Chapter 1: introductions

Summary: Raven has taken over the galaxy. She now runs the joint and rules over a land of peace and prosperity. Of course, she only achieved this by giving in to her demon side. But she has defeated that side of herself and now runs her own life. Now she's looking for an heir- an adopted one, of course- who would want to marry a half- demon who has conquered the universe, but only because she gave in to the most powerful demon in the universe- herself?

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Raven sighed and lay back into her throne. Her kingdom had achieved economic stability, she had everything she could ever want. Except somebody to follow her rule, an heir. Another sigh.

Raven sighed once more and stood up. Her eyes scanned the rows of Edgar Allan Poe books, picking out her favourites. Alas, she had read them a hundred times before and now tired of these stories. She could quote paragraphs of the novels; she had read them so many times.

"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.""

Raven's amethyst eyes swept towards the ceiling. Tiles, hundreds of them. 35829, to be precise. She had counted them millions of times before.

Australia, three hours later……

Raven strolled down the streets of Greenslopes, Brisbane. She came to a stop in front of a house with a stony garden. Literally, a great stony desert. The house itself was yellow and blue. A girl sat on the side area, which was basically a sitting area with a roof. The extraordinary thing was that the girl actually sat on the roof.

She wore a black shirt with some Chinese symbols on the front. For pants she just wore black jeans. Raven wore her usual attire, a pair of dark navy pants, along with a black shirt and her trademark cape.

As the Empress of the Galaxy flew up to the roof to join the girl, the girl was suddenly consumed by fire. The flames then dissolved as the girl stretched, arching her back. When she bent over, she noticed Raven.

"Hello."

"Hello."

"Who are you? You are disturbing my meditation."

"I am Raven."

"I am Nymphicus. As in the scientific name for the Australian Lorikeet."

"You meditate?"

"Ya. Otherwise our house wouldn't be intact right now. I have powers."

"You have powers, Nymphicus?"

"I can create and control fire. Watch. Oh, and call me Nymph please."

As Raven watched, Nymphicus moved her hands and fire flew out of them. The flames engulfed Raven, who felt like she was surrounded by a cool mist.

"Good work Nymph. I'm not ashes."

As Nymph grinned, a voice sounded from inside the house.

"Got off the roof young lady and come and load this dishwasher! The floor needs to be vacuumed and the washing needs to be done!"

Raven cocked an eyebrow.

'I'm sorry, she is busy talking to the Empress of the Galaxy right now. That would be me."

A woman in loose blue clothes walked out of the house.

"Your Majesty, forgive me please, I was not aware that your presence even graced this planet," The woman apologised gracefully, bowing.

"I knew it! I may be 11 years old, but I still knew it! You are the Empress, Raven! I knew it!"

Raven rolled her eyes.

"I am only 26 myself, yet I rule the galaxy. And here I am, spending my time talking to you instead of talking to that new Princess that's visiting….. Starfire, her name is."

"And here I am, spending my time talking to you instead of talking to my friend who has just come from Tameran."

As she spoke, Brightfire (Starfire's little sister that I just made up) drifted down.

"Hello, Princess Brightfire. Where is your sister?"

"Hi Raven, Hi Nymph, Hi Mrs. Hollandicus."

"Hey Fire. How's Tameran? Oh yea, I'm sleeping over with you guys tonight. Here, come with me and I'll pack."

Raven shook her head as the two girls disappeared into the house. So this was Starfire's sister's friend that would be staying at the palace on Earth tonight…………Oh –insert nasty word- , now there'll be two hyperactive power- filled little maniacs with diplomatic immunity running around the palace. What I do to prevent wars.

Flames will be used to cook lamb steaks (my favs). I don't care what you say in your reviews, as long as there is constructive criticism in there and definitely a lot of the truth. But nice truths are good too!