Disclaimer: Don't own the Lost Boys or anything related. Nor do I own the 9th circle or Rip out the wings of a butterfly. They belong to H.I.M. I only own my characters.

David somehow managed to survive that night over 25 years ago. Now with a new group of Lost boys can he manage to fend off the growing threat of a possible new coven forming in Santa Carla? Will new friendships form? Will someone find a mate? Will the past come back to haunt someone? Will old enemies become allies?

The beginning of this chapter is just a way to set up my Main O's back story. Please bear with me I promise David is in this chapter.

Reviews and comments are always welcome.

Bold = song lyrics

Just because I'm telling you this story, doesn't mean that I'm alive at the end. Sorry, maybe I should start at the beginning. My Name Is Raven McKnight.

My life was never exactly an easy one. My Father divorced my mother when I was a baby. My mother scrapped a meager and I do mean meager living to support us, till I was four and she decided to marry a rich douche. From then on nothing I did was good enough. My grades, my friends, my beliefs. I was always considered uncultured in the eyes of my stepfather. I hate that term step father, he was in no way, shape, or form a father to me in any sense of the word.

Anyhow let's skip ahead. I'll come back to that later. School wasn't any easier, I was the outcast. Quiet, reserved, introverted. I was always picked on or picked last. Tell you the truth I really didn't care about it either. The few friends I had were just as much outcasts as I was. We were actually the outcasts of the outcasts. That's probably why we managed to get along so well.

Flash forward a few years I was bouncing from job, to job, and relationship to relationship. The first relationship was great in the beginning. We had been friends since high school. We graduated and he moved to Florida. We decided to keep a long distance relationship. That is till I called him one day and he was whispering on the phone that he couldn't talk because his girlfriend was there, and hung up on me. Then a year later he has the nerve to call me a year later on Valentine's day like nothing happened.

The second one was bat shit crazy so he had to go after I found him strangling a stuffed toy rabbit I had. I thought I hit the Jackpot when I found the third boyfriend. He was almost exactly like me. Same family situation, same kind of upbringing, same likes and dislikes. It was all perfect. Till just a few months after our first anniversary. Then he tells me he's gay. Yeah I know I sure know how to pick 'em right? Well they were a cakewalk compared to this last one.

It had been two years I've been with this one. His time is coming soon. We were so happy in the beginning. He was so sweet and treated me like a princess. Then one day that all changed. I was being treated the way my stepfather had treated me. Suddenly I wasn't good enough. I was lazy, I was stupid, I was always out and never told him where I was which was total bull shit on his part. This went on for a while when one day I said I finally had enough. I was sick of having to get this crap from my step dad and I sure as hell wasn't about to deal with my boyfriend doing it. That's when everything changed. I walked into my mother's house wearing dark oversized sunglasses.

"What are those for?" My mother asked pointing at the glasses.

"She's probably strung out. You know what a worthless piece of trash YOUR daughter is." My step dad replied from behind the counter. I was pissed. I wanted to punch him in his arrogant mouth. I didn't answer as I went upstairs to my room and locked the door behind me. went into the small bathroom attached to my room. I took off the glasses and looked into the mirror. My face was slightly swollen, the bruise was now turning that ugly yellowish-green color. It still had tints of purple in it. I pulled open a drawer and rummaged around looking for the concealer I had in there. I used it to cover up my tattoos, if my mother knew she'd have had a conniption fit. I covered the bruise so it was all but invisible.

Weeks went by and things got worse and worse. I came home with bruises, cuts, scrapes, and my family basically blamed it on me. When I took a stand and tried to fight back I got it worse from my boyfriend than before. One time I woke up in the hospital a week later. The staff told me I had been in a coma and had several broken bones. They were healing but I couldn't leave right away.

I had heard one of the nurses telling another nurse how I was such a poor thing, that my family had been notified and that they said they had no idea who I was. Said they should just make me a ward of the state. When I was asked how I got the injuries I sustained I told them it had been Damon that had done it. One of the nurses notified the police. The cops came and talked to me and within a few hours they had a warrant out for his arrest and an order of protection for me.

Several times the cops were called to anyplace I was where Damon had shown up and tried to beat the hell out of me. Each time he got locked up he'd be out a few days later and try it again. It wasn't until he showed up at my "parents" house that everything went to pot. My "parents" were screaming Damon was screaming and it was all at me. I had visible cuts and bruises from the last fisticuffs the cops broke up between me and Damon and here was everyone instead of helping me they sat there and blamed me. When the cops showed up they first arrested Damon and then my step dad turned and told the cops to have me removed from the house. The cops knew me from all the reports I filed and they genuinely felt sorry for me.

One of them accompanied me to my room where I quickly gathered up a few things and headed into my parents room. The cop waited in the hall while I was rummaging through my parents room. I made my way to the bookshelf and pulled out an old book. I opened the lid and that's when I saw the lock. I reached up into my hair, pulled out a pin and started picking the lock. Inside was exactly what I was looking for. Wads of cash and credit cards. I grabbed some of both, shoved them in my pocket, locked the box up and headed out the door. I left the house and never looked back.

I moved from Jersey to Florida, New Orléans, Austin, and Vega. Months later after I pretty much maxed the cards and had a few hundred bucks left in my pocket I had Moved to California. First San Francisco, Oakland, Pasadena and just as I was down to my last few bucks I arrived in Santa Carla. It is here I leave you as a first person speaker and tell my tale from the third person point of view.

The sun was high in the sky as the taxi drove into Santa Carla. In the back seat a woman sat waiting for her ride to be over. Anther state, another town. This was nothing new to her,. She absent-mindedly looked out the window as the cab drove into town. Outside a huge fading billboard greeted her. Welcome to Santa Carla. As they drove past she looked back out the window and noticed the large ugly fading graffiti on the back that said Murder capital of the world!

"Well there's a catchy little slogan." She said to herself. After a few minutes the cab slowed to a stop outside of a dingy old building. Raven tossed some cash into the front cab, grabbed her bag and guitar and shut the door behind her.

She took one look at the building in front of her. It was an old dilapidated building. It looked like it used to be a factory of some kind. Plaster was crumbling off the walls,wood rotting on the doors, one of the front porch lights were hanging down off the wall. Raven reaches for the door knocker pulls it up when suddenly the door yanked open from the other side. Raven stands there a bit shocked at first before she gets barreled down by a tall sandy blond-haired guy. He stopped suddenly looking down at the girl sitting on the floor in front of him with the doorknocker in her hand.

"What you break now Edge?" A female voice asked from behind him. Another males voice chimed in."If we're lucky, him." he said with a chuckle.

Raven by this time had got up and was dusting the filth off her jeans as she stood there looking at the group. In front of her was a tall man about 6'6" he was easily towering over her 5'5" frame. He had shoulder length,sandy blond fringe cut hair. He was wearing a black t-shirt under a red and white flannel shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows and ripped up jeans with black converse on.

Behind him stood a woman about 28 or 29 roughly the same age as Raven with blue eyes, black, blue, and purple streaked hair that hung to the middle of her back and a big star tattoo on her right shoulder. Last but not least, next to her stood another man about six-foot with shaggy dirty blond hair in jeans and an old AC/DC shirt.

"You must be new here. "I'm Morgana. This is Sabin" She pointed next to her. "and the human bulldozer that took you out is Edge."

"I'm Raven, yeah I'm new, I just got here before your friend knocked me down. This is the place that has the apartment for rent right? I didn't have them deliver my crap to the wrong place did I?"

'"Nope saw the truck out there earlier. You got the penthouse view. Come on I'll show you."Sabin said grabbing her wrist and dragging her toward the stair. Raven raised an eyebrow as she nearly tripped trying to keep up with him. "Should I be worried?" She asked turning to face Morgana who was following behind.

"Nah, he's an idiot. He's harmless." She replied. The group made their way up three flights of stairs chatting about this and that before Raven decided to ask the obvious. "Why didn't we just take the elevator?"

"Hasn't worked in years." Edge replied as he walked over to the door for the elevator shaft and pushed it open. Everyone stepped closer and Raven peered down into the darkness. Sabin shined his flashlight on his cell phone down to help make it more visible. At the bottom of the shaft was the elevator car its cables were snapped and curled around the top of the elevator and a few cables hung from over head.

"Well now we know what happened to Max and Sadie." Edge said.

"Who's Max and Sadie?"

"Sadie was a tenant here and Max was a maintenance worker. Sadie was using the elevator and max was down in the lobby workin' on the elevator doors something went wrong and the cables snapped the elevator came crashing down killing Sadie and Max was decapitated." Morgana told her. Raven cringed and grabbed her neck as Edge closed the shaft doors and they continued walking.. "That was before me and Sabin came here." They walked up another flight. "This is where we live." Morgana pointed to a door on the right side of the hall way at the end was another set of stairs.

"This is your stop. Your just up ahead." Sabin said. As they walked up the stairs to the last floor. Up ahead was a long corridor with a big red doorway. There were no other doors on this floor and it felt a bit eerie. Raven put her guitar down and rummaged through her backpack looking for a key she had picked up from the realtor.

Opening the door she flicked on the light switch, with a hum the lights flickered before finally turning on. The walls were faded and the paper on the walls were peeling. All the furniture was covered in sheets. That was the one thing Raven was thankful for. The place was all ready furnished. In the center of the room stood a few boxes of her things she had delivered. In the corner was a fireplace and off to the right of that was a spiral staircase.

The group spread out and started looking around the apartment. There was a small kitchen, a bathroom. The living room and a bed room downstairs. Raven went to the staircase and began to climb, the staircase seemed to lead to nowhere when she noticed a small hole in the ceiling. She reached up and dusted it off. It wasn't a hole but a handle. She shoved on the handle and the door creaked open as she pushed up. She couldn't see much in the dark. "Hey Sabin, let me borrow that flashlight will ya."

He walked up the stairs and handed the light up to her. When she shone it into the darkness she noticed it was another room. She stepped up into the room and looked around. It was completely empty except for the long table at the far end of the room that looked like a capital I. Above it in the dead center of the wall was stain glass window all blue with a bird holding a rose in its mouth with a purple ribbon tied to it.

"What kinda bird is that?" Sabin asked.

"It's a raven." Morgana and Raven said in unison.

"This place was meant for you." Edge said.

"Funny. The guy that sold me this place didn't mention this." they all exited the room and went back downstairs.

"Well we have to go, we have to go practice. Why don't you come meet us on the boardwalk later? Meet us at the roller coaster" Morgana said as she made her way to the door.

"Sure, why not."

A cool breeze blew along the boardwalk as Raven mad her way across the parking lot. She saw the sun going down along the horizon. Stopping she hopped up on the railing pulled out her phone and snapped a picture. As she made her way along the boardwalk she hear a cacophony of noise people talking, vendors trying to lure people into playing the street games, the screams of the people on the roller coaster She walked through the thick crowd full of tourists and locals. All around the lights were flashing and the noise was getting louder.

Raven walked spinning around as she did so she could talk in all the sights. Suddenly she felt herself bump into something hard. When she looked up a hand was extended out to her and she took it. Standing in front of her was a six-foot guy with brown eyes, he was skinny as a rail with tan skin and long black hair in a ponytail that fell to the middle of his back. She quickly let go of his hand and apologized.

"Guess I shoulda watched where I was going." She said.

"No problem. We're good." He replied. She apologized again before continuing on her way to the roller coaster

"Looks like I just found lunch." The man said before he vanished into the crowd.

Raven met up with her new friends finally. She spotted Sabin first looking around. He was looking to see if she was coming. Morgana was sitting on top of a trash bin and was talking Edge's ear off. Raven managed to sneak up behind Sabin and grabbed his sides causing him to jump.

"Are you trying to give me a heart attack, I almost jumped out of my skin!"

"Sorry, it was just too good to pass up."

"About time you got here girl. If you don't hurry up we'll miss the band."Morgana said hopping down from her perch. "By the way feel free to give him a heart attack anytime. I do it all the time."

She grabbed Raven's hand and lead the group through the throng of the crowd up to the stage. There weren't many people as the opening band was playing. By the time the main band came on stage they were surrounded by people. It was so tight that you could barely move. Raven was squeezed between Edge and Morgana and poor Sabin was behind them between two rather rotund looking biker looking guys.

Heaven ablaze in your eyes We're standing still in time The blood on our hands is the wine We offer as sacrifice
Come on and show them your love Rip out the wings of a butterfly For your soul, my love Rip out the wings of a butterfly For your soul

"I love Him!" Morgana shouted over to Raven.

"You love who?" Edge shouted back over Raven's head. Raven tapped his shoulder and motioned for him to bend down closer to her since he was a good foot taller.

"Not who She meant Him the band." Raven said into his ear. After a few songs Raven was getting hungry. She leaned over to Morgana. "I'll be right back, try to guard my spot." Morgana nodded as Raven turned to walk away.

Finally after a few minutes of trudging through a sea of people Raven made it to the end of the crowd. She could still hear the music clear as a bell. She looked around and noticed she was surrounded by mostly boardwalk games. Out of the corner of her eye she spotted a little cart, she made her way over and noticed it was a cotton candy stand.

"What'll it be?" The man who ran the cart asked.

"Can I get a purple one?" She pulled out five bucks and handed it to the man. He gave her the change and began to make her her cotton candy. Once the fluffy stuff was piled high on the little paper cone in her hand she walked over to the railing next to the cart. She could hear the waves breaking on the shore behind her as she hopped up on the railing separating the boardwalk from the beach.

The band began another song as a group of guys walked along the boardwalk laughing and joking as they went. "Hey, hey David that's her. There goes my lunch." The band began to play its next song.

Is it so hard to believe the hearts are made to be broken Can't you see that the beauty of love lies in constant times Don't you want our hearts to be torn wide open Won't you feel the heaven in our endless cry
Oh at least you could try Let me just to be closer For this one last time Let me fall into your arms
It could be alright Don't let us grow any colder For this one last time Let me close to your heart
Ever amazed how bright are the flames we are burning in Ever smiled of the tragedies we have locked deep inside Aren't you obsessed by our hand was on the verge of beginning Won't you cherish your fear of life that keeps us alive

David looked over in the direction Angel had pointed. There sitting on a rail was a woman about 5"5 with brown eyes, brownish red hair hung down to the top of her butt. She was wearing ripped and faded jeans with a Black Sabbath t-shirt. She was eating purple cotton candy. He could see either a mark or tattoo n her wrist.

"Don't look like you're getting lunch tonight man." The man standing next to him remarked as he watched David appraising the woman in front of them.

"Shut it Cody!" Angel said as he pushed his friend next to him.

"Ha ha ha ha. No food for you!"

"Enough." They all stopped and looked at David.

"Well if I can't eat her can we at least play with her?"

"I don't see the harm in it. No one snacks on her."

"Just you right? You always get the pretty ones." Joseph the other guy that was standing there mumbled. David just shot him a glare.

Oh at least you could try Let me just to be closer For this one last time Let me fall into your arms
It could be alright Don't let us grow any colder For this one last time Let me close to your heart

David and his friends made their way over to where the woman was standing, Just as they were about to sit next to her a guy hopped up on the railing and joined her.

"Hey buuuuuuudy!" Morgana and Edge walked over and joined them.

"We thought someone took you! What happened?" Morgana asked a little relieved hen she saw the woman sitting next to Sabin.

"Sorry I wasn't about to fight the crowd trying to find you guys again. How was being sandwiched between Butch and Tank?" Raven asked turning to face Sabin. He gave her a dirty look and frowned before flipping her off. She laughed and hopped down off the railing.

"It's getting late maybe we should head home. It's not good to be out too late around here" Edge said.

"Yes dad!" Sabin said before getting hit in the head by Morgana. They made their way to the parking lot.

"Stay." David said as he turned to his friends behind him. He turned back around his black coat billowing out behind him as he did. He followed the group ahead of him all the time concentrating on Raven.

Turn around.

Nothing.

Turn around.

Nothing.

Damn around. He thought.

Raven and her friends were almost to the car when Raven suddenly stopped and turned to look behind them.

"Everything ok? Morgana asked.

"Yeah fine." Raven said not bothering to look at her friend. She was too busy looking into the shadows where David was hidden staring back at her with those piercing blue eyes.

That's the end of the first chapter. I have some ideas for the next two chapters written down.