Alrighty, time to clear a few things up.

Raevin acts a lot like myself. I hardly ever let anything get to me, I hardly ever cry (very unhealthy), and I adapt quickly. Raevin does the same, and please note she near got her butt kicked by vampires.

Wouldn't you be cocky towards some big shot if you were sitting on a horse's back? Especially if that horse was dead? ;)

Oh, and Raevin's a town hick, too, so it's blow for blow. That's how we hicks do things. ::ducks:: This is all in good nature, by the way, so no flames. ::puts on a flame retardant suit::

Disclaimer: Don't own anything by Eidos, but I do own Raevin, Ectoplasm, Vogel, and Ally. (hah!) Sooooo…. Yeah.

~Raevin~

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Raevin sat in a cell in Dumah's lair. She had since then been told who were her captors, what their plans were for her, and whether or not she was going to live before meeting with this Kain.

She wasn't liking it one bit. They planned to toy with her, and see how long she could fight a group of vampire fledglings. So far, she had survived the first two groups. She wasn't given any weapon, and they had already torn her up enough to make her feel weak for blood lose. Thank god I took those martial arts classes when I had the chance. Raevin thought to herself. Otherwise, I think I'd be shredded wheat by now.

The thought of home made her feel like crying. But since she hadn't cried since she was a little girl, the tears never came. "How did this all get started, anyway?" She asked herself. She held her head in her hands for a moment, trying to figure out how she had made it through this fantasy world without having a depression attack. "Might have been Ectoplasm… maybe even Vogel… no, not Vogel." She sighed, then curled up in the corner of her cell and tried to fall asleep. "Fifteen year old disappears during the day. Heheh, I can see that kind of headline." Raevin said as she began to fall asleep.

***

Ally looked at the lair entrance carefully. Four vampire guards were posted on the ground at the entrance, and she saw two more patrolling the area. The odds of getting past them were slim to none, and it would be a six against one fight if she chose to attack.

She sighed and sat down. This could get scary. Ally thought to herself. I might have to wait for the sun to rise higher.

The sound of movement behind Ally caught her attention. She quickly checked her spell to see if it was still working. It wasn't. Ally quickly opened up her belt pouch and grabbed one of the three crosses that were in there. She grasped it firmly in her hand and turned around to face whoever or whatever was behind her.

It was a deer. A small deer, to be exact. It stared at Ally like she was some kind of nutcase before bouncing away through the trees. Ally sighed, relieved it wasn't a vampire. It was Dumah's brood that had toyed with her when she was younger, so she was very tense.

She was about to put the hiding spell back on herself when she smelled Death in the air. She gripped the cross even tighter and glanced about herself, trying to see where the vampire was.

A blow from behind caught Ally off guard. She fell forward, landed on her knees, then quickly jumped back up only to find she was facing off with the ugliest vampire she had ever seen. It was also one of the vampires that had raped her when she was younger.

"Well, well, well. Look what I found. The same little girl I found not too long ago. Come back for more?" The vampire sneered.

Ally's fear quickly turned into anger. "What have you done with Raevin?" She demanded.

"Oh, the little ghost girl?" the vamp asked. "Why, we've been… playing… with her. Care to join us?"

"Sure. Let's have a go now." Ally smirked. She took out her falchion and tossed it from hand to hand. She was thankful she had spent some time around the guards at the village.

"If that is your wish." The vampire replied. He bared his fangs at Ally and jumped at her, clawing at her neck.

Ally ducked in time to avoid a fatal blow. She swung her sword around to cleave the vamp's head from his neck, but the attack was blocked. She swung again, either missing or getting blocked again. One swing sank her falchion deep into a nearby tree. Ally did her best to try and remove her sword from the tree, but it was stuck there.

"Would you like a help with that?" The vampire taunted. He lunged at Ally again, and grasped her firmly by the shoulders. He leaned forward to sink his fangs into Ally's neck, but her squirming caused him to bite her shoulder instead.

Ally almost screamed in pain, but quickly stifled the sound. She used the last of her strength to yank her sword free from the tree, and in the same motion brought the blade down on her attacker's neck. The head rolled freely across the forest floor as the body dropped to the ground.

Ally gasped for breath and used the tree as support. Her shoulder bled from the vampire's bite, but the worst part was that she was beginning to feel a tingle in her mouth. In mere moments, fangs had replaced Ally's human canines, and her limbs had grown cold. She retreated farther into the shadows to avoid any light, and she collapsed onto the ground, shaking with anger and tears. "No…" She moaned. She threw the cross in her hand aside, then ripped off her belt pouch and tossed that away as well. "So much for using the vampires weaknesses against them, now they are my own as well." She murmured. Her shoulder ached terribly, and she wasn't sure what to do.

Tiredness overcame Ally as she began to slip into a deep sleep. It wasn't death, that much she knew. She just needed to rest, and her body was already undergoing changes. She had grown fangs, but she knew it would be some time before her hands developed talons.

"Raevin…. Hold on." Ally groaned. She ground her teeth as she fell asleep.

***

Raevin winced suddenly, waking up and feeling a sharp pain in her shoulder. She pulled back her shirt to see a red mark on the fleshy part of her shoulder, almost as if someone had slapped her there. "What the…" Raevin squinted at the mark. "Where did that come from?" She asked herself. A small gash appeared on the mark, and it began to bleed and hurt even more. "Wonderful." Raevin muttered, using a scrap of cloth from the floor to press against her unusual wound. "Why is this happening to me?"

(Author's note: Yes, things happened a bit fast here, but I'm starting to reach a writer's block. So bear with me, alright? It'll come together…. I think.)