The sleeping ash. Black Butler various x reader

At noon: The Butler, Peerless

*3rd pov*

'Don't tell me... ...these are all–!' They all stare at the coffins as they all start to move and open. A bunch of corpses step out of their coffins.

*First-Class Smoking Lounge*

Ronald and Sebastian continue to fight each other. "You're good as they say!" Ronald dodges the butter knives. "Why, thank you." Sebastian goes behind Ronald. "Oopsie! It's almost time!" Ronald ducks from Sebastian's punch as he checks his watch. "I can't be playin' around now! I don't wanna get stuck writing a letter of apology 'cos I was late. No, sir. Work's gotta get done efficiently! So on that note, see ya laaater... ...Sebastian Darling! ☆" Ronald leaves the room. "......Eh?" Sebastian sweatdrops.

*Orlop Deck, Cargo Hold*

"Run, Lizzy!!" Ciel holds Lizzy's hand as they all run away from the corpses. "They're at the exit as well..." A corpse lunges at Lizzy, but Ciel goes in front of Lizzy and shoots the corpse at the head. "Kuh...!" Ciel looks up to see crates. A corpse gets closer to Ciel, but the snakes warp around the corpse and the rest of the corpses. "I'll handle this!! You get up there with Liz!!" Snake lifts Lizzy to the crates while (Y/n) tosses Ciel up to the crates. Joker lifts Snake to the crates, then Joker and Dagger join (Y/n)'s side. "We'll be by 'ur side!" Dagger said.

"All right." (Y/n) takes out a vile of Sebastian's blood and drinks it which her hands transform into black claws. Dagger summons out black daggers and Joker summons a black sword. The three lunge at the corpses. "Aim for their heads!" (Y/n) tells the two and they three attack the corpses.

"What are they? They reek something awful. —Says Webster." Snake looks at the corpses. "I'm unclear on the details, but they're corpses that are somehow being made to move." Ciel explains. "Corpses...!?" Lizzy is shocked. "They don't seem to possess anything even resembling intelligence. And likely also neither vision nor a sense of pain." Ciel informs. "How can you tell? —Says Oscar?" Questioned Snake. "They had not the slightest reaction to your snakes. If they were able to see and feel pain, they would've tried to rid themselves of the snakes first. And... ...if they had even a shred of intellect, they would know to leave us alone and make the upper decks. They'd find much more food there, after all."

"By f-food, you don't mean..." Lizzy looks scared. "Ahem! That leaves their hearing. By the looks of it, some focus on (Y/n), Joker, and Dagger while the other corpses are still by the crates where we are." Ciel said as he looks at the three vampires murdering the corpses.

"!?" The crates shakes. "KYAH!" Lizzy screams. "What's going on!? !?" Ciel looks down to see the corpses breaking the boxes. "They're using their teeth and nails!?" Ciel is shocked. "Shit!" (Y/n) rush in to kill the corpses close to the crates. 'How much longer are you going to play around, Sebastian!?' Ciel grits his teeth. "C-Ciel!" Lizzy clings to him. "...! You will be fine. Lizzy, you, I'll protect without fail... ...come whatever may!!" Ciel holds Lizzy.

"How admirable of you, young master." Sebastian said as he threw his butter knives at the corpses. "That is just how an English gentleman ought to behave." Sebastian said by the stairs. "Sebastian! Don't just stand there! Hurry up and help (Y/n)!!" Ciel orders. "As you wish. This is none too refined a method, but... ...if all that is required is to destroy their heads— This way..." Sebastian grabs a corpse's head. "...is by far the most expedient!" Sebastian smashes the head down, crushing it. "!!" Snake and Ciel see while Ciel covers Lizzy from the view.

(Y/n) sits on a box with Joker and Dagger sits next to her as they rest and let Sebastian finish the work.

Sebastian smirks with bloodlust as he kicks the corpses and destroys them.

Ciel stares at Sebastian. 'The cascading crimson of freshly-spilled blood and...' Sebastian killing corpses changes to the demon killing the cultists. '...The dancing devil in black. This... ...is the same I saw that day. No. It's not the same. I'm outside the cage.' Ciel relives his past. 'The ones being killed by my butler are not those who defiled me... ...and Ciel is here no more.' An image of Ciel bloodied. 'I am Earl Phantomhive, and... ...I... ...am me... And I—'

"Ciel!!" Lizzy calls out to him. Ciel gasps and looks at Lizzy. "Hah...! Liz... ...zy." Sebastian walks up to them with (Y/n), Joker, and Dagger behind. "All done, young master." Sebastian smiles with some blood stains on his face. Ciel breathes heavily as he looks at Sebastian. "Is something wrong? Now. Here, please let me help you." Sebastian holds out his bloody gloved hands.

"Don't touch me with those hands. You'll get me dirty." Ciel gets down from the top box. "My apologies, sir." Sebastian changes gloves and carries Ciel down. "Couldn't you have gone about it a little more gracefully? You were like a beast." Ciel tells him. "......Please do forgive me, sir. It was a matter of some urgency, after all." Sebastian smirks. "Quit it with the tension." (Y/n) tells them.

"Moreover, their bodies appear to be frailer than even that of the average human." Sebastian said. "But why are so many of them on this ship?" Ciel questions. "I believe..." Sebastian throws butter knives in front of Rian. "...We had better put that question to him." Sebastian said. "Rian Stoker!!" Ciel shouts. "N-No!! Their absolute salvation was incomplete, and... ...I never intended for them to reanimate unhealthy states... Please just hear me out! We must hurr–YEOW!" Rian screams in pain as Sebastian holds his arms behind his back.

"There is no need to rush. We have plenty of time until we put in at New York, so we shall listen to your story at leisure." Sebastian smiles. "P–Please wait!!" Rian pleads. "For what? I have gotten rid of them all..." Sebastian said. "No, you haven't!" Rian shouts. "Come again?" Sebastian asked. "Let me guess, there's more coffins." (Y/n) said. "Yes! This ship utilizes the latest reciprocating steam engines, and they and their massive boilers are installed at the center of the vessel. So this place is divided in two with the boiler rooms in the middle." Rian explains. "In other words, this ship has TWO cargo holds... ...one in the bow and the other in the stern!!"

"Wha–!?" The rest are shocked. "And the hold in the bow... ...had ten times as many test subjects... ...as the hold in the stern stored within." Rian grimly states. "Did you say ten times as many!?" Ciel is shocked.

In the other cargo, a bunch of coffins are all opened which chaos is about to irrupt in the ship.