CHAPTER 1:
A petite 12-year-old girl with amethyst hair and big, innocent, purple eyes walks into the family room.
"Mother? Have you seen Amity anywhere?"
A middle-aged woman responds, "I think she went to the forest to play with Medwin."
Amity and Medwin were Raven's closest friends and the only people that didn't think of her as the evil monster or 'the daughter of the demon' or the ugly half-demon.
Raven grabbed a book to read from her shelf with Amity and Medwin. That was one of the few books that she hasn't read yet. It's been on the very top of the shelf dusting up for the longest time. Raven grabbed it and looked at the cover. It was covered in so much dust that she couldn't see what it said. She blew on the cover and sneezed. But the cover was still really dusty. But she decided to bring it anyways.
"If you are going to go over there, please be careful," warned the woman, "And if there is any big emergency, like if there's a fire, that is when you may go ahead and fly back here."
"Yes mother."
"And if you can't find your friends-"
"Run straight back home," she said sounding annoyed.
"-and if a stranger starts talking to you-" Arella started.
"Don't talk to them and keep on walking. I know Mother," the girl said.
"I'm sorry Raven," replied Arella, "I just want you to be safe."
"Mother," Raven said, "I promise I will not get into any trouble or talk to strangers."
"Okay." Arella kissed her daughter on the head. "I love you, Rae-Rae."
Arella held out her hand. Raven also held out her hand. They did their secret handshake that they have been doing since Raven was four years old.
The girl smiled. "I love you too, Arella-bella." Raven always called her that, no matter how many times she was told to not call her mother by her last name. After a while, Arella just decided to go along with it.
She ran to the door and started walking to the forest. As she walked in the streets of Azarath, Raven moves past girls her age playing jump rope and hopscotch and having fun.
"If only they didn't know the prophecy...If only I wasn't Trigon's daughter...If only I didn't have any powers...Maybe I would be normal and have more friends," she thought to herself. She sighed. "Sometimes I wish I just had a whole different life...No prophecy...No powers...Just a normal girl...*sigh*...Relax, Raven...Azarath Metrion Zinthos...Azarath Metrion Zinthos..."
Raven always had to say those three magic words to relax every time she got worked up with emotion. Otherwise her powers could explode everything that she walks past.
Raven finally got to the forest. She's been there lots of times with Amity and Medwin. They always go to the same spot every time. They knew the forest inside and out.
"Medwin? Amity? Hello?" Raven called out. She searched for her friends. Nobody else was in the forest but her. "Where else would they be?" Raven thought. Then, for just a second, everything went black, then clear again.
"What the-" she stopped. "Hello? Who's there?" Nobody responded. She quickly exited the forest and gasped as she saw what was around her.
She wasn't in Azarath anymore.