AN Hey, sorry for the wait. I've been having to deal with a lot of family issues and I haven't had my laptop for a while. On that note here is the next chapter. Also, I'm using the title of Demon Lord as a unisex title. Both male and female demons go by Demon Lord. Please read and review and have a wonderful night
The first thing Raven noticed when she awoke, was that it was pitch black in her living room. It must have been late in the night. She went to stretch and felt a pressure on her that was preventing her from moving. It took her a minute to remember that she had fallen asleep in Jinx's embrace, but once the half demon remembered, the pressure made sense.
Raven carefully disengaged herself from the other woman and laid her out on the couch, and covered her up with the throw that was slung over the back of the couch. Raven silently made her way to the kitchen to think over what had happened. This may be the time for another trip to Nevermore. She thought to herself grimly. A cold chill made it's way down Raven's spine as she felt a fleeting presence leave once she entered the other room. She mentally did a quick check over her house, only sensing a faint magic presence coming from the living room and a slightly increased demonic presence coming from the rest of the house. Raven did a more thorough check after that, but found nothing. If there had been something in her home, it was gone now.
The sorceress slowly mad her way to her kitchen table. It was an inconvenient spot to try and meditate, but with the fleeting presence she had felt, she didn't want to be too far from the sleeping witch in case something did happen. Raven slowly got on top of her table (as she needed to be able to sit then levitate) and crossed her legs. She closed her eyes and slowly tried to block out the world around it. Once the sounds had melted away from her and left her in silence, she slowly let herself sink into her mind.
Although Raven's last trip into Nevermore had started off horribly, this trip was not nearly as bad. Raven landed silently in the grand library where she knew Wisdom and the others would be and made her way to the center of it all. The shelves she passed seemed to be a bit bare, and the tables were messier than they had been the last time she had visited this place. This slightly confused the woman, and she felt a great urgency calling her to get to the middle. She immediately set off at a quick walk once the urgency hit her mind.
Once she had gotten to the middle, she saw a sight she never thought she would. Each of her emotions, including Rage, sat at the long central table with a large stack of books. Wisdom's yellow cloak was right in the middle, and Raven made her way to it. The sound of pages being flipped and books being thrown got increasingly louder as she made her way through the chaotic flurry of research around her. She quickly ducked as a growl left Rage's throat to her left, and chucked the book toward her only pausing a second to grab another one. As soon as she Wisdom sensed her presence near her she quickly focused a of her attention of the blue cloaked Raven.
"Oh thank Azar, do you know what we have been going through since Richard showed you those images? We have no idea what's going on and I am at the point I called everyone here to help because I can't do this by myself. Even Rage is under control, although she just wants to know who 'Dares to insult her place in the bloodline' as she put it. It has to be demonic, but the signature it left isn't Trigon's. It's completely different. We think that Rage may have had the right idea though, if you wish to speak to her. I'm sure she wouldn't mind not having to read." Wisdom quickly rattled off before shoving her face back into a book that contained information on various cults and magic signatures. Raven glanced over at Rage, who's crimson eyes were quickly scanning a book for information, and silently wondered why things usually turned out this way as she made her way over to the darker aspect of her heritage.
Rage's head snapped up as Raven approached, and she watched as Raven made her way over. A scowl was plastered on the crimson cloaked emotion and she tossed the book she had been looking at the the side, finding its information useless to what was going on. Raven crossed her legs, and joined her mirror image in sitting on a stack of books that her emotions had found useless in the information they held. Rage smirked as she saw that the other woman would actually need her help in this. Raven cleared her throat before starting to speak.
"Wisdom told me that you may have some ideas as to what is going on. Can you tell me what you have found out?" Raven calmly asked the smirking Rage. A dark chuckle left Rage's throat as she prepared to answer.
"And why should I tell you Mistress? If memory serves right, you never wanted to hear from me, but look at what it has come too. Why should I tell you anything about what your heritage has to do with this?" Rage said tauntingly to Raven. She wanted her mistress to beg like she should have so long ago.
"Because if this thing kills me, then you shall vanish with it." Raven stated simply. She felt her anger increasing as Rage thought of the appropriate response. She was not going to give in that easy, and Raven knew it.
"Not so fast Mistress. You and I both know that if your life were under extreme danger during a battle, then I would take over to exterminate the threat. It would have to completely sever you from us to prevent that, and therefor you would hopefully live. If you would ask me with the respect you give the others then I might consider helping you. I'm sure you can swallow your pride and ask me." Rage said. Raven grimaced slightly at the way the emotion had said pride. She didn't want to be reminded of what she represented at a time like this.
"Rage, I beg you to help me and share your information with me so that I may remove the being that threatens me." Raven said begrudgingly. She hated being at the mercy of anyone, let alone Rage. Her irritation grew as the smile grew on Rage's face. Rage paused for a minute, as if deciding whether or not to divulge the information she had, before continuing.
"You recall that Father was the Demon Lord of the 7th circle of Hell. You, being his first born, were the next in line to succeed him after he died, unless he was defeated by someone else, as is custom. Since you had also defeated him, you are now technically the reigning ruler of the 7th circle even though you are not there. Although they are beings of chaos, demons are very strict when it comes to their hierarchy. The current demons that are in line for the throne are your brothers; however, we would have sensed if it was one of them as they would have left a similar imprint on the body to yours since they share the same sire, and we would have sensed them. Now, every demon felt it when you defeated Father, so to make things simple, every powerful demon that would have fought Trigon to take over, is now coming after you. Fortunately, they don't know that you're on Earth as it wasn't common knowledge that the portal was here to summon him. Whoever, or whatever, has found you is extremely cleaver and powerful. Apart from that I can't tell what it is that killed the humans, but I do know there were only doing it to try a lure you out. That's all." Rage finished, looking rather proud of herself.
Dread washed over Raven as the message sunk in. She was a Demon Lord. She ruled the 7th circle without knowing she had claimed the title, and now something wanted her head for it. A sigh left her lips as she thanked the emotion once again and prepared to leave. Raven closed her eyes, and willed away the image of the library, returning once again to the silent inky blackness of her the in-between area of her mind.
The early morning light hit Raven as she opened her eyes. She was still in the same spot on the table she had been in, but something was wrong and she could feel it. She looked around and gasped at what she saw. Glass shards glittered in the morning light where they had been strewn around the empath's kitchen. Raven quickly checked herself for injuries, found none, and then continued to look around her destroyed kitchen. Every bit of glassware she had owned had been destroyed. Silverware was stabbed into the walls around her, but none had touched her. She knew that she hadn't done this, but whatever had didn't mean to cause her harm. She quickly levitated to the hallway before running to make sure Jinx was okay.
Raven's living room was worse than the kitchen. The books were scattered and shredded, their pages lying on the ground. Her tv had been busted, and her furniture had been shredded. The blanket that Jinx had been lying under had long claw marks in it, and Raven's heart leaped into her throat when she say the poor girl lying on the couch. She quickly made her way to Jinx, not paying the rest of the room any attention.
A relieved sigh left Raven's lips as she realized the girl wasn't hurt. She gently shook Jinx awake, and a smile met her lips as the half-asleep Jinx stared into her eyes. Jinx mumbled something to Raven, but she didn't catch it, before yawning and stretching. Jinx smiled as she kissed Raven good morning, much to Raven's embarrassment, but that smile quickly turned into a look of shock as her eyes met the wall behind the pair. This confused Raven, as she hadn't seen anything when she first ran in, so she turned to look also.
The wall made Raven gasp. What had once been a clean off-white wall, was now a message board for her to read. A warning message had been carved into the wood that signaled the unknown enemy knew where she was. Rage rose in her at this. How DARE they enter our territory and put Jinx in danger! They will pay for this. Mark my words Mistress, they will have the full fury of a Demon Lord on their hands when we find them.Rage spoke to her from deep within her mind. It took Raven a minute to register that Jinx was speaking aloud. She quickly tried to catch what the other woman was saying.
"The Portal was the Defeater
Her reign shall come to an end
And we shall reign again." Jinx read off the wall before clinging to Raven and trying to calm herself. Raven could feel the fear rolling off the woman as she processed what had happened. Raven placed a small kiss to Jinx's head and tried to help calm her down. Once Jinx had reach a calmer state Raven pulled out her cellphone and quickly dialed Richard's number. The phone rang a few times before he picked up.
"Do you have a lead Raven? Please tell me you have something." He asked. Raven could hear the exhaustion in his voice and figured that he must not have slept yet.
"Whatever it is, it broke into my house, put both Jinx and I in danger, and destroyed everything it could reach. I need you to warn everyone that's investigating this case that it is a demon and they need to be extremely careful." Raven told him. It took a minute for Richard to respond.
"Okay, thanks Rae. Keep on the defense and be careful. We dont need another incident on our hands." Richard said before hanging up on her. Raven turned to look at Jinx and quickly pulled the girl into another embrace. Raven needed to figure out something, and fast, before she got Jinx injured, or worse, killed.