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Note: This chapter was (again) written by mah buddeh Brendan, and co-written by me. It's the last one for a while, I promise. Also what do I have to do or say to convince you people to leave reviews? it's official. I have double the number of chapters then I do reviews --.

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Chapter 8

Raveness

10:00 A.M. 6/11

I awoke the next morning in a hospital bed, the sun shining on me through the window. I had several bandages around my head, torso, and left leg, and my body as a whole was in pain.

"Well, seems like you had a bit of a scrap last night!!!" said the voice in my head, Xalces.

"Shut up..." I said to him.

Xalces has been a part of me since I was only 8 years old. He's a parasitical demon, and I'm his unfortunate host. He's an Unluck Demon, and whoever he is near tends to have bad luck.

Xalces ruined my life, and he still taunts me, even after 14 years. I was young, and naive. He fooled me, into releasing him from his prison and he forced himself into me. I was a perfectly happy little girl, but once I was possessed, my own kin looked at me with looks of disgust on their faces. They called me a Demon Child and shunned me from my home. Even my own parents didn't hesitate to have me kicked out of my village. I've been alone for 14 years now, constantly dealing with Xalces I'm surprised I haven't gone insane yet.

Xalces laughed. "Telling me to shut up won't help you at all! I'm part of you, and you can't do anything about it!!"

Another laugh. After so long, you'd think I could ignore him, and you're right. I ignore him almost all the time, and it tends to work. Sometimes he'll go whole weeks without doing anything.

I looked around at the various medical machines and the vacant bed besides my own.

A doctor walked in, "Ah, you're awake I see" he said softly.

I looked up at him, and he continued, "Well, you were in bad shape last night. A strange looking man brought you here and left you without a word. We immediately brought you to the ER to treat your injuries, but unfortunately, it wasn't a total success." he said somewhat quickly.

"Haaaaa ha! Sucks for you!" Xalces again.

"How so?" I responded, ignoring Xalces again.

"Well, we were able to patch up and treat all of your wounds, but we were unable to do so with your left eye." he said, motioning towards the bandaging around the left side of my head.

I simply remained in silence, letting him continue if need be.

"You'll need to wear this over your now empty left eye socket." he said, holding up an eye patch.

Xalces laughed again.

So I'd lost my eye, at least I wasn't left blinded. The doctors do what they can, and I do not care, so long as I can continue my quest to somehow kill Xalces so I can finally live a normal life again. I took the eye patch and the doctor left me alone, probably to tend to his other patients. My things were on a table in the room. I didn't care if I wasn't supposed to leave, I got up, put all of my things back on, removed the bandaging, and put on the eye patch.

(Time to find Vaati, he deserves my gratitude.) I thought to myself.

"That guy who helped you? He's a freak!" Said Xalces.

Suddenely a door slammed open in front of me. I jumped to the side, avoiding a smack to the face, typical Xalces tactic, attack when I didn't see it coming. I heard him grumble, and I laughed to myself.

I have trained my body for a very long time. My senses are above human levels, and I'm very quick and agile. I've also learned many various martial arts, and can also wield shortswords with ease. It's made life with Xalces much easier. I looked over at a mirror, and saw a beautiful 22 year old woman with long black hair and red eyes. Er, eye would be a more correct term now. I saw myself wearing a full body leather suit, colored black, along with boots and several concealed weapons. A throwing dagger in one of my boots, a sword sheathed at my side, and other such things.

"Stop ogling yourself woman!" Shouted Xalces as he made the mirror shatter.

I ducked in time to avoid a faceful of glass, and shrugged as I left the room.

I left the hospital with ease. No one tried stopping me. I traveled around for a few hours, looking for Vaati, but instead found another cave bearing an artifact I required. I decided to go in, hoping their wouldn't be too many monsters within.

"Yer gonna get hurt!" Xalces taunted. Again, I ignored him.

12:00 P.M. 6/11

The cave was dark, but not as dark as the previous cave, since it was still daytime. I entered the first chamber and saw a tunnel leading off elsewhere. I followed the tunnel, and soon heard footsteps behind me. I quickly turned to confront the stalker, but realized it was Vaati! He had seen me enter the cave it seems.

"Vaati, I've been looking for you." I said to him.

"Oh? Well I've been looking for you as well. You were not where I left you" he replied.

"Well, I can't stand being left with nothing to do, so I left the hospital as soon as I could." I said back, somewhat coldly.

I've never really trusted anyone in my life, but there was something different about Vaati... Something... more.

"Aww, lil baby Raveness is in love!" Xalces again.

("Shut up! I'm sick of you!") I replied with my thoughts.

"You've been sick of me since the day we met!" he laughed again.

Vaati seemed unaffected by my cold reply, and I assumed he was used to such treatment.

"...Sorry." I said after a moment,"I did not mean anything by it".

He seemed surprised. I don't think he'd ever been apologized or spoken nicely to before, and I immediately felt bad for him. My life was the same way, No one really cared about me. He had been there for me when I needed help, and I was grateful.

"Vaati, I..." I said, trailing off.

"Yes?" he said.

"Vaati, I wanted to thank you, if it weren't for you I would of..." I trailed off again.

He stood there, another look of surprise in his face. He seemed like he had never been thanked before.

"You... your welcome." he said quietly.

I looked at him for a moment.

"There's another artifact I need in this cave. Do you mind helping me again?" I asked.

"Of course, Raveness." he said to me.

The two of us continued deeper into the cave. There had been no monsters yet, but I knew there would be one sooner or later.

"DIE!" All of a sudden, the ground beneath me gave way, courtesy of Xalces, and I began to fall into a very deep pit.

I screamed and closed my eye, thinking it was over, but my body stopped in midair. I opened my eye and looked up to see that Vaati had barely managed to grab my hand. He pulled me up, and my body pressed up against his as he did so. I looked into his eyes, and he looked into mine. This was the second time he had saved my life, I had to thank him somehow, so I leaned forward, and kissed him.

"Damn it!" Xalces cried, at his failed attempt to kill me.

His eyes widened at first, completely taken by surprise from my affection, but he soon returned the kiss. I stopped it after a moment.

"Thank you again, Vaati..." I said softly.

"My pleasure" he said with a small smile. The two of us continued deeper into the cave.

"Umm...why do you need these artifacts anyway?" Vaati asked as we walked.

"Yes, yes, tell him all about your little plan. And that you have a demon living inside you, so he can shun you like everyone else did" Xalces said.

(Damn...he might be right...) I thought. I needed these artifacts so that I could do a ceremony to rid myself of Xalces for good and be normal again.

"I'd rather not say...I'm sorry..." I replied to Vaati.

He didn't question it any further and we continued walking eventually coming to a dead-end. I saw a ring on a pedestal in the room.

"That's it right there, Namira's ring. It's one of the artifacts I seek." I said.

He looked at it from afar, as did I. We both knew it could easily be a trap. He raised his hand, and blasted a small gust of wind at it. The ring fell off the pedestal, and sure enough, a trap was sprung. A large, bladed pendulum came down from the ceiling and sliced directly in front of the pedestal. Had we been closer, the pendulum would've sliced us in half.

I walked forward and dove over the pendulum as it swung. I landed on the other side of the pedestal and grabbed Namira's Ring. I smiled and stood up, and saw a monster sneaking up on Vaati

"Look out!!" I yelled.

He immediately dove forward, narrowly avoiding a decapitating blow from the creature, and turned to face it. It was a living suit of armor, and it had a battle axe with it.

I heard Xalces chuckle, and say "You two love birds have fun now."

(Great...so he's responsible for this...) I thought, as I jumped back over the pendulum.

The two of us dispatched it monster with ease, It swung it's axe at me and I jumped up, avoiding the slash and landing on the bladed end of the axe. I ran along the handle and kicked the armor in the head with great force, causing it to lurch back. While it was staggered, Vaati jumped into the air with his own sword, surrounded it in wind energy, and brought it down on the monster, slicing it in half. It fell apart, dead. and Vaati and I hastily fled from the cave, not wanting anymore trouble now that we had the ring. We stepped outside and I glanced at the ring in my hand. (Count your days Xalces...because their numbered...) I thought, as Vaati and I stepped further back into the woods.

1:30 P.M. 6/11

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So yeah, there we go. Raveness's backstory is revealed.

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