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A Highly Ambitious Crossover
By DemonRomantic
Chapter 1
It was another day of school. Nothing special, just classes and the social hierarchy that came from cramming a bunch of stupid teenagers into the same building. The gossip and cliques did tend to be a lot more interesting than Algebra, though. Right now, Ciel and Eren, both of them Juniors, were walking to the Cafeteria together for lunch. The boys had bonded over their mutual parental issues, and because each of them were prone to have a short-fuse, so they had learned to get along out of a congenial bitter attitude towards people they didn’t like. They didn’t hate people who they didn’t know, just the ones that were obvious assholes.
Because of their attitude problems, both of them had to see councilors regularly, but this did little to help them see things from a different perspective. Mostly they complained about everyone else. After Ciel got a black-eye from fighting earlier that day, however, his councilor and Eren’s decided to call them in and speak to them together.
“Have a seat boys.” One of the councilors prompted.
Each of them looked at each other, as if knowing that they were about to get chewed-out, and they both sat down with a sigh.
“How’s your eye, Ciel?” The other councilor asked.
Ciel was holding an ice-pack over it still, but he removed it with a grunt to show the area that had now become purple before replacing it.
“What’s this all about? You two never speak to us together.” Eren said, suspiciously.
The councilors shared a look of their own, and the first spoke. “We decided that instead of working with you individually, it might help you progress socially if you were with other people. So, we’d like to offer you both an opportunity to get to know some like-minded classmates, as well as give you both a chance to hang-out after school.”
“Are you putting us on cleaning duty?” Eren griped.
“No. It’s actually a club.”
“For troubled youth, I take it?” Ciel surmised.
“It’s a student organized club run by one of the Seniors, Levi Ackerman, and his friend Zoe Hange. The club centers mainly around outdoor activities, but there’s also cooking and martial arts involved as well as some others. Does that sound interesting to either of you?”
Ciel and Eren shared a look before turning back to their councilors’.
“Might as well, it’s not as if we have anything better to do with our time.” Ciel said.
“Yeah, sure.” Eren agreed.
The two boys ate their lunch, not at a table, but sitting on the floor along one of the walls. This is where they preferred to eat.
“Sounds like they’re trying to get us to make friends with the older kids.” Eren said, biting into an apple.
“Makes sense if you think about it. Neither of us have parents, but since the adults aren’t getting through to us they want us to have peers, but ones with more authority. You see that table over there?”
Eren followed Ciel’s gaze to a table off by one of the windows. It wasn’t really apart from the rest of the cafeteria, but something about the students sitting there was separate from the others. They all had a mature aura, well except for one of the girls who was being very exuberant as she talked to the others.
“That’s the club the councilors mentioned. That shorter boy is the leader, Levi. I’m guessing the obnoxious one is Zoe Hange.”
“They’re sitting together even during school? I wonder how long they’ve all been in the club.” Eren said.
One of the boys got up to leave. He was taller than the rest, with raven black hair and extremely elegant posture. As he threw away his tray, he seemed to glance over towards them, and it made the two younger boys turn their attention to anything else. The older boy smirked, before walking off.
“Who was that?” Eren whispered, though over the cacophony of noise in the cafeteria there was no way that he could be heard by anyone else.
“Sebastian Michealis.” Ciel stated.
“He seems a lot older than a Senior.”
“He was held back a year. Although, he’s actually incredibly brilliant according to all the girls.”
“A lady’s man I take it?”
“It’s just because he’s good looking. He’s actually quite standoffish.”
“The same could be said about you.”
Ciel glared. “I may have a black-eye thanks to that fight this morning, but you didn’t see what happened to the other guy.”
Eren held up his hands. “I didn’t mean to make you mad, I’m just saying. That Levi guy looks too old to be a Senior, too. They all do in fact.”
The bell rang, and the boys both stood and threw away their trays as they headed off to class.
“Think that this club will be worth it?” Ciel asked.
“You’re the one who said we don’t have anything better to do. If the school is paying for us to go do stuff, we might as well.”
At the end of the day, Ciel and Eren went to the classroom reserved for the club. A sign that had been made out of a piece of notebook paper taped to the door read, ‘Scouts of the Queen’ in Sharpie.
“That’s pretentious as hell.” Eren said, before opening the door.
On the other side, the group of students they had seen earlier sat around the room in various states of relaxing or doing homework. Everyone looked up at them as they entered, but only the exuberant girl with glasses and a ponytail greeted them.
“You two must be the new recruits! Welcome to the ‘Scouts of the Queen’. I’m Zoe Hange, club co-supervisor. Your names are Eren Yeager and Ciel Phantomhive, right?”
“Uh, yeah. I’m Eren, and this is Ciel.”
Hange came closer to shake both of their hands, a little too enthusiastically, and then she got right up in Ciel’s face to look at his injured eye.
“Oh, wow! That is one heck of a shiner you’ve got there.”
Ciel shrunk back uncomfortably, before Levi came and put a hand on Hange’s shoulder.
“You’ll have to forgive her, she’s incredibly nearsighted, both figuratively and literally.” Levi’s hand turned into a fist and he noogied Hange until she backed away from Ciel.
The rest of the club members had gathered around by this point and took turns introducing themselves, except for Sebastian, who was sitting at one of the desks reading a book through a pair of reading glasses.
“Now that we’re all acquainted, maybe we can get back to business?” Levi said, walking over to the whiteboard at the front of the room.
Everyone took a seat at a desk, either sitting in or on top of it, and Ciel had ended up next to Sebastian. He noticed that the older boy was reading ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and felt like remarking on it.
“A fan of the classics?” Ciel asked.
Sebastian glanced over at him and smiled. “I do enjoy a good mystery. Have you read it?”
“Yes, my favorite is probably the ‘Speckled Band’. I know that it’s the most overused one, but I don’t care.”
Sebastian merely smiled in agreement before Levi began speaking.
“So, last week we did horse-riding. Any suggestions for this week’s activities?” He held a marker to the board, prepared to write.
“Movies and snacks!” One girl named Sasha called out, while in the midst of eating a bag of potato chips.
“Of course… Alright, anything else?”
“How about a rope’s course?” Eren asked. “I remember doing one of those for P.E. It seemed like fun.”
Levi quirked his eyebrows and turned back to the board. “Okay, we haven’t done one of those before, that would be good.”
One of the boys’ hands shot up. “I think we ought to do a cram session for one of the days, my grades have been slipping.”
“Soma, when are your grades not slipping.” Jean snorted.
“I’m good with a cram-sesh, I can help people falling behind.” Mikasa said.
Jean suddenly ate his words and turned red.
“All in favor of a cram session, raise your hand.”
Everyone’s hands rose immediately.
“’kay, that leaves the weekend open for debate. Michealis, any input?”
“My suggestion is the same as always.” Sebastian smirked over the top of his book.
Levi gave no reaction, and simply wrote down ‘Book club’.
Ciel raised his hand.
“Yes?”
“I’d like to second that vote.”
Sebastian cast an appreciative glance his way.
“Okay, that’s two votes for a group book. I’ll let you two come up with a list of reading suggestions. As for the final activity for this week, Hange’s reserved a camping spot for us all to spend the night.”
Excited murmurs went up around the room.
“Today’s club meeting is adjourned. Ciel and Eren, we’re all headed out to eat. If you’d like to join us, then you’re welcome to come along.”
The two younger boys perked-up.