*This chapter will be a little boring in the beginning as there will be no dialogue until later. This is just some background into Raven and Sybil's daily lives. Aside from the magic, EVERYTHING here is something that has happened...or something we said...I own absolutely NOTHING.*

Chapter 1

a few weeks later

It's a Thursday. With great reluctance, Raven Zaria got up around 8am, changed and brushed out her shoulder-length brown hair. As per the usual, she picked out the jewelry she wanted to wear and chose a simple necklace with the Assassin's Creed symbol and slipped on her replica of the One Ring. There hadn't been a day without it. Afterwards, she left the room to go eat breakfast before her 8:40am class. At the college campus, breakfast didn't vary much. All she ate were scrambled eggs and a few pieces of sausage.

On her way out, a parent stopped her and asked her for help finding the Financial Aid Office. It was 8:30. Deciding to do a good deed, Raven escorted the parent to the Financial Aid Office, going down two flights of stairs. The parent thanked her and she left to head back to the dorm.

After retrieving her backpack, she left to go to class. it was 8:35. She had 5 minutes to get to class if she wanted to be on time. Four minutes later, she was sitting in her desk and on her phone. She often slept through that class anyway. It was math and was far too easy for her. She would much rather sleep and often daydreamed throughout the entire class period. However, that day, she had a test...but only in the last 20 minutes of class.

Once the professor arrived, Raven put away her phone and took out her notebook. She did the reading quiz that was at the beginning of the class and then started to doodle. She NEVER read any of the text since she already knew the math. Thirty minutes later, the lesson was over and the test was passed out. Raven struggled with one of the two problems, working through it twice. She had screwed up her signs...again. She left the class and check her phone after completing the test. It was 9:25. She had gotten out 5 minutes early.

She returned to her dorm and played on her phone, roleplaying. Some time later, she checked the time. It was 11:10. She needed to get ready for her next class.

Come 11:30am, Raven was sitting in her Japanese class with her friend Sybil Treasure. As always the class was fun and the hour went by extremely quick and they parted ways. Sybil still had a two class to go to, but Raven was done and so went to back to the dorm.

Reaching her room, she was alone. Her roommate had classes. After setting her stuff down, Raven checked the time. It was 12:40. She muttered to herself, "If I go to eat lunch now, the lines will be long and there will likely not being any pizza ready." She shrugged, "I'll have to wait either way, so I might as well go now."

So, she went to get food and got a cheese pizza and a soda. She swiped her College ID card, the meal counting as part of her meal plan and then she returned her room where she ate while lurking on the roleplay. Without a laptop, she relied on her phone for most things...and it wasn't always very reliable. Eventually, she switched to watching some Smosh videos while constanting checking the time.

It was 3pm. There were times when the time just seemed to go by so quickly. Her roommate was done with classes at 2:50 and so would return soon. Around 3:10, she heard her roommate in the hall talking to someone and opened the door.

About twenty minutes later, her roommate said, "I need to meet someone. Will you be here?"

Raven glanced at the time and stated, "I'm going to go to the computer lab."

Her roommate nodded, "Will you be coming back?"

Raven answered simply as she grabbed her jacket and made sure her ID and key were in her pocket, "I'll come back around 5 before heading to dinner."

The two of them left their room and Raven made sure the door was locked. Outside the dorm, they parted ways as Raven went straight to the computer lab...the PC lab to be precise. The Mac computers seemed to greatly dislike her and she had such a hard time dealing with them. As usual, the PC lab was empty. Most people forgot it existed. Going to the back row, she picked the computer second to the end farthest the door. She logged in and immediately opened her email, fanfiction and the roleplay. She flipped back and forth between tabs as she started writing out her original story ideas while roleplaying at the same time.

Around 4:20, she started to hear sounds. She wasn't alone in the PC lab as there was another girl at the first computer in the front, but that girl didn't seem to hear what she did. Raven turned around, but there was only a wall behind her. On the left, closest the door to get in, was another door. She suspected it led to the Radio station/DJ room. She actually had no idea for sure. To her right, very close to where she sat, was another door. That door did not have a handle or knob and neither she nor Sybil knew what could be behind it though they had talked about it several times. Some of their theories...all of their theories were highly unlikely. One said it was the Doctor. Another said it was Vince Noir and Howard Moon from the Mighty Boosh.

The sound occurred again and Raven looked around. It was male and distorted. What is that sound? Where is it coming from? She shook her head. Maybe I've finally lost it...too much time on the computer.

The strange voice seemed louder, but she had absolutely no idea what it was saying. The other girl in the room left. With a glance at the time, Raven logged herself off the computer and left as well, going to another room where she sat by a defibrillator and under a staircase. She sat there texting Sybil, more than a little unnerved.

Around 5pm, Sybil joined her since it was time for dinner. Raven went back to the room to drop off her story notes before going to dinner. She was quiet, her thoughts on what she had heard in the PC lab. She knew she was letting her imagination run away with it and make it far scarier than it really was...Considering, only a few weeks earlier she had heard voices, but they were clearly human and a conversation...She and Sybil had joked about it and taking comfort in that it wasn't Black Speech. This time, she wasn't sure.

Sybil drew her from her thoughts, "Will you be going back to the computer lab tonight?"

Raven nodded, "Probably…"

Sybil added, "I'll go with you."

Raven smiled, "That'd be great." She really didn't want to be alone in the PC lab...she knew it was probably just her imagination...then again, which was worse? Either, she was hearing voices and they were only in her head...not the voices of her characters, but of something sinister...or, there really was something strange behind the handleless door…

Later that night in the PC lab…

Raven was on the computer roleplaying and writing some fanfiction and Sybil sat next to her with her laptop. They were watching The Mighty Boosh episodes, Don't Mind the Buzzcocks and listening to crimps. The voice was not heard at all...Although, it was still quite crazy in the PC lab. Both Raven and Sybil were laughing uncontrollably, growing tired and soon they were beyond the point of tired to being wide awake. It was well after midnight.

Between episodes, Sybil says, "Oh, so somehow I managed to burn myself."

"Again?" Sybil had burnt herself earlier in the week as well.

Sybil shook her head, "I don't know how...I mean, I had this weird dream and I woke up with it."

Raven scoffed, "Weird how?"

That sent them both into fits of laughter. Weird didn't mean anything to them anymore...After extreme randomness in the roleplay and weird british tv shows, normal was boring. Heck, they hadn't exactly been in reality for a couple weeks.

It was nearly 1am. Raven said, "We should probably go…"

Sybil also looked at the time, "But will we?"

More laughter, but after several moments, Raven logged herself out of the computer, "We should."

Seeing this, Sybil inquired, "Are we going?"

Raven nodded and soon they left, each their dorms to sleep…

*And that was just some insight to these characters' lives...Just to let you know, I spend a lot of time in the PC lab on campus, and I did hear a weird distorted voice one afternoon...And my friend did actually burn herself...twice...not sure how she did it the second time...Anyway, next chapter, the adventure shall officially begin…*