Chapter 1
Raven found herself in pitch-black darkness. Not sure what she was doing there or even how she got there, she took a few trembling steps forward. Silence. More confident, she started walking through the darkness. Suddenly flames leapt up in front of her. Startled, she took a few stumbling steps backward, only to find more flames. She was completely surrounded by the fire.
Horror was the only emotion her eyes held as four demonic red eyes appeared in the flames.
A thundering voice echoed in the darkness all around her.
"Did you really think you could destroy me Raven?"
Raven tried to speak, but found she couldn't. Pain suddenly shot through her body, making her fall to her knees in agony.
"You can't escape me," the voice continued. "You may have destroyed my mortal body, but my soul can not be shattered that easily."
Raven held her head in her hands as a new wave of agony swept through her.
"My blood runs through your veins, I am apart of you, that you cannot deny."
She looked at her hands so find them bleeding from a symbol that made up her worst nightmares. That symbol was sliced into her pale palms. Raven gasped in horror. She tried to cry out but only silence came out of her mouth.
"I'll make you see the evil side of you, a side from which you cannot run."
Through the pain, Raven made a ball of black energy and threw it at those demonic eyes. A red-fleshed hand came through the flame and caught it, then clenching it tight before it vanished.
"You cannot destroy me, dearest daughter. I'll make everyone see the evil part of you that you have tried to lock away."
Raven screamed. The last thing she saw before she was engulfed by darkness was the fiery red mark of Scath.