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Chapter 3: Raven's Nightmare and a Stranger
It seemed like the unnatural darkness around her was moving as if it was alive. She felt around, everywhere was hard and cold. Yet she couldn't stop the feeling of falling. Then, suddenly, the shadows disappeared, and she found herself in her band class. She remembered she was late to class because the Office called her down, but the strange thing was, the Office said they never made that call. Feeling confused, they wrote her a pass to her next class.
She was going to be at least ten minutes late. Raven stood on the cold, waxed floor of the band room when the room went strangely quiet. No one touched his or her instruments. 'That's odd.' She thought. Even the band teacher, Mr. Derby, was quiet. She heard the doorknob turned. Everyone's head turned to look who was coming.
Raven breathing stopped, as she saw herself come through the door. Her other self stood there silently, looking even more confused, looking around the room. 'Why is everyone looking at me?'
Raven was shocked that she could hear her other self's thoughts, as if someone was talking loudly. 'Why is it so quiet?' her other self thought.
She saw her other turn her head to the right to look in the corner of the room. There stood what looked like a demon. Raven looked back a forth between her, and the demon. There was silence for a few moments.
"Why have you come?" Her other self said loudly. Raven looked back at the demon.
"For you," he said in his smooth voice.
"Why me?" her other asked. "I am not the best looking girl in school, I am not the smartest, I am not good at any sports, I don't have the best body in the world. I am just a normal girl, wishing she could be something else."
The demon walked a few steps closer. "Are you sure?" the demon asked.
"Yes," she said in a quiet voice. "So, just leave."
She started to walk to her cubbie where her clarinet was stored.
"You are one of the best clarinet players in the school, are you not?" The demon asked in a suave voice.
"I don't rank myself with my classmates." She said trying to ignore the demon.
"I've heard you play. You could be an actor." Raven's other self stood still, listening. "You can change the way the mood in the music is. You spend hours at home practicing. Your instrument is your only friend. Now, when I listen to you play, your music is so full of sorrow."
Raven saw the demon smile with a satisfied looked on his face. "You don't know anything about me, demon!" her other's voice getting angrier.
The class seemed to tense up more. The demon movements were fast, and the next thing Raven saw was the demon was now standing behind her other. He started to whisper in her ear, "You feel you don't belong in this time, as if it was a mistake. You feel no one here in this school building is accepting you, as if they had thrown you aside. People talk to you, but when they get what they want from you they ignore you." Her other dropped her backpack, and her clarinet case on the ground, from shock and unstable emotion.
Raven didn't notice until now that even if the demon was whispering everyone in the room could hear it, too. "You're all alone in this world Raven. You will go through high school as a no body, and you'll even die alone." Raven saw tear escaping from her other's eyes, and the demon only smiled.
Raven heard noise from the class, "That's not true," she heard some whisper, but her other couldn't hear that. Suddenly, her other turned as fast as she could trying to punch and kill this demon. "Damn you! Don't mess with my thoughts and feelings!" She yelled.
The demon only dodged and smiled. "Your blows are wild."
Before Raven understood what happen the demon was kissing her other self. An odd wind blew open the back doors. Raven stared in horror as she watched and fell to her knees. It seemed like everything was happening in slow motion. She saw her other self, transform into a demon, or she thought she did. She saw the gray, dragon-like wings grow from her back, her clothes changed, her body got taller and slimmer, and her dark blonde hair grew black and long.
Her other self fainted from the energy that had passed threw her body. The demon caught her, and held her in his arms. The class watched in silence as the demon carried her body away. "DO SOMETHING!!" she screamed at the class, but they could not hear her. This was her dream maybe she could stop it. She ran out the backdoors where the demon disappeared through. She stopped through the doors only to fall to the ground backwards from what she saw. A giant demon stood there with the other demon on its shoulder. "NO!" she yelled. She tried to run at the giant demon only to go threw it. She watched in horror as the giant walked away with her body.
The ground started to crumble under her feet. She started to fall, into that endless void of darkness. She found herself in the small room she woke up in, but this time it was different. The sun had not raisin yet. "Jaken. Watch her, I have to leave for the day."
She heard the demon say. "Aye, Master." She heard what must have been Jaken squeak out.
It was quiet for a few minutes. The sun started to shine throw the small window. Raven knew any minute her other would wake up, run, and then bump into Inu-Yasha, Kagome, and Shippo. In a few minutes time she did that. Raven followed as fast as she could. She saw herself run into Inu-Yasha, but before anyone saw she lost the energy, and was back in her clothes she wore to school.
"Ven." She heard the faint sounds get louder and clear. "Raven." Someone was calling her name. She opened her eyes to see a blur of four heads over her. She blinked a few times, and the blur was gone. She saw Shippo, Miruko, Kagome, and Inu-Yasha looking at her with concern.
"Are you alright, Raven?" she heard Kagome's worried voice. Raven turned her head from the rest of them, "Yes."
She heard Shippo sigh. "Lady Raven, did you have a nightmare?" Miruko asked.
"I guess you could call it that." Raven said, sighing. "I don't want to talk about it right now."
They all backed away to where they slept. Shippo crawled back under the blanket with Raven. "I was worried about you, Raven." He said.
"There's nothing to worry about. It was those same old nightmares. Everyone gets them." She forced her self to say cheerfully. 'Was that Naraku? Or someone else? He was powerful, but maybe Naraku is even more powerful then that.' She thought for a little while before she fell asleep.
Raven was up before anyone else was. She sat outside waiting patiently for the others. The cool morning breeze against her face made her relax. She thought more about that dream, wondering if she should tell Kagome and the others or not. She watched the sun raise and the villagers prepare for the day ahead of them. She heard the others start to stir inside the room. Raven's stomach grumbled, but she didn't feel hungry only thirsty. The door slide open behind her. Inu-Yasha stepped out from behind her, and sat next to her.
"Good morning, Inu-Yasha." She said quietly.
Inu-Yasha snorted. There was silence between them. She wondered why Inu- Yasha never talked to her. Was he mad at her? Or did he not like her at all?
"Inu-Yasha--," she started but was cut off.
"What are you?" he asked.
'Huh?' she thought. "What do you mean?" she asked gently.
"Your scent. You don't have one. What are you?" Inu-Yasha asked again.
"I don't know." Raven's eyes started to tear up again. "But someone knows. Or I wouldn't be here."
Inu-Yasha looked at her with pity, but that disappeared quietly.
"What do you mean by that?" he asked.
"My nightmare showed me." Raven didn't hear the door open behind her, until Kagome sat down on the other side of her.
"Tell us." She asked in a sleepy voice.
Raven explained to Kagome and Inu-Yasha about the dream, the kiss, and when she woke up and ran.
"Do you remember what the demon looked like?" Kagome asked.
Raven thought for a moment. "Only a little."
"He had a crescent on his forehead, and a purple color slashes on each cheek. And something white and fluffy—"she was cut off again by Inu-Yasha.
"Sessho-maru."
"Who?" Raven asked.
"Sessho-maru. Inu-Yasha's brother." Kagome said, more awake this time. 'Inu-Yasha has a brother?' Raven thought. "Then it wasn't Naraku?" Raven asked.
"That doesn't sound like something Naraku or Sessho-maru would do, but it's a possibility." Kagome said.
The day started slowly. They had breakfast provided by Kagome. They asked around the village for any Shikon Jewel shard rumors, but there was none. They decided to leave this village and head for the next. They followed the trail until they came to a bloody battle scene.
"How barbaric." Raven said in a dark voice.
"Their liver has been torn out." Inu-Yasha said.
"Demons?" Kagome suggested.
"No, I suspect the possession of a Shikon Jewel shard." Miruko said in a mild tone. As they started to move on again, and Miruko left them. Inu- Yasha didn't want to be his companion, and Miruko wanted to work alone.
Inu-Yasha attacked anyone who had ink on them who was just passing by. "Inu-Yasha SIT!!" Raven heard Kagome say loudly. She heard Kagome and Inu-Yasha quarrel for a few minutes. "If we don't act quickly that bastard Miruko will steal all the shards!" She heard Inu-Yasha say.
They finally started moving again only to find Inu-Yasha run ahead a grab someone who looked like a painter. Raven and Kagome rushed to catch up. When they finally got Inu-Yasha in their sights, the painter had ogre come out of this chest. The painter escaped, and Inu-Yasha battled this ogre, only when to defect him pass out from the smell.
It was late when they found Miruko with a princess. Miruko told them the story about the princess, and how he was going to help.
"Count me out of this one." Raven said, "I'll say here."
Kagome was disappointed, but understood why. When the demons came to take the princess Inu-Yasha and everyone else followed it. After everyone had left Raven had a strange feeling she wasn't alone. Still, she stayed there hoping that who ever it was would leave, but they didn't. She couldn't sense where they where, but somewhere outside. She started to hear footsteps on the porch. The door slide open, and Raven screamed.
Chapter 3: Raven's Nightmare and a Stranger
It seemed like the unnatural darkness around her was moving as if it was alive. She felt around, everywhere was hard and cold. Yet she couldn't stop the feeling of falling. Then, suddenly, the shadows disappeared, and she found herself in her band class. She remembered she was late to class because the Office called her down, but the strange thing was, the Office said they never made that call. Feeling confused, they wrote her a pass to her next class.
She was going to be at least ten minutes late. Raven stood on the cold, waxed floor of the band room when the room went strangely quiet. No one touched his or her instruments. 'That's odd.' She thought. Even the band teacher, Mr. Derby, was quiet. She heard the doorknob turned. Everyone's head turned to look who was coming.
Raven breathing stopped, as she saw herself come through the door. Her other self stood there silently, looking even more confused, looking around the room. 'Why is everyone looking at me?'
Raven was shocked that she could hear her other self's thoughts, as if someone was talking loudly. 'Why is it so quiet?' her other self thought.
She saw her other turn her head to the right to look in the corner of the room. There stood what looked like a demon. Raven looked back a forth between her, and the demon. There was silence for a few moments.
"Why have you come?" Her other self said loudly. Raven looked back at the demon.
"For you," he said in his smooth voice.
"Why me?" her other asked. "I am not the best looking girl in school, I am not the smartest, I am not good at any sports, I don't have the best body in the world. I am just a normal girl, wishing she could be something else."
The demon walked a few steps closer. "Are you sure?" the demon asked.
"Yes," she said in a quiet voice. "So, just leave."
She started to walk to her cubbie where her clarinet was stored.
"You are one of the best clarinet players in the school, are you not?" The demon asked in a suave voice.
"I don't rank myself with my classmates." She said trying to ignore the demon.
"I've heard you play. You could be an actor." Raven's other self stood still, listening. "You can change the way the mood in the music is. You spend hours at home practicing. Your instrument is your only friend. Now, when I listen to you play, your music is so full of sorrow."
Raven saw the demon smile with a satisfied looked on his face. "You don't know anything about me, demon!" her other's voice getting angrier.
The class seemed to tense up more. The demon movements were fast, and the next thing Raven saw was the demon was now standing behind her other. He started to whisper in her ear, "You feel you don't belong in this time, as if it was a mistake. You feel no one here in this school building is accepting you, as if they had thrown you aside. People talk to you, but when they get what they want from you they ignore you." Her other dropped her backpack, and her clarinet case on the ground, from shock and unstable emotion.
Raven didn't notice until now that even if the demon was whispering everyone in the room could hear it, too. "You're all alone in this world Raven. You will go through high school as a no body, and you'll even die alone." Raven saw tear escaping from her other's eyes, and the demon only smiled.
Raven heard noise from the class, "That's not true," she heard some whisper, but her other couldn't hear that. Suddenly, her other turned as fast as she could trying to punch and kill this demon. "Damn you! Don't mess with my thoughts and feelings!" She yelled.
The demon only dodged and smiled. "Your blows are wild."
Before Raven understood what happen the demon was kissing her other self. An odd wind blew open the back doors. Raven stared in horror as she watched and fell to her knees. It seemed like everything was happening in slow motion. She saw her other self, transform into a demon, or she thought she did. She saw the gray, dragon-like wings grow from her back, her clothes changed, her body got taller and slimmer, and her dark blonde hair grew black and long.
Her other self fainted from the energy that had passed threw her body. The demon caught her, and held her in his arms. The class watched in silence as the demon carried her body away. "DO SOMETHING!!" she screamed at the class, but they could not hear her. This was her dream maybe she could stop it. She ran out the backdoors where the demon disappeared through. She stopped through the doors only to fall to the ground backwards from what she saw. A giant demon stood there with the other demon on its shoulder. "NO!" she yelled. She tried to run at the giant demon only to go threw it. She watched in horror as the giant walked away with her body.
The ground started to crumble under her feet. She started to fall, into that endless void of darkness. She found herself in the small room she woke up in, but this time it was different. The sun had not raisin yet. "Jaken. Watch her, I have to leave for the day."
She heard the demon say. "Aye, Master." She heard what must have been Jaken squeak out.
It was quiet for a few minutes. The sun started to shine throw the small window. Raven knew any minute her other would wake up, run, and then bump into Inu-Yasha, Kagome, and Shippo. In a few minutes time she did that. Raven followed as fast as she could. She saw herself run into Inu-Yasha, but before anyone saw she lost the energy, and was back in her clothes she wore to school.
"Ven." She heard the faint sounds get louder and clear. "Raven." Someone was calling her name. She opened her eyes to see a blur of four heads over her. She blinked a few times, and the blur was gone. She saw Shippo, Miruko, Kagome, and Inu-Yasha looking at her with concern.
"Are you alright, Raven?" she heard Kagome's worried voice. Raven turned her head from the rest of them, "Yes."
She heard Shippo sigh. "Lady Raven, did you have a nightmare?" Miruko asked.
"I guess you could call it that." Raven said, sighing. "I don't want to talk about it right now."
They all backed away to where they slept. Shippo crawled back under the blanket with Raven. "I was worried about you, Raven." He said.
"There's nothing to worry about. It was those same old nightmares. Everyone gets them." She forced her self to say cheerfully. 'Was that Naraku? Or someone else? He was powerful, but maybe Naraku is even more powerful then that.' She thought for a little while before she fell asleep.
Raven was up before anyone else was. She sat outside waiting patiently for the others. The cool morning breeze against her face made her relax. She thought more about that dream, wondering if she should tell Kagome and the others or not. She watched the sun raise and the villagers prepare for the day ahead of them. She heard the others start to stir inside the room. Raven's stomach grumbled, but she didn't feel hungry only thirsty. The door slide open behind her. Inu-Yasha stepped out from behind her, and sat next to her.
"Good morning, Inu-Yasha." She said quietly.
Inu-Yasha snorted. There was silence between them. She wondered why Inu- Yasha never talked to her. Was he mad at her? Or did he not like her at all?
"Inu-Yasha--," she started but was cut off.
"What are you?" he asked.
'Huh?' she thought. "What do you mean?" she asked gently.
"Your scent. You don't have one. What are you?" Inu-Yasha asked again.
"I don't know." Raven's eyes started to tear up again. "But someone knows. Or I wouldn't be here."
Inu-Yasha looked at her with pity, but that disappeared quietly.
"What do you mean by that?" he asked.
"My nightmare showed me." Raven didn't hear the door open behind her, until Kagome sat down on the other side of her.
"Tell us." She asked in a sleepy voice.
Raven explained to Kagome and Inu-Yasha about the dream, the kiss, and when she woke up and ran.
"Do you remember what the demon looked like?" Kagome asked.
Raven thought for a moment. "Only a little."
"He had a crescent on his forehead, and a purple color slashes on each cheek. And something white and fluffy—"she was cut off again by Inu-Yasha.
"Sessho-maru."
"Who?" Raven asked.
"Sessho-maru. Inu-Yasha's brother." Kagome said, more awake this time. 'Inu-Yasha has a brother?' Raven thought. "Then it wasn't Naraku?" Raven asked.
"That doesn't sound like something Naraku or Sessho-maru would do, but it's a possibility." Kagome said.
The day started slowly. They had breakfast provided by Kagome. They asked around the village for any Shikon Jewel shard rumors, but there was none. They decided to leave this village and head for the next. They followed the trail until they came to a bloody battle scene.
"How barbaric." Raven said in a dark voice.
"Their liver has been torn out." Inu-Yasha said.
"Demons?" Kagome suggested.
"No, I suspect the possession of a Shikon Jewel shard." Miruko said in a mild tone. As they started to move on again, and Miruko left them. Inu- Yasha didn't want to be his companion, and Miruko wanted to work alone.
Inu-Yasha attacked anyone who had ink on them who was just passing by. "Inu-Yasha SIT!!" Raven heard Kagome say loudly. She heard Kagome and Inu-Yasha quarrel for a few minutes. "If we don't act quickly that bastard Miruko will steal all the shards!" She heard Inu-Yasha say.
They finally started moving again only to find Inu-Yasha run ahead a grab someone who looked like a painter. Raven and Kagome rushed to catch up. When they finally got Inu-Yasha in their sights, the painter had ogre come out of this chest. The painter escaped, and Inu-Yasha battled this ogre, only when to defect him pass out from the smell.
It was late when they found Miruko with a princess. Miruko told them the story about the princess, and how he was going to help.
"Count me out of this one." Raven said, "I'll say here."
Kagome was disappointed, but understood why. When the demons came to take the princess Inu-Yasha and everyone else followed it. After everyone had left Raven had a strange feeling she wasn't alone. Still, she stayed there hoping that who ever it was would leave, but they didn't. She couldn't sense where they where, but somewhere outside. She started to hear footsteps on the porch. The door slide open, and Raven screamed.