I sighed and thumped my head onto the table. I had a headache and was seriously thinking about just burning all the books in the library so I never have to look at one again.
Skye yawned and pawed my hand. She chittered at me.
"We just took a potty break." I told her.
She moaned and put her head on her paws. She thumped her tail in irritation and then lifted her head to warble at me.
The librarian was really nice and helped me find the books that would most likely contain some kind of Mediator reference whether as a myth or legend. I had staked claim on a table with all the books spread out and a notebook filled with…doodles.
Yeah, I haven't found crap. There's was no reference to a random vampyre priestess who talked to trees or water. No mention of one of them talking to immortal beasts or having contact with them. Sure there some mention of immortal beasts, but no details about the eating habits or anything scientific relate to them or anything that could help a foster dragon mommy.
No mention of the Key of Portals/Phoenix.
"Those Guardian guys did a good job." I mumbled. Stupid Guardian guys. Honestly.
I jerked when a hand touched my shoulder. The librarian, Sappho I think, smiled gently at me. "It's lunch hour for the other kids. You look like you could use a break."
I sighed. Skye warbled and stood up. I glared at her. Traitor.
"That sounds like a good idea." I said as my stomach grumbled. Three against one, Raven loses. I started picking up my stuff.
"Leave it. I'll make sure no one bothers it." She said.
"Thank you." I said picking up Skye and my bag.
I pushed the door open and started for the dining hall place. Dark Moon was nowhere to be found, but the last couple of potty breaks he's been MIA. My guess is he wanted food or he probably got tired of kids pointing at him so he found a nice quiet place to hang out. Snap was also MIA.
Honestly, epic speeches have been made about how I can't take care of myself and need to be babysat and she vanishes! God, I hate cats.
"Hey Ray!"
I looked up and saw Zoey waving at me with Stark just standing there.
I skipped over to them. "Hiya!"
"Found anything?" Zoey asked.
"No." I said. "There was nothing." I shrugged. "Can't say I'm surprised."
"Maybe we should Indiana Jones it and find their secret library and pillage their secret knowledge." Stark said.
"Are you a secret history professor?" I asked. "If so, you're doing a great job hiding that fact." I yanked the dining hall door and held it open for them to go in.
"Oh! Spaghetti!" I said darting forward toward the buffet place. I put Skye onto the ground before I grabbed a tray.
She warbled at me.
"I'm getting food." I told her while I grabbed a plate to fill with spaghetti. God, I miss fake Italian food. Or was spaghetti real Italian?
I grabbed a couple of breadsticks and garlic bread. I looked for anything that might be dragon food. I had fed her, but I wondered what else dragons could eat. Did dragon's having any allergies?! I need a dragon manual!
I walked over to the group's booth with eyes all over me. It made my skin prickled. Honestly, am I that freaky compared to what else has been roaming around here lately?
I plunked down and Skye hopped on top of the booth's headrest to peer over my shoulder.
"Spaghetti." Zoey sighed as she sat down. "And brown pop and cheesy garlic bread. Seriously, yum."
"Yep." I said before shoveling a bite into my mouth.
"I know." Stevie Rae said happily. "I missed the food lots!"
"It's good." Rephaim said around a mouthful of food.
"So do birds eat spaghetti?" Aphrodite asked as she settled into her seat.
"He isn't a bird." Stevie Rae said, sounding borderline pissed off.
I rolled my eyes and shoved another bite into my mouth.
"Not this second he isn't." Aphrodite said before putting a delicate bite into her mouth.
Damien rushed over and shoved next to Aphrodite, who gave him an irritated looking before scooting over. "Okay, ohmygod. I've been dying to talk to you guys. What is Thanatos doing here?"
"Thanatos is here?" I asked with my mouth kinda of full.
"Hello, checked your mailbox lately?" Aphrodite waved a piece of paper around.
"I don't have a mailbox." I said. Skye leaned over and sniffed at my next bite. I brought it closer for her to properly sniff. She sniffed and sneezed. Little puffs of smoke and sparks came out. I wonder if I should be concerned about that.
"My guess," Aphrodite said after glaring at me. "is you'll get the same schedule change I did. The brain-sharers got one."
"Quit calling us that." Shaunee said as she walked over.
"Yeah, we don't share a brain. We share a soul. The two are way different." Erin said.
"Please, like soul-sharing is fine?" Aphrodite said.
"So, what does this schedule change have to do with Thanatos?" I asked.
"Starting Monday Thanatos is teaching a special class first hour." Zoey said. "We'll probably all have schedule changes."
"I do. I checked it before I went into first hour." Rephaim said around another mouthful of food.
"Oh, that what made you so tardy." Damien said. "I didn't want to ask."
"Tardy?" Stevie Rae said. "You know the professors get annoyed at you if you're tardy."
"I'm sure he had a good reason." I said while I ripped a bite off of a breadstick.
"Father was here." Rephaim announced.
"What? Kalona? Here?" Stevie Rae practically squeaked. Kids glanced at them.
"That's right." Aphrodite said, voice raising and looking more annoyed every second. "Barcelona is where all the best shoe shopping is-not here. Get a clue, bumpkin." She leaned in to whisper: "Not a good idea to say much about this in public-which means as in anywhere but the tunnels."
"Rephaim, are you okay?" Stevie Rae asked softly.
"Yes. I wasn't alone. Zoey was with me." He answered in the some soft tone.
"Z?" Stevie blinked at her with her big blue eyes.
"He's right. I was with him the whole time. It's okay. Well, as okay as it can be when He Who Cannot Be Named is involved." Zoey whispered.
"Oh for shit's sake. This isn't Hogwarts." Aphrodite said.
"Magic. Dragons. Kitty cats. Even a demonic Dark Lord-ess." I said. "Sounds like Hogwarts to me." I hiccupped.
"I wish it was." Erin mumbled.
"You still care about him. Don't ya?" Shaunee asked.
I shot her a look. Isn't she supposed to make some comment that echoes her 'twin?'
Rephaim nodded.
"Twin? Hogwarts?" Erin asked a little confused.
"Twin, this is more important. Dads are important." Shaunee said.
Um, is there something Shaunee hasn't told us? Something relatively important?
"I didn't know you were close to your daddy." Stevie Rae said.
"I'm not." Shaunee said. "That's why I understand how important they are. Not having one who pays any attention to you doesn't mean you don't wish they were different."
"Huh." Erin said. "I didn't know that bothered you, Twin."
Shaunee shrugged. "I don't like to talk about it much."
"Was he mean?" Erin asked Rephaim.
"No, not very." He said softly.
"I think Aphrodite is right. We need to talk about this when we don't have to worry about being overheard. Right now let's finish lunch and then everyone needs to go to their mailboxes and check for schedule changes, that includes the red fledglings." Zoey said.
"Dallas's group already got theirs," Aphrodite said. "I heard them talking about it in art class."
Stevie Rae's face lost all of its color.
"We'll all be with you." Zoey said. "And Thanatos is a powerful vampyre, a member of the High Council. She's not gonna let anything happen."
"Shekinah was Leader of the High Council, and she got killed her first day here, remember?" Stevie Rae said.
"That was by Neferet and not some douche-bag red fledgling guy." Zoey reminded her.
"The girls are on my nerves, too," Aphrodite said. "That Nicole bitch needs to have her hair pulled out by the roots, which are probably, a different color than the rest of the mess on her head."
"I hate it when I agree with you." Stevie Rae said.
"Whose Nicole?" I asked.
"The bitch with the black hair." Aphrodite said.
"Oh! The one whose hand I tried to bite off." I said.
Everyone blinked at me.
"When they had me tied up in the tunnels, I changed into a panther and bite that girl's wrist cuz she tried to shoot me." I said.
"Nice one, animal girl." Aphrodite said.
Skye yawned and curled up into my lap. I scratched her head.
"Hey Ray," Damien said. "have you found anything in your research?"
"Nope." I said. "No mention of Mediators or anything about them either."
"Well, I was going to the library next hour, so I could help you once I get my booklist filled."
"Kay." I said. "That would be nice. I'm honestly sick of looking at books now."
We just chatted the rest of lunch hour with two figures suspiciously silent. Erin and Shaunee never really talk and Erin kept giving her Twin weird looks.
Surely Shaunee taking this dad thing a little more seriously than Erin wasn't a big deal, right?
Skye chittered and nibbled my dress.
"Me and Skye are going to go for a potty break." I put her on my shoulders and picked up my tray. Rephaim and Damien started getting up and I narrowed my eyes. "I'm on campus with a bunch of Sons of Erebus warrior guys and other people and a shit ton of horses. I'll be fine, okay?"
Damien sighed.
"It's not like those guys are just going to let me get killed or kidnapped." I argued. "And you guys are right here. I won't go that far."
"You shouldn't be that stubborn." Rephaim said.
"You're being stubborn, too." I shot back. "Here." I spun a thread of shadows and light and tied it around Rephaim's wrist. "If I get in trouble, this'll let you know." I tied the other end around mine.
I walked away with the thread trailing after me. Honestly, there wasn't anything to worry about. I highly doubt the Guardians or even Damascus would take me from campus. I think it would be too difficult for them to take me away quietly and people would probably get pissed, magical or not, two legged or four alike.
I walked around until I found a large of bushes that wasn't near the heart of campus so nobody would care if Skye did her business here.
I put her down and she darted into the bushes.
I got this creepy feeling I was being watched. My eyes immediately looked at the shadows, expecting Dominic to be shadow stalking me, more like hoping, but I'm just going to say that I was just expecting him to show up like some creepy, sexy stalker.
Light gathered on my palms and I held my palm up and out. Soft, bubbly looking orbs floated over and touched the shadows. I heard a hissing sound and then a scuttling sound as a thick shadow shot up and over the wall.
Weird.
Skye tugged my dress and I picked her up. I walked backwards staring at were that thing disappeared. I didn't feel comfortable turning my back to the wall right now.
I know that Rephaim and the others just wanted me to be safe, but to be honest they would probably just hurt. Especially Rephaim. He was just a kid! I mean, look what happened to my parents when they got in the way. I don't have much heart left to break right now.
I finally made myself turn around and walk properly. But my back was still prickling and my head kept trying to turn to look behind me.
I rounded a corner and then my heart and stomach clenched.
There was no sound. None.
I couldn't hear the night sounds or the sounds of the horses in the pasture, I mean there was no sound, only the painfully loud gasps that were coming out my body as I started to panic. Skye chittered and shot down my dress.
"Skye." I said as she tried to stuff herself into my bra again. Maybe I should wear a D-cup just so she can hide there when she needs to.
I guess that also brings up the question why she thinks my bra is a safe place to hide, but I guess since she can't talk yet, I'll never know.
I heard a shuffling sound and turned around.
Okay, everyone knows what a demon supposedly looks like right; horns, a tail, cloven hooves, and weird crazy sometimes red or burnt looking skin and bat wings?
Uh, yeah. I'm staring at one of those suckers right now.
It had no eyes, just empty sockets, and its skin was more gray than black or red. It started towards me with its fingers curled like claws.
"No."
It actually paused.
"Look, if you attack me in an effort to capture me or to kill me then my friends and brother will never get off my case and I'll never get to go anywhere alone again. So, could you not attack me and just be on your merry way?" I asked with a grin.
It stood there for a second and then shook its head and snarled at me. It lunged towards me and I skipped out the way of it trying to plunge its talon into my stomach.
"Fine! Then I'll just kick your ass!" I shouted before throwing a light ball at him.
Maybe I should come with cool names for my attacks like they do in Digimon or Inuyasha because it obviously makes them more powerful otherwise badasses like Sesshomaru wouldn't shout out the name of his attacks.
I felt the thread squeezed my wrist and looked down to see a pulsing light shoot down its length.
Great, now I was getting babysat for the rest of my existence.
The demon thing shot at me again with a snarl. It lashed its huge claws trying to rip me apart. I lashed out with waves of light energy since it was a demon so it probably hates light.
"Skye, you need to get out." I said through gritted teeth. I smacked the demon with large light blast and then got Skye out of my bra. "Go find Rephiam!"
She slunked along the wall and stayed there though staring at the demon with her bright blue eyes.
I bared my teeth and snarled at it. "Leave now!"
Red-black flames shot from its claw and grazed my shoulder. It shot towards me and raked it's talons against my side.
I threw a ball of dark energy instead and it darted back with an angry hiss.
Skye started crying and I turned to see her focused on something I couldn't see. It looked like she was calling to something invisible.
A picture darted across my mind. It was thick web and I could see Rephaim, Stark, and others trying to get through it.
I spread my arms and arcs of light and darkness shot from my body and sliced with reddish-black webbing that suddenly appeared around me.
"Raven!"
Something hit my chest and I was flying backwards. I landed on the ground in an explosion of extreme pain. My entire chest was on fire and I couldn't breathe. I coughed and tried to get some oxygen in around the fire.
"Raven!" Rephaim was suddenly in front of me.
"Gods! You're going to wear out my name." I gasped. I looked through my veil of hair to see a bunch of Warriors trying to slice the demon with their swords, but the swords exploded when they touched it. Stark fired an arrow, but it burst into flames as soon as the tip touched it.
I struggled to stand up with Rephaim helping me when I heard a woman's voice whispering across my mind.
"Demons are created from rage and destruction. Only sympathy and creation can destroy it."
I blinked and suddenly my chest didn't hurt as bad. I stood up straight and my power quivered around me.
I began shouting in Latin. I was using my super Raven voice and sounding uber scary and super pissed off.
"Abet malus spiritus. Ab voce naturae, ego impero te abire huic ludo et redire ad profundum ex te venivisti!"
Energies swirled around me and I was surprised Rephaim was sticking around because it felt super scary and I was the one casting the damn spell. The demon stopped paying attention to the Warriors. It snarled at me, but it sounded like it was awfully scared. It leaned away like it was ready to blot.
I threw my hand out and the rainbow of energies shot out and made a pentagram around the demon. A ring of runes encircled the star and it spun around with dizzying speed.
It roared and a soft song began coming from the runes. It squealed with fear as magical vines shot up and curled around it. Its movements became slowed like it was freezing until it finally stopped moving. The vines curled tightly and burst the stone demon into itty bitty fragments.
The sing stopped and the vines curled back down into the pentagram and it vanished.
Then I fainted.
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DISCLAIMER: the banishing spell used in this fanfiction is not real, the author made it up. If you are experiencing negative influences contributed by a demonic entity, please, find an expert who knows what the hell they are doing (no pun intended.)
As usual, please read and review so I can get better with my writing and learn, but don't be mean. Mean people will be tortured by the people eating Peeps who dwell in the realms of hell.