Caged Wings

Chapter Twenty One: A Wolf's Loss and a Death Dealer's Bite

Evan was now fully transformed. He lets out a roar as Dimus stands there and smirks. He then says, "What a joke. You? Take me on? This should be amusing."

Raven gasps as she goes to run into the middle of them, "STOP IT!!! BOTH OF YOU!!!"

Sith then grabs her, "Don't interfere!!"

Raven shouts, "Let me go!!!!"

Evan growls as he gives Dimus an evil glare. Dimus' smirk widens. Evan's red glowing eyes shimmered as his anger went up more and more. Finally, Evan runs at Dimus at full speed. Evan then leaps at Dimus with his claws in front. Dimus' eyes then glew red as his fangs grew. He growls and grabs Evan by his wrists and swings him into the side of a building, leaving a giant hole.

People on the streets began to run, while others stayed and watched the fight. Evan gets up and shakes the rubble off his fur. He begins to growl as he turns his attiention back to Dimus. Dimus then growls vampiric-like, "I won't allow someone like you woe Raven!!"

Dimus then jumps at Evan, with his fangs showing and his nails growing. Evan growls and dives onto Dimus, making him land on his back onto the pavement hard. Evan's claws then start to pin Dimus' arms down. Evan growls into Dimus' face. As Evan went to bite on Dimus, Dimus forces one of his arms out of Evan's grasp, leaving scratch marks on it. Dimus then grabs Evan's mouth before he bit down on him. Dimus' eyes glew brighter as he then forcefully shoves Evan aside. Dimus gets up as did Evan.

As Evan went to run at Dimus, he punches him in the face and makes Evan go flying.

Raven tries to struggle herself free from Sith, "EVAN!! DIMUS!!! STOP!!!"

Evan then lands on his back. He then rolls himself up and lets out another roar. Dimus holds his bleeding arm, that was slowly healing. Dimus growls, "If it weren't for Raven.....I'd kill you! But I won't. This fight is over."

As Dimus went to walk away, Evan runs at him and stabs his side from behind with his claws. Dimus gasps, "Guh...."

He then begins to bleed from his mouth. Evan jumps back, growling. Dimus spits out the blood and growls in anger. He turns as his eyes glew even more, "THAT'S IT!!! YOUR DEATH IS MINE, LYCAN!!!!"

Raven finally struggles free. She then runs to Evan and Dimus, "NO!!"

Sith's eyes widened as Serenity shouts, "Raven!! Don't!!"

Raven then runs in front of Evan as Dimus went to attack him. Raven began to cry, "Stop it!! Stop it right now!!"

Dimus then holds his wound. He growls, "Raven.......move."

Raven shakes her head, "No.....I can't do that. He can't help it!!"

Evan then looks at Raven as did Dimus. Raven began to shed more tears, "Dimus.....go while you still can! I don't want either of you hurt any further!!!"

Dimus growls even more, "I gave him a chance to stop......but he insisted by attacking me from behind!! For that he must pay!!"

Raven shakes her head, "Dimus!! Let it go!! If not for you.......then do it for me!!"

Dimus' red eyes widened. He then looks to the ground, still holding his wound. He then growls from pure hatrid. He then grips his wound as he forces his fangs to reside and his eyes to change normal colour. He then looks at Raven, "Alright.....only because you asked me. But if this happens again....I swear...I'll kill your little friend."

Evan then growls after he said that. Raven sighs and nods, "Thank you, Dimus."

Dimus turns his back on Raven, now angered even further. He then fades into the shadows. The last thing that was heard from him was in the wind, "I love you, Raven."

With that, there was nothing but silence. Raven sighs in relief. She then looks to the others that were staring at her. Zero asks, "What now?"

Raven sighs, "All of you go home, take the money with you."

Serenity gasps, "What about you?"

Raven says, "I'm staying with Evan until he changes back."

Serenity's eyes widened, "No Raven! He could kill you!!"

Raven looks at Serenity coldly, "No he won't. Ask Zero and Sith."

Zero picks up Raven's share and says, "Let's go. You heard her."

Serenity gasps, "B-but--!!"

Coslotus drags her away, "Let's go."

Hikari then says, "See you, Raven."

Raven nods, "Bye."

With that, the group leaves and goes back home. Raven sighs and turns to see Evan gone. Her eyes widened, "Gah! Evan?!"

She then hears screaming from across the street. She looks to see Evan chasing a random person. As Evan was inches away from catching his prey, he gets stopped in his tracks. His eyes widened. He then looks back and sees Raven had grabbed his tail. Evan looks at her and whines. Raven sighs, "Come on....can't have you attacking random people."

With that, Raven starts dragging Evan away. Evan whines as he sees his prey getting away.

After a short amount of time, Raven leads Evan to a forest. She finally lets go of his tail. She then says, "Okay. Go wild."

Evan then sniffs around. He then spots a deer. His eyes widened as he speeds off after it. Raven sighs and goes to the nearest tree and sits under it. She then leans her back on it, closing her eyes. Minutes later, she then feels something cuddle against her. Raven's eyes open to see Evan cuddling beside her. She smiles, "Better?"

Evan then licks his lips from left over blood. Raven sighs again, "I'll take that as a yes."

Evan then licks Raven's face. Raven gasps, "Gah! You just ate and everything! Eww!!"

Raven then looks at Evan, who was staring at her. Raven sighs and smiles. She then starts to pet his head. Evan then closes his eyes, feeling content. Raven then wraps an arm around him, "You're so reckless."

Evan then cuddles into Raven's stomach, laying down on her lap. Raven then looks up at the full moon. She takes a deep breath, feeling content as well. Raven then closes her eyes. Dark clouds began to form over them. It then started to rain. Evan whines a little as he began to change back. Raven began to shed tears, feeling his pain. She then places a hand on his head.

Raven then opens her tear filled eyes. She then stared at the rain as the tree sheltered them from being wet. Evan finishes transforming back to a human. His eyes widened, looking around. He then realizes he was on someone's lap. He takes a whiff and realizes it was Raven.

Raven leans back, patting Evan's head in comfort. Evan raises himself up and looks right at Raven. She then looks back at him. Raven smiles and gets Evan's hair out of the way of his eyes with her hand. She whispers, "Welcome back."

Evan didn't know what to say. He then grabs Raven's hand and kisses it. Raven smiles softly at him. More rain then came pouring down. Evan then leans back right beside Raven. Still holding her hand, he finally says, "D-did I......did I try to hurt any of your friends this time?"

Raven shakes her head, "No you didn't."

Evan sighs, "That's good."

Raven then says, "Thanks to you.....Dimus walked away with a couple of wounds."

Evan then remembered what had happened last. The last thing he remembered was punching Dimus in the face. Evan finally says, "Good. He deserves it."

Raven looks at Evan, "How can you say that?"

Evan looks at Raven, "Simple. I hate him."

Raven then says, "Well.....you and Dimus fighting? It's not gonna happen again."

Evan then says, "We'll see."

Raven sighs. Evan then leans towards her and puts a hand on her face, "Raven.....he's trying to take advantage of you. I don't like it. You deserve better."

Raven's eyes widened. She then places her hand on Evan's, "Evan.....no matter what you think, Dimus isn't like that."

Evan sighs, "He is! I know it!"

Evan then says, "Just.......watch yourself when you're around him, alright?"

Raven nods, "Okay...."

At that moment, Evan and Raven stare at one another. Evan leans in closer to her. Raven's eyes widened a bit. It was as if Evan was about to kiss her. Raven slightly turns away, not knowing what was going on. Instead, Evan ended up kissing Raven's cheek. He then whispers, "I don't want to lose you."

Raven looks at Evan with her eyes widened once again. She then says, "I don't want to lose you either."

With that, Raven then kisses Evan's cheek. He then closes his eyes and feels a great deal of warmth take him under. Raven then looks at him in the eyes and gives him a warm smile. Evan smiles back at her. They both then turn their heads and watch the rain pour.

After a moment of comfortable silence, Raven finally says, "So...how did you get to be......a you know......werewolf?"

Evan looks at Raven. She then looks back at him. Evan then turns back to the rain. He sighs, "Okay....I'll give you the whole story."

Flashback:

Steve pulls off of Fairgrounds road to the shack known at the Guardhouse infront of the factory that Steve worked at. Steve pulls up to the Guardhouse and puts his PT Cruiser into park as a short, fat man with curly red hair wearing a security uniform walks up to his driver's side window. "Hey, Steve. How's life treating ya?" The security guard asks.

Steve chuckles slightly. "Same as usual, shitty. How's things going with you, Joe?"

Joe smiles and shrugs. "I really can't complain."

Steve sighs and shakes his head. "Lucky you. Well I better get back there before Ray has a cow. I'll talk to you later, Joe." Steve waves to Joe, puts the car into drive and drives past the gate to the Warnaco factory.

Steve drives through the full parking lot of the Shipping building and goes between the two buildings that are the Shipping and Receiving buildings to the empty parking lot, with the exception of one car, of the Receiving building. Steve pulls into the space next to the lone car and gets out. Steve stands at six foot two inches tall and is wearing the same security uniform as Joe. Steve grabs his two liter of Code Red Mountain Dew, his backpack, and his cigarettes, before walking from the car, up the stairs to the entrance to the building, and inside.

Steve walks through the door to the empty warehouse and puts his stuff at the desk right by the door. Steve then stands at Military attention and salutes the short, fat, bald man, wearing the same security uniform as Steve. "Security Officer: Steven Watson reporting for duty, Admiral Claycomb." Steve mocks.

Ray grunts as he gets up from the chair. "You better cut that shit out. I'm tired of it. I'll call corprate and have your job."

Steve laughs. "You would've by now, since I'm such a 'bad employee'. Come on man, monkeys can do our job. All we do is sit here and watch a fucking door. So shut up, get your shit, and get home."

Ray grunts as he grabs his stuff and walks past Steve. "One of these days. You are going to be out of here, and I'll be happy." Ray then leaves the building.

"So will I, jackass." Steve mutters to himself as he sits down in the chair that Ray was sitting in. Steve pulls up his back pack and unzips it, pulling out a old laptop computer and placing it on the desk. He pulls out the cord to it and plugs it into the computer, getting up from his chair to the outlet on the other side of the door to plug the computer in.

Steve walks back to the computer and turns it on, but the screen stayed black. "Oh, come on!" Steve yells at the computer and tries smacking it to no avail. "Great…my stories are lost…again!" Steve leans back in his chair and grunts. "And now I don't have anything to do." Steve looks at the clock and groans. "Great, it's just now three. Ten hours of nothing to do…yay."

A half hour later, Steve sits outside smoking a cigarette, bored out of his mind. "I hate this shit…I need to get a better job…or a raise. A raise would be great." Steve sighs and flicks the finished cigarette into the parking lot. Steve goes back in and sits at the desk, leaning back in the chair. Steve looks around to see if anyone was there, naturally, their wasn't. Nobody worked second shift in Receiving. Steve leans back in the chair and closes his eyes, taking a nap.

Steve wakes up several hours later in complete darkness. "What the hell?" Steve says pulling open a cabnit behind him to grab a flashlight. He flicks it on and walks back to where the circuit breaker was. He opens it and tries all the switches, none of the lights come back on. "Great…it's dead. Doesn't the shit ever end?!" Steve walks back over to his desk and picks up the phone, dialing the supervisor's number, but the phone was dead too. "What the hell? Great now I have to walk all the way to Shipping in the dark." Steve hangs up the phone and walks through the building towards Shipping.

Steve looks around the shipping area with his flashlight, no one was around. Steve looks at his watch. "Nine fifteen? It's not dinner time yet." Steve walks to the door and looks out the window. The shipping parking lot was completely filled. "What the hell is going on? Where is everyone?" A loud crash makes Steve turn around quickly and see a guy with blood red hair and eyes standing ten feet away from him, staring at him. "Hey, where is everyone?" The man just keeps staring. "What's wrong with you?" The man keeps staring. "Dude, stop it or I'm kicking your ass." Steve warns

The man laughs at that. "If you think you can, mortal, then please do." It sounded like the man's voice was a hit demonic.

Steve raises an eyebrow. "What the hell?" He whispers to himself. The man pulls out a sword that's blood red and points it at Steve. Steve's eyes widen. "A Shade?" He asks himself. From the corner a white glowing floating skeleton with some flesh and clothes comes towards the shade. "A lyche?" Steve asks, a bit more terrified. Then booming footsteps from down the warehouse make Steve turn to see another white glowing floating skeleton, but this one wasn't human, it was the a dragon's skeleton. "A Dracolyche." Steve gulps and slowly turns to the door. "Screw this. I'm not paid enough for this shit."

Steve walks out and begins to walk through the parking lot, but running footsteps make him turn to see a huge wolf-like creature running towards him, fast. Steve couldn't get out of the way as the wolf jumped and bites down on Steve's shoulder. Steve screams in pain, but the wolf lets go and turns to the Shade, the Lyche, and the Dracolyche and charges at them. "A werewolf? I'm dreaming. That's the only explaination. I'm dreaming."

Steve turns and begins to run towards the Receiving building, but stops at the sight of the full moon. "No…no…no…I…I…" Steve groans as his body begins to shake all over. Steve yells in agony as he begins to feel his body morph. Steve passes out half way through the transformation.

Steve wakes up the next morning in the middle of the woods. Steve begins to rise, but falls down groaning in pain. "Man…why do I feel like I drank three times my weight in beer?" Steve asks holding his head. Then everything that happened flashed in his mind, making his headache worse.

Steve finishes his transformation and glares back at the Shade, Lyche, and Dracolyche fighting the lone werewolf. Steve rushes in and jumps on the unprepared Shade, tearing him to shreds with his claws and teeth. The other werewolf takes advantage as the Lyche turns towards Steve to strike, but the werewolf drives his fist through the head of the Lyche and begins to take apart the body of the Lyche. The Dracolyche throws its tail towards Steve and the werewolf, knocking them both away from its dead companions.

Steve and the werewolf go flying through the air and land on a couple of cars in the parking lot. They both get up and charge at the Dracolyche, jumping onto it and digging in with their claws and teeth. After several minutes of the struggle the Dracolyche finally falls to the ground, too hurt to stand anymore as Steve and the other werewolf being to tear the Dracolyche to shreds. Once it was dead they both look up at the moon and howl loudly before running off in separate directions.

Steve shakes his head to clear it, but the motion only makes his head hurt worse. "God, what the hell is happening?" Steve slowly gets to his feet, too sore to move quickly, and begins to walk in some direction.

End of flashback.

Evan looks to the ground and sighs, "I really wish I had a cigarette right now."

Raven pulls a pack from her pocket and hands it to Evan. He then looks at her puzzled. Raven smiles, "You dropped them earlier."

Evan takes them with a smile, "Thanks."

Evan then takes the pack and lights one. He then takes a long drag and says, "Anyways, after that I was picked up by a slave caravan and sold to a demon known as Turk. He treated all his slaves like dirt, but treated me like I was a wild animal. He put me in muzzles, put me in cage matches with other werewolves, beat me when I wouldn't listen. It was hell. After the deal was struck with the other beings and humans was made I killed Turk for what he did to me. I guess that's why I became a Demon Hunter. I don't want anyone to have to suffer like I did for those years."

Evan takes another drag and looks at Raven. "That's my story."

Raven looks to the ground, feeling a little saddened, "It must've been so hard for you."

Evan then says, "It was.....but the only thing that kept me going was the thought of you."

Raven's eyes widened and she looks at Evan.

Dawn finally came. Evan and Raven slept, leaning against one another. Raven opens one eye and then yawns. Everything was wet from the rain as the sun shined through the trees. Raven then puts her hand out to block the sun from her eyes. She then grunts a little as she wakes herself up, "Mm...........damn sun!"

She then yawns as she forces herself to stand up. She then stretches herself out as Evan then opens his eyes as well. He rubs them and yawns. He then stands up and cracks his neck. Raven sees Evan and smiles, "Sleep well?"

Evan smiles, "Oh yeah."

Raven smiles, "I'm glad."

Raven then sighs, "Let's go home."

With that, they both walked home. After a short while, Raven and Evan walk through the door of their home. Serenity came running, "Are you guys okay??"

Raven nods, "Yeah....we're fine."

Serenity sighs, "That's good."

She then sees Raven's wounds were still there. Serenity then says, "Your wounds......"

Raven looks, "Oh, these? Don't worry about them."

Serenity then grabs Raven, "Let me see."

Raven backs away, "No! Get away!"

Serenity insists, "Let me see! Don't be stubborn!"

Raven then gets out of Serenity's grasp, "I'm not being stubborn! I just don't like other people trying to touch my wounds!!"

Serenity sighs, "Just let me look at them!"

Raven runs, "No!"

She then runs to her room and slams the door. Hova walks in and sees Raven run. He looks to Serenity, "What's up with her?"

Raven sits in her room. She then lifts her shirt and looks at her wound. She sighs in frustration. She then lifts her shirt back down and stands up. She then walks to her mirror. She sees her lip was already healed. She smiles a bit as she lifts up her bangs to see her forehead wound. It was halfway healed. Her hand then turns blue and she heals it.

Just then, a knock was on the door. Raven answers it. It was Evan. He looks at her, "Can I come in?"

Raven steps aside and says quietly, "Sure."

Evan walks in. Raven closes the door. Evan turns and faces her, "Let me see."

Raven raises an eyebrow, "See what?"

Evan sighs, "Your wound."

Raven sighs out of frustration, "Fine."

She then lifts up her shirt. Evan moves closer to Raven and looks at it. It looked pretty bad. Evan gently touches it, "Does it hurt?"

Raven then says, "Not really."

Evan then says, "Is there anyway you can heal it?"

Raven shakes her head, "I can only heal it little by little and wrap it up."

Evan nods, "Okay. Are you sure you're alright? You took quite a beating last night."

Raven chuckles, "I'm sure. Thanks for your concern."

Evan smiles, "You're welcome."

With that, he leaves the room. Raven looks and sighs. She then takes off her shirt and removes the bloodied up bandages. She then digs in her drawer and gets out new ones. She then heals her wound a little with her hand and then bandages it back up. She then goes to her bed and takes a nap.

Hours had passed and it was now dark out. Evan was laying in his bed, looking up at the ceiling. He couldn't help but feel the worst was about to happen. Question was what?

Raven is still alseep in her bed. Her window was open. Cool winds crept through her room. Raven rolls onto her back and feels a cold hand graze the side of her face. She opens her eyes to see Dimus sitting up beside her. Raven's eyes widened, "Dimus?"

She then sits up, "Are you alright?"

Dimus smiles as he knew she meant his wounds. He then says, "I'm fine. I'm all healed."

Raven nods, "That's good."

Dimus then looks at Raven. She looks back at him, "What?"

Dimus then says, "Nothing."

Raven then asks, "W-why'd you act the way you did towards Evan last night?"

Dimus then says, "He wants to steal you from me. I don't like it. I'd hate any man who would even dare try."

Raven looks down, "Oh. I see."

Dimus then lifts her face up. He then begins to kiss her. Raven kisses back. Dimus then wraps his arms around her, getting a good grip. Raven then wraps her arms around him. Dimus parts the kiss, "The more I'm around you....the more I can't control myself!"

Raven whispers, "Then take me."

Raven then continues the kiss. Dimus kisses back more wildly. Dimus parts the kiss again, "I....I can't. I might loss control again like before."

Raven whispers, "I don't care. I want you."

Dimus then places her hand on his chest, "I have no life in my body. I'm a monster."

Raven feels no heart beat in his chest. She then leans up, "That's one of the things I love you for."

Dimus' eyes widened. He then frowns, "I don't want to bite you. I never want to harm you."

Raven then says, "I don't care. I've always wanted to be like you. Allow me to be with you....through your world."

Raven then kisses Dimus. He then kisses back. Dimus pulls back, "I......can't! I love you too much to cause you such a curse!!"

Dimus then places both hands on her face, "I love you so much!!"

Raven whispers, "So you'll allow me to die like all the other humans?"

Dimus' eyes widened. He couldn't bare the very thought of Raven's death. Dimus then whispers, "Raven...."

He then begins to kiss her wildly. Raven kisses back. Raven whispers, "Make me like you. Let me see what you see, hear what you hear, feel what you feel."

Dimus then lifts Raven up a little and begins to kiss her neck. Raven lifts her head up and sighs in pleasure. Dimus then begins to lick Raven's throat, tasting her.

Dimus then leans her back in his arms, "Do you wish to live a life of eternity in the darkness of the night?"

Raven replies, "If it means being with you. I will."

Dimus then says, "In return.......I give you powers of the storm, have control of the beasts that walk on this earth, and become my Queen of Darkness."

Raven whispers, "Yes."

Meanwhile, Evan smells the air and smells Dimus in the house. He growls into a sit up. He then walks out of his room, getting a really bad gut feeling.

Dimus kisses Raven's neck. He then began to shed tears, not believing what he was about to do. His fangs grew and his eyes became red. His lets out a small growl. He then finally bites down onto Raven's neck. Raven gasps and feels a small utter pain go into her neck. She lets out a small moan in pain, "Uhh...aaahhhh....."

Dimus' eyes widened at the taste of Raven's blood. The most purest thing he ever tasted. He finally lets go and lets out a huge gasp. He then slices his chest with his sharp nail. Black blood began to bleed from it. He looks down at Raven, "Drink from my blood, let us become one and live side by side for eternity."

Raven nods and sits up. She then leans into Dimus' chest and began to suck on his wound. She began to drink his blood. Dimus then began to breathe heavily, going wild and becoming more and more aroused. Raven kept on going. She began to scratch the sides of his chest as she drank more. The taste was sensual. It set her blood on fire, giving her orgasims in every direction of her body. Dimus arches himself back, moaning in pleasure.

Evan then walks in the hallway and to Raven's room. He knocks, "Raven?"

Dimus looks up and growls as his eyes once again became red. He then looks down at Raven, who kept on going. At this point, he didn't care. Everything felt so good.

Evan puts his ear against the door. He then smells Dimus in with her. He then got a bad feeling again, "Raven!"

He began to slam on the door, trying to break it down.

Dimus then shoves Raven back. She gasps and lets out a small moan. Dimus then wipes the blood from her blood covered lips. Raven began to breathe heavily, feeling so alive. Dimus waves a hand over her face, "Sleep my love."

Raven does so. Dimus then looks to the door, which was still being banged on. He growls and disappears into the night shadows.

Evan finally breaks the door down, "Raven!!!"

He then runs to her and looks at her. His eyes widened as he smells blood on her. He realized it was Dimus' blood. His eyes widened more, "No.....no......he didn't!!!"

The others came running in. Sith was the first, "What's going on?!"

Evan then says, "I dunno! Dimus did something to her!!"

Sith then looks at everyone, "Get out! We need space!"

Serenity comes in as the others leave, "Is she okay??"

Sith shakes his head, "I dunno. We'll find out soon enough."

It was done. Raven was now gonna become a creature of darkness.

A vampire........