Chapter seven My First Day
After blowing up the trees and nearly crushing a child. I walked up stairs to join the harlequins
"Great Raven you're here, Okay boys this is Raven be nice to her and-"
"oh my god Chloe we know you said the same thing for all of the girls, Raven it's nice to meet you I'm Rai, Alisha's husband, that's Foz, Nancy's Boyfriend, this is Joe, Zoë's fiancé and that's Kris the only one sane enough not to date anyone at work"
Rai got a few death glares from the girls but he smiled and they somehow forgave him. And that's when Kris came and spoke to me.
"Hi there I'm Kris like Rai said"
He had a strong Irish accent and dull blonde hair spiked up. His eyes were a vibrant green and well to top it all off he was gorgeous. Oh my god Raven speak use words!
"I'm Raven like Chloe said"
"Cool so what do you think of the place so far"
"A little overwhelming but I think I'll be okay" oh god I'm going to have to blow up some more trees
"Don't worry you'll be fine and here's your chance to prove it"
The whole next hour was a blur. Nancy taught me how to use the bar, and to be honest I didn't know there was a dirty way to serve drinks. Anyway I couldn't quite grasp the concept anyway. It all went wrong at about eleven when the notorious Campbell Alexander came into the club.
"Raven"
"Yeah"
"Campbell is here do you want to come make some money"
I was on a roll so I thought I could concur anything
"Sure"
We walked over to Campbell's table, he was in his mid thirties and oozed wealth
"Hi Campbell"
"Well hello Chloe and who is this pretty lady who is with you today"
"Her name is Raven it's her first day"
"Well welcome Raven"
We both went and sat either side of him me with the strawberry's Chloe with the champagne.
"Open" Chloe instructed
Campbell opened his mouth and Chloe gestured for me to put the strawberry in. as I did he took a big bite out of it and his lips touched my fingers. Oops.
Suddenly the strawberry's including the one he was eating and one of the main stage lights exploded. Most of the other people panicked and went to solve it and Campbell went to wipe the strawberry from his suit but Chloe just stared at me as if she knew it was me. I ran.
I had to get out of there they would never understand I would just tell Robin I didn't have a job. So he would kill me who cares I could easily kick his ass if it came to it. Pulling on my clothes I heard my name.
"Raven"
"What" I'm close to tears I have to control it god forbid I blow something else up.
"Did you just blow that stuff up?"
"No"
"Then why'd you run off?"
"Okay I did do it but I can't explain why you wouldn't understand"
"Because you're Azurithan"
"What? How?"
"Alisha is one too"
"What?"
"Wow you really have a way with words, look Alisha is from Azurath and I can tell you are as well because your chakra went all glowy"
"So how does Alisha cope with all this?"
"She has a special bracelet that slowly releases small amounts of power neutralising liquid into her blood stream, and then she covers it with a holographic ring"
"Oh should I get one for work then?"
"Don't be silly I'll make you one"
"Oh yeah I forgot you had that degree in engineering was it?"
"You could call it that I never got the degree though"
"Why?"
"I had an accident that stopped me from continuing the course"
"Oh"
"You wanna know what happened don't you"
"I'm a little curious"
"Okay sit down"
"It was about two years ago when I was 18. I went to my best friend's 19th birthday and her ex boyfriend was there. His name was Matt, and he was the prettiest thing I had ever seen, and had been in love with him since I met him.
But she got there first. We had been best friends for a while, and on that night I told him how I felt. And before you ask I had a test the next day and he didn't drink at all, so we were both sober. To my surprise he felt the same way and asked me out there and then.
A couple of dates later I realised I loved him and that I had to tell my friend. She seemed okay with it but I knew she wasn't so our friendship deteriorated. About a year later we moved in together, and everything seemed okay, but then his dad died and he didn't take it too well."
"What happened?"
"He started drinking, and became really paranoid he would yell at me for talking to the guy at the supermarket checkout, or for smiling at another guy if he held the door open for me. Anyway I soon found out I was pregnant, despite me being on the pill and him using protection. I told him straight away."
"What did he say?"
"He demanded it wasn't his and then beat me to a pulp and I mean a pulp I'm lucky to be alive. I lost the baby and"
She took off a ring on her finger and her body blurred for a second and there wasn't a word to describe what I saw. Her entire torso was made of metal, along with the back half of her neck, the tops of her arms and the bottom of her legs. The rest of her was covered in scar. She quickly slipped the ring back on and looked me in the eye.
"We all have secrets Raven at least yours means you don't look like me"
"I don't know what to say"
"you don't have to say anything but when I told Alisha about me she told me a sad story about herself and it sort of counterbalanced it out have you got any?"
"Too many but I have one about a guy like you except he left emotional damage"
"Share all"
"His name was Malchior…"
(A/N we all know the story of malchior)