ApolloIV with another VERY SHORT chapter to MCABADSS. I felt that this was necessary as a stand-alone chapter because it signifies something very large is on the horizon. Also I borrowed lyrics from the Coheed and Cambria song, Mother May I, so I don't own anything from that song. Come to think of it, I don't own anything. So here is chapter,

XII Dreams.

Raven looked around, not a single wound on his body but he was standing a pure white room. Was he dead? He didn't know and write now he didn't know what was going on. He looked around and tried to find a door and then on the wall words written in blood appeared.

"Avo only knows when your words are impure and the blood on your hands isn't yours." It appeared on all the walls and something like a time bomb went off in Raven. He yelled and screamed until the room shook and the words grew larger and larger. Finally he stopped screaming, his eyes red, his mind set on destroying something but he couldn't place his fingers on it. Finally the red in his eyes poured out and turned into a body next to Raven. There stood a man about six foot seven looking down on Raven. It was his father in battle armor and holding his blade of Torment.

"So Raven do you see what the song's message is?" His father didn't look at him but the words on the wall. "Do you understand the song?"
"What song? I have never heard this song in my life." Raven was still in a constant fury for some reason.

"You know this song boy don't try to act like the words don't strike a cord with you." His father knew more than Raven did. Raven couldn't deny it though, the song was very familiar to him and he couldn't place his finger on why, but it was.

"No, I don't know what you are talking about, now give me some answers before I break you in half like a twig." Raven denied.

"Now now boy, let me refresh your memory." Raven's father used magic to chain Raven to the ground. There was a soft women's voice that began to sing.

"And Avo only knows when your word is impure and the blood on your hands isn't yours." She would sign to herself in a very sad tone.

"MOTHER?" Raven shouted in a mixture of confusion and excitement. "That can't really be you. Dad let me out of these chains!" Raven shouted even louder than he thought he could. The woman was behind some kind of curtain but only her shadow could be seen.

"Raven, your mother's dead. I killed her. This was her prayer for us. She knew our future so she knew to pray for us. You see Raven, even a light sided person knew your future wouldn't change you. I don't see why you would want to change your own future." His father let his wife continue to sing that song over and over again.

"Did you ever dream of the day we would meet face to face? In asking me to see the lie fuels their motive. The steps will break will break the same with every move and every shake." She then begins to sob. "Raven, I wish I would have stayed home for you. I didn't know how much of a change I would have made." She had her head in her hands.

This drove Raven to the limit and the true power inside him was released and he broke free of his chains and he jumped behind the curtain. There stood Nahadia smiling at Raven but all Raven felt was confusion. That was his mother…not Nahadia. She doesn't sing anywhere as soft as his mother did.

"What's wrong Raven?" Nahadia asked. Raven didn't say anything but stare at her. "What?" She asked again with that same smile. Before Raven could say something he felt blood splash against his face. It was oddly cold but he couldn't understand anything that was going on at the time. There was a blade through Nahadia's stomach and the person took out the blade and he looked at the person. It was himself. He was the mirror image of Raven but he had longer hair and a lot of cuts on his face. This couldn't have been him. He loved Nahadia; he could never kill her.

"Boy you're getting soft." This figure told Raven in Raven's voice only it felt a little colder.

"Who are…who are you." Raven asked.

"I am Raven! Raven! Raven! Raven!" then some more cold blood was splashed on his face. What the hell was going on in his dream? Was it a dream?

Raven sat up straight breaking the chains that held his arms down to the bed.

"What the hell was that?" Eli asked in a clam voice as always.

"I don't know…" Raven trailed off looking around. "Where's Nahadia?"

"Don't worry. She's in recovery along with Silver. Apparently the summoning she did put to much strain on her body. Silver sustained severe injuries in our last fight. He almost died while Nahadia was healing him. He was bleeding on the inside put I think the Prise here are very well trained." Eli finished.

"Prise?" Raven asked.

"Yes, the Prise are a magical type of folk who are very capable of magic and other methods of fighting or healing other than physical powers. Some, however, have gone rouge and formed a cult out in the woods, which I am sure we will encounter in the future." Eli looked around for his cup.

"Was there a Prise in here?"

"Yes she is in the back would you like to see her?"
"Her?"

"Yes Raven did I stutter?"
"No, go right ahead, are they offended by anything?"

"No, just don't insult her like you wouldn't insult a women." So Eli called the Prise into the room. "Nurse, are crazy friend here is awake." Raven looked at him with an insulted look but the Prise came into the room. She was tall and had long brown hair with beautiful eyes. Her long legs were covered up with a traditional skirt and her upper body was covered in a black top with a nurse's symbol.

"So you are Raven? I heard about what you did to save the king. You're quite the hero!" She talked in a silly voice, but from the sound of it, it was the way she really talked, not just baby talk to make Raven fell better.

"Thanks." Raven stumbled for more words but he thought he might as well keep it at that.

"What was up with the bad dreaming sweet cheeks?" She asked Raven as she sat down.

"Oh, I don't really want to talk about it but it was pretty odd." Raven looked around one more time then it struck him.
"Where is wolfy and Serge?" Raven asked.

"They went out to do something, they didn't say what though." Eli looked at the nurse with wide eyes.

"So you are quite the strong one, you broke my chains! No patient has ever done that before. I was told you wake up with a bad temper." The nurse teased Raven.

"We figured we chain you down sense you've been sleeping for a week." Eli joked.

"A WEEK!" Raven asked shocked.

"Why yes sweetie, you've been snoozing for quite some time now. I have to say though, you have one of the cutest snores I have ever heard." Now she was just plain out flirting with him.

"So what's your name?" Raven asked the Prise.

"Ambelina." She replied touching his cheek.

"You still look wore out…oh hold on I got a calling. Your friend, Silver, he is up now I should go check on him." Ambelina got up and left.

"So Raven, you look like you need a little alone time, I will come back with Silver." Eli then got up and left the room as Ambelina did.

"So what did it mean?" Raven thought to himself. "The dream was staged but that song…it was real. How would he know though? It makes sense, that was his wife, but didn't father leave her with me at a young age and in the song she was signing to four year olds with that tone of voice." He sat there contemplating everything.

"And Avo only knows when your word is impure and the blood on your hands isn't yours." Raven would sign it back to himself a few times. Then it struck him. "Only my god knows, no one else. But why would she tell that to her kids? I wouldn't even tell my children that, and look at me! I am a brutal killing machine bent on destroying the world." Raven would sit in the room for an hour while he contemplated this in his head and then there was a knock at his door. It was Serge and Desonus.

"Why hello, glad to see you're alive." Desonus walked in laughing and even Serge was laughing was he still dreaming? "I got your fixed by a buddy of mine. It's a lot stronger than the other cast that you had before but I have to say, it won't stand up to too much beating so take it easy but it will work for a good while until you have the swordsmith fix it." Desonus handed Raven his sword and Raven looked in joy. It was shiny and all the rubies were bright and gleaming in the light of the room.

"Of course I was stuck paying for it." Serge chuckled and patted Desonus on the back.

Raven smiled but then Silver busted in from the door.

"They took Nahadia and Ambelina!" he yelled as he busted open the door.

End of chapter twelve.
Okay so maybe that wasn't as short as I intended it to be but I think that it did the justice. Okay I will reply to anyone that reviews as always but none the less, tell me what you think. The real lyrics to the song go,

"And God only knows when your word is impure and the blood on your hands isn't yours" Pretty much the same just I changed it so it followed the Fable religion.

NOTICE! Good news to any Coheed and Cambria fans cause i am going to do a total explanation of the three albums. I can get an accurate read on the first two but good apollo may be a bit of a strech.