Turning gone wrong...((Private RP-LadyRaven))

[Ravenna 3arc]

With a great and heavy sigh, he made his way to the local bar that he rarely ever went to. Going inside and sitting down, he made up his mind that he was gonna go and find a girl to get laid by no matter what. Being 25 years old and a virgin, he was frustraited with everyone ranging from his friends to his family who always picked on him about still being a virgin. Only a few days ago his only girlfriend left him because he wouldnt fuck her, and upon realising that he lost her over sex he was determined to break bad and finnally do something about it so he wouldnt feel nervous or anything around women anymore, something to build his confidence so to speak.

IT had been hours since he first came in the bar, but that wasnt to say that he wasnt drinking though. THere where several bottles of beer, liquor, and wine all over his table but no matter how much he drank it seemed as if he couldnt get drunk. He knew that he had a high tolerance to the mix of it all but didnt think it was this strong. There where plenty of women here that he deemed as pretty, but he didnt just want pretty, he wanted more.

Finnally there was a woman who he deemed the best out of them all, she looked all the ways that he liked and then some, her body appearing as beautiful as a siren, he was entised by her. Getting up from his table, he walked to her at the bar itself and said to her,"Hello miss, My name is Jasper. Could I buy you a drink or something?" He knew that he must have been coming off strong, not like the booze he had been drinking help his impression either but none of that mattered to him since he was interested in the girl that stood before him. She was his top priority, nothing else mattered, and with money not being a issue, he was freely able to do as he pleased, even if it was blowing money for no reason.

[LadyRaven]

There was something to be said about Gotham. For all its crime, super freaks and the odd caped crusader, it wasn't actually all that bad. In fact, it was almost perfect for someone like Raven. The weird fashion of the humans these days meant she could wander all but openly. Most of the time, she heard compliments about her appearance and questions about where and how the augmentations could be done. For the most part, she would shrug and tell them it was a long time ago in another country that she couldn't quite remember. The last thing she wanted was the city finding out that a real Demangliosaur was alive and well and living among them. Of course, there had been the odd uncomfortable question and the suspicious look of a wannabe hero, but they disappeared as quickly as their questions. And what made it even better, the long standing crime wave meant it was very rare she got caught up in the disappearances.

Several decades back, Raven had set up her own little nest in Gotham under the guise of a bar and nightclub. It provided a veritable banquet of different people that she could take from what she needed. After all, any carnivore needs a good food source and the vast amount of people in Gotham was perfect just for that. From the beginning, Eclipse had been a huge success to the point, she had to take on trusted staff to keep it going. Since then, it had been passed down the family and Raven had grown very close to them. Obviously, down the generations, the name had been changed to give the impression of being bought and sold and in this particular decade, it carried the name Hex. Her current human face for it was Moira and like her parents and grandparents before her, ran the place the with the same style and attention to detail as her forebears.

By late evening, the place was already filling up and Moira, along with some discrete friends of hers, were dealing with the revellers in their usual way. Raven arrived around eleven to find the band playing loud, the booze flowing and the people a fine mix of meat that would keep her sated for a long time. She wouldn't empty the entire club of course, that would be suicide even for the strongest of her kind, but two or three would be more than enough. Moira, being the little gem of a human that she was, had already marked a few people for consideration, but as she walked in, Raven began to feel something wrong in the air. Someone didn't belong here.

Pulling her cloak about her slim figure a little tighter than usual, she entered the bar and made her way to the counter. "Moira." She said, "Something is not right."
"I know, Raven." The human replied and half nodded her head to a young man sitting alone. "He came in a few hours ago. He's been sat there drinking his blues away alone the whole time and watching everything with a short skirt."
Raven didn't turn her head, but she gazed at him discretely in the mirror over the bar. "I see." She said quietly, "Definitely not the usual type for this place. He needs to be gone before closing time, Moira. He doesn't belong here."
"I've been trying." The human replied, "But he just keeps ordering more booze. He's already drank the top shelf twice and half a barrel of domestic. Not to mention the four bottles of house red that he's downed. He shouldn't even be conscious, let alone upright and the orders just keep coming. What can I do? Oh hell...!"
Raven watched the young man leave his seat and against every law of physics possible, he actually made it to the bar and stood next to her. More than that, he offered to buy her a drink! Smoothly, she began to turn around and show her form a little better below the neck.

Long silken skirts covered her legs down to the floor with a wide flare to keep her feet covered when she walked. Shoes were not an option considering she didn't have specific feet for them. The skirts tucked in tightly at the waist that was then taken over by an equally dark silken corset that showed just enough cleavage to entice. Her pale shoulders were covered by her velvet cloak. Given a hat and a high collared shirt, she might have looked like a Victorian lady, but that cloak hid a very big secret. One that fluttered ever so slightly as she regarded the young man before her. He was very young indeed, at least compared to her.

Taking a deep breath against her corset, Raven studied the man, "Hello Jasper." She said politely, before nodding to his table. "Seems you've had enough to knock out an entire football team already." She nodded to Moira and Moira nodded back before moving down the bar to serve another customer. Raven reached over and grabbed at a bottle of single malt. She grabbed a glass then and poured herself an easy shot. "I don't tend to pay for my own use, but thanks for the offer." She closed her eyes and lifted the glass to her nose. She took a deep breath of the highly scented liquor and smiled. "A smell that always reminds me of home." She mused and then drank it down in one. Putting the glass back down, she opened her deep emerald eyes and regarded Jasper again. "I haven't seen you in here before, Jasper. Are you making Gotham your home, or are you just passing through?".....

[Ravenna 3arc]

Gotham was his home town even though he had been away for so long, but now that he was back there was so much potential and he had planned on staying, especially if he finds a woman. He looked over her body, almost as if studing her physique to learn her curves. He liked the wings that she had on her back, at first glance he had thought they where augmentations of some sort but noticed they where moving and pulsing which only meant they where real. Knowing the wings are real, he touched them gently but he didnt mind if he was out of place for doing so. There was something in him that craved her, and touching her wings only fueled that desire further. They where soft to the touch, and he was able to feel every feather with extreme detail. Such texture was unachieveable if the wings where synthetic.

Realising that he was too focused on her wings for what felt like forever, he stopped and brought his eyes to hers while saying,"Really? I have felt only as if I had just started drinking." He grabbed the bottle from her after she was done with it, being bold he took the same glass that she had used just moments ago. Filling it up to the brim of the glass, he then put the bottle down and brought the glass to his lips and seemed to drink it like it was just water. Within moments the whole contents of the glass was down the hatch, his body at full work doing what it does best. He was human, but he had accidently picked up a few traits and powers but unknowingly to him, he didnt know how to use or control them. The extreme tolerance to alchohol was just one of the few things that he had learned by mistake, half was natural ability, and the other half was supernatural abilities.

He smiled slightly at her home comment, and then replied with a comment all of his own,"Home is where the heart is," he was moderately intelligent, but not overly. Looking deep into her eyes, he focused and for a second he saw visions of her and others like her feeding from humans to get what they needed, he rubbed his eyes softly saying,"thats odd..." the faces of those he saw where of those that where already in here, some he had seen before, and some he hadnt. He looked back at her after a few moments and said,"Gotham has always been my home, but I never stayed here. I left to go be with what was my love but now my ex." He wasnt telling her this to get pitty from her, but to just be honest. He got closer to her, there was a scent that smelled good but strange however the weird part was that he smelled this before but only in one other place. Realising the scent is coming from her, he pours another full glass of the single malt liquor and asks,"so whats a lovely lady such as yourself doing in a bar? Dont you have a boyfriend at home or something? Or did you come here looking to get throughly fucked..." He knew he was coming off bold, strong, and somewhat jackass-like but he didnt care. With his views, he had nothing to lose and nothing to gain. Afterall why would she want him, perhaps just sex if he was lucky but afterwards he would be back where he is in the same boat as before.

He leaned accross her, letting her smell his neck some as he whispered in her ear,"Fortune favors the bold," he was definately bold, perhaps a bit too much but then again the only one you have to fear is a person who has nothing left to live for, considering they will do anything and at times they can be the perfect fighters. He lingered there slightly for a few seconds, wanting to tempt her with his scent. He knew that she wasnt human, and with those wings she would have to be one of a few certain things but he didnt know which and what better way to test her than to put it all on the line? Smiling as he tempted her, he asked,"so, whats behind door number one?" almost hinting to her that he wanted to be alone with her.

[LadyRaven]

Whether or not Jasper knew it, he'd just taken the biggest suicide risk he'd ever face. Raven narrowed her eyes as not only did he brazenly touch her wings, but then insult the malt that he drank down with no thought as to how much work and time and effort had gone into it, and insult Raven further by not paying for it! She felt about ready to rip his throat out there and then as he became even more brazen by sticking his neck right within reach of her deadly bite. Fortune favoured the bold, he'd said. Not tonight, she thought. He'd just about put himself on the menu and she was just about ready to start regardless of the time and people present.

Seeing this and fearing the worst, Moira came running down back to them and quickly grabbed the expensive bottle of whiskey, in effect, snatching it from his hands and she glared at him. Not that it mattered, Raven was already there. "Moira?" She said surprisingly calmly, "Ring time." Her eyes never left Jasper. The woman instantly did as she was told and the toll rang out loudly through the entire building. Despite the amount of people though, it wouldn't take long to empty.

As the bar emptied and the people made their way to the exits, Raven leaned her head in slightly to him. It was clear she was very much unimpressed and actually quite angry with Jasper. "You owe me ten dollars for the entire glass of my best whiskey that you treated with such disgust." She said quietly, "And you owe me a very heartfelt apology for touching what is not yours to touch." At this point, Moira disappeared and less than a minute later, all the doors were locked. Seconds after that, Raven heard the woman running upstairs to get out of the way.

Raven never moved from the counter edge as she spoke to Jasper. "Behind door number one, my dear Jasper, is your life." She said, "Walking out that door with you still attached to it." Her emerald eyes glittered with dangerous intent, "Behind door number two is a very dangerous and very hungry monster." She leaned in just a little further, "There is no door number three. I'd be very careful Jasper, which you chose.".....

[Ravenna 3arc]

He smiled favorably towards her as she announced to the woman that was under her staffing or control that it was ring time. He didnt know what she meant by such words but it only made him feel happy inside. Something about her was making him feel excited and eager to see more of what there was she was hiding from him. He didnt like that the woman had snatched the bottle from him, he had planned to drink it even if he didnt really like it. Hearing that he only owed ten bucks for the glass that he poured, he smiled and said,"awwe, thats all? And I thought you said it was your finest or something like that?"

Knowing he was pissing her off, but still didnt care. Most people would back off and apologise but he was still taunting her for more. Hearing that all the doors had locked, and everyone left including the human bartender, this only made him more excited. He was left alone with the woman whom he was starting to get seriously infatuated with, and loved the feeling.

Even though she was playing nice on the outside, he knew that she was boiling mad on the inside. He smiled at the thought of her saying he needed to apologise, but instead he simply said,"why would I apologise for giving my opinion on such a drink? Awwe is someone a little hurt?" He laughed lightly and grabbed her wing again, but this time a bit more roughly since they where alone. Not long after grabbing it, he let go and said,"thats funny, I always love taking whats not there... as for the monster, I think your just a scared kitten looking for a owner to take you in." He smiled for a second and then dropped the smile. He liked her alot, but he needed to provoke her. He and her were not on the same page just yet, but he knew what she wanted and oddly enough he wanted the same.

So to provoke her, he grabbs her by the throat and lifts her up with one arm and says,"so, about that dance?" Knowing this would piss her off, he smiles but at the same time he doesnt know where this power is coming from and starts to wounder if this is of her doing? Holding her there he smiles as he admires her beauty but making shure not to squeeze at all so he wouldnt choke her. instead he just held her there saying,"you know, your really beautiful for a strange woman that you are."

[LadyRaven]

Well, that really did end it all for Raven. His continued insults and his physical assault provoked more than just her temper. As he lifted her up by her throat, something shifted in the strange little female that made her so much bigger than she liked to appear. Feeling her clawed feet leave the ground and the ribbon stretched under his grip, she finally lost her temper. The cloak fell away under its own weight and the strain on the ribbon about her porcelain coloured neck and it revealed her wings, but that wasn't all.

Not that she cared at all, but she knew he would soon realise that it wasn't actually skin that he felt under his large palm. Raven was in essence, a reptile, a dinosaur. Only mammals had actual skin. Though they were very small and very smooth, he was actually touching scales and very tough ones. This showed a little more prominently on her shoulders as they bristled with the new movement in her wings. By the time her cloak touched the floor, they were spreading out.

The deep blackness began to shimmer with a slight green and purple essence depending on which way the light hit them and the further they spread open, the more the infused colours shimmered from the lush plumage. Also, and quite oddly, her hair began to do the same. As though it had a mind of its own, it began to lift up. The sheer weight and length of it prevented a full rise to the tip, but there was a good two inches now in height on her head and it began to bristle in the same manner as her feathers did. Her hair wasn't hair at all, but a fine covering of crest feathers. Back in the day, this was done to impress and intimidate others, to show strength and potential danger. Now she did this in fury.

Suddenly and quite viciously, she wrapped both her hands about his forearm and dug her wickedly sharp nails in as he seemed to dangle her there. "Have you ever seen what happens to a rat when an eagle catches it?" She growled as her wings spread completely out. They lifted up, showing Jasper an easy twenty foot span and an incredible amount of power. Though he might have missed her knees coming up. Under the mass of skirt, she was unfurling her claws, intending to gut him. The last thing she showed him was the gape in her jaw. Her wine coloured lips parted widely and she pressed her lower jaw into his hand as she allowed her fangs to break through proper in her upper jaw. Her primaries were easily an inch tall with two slightly smaller fangs forward that curled back into the primary. All in all, a massively powerful and deadly bite by any standard. Raven was a predator and now Jasper knew that too....

[Ravenna 3arc]

He watched as she changed into her full form, but instead of scaring him off or making him afraid. He was simply more interested in her than ever before, HE didnt care how different she was and how different she can show him. HE wanted her more than ever now. He looked at her wings, studying them from a quick glance but returned his view back to her when she clawed his forearm, He tightened his grip on her but didnt express any pain. He felt the pain, but he didnt respond in anyway. Looking at her with anger in his eyes, he replies in direct response to her question,"Its not what happens when the eagle catches the rat, its what the eagle must look out for once it finally has the rat." He groans slightly from the annoyance of the wound on his arm and upon looking at it the wound heals like it never happened. Upon seeing this he smiled saying,"Looks like this rat is gonna have fun with the eagle tonight."

Admiring her, even in the most deadly form that she is currently in. He pulls her to him saying,"forgive me, but im having mixed emotions right now..." hinting to her about the ex that he had gotten dumped by, and somewhat about her aswell. He kisses her intimately and passionately, knowing this would throw her off her guard, even if its only for a few seconds atleast. With his free hand, he pulls it back and balls his fist up into a very tight flat fist thats designated to hurt with very little to no recoil. Even most humans could do some pretty good damage using this.

On the swing to hit her, a sudden flare of blue aura shoots out from his shoulder thats in motion and thrusts his fist forward at a massive speed, hitting her directly in the forehead knowing that this wouldnt hurt her, not much atleast. But when he hit her, he let go of her so she could stand on her own feet or what ever she used now that she wasnt in her human form.

The hand he just let her go with, he moved back to his side as he calmly said,"looks like I know more than I thought I did... how about helping me learn more hmmm?" Smiling as he licked his lips slightly, he was deeply happy and moved down to the core, eager to get more out of her.

[LadyRaven]

Usually at this point, her prey would be scrambling to get away and utterly terrified for their lives, but this one seemed to do the complete opposite and that infuriated Raven more than ever. That feeling of something wrong that had niggled at her from the beginning she had arrived was now a very prominent and present danger and she knew she had to be rid of this creature quickly. And yet, he still presented as completely human! When she felt the pulse of pressure and magic to her forehead from his fist, she roared at him and kicked out her feet through the delicate silks of her skirt. The expensive fabric was torn to shreds as her claws did what they did, but as she kicked out her feet to claw at his guts, he let her go and she dropped down quickly. She landed in a crouch and watched him step up with that same smile on his face.

Ignoring the effect from his strike, Raven stood back up and stepped forward, finally showing him her unusual feet. Unlike her hands that had five digits, her feet only had four. Her toes were thick, but not as long as a bird. The fourth toe was tucked slightly up on her ankle which look slim and almost quite delicate. The scales there looked much the same as they did around her neck and arms. Stepping forward on her toes, she reached out and viciously swung her clawed hand around. "The only thing I'll be helping." She said as she sent him flying at the wall, "Is myself to the flesh on your bones!"

Now normally, when a creature such as Raven hunted, it was imperative that the kill was complete. Her kind had made mistakes in the past and had not immediately killed their human prey. It had led to the first breed of vampires in doing so, had unleashed a plague of them that had almost destroyed their food source more than once. It was something to do with a prehistoric virus that her species carried. It only seemed to affect mammals such as humans and on occasion, a rare breed of arctic lupine and it was because of this Raven had to make absolutely sure her prey was dead so the virus could not mutate and create a vampire. However, in her rage at this impertinent and disgustingly rude man, she forgot.

Rushing at him, Raven grabbed at his arms and sank her fangs deeply into his throat. At the same time, she buried her toe claws into his lower legs, pinning his feet to the floor. Raven was by no means a blood drinker, though it was a nice appetiser to the taste of the flesh. She bit down with all the power in her jaw until her fangs hit the bone of his shoulder blade and then she began to pull to tear the flesh away. But then something went wrong.

As his blood hit her gullet, something sent her insides into a agonising spasm and she screamed against him as her jaw locked. She couldn't let go her bite, so she pulled away, taking his throat with her and fell to the floor with him.....

[Ravenna 3arc]

watching her rip the fabric that was once her clothing, but instead of her gutting him or something she simply fell which even amused him further and crave more. As she swung around to hit him, his chest hardened into solid steel at the moment of the kinetic impact that was her attack and absorbed the attack but still sent him flying and hit the wall. as he had hit the wall, he moaned softly in pain but it was tolerable however the alcohol that he had drank earlier has now began to sit with him and dull his pain and senses. He was still well aware but at the same time everything just got less and less realistic.

Groaning as he felt a deep pain in his legs from her and then immediately followed by pain in his shoulder from a bite which caused him to moan in pain softly. His breathing starts to pick up as oddly and awkwardly the pain starts to turn him on.

THe mix of pain that converts into pleasure begins to cause Jasper to change his breathing, breathing slightly heavy from being turned on, he grabs her roughly with his hands. Holding her tightly around her waist, after her bite was set he then hardens his skin so that she cant pull her bite out and make it so she cant rip his skin. Falling to the floor with her, he rubs his hands on her sides as his breathing begins showing signs of sexual interest as his sex begins to harden.

With his body and mind at odds with each other, he didnt know weither to attack her or fuck her. But with the alcohol running amok in his system and his body rapidly repairing his damaged body from her attacks. He began to moan softly while holding her tightly as a small color in his eyes begin to grow while he says,"Your....changing...me...." knowing whats happening, his body was becoming weak from all the healing and hardening that its doing that he cant fight her off since he wasnt used to controlling this much power so soon. Something in him was growing and changing, the core of him was different than most and she was even changing that.

[LadyRaven]

Something was definitely wrong and Raven knew it now. As they both hit the floor together, it was clear something terrible was about to happen. He even managed to confirm it before she felt his body weaken, but hers did too and she knew she was in big trouble. Jasper was not going to die and she was not going to eat this night. What was more, it wasn't fear or pain that she felt in his hands that now brazenly groped at her. He was enjoying this! Her innards spasmed again and she knew she was about to throw up. She had to get out from under him.

Finally able to release her bite, Raven pushed Jasper back and she turned over to scramble out from under him. His groping hands ensured much of her skirt was left behind as she hauled her body away from him and she kicked at him to keep him away as she got to her quarters and craned her neck out. Within seconds, her wounded stomach ejected every ounce of his blood and she roared in agony with it. As of yet, she still didn't quite understand what had gone so badly wrong.

From upstairs, Moira had heard the commotion and her ancestral friend's pain and quickly came running down. What she saw brought real fear and she quickly went to Raven. "Raven!" She said quickly as she crouched down and smoothed back her friend's hair. "Raven, what happened?!"
Raven shook her head, "I don't know." She coughed, "Something.... something in him... I'm hurt!" She coughed again and spat out more of the man's blood.
"Oh hell!" Moira said quickly, then cast her eyes coldly at Jasper. It was clear to her then also that he was no ordinary human. For a good moment or two, she wondered if the Order had discovered that her friend was still alive and sent him to kill her. That thought in mind, she got to her feet quickly and went to him. She lifted her rather large steel toe-capped boot and slammed it viciously into his face. "Bastard!" She yelled, then quickly went back to Raven, "What do you need?" She asked softly.
"I need my roost." Raven replied with a gasp.
"What about him?" Moira asked.
"Get rid of him." Raven replied in another gasp before she felt her stomach turn over again. There was nothing left to bring back, but the pain still caused her to spasm.
Moira nodded and glared at Jasper again as she took out her phone and dialled a number. "Raven's hurt." She said quickly, "I'll explain everything when you get here." She ended the call and moved Raven somewhat away from the upchucked blood. She cradled her friend carefully and waited patiently for the arrival of her five brothers. "Now you're really gonna pay." She said to Jasper, "My brothers will rip you apart for hurting our angel. I'll see every last piece of you sink in the river and then I'll hunt down those that sent you and I'll kill them myself!" She meant every word of it too.....

[Ravenna 3arc]

with her finally releasing her bite, he moaned deeply from the pain which seemly turned him on even more aswell. As she tried getting away he clinged to her but she still managed to get away from him, the only thing he could manage to keep was her skirt that he ripped off her by accident. Jasper's eyes traced Moira as she came down, his body was weak and sore as the venom was taking its course. Beginning to shake uncontrollably as the venom is beginning to move throughout his whole body and take claim to him.

When moira kicked him, his face turned to solid steel at the moment of impact but then he slashed at her. MIssing he growled very loudly and made a slashing motion very fast and hurled a bolt of red energy at her as he was angry with her but the bolt missed entirely. HIs vision was beginning to weaken and his strength rapidly failing meanwhile the alcohol and Venom are now in full effect. He needed sleep, and lots of it to prepare for the upcoming changes that his body is unknowingly going through.

Using the very last bit of strength, he moved as close as he could to the wall and focused on Raven whom he admired so much. Finnally able to see her clearly, even if only for a second, he pushed off the wall using his legs and tackled Raven. As he tackled her, he grabbed her tightly as he knew this was the last bit of energy that he could use before passing out. He interlocked his fingers to keep her there and whispered,"your mine my love," enacting a death grip on her as he starts passing out. But at that very moment the room flashes with the immediate sound of a concussive blast that seemed to linger.

Once the flash went away a woman stood there, looking around. Upon seeing Moira she raised her arm and gently pinned her against the wall saying,"Im not here to fight with you," then noticing Raven and Jasper she raised her other hand, then she raised them in mid air and pulled them to her. Jasper was unconscious but She knew Raven wasnt.

She looked at THe woman that Jasper was holding so dearly and said,"I know you have men coming, call them off, tell them to stand down." This woman was far more than meets the eye, she was pure angel but she also knew demonic powers, mostly from Jasper. Rubbing her hair out the way she said,"I'll explain everything in private, but till then call off your dogs."

Then suddenly the room they where all in, suddenly changed into another. She had brought Moira, Raven, and jasper with her. She wanted to tell raven the story but knew that she would soon pass out from the elivated levels of stress her body was undertaking.

Looking at raven and moira, she let Moira go as she said,"behave, dont interrupt and I wont bind you," she then laid jasper and raven on a bed and said,"I have been looking for Jasper for some time now, the hard part is that I cant find him untill he uses his powers, and most of them are hard to trace but a few send out like a beacon to me." She starts playing with her hair some with the use of her fingers while saying,"Jasper is my brother, I know it may seem odd that he doesnt have a outward apperance like mine, but thats because he is half vampire and half demonic, He has wings that are black but they rarely come out. However the issue with everything is that Jasper lost his memory a little while back, and cant remember how to use his powers, but with his mind being stuck where his ex just dumped him, he is kinda behaving differently. Looking at you," referring to raven as she looks dead at her,"I think he has chosen you as his mate, maybe not for sex or maybe for sex I dont know. But I do know that once he sets his mind to something, he doesnt give up for anything. Not to mention I know that hold, even if you tried to get out that hold, his grip would become tighter as his muscles would react on instinct and keep you there untill otherwise."

She looked at Jasper before saying,"its good to see he is unharmed, welll...mostly, looks like you two must have had quite a arguement before I came along." She moves her hands come making signs and a barrier forms over the bed with her and jasper while she says,"no matter if you want him or not, I cant allow you to get away from him. If your the only thing thats gonna keep him sane then I will gladly help him, if he lets you go on his own accord then thats between you and him but till then I will help him." She looks at moira saying,"you can help them however you like, but if you so as think of a bad thing, that barrier will immediately kick you out of there. Stay devine and you may enter, turn hellish and you will be banished forever, I know your master will need your help so go help her." She expanded her wings that showed her full wing span that was over 50 feet long, and then she suddenly vanished, but before she left she said,"I gotta go get some things, keep them safe Moira."

[LadyRaven]

By the time the entity turned up, Raven was all but comatose, such was the venom from his blood that she had ingested. Moira seemed the only one awake and fully aware of what was happening and she was quick to protect Raven when Jasper embraced her in his death grip. So much happened before the human woman could react and even Raven couldn't gain enough awareness to make it all stop. Suddenly, they were elsewhere and Moira stared at the other winged female with wide eyes and something very close to shock. She was almost completely certain she was looking at another demangliosaur!

Moira did as she was bade and allowed Raven to fall into Jasper's grip. She backed up and made the necessary call, but she knew her brothers wouldn't stop coming. Chances were, they had already arrived, but she knew they wouldn't do anything without her say-so. She nodded to the other demon and put her phone away and then sat back to listen. While she spoke, she remembered the stories Raven had once told her about a breed of demangliosaur that had broken away from the original tribe. They had embraced magic and other worldly traits that had changed them not just physically, but mentally as well. She believed she now looked upon such a creature. And then she learned Jasper was one too. Suddenly, a few things started to make perfect sense. These two breeds of demangliosaur were unable to kill each other due to the magic and the change in venom and she remembered reading that when such a pair came together as it seemed Raven and Jasper had done, it was not only violent for both of them, it could be deadly and once they were paired, that was it. To part would mean death to both of them. Or at least, that was what the story had said. Also, to learn that Jasper was already part vampire, that only made the commotion in Hex even more prevalent to the situation. Before she knew it, the other female had transported them to yet another location and she watched as Raven and Jasper were bound to a bed. She could do nothing more for them, but watch over them.

As for Raven, she felt herself coming round somewhat when she felt a bed beneath her. She wasn't where she remembered being last and she felt the panic rising in her, but she also felt the deathly tight grip of Jasper and somehow began to understand what had happened. As Jasper's sister glared at her, Raven glared back, but made no motion to try and get away. She knew she would die from her injuries if she did. She now understood perfectly what had happened and why it had happened.

Like any demangliosaur male, even the magical one, the appearance of a matching female meant only one thing. Absolute chaos. Understanding that Jasper was indeed one of the magical demangliosaurs, or demonic angels as they preferred to be called, Raven had unwittingly wakened his lost physical memory by entering her bar at precisely the wrong moment. Her attack on him had only served to cement that match and now no matter what she wanted or thought, she was stuck with him. It would only be a matter of time before her presence brought back his full memory and form. She listened to the sister until she left and then looked at Moira hazily. "Go back to Hex." She said, "Ready the roost to accept Jasper. When he wakes, his instinct will be to nest with me."
"Raven, you can't do this." Moira said quietly, trying to keep her thoughts in check from the sister's warning. "You have not chosen this man. Any pairing with him will be forced and tantamount to rape. Can you really spend a lifetime with that?"
Raven looked down her body at Jasper, "I will not breed with him." She said flatly, "But until I can convince him to break his bond with me, I'm powerless to be rid of him. Do as I ask, Moira and have your brothers provide us some security. The last thing I need is more of his instinct kicking in before I'm ready to deal with it."
"As you wish, Raven." Moira said sadly. She looked at Jasper briefly, trying not to glare at him with hatred as she knew what would happen if she did. She left them alone and Raven waited for the sister's arrival.

When the white one did return, Raven lifted her eyes and regarded her carefully. "You realise I will not permit him in my nest longer than necessary." She said firmly, "The very second I can break this bond, I fully intend to eject him with prejudice and find a worthy mate of my own." That last part she had no intention of doing. She never wanted another mate, nor another lost clutch of children, not after what had happened the first time. "I will teach him what he needs to learn and then my duty is done. I will show no affection or desire and I will never allow a pairing."......

[Ravenna 3arc]

While Jasper slept, he rubbed his face against ravens while moaning softly. Dreaming as he laid there, not remembering or knowing anything that took place since he was asleep. Jasper woke up softly, beginning to look at the woman before him and thats when the bite on his shoulder began to burn. Something in him grew increasingly violent as the rage of hunger was pressing against him very hard. Jasper's sister returned with a very loud boom, looking at him she quickly yelled,"Jasper NO!" That very moment he bit Raven roughly, sinking his fangs into her shoulder and beginning to draw blood for the very first time in over 100 years. Moaning softly from the taste of the blood, Jasper's sister runs to him and injects a blue vial into his leg causing him to release his bite on Raven and pass out again. While looking at raven while Jasper layed there asleep once again, she kindly said,"Im sorry that he bit you, I have been controlling his feeding habits lately but when he came to your town they where beginning to get harder and harder to contain, he hasnt bit anyone in almost 100 years, that was till today." Brushing her hair out the way as she listened to Raven while she spoke, but only a smile came to her face while saying,"Thats funny, for you see... He is as tough as he is stubborn. And for you to think that you can teach him and dich him, then you got another thing coming. Its my doing that has his memories suppressed, and thats for a very good reason. My name is Ravenna." She knelled down before Raven and got really close to her and put her face right against her ear saying,"He is the Demonic Angel King," pulling away slowly as Ravenna's hair brushes on ravens face while she continues,"he will make you his mate, he will bond with you, and he will be intimate with you, and you may or may not like any of it but thats the way it is. He chose you, and you did all the right things to make him want you even more, and sadly you will keep doing them because its in your pride to be the way that you are." Smiling as Ravenna had thought about Raven saying she wouldnt have kids, she kindly replied,"trust me, your gonna have children by him... and he will never stop loving you." She stands up while saying,"oh, and by the way... when you bit him, and changed him... You should know that even humans that are changed, they go through a newborn stage where there power is nearly infinate, and there physical attributes are severely enhanced... and most importantly of all, he will not let you go no matter what..."Ravenna brushes her hair out the way and puts it into a pony tail holding it in place with a blue ribbon and says,"so essentially, you set yourself up to be with him reguardless of what happens. But as Advice from you to me, dont fight him. Combat makes him remember how to fight, if you fight, and the more you fight, the more he will remember and learn to do once again. But if you so choose to love him, then his powers will remain dormant. If the King regains his memory, there is no telling what he will do to this world and your kind."

[LadyRaven]

Raven grunted through the discomfort of Jasper's bite and she didn't fight him. She knew what would happen if he did. Soon enough though, the white one returned him back to his hibernation and she glared openly at the other woman as she began her tale. Her scales healed over almost instantly as she listened, but then, as she learned the white one's name and just whom was clinging to her, Raven's eyes went wide and her breathing became erratic. She knew exactly who this angel was and as she turned her eyes down to Jasper, she understood perfectly who he was now too. "Oh, hell no!" She gasped.

Raven turned her face away as Ravenna began talking into her ear and shut her eyes tightly. She listened carefully to the Princess Royal and then shook her head. "I still won't breed with him." She said eventually, "I don't care what he does to me or the world around us. He can burn it to ash for all I care." She opened her eyes and stared at Ravenna again. The emptiness and hatred was more than evident on the matter. "There is nothing he can do that hasn't been done already, trust me, your highness. My kind are already done and we care nothing for the world and the mortals in it that destroyed us, so you can tell your beloved brother personally to burn in hell. I will remove him from my nest at the earliest possible opportunity and he will never, ever sire a bastard through me!" Every syllable was spoken with pure hatred despite her weakened state and it was made clear to Ravenna that Raven really did not care what he did, she would defy him until her dying day......

[Ravenna 3arc]

being able to tell clearly that she had hit a nerve on raven brought a smile to Ravenna's face. Somewhat sinnestor and somewhat graceful while standing there smiling, she brushed her hair out the way while saying,"oh no hunni, you have it wrong... He will mate with you, and he will do it often and alot..." she pulls up the sleeve to her shirt and says,"for when he makes up his mind, its set and he gets what he wants, and for you to think that you can cast him out as soon as you think he is the weakest, well... you will figure it out some day dear." Ravenna Knew that Raven knew what she was, but at the same time Ravenna didnt care. Her position of power wasnt something she boasted about and threw around, instead she stayed quiet for the most poart about it.

Ravenna looked at jasper before saying,"have you noticed the hold he is using on you, and have you noticed his body poasture and language?" turning away while continuing to speak,"he isnt doing just random holds, or laying there randomly. He has a demons death grip on you, but he is using his arms to absorb your mana and mix it with his, while his body attaches and connects to the aura that your emitting." She smiles almost from ear to ear while saying,"hell...he is bonding to you this very moment as I speak and you lay there powerless to do anything about it." Ravenna steps forward a few feet and turns her head in the direction that Raven was laying and said,"im gonna go for a few hours, you and Jasper have fun ok? Maybe you will like him if you put your guard down for once." She disspears again with a sudden sonic boom, leaving Raven and Jasper alone for a change.

[LadyRaven]

Raven had understood what was happening the first time that Ravenna had explained it, but for her to repeat it only served to remind Raven just how powerless she was for the moment. That angered her even more, but she kept her mouth shut. A plan was beginning to form deep in her mind. The shockwave from Ravenna as she left suddenly gave Raven some freedom. It had shifted Jasper somewhat on her and she was able to turn just enough to put her side to him. Tucking her wing down between them, she severed the skin contact between their bodies and she felt instantly relieved. His arms, she could do nothing about, but at least should he wake again enough to bite a second time, he would get nothing more than shoulder. As an added bonus, it freed up her arms a little and she was able to lift one enough to put over the exposed scales so he'd have even less to bite. She could lose a few fingers, but they would grow back in time and she could live with the inconvenience.

As her plan worked through her mind, she let her free arm drop. "Moira!" She called, "Moira, I need you!" The woman came to her side immediately and looked at her friend sadly. "I need you to do something for me." Raven said softly.
"Anything." Moira replied as she crouched down.
"Jasper will be waking soon." Raven explained, "I can feel his heart rate rising."
"What do you need me to do?" Moira asked.
"I need you to help me into hibernation before he wakes." Raven said and quickly reached out to take her friend's arm. "He is the Angelus King, Moira and he is coming to remember that. His sister, Ravenna has told me he won't allow me the choice of refusing him. His connection with me cannot be ended, so I must end it for him. Moira..."
"I understand." Moira said with a sad nod. "Then this is goodbye between you and I."
Raven nodded, "I'm sorry, Moira. Your family has been good to me and you most of all, but I cannot allow this."
Moira stood up and wiped her tears away. She turned to a small table and collected a small silver box. "I should have thrown him out before you arrived." She said with regret, "Then none of this would ever have happened. I'm so sorry Raven." She opened the silver box and held it out to Raven.
Raven shook her head, "It's not your fault, Moira, don't you ever think that." She reached in the box and took out a small silver needle while Moira put a bowl down on the floor. "You know what to do." She said quietly, "You must hurry. I need to be cold before he wakes."


Moira quickly went to work inserting the needle into Raven's wrist. Her blood began to flow quickly into the bowl and Moira then went about pulling away anything that would hinder the chilling. It meant leaving Raven almost naked because of the heat from Jasper, but after a few minutes, Raven began to slow her breathing and close her eyes. Her skin began to grey and harden to something quite close to stone. Her wings relaxed, but remained the deep black colour, as did her hair feathers. "Remember what I taught you." She said dozily.
"I will." Moira said over her tears, "I pray the connection dies before I do." She reached out and touched Raven's now icy cold cheek. "But if not, I will make sure my children take my place. Sleep well, Raven."
Raven offered a small and rather stiff nod as she felt herself sliding into a deep hibernation. And not a moment too soon, it seemed as she began to feel Jasper stirring at her side. She was running out of time....

[Ravenna 3arc]

Feeling the bond that was being created earlier that was now taken away from him. He woke up feeling groggy, and then noticed that his arms arent around her anymore, instead she is using her wings to block his touch. This angered him deeply but when he noticed that she was turning pale and there was a needle in her arm, he growled fiercely. He never really growled before and didnt know how he was doing it but it was just happening. He yanks the needle out of her and wraps his arms around her again, but this time using his body heat to warm her up. Desperate to keep her alive and well, he even starts toying with her sex. Knowing that it may or may not turn her on, but the intention was for her to focus on it in either anger or intimacy, either way that she saw it, he wasnt gonna give up.

With his free hand that he wasnt using to toy with her sex, he moved her hair out the way and noticed that her hand was in the way and that her skin had hardend. He moves her hand out the way and then bites down hard, causing some pain in his fangs but after a few moments they break through and pierce her skin. THe hand that he had used to move hers away went to her chest and began running her chest, trying his best to stimulate her in some way to stay awake and not leave him. He looked at Moira in anger, his eyes staring her down as He wouldnt stop looking at her. The eyes showing that death will follow if the wrong move is made.

With him there completely wrapped around her and fondling her body, it was clear to see that he had meant business. With one hand at her sex, the other at her breast, and his fangs in her neck it seemed as if he was marking her as his and hoping the human would do something about it. His fangs where in her but he wasnt feeding, instead he was giving her his venom, knowing that with the combined effects of everything else that he was doing it would make her hot and eager to mate. This was a old mating technique that his kind used to use to help make there species grow, but the odd thing was everything he was doing or done, he didnt know how. It was as if someone was doing it for him and he was just watching. He felt his back get really tight for a moment, but thinking it was nothing he paid it no mind but thats when he noticed a black wing draping over her and when he moved the wing moved. THats when he noticed that the wing was his. He kept the wing over Raven as he held her close, and as a added measure to show she was his, he then wrapped his legs over hers and held onto her that way as well.

[LadyRaven]

Moira carefully lifted the bowl and backed up with it as Jasper woke and began trying to revive Raven. She looked in the bowl at the dark blood and then back at him as he glared at her. She glared right back at him and backed up to the table and carefully put the bowl down. She then boldly turned her back on him and opened another small box on the table. From it, she retrieved two small vials. One contained a clear liquid, while the other held a small amount of white powder. "It won't work." She said as she added the contents of both vials to the bowl of blood. "No matter what you do, she won't wake up now." She stirred the mixture carefully. "The last time she went into hibernation, she slept for almost 500 years." After stirring the mixture one more time, she put the spoon down and turned away from the bowl.

Coming back to the bed, Moira stood over Jasper and Raven, but just out of his reach. "My grandfather's grandfather was the one that found her. He thought her a statue when he first saw her. In the church where she had been kept, she was called the weeping angel. Do you know why?" Moira crouched down a little and then sat on the floor. "Every year, for three days, she would cry. My ancestor was there to see it and at first, like everyone else, he believed it was a miracle of some kind, but then he learned more about those three days and he began to understand." She eyed Jasper carefully. "I know; you're wondering why I'm telling you this, Angel King, but you'll understand very soon. If Raven was still awake, she'd take my tongue, but it's very doubtful she will wake again until long after I'm dead. You see, many hundreds of years ago, something happened to Raven, something horrific. It made her who she is today and it's that reason why she now turns to stone in your arms."

Moira crossed her legs as she began her tale and she spoke it with a heavy heart and sadness in her voice. "In 1024, Raven was living in a city in France called Carcassonne. Her name then was Calitha. She lived there in peace with the towns people and she wasn't alone. She had a husband then, another Angelus, just like you. His name was Marcus and he was a good few centuries older than her, but it didn't matter. She loved him and he loved her. They had two children that were just as welcome among the mortals as she and Marcus were. The old Pope knew about the Angelus and he respected them for who and what they really were and he left them alone, but he died and the new Pope didn't feel the same way. He was a zealot and a cruel man. He began a crusade against the Angelus and any that harboured them. When her son Thackery was ten, the crusaders reached Carcassonne. Andromeki had only just hatched. They laid siege to the citadel for almost five years. Marcus was general of the guardian's army and he fought to protect the city and his family." Moira turned her eyes away then and looked down.

"A small skirmish managed to tunnel in under the west wall during the night and opened the gates to let the crusaders in. By dawn, the entire city was in flames. Thackery was killed by soldiers as he tried to protect his mother and sister. They cleaved his head right off in front of her and then snatched Andromeki from her arms. While they held her down, one of the soldiers dismembered Andromeki limb by limb. They laughed and taunted Raven while her baby daughter screamed. She finally stopped screaming when the soldier cut her head off. When they were done, they run Raven through with a sword and left her for dead." Moira wiped a tear away. "She woke three days later in the ruins of her house. She found Marcus' body later that day. They cut him limb from limb and put the pieces on pikes outside the gate. She never found his head. Once she knew the soldiers had moved on, she buried the remains in a small tomb just outside the city and then cut open her wrists and became stone over their grave to watch over them. Every year on the anniversary, she would cry in remembrance."

Slowly, Moira got back to her feet and went back to the bowl on the table. She put her fingers into the now dried mixture and held it up. Raven's blood had turned to black sand. It ran through her fingers and she watched it fall back into the bowl. "My ancestor figured it out and he revived her. At first, she tried to kill him, but he convinced her that things had changed, so she kept him around as a servant. It's been my family's duty ever since." She turned back to face Jasper. "Raven vowed she would never take another mate, Jasper, and though many have tried, she has remained alone. The thought of losing another child to this world, or another soul-mate is too much for her to bear. You'd understand this if you'd only taken the time to leave her alone, but instead, you forced yourself on her and your sister, Ravenna, made it clear she would have no choice with you. You will force her to mate and force her to give you clutches of children. So, knowing this, she felt her only option was to go into hibernation again and wait you out. Only this will bring her back."

She turned and picked up the bowl, showing him the black sand that was Raven's dried blood. "Only my family know the secret of her blood, so if you kill me or my brothers, that secret will die with us." She put the bowl back down again and came back to the bed. "So the way I see it, Angel King, you have two choices. Either you remain as you are and embrace stone for eternity, or you break your bond and leave Raven in peace. If you keep your bond with her, or your sister interferes with me and mine, I will cast her blood to the four winds leave you to the ages alone. If you let her go, I will revive her and you can build your bond with her the right way."

Turning back to the bowl, Moira began to carefully scoop the black sand into an ornate jar. She then sealed it with cork and then wax before pressing her signet ring into the top of it. She held it close to her chest as she turned back to Jasper. "I reckon I have another fifty or so years before I die. You have until then to make your choice, Jasper, King of Angels."

[Ravenna 3arc]

He grew frustraited with this human, she seemed to be the one calling the shots instead of Raven which in his eyes seemed to be weird and this human was bold. Knowing she could die at any moment by his hands, and she speaks boldly as she takes what he wants the most away from him which only angers him further. Hearing that she wont wake up no matter what he does, this brought a smile to his face. "Im not who I am just because I was born, I learned a few things that many never dreamed of."

He wasnt gonna leave Raven's side, even though he wanted to kill the human. He knew that if he left to kill her that the ties that he still has to Raven will be severed and wont be able to do one last final trick in hopes to win her back. Listening to the story about what had happened to Raven and why she is so cold now, made him understand why she is like she is but at the same time didnt sway his determination to be with her. He smiled at the thought of what the human said about Raven killing her, "lets hope that she does wake before your passing, I would wanna watch..." showing he had a supreme hate for her beyond description.

Looking at Moira, Jasper stared into Moira's eyes, almost staring at the depths of her soul while saying,"you speak to me about a emotionally battered woman, a woman who has sworn off love... but Im very persistant and dedicated to making her mine." Hearing that the human was as so bold as to tell him what his options where, he smiled knowing he was pissing her off or atleast thought he was in the very least. He looked at raven's Neck saying,"I think I will take the third option, the one that you failed to think of." He Looked back at raven saying,"according to you, you had said that she cries for three days on the death of her family, which means even though you drained her blood she still remains a conscious thought process and is aware of the surrounding enviroment...thus I can still get to her."

Smiling as he had practically pulled out a trump card, the ace in the whole. "But this isnt to say It will be easy, as a matter of fact I will have to do something that is very hard....even with me have done it several times in the past." There was no blood that he could use to spark the connection with, so he began thinking of a way to get in. Moments later he came up with a idea, "Raven, I dont remember my powers to well or much of anything.... But this I know how to do," he said to her lifeless body as he looked at her. He needed a way for there minds to mingle and they have a chat, and he thought of a way. He touches his chest, between the two breast plates he rubbed in a circle and says a chant but in a hushed whisper so that Moira doesnt hear it. Moments after he had began chanting, a flame sparked at his finger tips and upon leveling his hand the flame grew into a stronger flame that now was the size of a baseball. He then put his hand on her chest, pushing the flame inside her, causing him to shake and shiver some. He had Just injected his life force in her body so that he could form a link between them. He looked at her for the last time as he closed his eyes saying,"see you inside," falling asleep with his arms, wings , and legs all wrapped around her A small shield formed over the two of them. The shield made in pieces from dragon scales to form protection.

He opened his eyes and looked around and said outloud to himself,"so this is where you go to escape the world?" saying almost in a questioned manner as he was shocked slightly but expected as much, the only thing now was to find her. He looked at his hand, then slowly moved his arm to the left and his left wing formed and spread out, he copied the same process with the right and the same thing happened too. He then jumped into the sky, searching for her, just knowing that she would be around somewhere near by.

The dreamstate seemed to be stable, and appeared as if he had done it correctly and managed to form a link with her mind. He flew around for what felt like hours untill he managed to find her, upon finding her He landed beside her, almost behind her and said,"I came here to speak with you Raven, And I hope you will listen and talk to me about what I have to say." He tucks in his wings and says,"you already know im strong and can match anything you do, so if you think fighting me will stop me, well you already know the outcome." He took her hand into his, to offer support as his mind wasnt clouded here unlike in the other relm that was human and real. where he had just came from, he was partially drunk, and lost in memories and not to forget that he couldnt remember many things.

Looking at raven, "You know I want you, and Im dedicated to that task. But I think that for you and I to have a chance, we should talk. I know about what happened as to why you have chosen to be what you have become to be.... but you dont have to swear off love.... the flame is always there, you just need someone that knows how to fuel it."

[LadyRaven]

The dream world Jasper entered was very different to what one would expect from a dream. But then, Raven was very different. He arrived on a cliff overlooking a vast savannah and forest. Raven had constructed her dream world to reflect what she remembered of her original homeland. When he found her, she was stood atop a tall hill that overlooked another deep valley. At first, she looked much like what she did in reality and was posed in much the same way, but as Jasper landed and reached out to touch her, the colour began to return. She turned her head sharply and then glared at him as he turned her about and spoke to her. "You have no right to be here." She said, ignoring his words for the moment. "This is my dream, Jasper. You need to leave."

Turning away from him, she stared across the valley as smoke began to rise from a distant tree line. she fluttered her wings lightly. "So Moira has told you some of my history." She began, "But I doubt that you can comprehend it properly." She opened her wings and looked up at the sky. "The season is changing." She said distantly, "If you wish to stay here with me, then you will come with me now. I will show you what Moira has told you." She took to the skies and began to soar over the valley. Heavy clouds began to roll in and threaten snow and the winds picked up, but Raven seemed to take it all in her stride and simply turned her wings into the wind and carried on.

Several miles further, Raven began to descend again. The scenery had changed completely and they now looked over rolling hills and dense forests, and a large citadel and keep seated neatly atop one of the hills. It was ablaze and there was much movement from and around the citadel walls. Raven landed in silence and began to walk through the hellish scene. People were running for their lives in every direction while soldiers on horses chased them down and killed them. Raven shook her head and let a tear fall as she watched her once friends being slaughtered by the crusaders. She lifted her head in time to see someone she once called her soul mate.

Chasing after the crusaders was Marcus. He easily topped seven feet in height and held such a stature that many of the chasing soldiers faltered when they saw him. Raven made to go to him, but he didn't see her and started fighting with the soldiers. Even though he was bloodied and wounded, he was handsome and brutal in his defence. "Such a strong angelus." She said distantly, "I loved him so much." She turned her head away then when a soldier came up from behind with a broad sword and opened his back from shoulder to hip. "He died protecting us. He didn't even know that Andromeki had hatched. He had been on patrol when the skirmish opened the gates and the army rushed in. He never made it home in time to see her." Raven walked away from the horrific scene to a small house just across the burning square.

"This house was my home." She said to Jasper, "It wasn't much and it was rare Marcus could come or go without hitting his head on something, but it was ours. The guardian gave it to us and we made it our nest." She entered the house as the soldiers did and felt her tears flow. "Oh Thackery!" The boy, barely ten years old stood with Raven's sword in the living room as the soldiers entered. "He was just like his father." She cried, "So brave. He knew I couldn't fight them off." she shut her eyes tight as the soldier's sword came at the boy's throat and severed head from body. The young angelus fell without so much as a sound. But the silence didn't last.

In the back room, Raven began to hear her former self and her newborn begin to scream. She couldn't enter that room. She stood with her eyes tight shut and trembled head to toe as her tears fell. The screaming from the infant was plenty enough to shatter any heart. Raven turned her head as the screaming pitched and suddenly, a tiny bare wing came flying through the open doorway. "You know, they laughed while they tore her wings off." She cried. Soon after that severed limb came through the doorway, the screaming stopped and the infants head came through, rolling to a stop at Raven's feet. "They laughed the whole time."

Suddenly, Raven gripped her chest as black sand began to emerge from between her scales. She cupped her hands to it and then looked down. "They cut me deep into my heart." She said, "And then left me to die with the remains of my children." She glared at the soldiers as they left laughing and then one of then dropped a torch into Andromeki's cradle. Within minutes, the entire house was ablaze and Raven walked away.

Making her way around the back of the house, she watched her beaten and burned body escape from the house and out of city. Raven followed her old self, checking periodically that Jasper was following her. Once they had left, Raven made her way up the hill to watch what was left of her home fall into the hands of the crusaders. "You said you knew what happened to me, Jasper." She said as she turned to face him now. Her eyes were still wet with tears, but they had turned cold again. "But seeing it for yourself, do you actually understand?"

After some time in though, she went back to what he said when he first found her. "Yes, I understand that you will never willingly break your bond with me and you will never leave my side, but you understand now why I could never fully accept that bond. For many, there may still be a flame of love somewhere inside that simply needs finding, but Jasper..." She lifted her eyes to him, "My flame went up with my nest, my mate and my young. It became the ash that now sits beneath Carcassonne. There is no heart to rescue or ignite with love again. There is no fuel for my heart to burn with love a second time. As kin, you know that we mate for life. Marcus may have died, but I didn't. My heart does and always will belong to him. You cannot simply replace that with your own bond. Coming at me like you did only served to remind me why I avoid these things and your sister was happy to tell me you would never allow me the choice of refusing you. Whether I wanted it or not, you would force me into your bed and you would force me to bear your young." She turned away again and stared at the burning city as the snows began to fall.

"I will not punish Moira for telling you what I've shown you in this place, though I really should, but perhaps seeing it for yourself, you might gain a better understanding of why." She said quietly. "You have taken a great risk in coming here and I'll give you the respect you deserve for it, but until you can promise me that neither will you force your will on me, or force your desires, I will not waken from this place and I will never return any affection that you show to me. I know that your status and history can afford me a life far beyond what I could dream and a security that will last an eternity, but I will not trade my mind and soul for it."

She looked back at him cautiously, "Show me that you can be happy simply to learn from me, then in time, perhaps I can call you a friend. After that, I don't know, but that will be my only offer for now. If you can accept that, Jasper, then I will allow you to continue your bond and I will wake with you."......

[Ravenna 3arc]

hearing that he had no right to be in her dream, he simply turned his head to the side saying,"I came to get my woman," he was partially cold but at the same time trying to be kind to her. Wanting to be with her, he quickly launched himself into the air following her while ignoring the bad weather that his wings where suffering from. When they had landed to watch her lover being killed, he simply watched for a moment before saying,"this is your dream state, so why make yourself suffer by watching and reliving this?"

He followed her everywhere she went, and managed to keep up and not lag behind even though his wings where getting sore and very tired. It had been a very long time since they where last used and he had already put them through several miles of flight.

As she turned to him and faced him, he thought about what she had said about not being able to accept his bond and shook his head slowly saying,"you say that your flame went up with your home, but if thats the case then I wouldnt have been able to get here if that was true. Besides, you survived and your still alive... which only means that your strong, you may be really defensive to try and prevent what once was so that it wont ever be again but the flame is still there. I used my flame to get here to you, the flame bonds to another persons flame so that the bond and link can be established." He walked up to her, getting really close to her. Looking up at her ,"dont hit me..." he had said as He quickly grabbed and hugged her. He held the hug for what seemed to feel like forever but was barely a minute.

He let go of her, knowing she needed that and said,"Alcohol clouds my mind and Im unable to think straight so I act on the reaction principle. the principle of, cause and effect." (push something, it falls over(cause and effect)-) He rubs his neck some saying,"but here, my mind isnt clouded."

"I know our kind only mates for life, but thats just like what a human marriage is supposed to be like... untill death do us part. But just because such happens doesnt mean that you have to shut your heart out to the rest of the world for the remainder of your days," he had said softly while trying to be kind to her while also proving a point. He wanted her to be his and was really focused on trying to show her what he meant. In a way, he was fighting her, using his words and logic rather than his brute forced combat skills. "Thats my sister talking, she knows I normally get what I want no matter what, but she is overly mistaken and doesnt understand the full extent of how I get what I want. It may be true that I wont give up on you, but I wouldnt force you into my bed and bear my children." He watched as she turned her back to him, and he then stood directly beside her on her left. Using his right hand, he grabbed hers to offer her support but also to show that he was dedicated to this as well.

He looked at her as he realised that he had a chance with her, but things would have to be different from here on out for him to get her as his mate. He turns her to him by putting his hands on her shoulders and gently turns her so that she faces him and says,"If providing me a fresh start with you is what it will take for me to have a chance to be with you, then please offer me that and I will gladly take it so that I can try my best... but in the future... dont give me alcohol." He puts his hand on her cheek and rubs it very faintly, then moves his hand down to her chin and holds it with only a few fingers as he guides her to where he wants her as he kisses her very passionately before saying,"I wont force my will and desires on you, but know that I wont give up on you no matter what. Even If I dont have my memory, I will still try my best."

Looking at her, he nods his head then says to her,"I accept," hearing that she would let him continue the bond that he was forming made him happy inside. He lets go of her as he brings his arms back to his side and says,"Im gonna go back now, I have exhausted my mana and need to return."

[LadyRaven]

At first, when Jasper forced her to hug him, she wanted to strike out and push him away, but thankfully, it didn't last long and she was able to restore her cool demeanour before she did anything stupid, thus inadvertently obeying his request not to hit him. The kiss however, was another matter and she glared at him slightly as she wiped her lips. "Please don't do that again." She said quietly, stepping back from him, but at least she didn't hit him, though she badly wanted to. Then he explained he had exhausted himself being in her dream and she nodded, "Then you should return soon." She told him, "But I should warn you of a few things before you go." She turned back to him and looked up.

"Time does not move here like it does in the real world." She explained, "You have been here for many hours with me, almost what you would consider a full day, but back in the world, many years could have passed. You won't know just how long you've been asleep until you wake, but being where we are, I would suggest strongly that you do not panic or strike out at whomever is there to help us wake. Moira's ancestor nearly paid with his life the last time I panicked and he was there only to help me and guide me back into the waking world. If Moira is there and you wake first, she may not believe what you say, so I ask that you tell her this. "I will not punish her for divulging my history to you, though it has angered me that you know. Tell her that I am sorry I had to leave her in such horrible circumstances and I regret leaving her unprotected." She turned back to the valley to look one last time at the remains of her once beloved home. As she did so, her body began to pale again and as she lowered her head and closed her eyes, her skin took on the stone-like appearance it had done before. She became like a statue that overlooked the valley before she began to fade away. She was leaving her dream world and waking back into reality.

Back in the room where they slept, almost nothing had changed. In fact, everything had been left exactly as it was the night they entered hibernation, so it would be difficult to imagine that the world had seen another fifteen years. Moira still lived, though time hadn't been so kind. She had married, but it hadn't lasted. She had been divorced now for nearly nine years. She had two children, two boys named Michael and David. Michael was the youngest and 12 while David was the oldest at fourteen. Moira still owned Hex, but it had been updated greatly and was now more of a quiet bistro and restaurant than bar and nightclub.

On the evening that the pair woke, Moira was doing her usual thing at the bar, taking orders and sending them out with the waiters while David and Michael were doing their homework in the back room. There was nothing unusual about that day, but as the evening wore on, Moira began to feel something was odd. Her two sons did also and David, ditching his homework, decided to venture upstairs. Michael was hot on his heels.

"You know we're not allowed in the attic." Michael said quietly as they climbed the stairs into the roof of the home.
"Stop being such a wimp." David goaded.
"I'll tell Mum." Michael threatened.
"You do that." David replied sharply, "But I'm going up there."
Michael relented the point and both continued up into the attic room where Raven and Jasper still slept.

On entering the room, David was quick to go to the table where Raven's jar still sat undisturbed. He blew the dust off the top and cocked his head at the wax seal on the lid. "This is Mum's signet ring." He said, then put the jar down again. He turned around to find Michael staring at the dust covered dome on the bed. "Be careful." He warned, "It might break with your heavy hands."
"Screw you!" Michael snapped as he began to wipe away a little dust so he could look inside. "Wow!" He breathed, "She looks just the same as Mum describes in her stories."
David came over and wiped away more dust as he too peered into the dome. "Yeah." He said with wonder. He then furrowed his brow, "Can you hear that?"
"Hear what?"
"Hush up and listen!" David said sharply. Both boys put their heads closer to the shield and listened.

From deep within the solid done, something began to thud softly. It was almost unheard at first, but as the boys put their heads actually on it, they could both hear what could only be described as a very slow heart beat. Michael was the first to back off and as he backed up to the door, he stared at his brother. "We should get Mum." He said.
"Indeed!" Moira snapped as she entered the room. Both boys quickly spun to face their mother and David quickly backed away from the shield over Raven and Jasper. "You know you're not allowed in here!" She said sharply.
"But..." David protested.
"They're alive in there!" Michael chirped.
Moira narrowed her eyes, "I know." She said, "They were never dead, Boys, they were sleeping. Hibernating."
"But I could hear them." David said. "I can hear their hearts beating."
Moira quickly went to the shield and put her ear to it. That strange feeling she had now made sense. "Oh my!" She breathed and quickly backed up. "Boys, I need you both to leave right now." She said with urgency.
"But...!" Michael pleaded.
"Now!" Moira yelled. The boys fled and Moira quickly went to the table and picked up Raven's jar. Smoothing her greying hair back behind her ears, she broke the seal on the jar and then opened the silver box. "Please let it be you, Raven!" She pleaded quietly, "Please don't let him wake first?" She still remembered clearly Jasper telling her how much he would enjoy seeing her punished and how his eyes had glittered with death for her.

Moira picked up the delicate silver needle and checked it before putting it down again and she uncorked the jar. She then pricked her finger and added some of her blood to the black sand. She had never done this before and so hoped that it worked as her ancestor had described. She then took up a spoon and began to stir the sand and blood together. Something began to happen and Moira turned her head to her sleeping friend as the heart beat got louder and a little quicker. She didn't have much time left before either one of them woke. In her head, she began to hear Raven's voice calling to her. "I'm here, my friend." She said out loud, "I'm here and I'm ready. Just you get here before that asshole does."

The sand melted in Moira's blood and became Raven's dark blood and she put the cork back in before picking up the needle. Being careful not to snap it, she pushed it through to create something of a crude drip and went back to the shield. "I'm ready on your word, Raven." She said to the stirring form under the shield. She held the jar carefully, poised to stab the other end of the needle into her friend as quickly as possible once the barrier had been dropped. Once again, she prayed that it was Raven that woke first and not Jasper......

[Ravenna 3arc]

it had been a long time since he had done something like this and it honestly felt weird. The blood that he had in him was still saturated with alcohol but was no longer giving him that drunk effect since it wore out of him, but the blood thats in him was now stale. His heart began speeding up and forming a slow and steady heartbeat as he laid there. His whole body was awakening from his longer than normal sleep.

Jasper heard Raven's Voice and he opened his eyes, the dome had to be lowered but he was very weak. His wing was still drapped over her but it had changed from black to white showing that life hadnt been restored to his wings which also suggested that other body parts may not be able to be used yet due to the lack of blood. Jasper's sister appears in the room with Moira all of a sudden saying,"I felt Jasper wake up, where is he.... oh...shit..." she saw the dome and noticed that it hadnt been lowered and said,"somethings not right, normally he would have had that dome down by now." She looked at Moira saying,"you know you really shouldnt pray, it sends a beacon for me to get here alot easier." She smiled at her evily as she hadnt changed not one bit but doesnt know that Jasper has changed.

Trying to move his body, he noticed that he was unable to move, the only thing he could seem to manage to do was to breathe and look around. Jasper looked at the nape of Raven's neck and asked,"Raven... are you awake?" He coughed as his mouth was dry from the long sleep that had taken place that he basically didnt know would take place. "I need... you..." he closed his eyes as talking made him feel exhausted and he began to fall asleep but not like before.

He needed her help taking down the dome that was protecting them, nearly impossible to destroy from the inside and out. Only he knew how to take down the dome, but he needed to tell her so that she could atleast get him help. He wasnt trying to get her to care for him, or to play into her female side.

THe thing is, that Jasper had unknowingly went into a slumber with toxins in his blood(alcohol) and this had made his blood bad, and normally his kind would fix that later by feeding. But because he had went into a slumber, he didnt have the time to fix it. So his body slowed down and cycled the blood very, very slowly and due to this he needed more blood.

Quite similar to oil in a car, he needed more to keep everything running smoothly so that he could maintain a normal life, giving the considering.

His wings where white as the snow and severely brittle, a few of the feathers on the wing that was laying over her had cracked showing there severe weakened state from the blood loss through time. Ravenna stood there tapping her foot saying,"the only one in the family who can make dragon shields, and he wouldnt ever tell us how to do it or get in... times like this i wish he would be a closer brother and tell me things like this."

[LadyRaven]

Moira gave a deep groan as Ravenna turned up.  Though she hadn't seen the angel for fifteen years, the sheer presence was more than enough to waken those memories of previous conversations.  She did have one retort that she hoped Ravenna would take to heart after so many years.  "What makes you think I was praying to God?"  She asked with sarcasm, "God and your kind have absolutely fuck all to do with me and mine.  If I have any prayers at all, they're for Raven and Raven alone, so wind your neck in and let me do what I do best."  She then turned her back on the angel and peered into the dome.  Ravenna's words about Jasper didn't go unnoticed either.  How she wished she and Jasper were closer as siblings.  "One does wonder."  Moira mused in sarcasm.  After a few minutes staring into the shield at the movement, she realised that Raven's own blood might not be enough to bring her around fully on its own.  Not to mention Jasper would be in serious need also.  As much as she hated to admit it, he needed help.  Pulling out her phone, she dialled for her brothers.  "Raven is awake."  She said, "Yes, the moron is too.... I don't know.  Looking at them, I'd say they need a few pints at least.... Yeah, a whole one will be needed.....  Yeah, two would be better.  How soon can you get here?.....  Ok, just hurry."  She hung up and put her free hand back to the dome.  "Hang on, Raven."

Inside the dome, raven also began to wake, but she was weak too.  Until she had her blood back, there was little she could do to help Jasper.  "I'm here."  She said quietly through a stiff jaw.  Slowly and carefully, she unfurled her hand, watching through hazed eyes as the old scales cracked and began to fall away.  It left new scales underneath, but they were soft and vulnerable until she had her blood back.  "Jasper, what did you do?"  She asked groggily as she felt the shield around them with her fingertips.  The magic in them said Dragon.

She ran her fingers carefully over the inside of the shield as she began to work the muscles one by one and as she did that, more of her old scales began to crumble and fall away.  By the time she was done, she would shed the entire layer like any other reptile.  It was messy and uncomfortable, but necessary and she would benefit from it quickly.  As her arm lifted up, the scales in her joints cracked too quickly and a tiny amount of thick black blood began to ooze from the wounds.  It was then she realised that Jasper was in a worse condition than her and she knew why.  He hadn't planned for this in any sense and he had been very much drunk still when he'd done it.  No doubt the toxins in his blood had done some serious damage over the years and because of this, his body had literally fossilized.  And now she couldn't move either because of it.  If she did, he could lose a limb at the very least.  Drawing back her thin lips, opened her mouth and as she felt the flesh underneath crack open and bleed like her arm, she moved it into her mouth and try and thin it down a little.  She needed her venom.

After a moment, she had enough of her blood and spittle and she took in as deep a breath as Jasper's grip would allow.  She then spat it as hard as she could at the shield.  Dragon magic was much like Angelus magic and it was often believed by her people that they had actually descended from the ancient line almost directly instead of the casual common dinosaur.  The blood spattered against the dome and it began to bubble like acid on stone.  It didn't take long before there was a hole big enough in the shield for Moira to get her hand in.  "Moira..."  Raven breathed, holding out her arm as best she could near the hole.

On seeing the hole forming in the dome, Moira steadied her arm and the jar with it's silver needle.  The second Raven reached out her hand, she would reach in and return her friend's blood.  Jasper be damned, she thought.  Eventually, the grey and cracked hand of her angel appeared close to the hole and Moira shot her hand forward.  The hole kept getting bigger and it would eventually be weakened enough for Moira to start breaking pieces off.  She turned the jar upside down and quickly and quite viciously, stabbed the needle into Raven's forearm.  "Here you go Raven, lap it up, honey."
"Moira."  Raven said slowly.
"I'm here, honey."  Moira said with a smile through the hole.
"Give me the jar."  Raven said.  Her blood was pouring in quickly and she didn't want it all.  "Jasper needs help."
"I've got my brothers coming with some fresh blood for him."  Moira said, "This is yours and yours only."
"No."  Raven said with a slight shake of her head.  More and more of her old scales began to fall away as the blood entered her system and revived her.  "He won't last that long.  He needs something now and this is the only way.  I'll be fine, I promise."
"No."  Moira said firmly.  "He did this to you, why should you help him?"
"Because things have changed."  Raven said quietly, "He has changed."
"Not from where I'm sitting."  Moira said angrily.
"Give me the jar."  Raven demanded, "That's an order."
Orders were orders and Moira begrudgingly handed over the jar to Raven.  "I hope you know what you're doing."  She said sharply and backed away from them.

Without a word, Raven pulled the needle from her arm and turned the jar over in her free hand.  She knew his neck was just within reach and hoped she could hit it right without having to look.  Swinging her arm out and around, she stabbed the needle into Jasper's neck and held the jar up so that what was left of her blood would drain into him.  "Don't ever say I never gave you anything, Jasper."  She said sardonically as the blood poured into him.  She hoped it would be enough until Moira's brothers arrived with the fresh blood.....

[Ravenna 3arc]

He opened his eyes when she asked what he did and saw that she was touching the dome and whispered weakly,"dragon..." he closed his eyes once more, this time beginning to fall asleep again. His magic shield was failing, his power was beginning to grow really dull and fade out. The scales on the shield began to crack and fall apart, when the acid hit them they just fell through but still remain some of there hardness to them. I wake to see the shield being torn apart and holds my chest saying,"stop..." breathing irratically as each piece they tore from the shield made him hurt worse than he already did. The shield and him where connected, the shield was formed from his heart since he has dragon blood. He quickly passed out as they stopped tearing the shield and began working toegether.


Waking up as soon as Jasper had heard Moira arguing with Raven, but was too weak to say or do anything. It felt like he had passed out again because he suddenly felt a jolt of pain in his neck and didnt know how it happened or what caused it. But what he did know was that he was starting to get better as time started to slowly move on. His heart began to speed up as it took to the blood and his body began restoring itself. THe blood wasnt enough to make him stable but it was enough to get him off the edge of death. He moved his wings weakily to help with the blood going around his body and moved them off her but he kept his arm around her. He didnt want to be without her, even if he was weak. Jasper Felt slightly better as the blood began taking its course, but the thing that made him feel the best was that Raven was finnally giving him a chance, and there was a small glimmer of hope and feelings in all this that was showing from her even though he didnt have to say anything about it.

Jasper looked at Raven as she had spoke to him, he squeezed his arm around her a little bit tighter as his response since he was till weak and held it there for a second before loosing up his grip on her. Trying to thank her, He looked at her neck and noticed that she was nearly in the same condition as him but she decided to help him too and thats when he realised the full extent of the situation and whispered,"I love you Raven." He had meant it, He knew that she was the one from the start, and this sealed it for him. He closed his eyes again as he was tired, but now stable but this was by no means done. He needed more blood, lots more.

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