and I hope you guys will like my terrible.. humor/imagination, I guess?

So that's it! See you all next time~