Chapter fifty-two

Darkened Dreams

Raven was having another nightmare. Not the same one that she had had before thankfully, but this one was just as bad. There was a shadow looming in front of her, watching her. She reached for her sword as the shadow lunged for her, but it wasn't there so the shadow collided with her stomach with a heavy thump.

When she woke up, she realized that the thump was her falling off the bed, she moved her arm in front of her eyes and saw the dried blood that ran from her hand down the length of her arm.

Her mirror was laying on the floor shattered into innumerable pieces and there was a bloody handprint on the wall next to where the mirror was as she remembered

Hazel had come by with some… unfortunate news and after dismissing him she had flown to into a rage and driven her hand through her mirror before dragging it across the wall.

The wound must have opened up at some point in the middle of the night since as she pushed herself upwards, she saw that she had landed in a thick, viscous, layer of blood. Raven remembered what had happened after she broke her mirror. She had collapsed onto her bed with her hand hanging off of it and the blood had pooled beneath her.

She activated her Maiden abilities and gently let them flow over the cuts that she had gotten when she slammed her hand into the glass. As the Spring Maiden, her domain was rebirth and nature, so she used that to accelerate the healing of her broken skin. As she let that take over, she moved around the glass for now before moving into the bathroom.

After taking an incredibly hot shower to deaden her body which left her skin red and raw to the touch, she moved back into her decently sized room. Once Raven dried herself off and got dressed into her usual attire, she moved to pick up the shards of the shattered mirror up from where they fell after she smashed it apart.

She knew that it was incredibly stupid of her to leave the shards of glass on the floor for as long as she did but she was in no mood to pick them up until now. Even then, she was only doing it because she didn't want to avoid her nightstand anymore.

As she picked the shards up delicately to try to cut down on the shards piercing her skin. She kept her gaze on the shattered mirror when she noticed a figure moving behind her and in one seamless movement Raven drew her sword and pointed it at… Summer? "Summer, what… what are you doing here? You're..."

"Hey Rae, it's been…. A very long time." Summer blinked as Raven stood up and sheathed her sword again. Raven was dumbfounded as she went over to her team leader and gently reached her hand out.

Her fingers brushed against Summer's own and they connected so Raven knew that she wasn't hallucinating. She gently wrapped their hands together and buried her head in the woman's shoulder. "How- how are you here?"

Summer ran a hand through her hair as she whispered softly. "That's… hard to explain." She disconnected her hands from Raven's and roughly pushed her away. Her silver eyes were burning as a faint trickle of blood came out of her mouth. "Do you remember? Do you remember what you did to me? Or have you forgotten?"

Summer continued to bleed as her skin whitened and her sclera gradually darkened until they were no longer white, but were filled with a darkness that wasn't merely black.

The same darkness that made up the Grimm, her silver eyes blazed as they became flaming, blood red and blacking creeping veins moved up over her skin. Her white cloak darkened until it became a black dress and her long brown hair became ghostly white. The darkened Summer wrapped her hands around Raven's throat and squeezed slightly as the blood continued to pour.

"I'm your guilt, your anguish, your rage, and your hatred. The darkness in your heart and your mind that you locked away for so long… but I'm no longer locked away… I'm going to make you regret what you did… regret it all..."

Raven tried to break the hold around her neck but no matter how hard she tried she couldn't. She could feel her attempts getting weaker until a knock on the door distracted Summer for long enough that Raven could break free and run to the door where Hazel was waiting.

"Mistress, we have a new development," Hazel muttered as he began telling her why he had come. However, Raven truthfully wasn't listening.

She was concentrating on Summer who was leaning against the wall glaring daggers at her. Her Grimm like eyes made Raven want to curl into a ball and hide which was an incredibly unnerving thing for her because she had nerves of steel. Yet Summer always had been able to make Raven lower her guard in a way that not even Qrow had been able to do.

She dismissed Hazel with a small flick of her wrist before clenching her trembling hands together. Raven slid down against her door and closed her eyes while she took deep breaths in and out for a while before opening her eyes to look at Summer who hadn't even twitched while Hazel was around.

Wow, okay so this took longer than I had wanted but oh well... regardless of that it's done and out and I'll try to get chapter fifty-three out next Friday. Summer has reappeared but she seems... different... darker...

The next chapter of Photography and Books will be out as soon as possible.

But I do have some exciting news regarding stories. Which is that not only do I have an idea for a crossover brewing but I have the first chapter of a Soulmate SummerX Raven story done and I'm looking forward to releasing that soon hopefully. Speaking of stories I have not abandoned Photography and Books! The next chapter will be out as soon as possible.

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Until Next Week hopefully

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