A/N: Yes, this is an OC fan fiction. Honestly, I'm not sure what to rate it, as there is going to be gruesome deaths of children, but other than gore there will not be any other mature themes in it. I'm guessing that this is going to be a longer story of multiple parts. It starts out a little after the Edolas Arc, before Tenrou Island. There is going to be a little OOC, simply because people are scared that little kids are being killed. This first chapter, there isn't much to it. Just Raven coming to Fairy Tail. I feel that it is essential to show the bond that Raven and Avi share before much else happens. I'm going to try uploading the first three chapters at once, though.

Raven's Guild Card:

Name: Raven Blank

Age: 14

Magic: Unknown, but related to blood

Likes: Avi

Hates: Stereotyping

Avi's Guild Card:

Name: Avi Blank

Age: 7

Mage: Avian Take Over and Requip

Likes: Raven

Hates: Vegetables

So, here we go! Read and review… or else.

I gave a slight sigh, watching the white dove soar across the clear blue sky. Allowing myself a small smile, I set my scythe to the side and pulled out my knife, giving my arm a small cut. Murmuring, "Blood: Avian of Calamity", I stretched out my newly formed black wings and took to the sky after the angelic white bird. She turned to face me, jovial innocence flashing in her beautiful cyan blue eyes, and I brushed my own wing against hers. How odd we must have seemed to onlookers; in fact, I noticed several people already gathered below. There we were; an oversized dove and a raven, flying in tandem across the crystal clear blue sky. I'd always enjoyed flying; despite the fact that it used up a lot of my already partially diminished magical power. Yet, it was for Avi. She could fly all she wanted, take the form of whatever bird she had a preference for. That was her own ability; to turn into birds at will. I couldn't keep up with the transformation for long, but I would do it for the sake of her happiness.

I remembered the day we met as clear as the sky we were flying across. It was a dark time, a dark time indeed. I was roaming the country all alone, attempting to increase my magic power. See, my powers useless without blood... literally. So there I would stand in my black cloak, stalking mage funerals in order to extract blood before it became useless. I didn't want to be seen (how the heck would you explain that to someone?) but naturally people noticed me overtime. I was an outcast, thought to be the true Grim Reaper in my appearance and behavior, and was referred to simply as "The Raven." They thought I was the source their afflictions, the sign of death. Thus, I couldn't walk into a town without whispers and screams, people believing that I was there to take their lives. After my sword broke in a fight with robbers, I'd begun to use a scythe only for the irony of the situation. Nevertheless, I fought much better with it than a sword. Who would have known, right?

I could feel my own magic power flowing away like a breaking of the Hoover Dam. I landed neatly before returning to my normal form, brushing a black feather from my cloak. Avi resumed her human form in her descent, and landed gracefully on two, rain boot covered human legs.

"Ray-Ray, Ray-Ray!" I smiled at Avi's voice, and rested my hand on her blond hair, golden hair, like an angel's halo in the sunlight.

"Did you have fun?" I asked her, pulling the hood over my head to hide my face from the bystanders. If they recognized me, well, there would be a public outcry similar to a riot in New York City. Avi didn't exactly need to experience that in her lifetime, especially since I had and was now psychologically traumatized scarred for life. I still had nightmares from that. It was kind of odd how I'm probably the only person on Earth who can say that their past is also the future.

I was just about to head over towards my weapon several feet away, when I heard the scream, unmistakably Avi's. I whisked around, sure she was beside me a moment earlier, and saw her morph into a falcon and take to the skies while a few men in cloaks similar to my own tried to grab her.

"Av-" I began, before I was cut off by a sharp pain in my lower torso. Just below the location of my last prime rib was a deep sword cut, blood pouring out and intestines beginning to follow. I gasped, holding my hands over the gaping wound, watching the ever-so-precious blood spill out to the ground. I didn't have enough blood for it to be wasted like that, and even if I was fully healthy I could still bleed to death.

My eyes raked in the man before me. A mask covered his face, and I noticed in horror it was made of the real face of a fox, eye holes cut out of the poor, beautiful creature and instead I was facing the deep brown and evil orbs of this man.

"How could you do such a despicable thing to a beautiful creature?" I whispered, then noticing a trail of blood dripping from my mouth. I wiped it quickly, and he laughed, an awful sound causing me to grimace.

"See, we hear you're somethin' of a pow'ful mage, swee'um. Just try'na recruit ya to Dream'ess Twi'ght," he grunted with a maniacal grin.

"And the girl?" I wheezed, more blood bubbling at my mouth, and his smirk broadened.

"Ah, yes, her. Let's'ee... lil' bird girl fead'ers would make a nice add'ton to me mask, don't'cha think?"

"You awful man!" I exclaimed, stepping back, watching him beginning to close the gap between us. All he had to do was step into my blood that had spilled to the ground, and it was game over for him. I had a last hope that he would follow my voice and I'd have the opportunity to rid of him in order to get Avi out of here.

"See, I know lot more 'bout'cha tha'na think, an' tha' trick won't work aga'st me," his smirk still in place as he stepped carefully around my blood. I gave a small hiss of defeat, and he continued, "See? Ya live if ya come wit' me."

"Not a chance," I whispered, feeling my strength drain from my body. I held my hands up, ready to resort to my final power, completely unrelated to my other, main ability. In my dying moments, I was prepared to reduce the amount of oxygen atoms around him to one, and allow him to suffocate. Sighing, I began the quick, careful movements of my fingers.

Suddenly, the man fell to the ground with a look of surprise, and I stared curiously before noticing the arrow lodged into his flesh, right through the brain stem. I glanced up, and saw her little form perched high in a tree, another arrow ready and aimed at one of the Dreamless Twilight members before her. I could easily identify the courage that was trying to overcome her fear, like a trapped bird in a cage. Her hands shook, but her eyes narrowed in concentration.

Avi didn't see the man with the spear sneak up from behind her.

I did, however, and gasped. I'd seen that man before; the one true bane I'd ever encountered. He lowered the spear, smiling jubilantly, and threw it at her.

"No!" I screamed, but it was too late. The spear sailed through her little body, straight through her little torso. The spearhead broke through the flesh in the front, too; completely covered in her crimson blood. She fell out of the tree and to the ground with a dull thud.

"You little-" I began, a wave of anger roaring through me, comparable to a large tidal wave. My fingers were already moving in that complicated motion, my eyes narrowed. I must have looked downright horrifying to any bystanders. Soon, I had the ground falling beneath the feet of the enemy, and the man with the spear suffocating in poisonous gas while he let out an agonized wail. Satisfied my job had been done, I stumbled over to Avi's convulsing, blood covered body.

"No," I whispered, unable to stop the tears as my hands felt the wound. The spear had gone right through the flesh below her stomach, which happened to be the location of a human pancreas. "No, Avi! No!"

"R... Ray-Ray..." She mumbled in response. "Ray... Ray..."

"You're not going to die!" I screamed, vainly holding my hands around the spearhead as if that would stop the bleeding. "I won't let you!"

Avi glanced up at my face, and after seeing the agony in her eyes I began to sob. Horrible, breathtaking sobs like I had never before. I could feel my own body deteriorating at my own wound that I'd nearly forgotten about, and knew that I wasn't much better off. Dying here with Avi would be nice, I decided. I wanted to die with the one person I loved.

"Ray-Ray..." Avi wheezed again, and her own little shaky hands reached up to my wound. It was too much; too, too much. I lost the rest of my strength, and fell over on top of her own body. Out of my peripheral vision, I could see one of the Dreamless Twilight cronies pulling himself out of the hold, waving his sword angrily. Gosh, would he ever just snuff it already? He was then stopped, to my surprise, by a bright flash of green light.

"We need to take these two back to be healed," I heard then. "Major weight on my already damaged conscience if we don't."

"But my babies haven't had enough to do yet!"

I wanted to sit up, acknowledge their presence with a gold medal for their good citizenship. Maybe, just maybe, they could save Avi. And that would always be enough for me.