Chapter 2 Surviving on the streets

It had been a week ago that he had run away when Harry met an other guy on the street. He saw Harry when Harry was looking threw trashcans for some food. "Hey I am Slicks who are you?" Slicks asked.

Harry shrugged "Hi, I don't remember that I a name but my aunt and uncle always called me boy or freak and the other people called me whore." Harry replied.

"Well how about the name Raven. What do you think about that name. Would you like to have that one?" Slicks asked.

"Wow you really want to give me a name? I always liked to be like a Raven. To fly away from everyone." Harry said very happy.

"Ok I will call you Raven then from now on. What do you say to coming with me? You can meet the rest of the gang and we sure have some food also." Slicks replied.

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"Hi everyone this is Raven. Raven these are Emerald, Fingers, Scott, Cleo, Sting, Shadow, Danny, Jay, Raiden and Kiki. Raiden and Kiki are the bosses here."

"Scott give Raven something to eat. Slicks come with us." Raiden ordered.

"Who is he Slicks and why did you bring him here?" Raiden asked.

"I don't know his real name even he doesn't know it. His relatives called him boy or freak. And he said that other people called him whore. So you can probably guess what is life was like. I found him looking for food in trashcans." Slicks explained.

"Just let him stay here Raiden. Besides I get the same vibes from him as I get from Shadow and you know he earns his keep more then double then he has to." Kiki replied while giving Raiden a thoughtful look.

Raiden thought it over for a few minutes and responded, "Well lets tell Raven he can stay with us, but you are going to train him Slicks."

"Sure no problem boss."

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For the next couple of weeks Raven got trained by Slicks in the ways of a street kid. This training contained fighting, stealing, begging and staying away from the cops and the social services.

After Raven was done with Slicks training he started learning from Shadow. Shadow was a wizard who had taught himself magic. He had shoulder length black hair with black eyes he always dressed in black. If he stood in the shadow you could not see him. That was why he was called shadow.

The training with Shadow went slowly mostly because Raven was to afraid to use his own magic. Because every time he had used his magic at the Dursley's he got beaten and wiped until he lost consciousness. Slowly he learned to let go of his fear and learned more magic each time.

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Raven was living on the streets for about a half year now. He had gotten pretty muscled. With his magic he had discovered that he could change some thing's about himself. At the moment he could only change the length of his hair. He had changed his hair to shoulder length and had his hair bound with a small piece off string.

Raven was out on the street by himself trying to make some money for the gang. He went to a back alley to count how much money he had made so far when he was suddenly cornered by four men.

Slightly afraid Raven backed away from the four men, but they kept advancing on him. "What do you want from me?" Raven shouted.

"Our boss wants to speak with you whore, you have cost him a lot off money the last few months. He is not very pleased with you." One off the men sneered. While the others kept coming closer to Raven.

Raven's eyes widened in fear. "I am not coming back with you. I had enough of that live. I won't do it again." Raven stated. He tried to back away further but his back hit the wall behind him. Realizing that he had no where to escape to he pulled out his knives and got ready in a fighting stance.

The four men laughed at him and pulled out there own knives. They quickly surrounded him. Raven lunged for one man and caught him in the arm, while the second man stabbed Raven in the side. The third man pulled out a gun from his jacket and aimed it at Raven.

"I would stop if I where you." The third man said, "Unless you would like to have a bullet inside your brains."

Raven looked defeated at the man and put the dagger back in his jacket again. In the mean time the forth guy had crept up behind Raven with an iron rod in his hands. With a nod from the third guy, the forth brought the iron rod down on Raven's head. The last thing Raven saw before he lost consciousness was the smirking face with the deep brown eyes of the third guy and then everything went black.

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