Midnight: This chapter will tell u a little more about Raven
Exceptional: Blah, blah, blah...just write the damn fanfic already
Midnight: Quit nagging, and I'll start
Exceptional: Well hurry I wanna see what happens in the next chapter
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Even Angels Fall
Walking to school by herself, Sam thought of how she 'magically' fell asleep on the school's large oak tree and woke up in her bedroom a few hours later. Looking at the sky, she saw an image of Danny's face in the clouds, and felt herself blush.
,"Hey Sam!" a voice came not far away from her. She turned around to see Raven running toward her, and followed by Danny and Tucker who seem to be very exhausted.
,"Hey guys! What's up!" Sam responded in a cheerful way, which caught both guys off guard. Since she was considered the gloomy Goth girl.
,"Are you alright, Sam?" Tucker said blankly, "It looks like you forgot to put on your make-up this morning?" Raven angrily slapped the back of his head, and hard,"OW!! What, I'm saying the truth?!" Another slap in the back of his head.
"It's alright Ray, I actually did forget." Raven looked at Sam in amazement; knowing her she would be chasing him around the block, but she seem to care less of what he said.
,"C'mon guys" Danny broke up the fight, "I don't want to be late for Lancer's class and the crazed drama teacher Ms. Doris is handing out detention this week. I don't want to be spend detention in the auditorium singing."
,"Well, then. We're gonna have to run, because we have ten minutes to get to class and three miles to run." Raven and Sam had a head start, as Danny and Tucker followed even though their legs were throbbing from before. Raven looked over her shoulder, "¡Prisa para arriba, asnos perezosos!"(1) (A/N: Raven is speaking Spanish, & translations are on the bottom)
,"What did she say?" Tucker asked, as he knocked into a telephone pole, "I'm okay!" He ran wobbly beside Danny, as both boys tried to catch up to the girls
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,"All that running, and we still end up with detention!" Tucker nagged as he bit into his large cheeseburger, "My thighs now burn, because I actually got some exercise!" Some chunks of his burger spit out.
,"Well, you needed it." Raven's voice came as she and Sam sat with the nagging Tucker and the silent Danny, "Look how much you scarf down! You should be glad, me and Sam did you a favor!" Sam laughed gently.
,"Hey, Ray. What did you say to us when we ran behind you?" Danny asked as he remembered how Tucker's face hit the pole.
,"You mean 'Prisa para arriba, asnos perezosos!'?" Both guys nodded, "It means 'Hurry up, lazy asses!' in Spanish, why?" Raven sipped her water bottle.
,"Because we don't know Spanish." Danny responded.
,"Can you teach us?" Tucker thought of something, to what Sam thought was 'another stupid idea of his get rich schemes'. Paulina overheard the conversation and sat on their table with her legs crossed.
,"Why ask her?" She gave Raven a disgusted look, "When you just ask me, after all I have true Spanish blood?" She eyed Raven as she said this, "True blood."
,"Please, your only saying that just to get the jocks attention." Sam said, and as she predicted it, the jocks were staring at Paulina,"So quit being a whore." Oooh's came from the surrounding students, as Paulina's face was red with embarrassment.
,"¡No me de que crap, Manson!"(2) Paulina angrily looked at the Goth, "Bud out of this Manson. It's between me and Shadows."
Raven jumped at her last name and eyed a table with four boys sitting; hoping she won't get embarrassed, "Look Santos." Raven got up from her seat, "What do have against me? What have I ever done to you?"
,"You" Paulina smartly said, "Just because you were in my presence disgusted me. Just because you exist, usted maldice la media casta!!"(3) Raven heard the venom in her voice.
,"Just because you have 'pure' Latin blood doesn't make you superior than others. Más puro es el pedigrí el bitcher la perra es."(4) Paulina's mouth hung down; Raven walked passed the crowd and was about to leave the cafeteria...
,"¡Por lo menos mi madre no es merta! ¡Y no es una perra!"(5) Paulina smiled as Raven turned to look at her. Most of Paulina's friends laughed, while others gossiped. Everyone else wondered what Paulina just said, "You heard me, Shadows. I hope she burn in hell for breeding with someone other than her own kind, and giving birth to a damn el halfling!"(6)
Raven felt as though a knife had pierced her heart and throat; she felt as though tears were going to fall, but she refused to show any weakness. She turned to see Paulina smirking, walking calmly to her. As they stood face to face, Raven said nothing, but in a blink of an eye she punched Paulina in the face. If you were there you would have just seen both girls looking at each other, and as you blinked you would see Paulina on the floor. Paulina got up and touched her cheek, which was purple.
,"Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!" Everyone shouted as Paulina slapped Raven. In return, Raven slapped her back, but even harder. Paulina pushed Raven to the ground, Raven kicked her stomach and using her hands, she pushed her body up and picked herself. Using her nails, Paulina scratched Raven's arms and neck, which made Raven pull her hair. Paulina stopped scratching; giving Raven an advantage by pushing her towards the wall. Paulina got up, scratched, bruised and what appeared to be Raven's blood on her nails. Raven felt dizzy, everything seemed to blur as she fell on her knees; she manage to see Paulina walking to her and raised a hand to slap her, but a figure stood between them. He had dark hair, green eyes; a muscular built and was about 6'3.
,"That's enough!" He voice echoed throughout the cafeteria, and Raven realized it was older brother Andrew. He looked at Raven and saw that she was lying on the floor, her lips blue, and her neck sucked in, "Ray! Ray! RAY!!!!" Raven's other brothers-Matthew, Johnathan, and Raymond surrounded her.
,"Ray, wake up! WAKE UP!!" Johnathan screamed as he held Raven's cold head in his arms, "Someone call the nurse!!! SOMEONE CALL THE AMBULANCE!!!!" Looking down, Raven's skin was paler than ever, her black hair covering half of her face, and could feel her pulse beat faster, "WAKE UP. RAY!! RAVEN PLEASE WAKE UP!!!"
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,"She'll be fine. Just let her rest." The nurse looked at the four Shadows' brothers, and Tucker, Sam and Danny. She turned to leave the room with two men that came from the ambulance truck. Matthew sat on the bed that Raven laid unconscious; her skin was less pale and neck was normal, and her blue lips were rosy now. Matthew grabbed a stray hair that smudged her mild visage, and tucked it behind her ear.
,"Don't touch her!" Tucker protectively spoke as Danny held him down, "You guys are always the apple of every girl's eye, but Raven's not interested."
,"You think we'd hit on our own sister!" Andrew got up from his chair angrily, knocking it to the floor.
,"Sister?!" Tucker and Danny questioned, "But she looks nothing like any of you!"
,"We're fraternal, and Raymond is the only one that looks like her." Andrew calmed down as he picked up his chair and sat on it. Tucker and Danny stared at Raymond; he did look like Raymond mainly the eyes and skin color. He looked at Raven warily, not saying a word, like always- some thought Raymond was stupid and others thought he was mute.
,"But if you're related, than why didn't Ray say nothing about it" Danny curiously thought.
,"Raven prefers to be separated from us, even though we're quintuplets. She wants to be solitaire with us, ever since the incident..." Johnathan's voice trailed off, lowering his eyes, "Our mother passed away nine years ago, when we were eight years old-she died in drive by...Some people hated our mother for marrying a Jew and stain her perfect Mexican blood...She was threaten by others and was almost killed dozens of times, until we went to visit our Uncle Felix in the hospital...She stopped at a red light, then a black Chevy came beside us and took out a twenty-two caliber, and..Bang, bang, bang."
All four brothers bowed their heads in lament, Andrew picked his up slightly, "It was a hard blow on Raven, she was depressed for years-not weeks or days, but years... she didn't show it when she took her martial arts and taking singing classes, though. She slowly returned to her spirited, enthusiastic self for a moment in life...She's a very lively girl, but doesn't show anyone because of her tainted history and was heartbroken that the one person she was so closed to her disappeared without knowing that she'd give up her own life to get her back. " There was silence in the room.
Raven moaned, turning her head to the side, and slowly her darken sapphires opened, "What happened? Did anyone get the license on that toad truck?" She picked up her head, when suddenly Andrew threw his arms around her. She looked around the room to see her siblings and her friends in the same room.
,"Don't scare us like that again, Ray!" Andrew responded in her ear, and kissed on the top of her head.
,"I couldn't, even if I tried, Andy." She laughed though everything she's been through. He let her go as Matthew and Johnathan embraced her as well. Raymond was the last to hug her, instead kissed her forehead.
,"No me asuste como eso más. Pensé que puede ser que le pierda tengo gusto de la mama."(7) He spoke for the first time- for his brothers anyway.
,"No se preocupe. Puedo tomar el cuidado de me, hermano mayor."(8) She smiled at her mirror, but in a guy version. The door burst open with a man in his mid-thirtes wearing messy brown hair, green eyes and was about 6'7.
,"Raven Liliana Prisciliana Shadows! You have some explaining to do!" A woman with blonde hair came from behind him, and from her dressing attire appeared rich.
,"Liliana?" Tucker gave a confused face to everyone.
,"Prisciliana?" Danny had questioning look.
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,"I can take care of myself!...And why did you bring her?" Raven sat in the passenger seat with her feet on the dashboard, with a scowl on her face as she looked at the blonde-haired woman in the mirror.
,"Watch your mouth! The nurse said you need at days rest, until you recover from your asthma attack...Why do you get yourself into these situations?" He stared at Raven, her blue piece of hair barely covering her left eye, and eyes looking angrily straight foreword, "What happened to you, Rachel?"
,"RAVEN!! My name's Raven, not Rachel...I hate it when she doesn't say my real name correctly." Raven protested, diverting her eyes on her right arm that had a long blue glove that went to her elbows.
"What happened to you? You were never like this, you were always an angel." Joseph Shadows stared at his only reminder of his late wife.
,"That's because she wasn't coming to our house everyday... By the way, even angels fall." Raven got out of the car as soon as it stopped in front of her house and went in, slamming the door hard. She walked down the hallway, and out of one of the doorways a black fuzz ball came out.
,"Hey there, champ." She kneeled to the floor,"¡Venido, Mariposa!"(9) The large fuzz ball ran toward her, making her fall and licking her face,"Alright that's enough, Mariposa." The fuzz ball was Mariposa, Raven's pet wolf who she had for a couple of years. Running behind Raven, she followed her into her bedroom, as she had always seen her master going into a room that was neither dark or light and smelled of her scent of ocean waves.
Grabbing her guitar, Raven played random notes, then looked at her computer desk that had a folded ring notebook. She got up and grabbed the ringed notebook and sat down on her bed staring at the lined page with no words on the lines.
Mariposa set her hands on her paws as she lay on the floor, but cocked her head up as Raven played the guitar, "You found hope. You found faith. Found how fast she could take it away...Found true love. Lost your heart. Now you don't know who you are…" Looking out her window she saw her father's girlfriend holding hands with her father, "She made it easy. Made it free. Made you hurt till you couldn't see. Sometimes it stops. Sometimes it flows. But baby that's how love goes...(Chorus)-You will fly and. You will crawl. God knows even angels fall. No such thing as you. Must stay on. God knows even angels fall..."
Staring back at her room, she saw the black wolf's amber eyes connect with her blue eyes, "Its a secret no one tells. One day its heaven. One day its hell...It's no fairytale. Take it from me. That's the way its supposed to be...(Chorus)..." She strum her guitar as she cluelessly sang the words in her head, "You laugh. You cry. No one knows why. But all the thrill I layed on...You're on the ride you might as well. Open your eyes... (Chorus)...Even Angels fall...Even angels fall"
Putting her guitar down on her bed, the wolf jumped on her bed and whined with its ears on its head. She patted her head, which made her tongue hang out and the smell of dog breath exerted," Incluso caída de los ángeles. ¿La Derecha, Mariposa?"(10) Raven leaned down to the wolf's level only to have it's wet mark on her cheek, with a red brush of tongue.
TRANSLATIONS-
(1)-Hurry up, lazy asses!
(2)-Don't give me that crap, Manson!
(3), you damn half-breed!
(4)-The purer the pedigree the bitcher the bitch.
(5)-At least my mother isn't dead! And isn't a bitch!
(6)-halfling!
(7)-Don't scare me like that anymore. I thought I might lose you like mom.
(8)-Don't worry. I can take care of myself, big brother.
(9)-Come, Mariposa! (A/N: Mariposa in Spanish means butterfly)
(10)-Even angels fall. Right, Mariposa?
Sorry it took soooo long 2 write, about 5 or 6 pages. This chapter is about Raven and her past, so I hope u like it. Enjoy, and I'll probably give u a heads up on the next chapter, which is when Danny, Sam & Tucker doing their detention w/out Raven & tensions rise as Jake and Danny meet again & argue over Sam D Hope u like it, please review!!! )