Caged Wings

Chapter Seventeen: My Fire

After a few days, the house was coming together nicely. More and more funiture was added, most of the rooms were completed and the main rooms were finally fixed up. Some of Raven's room was complete. She was now able to sleep in it with her new bed.

Raven was painting her room. She started to paint it lilac purple. Raven went up on her tippy toes to reach the very top, but couldn't get at it. A hand then touched her hand, "Let me help you with that."

Raven looks with a smile. Dimus looks down at her with a smile. Raven smiles, "Thank you."

Dimus takes her paint brush and starts to paint the very top of the walls, "It's no trouble."

Raven smiles, "Still."

Dimus looks her over and smiles. Raven looks at herself, "What?"

Dimus smiles more, "You look cute."

Raven looks at herself again. She was wearing a black tank top with dark blue overall shorts. She crosses her arms, "Very funny."

Dimus keeps painting, "No....I mean it. I'm not trying to be funny."

Raven shakes her head as she grabs another paint brush, "Whatever you say."

Raven then dips her paint brush in the paint can and starts to paint another wall. Dimus keeps his focus on the wall he was working on, "You picked a nice colour. Your room is coming together very nicely."

Raven smiles as she keeps painting, "Thank you. I thought it'd look good at the same time as....well....not that girlie."

Dimus chuckles, "You despise girlie colours?"

Raven nods, "Very much so. But I hate yellow the most."

Dimus raises an eyebrow, "The colour that stands for happiness and sunshine?"

Raven laughs, "Yes."

Dimus paints a little more, "Why?"

Raven sighs, "I don't know. I've always been a dark person.....I wasn't much for light."

Dimus smiles, "I guess that's two more things we have in common."

Raven looks at him, "Which are?"

Dimus stops painting and smirks, "We both hate yellow and we're both dark people."

Raven chuckles as she continues to paint, "Why do you hate yellow?"

Dimus smirks, "It's too bright and happy. I'd prefer more sinister and dark. Maybe a hit of tragic with love as it's balance."

Raven laughs, "That must be some colour."

Dimus begins to laugh as well.

After an hour or so, they finally finish painting Raven's room. Raven looks, "Wow, Dimus. You did an awesome job."

Dimus smiles, "Thank you. I use to paint back in the Renaissance."

Raven's eyes widened, "Y-you painted in those times??"

Dimus nods, "I most certainly have. I've been around for a long time."

Raven nods, "I'll say. Do you still paint now?"

Dimus shrugs, "Once in a while."

Raven smiles, "Can you show me sometime?"

Dimus walks right up to Raven and runs his fingers through her hair, "Of course."

Raven and Dimus look at one another. Dimus then leans in and kisses her. Dimus leans back to part the kiss, but Raven grabs him and pulls him back towards her. Dimus' eyes widened at the suddeness. He then closes his eyes and keeps kissing her. Raven then wraps her arms around him. Dimus then lifts her up and carries her to her bed. Dimus then places her down and goes on top of her. They both kiss one another passionately. Raven then rolls them over so she was on top of him. She pins down his arms and keeps kissing him. Dimus smirks, "Seems like you have a little bit of vampire in you."

Raven smirks, "You haven't seen nothing.....yet"

She then starts to kiss Dimus' neck and bites it. Dimus lets out a small vampiric growl. He then kisses Raven's cheek and began to kiss her neck. His senses grew wild at Raven's smell and taste.

He growls once again as he forcefully switches position. Now on top of her, he kisses her wildly. Dimus could feel Raven's heat flare up in an instant. Her heart pace was steady, making Dimus aroused. He growls again as his eyes began to glow a reddish colour. He began kissing Raven's neck again. Raven sighs out of pleasure. Dimus then senses Raven's blood flow, making him more wild-like. He then licks Raven's neck, tasting her more. Dimus' fangs grew, wanting to bite her.

Dimus then realized what he was gonna do. He then growls harshly and jumps back away from Raven to the other side of the room. He begins to pant heavily. Raven gasps and sits up, "A-are you alright?"

Raven's eyes widened when she saw Dimus' eyes and fangs. Dimus calms himself, "I'm.....fine. At that moment.....you weren't!"

Raven makes a confused look. Dimus sighs as his eyes reside to normal colour, "I almost......I almost fed off of you. It won't happen again....I'm sorry."

Raven then gets up from her bed and goes to him. Dimus flinches and backs away from her. His fangs still showed. Raven finally goes up to him. She begins to touch his face with her hands, "I'm not afraid. I know what it's like to lust for something and know it's wrong. I don't care if you bite me.......as long as you're with me. Don't fear me out of fear for yourself."

Dimus' eyes widened at her words. His fangs finally reside to normal. He then grabs Raven and hugs her tightly. He felt his heart ache with a great deal of joy and overwhelmed love. He whispers, "I love you!!! I love you so much!!"

Raven's eyes widened. She then closes them and hugs Dimus back. Dimus then leans back and kisses Raven softly on her lips. He then breaks the kiss and whispers, "No one has ever said that to me."

Raven smiles, "Really?"

Dimus nods as he touches the side of her face, "Yes."

Dimus was then reminded of something as he looked around Raven's room. He smiles, "I know it's off the subject.....but I have an idea I've been meaning to tell you about."

Raven looks up at him, "What?"

Dimus smiles, "Come on!"

He then grabs her hand and leads her to the window. Raven smiles, "What is it?"

Dimus smiles at her again, "You'll see."

Then there was a knock on the door. A voice was heard, "Is everything okay?"

Raven's eyes widened. She turns and whispers, "It's Evan."

Dimus smirks, "Who cares?"

He then grabs Raven, before she could say anything, and goes out the window with her. He then holds onto her as they flew into the skies.

Evan knocks again, "Raven?"

He then opens the door. Not caring about the room being done, he sniffs the air and runs to the window. His eyes widened when he didn't see Raven anywhere. He growls in anger and slams his fists on the window ledge.

He then sighs and leaves Raven's room.

The next day, Raven came back through the front door. Evan was waiting near it. Raven looks, "Hey."

Evan's eyes widened, "Hey? Is that all you've got to say?"

Raven looks around and then at him, "What?"

Evan sighs, "Last night. You went off with Dimus without telling anyone!"

Raven shrugs, "So? No one was worried."

Evan says in a near yell, "I was!"

Raven smiles as she steps closer to him, "I know what would make you feel better."

Evan backs up, "Oh no. You're not pulling that on me. Not this time."

Raven smiles and holds up a big white bag. Evan looks, "What's that?"

Raven gives him the bag and smiles, "Look inside."

Evan then looks inside the bag. His eyes widened, "What the-?!"

The bag was filled with money. Evan quickly closes it, "Wh-where'd you get this??"

Raven smirks, "Let's just say Dimus found me a new job. One that pays more and quicker."

Evan then smells the bag. His eyes widened. He then looks at Raven, "C'mere for a minute."

Raven goes to him, "W-what?"

Evan then smells her. He says, "I...I smell a lot of people on you."

His eyes widened, "You haven't been--?"

Raven's eyes widened. She slaps his shoulder, "N-NO!!"

Evan backs away, "Okay....just checking."

They begin to walk to the livingroom. Raven says angrily, "I would never stoop myself that low!!!"

The next day, Pheonix got a new phone for the house with a new number set up. Pheonix smiles, "We finally have a phone!"

Raven smiles, "Good. Who has our number so far?"

Pheonix then says, "So far.....the mayor."

Raven nods, "Good."

Pheonix then asks, "So.....how's your new job."

Raven smirks, "Awesome!"

Pheonix then says, "That's good. What's your new job?"

Raven sighs, "Unfortunately, part of the job description is not telling anyone what it is."

Pheonix makes a saddened face, "Aww....that sucks. Can't you tell me?"

Raven shakes her head with a smirk, "Nope."

Just then, their phone rang. Raven answers it, "Hello?"

It was Mayor Gradlock, "Corvinous. There's trouble in the Southern Area. You're needed there."

Raven says, "Okay, we're on it."

With that, she hangs up. Raven walks to the hallway shouting, "It's go time!!! We're needed in the Southern Area!!!"

Everyone then stops what they were doing and heads to the front door. They all head to Pheonix's jeep. They all hop inside, except Coslotus who hops on the top as usual, and Pheonix goes full speed to the Southern Area.

Pheonix smirks as he goes at full speed. Hikari shouts, "WEEE!!!"

Pheonix purposely almost crashes and laughs. Serenity gasps, "Slow down!!"

Raven shakes her head, "Fuck no!! This is fun!!"

The group then arrives at the site in no time. They all get out while Coslotus just jumps down from the roof. He then grabs Pheonix's shirt. He shouts, "Hey!"

Coslotus says darkly, "Don't ever drive like that when I'm around again!"

He then lets go and walks away. Pheonix straightens his shirt, "Holy crap. Over react much?"

They all begin to walk to the site. Sith comes beside Raven, "What are we suppose to be looking for?"

Raven then says, "I'm not sure."

They all then heard russling from behind them. Raven looks to Sith, "You hear something."

Sith nods as he draws his sythe, "Yeah, I did."

The group then turns around. Zero points, "I think it came from over there."

Raven then says, "Split up."

They all do so. They each walk alone in the area. The area was nothing but mountians and pathways.

Raven was alone. She then hears a shift behind her along with a growl. She then hears something behind her. Her eyes widened. She then slowly turns around. She looks up and sees something growl loudly right at her face. It stood the same height as the Rock Golems. Raven's eyes widened at the creature. It was big and muscular and it's whole body was on fire. Raven gasps and yells, "Fire Golems!!!!"

She runs as the Fire Golem shoots fire at her. She jumps out of the way and lands on her stomach on the ground. She gasps for air and quickly gets up to run.

Sith hears Raven yell. As he went to go after her, another Fire Golem jumps in front of him and roars at him. Sith's eyes narrowed, "I don't think so you fucker!!!"

He then swings his sythe and chops it in two with one hit. Sith then absorbs it's soul in his sythe. He then sees his arms flare up with fire. He smirks and laughs insanely as power surged through him once more.

Hikari runs as she gets attacked by Fire Golems. She shouts, "KIKI!!"

Her broomstick appears in her hands and she swings it. Massive wind then came out and blew the Golems' fire out. They went flying into a mountian and smashed into pieces. Hikari laughs and runs off.

Zero backflips into the air as a Fire Golem charged at him from behind. He then swings his Naginata and mutters a spell. Massive snow blew from his Naginata and onto the Fire Golem. It blew out it's fire as Zero landed on his feet. He then runs at it and kicks it as hard as he could. He then breaks the Golem into dozens of pieces.

Evan's sword appears into his hands. He grabs the handle and swings it at the nearest Fire Golem. Another comes at him. His eyes widened and he throws it at them. He misses as it jumps in the air to dodge it. Evan's eyes widened, "Shit...."

As soon as the Golem landed on it's feet, Evan runs passed it and grabs his sword, which was stuck on the side of a mountian. He tries to pull it, but it wouldn't come out. Two Fire Golems then run at him. Evan then uses all of his strength and finally pulls out his sword. He swings it as a Fire Golem jumped at him. He slices it in two as the other charged at him. Evan then runs and slides on his knees and swings his sword. He hits the Fire Golem and vanquishes it.

Coslotus runs at a Golem and jumps on it. He roars as he was getting burned at the same time as recieving energy. He then grabs it's head and begins to drain it's life force.

Serenity runs away as three Golems were chasing her. One throws fire at her. Serenity turns and catches it, absorbing it. She then powers it up with more fire, only this time it was from her. She then throws it at the Golem as hard as she could. She then hits it and it goes flying backwards into all of the others.

They all fall with a loud thud. They all get up. Serenity's eyes widened, "Oh no!"

She then stops and looks down. She smirks and turns around, facing the Golems. They all charge at her. At the last minute, Serenity jumps out of the way. All of the Golems fall off a cliff and land in a lake, killing them. Serenity gets up and looks down. Serenity chuckles, "Sorry to put your fire out. Not."

Pheonix jumps up high and forms mist in his hands. It soon turned into water. He then blasts a load of water at at least five of them. They all fall dead. After landing back on his feet, Pheonix then adjusts his hat.

Raven runs as a whole army was chasing her. She stops and turns as she got ready to draw her katana. As they got closer, Raven crouches down at the ready. She closes her eyes and concentrates. As they were inches away from her, she jumps in the air and spins around really fast. A purple aura then explodes from her. She roars, "Surging Sorrow!!"

All of the Fire Golems then seemed to be running in slow motion. They all slowly go flying back. As that happened, all of their souls popped out from their bodies. The aura then cuts them all in half. The aura then disappear as soon Raven landed on her feet. The Golems then landed right on their backs with a really loud smashing sound.

Raven smirks and walks away like nothing happened. The group then reunites. Pheonix sighs, "Well....that was easy."

Zero then says, "A little too easy."

Hikari smiles, "Either way. It was fun!"

Everyone then heard cracking sounds. Serenity gasps, "What's that?"

Raven then said, "I dunno."

After she said that, the ground below them then opens up and makes them all fall. Everyone screams as they all fell into a black and dark hole.