Been forever and half, overhauled the story because I lost where I was going with the old one. Sorry about that people...
- A Demons Caress -
- Chapter 1 -
- During the Spellbound Act -
- Titan Tower, Raven's Room -
Raven gracefully moves books around in search of the next spell book, to further her training. She moves a stack of books, tomes and scriptures that have been piling up for the last month. One by one they hover in black energy, back into her book case. A quick glance of the last book stops her in her tracks, the books in mid flight to the book case plummet to the floor and the small smile that cracked on her face shifted into a grimace.
Stricken, she just stares at the old leather bounded book with an insignia of a dogs head, that had small quartz stones for eyes. A book that she forgotten about, until now...
"Raven is something wrong?" the known British ascent voice spoke from behind, startling her.
"This book..."
Malchior in paper mache body looks down upon the mysterious book with his black ink eyes, "I've never came across this before..." Out of curiosity he picks up the book with his magic and opens it up in front of him, only too see the black splotch mess on every page. He blinks flipping through the pages, "Hmm... seems this book is heavily damaged and would seem to be lost forever. But... my magic may be able to recover some passages from it, particular something useful."
Raven looks to Malchior even more amazed by his power, "Your magic can recover that?"
He coolly flips back to page one with glowing neon green energy from one hand beaming onto the page, "The organ player starts a low eerie lull as the young priestess stands alone within the Colosseum-"
"By Azar," she whispers spellbound, "You're... amazing..."
He gives a small humble chuckle, "So... shall I continue?"
Raven takes a seat on her bed, "Yes."
"Very well then..."
- Azarath, Colosseum -
- Birth of Arella's Reign -
The organ player starts a low eerie lull as the young priestess stands alone within the Colosseum. Her sights locked on the large gate that was before her. The organ continues to play its prelude of the horror of what rests beyond the gates bars; within its shadows. The sound of heavy foot steps comes to her ear along with the feel of a light tremble from the ground. The foot steps become louder, stronger than the one before it. Stones that laid across the ground start to vibrate vigorously, crawling away like bugs.
She takes a deep breath and remains standing, unfazed. The steps stop abruptly just behind the bars of the gate. A low feral growl echoes from the darkness behind the massive bars. The organ's lull comes to silence...
"Are you sure you wish to continue? You still have many years before this tria-"
She stabs the ground with her staff, "It is my destiny to become Seeress."
"The Hierarchs urge you to continue your trai-"
"No." He hand comes from her staffs head arcing slightly above her head, "I am ready to face the feral beast..." White energy crackles from the staffs crystal arching onto the palm of her hand, "I shall not fail."
A loud mechanical clunking noise comes from the gate, then is followed by a bone chilling metallic screech of the dead bolt. Then came the slow cranking of the gate; slowly it raises with the chains rattling. The gate raises fully stopping with a loud thump, locking in place to stay open. Silence over comes the Colosseum...
She stares within the darkness of the holding cell, waiting, expecting, bracing for what was to be the most fearsome, ferocious and feral creature ever known; an immensely powerful creature, one that slain her peoples leader... her mother.
She huffs, "Come out Feral Beast!"
Steel to fading lilac basketballs of eyes beam open from the darkness. A chill surges through her spine, rippling through out her entire body feeling the stare into her eyes, peering into her soul.
Her hand shines a vibrant white, palm thrown towards the darkness. A fiery bolt of the white energy erupts from her palm, "I said, show yourself FERAL BEAST!"
The fiery white ball twirls illuminating its flight path; the bolt disappears into the darkness. There is a loud thud like noise along with a white glow of the energy that barely escapes the darkness of the holding cell.
A loud snort comes from the dark, "You think that you can call on me?" a raspy feral voice speaks from the darkness unfazed by the young priestess's attack.
"Silence Beast! Come out and face your judgement!"
The eyes close, "You think that you can judge me?" the voice muses demonically.
"My mother's murderer shall not be permitted to li-" Dark flames flare out from the opening from the pin, giving off an ominous violet glow. The flames continue to creep out from the pin, the sound of a forest firestorm crackles loudly growing louder and louder as the flames climbing higher and higer; scorching the Colosseum's stone fabrication.
The organ starts as the firestorm continues, playing an awe inspiring prelude of terror of what the black flames concealed behind them. The large steel fading lilac eyes open, gazing through the flames that shrouded them. A heat wave belches out from the dark flames, "I didn't want your mother..."
Instinctively her arm shoots up shielding her face from the dust. The intense gale of wind rushes past her; her cloak and long violet hair ripple vigorously. The gale dies off and she returns to normal position, with the exception of her cloak's hood being stripped off over her head along with her hair draping over her back and shoulders.
Slowly a mass ghastly shadow forms behind the black firestorm and as it became more apparent the organs tone grew more in a stricken climatic tone. "I desired you, Arella..."
Her soul trembles, goose bumps surge through her body. She gives a small snort of discomfort, "Enough!" she roars with her white energy immolating from her body, "Enough talk! This en-"
The ground trembles, the dark flames belch out in a line towards Arella, leaving a scorched earth trail. Arella stabs her staff into the ground instantly letting out a bloom of her white energy out. The two energy clash with each other, but the dark flames still came at her, the only thing she successfully done was alter their path and slow them down. The dark flames part two ways streaking past her; slamming into the Colosseum's walls behind her.
She regains her composure, "Is that it?"
A chuckle echoes out from the darkness, "So sure of yourself are you?"
"Ever since I was sixteen and the death of my mother I've been training vigorously for this..." she starts spitefully. She gives a quick sigh, "This is my destiny..." her grip on her staff tightens, "To become the Seeress I must slay you."
The dark flames die down, "Destiny, eh?" the voice muses wisely, "Is it on ones free will or is it that bounds you?" Mist rolls out quickly from within the darkness, eerily looming over the Colosseum's battle ground, "Then let us see..."
The mist begins to part in front of Arella revealing a darkened figure that seemed to be that of a horse standing tall. The steel lilac fading eyes appear opening up peering through the mist, staring down upon her. The mist fades, slowly unveiling a behemoth feral dog standing tall, fortified, sturdy like one of the temples defensive turret towers.
The Feral Beast itself had a sense of majesty, a deep chocolate brown coat with a beige undercarriage and snout along with a blushed beige face; just as a Snow Dogs. It's eyes steel fading to an inner lilac around its pupils; sharp like cold steel just as spellbinding as quartz bathing in the sun.
The Feral Beast sighs loudly, giving off a sense of regret. "Let the eternal struggle..." it starts with a whisper. Quickly it slams the ground with its front paws, "... BEGIN!" It ends it with a howl.
A trio of da-
- Titan Tower, Raven's Room -
Raven's room pulses a red light with an alarm wailing about. Raven sighs annoyed, "Always at the good parts... never fails."
"As it would seem," Malchior adds with eyes shifting to Raven, watching as she gets prepared. "Shall I keep this place for another time?"
She puts on her near pure white cloak, that only had a slight tint of a blue glow, "Of course; I've always wanted to know what was on the book... before Beast Boy destroyed it."
"Should have known the green one wa-"
There was a hard knock on Raven's, "Come on Rae, we gotta go!" Cyborg hollered before running off down the hall.
She gazes at Malchior, with a small smile she says, "See you in awhile Malchior," before energy-melding to the others.
Malchior stands in the room alone, he stares at the unknown book he held in his hands. "What does this book hold that Raven finds fascinating?" He flips to the pages seeing nothing but ruin, until he sees the final words...
"... A Demon's Caress"
He ponders, "I must see further into this book..."