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The Crow: Bloodstained Ground
Sometimes there are bad things that happen to good people.
In ancient times people believed that a crow would carry their spirit to eternity.
But sometimes… if something truly terrible happened... the crow would bring that tortured soul back to life.
A young girl sobs over a grave. On the marker is written:
Noel Rivvett
1978 to 2006
"Stories Are Not All Written,
Some Are Told In Stone."
"Why did you have to die, Noe?" the young girl continues to sob. "They gave me your heart, you know that, Noe? They said they couldn't save you… but they saved me. Why Noe? Why couldn't they have saved us both?" the young girl sits on the grave in the dusky light of mid-morning. Her hair was a dark Grecian brown, and her eyes that of a watery ocean mist. She looked about sixteen, but she was just a large, fifteen year old girl. Skinny as could be, she was often called anorexic, though she was not.
Looking back on the night that Noel Rivvett died, it had been El dio de las muertos or the day of the dead…
"Cora, hurry up! Your lesson is in five minutes!" Noel yelled up the stairs.
"I'm coming, Noe! Keep your shirt on!" Cora yelled back at her elder sister.
"Well it's about time!" Noel grinned as her younger sister quickly ran down the stairs with her violin. They both hopped into the car and drove to Cora's lesson. When they got there, they were already late, so Noel went in to apologize to the teacher, intent on taking all the blame for being late.
The moment they stepped onto the parking lot, they should have noticed the quietness of their surroundings. The birds didn't even bother to utter a peep, but being in a hurry tends to drive paranoid thoughts from your mind…
Just as they entered the doors, they were attacked. The sisters fought and lashed out at their attackers, but they were quickly subdued, and tied up in the same room that Cora's lessons were to take place in. Cora struggled a bit too much, and they knocked her unconscious, after she kicked one of the masked figures in the shin. Somehow, Noel managed to remove one of their assailant's masks.
"Damn bitch!" the unmasked figure was a face that Noel immediately recognized.
"Calm down Vapor, you know we planned to kill them, anyway," the masked man soothed the unmasked woman.
"Shades, she still shouldn't have done that, now she has to pay!" Vapor growled as she picked up a knife and stalked towards Cora.
"NO!" Noel threw herself, bound and all, on top of her sister… getting stabbed in the back for her actions.
"So, I see you are a glutton for punishment!" Vapor laughed evilly. Two more masked men walked in. "I'd like you to meet a few friends of mine, Noel. This is Shatter and this is Magnum. Boys, she's all yours, since Shades took care of their parents."
Together the boys pulled Noel off of her sister and began to feel her up as she watched, horrified, as Vapor began to cut on her sister. With a sudden burst of strength, Noel bashed Shatter in the groin, and stomped viciously on Magnum's toes. Both men fell away from her. Noel lunged at Vapor and managed to get the knife away from her sister.
Somehow, Vapor knew something like this would happen, and she motioned for Shades to attack Noel. He grabbed her and threw her in the direction of her sister. She landed next to Cora, and immediately tried to use her body to protect her sister, as Vapor, Shatter, Magnum, and Shades all stabbed, kicked, and slowly drained the life from her. They all laughed, knowing that both girls were as good as dead. Magnum pulled out a gun and shot Noel in her right lung.
They left laughing, but as the beating of Noel's heart slowed, her tears surfaced and fell on her sister's face… "Cora…"
Luckily, someone had heard the shot and had dialed 911. I'd like to say that the paramedics arrived in time to save both of the sisters, but Noel was too far gone. They did find her wallet, and quickly extracted all her vital organs as she breathed her last breath. Somehow, as if by the sheer willpower of her now dead sister, Cora lived.
She had been stabbed in her heart, and as they drove to the hospital with her body, they looked over the records and found that the sisters had the same blood running through their veins, making Noel's heart the perfect replacement for Cora's. They rushed Cora into immediate surgery, and still, Cora didn't once wake up.
It was a week after the event that Cora finally woke up and began asking for her sister, but none had the heart to tell her that her sister was dead, and that the pain in her chest cavity was because of a heart transplant.
It took Cora threatening that she wouldn't eat until they told her, when she finally was told what had happened by a young male doctor. Cora sobbed for hours afterwards and refused to talk to anyone for days on end. The only one she would speak to was the young male doctor that had told her the truth. The police came and tried to question Cora, but she couldn't identify her sister's murderers.