Caged Wings

Chapter Eight: Dawning Nightmares

Zero went into the kitchen and started to make some food. He then says, "What do you guys want for supper?"

Raven opens her eyes, "What do ya got?"

Zero looks in his cuboards, "I have macaroni, soup, instant noodles, and some other stuff. I really need to go grocery shopping."

Zero then looks in his freezer, "I also have chicken, fish, and microwave stuff."

Raven then says, "What do you got for microwave stuff?"

Zero then says, "I got ravioli, t.v dinners, and some oriential meals."

Raven then says, "I'll take a t.v dinner."

Zero then looks to Evan and Sith, "How bout you guys?"

Sith was glued to the game. He says, "Whatever Raven has."

Evan replies, "Same."

Zero nods, "Okay."

He then gets out four t.v dinners and puts one in the microwave.

Zero then says, "Anyone want a drink?"

Raven raises her hand, "Right here. I am thirsty as hell!"

Zero then looks to Evan and Sith, "And you guys?"

Sith just mutters, "Yeah."

Evan nods, "Yes please."

Zero then asks, "What do you guys want?"

Raven then says, "You got any Coke?"

Evan then looks to Raven and smiles, "Raven, drugs aren't considered a drink."

Raven looks to Evan. She smiles and shakes her head, "You know I meant the pop."

Evan smirks, "How do I know? I can't read minds."

Raven just chuckles and shakes her head. Zero chuckles, "Yeah, I have some Coke."

Evan begins to laugh a little. Sith then says, "I'll have Coke too."

Evan then says, "I didn't know all of yas were drug addicts."

Raven laughs and says sarcastically, "Yeah, we are all drug addicts."

Evan smiles, "I'm only kidding. I'll have some too."

Raven smirks, "In this world, you're gonna need the drugs."

Evan and Raven begin to chuckle. Zero then comes in with four red cans of pop. He gives one to Raven, another to Evan, and another to Sith. The last one he kept for himself. He sat down and opened it. He then took a big gulp. Zero then says, "Man, that's refreshing."

Raven opens hers and drinks it, "You're telling me."

Evan begins to sip his. A beep was heard in the kitchen. Zero gets up, "That's one that's done."

After everyone ate, they all started to play Guitar Hero Metallica. Raven was playing faceoff with Zero. Sith then says, "Hit the note! Hit the note!"

Raven then says, "I just did!"

Zero laughs, "Oh shit! I almost didn't catch that one!"

Raven and Zero were hitting the buttons on their guitar paddles. Zero played on hard and Raven played on medium. They were playing the song, The Thing That Should Not Be by Metallica. Raven and Zero were staring at the television screen, watching the notes come down on the screen with bright colours. Raven was starting to get an 80 note streak. Sith smiles, "Raven! You almost have this!"

Zero then says, "Hey, we're not playing battle. Geez."

Raven then started muttering the lyrics to the music. All that was heard was clicking of buttons from Raven and Zero. Evan looks, "Holy crap! Almost 100 note streak."

Raven then says, "I know."

She then messed up on a note. She mutters, "Dammit!!"

Zero laughs, "Spoke too soon."

Raven laughs, "Shut up."

They both got ready for the guitar solo of the song. Sith then says, "I'm going next!"

Raven then says as the notes came flying on the screen, "Sith, shut up!"

Zero was getting overwhelmed by notes, "Shit!!!"

He kept on missing a few and then redeamed himself. Raven was hanging on by a thread, by redeamed herself as well. The song was nearly over.

Finally the song was over. Raven smiles,"Phew, thought I was done."

Zero laughs, "I thought I was too."

They then pass up the paddles to Sith and Evan. As soon as Evan grabs one, he sighs, "I'm gonna suck at this."

Sith then says, "I call the next song!"

He then picks a song on the menu screen. He then clicks on Sad But True. Sith went on medium while Evan did as well. The song then starts with the guitar notes. As soon as the lyrics started, Sith started to sing for fun. So far, Evan and Sith weren't doing too bad. Raven chuckles, "Wow, a guitar show AND a singing show."

Zero chuckles, "Yeah."

Raven says, "Man, I wish I had drums now."

Zero laughs, "Yeah, really."

Evan almost misses a note, "Fuck!"

Sith was glued right onto the notes as he just sang away to the song. The guitar solo came up. Sith was hitting every one perfect, while Evan was struggling just to get half, "Shit!! This is fucked!!"

Sith just keeps clicking away at the bottons. He nods his head to the music. Raven laughs at Evan's struggle. Evan then says, "It's not funny! Dammit!"

He then clicks the bottons every direction, almost losing out the song. Then the song cut when it was close to the end. Sith lowers the paddle and looks over to Evan, "You suck dude."

Evan then says, "I can't help it if like a million notes fly at me!"

Sith shakes his head, "We almost made it too."

After a long night of video games, everyone finally goes to bed. Zero waves as he walks to his room, "Night."

Raven lays on the couch, "Night."

Zero then goes to his room and closes the door. Evan slept on a fold out chair, while Sith decided to sleep on the floor. Sith was already asleep. Evan makes himself comfortable. The room was now dark.

Evan then says, "So......what do you plan on doing tomorrow?"

Raven looks up at the ceiling, "......I was actually thinking of a way we can all go halves on getting a place.....for all of us."

Evan then looks to the ceiling, "That'll be cool."

Raven closes her eyes and slurs before falling asleep, "Yeah..."

Evan then looks over to her. He then smiles a little as he too falls asleep.

Later that night, Raven was fast asleep. He tossed and turned a bit. She kept on seeing visions. She saw a man with dragon green eyes and long, black hair. It almost flowed like silk. In the vision, he smiles at her. When he does, fangs are visable.

He puts his hands on her waist. He pulls her really close. He almost kisses her lips, breathing his warm breath upon her skin. Raven was dazed, drawn in. His eyes, the way he looked at her. It was as if he hungered, yearned, desired.

He touches the side of her face with one of his hands, as if feeling something strange for the first time. Something he always wanted. He looks at her once again. He whispers, "Raven....."

His touch was soft and cold. Raven shivered a bit. She closes her eyes and slowly opens them. The man then runs his lips along Raven's neck, as if testing a taste. His fangs grew and he then bit into Raven's neck.

Raven gasps and shoots up from her sleep. Sweat was running down her face. The dream felt so real. Raven had seen this man in her dreams before, but never this bad and realistic. She touches her neck, as if protecting it. She looks around, it was still dark. A voice was heard, "Are you alright?"

Raven turns and it was Evan sitting up in the chair. Raven turns away and nods, "I'm fine. Just a weird dream.......that's all."

Evan nods, "I get those sometimes. Sometimes not good."

Raven chuckles, "Well this was one of them."

Evan then says, "You should rest, big day tomorrow."

Raven nods, "Okay."

She then lays back down and turns herself away. She tries to sleep. She couldn't at first, but eventually went back to sleep. Dreams still tormented her that night. She then had another strange dream, only this time it was different.

Raven was at Hollow's End. She looks before her and sees a silver werewolf standing in front of her. Her eyes widened as she steps back. She then heard something behind her. She turns around and sees an evil looking vampire staring at her. He smirks, revealing his fangs. This wasn't the same man from before, this one was different. The man went to grab her, until she was shoved on the ground by something. Raven looks to see the werewolf taking on the vampire.

Her eyes widened at the fierce battle. She stands up and gasps. Just then, she felt herself get grabbed by someone. She lets out a small shriek. She turns to see the same man from before. His whispers, "It's too dangerous here. I don't want you to get hurt."

His voice was nice and dominate. Sexy too, if Raven could say so herself. Raven whispers back, "Get me out of here."

The man smiles as he then closes in on her. He places his lips upon Raven's. He began to kiss her. Raven instantly closes her eyes and wraps one arm around him. The man parts the kiss, "Wake my love."

Raven then wakes up. She sits up and sees Evan and Sith asleep. She looks out the window to see it was dawn. Raven gets up and goes outside. She watches the sunrise as she kept on thinking about her dreams from last night. She crosses her arms as a cold chill blew passed her.

Raven blinks as she suddenly tasted something in her mouth. She puts her hands on her lips and then looks at her hand. Blood was on it. Her eyes widened. She then licks her lips and goes back inside. She gets a drink of water to wash the blood back down.

Raven leans over the kitchen sick. She stares at the drain, still thinking about her nightmares. She wasn't even sure if they should be called that. She closes her eyes and lets out a deep sigh. She opens her eyes and looks at the time on the microwave. It was 6:30am. She puts a hand on her mouth and closes her eyes again. She take a deep breath and lets it back out slowly.

After everyone woke up and ate breakfast, they all sat outside and waited for Pheonix to pick them up. Evan then looks to Raven, "You sleep well?"

Raven nods and lies, "Yeah....I did."

Evan smiles, "That's good."

Sith then looks at Raven, "You have that nightmare again?"

Raven then says, "Shut up!"

Sith then says, "What? It's just a question."

Raven then says, "Let's drop it okay?"

After Raven said that, Pheonix pulls up, "Hey. Everyone ready?"

Raven nods, "Yup. We're all set."

Raven then takes the passenger seat in the front. Everyone else got into the back. Pheonix began to drive to Coslotus and Serenity's house, "You guys sleep okay?"

Raven nods, "Yeah. We did."

Pheonix smiles, "That's good."

Just then, Sythe was seen flying along side the jeep. Pheonix smiles, "Look at that."

Raven chuckles as Zero said, "Woah! That's epic!"

Sith and Raven smile and wave to Sythe. He lets out a roar and flies higher. Evan looks as well, "Uhh......why did he roar?"

Raven then says, "That's just his way of responding back to a hello."

Raven then peers out the window, without a single word. The man from her dreams still lingered in her thoughts. She couldn't get him out of her mind. Why?