Chapter 14
Raven sat straight up in bed screaming. She looked around frantically for him, but he was gone. Rade was suddenly there holding her. "He's gone."
He held her as she trembled. He looked up hearing his older brothers enter the room. Ryder's eyes were black, and Rayne's half black. He watched as they turned back to their blue and brown respectively. Ryder's blond hair contrasted with the brown of Rayne's. His own hair as black as night as Raven's.
"Raven?" Ryder said.
She looked up at him crying.
"Why didn't u call for us when he came?"
"He blocked my power." She answered.
Shocked looks crossed her brother's faces. There was no way unless he was getting help.
"We should get ready; the funeral is in two hours."
"You don't think he'll show up do you?" Raven asked frightened.
"He can't cross the threshold." Ryder said. "He does and he's gone!"
Raven felt better knowing that. At least she'd be safe during her brother's funeral. A horrible thought crossed her mind.
"You don't think he'll come back also do you?" She asked frightened.
"No. He moved on." Rayne said.
Not one of his brothers or sister questioned him, for it was part of his power. Ryder and Rayne left to get ready for the funeral. Rade held his twin to him a while longer.
"You're ready for the next step with Tyler aren't you?" He asked her dreading the answer.
"Yes, but I don't think he's ready." She said sadly.
"You know we'll have to kick his ass when it does happen right?" He asked gently.
She signed. "That's why it's too soon. If I want to be able to face my fears through it will have to be soon! Promise me you won't hurt him too much!"
"I can't promise that! You're my sister for Christ's sake!" He grumbled.
"Yea and Ryder is going to be worse!" She said.
"When are you going to tell Tyler about it?"
"Soon." She answered.
He leaned over and kissed her on the forehead. "I better go get ready. I love you sis!"
"I love you too!"
She laid there for a little while longer wondering how she was going to tell Tyler everything. She signed knowing there would be no easy way. Getting up to get ready for her brother's funeral was the hardest thing she had done in quite a while.
Tyler lay on his bed thinking about Raven. She occupied all his thoughts anymore, and his grades were slipping. He signed remembering the history test. Reid had done better on it then he had. An 18 was a long way from the A+'s he usually got. His knew his brothers were worried about him. Especially since he had flunked the last history test which was about the Salem witch trials.
"Tyler?" Reid said touching his shoulder.
Tyler jumped.
"Sorry Tyler. I've been trying to get your attention for five minutes now! Are you all right?" Reid said sitting down beside him.
"I was just thinking about Raven."
"She's all right. Rayne told Pogue she was." Reid said pushing Tyler's hair out of his eyes. "When was the last time you got a haircut?"
"I know she is, but she's all I ever think about anymore. I have no idea when my last hair cut was."
"Yea we've been meaning to talk to you." Reid said. "Now isn't the time though. We'll talk to you later. If you're going to go to Ridge's funeral you better get up and get ready."
Tyler got up and got his stuff to go take a shower. He was just finishing his shower when he felt he wasn't alone. Everyone but he and his brothers should have been in class. They had been excused to go to the funeral. He started to turn off the shower, but was grabbed and pushed into the wall of the shower. He looked up and into the eyes of Chase Collins. Terror flooded through him.
"You're supposed to be dead!" Tyler said.
"Well I didn't die baby boy!" He said his eye's roaming over Tyler's body.
Tyler shut his eyes blocking out the sight of Chase. He jumped when Chase's mouth came down on his. He tried to push him away, but Chase had him penned against the wall with his own body. Chase's tongue found its way inside Tyler's mouth. His once gentle kiss turned rough. He felt Chase groping him below.
'No!' He cried in his mind hoping Caleb would hear him, but nobody answered him.
Chase's mouth left his, and he yanked Tyler around pushing him face first into the wall. Tyler cried out in pain. He heard the shower turn off. Chase then pushed him to the ground holding one arm behind his back. Blood poured down the drain from Tyler's face. He felt Chase's hand between them, and heard his pants unzip. Then something was poking him. Fear poured through Tyler.
"Please don't!" Tyler cried.
"This will be so much fun though! Even though I'd rather be doing this to Caleb, but you're the easiest way to Pogue at the moment."
'Caleb!' He projected in fear.
'What's wrong Tyler?' Caleb answered.
'Chase is here! Help me!' He sobbed.
Caleb was sitting on Reid's bed waiting on Tyler. Reid was pacing back and forth across the floor pulling at his tie. Pogue was sitting by Kate on Tyler's bed, and Sarah was sitting at Reid's desk.
"What's taking him so long?" Reid said. "I'd better go check on him!"
'Caleb!'
Caleb felt his insides turn cold hearing Tyler call for him. 'What's wrong Tyler?"
'Chase is here! Help me!' He heard Tyler's sobs in his head.
He jumped up running for the door. "Chase has Tyler!"
Reid and Pogue were right behind him. "Stay here!" Pogue told the girls.
"Caleb is a much better kisser than you baby boy!" Chase laughed rubbing his body against Tyler's. He reached around and touched him. Tyler cried out in pain when Chase grabbed him hurting him down below. Chase nuzzled his mouth against the back of Tyler's neck. He could feel him trembling with fear under him and he loved it.
Tyler whimpered. "Please no!"
"Your friends are coming." Chase said standing up pushing Tyler down hard. He raised his hand and Tyler went flying through the glass of the shower into his friends as they ran in.
Caleb put up a shield around Tyler and Reid as Tyler collided with the blonde boy. Pogue threw a ball of power at Chase, who easily caught it.
"Hello boys have you missed me?" He hadn't even bothered to zip up his own pants yet. Caleb and Pogue saw this and their anger soared. "I've missed your kisses Caleb!"
Caleb glared at Chase. "You kissed me once when you threw me into the sink, and you held me down with your power. I hardly call that kisses."
"There much better than Tyler's." He taunted them. He threw the ball of power at Tyler hitting him before the others could stop him. Tyler screamed in pain.
"Leave him alone!" Pogue yelled.
"One week and you ascend Pogue. You will your power to me and I'll leave baby boy alone."
"You think I'll stand idly by and let you hurt my friends?" Caleb roared catching Chase off guard with a ball of power.
"You haven't seen the last of me boys!" Chase said disappearing.
"Damn it!" Pogue cried.
Caleb rushed to Tyler and Reid's side. Tyler wasn't moving. Reid was holding him crying. "He's not breathing Caleb!"
Pogue looked to his friends frightened. Caleb looked at him.
'Marcus where are you?' He projected knowing he had seen him not too long ago.
'Just leaving my dorm, did you feel that power that was just used Pogue?'
'It's Tyler, he's not breathing. Chase was here!'
'Where are you?'
'Third floor, shower room.'
Pogue didn't realize he had been holding his breathe till Marcus ran through the door with his brother Vincent on his heels. They were both at Tyler's side. One of them put his hands on Tyler's head, the other his chest. Power poured through Tyler reviving him. Tyler gasped for breathe.
"You said Chase did this?" Marcus asked.
"Yes," Pogue answered wearily.
"So he's come back for you like you all figured he would."
"Yes I ascend in one week. He's using Tyler against me."
"Raven!" Vincent suddenly cried.
Raven was getting dressed, when she felt someone using the power. She brushed it off, not caring at the moment. She finished getting dressed and walked into her bathroom. She brushed her teeth, and then took her brush to her hair. She froze seeing Chase Collins appear behind her.
"I thought you'd like to know how bad of a kisser your boyfriend is." Chase said.
"Too bad you'll never kiss him again, since I just killed him!
Raven felt the room whirl before her, and she grabbed the sink to keep from falling. She saw Chase reaching for her. Something flung him at the wall. A spirit of a boy filled the room. Raven turned around facing her biggest fears. The only two people who had almost succeeded in killing her.
"My time is near! You will not harm her till it's done!" The spirit roared.
Chase stared at the spirit before him. He grinned and started to use his power. Raven screamed as stuff hurled around the room, as the spirit and Chase fought.
"RAVEN!" Ryder shouted from the door.
She barely heard him above the deafening roar in the room. She past out from the fear and the chaotic aftermath of the battle.