The Child And The Beast
Chapter 3: A Little Angel Demon
A/N: After thinking it over and talking with someone online, I'm going to start hinting at Raven coming in soon. Please review!
One morning, six months after finding Dickie beside a road, Slade and Wintergreen started to notice things, they were small and rare, but they still noticed the small moments. Sometimes it was hearing someone, a little girls voice, speaking to Dickie while he was taking a nap or simply waiting around in the living room on the carpeted floor. However, she seemed to not be a threat so far. One day, Wintergreen happened to see a very short shadow carrying some sort of tray out of the kitchen. Following the strange creature, Wintergreen followed it into the babies room. Once there, the shadow manifested into a little girl, she couldn't be more then four or five by the looks of it. As she walked up to the babies crib, she used her strange powers to pick Dickie up and started feeding him his baby bottle. Wintergreen stared with wide eyes, completely stunned by the scene.
"Slade, get your rear up here!" Wintergreen hollered as he kept his eyes on the violet haired girl.
The girl hardly noticed Wintergreen until Slade entered the room dressed in full mercenary armor seeing as his next mission was in three hours times. The small demon girl stared at them with wide violet eyes as she held the baby to her chest, although she was small she was not weak and was easily able to carry Dickie... although he was small anyways. As she stared at Slade, the man put away his weapons and approached the girl with extreme caution, his hands up in a none threatening way.
"Relax, I won't hurt you. What is your name?" Slade asked in a tone he only used when talking to Dickie.
The girl stiffed before she spoke, it was a bit jumbled but it was easily understandable. "Raven." She whispered in a soft tone.
Slade nodded, coming closer. "Raven, how did you get into the castle?" He asked.
"He asked me to." Raven pointed at Dickie as she placed him back in his crib.
Slade raised an eyebrow under his mask. "Really? How, he can't talk yet."
Raven shook her head. "He may not be talking as a person, but as a demon he does." She explained.
"Yes, I think I've heard of this before. When a human being or animal is possessed or trapped by a demon or curse they can communicate with demons and angels with other dimensional plans." Wintergreen explained. "So I'm guessing Dickie found you?"
Raven nodded happily. "he saved me. Mama died and papa's the king of demons, he hurts me... Robin found me and saved me from him."
"Who's Robin?' Slade asked.
"Dickie is... that's who he is in dreams." Raven explained as she started to play with her hair offhandedly.
Wintergreen nodded in agreement. "Yes, its rare and hard to find in infants but it is possible that Dickie has created another, possibly adult person, in another realm. I'm guessing he only comes there whens he's asleep, right?"
"Yeah, he called me earlier and asked me to come and visit. But when I got here, he was hungry so I brought him milk, I'm sorry." Raven said as she bowed her head, a few tears falling to the floor. "I'll go away if you want."
"How did you get into are realm?" Slade asked as he finally was before Raven and crouched to one knee.
Raven sighed as a few tears left those elegant violet eyes. "Dickie led me here... I can't get back now, not that I want to. Its scary there, papa hates me and mama... shes dead."
Slade nodded and picked the small girl up with ease. "Raven, do you want to stay here with me and Wintergreen, you can stay with Dickie and be taken care of."
Raven's eyes widened. "Really!? You'd do that... for me?"
"Well, you fed my child and you helped solve why Dickie sleeps so much. Also... you have no one else, I know what that's like and I want you to have a good life." Slade explained. "Will you stay?"
Raven didn't even hesitate. "Yes please!" She said as she hugged Slade tightly.
Wintergreen chuckled as Raven hugged the mercenary. "Its seems are family is growing." He whispered.
A/N: Its very short but I wanted to make this scene happen, hope you liked it! Please review!