Copper distorted speaking.

It was a slow process but Raven had managed to befriend Charlie. He was unique person and that was what Raven found interesting about him. The two became close friends and had nicknames for each other.

Agate was thrilled with how close her descendant and her brother's reincarnation had become and told Raven that, when the time was right he should show Charlie his powers and wake Copper up.

Raven was sitting in the cafeteria reading a book called 'Ninjas of Love', a book he swore he wouldn't let Charlie read. It really was a good book, filled with smut that has guaranteed a special place in hell for him as he openly read the smut with no shame.

Raven heard footsteps approaching his table and sighed quietly and looked up to see the Hermione lookalike and the guy that just sits in Callahans class. He continued to read the book "Can I help you?" The Bête Noire asked Charlie's friends-Former Friends, he corrected himself, the shop class failure with the nickname "Nothing" spoke "What are you doing with Charlie?" He asked, Raven rolled his emerald eyes at the two as the rest of their friends showed up "I'm doing nothing with Charlie." Raven smirked into his book coming up on a good part.

"It's not my fault that 'Lie has a better taste in friends now" he said using his nickname for the wallflower. The girl, Samantha he believed her name was, glared at him like he killed something she cared for "We're his friends!" She hissed at the black haired teen who was casually reading a book filled with porn, and as one Ruby Rose would say "This is filth! Filth!"

Raven looked up from his book at the group with a raised eyebrow "After that little spat during the Christmas holidays? You haven't made any moves to try and talk to him. Of course he's going to try and make friends" he sneered at the group.

Before the girl or any of her friends could respond, Charlie walked up to him with his bag on his shoulders "Ready to go, Ray?" He asked his best friend while ignoring Samantha and Patrick, who tried to get the youngers attention. Raven stood up and put the book in his bag "Let's go" the older teen said and the two walked out. Charlie's former friends could only stare as two walked out of the school.

~Time Skip~

After dropping Charlie home, Raven started to feel uneasy, like something terrible is going to happen soon. He could feel Kumu getting hungry again and with a sigh he declared "Time to hunt". Now the question was who should he go after, there was plenty of people who deserved to have their souls reaped such as Bullies, abusive families, criminals, the innocent etc.

"Ugh, so many potential victims!" The teen groaned, turning his head Raven faced his longtime companions "Can you decide who to kill this time?" He asked the Snow White owl. Hedwig hooted and flew out of the window while Kumu floated over to Raven and sat on the Bête Noire's head "Kumu, I'm worried. Ever since I left Charlie at his house I can't shake the feeling that something horrible is going to happen and it's going to involve him and Agate just disappeared" Kumu purred in reassurance making Raven smile.

It was a while later when Hedwig returned to the house holding a picture in her beak.

The snowy owl dropped the picture onto her master's lap. Raven was on Reddit scrolling past random posts until he found one particular post that caught his attention:

"Beware of the Soul Stalker"

The Soul Stalker, very little is known about this creature with the exception that it only brings death and chaos where is goes

Raven smirked at the post "Well I mean they're not wrong"

This creature has appeared throughout many different periods in history. It's origin like many other supernatural creatures, is unknown but one thing is for certain no one is safe from its touch.

The only known thing about the Soul Stalker's appearance is that it has pink on its body. Since it is unknown what the creature feeds on, people have made the assumption that it feeds on the Souls it collects.

Raven looked at Kumu "Well I suppose that's true since you are apart of me Kumu" the blob plopped itself on the teen's shoulder.

Many of us on this sub Reddit believe that this thing has returned to the land of the living due to the deaths of many people across the United States, all of these deaths have the many things n common, the wounds on the bodies and their souls were taken.

The post just went into a ramble about how you could tell if the creature was near, which had Raven raising a brow at that. A Snow White owl. Shit. "But that can be any owl" he muttered as he closed the tab and looked at the picture Hedwig brought back "Her? are you sure?" Hedwig hooted. Raven shrugged his shoulders "Yeah sure why not"

Charlie's house

Charlie hadn't been feeling well for the last few days. He constantly had this pounding headache and felt like something was following him. He wish he knew what the damn thing was so he-he could KIlL it. Wait what.

Aside from the headaches and the urge to kill someone Charlie has been fine. His sister went to stay at a friends house for a few days and Charlie was stuck in the house with his parents.

"Kill THEM" a voice hissed, Charlie shot up and looked around his room for the source "Who are you?!" He demanded. A dark chuckle emitted near his mirror, so he walked up to the mirror and was understandably shocked at what he saw. A tall man who had brown hair was wearing some type of armor stood in the mirror where Charlie should be. Charlie couldn't help but notice that the man had blood red eyes filled with something Charlie didn't know "DETERMINATION" the man purred "AND To ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, I aM CoPpER LiGHTvALe"

Charlie only stared at the man in the mirror "What do you want?" Charlie asked narrowing his eyes. Copper chuckled "I wANt MaNY ThINgs" Copper's body turned completely black, like a shadow had just consumed him and the only thing Charlie could make out was red eyes and a twisted red smile "SPECIALLY VENGEANCE" the man-no, the thing snarled as it charged out of the mirror and into Charlie's body.

Back with Raven

The now pink eyed teen narrowed his eyes and snorted at the large house "Well this should be fun". Raven had Kumu and Hedwig scout around the house for an entrance and found one at the side of the house.

Inside the house Elizabeth, the ex girlfriend of Charlie, was on the phone talking to Samantha about god knows what. It was fine until footsteps could be heard in the house.

"Sam, I'll be right back. I think my parents are home" the girl left the phone on her bed and went to greet her parents.

She looked out to the driveway and saw that it was empty which confused her. If her parents car wasn't there then who is in the house?! The girl started to panic and went straight back to her room and locked the door "Sam there's someone in my house!" She whispered into the phone, but before Sam could speak someone knocked on Elizabeth's door and tried to open it.

The girl let out a pitiful whimper "Elizabeth sweetheart? Are you in there? It's your mother?" A familiar voice called from the opposite side of the door. Elizabeth slumped in relief and unlocked the door "Mom it's just you. where's dad?" She asked the woman who simply smiled "He'll be home soon. I got dropped off by a friend from work."

Elizabeth nodded and let her mother into her room "Who are you talking to on the phone?" The older woman asked while looking around the room which Elizabeth found odd "Just Sam" The girl responded.

Her mother smiled at her, amusement clear in her pink eyes-wait why does she have pink eyes? "You're quite the theorist Lizzy!" Elizabeth raised a brow at the nickname "The Soul Stalker? I believe that's what you called me?" What the fu-

The sound of a vase or glass smashing could be heard from down the hall making Elizabeth turn around "While I like the name, I prefer the one I was giving when I was created the Black Beast. A Bête Noire if you will" All Elizabeth could feel now was an intense pain in her chest, looking down she saw a pink spear had pierced her chest and that her soul was attached to the spear.

Turning her head, she saw that her mother was no longer standing there. In the woman's place was Raven Woods-Lightvale who had a smirk that many would consider demonic. Pulling his arm back, the spear flew from Elizabeth's body and back into Raven's hand. As she was falling, Elizabeth could faintly hear Sam screaming down the phone, she would scream herself but just couldn't find the power to do so.

"Hm, pale green soul. The Soul of Tolerance" Raven said as he examined the soul. Elizabeth could only watch as some pink blob floated into her room, holding out the Soul Raven smirked "Here Akumu, enjoy" the blob opened its mouth and devoured her soul in one bite. The world started to fade to black and the last thing Elizabeth heard was "Don't worry, we'll take good care of your soul!"

Raven smirk as the girl had closed her eyes and went into an eternal slumber. Raven sneered at the phone and Sam's voice screaming for Elizabeth to say something. He smashed the phone and left through the side entrance of the house.

Casting a simple invincibility charm in himself, Raven and his two companions made their way through the quite street. "Raven!" Agate, who finally decided to show herself again, screamed. "Agate what's wrong?!" Raven asked the ghost "Its Copper!" She stated looking panicked "He's awake!"

Raven blinked "I thought I was supposed to wake him up?" He asked the orange woman "I don't know how he woke up! But now he's possessing Charlie!" Now Raven was on high alert, that feeling was still eating at him. He broke out into a sprint and ran straight to Charlie's house fearing the worst.

At Charlie's house

When Raven arrived at Charlie's house, it looked normal from the outside. Slowly he approached the house with Kumu in his scythe form, once he reached the door a blood curdling scream erupted from inside the house.

Kicking down the door, the teen was horrified at the sight before him. Blood coated the walls like fresh paint, moving around the house "Charlie?!" He called as he traversed through the bloody house. He made his way past the living room and saw the mutilated corpse of Charlie's father, narrowing his pink eyes Raven made his way to the kitchen.

Upon entering the kitchen soft sobbing could be heard "Charlie?" Raven called out softly. The quiet sobbing ceased "Ray?" Charlie called back, he sounded terrified.

Making his way over to the distressed teen, Raven saw that the body of Charlie's mother was lying on the ground with similar stab wounds as that of her husband in the other room. Crouching down, Raven looked at Charlie "What happened?" He asked softly. Charlie's cries started to pick up again "I-I didn't m-mean to! It was him" he spat placing his head in his arm, Raven frowned "Who is He?" Charlie's sobs became quiet again but he still had shaking shoulders.

Faint giggles could be heard from the younger teen making Raven tense up and gripped his scythe tighter. "Hehehe" Charlie continued to giggle "Lie?" Raven asked using the nickname "Charlie isn't here at the moment, try again later!" A distorted voice said shooting out of his sitting position at the older with a scarlet knife. Raven barely had the time to roll out of the way as the possessed teen slashed at him, kicking Charlie back, Raven jumped up and got into a fighting stance and let Agate take over "Copper!" The petite teen hissed.

Copper gave a laugh filled with madness "Right in one, sis!" The red eyed teen laughed "Now let us catch up! It's been far too long, Agate!" Agate narrowed her pink eyes at the possessed Charlie. The knife Copper held in his hand turned yellow, jabbing it in Agate's direction, two yellow bolts came out of the knife and sent the Bête Noire flying into the living room.

Kumu transformed back into its blob form and snarled at Copper "Kumu!" Agate called as she stood back up. Holding up her arm, Kumu twirled back into its scythe form "You think your knife is stronger?" Agate snapped at her reincarnated brother who just chuckled "No, I don't think so… It is!" He responded. In a blink of an eye, Copper disappeared. Agate gasped and the tips of her hair turned pink, Copper reappeared behind Raven and kicked the original Bête Noire through a wall.

Clutching her head after being kicked, Agate narrowed her eyes at Copper who had raised his knife. The floor turned turned red, Akumu picked Agate up in its tendrils and lifted her off the ground as several red spikes shot out of the ground "Damn it" the teen hissed "Ya know this really isn't sibling bonding, Copper" the ghostly woman said as the spikes disappeared.

A flash of gold could be seen out of the corner Agate's eyes "Kumu shield!" She ordered. As ordered the blob transformed into a shield just in time as multiple golden bolts flew towards. A few of the bolts bounced off of Kumu but the shield didn't last, the last couple of bolts ricocheted off the floor and destroyed the Kumu shield.

Agate let out a surprised yelp as she and Kumu were sent through the ceiling. Agate growled in frustration and more of her hair turned pink "You never told me what you want, Copper!" The original Bête Noire said to her brother "Vengeance, dear sister" Copper's distorted voice purred from below. Raising her scythe, Agate slashed down at Copper "Gaah!" Her brother screamed as the blade pierced his skin and he was sent flying into the ground.

Agate jumped back down to the destroyed living room and stood above her bleeding brother "Vengeance against who?" Agate asked holding the scythe at her brothers throat "Against all those who have wronged my descendant" he groaned "Sadly some human got to the disgusting woman Helen, before I could" Copper spat out the name Helen like it was spoiled milk. Agate pulled her scythe and made Kumu transform back into its blob form, she gestured for Copper to continue "She was doing disgusting things to Charlie since he was a child" Copper then started to go into detail about what Helen was doing to him, Agate looked disgusted and horrified while she could feel Raven seething in anger.

Helping her brother up, Copper continued "Ever since that little incident over the Christmas break, Charlie had slowly being making his way to a breakdown and it would have been bloody" the wizard of determination explained "And what is that on your face?" Agate asked gesturing to the black substance that was coming out of Copper's mouth and and eyes "HATE" Copper smirked, Agate raised a brow "After you killed me, thank you by the way" Agate rolled her eyes "Not apologising" Copper snickered "Wouldn't expect you too sis. As I was saying after I died, something happened to my soul, I'm not sure what but one thing is for certain, My soul isn't that of a human"

Agate sighed in annoyance "Then what the hell are you?!" She demanded, Copper smirked "A Demon" he said with a hint of smugness in his voice. Agate raised an eyebrow at that "Ah so you're still killable!" Copper's smirk faulted for a moment "What do you mean?" He asked. Agate had her own smirk on her face "Raven has killed a couple of demons over the last year and a half!" The smugness clear in her tone.

Her brother slumped in defeat "Alright then, my dear brother, what's our next move?" Agate asked sitting on the sofa which thankfully hadn't been covered in blood. Copper chuckled nervously "I uh never thought this far ahead" Agate's eyebrow twitched "This is why I'm the planner!" She groaned in despair for being curse with such an idiot brother in her past life.

"Alright, let's just go for the simplest route for the moment and just blow up the house to destroy any evidence!" The eldest of the two Lightvales declared "Boom?" The demon asked "Boom" Bête Noire confirmed.

"A Demon filled with DETERMINATION to get vengeance upon this world" Copper, the Determined Demon began.

"And a Black Beast filled with FEAR to restore balance to Magic" Agate finished.