I don't own these characters. I'm not charging money for this, so no reason to sue. This is the second fan fiction I have written. Comments greatly appreciated. I have taken pieces of the comic and the cartoon to help fill in some things.

The Hunted: Saving Grace

Down a dark hall, in a room light by candlelight only, a woman poured over books, she needed to find the passage that would allow her to stay alive. When she found it she put her book mark in it and rushed down a dark, dank, cobweb filled hall that held only those who had tried to oppose her and failed. She found the door that lead to the newest occupant and opened it to a boy who couldn't see. The man knew that she was there he could smell her perfume and it was of sweet flowers on a spring day. He turned toward her scent and heard something like Latin. As she cast the spell, the man's body started to heat up, his head stared to feel as if it would split, then everything when black. When she finished the spell he had passed out. She took off the pendent that had been keeping her in good condition and placed it around his neck. She thought to herself I may have use for you later. She slammed the door and left she had other things to plan and felt a lot better with that heavy pendent gone.

Across the city, her sister was laying in a bed barely clinging to life. The friends around her had no idea how to help her, so they decided to find a way to contact someone with knowledge of the occult. All except one, he decided he would go into her room find a journal or dairy and see if he could find any reference to other relatives. While the other searched computer files and databases on the internet. This green lad had found a person who might help him. Changeling transformed into a bird and took off for Granite Garden, a nearby city. There he found a museum that had been mentioned in Raven's diary. Now to find her uncle. The museum was closed but he knew that her uncle was always staying late studying new artifacts. A green cockroach squeezed under the doors and scurried off to find the security desk. When he reached it there was one old man sitting their. Changeling transformed and explained what had happened. When he told the startled security guard who he was looking for he pointed him to a closed off section that was under construction. All the exhibits had the opaque plastic; the floor was covered with dust from the decaying plaster ceiling. Only one door was in the area and the light was on, so Changeling knocked on the door to find a six foot eleven inch and three foot wide man standing at the door wearing a red shirt with a yellow smiley-face. Changeling's first thought was that he had seen people like this on both sides of his work, but without the cheery shirt.

"Your niece, Ra…" Changeling couldn't finish.

"My Raven, what's happened to her? What can I do to help? Where is she?"

"She was kidnapped and something weird happened. I can't explain it. You can see her if you follow me." Changeling had to change into a cheetah to keep up with this surprisingly large fast man. When Changeling finally caught up with Raven's uncle, he was standing waiting for the green boy to get out side. Changeling's just kept going figuring that Raven's uncle would just keep following him. Changeling was not wrong. They reached the tower in just under ten minutes at a full run. They found Raven in the infirmary resting unconscious.

"She's been like this for more than three days. We haven't been able to wake her." Changeling just kept staring at her, tears welling in his eyes.

"I know what's wrong with her. This person who kidnapped her must have somehow taken a part of her spirit. He had strong magic at his hands to do this because she has many strong wards around her. Many still exist around her, including mine." He stared at her as if studying a very strange text. "I know what she needs." He pulled out a pendent that looked as if it had spent many years possibly millennia in his pocket. Raven's uncle looked at Changeling. "I'm Cercenary, but many people call me Cerc. Please stand back I'm going to need some room." Changeling backed up giving him the room he wanted. A bright light encircled Cerc and when it receded Cerc was gone with a large horned, six eyed, small winged, hairy beast. This beast reaches into his pocket and pulls out the pendent. As Changeling watched, the pendant's time pealed back and it was new once again. This beast placed the pendant around Raven's neck, and Raven's body suddenly went spasmodic for a second. The thing that Changeling found amazing was that Raven opened her eyes and whispered, "Uncle Cerc" and she was unconscious once again.

"She will need at least two days to get her strength back up. The pendent will not last we have to find her someone is willing to give her half of their spirit till she can get her own back."

Sorry it took so long to get anything at all to you. I have been dealing with college work, work, and my personal life. Please give me some feedback and I hope I have the time to give you a longer chapter next time.

Raven's uncle is from her father's side. (Sorry for playing with the lineage of Raven's family, I felt that the story needed another person or entity that knew the magic that is interwoven into Raven's life.)