Ciel Phantomhive -£- 001

[dealwithademon]

Who: Ciel Phantomhive, and anyone who wants to find him.
Where: Espoir village, on the roof of the Brave Versperia Tavern
Style: 3rd person
Status: Open?

Ciel Phantomhive was a creature of habit, whether by choice or not; every day spent in his home, he went to bed in the same way, and awoke in the same way; curtains drawn, sunlight drifting over his

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[sweet_crow]

Cooro was flying over the town like usual when he heard Ciel's cry for help. He looked down and blinked before bringing up his goggles. Strange, if he couldn't get down why did the child get up on the roof?

Cooro had raven black hair and chocolate brown eyes, but what most tend to notice before that was the Black wings on his back. The crow boy decided to help the strangely clothed lad off of the roof, after all it would be bad if he fell and hurt himself.

"Okay!" He dived down and grabbed Ciel from about the waist and hoisted him up off the roof, going up father and farther until Cooro felt he could safely turn and dive down to the ground. He slowed down before they hit the ground and placed them both on their feet. He then let go of Ciel. "Are you okay?" the boy asked, folding up his wings behind him.

[dealwithademon]

Seeing someone with wings would have been enough to make him pause. Seeing them fly, and then so deftly swoop down and simply grab him was enough to make his shout wordless protests. He flailed, shoving this strange winged person, but then stopped abruptly as they lifted higher into the air. He was turn, between wanting this strange person to let him go, and also fearing the drop should his 'captor' decide to listen to his demands. Instead, he stared at the ground, as it swiftly came up to meet them. Instinctively he shut both eyes, and once he felt his feet settled on ground, opened them rather sharply, alarmed, and confused.

Any potential words of gratitude were snuffed as he shoved Cooro away.

"What gave you the idea to just grab me like that!" he shouted, for the moment ignoring that this -- person? -- had wings. WINGS! like a bird, or the angels depicted in stained glass.

[sweet_crow]

Cooro wondered why the other was struggling, he was just trying to help him. But then again he could be like Husky who just didn't like heights. Not that he had given Husky much of a choice back then either when he saved him.

The boy blinked when he was shoved and he gave Ciel a look of confusion. "You said you wanted down so I got you down..." He said not seeing the fault in his actions. But it was obvious Ciel was disheveled. He stepped back in order to better his balance and accidentally kicked the top hat.

"Hm?" he turned around and picked it up, he then turned to Ciel again. "Is this yours?" He asked in a friendly manner.

[dealwithademon]

Rude, and inconsiderate, and now damaging his persona property! Ciel thought he had had just about enough of this guy, whoever he was, rescue or no. Scowling, he snatched the hat. Cooro was reminding him a bit to much of a certain simpleton Prince...

"You didn't give me any sort of warning, just hoisted me up as if you were already permitted to touch me," he snapped, and then set the poor, scuffed top-hat back on his head.

The butler, alert

[thebutler_epic]

Raking leaves may seem like a mundane task, but no job was too tedious to be overlooked by the Phantomhive butler, especially when leaves were continuously falling, dead and withered from the surrounding trees, obscuring the otherwise perfectly maintained lawn

[dealwithademon]

Ciel was wary of approaching the edge, but he lifted his head so that he might see over it without coming too close. He scowled down at his butler, now possibly more angry than before. Was he enjoying his predicament?

"I don't intend to seek service from this place, except in the means of getting down, since you seem to think it's amusing to leave me up here. How dare you subject me to such embarrassment!"

The butler, amused

[thebutler_epic]

Sebastian grinned, though he went through the motions of being of a humble servant who had displeased his master, bowing slightly to the enraged figure on the roof above him.

"Ah, but you did not ask me to intervene, young Master, but rather, inquired about my present location," Sebastian clarified, pointing out the exact wording in Ciel's distress call.

"I am here now," Sebastian reassured, his grin subdued now, though his eyes were still amused. "And I await your orders, my Lord."

[dealwithademon]

Ciel shifted, and found that his foot slipped on the slanted roof. Not enough to put him in peril, but certainly enough to startle him. The frown never left his face, in fact it deepened as he stared at Sebastian.

"Then this is an order. Get me down from here, and don't draw any unwanted attention." As if Ciel himself had not drawn enough stares by simply shouting from a rooftop.

[hasnoteefs]

Ciel's hat, as it happened, rolled right off the roof and into the path of a certain mottled blue-black dragon. Toothless stared, wide-eyed at the article, watched it blow to the side, then looked up to the roof to see who had dropped it. There was a funny-haired, one-eyed human up there, and he had shouted something Toothless didn't understand before he disappeared from view again.

Well, that was interesting. Maybe he wanted his funny flying thing back.

Curious, and ever eager to please, Toothless trotted after the fallen top hat, picking it up gently by the rim in his gums, before moving back to stand just below where Ciel had peered over the edge. He whuffed, curious, and clawed at the side of the buildig. Hey! Look back down here, I think this is yours!

[dealwithademon]

Ciel paused. He could have sworn he saw some odd shadow moving down below him. He'd been ready to write it off, sitting impatiently until someone came to get him out of this pinch, but when something down there started making noise, he hesitantly inched toward the edge, and looked back down.

The... thing looked nothing like anything he'd ever seen before, and the damned thing had his hat. Ciel gripped the edge of the roof, wondering if it would come up after him. No, of course not. If it could, I'm sure it would have by now, he thought.

And if it had his hat, he thought he might just be willing to let the hat go.

[hasnoteefs]

Whining softly at Ciel's reappearance over the edge of the roof, Toothless stood on his hind legs and tried to stretch out enough to return the hat. Unfortunately, he was much too small, despite stretching out to nearly seven feet in length, tail not included. He sulked, somewhat, and sat back on his haunches. He knew he would be unable to fly to the roof on his own, and he wasn't aware of Hiccup's current whereabouts in order to borrow the boy to return the lost article.

Pacing for a moment, Toothless aimed for the next best thing. He hurled himself at the building and clawed at it, attempting to run up the side of it. It wasn't terribly effective at first, but once he spread his wings outward and beat them against the air in tandem to his scrabbling, he slowly started to progress up the wall toward the roof.

Of course, he had absolutely no inkling that he was likely terrifying poor Ciel in the process.

[dealwithademon]

If not for his strange appearance, and enormous size, Ciel might have likened the creature's behavior to that of a dog. Still he had, for a moment, felt safer up on the roof where it could not reach him. Now, however, the tables had turned, and Ciel found himself scampering back on the roof, because the thing was coming up after him.

"Stay back!" he warned, brow creased severely.

[springisbright]

Rika was taking a casual walk through Espoir when she saw a top hat float down from the sky. Out of curiosity, she picked it up and looked around for what could be the source when she heard someone yelling from the roof. Rika looked up, her hand over her eyes like a visor.

The person on the roof definitely didn't look like they intended to be up there. After all, people who wear top hats (and she was sure it was his)didn't climb up on roofs very often. She smiled and gestured with the hat. "Is this yours?"

[dealwithademon]

At the sound of the voice, Ciel dared to glance over the edge of the roof. Down below, standing very near his hat, seemed even younger than he was. she wasn't likely to be of any help.

"Yes, it is, and I'd like to have it back once I get down from here." he wasn't particularly in the mood to make nice, but she was a child.

[springisbright]

Rika could only giggle at the response the boy gave him. "All right. Then I'll make sure to give it to you!" She held the hat up above her head and smiled at him again. "... Will you be able to get down from there yourself? I wouldn't mind helping you."

[dealwithademon]

Helping him. Ciel wanted to scoff. She barely seemed old enough to wandering around without some kind of guardian. How was she going to be able to help him down from a roof-top? Still... irritated and put-out as he was, there wasn't really any good reason to be hostile to a girl.

"If you don't mind, I'd appreciate it," he replied shortly, moving as little as possible -- he didn't trust the combination of his shoes and the roof shingles.

[phantasmagorist]

The top hat indeed seemed to float, down, down, down; and it would have made for a rather uneventful landing on the ground, too, if a black, round something hadn't opened up somewhere between the roof's edge and the sidewalk to quite literally swallow up the hat within it. As if satisfied with its prize, the void in mid-air only lingered for a moment or so longer before coming into a close with a swirl.

And then, there was nothing. No mysterious black void, and certainly no hat. But it was just there falling a second ago, wasn't it?

[dealwithademon]

Now he knew something was wrong. Things don't just appear and swallow hats into nothingness. Where had it gone? What was that? Though he would never have admitted it aloud, Ciel was rather spooked by the whole thing.

He was also, somewhere underneath, rather put out over losing his hat.

[phantasmagorist]

A few minutes and then some later, and this time at the same level as the roof, yet another one of those strange, black voids opened up in the air; it was a little bigger this time, enough that a person could slip through it.

And that's precisely what happened-- a woman slided her upper body right through it as if it were a perfectly normal act, and still floating mid-air, she rested her elbows at the edge of the gap that was created.

Oh, she was also wearing a rather nice top hat in lieu of the usual bonnet. Look familiar?

"Something the matter?" Yukari asked, although her question almost didn't seem genuine with the way she playfully smiled. "You sounded quite distressed there."

[dealwithademon]

"You--" Ciel began, but stopped short. There was no good explanation for the strange black hole that she had appeared out of (or within, as the case may have been). The only certain fact was that she was wearing his hat. Ciel stared at her intently, searching her eyes as if he could find an answer there. Could she, like Sebastian, be a demon?

For the moment, he settled on a scowl -- a strange expression on such a baby-face, though an expression he wore quite often.