earls and butlers and dragons, oh my!

[Zoey]

Today the wind blew at a casual speed and the sky was a beautiful blue hue. The hot yellow-white beams cast by the sun heated Celestial City today, making it a humid 86°F. There wasn’t a cloud in sight, leaving the sun to dominate the sky uninterrupted. People moved busily throughout the town on their daily tasks. Children played with wooden swords, fighting it out, while street vendors attempted to sell their cheap products. All is the same in Celestial City.

What a dreadfully boring day.

Ciel Phantomhive strolled through the busy streets of the Market District, his walking stick clicking against the ground with every step. His attire was of the nobler fashion, causing a few heads to turn as he walked by. The people's eyes would linger on him before trailing to the tall, handsome fellow shadowing him. Some of the girls swooned over the suited man, and some, of course years younger, swooned over the dressed up boy striding proudly. Whispers broke out everywhere, and Ciel felt a slight annoyance creep over him. He didn't like people talking about him.

"What was the point of you dragging me out here anyway?" he snaps quietly at Sebastian Michaelis, his butler. He heard his butler laugh softly, which furthered his prickliness. "Why, I thought it would be good for you to get some fresh air, Young Master. Not to mention, there is a matter of business we have to attend here," Sebastian responds airily, a small smile playing upon his lips. It made Ciel uncomfortable, but he ignored it.

Suddenly an arm grabs Ciel by the shirt and yanks him back, throwing him to the ground. Ciel falls to his bottom roughly and looks up furiously to see who his offender was. "Sebastian! What is the meaning of--" A ball of fire blasts the place Ciel had just been standing. A fierce, eardrum shattering roar pierces the sky. His hands press over his ear, trying to block out the deafening sound. Ciel gets to his feet and looks around. "What is that?" the boy shouts to his butler, searching the sky.

The ground shook underneath them as a huge, bronze-skinned dragon landed in front of the two. "Well," Ciel murmurs, the dragon staring him down with his beady eyes, "This was not on the schedule."

[Sky]

[Sorry if there are a few times where I am in first person, been doing a bit of first person roleplay so for some reason I'm having a really hard time transitioning right now ;-;] Felix yawned. He was having an average day after all. His usual black robe flowing out behind him as he walked. Sure he looked extra formal, but who cared? It was just how he dressed. Came with his personality. He shrugged through the crowd, noting how they were staring at a figure. It must have been a big shot, some government official or a wealthy kid. He had seen the way they react to people like that, especially those with a butler.

The older women go for the butler while the younger women go for the kid. Why does he know that? He has watched the women go after the wealthy. All he is to them is a simple magician with his eyes on a Mystic position that will never come to him. He stopped and watched, that was when he felt the presence of the dragon and saw the butler pull the kid back just in time to save him from a fire ball.

A feral dragon, something you don't see every day. Felix sighed and stepped forward, a sudden gust of wind rushing past him and slamming into the dragon in an attempt to knock it off balance.. He walked over and stepped directly in front of the boy, staring down the dragon sending a thought straight to it.

Why are you attacking here, we have nothing that you would want or need. Why don't you move on and find a place down south to pillage?

[Zoey]

The dragon roared again, fury clear in his roar. Instead of responding to the human, he opened his mouth and used the ancient ways of Dragon Tongue to blow a burst of fire at the stranger.

But Sebastian Michaelis was quicker. He snatched up both Ciel and the magician up with ease, taking them out of harms way. Instead, the ball of fire found some other pour soul to eat with its flames. The butler released both of them in an alleyway between houses. "Your orders, Young Master?" his asked politely, calmly, as if he was asking the Phantomhive boy what tea he would like this evening.

For once, Ciel was at a stump. His demon butler was amazing. Never had he lost a fight before. But with a feral dragon? The thing stood taller than any building man could build, with a savageness like no other. It took him a second to assess what to do without losing his coveted butler and finally decided. "Sebastian, I order you to find out why this dragon is here, what it wants," Ciel demands, and Sebastian bowed. "Yes, my lord."

With that, Sebastian leaped with ease onto the building beside the dragon that had snatched up a person and swung him side to side until letting go, sending the citizen flying miles away, surely to his death. Sebastian had been here since the very beginning of this world, and had picked up how to understand Dragon Tongue. Though he never got around to learning how to respond back. It was quite a task, mastering the ancient language.

The dragon roared again with his deafening voice, and Sebastian listened closely. 'Stolen! Stolen! They have stolen it!' The butler frowned. What kind of idiotic person would steal something from a feral dragon?

[Sky]

When he saw the burst of fire forming Felix had prepped his own magic, readying it to block the fire ball and protect everyone around him. That was before he was snatched by someone and taken out of the line of fire. He swore under his breath as someone was hit by the fire ball and burst someone into flames. He reacted quickly though, running over while making the moisture in the air condense over the poor soul, putting out the fire.

He quickly started using his magic to start healing the burns before hearing the thoughts of the dragon boom into his head. He winced and held his head. Damn that dragon was loud with it's thoughts. But it had lost something. What had it lost. He had done all he could do for the guy that was hit, they would live, just probably be traumatized by the experience for a while.

He stood up and faced the dragon, projecting his thoughts out for all to hear, hoping the dragon would respond. "What was stolen! I can help you fin what was stolen, you just have to calm down!"

He hoped the dragon would respond, he was using quite a bit of his energy with magic already, seeing as he had to heal someone and then project his thoughts out like that. Sure he was no where near his limits, but if this dragged on he would be exhausted.

[Zoey]

The lumbering reptile turned around to the source of the projected thoughts, finding a mere human. He let out another furious roar, lashing tail knocking down buildings left and right. 'Cursed humans! Pest! Stealing from us! Greedy, lying, corrupt thieves! All of them!' he declared before bunching his muscles together and thrusting his heavy body into the air. His wings opened and he began circling the city, landing on buildings that collapsed under his great weight and killing people in his blind fury.

Ciel shielded his ears again, wincing at the mighty roar. He watched the dragon circle ahead and then land numerous time, always taking a few lives with him. He wasn't scared at all, actually. Just greatly annoyed. Suddenly, a hysterical man runs down the alleyway and presses himself up against the wall, heaving wildly while clutching a large orb-shaped thing to his chest possessively. It was covered with cloth, so as to hide it. Ciel scoffed. "Do you really think that rag is gonna hide that thing? It's huge," he called out to him, crossing his arms.

The man looked up with crazed eyes and clutched the thing tighter. "G-go away! Don't look! It's mine!" he shouted, flinching as another roar pierced the atmosphere. Suddenly, Sebastian leaped down and landed next to Ciel. "The dragon has had something stolen from it and is searching for it here. His name is Salohkrir, and whatever it was that has been stolen is important to him." He reported back calmly.

The boy looked at the mysterious man and suddenly made a connection in his head. "Sebastian, take that orb thing from him," he commanded. With great ease, Sebastian pried it from the man and uncovered it. It was huger than it first appeared, and warm.

"I do believe we just found our thief, Sebastian," Ciel murmured, stepping closer to look at the item. "Indeed. Why, I'd like to see a dragon that doesn't get mad over a stolen egg."

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[Sky]

Felix frowned as the dragon continued it's rampage. What had been stolen? The only thing the young mage could thing of was either some of it's treasure, or an egg. The egg seemed like a crazy idea, who would a person steal the egg of a dragon? And why would they bring the egg directly to the capitol, knowing that they could put the king, queen, emperor, and empress in danger. He frowned and shook his head. It all didn't make sense. He stepped forward, using his water magic to quickly dowse many of the flames the dragon was starting up, helping people as much as he could healing them with magic, knowing that some would need a herbal remedy to accompany it.

He turned only to see what he recognized as a council member headed towards the butler and who he thought was probably royalty. "So you all found what the cursed dragon is raging over? Good." Michael smiled as he walked over and took a look at the egg, not snatching it out of Sebastian's hands of course, that would be a bit rude, even for him.

"Definitely a feral dragon egg, it has both the size and marking of one. But who shall give the dragon it's egg back? Probably best if someone that can talk to it gives the egg back, that way we can avoid any major misunderstandings. And as for you," he turned to the man cowering against the building, seeming to not know what to do any longer. "You're lucky that I'm not uptight about this kinda matter or else you would spend a little bit of time in a cell."

[Zoey]

Ciel Phantomhive crossed his bony arms across his chest. "Sebastian," he said, staring at the mysterious man who had just appeared to take the egg. Sebastian nodded once in understanding before smiling politely at Michael. "I would be happy to give the egg back. The dragon does not scare me nor can it hurt me," he declared, holding out his arms patiently for the egg.

Suddenly, out of the corner of the butler's eye, the glint of a knife caught his attention, and he turned to see the man who had possessed the egg running for the council member with a dagger raised above his hand. "Give me that back, you damned oaf! You have no idea what I had to go through to get that!" he yelled as he ran towards Michael, a crazed look in his eyes.

Sebastian stepped back and quickly snatched the dagger away. The bandit went tumbling into the council member, knocking the egg out of his hand. Sebastian saw it, but both the council member and the egg thief were in his way. On instinct, he shoved Ciel forward roughly.

With a cry of alarm, Ciel landed on his back, and the egg fell onto his stomach, forcing the breath out of him. Suddenly, a large crack split the top of the egg, and the Phantomhive's blue eye widened in surprise, feeling something inside the egg wriggling around roughly. "S-Sebastian!"

All of a sudden, the ground trembled beneath them, and a giant amber eye of the dragon glared down the alleyway. "Isn't this a fix.." Ciel breathed, his heartbeat racing.