. 8

Raven, the next day, went over to Sam's house to learn more about her new protectors and to let them know what she knew.

Raven pulled up in her mom's small Honda, and got out wearing a pair of blue and pink plaid shorts and baby blue Guy Harvey shirt with her favorite blue plaid coverts. Her long black hair pulled back into a pony tail, she walked up the porch of Sam's house and knocked on the door. Emily answered and smiled "Raven! So glad you came please come in" Emily opened the door and Raven came in the small home. The smell of cooking food filled her nose, eggs, bacon, sausage, muffins and fruits laid on the table.

"Bloody Hell Emily" Raven gasped "This is enough food to feed a small army"

Emily laughed "The pack enjoys eating. A lot, I'm actually still cooking would you like to help. They won't be back from patrol for a while or so."

Raven smiled "It's the least I can do, seeing they're probably gonna get themselves killed trying to protect silly old me"

Emily gave her a weak smile "Oh sweetie there's a reason, you'll know in due time I'm sure"

"Another missing puzzle piece huh?" Raven said washing her hands as she helped Emily bake another batch of Muffins.

A half of an hour passed and the boys and Leah came walking up out of the woods hooting and calling. Jacob bought up the end laughing with the others. He looked up seeing Raven in the window and felt his heart jump and he ran inside. She was looking pretty with her hair up and sitting on Emily's counter serving some orange juice to Embry and was smirking at her about something she said.

"Alright" Raven said "Down to business, Dr. Cullen has told me you guys have fought a fair few of Vampires and you're prepared. But you've never fought soul eaters and night crawlers."

They all looked at her with a confused face "Soul eaters are larger ugly thing that eat thing, mostly people, whole. The thing you fought" she said looking at Seth Leah and Jacob.

"Then there are Night crawlers which are like vampires but they don't drink blood. They are powerful and can use their strength to their advantage. So you have to be careful about them they're good at mind tricks. You think you're fighting them but you actually attacking your best friend"

Sam nodded "You control the dead?"

Raven shrugged "sort of. Here watch" She slid off the counter and headed outside to Sam's back yard. Everyone filed out to watch wanting to see what she was going to do. Raven let down her hair and looked around and pushed her arm out her fingers curled inward and the ground in front of her bulged, a dead rat broke free from the ground and began to move around making horrible noises.

"That's so cool" Seth said amazed. Raven let her hand relax and the rat dropped dead and she whispered something in a different language. "I just released it spirit, you can't see it because you're not a necromancer but a rat ghost just flew to heaven" She said turning to them smiling. Jacob watched her, his eyes full of amazement. "What did you do the other night though" Leah said crossing her arms

"I manipulated my energy into a ring and shot it at the soul eater" she said simply everyone looked at her dumfounded and confused. She rolled her eyes and suddenly wiped her hand out point at a tree and a ring shot out and the tree was cut in half and fell down. Everyone let out gasps and awe's

"She is so cool" Quil smiled to Jacob who smiled wide at her.

"What's his name?" Seth asked "the man after you"

Raven looked at Seth and studied him for a few seconds and looked around at everyone "His name is Christopher Fredrick; he's been a vampire for 102 years and is the leader of the London Children, that's what he calls them. He wanted to transform me into a vampire so I could rule with him. But I simply refused" She said looking up at the sky as a black bird flew down and landed next to her. She smiled "Why hi there"

The bird tilted it head and chirped at her and she nodded and everyone gave her a 'wtf' look. She looked around "Didn't I tell you why my name is Raven?"

They all looked around and shook their heads. "Oh well. When I was born a Raven landed by my crib and gave me a gift"

"What gift?" Jacob asked confused

"The gift of Light and life" Raven said smiling as the bird flew away and she watched it fly away.

"What does that mean" Seth said bluntly

"It means, I can speak to Raven's" She said rolling her eyes "And I am light, meaning good, and life because without that gift I'd be dead"

Seth nodded still not getting it but giving up.