Hey guys, Reptile is back in the building!
Sorry I hadn't gotten around to posting another chapter for this one, I was busy with work, and chores. Plus I've been working on my other stories.
Anyways, let's get to the reviews.
Patricia Louise A. Pena: That was kinda the idea, actually. Kind of figured I'd show Ravenhawk's darker side early instead of later. But this is only a taste of what he can do. He'll meet Luz and the rest of the cast eventually. He actually does know the Owl Lady, it's just that he doesn't know who the Owl Lady is. Not yet at least.
CrazyCore-Sama: Glad that you think so, and glad to have you as a follower.
deku rose: Yes, thank you! I wasn't sure if the thing about Odin having two ravens was true or not. Fenrir, I already know about him being involved with Ragnarok, just didn't know that he kills Odin. So thanks for telling me.
Ok let's get to the story. This chapter takes place during 'I Was a Teenage Abomination.'
I don't own anything except for my oc.
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A few days had passed since Ravenhawk fed the warden to his wolves, and needless to say, word got around once the warden's guards found the body. Everyone knew that it was Ravenhawk because he left his name scorched on the wall, once again in Nordic runes.
No one knows why he leaves his name in Nordic runes, but they do know he leaves it for everyone to know it was him, and as a warning.
No one really knows what drives him to do what he does. He mainly keeps to himself somewhere in the woods, so everyone figured that if you left him alone, he'll leave you alone.
Imagine the confusion everyone felt once they found warden Wrath's mauled body in his office. How did they find it? One of the warden's guards checked up on him after they heard his pain filled screams. Once they barged in, they were met with the sight of twelve large black wolves with glowing red eyes ripping the flesh off the warden's carcass. The wolves whipped their heads towards the guards with their blood covered teeth bared in a snarl. One of the guards gagged at the gruesome sight. Ravenhawk whistled, and he and the wolves ran into the shadowed part of the warden's office, disappearing into the dark. One of the guards turned on the rest of lights in the office, they saw that the wolves, and Ravenhawk, have disappeared into thin air.
Since then, the fear for Ravenhawk had increased greatly. People began to wonder as to what the warden did to make him angry enough to send his wolves after him. If there was a reason, then how did he find out? He hardly ever leaves the woods, but if he does, he's sometimes seen in the market. That could only mean that he's either spying on you without you knowing, or he has secret informants. Oh if they only knew.
Currently, Ravenhawk, the second most wanted fugitive of the boiling isles, is casually soaring above the trees without a care in the world. Why he's the second most wanted was still anyone's guess. But anyways, he's currently soaring almost carefree.
If only he knew the chain of events that were about to unfold.
The humanoid bird monster thought it would be a good idea to take a leisurely fly above the trees to relieve some stress. Reason? Ever since the stunt he pulled with the warden, he's been on edge lately. He's done the same thing with horrible people before, but this one in particular had connections to the emperor himself. He hadn't killed anyone with a connection to the emperor before, so there's no telling what would happen. He doesn't care, but he can't help but feel wary. But he wasn't too worried. They couldn't catch him then, they can't catch him now. He made sure of it.
While soaring above the red leafed trees, something, or someone, caught his attention. Just so he doesn't make sound or get caught, Ravenhawk used his magic to teleport into one of the trees in a puff of black and purple smoke. Now he's perched high in the tree so he could view what, or who, caught his interest. He wasn't too high to where he couldn't see below, or too low to where he could get spotted. Now, what exactly caught his attention, you may ask?
Ravenhawk peered down below onto the forest floor, and saw... a hexside student struggling with magic. Said student had medium length black hair (A/N: I'm honestly not sure what her hair color is called) that's just above the shoulders, a round face, and she wore glasses.
Why has this caught his attention? He's not entirely sure. Seeing this student struggle just reminds him of how he was during his time at Hexside. He used to be a shy nervous wreck, and a target for bullies back then. Until something happened that turned him into an angry, bitter, and hateful student through graduation.
Oh graduation. How Ravenhawk loved the stunt he pulled that pissed off everyone there. He couldn't help but smile at the thought at times.
Ravenhawk returned his focus back to the student, and from what he could tell from the light purple colors of her track uniform, this student is in the abomination track.
"You can do it. You can!" She said.
'Yeah. Definitely a struggling student.' Thought Ravenhawk.
"Even if you get a bad grade, it's not a reflection on you as a witch." She said to herself.
She then continued to say that her parents were right, that there's better opportunities in the abomination track.
'I call bullshit.' Thought Ravenhawk.
He then watched the student try to get herself hyped up while standing near a wooden wheelbarrow cart with a large cauldron on it. The student accidentally stomped on a flower, which apparently didn't go unnoticed by the student.
"Oh, no! My little friend, I'm sorry!" She says to the flower, which is now crooked.
Ravenhawk thought it was a little weird. Well, it was until the student used her magic to straighten the flower.
'An abomination track student with plantmancer abilities. Interesting.' Thought Ravenhawk.
He then hears a gasp close by, and looks to see the source came from a girl hiding in the bushes... a human girl.
She has short brown hair in a pixie cut, tan skin, brown irises, a purple and white short sleeved hoodie, short shorts with leggings, and white shoes.
Ravenhawk's eyes were wide as dinner plates at the sight of a human within the demon realm. But his attention was then returned to the student when he heard another wheelbarrow coming.
Another abomination track student appeared on top of their own cauldron with the wheelbarrow pushing itself thanks to magic. This student is another girl. She has medium length mint green hair, that's a little shorter then the student with glasses, with brown roots, and tied into a tiny ponytail. She also has black painted fingernails, and golden irises.
"Oh! Willow, you're so unnoticeable that I almost rolled into you." Said the green haired student.
"Hi, Amity..." The first student, now known as Willow, greeted with a not so enthusiastic tone.
Ravenhawk can see why. With just one sentence, the second student, now known as Amity, just made the stuck up jerk list.
"Shouldn't you be getting to class early to prep your...?"
Before Amity could finish, Willows cauldron rattled and tipped over. The contents of the abomination sludge spilled onto the ground while the barely made creature groaned as a single eye in the puddle of slime blinked.
"Oh, Willow. You don't have anything to show, do you?"
He even heard the human mutter 'witch drama' to herself, which made him roll his eyes.
"This is why people call you half-a-witch-Willow." Said Amity, as Willow pulled the hood of her uniform over her head while blushing in embarrassment.
What she said to Willow made Ravenhawk growl in anger, his eyes glowing red.
They all then heard Amity's cauldron rattle and groan.
"Oh! Looks like someone wants to say something to you." Amity then removed the lid of her cauldron, and stood in front of it.
'Oh I got more than a few things to say to you, fool.' Ravenhawk thought bitterly.
"Abomination, *snaps* rise." She commanded.
The purple sludge rose and formed a humanoid shape with three eyes and a hole where a nose should be. The abomination slumped forward, and pointed a finger at Willow.
"You're a... star." It said, drawing a tiny purple star on Willow's forehead.
"Aww, it's like mine. But much smaller and meaningless." Said Amity, pointing to a golden star on her uniform that says 'Top Student.'
'Ok, that's it.'
"As top student, it's my duty to tell you to keep at it. Even you-"
SHING!
Before Amity could finish, the two students turned to see Amity's abomination cut in half, and the top half of the purple sludge creature looked down at itself as it slide off the lower part of its body with a splat. When it did, they saw the tall looming figure of an angry Ravenhawk with red eyes glowing within the shadow of his hood. In his right hand is a tomahawk made of ice. Abomination sludge dripped from the sharp frozen blade.
The tomahawk dissipated in a puff of light blue mist, and the humanoid bird monster narrowed his eyes. The red glowing orbs stared at Amity with anger. He brought his clawed pointer finger and thumb to his beak, and whistled like he's calling for back up.
"BOYS!" He shouted out.
Suddenly, twelve large black wolves with red glowing eyes appeared one by one in puffs of black mist. Each one growling with their teeth bared, and ears pointed up.
One of them appeared out of the bushes, this one sporting a scar across his face that went down from his eye to his jaw, and flipped the cart and cauldron out of Ravenhawk's way with his head. The cauldron clattered onto the ground along with remaining contents of the abomination's lower half, and the cart nearly broke.
The two students stood still and shook in both fear and shock. Practically everyone knew about Ravenhawk and his rather brutal exploits. Especially what he did to the warden.
Ravenhawk slowly approached the two students, or more accurately, towards Amity. He stopped in front of Amity, and swiftly grabbed her by the the front of her uniform with his left clawed hand.
Amity shook like a leaf and whimpered in fear as she was brought up to Ravenhawk's face... or beak I should say. Whichever one works.
"Listen, and listen well, maggot. Because I'm not going to repeat myself. If you continue to pick on her with that damn smug attitude yours, in fact you do it to anyone else, and I'll find you. Then I'll have my wolves eat both of your arms, then both of your legs, and then they'll eat your face right off your head. Do you understand me?" Ravenhawk said with a calm but angry tone.
"No-"
"Yes! Because then you'll be this armless, legless, thing wouldn't you? Rolling down the street, like a turd... in the wind." He continued.
"P-please... d-don't kill me." Amity's begged.
Ravenhawk burst into an evil cackle. But when he finished, he stared back at Amity with his red glowing eyes as he continued speaking.
"Kill you? Oh, please! I don't kill kids. What are you, crazy? Ha! No, I'll just make your life at hexside a living nightmare. Because people like you need to be taught a lesson. You know why? Because no one gives DAMN about you being better at something that someone else isn't. You wanna know why that is? Because anyone with common sense WOULD NOT GIVE A FLYING FUCK ABOUT IT!" He yelled at the end.
He then dropped Amity, and she stared back up at the bird monster fearfully as she sat up from the ground.
"Now get the hell out of my sight before I sic my wolves on you! NOW!" Demanded Ravenkawk.
Amity waisted no time as she scrambled to her feet, and took off running, her cart and cauldron following behind her after she performed a quick spell.
Ravenhawk snorted out a puff of hot air like an angry bull. He then took a deep breath, and calmed down. His eyes changed to a glowing blue, and a puff of cold mist exhaled from his mouth.
"Now as for you." He said, turning to face Willow, who flinched as he faced her.
"Oh relax, kid. I'm not gonna do anything to you, you're innocent." Ravenhawk said while crossing his arms.
"Y-you're not?" Willow questioned.
"Hell no."
"Oh thank goodness." She exhaled in relief as she relaxed a little.
"Yeah, anyways, does she do that to you often?" Ravenhawk asked.
"All the time, actually." Willow answered.
"If she treats you like that, why do you stand there and take it?! You gotta stand up for yourself! You know? Show some backbone or whatever."
"It's easier said than done. I mean, look at you! You got almost everyone in the isles terrified of you! Uh, no offense." Said Willow.
"None taken. In fact, I take it in stride. But seriously though, I know we're two complete strangers talking to each other, and your problems and school life is none of my business to deal with, but you gotta get her to back off at some point. Plus, I saw you do that thing with the flower. So why are you putting yourself through all this for?" Ravenhawk.
"Ugh, I don't even know anymore. Every time I try to succeed, everyone makes fun of me, especially Amity, and I hate it when she does that." Willow said bitterly, rubbing the goo star off her head.
"I know that feeling too well." Ravenhawk muttered.
"I hate getting bad grades, I hate making abominations, and I can't take it anymore!" Willow began ranting too herself in anger as the wind began to pick up.
Her eyes closed shut. But when they opened in an angry gaze, they were glowing a blazing bright green with no pupils. The flower from before suddenly had long thorny vines shoot out from underneath it. Ravenhawk, despite the danger, remained where he stood. His main concern were the wolves.
"Stand back, boys!" He ordered.
The wolves, now with blue eyes, backed away from the vines that are whipping about wildly, and kept a certain distance as they kept their guards up so they don't get ensnared.
"I'd be lying if I said I wasn't impressed." Ravenhawk said with an arched eyebrow, his arms remained crossed the entire time.
One of the vines reached out behind the bushes, and pulled the human girl out in the open. The vine let her go, and she fell onto the ground on her chest and stomach.
Ravenhawk wasn't fazed by her sudden appearance. He already seen her hiding the bushes anyways.
"Glad you could join the party, human." He said.
"How did you-?"
"I saw you hiding while I was up in the tree." He said, cutting off her question.
Willow turned around and stared at the human with an emotionless gaze. She stared at her for a moment, until she finally snapped out of it.
"O-oh no! I'm so so so sorry!" Willow apologized, willing the vines back with her hand.
"It's ok! The thorns only broke through a few of skin." Said the human.
Willow leaned in closer towards the human, noticing her ears.
"So, circle-ly." She said.
The human yelped, and covered her ears.
"You're a human?! Incredible! Amazing!" Willow gasped enthusiastically.
That is until they heard the bell to hexside ring.
"Sounds like class is starting." Said Ravenhawk.
"Sorry, I can't stay, I have to get to school." Willow said sadly.
The human gasped in joy.
"School? As in like a magic school?" She asked in wonder.
They then continued to talk about the school, Willow's plant magic, and a plan to sneak in the human. Ravenhawk caught the human's name in the conversation, and found out her name is Luz.
Odd name, but he's not judging.
Losing interest, Ravenhawk was about to leave, because he feels like he overstayed his welcome, but one of his wolves stopped him. It was the same wolf with the scar.
"Hmm? What is it, Scarface?" He asked the wolf.
The wolf with the scar, now known as Scarface, barked something to him. Apparently, Ravenhawk could understand him.
"Keep an eye on them? Why?" He asked.
Scarface barked again.
"You know very well I can't keep watching them the entire time. I hate that place, and you know it!"
Scarface barked.
"I know I can hide in the shadows, but not everyone is a moron. Someone's going to catch on eventually."
Scarface barked, snarled, and barked.
"You? I don't know."
Scarface barked in an insistent tone.
"I know I know. But a lone wolf, is a dead wolf!"
Scarface barked, growled, and barked.
"You know full well why I worry! You didn't get that scar on your face from nothing!"
Scar face continued to bark.
"Ugh... fine! I'll let you keep an eye on them. But if shit hits the fan, you know what to do right?"
Scarface barked knowingly.
"That's right, teeth and claws. But only attack when necessary, and howl when you need backup."
Scarface barked in agreement.
"Good. Now make like a ghost, and disappear."
Scarface smirked with his teeth bared. His form became a black mist, and disappeared into one of the teens shadows.
With that said and done, Ravenhawk took to the skies, and flew off somewhere.
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Later, Owl House...
Luz's plan to get into hexside, while it succeeded in the first half, the last half... backfired.
Luz was able to escape thanks to Willow's plant magic, and now she's back at the owl house telling her mentor, Eda Clawthorne, aka The Owl Lady, about what happened.
"Keeping junk in my pockets worked! But my friends are in trouble!" She would've continued, but she heard her name being called.
"Luz! Luz!" Willow called out as she ran towards her, followed by another student.
This student had short black curly hair, brown skin, dark brown irises, and wore the illusion track colors, which is light blue. This is Gus.
The two students ran and hugged Luz. Willow explained how everything worked out, and that she got placed in the plant track because the principal was so impressed by her plant magic. However, Gus delivered the bad news saying that Luz is banned.
Willow offered to teach Luz what they've learned after school, but she declined, saying that she already has a great teacher.
After Eda gave Luz a pat on the head from actually learning something from her, Eda was suddenly tackled onto her back by a large black wolf.
"OOF! What the heck?!" Eda exclaimed.
She looked at the face of her assailant, and saw the face of a large black wolf with red glowing eyes, and a scar on its face. The wolf growled at Eda, making her think that it was hostile, but the eyes immediately changed to blue, and began to rapidly lick her face in affection.
"Ack! Stop! Wolf tongue! Ah! Stop, it tickles and I hate it!" Eda protested.
The wolf got off of her, and she got a good look at the large wild canine. For some reason, the wolf looked almost... familiar.
"Who do you belong to, and why do you look familiar?" She asked the wolf, who panted and wagged his tail happily.
The wolf then howled to the sky, and resumed panting.
Within seconds, eleven more wolves appeared with red eyes, expecting a fight as they growled. But as soon as they saw the emotional state of their comrade, they calmed down.
Suddenly, a large humanoid bird landed on the ground with a loud thud.
It was Ravenhawk.
"Alright, Scarface, where's the danger?" He asked his wolf.
Scarface barked, and shook his head. Saying there wasn't any danger. He went up behind Eda, and began shoving her forward, towards Ravenhawk.
"Hey hey! Watch it buddy! Wait a minute, did you just say his name was Scarface?" Eda questioned, the name sounding familiar.
"You got a problem with that?" Ravenhawk questioned with a warning tone.
Scarface went behind Ravenhawk, and yanked down his hood with his teeth, his full face and head exposed.
"What the- what the heck's with you, dude?!" Ravenhawk demanded.
Scarface barked at him.
"What do you mean she's someone I know?" He questioned, facing the wolf.
"Scott?"
When Ravenhawk heard the woman say his name, he froze, and felt his blood go cold.
"How the hell do you know that name?" He demanded as he faced her.
"Scott... is that you?" Eda asked.
He would've questioned her further, but a thought occurred to him.
"Wait a minute..." Said Ravenhawk.
Ravenhawk squinted his eyes as he stared at the witch in concentration. Moments later, his eyes widened in realization.
"... Eda?"
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Ooooooooo, cliffhanger! Ha!
Sorry that I didn't include a whole lot in this chapter that involved the episode. The details will be explained as to what happened in the next chapter.
Anyways, Ravenhawks full facial appearance will also be explained next chapter, because I still need to finalize on what his full headshot should look like.
Until next time, stay tuned, and be sure to check out my other stories while you're waiting on more chapters if you wish.