Chapter 14: Our Pasts

When I came out of my deep sleep, my chest started to feel heavy. I slowly opened my eyes to see that SealRuin had moved on top of me. Giving off an exhausted sigh, I rest my head back on the ground, and stare at the sky. I saw the last of the night stars leaving and the pink and oranges of the sunrise showed up. I turned my head where Raven was sleeping, her giant raven wings had covered all of her body giving her a makeshift blanket.

I laid like this for a half an hour or so, and decided to try and get out from under Ruin. I struggled for a good five minutes before I gave up.

"Come on…" I mutter, the fact that Ruin was laying on me wasn't that bad. It was the fact that he was still wearing his armor that bugged me.

I decide to do one last push and I somehow got him off of me. I scramble to my feet before he rolls back on top of me. I look back at SealRuin and notice that Link is standing there giving me his iconic smile.

I then realized how I was able to move SealRuin. Link had helped me.

"Did you move Ruin all by yourself?!" I asked him shocked, SealRuins armor weighed a ton if not more.

Link nodded happily, part of me was glad he was back to his normal self. Well, as normal as one can be when you're split into two.

"How?" I soon asked, I was honestly curious.

"These!" With that Link showed me his arm, he was wearing gauntlets, but there was what looked like gold on them. "They're called the golden gauntlets. I was told that the Hero of Time found them, and they were given to me. Don't know why though."

Link shrugged and put his arm back down giving me another smile, "I can honestly say that I have yet to lose an arm wrestling match!"

I heard a chuckle behind me and Links smile soon vanished. I turned around and saw that Raven had snuck up behind me.

"I would like to see you go up against SealRuin, I wonder how that would turn out." She smiled, seeming to be unfazed by the fact Link wasn't smiling anymore.

I looked and saw Link silently shrug. "Anyway, I'm going to get some food ready." Raven smiled, "I haven't cooked in a while. Wonder how I'll turn out."

And with that Raven walked off leaving Me, Link and a sleeping SealRuin.

"Is something wrong Link?" I ask him worriedly. I knew what was wrong, I just wanted him to tell me.

"I…I don't know. I guess I just feel uncomfortable around her…" Link said looking at the ground.

"Is it because of Unleashed?" I ask, trying to get him to clarify. But Link just gave me a confused look.

"Raven told me about the fight, what she remembered of it at least. Unleashed was the one who was fighting you and Feral. Though, everyone calls her 'Le' for short."

Link looked at me surprised, "You mean you know she's possessed by a demon?!"

"She isn't possessed by a demon, exactly." How was I going to explain this?

"They're the same person. Just different mind sets and personality." A new voice said, I looked and saw it was SealRuin. When did he wake up?!

Link looked at Ruin, not at all shocked that he spoke. I guess he saw him wake up or something. "What do you mean?"

"Some evil people did bad things to Raven when she was little. They made her to be evil. She eventually got away and pushed all the evil to the back of her head, thus creating her alternate personality, who we all call, 'Unleashed'." SealRuin explained casually.

Link still seemed uneasy about it, "What if she turns evil again?"

Sunnyboy showed up, "It takes a lot to pull someone away from the light. Raven is in the middle, between light and dark, in the twilight-so-to-speak. And it is near impossible to pull someone who is neither high nor low."

I looked at Sunny surprised, "That was surprisingly poetic."

The Elementalist shrugged, "I was kinda trying to."

"You guys sure know a lot about her." Link stated.

"It's kinda our job." Sunny say with a smirk on his face.

Link then looked around at Ruin, Sunny and I, "What are your stories?" he asked.

I smiled "Why don't we discuss this at the fire, we can eat and talk about back stories then."

Everyone seemed to like the idea of food, so we all got up and walked over to the fire. Raven, Naxo, and FireBurst were already there. My girlfriend looked up at me with a smile, "You boys are just in time, food's done."

We all sat in a circle, well it was more of an oval shape but who cares, and Raven gave us some food, it was a single egg and a muffin.

"Where did you get the things to make this?" Sunny asked.

"Well, I woke up early to go and look for some cucco eggs, and I got the muffins from Naxo."

The muffin part didn't surprise any of us, and we all decided to be happy for the meal and just eat it.

"So…you were going to tell me your story, Snow?" Link asked awkwardly.

"Ah, right. I almost forgot."

So, I tell Link my story. I tell him that people made my race to be servants, and that one day they were scared that we would revolt. So, they killed everyone and I was the only one to escape. I even saw my own parents killed right in front of me.

"So, that's basically my tragic past." I say as I finished. Link looked at me in horror.

"You mean, the people who created you, tried to kill you?"

"Basically. My race wasn't made to be able to reproduce, so when I was born they got scared. They though my kind would get the idea that we could live on our own and revolt against them. So, they killed everyone."

Link looked down at his empty plate in shock. "Are all of your stories like this…?"

"More or less," Raven said, "I guess broken people just attract each other."

SealRuin then spoke, "we all died, even me. Just don't ask."

Sunnyboy shrugged, "I guess I'm the only normal one then. I still have my family, I just don't visit them often."

Link then looked at Raven, "So, what about you? I understand why you have a demon in you, but what happened with the evil men who did this to you?"

Raven then got a dark look, I was starting to get nervous that Le would take over,

"In the last step of my transformation, I had to be made heartless, a true killer. They did this when I was awake. I got free right after they put what they needed in me. I killed them, I destroyed their lab, and I soon moved to the closest town and destroyed it and its residents. It was my home." Raven then looked at her hands "I killed my own parents. With these hands…"

Raven then stood up and walked off, no one followed her. Link was in shock about hearing this. And the rest of us knew she hated talking about her past. We all knew she wanted to leave it as that.

"Did…did she really kill her own parents?" Link asked nervously.

SealRuin nodded, "She was not in control of her own actions, but yes. Raven dislikes talking about her past, I believe it brings up memories she would prefer to leave buried."

I nod, still watching Raven walk off.

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Raven was walking in no general direction. I wouldn't matter, she would be able to catch up is she too far with her wings. Her wings. In her mind, they were the only good thing that came from that damnable experience. And who the hell told Link how Le came around.

"It was probably Snow, damn dragon." Raven muttered, her voice was mixing between hers and Le's.

Raven then realized that Le was starting to come out. She decided to try and calm herself. She wanted to try something, but she wasn't sure if it would help her calm down. It was worth a try.

"What was it called again? Tai Chi?" Raven muttered to herself.

Raven soon shook her head, laying down and just calming down always worked. She decided to go with that. Even though she just woke up, she closed her eyes. She laid like this for about 5 minutes.

"Um…Raven?" A voice said. Raven opened one of her eyes, it was Link. The bird decided to stand up.

"Yes?" she asked

"I…I wanted to say I was sorry."

"What are you sorry for?" Raven felt like she needed to know what Link felt sorry about.

"I'm sorry I was mean to you, it wasn't right of me to treat you like that. I'm also sorry for bringing up your past, I was curious but I didn't know that the subject brought back painful memories…"

Raven stood there shocked, that was the most sincere apology she had ever heard. She smiled and gave Link a hug.

"You had a good reason to be scared or nervous around me, and you didn't know that I hate the subject about my past." Raven breaks away from the hug, "I forgive you."

Link then gave Raven her the first of his many unique cheerful smiles, and grabbed her hand.

"Come on! We better got back to the others, we were supposed to leave 10 minutes ago!"

Raven ran along with him, smiling along with this optimistic Link. Who knows, maybe this quest won't be all that hard.