Intro
My life is pretty "normal". I live with my parents who are well known and pure blood alchemists. But instead of continuing to work in the military, they opened a clinic in our town Skelton next to an auto-mail shop.
I, myself, am an alchemist. I'm known as the Element Alchemist because I'm known to use different elements. I also dabble with witchcraft. I'm one of the youngest people to join the military but I barely get called in. That's why I stay with my parents.
I am Raven Grace. Daughter of James and Estha Grace. My hair is pitch black with red highlights that only show in the Sun. My eyes are a light gold. I wear an amulet that changes to the color of the day at midnight. Today's color: Gold. The necklace has always been that way even before I started studying witchcraft. My two other sisters gave it to me when I was very young.
One summer, while I was taking a break from working at the Grace Clinic, I wandered into the woods to relax. While I was walking down my secret path, I heard an animal in distress. Due to my good-nature, I ran toward the noise.
I found a fox that looked pretty beat up and had a nasty broken leg. The poor thing was half-dead. I ran back to the clinic to grab a blanket and rushed back to find the fox still alive. I wrapped it up and carried it back to the clinic.
When I came back, I couldn't find my parents. I laid the fox down on one of the hospital beds and found a note on my parent's desk:
Raven,
We're at an emergency across town. Should anybody come in, take as much care of them as possible. We should be back soon.
Love,
Mom and Dad
Good! They're gone! My parents, as good-hearted as they are, don't like working on animals. I ran up to my room and grabbed my spell-book and my alchemy book. I ran back downstairs and started to get to work on the fox. I wrapped her broken leg and patched up her wounds. I grabbed some dog food that I keep hidden from my parents and some water and gave it to the fox.
I was trying to find if there was anything to help the fox heal faster in both of my books. That's when I heard the front door open and my parents' voices. I panicked and threw a blanket over the fox to try and hide her. I went back to my books and pretended to be studying.
My parents seemed to notice the moving lump on the bed and lifted the blanket.
"I wonder why that fox is here." I said trying to act dumb. "I was just studying.
"Raven," my dad said. "Did you try to take care of this fox?"
"Maybe..."
"Rave," my mom said. "You know we don't take care of animals"
"I know, mom. But please. She's half-dead."
"Alright Rave. But you have to take care of it."
"Yay! And if it's okay, can I keep her afterwards? I promise to take complete care of her."
"Rave..."
"Please!" For some reason, I felt the urge to keep this fox around.
"Alright. But you're going to have tom name it-her-and take care of her."
With that, I hugged my parents. The fox had been around ever since. I named her Elexa after my two sisters-Ember and Alexa. They both died in a terrible accident. It's kind of a touchy subject so I don't really talk about it.
Elexa has always been besides me when I'm studying-either witchcraft or alchemy- but has always been more interested when I practice my witchcraft. My friend next door, Sybil, thinks that Elexa might be my familiar.
Right now, I'm in the main room with my parents and Elexa listening to the news over the radio. Suddenly, we hear a load commotion. My parents, and Elexa, shot straight up. My parents ran out of the door leaving it open and Elexa stood near it, looking out.
Suddenly, my parents came running back in and told me to get a bed ready. I put my book down and cleared off the very bed that I put Elexa on that day. My parents went running out of the doors with a stretcher.
I finished clearing out the bed when my parents ran back in with a boy on the stretcher-bleeding from his chest.
~Raven Grace~