(A.N. Well, here we go again, another new story! As usual, I don't own any recognizable characters; nor will I ever. *goes to the emo corner*)

It has been rumored for some time now that the old Phantomhive manor was haunted. There have been stories of ghosts and demons roaming the grounds and even a giant ghostly dog a la Hound of the Baskervilles. Of course, all this is purely a good story to pass the time with. At least I thought that until I was dared to spend the night there as a part of Freshman Initiation. This is the story of what happened that late summer night.

It started out pretty normally, but of course, it was still daylight then. I walked onto the grounds of the ruins of the old Phantomhive manor fairly easily. As the stories went, the ruins of this manor were actually not the ruins of the original Phantomhive manor. That one burned to the ground in the mid-1800's and the new...er one was built two years after that. The Phantomhives seemed like a good family, they seemingly had everything until the original manor burned to the ground, and Rachel and Vincent Phantomhive with it. Their son Ciel went missing for a month, before returning mysteriously to make the Funtom company basically what it is today. That much, I could have looked up in my history textbook. That's where the rumors come in. Apparently, during the month that Ciel was MIA, he sold his soul to the devil, who worked for two years as a butler for the young Earl. I know, it sounds crazy, but I didn't make up the stories. After the Earl's time was up, the devil ate his soul, and burned the manor like the original one. And there it stands today, black scorch marks licking up the sides of the stone like black hands trying in vain to pull the ruins into the ground. But the story doesn't end there. The young Earl and his faithful butler have been seen since their "deaths" in the late 1800's. So of course, local schools have been using the ruins as a hazing haven for years.

It is said that if one stands in what was the front doorstep and ring the bell (which has miraculously withstood the fire and over a hundred years' worth of weathering and still works), the butler will greet you at the door and invite you inside to rest for the night. He will take you up to the guest bedroom, passing the "young master's chambers" as you walk down the hallway. It is around then that you will notice that the somehow the manor has been returned to it's original splendor in the blink of an eye. When you get to the guest room, the butler will insist you change into Victorian bed clothes, as it is very late at night by then, and once you have changed into them and gotten into the bed, you will slowly realize that something is wrong. How you realize this, the stories aren't very clear. However, they all say that once you have entered the Phantomhive manor, you will be lucky to exit the same person. Only one out of ten has ever came out unscathed, and about one person every ten years have died in the 120+ years since the manor burned.

By this time, I was nearly at the front doorstep, and everything bad that I had ever heard about the place all came back to me. I wanted to leave. I wanted so badly to leave, but I knew that if I chickened out now, nobody would ever talk to me at school again. I had four years ahead of me, for God's sake! Nobody could stand not talking to anyone at school for four years! Well, there I was on the front steps of the manor. I rang the doorbell, hearing the chimes ring deep inside the ruins. There was no going back now.

(A.N. So, how was it? My plot bunnies are breeding like...well...rabbits! ^_^)