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Chapter One
Smalltown, Georgia
May 1991
The ominous black car with deep purple tinted windows slowly made its way on the one lane dirt road in the deep Georgia backwoods.
Rusted out trailers decorated with car parts, beer cans, and un-mowed lawns lined the side of the road. The woman driving the car
looked at the scenery around her in disgust, she was above this, the child she was searching for was above this, or so was
prophesized by the blind woman sitting in the passenger seat next to her.
"Are you sure this where the child lives Irene"? asked the woman driving.
"Yes Raven", Irene answered, "Just because a person is meant for greatness doesn't mean they can't be born to humble surroundings".
Raven rolled her yellow glowing eyes, "Which one does the girl live in"? Raven asked.
"Number 21, I do believe it's the neon purple one up ahead", Irene answered with an amused smile on her lips.
Raven looked appalled, "Your kidding right"?
Irene laughed, "No Im not", oh how she wished she could see the look on Ravens pretty blue face. Raven was infact staring opened
mouth at the hideous sight before her.
Neon Purple? Raven thought, Now I don't feel so bad about taking the girl away.
"Raven dear", Irene called pulling Raven out of her thoughts and looking over to her partner.
"Yes Irene"
"Would you mind not hitting that little boy"?
"What"?, Raven looked around not seeing anything, then looked back to Irene. Irene just smiled and lifted up her hand with three
fingers pointed up and started to count down.
"In one", one finger down, "Two", another finger down, "Three", she pointed towards the road. Raven looked in the direction of Irene's
pointed finger and only had a second to pound the break as a dirty barefooted little boy bounded across the road completely
oblivious to the world around him.
"Stupid kid"! Raven shouted, "Damn it Irene it's like your not even blind"
"Well Raven just because I can't see doesn't mean that I can't see and you of all people should now that by now"
"Sorry" Raven tried to interrupt but Irene wasn't done yet.
"And right now what I see is a neon purple trailer holding a little girl that will one day become one of the most powerful mutants in the
world, a mutant who could save or destroy us when the time comes, a mutant who we must mold and train to fight and protect all of us
mutants in the race for survival when He comes and the war starts, so take that snub off your face and do your job"!
"Yes dear" Raven replied with clenched teeth.
She parked the car two trailers down from number 21 and turned to Irene, "So what exactly am I up against here"?
Irene touched a finger to her head and scrunched her eyebrows together trying to bring up the images that came to her in a dream not
but to days ago that had brought her and her partner on this little adventure.
"The fathers name is Owen, 23 years old, works at the tire plant.... a drunk" Irene said the last with a smile, "He shouldn't be a problem
for you".
"Good" Said Raven, who picked up a duffle bag at Irene's feet and started searching through it, "And the mother"?
"The mothers name is Priscilla, she dropped out of high school when she was 17 when she became pregnant with our girl and now she
works as a part time stripper at the local club" Irene said waggling her brows at Raven.
"For christ sakes, could this be any more stereotypical, this child should thank us for what were about to do"! Raven said.
"At any rate", said Irene, "We should get this done and over with, we have a long drive ahead of us and I would prefer to do it in the dark
seeing as we'll have a kidnapped child with us".
"Fine", Raven pulled out her gun and silencer from the duffle bag and roll of duct tape, and placed both strategically in her suit jacket. She then
shifted into human form, milky white skin, black hair and blue eyes, then exited the car. She flipped her hair back and smoothed down her
pencil skirt then leaned into the opened driver's side window. "How do I look"? She asked Irene, knowing full well she couldn't see her.
Irene just turned her head to Raven and smiled, "Like a professional darling", she answered.
"Thank you sweetie" Raven said blowing a kiss to Irene before turning and walking up to the neon purple monstrosity. She gave the flimsy door
three sharp knocks and waited. A man opened the door and Raven had to bite her cheek to not laugh at the sorry sight before her. He was tall
and stocky with shoulder length auburn hair that probably hadn't been combed in days, his jeans had holes in every which way and his white wife beater was covered in black oil stains, and his dull green eyes were rimmed red where the white should have been.
Drunk already, Raven mused to herself, This is toooo easy
He looked Raven over with appreciation, "Can Ah help ya ma'am" he asked
Raven gave him a sneer, "Yes, my name is Ms. Darkholme, Im here for Child Protective Services, are you Owen"?
Owen looked surprised, "Yes ma'am ah am, whats this all bout, ah aint done nothin wrong".
"Look I just need to ask you and your wife a few questions and then I'll be out of your way ok".
Owen started to get angry and replied, "Listen ma'am ah now my rights, and ah know that me and my wife aint done nothin wrong
with Anna, so why dont ya get the hell off my property"!
Raven just smiled, "Well I had hoped that I wouldn't have to do it this way but, oh well" she said with a shrug.
Owen was outraged, "Wait a minute, come to what, what the hell are....", Quick as a whip Raven had the gun pointed at Owens head stopping him
mid sentence.
"Step into the house sir" Raven demanded, Owen backed up into the dark living room of the trailer, hands held up and fear in his eyes. Raven
stepped inside and kicked the door closed behind her.
"Look Im going to take your daughter away from you, she's going to be a powerful woman someday, and you are an unworthy piece of shit, so sorry"
she said with a shrug.
"O..o...ok fine take her just please leave me alone, ah didn do anythin to ya, please"!
Raven sneered, "Fucking coward" she said to him, "Well I guess I did forget to mention the part were I have to kill you because you've seen me"
"Wait! Noooo, please dont do this, Ah'll do anythin you wa...." Owen barely had time to swallow his fear before Raven pulled the trigger and his
world went black. Raven kicked Owens lifeless body in disgust, "Useless human", she whispered. She looked around the rest of the trailer but
the place was empty.
Just fucking great, she thought.
She walked back to the living room, and noticed the half drunkin glass of whiskey on the coffee table.
If you could call it that, more like plywood on two cinder blocks
Raven sat on the ancient puke green 70's couch covered in stains and picked up the glass bringing it to her nose and took a whiff of the sharp aroma.
Cheap bastard, of course I find the drunk who doesn't know how drink properly, oh well...
She brought the glass to her lips and chugged the remaining whiskey in one gulp and shivered bitterly. She looked at her watch and noted that it was
an hour to sundown.
Those two better get here soon or Irene's gonna have me sleeping on the couch, she thought bitterly as she plopped her high heeled feet on the
"coffee table".
May as well get comfortable, she mused as she poured herself another drink.
"Cheers" she said lifting her glass in a salute to the body on the floor. Half an hour later she heard muttering outside the door and the door knob
starting to turn.
Finally
Raven shifted into her mutant form in all her blue glory
May as well give them a nice surprise
She pulled her gun out and pointed it to the door, the room was pitch black by this time so Raven could clearly make out the form of a woman holding
a child coming through the door. "Owen sugah ya home", the woman called out as she fumbled around for the light switch.
"Maybe he's asleep already mamma" said the little girl.
"Ya probably right darlin" the woman said in worn tone. "Got it" she said triumphantly as she turned on the light switch, " What the...", she gasped
at the sight before her, a tall blue woman with glowing eyes and gun pointed at her and her husband on the floor a pool of blood around his head.
She clutched her daughter closer to her chest, "What are you, what happened h..h..here" she demanded frightend.
"Im here to take your daughter" Raven said nonchalantly as she sized up the woman before her. Priscilla was beautiful, long curly blonde hair, curves
in all the right places that were accentuated by her tight black leather pants and white belly shirt with the oh so obvious black bra underneath.
Classy, Raven laughed to herself.
Priscilla started backing towards the door, "Just stay away from us you....you monster"!, she yelled as the little girl tried to hide in her mothers
arms whimpering.
"Sorry missy, can't do that", Raven said with an evil smile on her face, "Im going to kill you and Im going to take your daughter and that's all there
is to it"
"Please don't, p..please don't hurt us, please..." but it was too late, Raven pulled the trigger and Priscilla fell to the floor, eyes wide with fear and her daughter
still in her arms. Anna pulled herself out from her mother's slack grasp and looked at the blood soaked hole in the middle of her forehead. "Mama" she whispered, shaking her fallen mothers body, "Mamma, wake up"! Anna yelled and she looked at the blue woman in fright and shaking her mother
even harder, "Mamma please don let her take me, please wake up"! the tears were flowing freely from the little girl's eyes now. Raven came and knelt
before the child and looked at her fully for the first time, she was small and skinny with messy auburn hair and a white stripe in the front and bright
emerald green eyes that were shimmering with tears.
"Sorry" Raven said, "But this is for your own good", she pulled out the roll of duct tape from her jacket, "Hopefully you'll see that one day", she grabbed
the girl and wouned the tape around her mouth and head three times before doing the same to her wrists and ankles, "Your a very special girl", she
continued, "And Im going to train you how to use your gifts to help save our kind". The little girl just shook her head, not really understanding anything
that was going on around her or what the scary blue lady was trying to tell her, all she could do was give out muffled cries from behind the tape.
"Im your new family now, Im going to take care of you so just don't be afraid ok" Raven said exasperated, talking to children wasn't one of her
strong points.
Anna sat bound next to her mother's dead body, tears wracking her own small form as Raven removed the silencer from the gun and placing it in her
jacket, then pulled out a cloth and removed her hand prints from the weapon and placed it into Priscilla's lifeless hand.
Raven looked over to the little girl, "Your coming with me now, so don't fight me ok, it's happening whether you like it or not" she said.
She lifted the scared little girl in her arms and headed towards the door, the last thing Anna saw of her home was her parents laying in there own
blood, before Raven turned off the lights and walked out of the trailer closing the door silently behind her.