Be yourself.

Raven

Chapter 1

This story begins when Van's dad was still alive. He had found Rain right before he had found Raven. He left Rain with Van and his sister before he left to see about the black organoid.

"Van. Rain. Dinner." Van and Rain heard Maria yell from inside the house.

"Were coming." Van yelled back. "Come on, she made papaya slices Rain."

"Huh? Ok." She answered as she stared out at the endless sea of sand.

"What's the matter." Van asked as he followed her gaze.

"I think something bad happened to your dad." Rain answered as she turned and gave Van a worried look.

"Really? Nah." Van said as he brushed off the thought. "Dad's the strongest man in the world. He'll be back. Let's go. Maria made us papaya slices."

"Ok." Rain said as she giggled at Van's face when he thought about papayas. "You are such a papaya freak, you know that right?" They went inside and waited for days waiting for his dad to return. But he never came back. After trying to defeat Prozen, he died. Prozen took the little boy he called Raven with him and raised him to be a zoid pilot (which we all know that Raven hates zoids). Van and Rain were always interested in zoids. Rain's favorite zoid was a hellcat. Maria had got her one for her birthday.

"Hey." Van yelled from his hover board as Rain stopped the zoid and jumped out. "You're really good at piloting this thing."

"Not really." Rain said as she looked up at her zoid. "I think the hellcat does more of the piloting than me. Like it has a mind of it's own."

"Hey." Van said pointing off in the distance. "What's that?"

"Huh?" Rain said following his finger. "They look like the old ruins. You wanna go look?"

"Yeah. Let's see what we can find."

They left the hellcat and ventured into the ruins. After a minute they found an old room that had three green, glowing pods.

"I wonder what's in these?" Rain asked out loud, not directing the question to anything unparticular.

"I don't know. Let's find out. There should be a switch or button around here somewhere."

Rain walked up to one of the capsules and froze when she laid a hand on the cold glass. "I know what these are. Some how I know. Like I was in one."

"What are you talking about?"

"Your father found me in ruins like these. I didn't remember my name, so he called me Rain. He said that I came from one of these capsules. And that I remembered some weird zoid called eve."

"Well. Help me find the switch and we'll see what comes out of these capsules."

"There should be a switch on the back of each capsule."

"How did you know that? Well, here it is."

He hit all three switch's and the capsules broke open. One revealing a silver organoid, one had a purple organoid, and one had a young girl. The purple organoid got up and attacked Rain. The silver organoid did the same to Van. The young girl got up and looked at each one of them.

"You need to tame them."

"Tame them. You have to be joking." Van cried as he dodged a streaking silver tail flying at his head.

"She isn't, don't fight back." Rain said calmly as she took a step toward the purple organoid. "Be as nice to it as possible. They're only baby zoids, they don't know what they're doing, they're scared."

Van did as she said and stayed calm and collective, same as Rain, soon the organoids calmed down and got used to the two humans. Rain walked over to the young girl and draped her duster over her shoulders and helped her up.

"These are baby zoids. I never knew they were near our village." Van said in wild amazement.

"What's your name?" Rain asked the blonde girl next top her as they watched Van hug the silver zoid.

"My name?" The blonde looked up at her with confused, crimson red eyes.

"Yeah. What people call you?" Van answered for Rain.

"What people call us? None of us have… names."

"You don't have a name?" Van asked suspiciously. "You don't know who you are?"

"From the looks of it." Rain said as she looked up into Van's onyx gaze. "Hey Van. What should we call her?"

"Fiona." The girl said simply.

"Fiona?" They both asked the blonde lightly. "Is that your name?"

"My name? Is that my name?"

"That's what you just said!" Van said to her. "You just said Fiona."

"Fiona? I like it." I like it, the crimson eyed beauty replied smiling.

"Whatever." Van said as he waved her off. "Do these two have names?"

"No." Fiona replied dryly.

"I like this silver one." Van said as he walked back to the silver organoid.
I'll call him Zeke. Just like my dads zoid."

Rain walked up to the purple one and put a hand on her muzzle. " I like her, she reminds me of the purple willow tree back home. I'll call this one Willow."

"Where are we?" Fiona asked curiously. Still trying to find her feet.

"In the ruins near the wind colony." Rain said as she helped Fiona walk around a bit before Fiona could do it on her own.

"What's that?" She a curiously, eyes bright with wonder.

"It's a village near here." Van replied, they all laughed when his stomach growled at them. "Can we get out of here? I want a papaya."

"You and your fruit. Ok. Let's go." Rain laughed as she walked out of the ruins with Fiona in her arms, Willow trailing behind.

Fiona looked at the hellcat that stood before her when they got outside and stared in wonder at it. "Wow!" She gasped out.

"You like zoids?" Rain asked happily.

"Yup." Fiona replied, a little to cheekily.

"So do we." Van replied. "Hey. What's up with Zeke and Willow?"

"They want to fuse with the hellcat." Fiona answered his driving question. "I guess to see how it runs."

"They can do that?" Rain asked, completely amazed.

"Of course." Fiona said, proud with herself. "And each organoid has the power to bring out different potentials in each zoid. Willow, as you so call her, has the power to make your zoid push its limits even further. Ten times over its breaking point."

"These zoids are organoids? That's awesome." Rain cried as she looked over at Willow, not seeing Zeke or Van in sight. "Umm. Where'd Van go?"

"Over here. I found an old zoid."

"That looks like an old shield liger." Rain said as she ran over to Vans' position. "It also looks out of commission."

Van got into the cockpit anyway, he wanted to see the controls. They hear a loud metallic roar come from behind them and then saw Zeke fuse with the old liger. It started to repair itself.

"It's coming back to life." Van cried overjoyed.

"Is this one of Zeke's abilities?" Rain asked as she pointed at the almost complete zoid.

"Hai." Fiona answered.

"WHOO HOO. THIS IS AWESOME!" Van cried out as the zoid shot up from it's position.

"He's having fun." Rain laughed as she watched Van try to take control of the hulking zoid. "Hey Van. Pilot that shield liger back to the village. Fiona and I will take the hellcat."

"You got it. Let's go Zeke."

"Come on Fiona."

"All right."

They both jumped into the hellcat's cockpit and Rain looked down at the edgy purple organoid. "Hey Willow. Wish to do the honors?"

TBC

So, what do you think, please R/R for me, I'll appreciate it. Catch yah later, the demon Rain.