Raven sighed as he gently molded about the soul in his hands, he had grabbed a spider, one normal and one giant one from the forest, and had decided on something curious.
He wanted to try mixing parts of the souls together. From his readings he knew it was possible to absorb souls, mutilate them and more, but what about melding pieces together.
The soul is a template on which the body is molded after. If someone lost the part of their soul that is their right arm, they wouldn't be able to use their right arm at all, because they body just wouldn't recognize it as existing without the soul piece.
So he was curious. He had chopped off the fang piece of the giant spider and molded the small spiders soul into a similar shape of the fang as best he could, and the giant spiders fangs seemed to function, however there was a weirdness about it, like it was a foreign thing to the giant spider.
So this time he had decided instead of just sticking it there and making it stay put, he would gently meld them together into one form.
Would the smaller soul mix into the bigger soul and try to fill in the void after being overpowered, or would they just be functional?
Results?
It fucked died in a gory explosion, thankfully only the soul, not the body. However it fucking hit like a truck into his chest.
"Ugh, figure out soul shielding." Raven muttered in pain as he rubbed his sore chest. His blackened fingers gently rubbed out the soreness.
He glanced down at his fingers and frowned.
"Soul shots apperently can cause form changes to revert to natural form. How curious, the polyjuice potion doesn't do that, even when dead the form stays that form beyond the hour. Is it because I'm alive after a soul hit that I can return to my base form?" Raven muttered as he went to change his form and grunted as he felt extreme pain.
"Fuck. Ok, not doing that. Illusions it is for now." Raven grumbled as he leaned against the wall while using his wand as a focus to cast an illusion spell over himself.
"Ok think, I tried changing my form, physically actually changing my form, my soul changes, and so my body changed, however because I just hurt my soul, the soul can't properly change, leading to agonizing pain… oh is that one of my hearts stopped?" Raven muttered curious as he closed his eyes and focused, and yes it was.
"One of my hearts just stopped because of that. Scary." Raven smiled in dark amusement as he thumped his chest and felt his second heart slowly start beating again as his soul began to slowly recover from the damage.
"Alright, I'll leave souls alone for now till I can do some proper research on them." Raven muttered before he fortified the illusion over himself and headed out. He had shit to do.
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Raven froze in place as he stood with Rose, both having been called to the infirmary after classes.
"This might be a bit hard for you both, but do go in to the end." Minerva said gently and the two walked in to the end of the hospital wing, and laying there was the bushy haired girl, and to Ravens horror, the twins.
"They were all found together, Mr. Weasley's standing in front of Ms. Granger who was looking into a mirror, or we believe from the shattered pieces on the ground." Minerva said softly as she caught up to them.
"Feel free to stay as long as you like before curefew. Classes are canceled for the rest of the day for you two." She said and turned away and left the wing.
"Why them? Why not someone else?" Raven asked with a hint of desperation, why couldn't some fucking human have taken the gaze instead.
Rose not as emotional as Raven in this moment, saw the book clutched in Hermione's hand and gently pulled it off her clutched hand.
"Basilisk. The monster in the chamber of secrets is a basilisk." Rose said in horror and Raven snorted as he calmed down a little.
"And? It's just a fucking snake, it's been crawling around hunting. I mean it was obvious, what else could cause a person to become paralyzed like this, and even cause the twins to enter such a state." Raven smiled, though there was a hint of regret, perhaps hate, at who none will know, but it existed.
"You knew and didn't say anything!?" Rose growled out and he titled his head.
"I've known for several months. Wasn't that hard to figure out." Raven smiled coldly as he looked at the twins.
"They why didn't you say anything!?"
"Because it wasn't important enough too." He said dismissively.
"So only when it effects you it becomes important!?"
"Yes." He wouldn't deny it. He didn't see the point in doing so.
"Is this all a fucking game to you!? Everyone's lives at risk and you didn't care!? All for some sick amusement at people's suffering!?" Rose snapped finally, and he snarled down at her, his height towering over hers, but she wasn't intimidated in this moment.
"Watch. Your. Tone. With. Me. Girl." Raven spat out slowly as his magic started building up inside of him, slowly pushing down on Rose, but in that moment her body glowed with a green flaming aura and her eyes seemed to be made of green flames and resisting the sheer weight of Raven's magic.
"DO NOT TELL ME TO WATCH MY TONE! You are no different then the Dursleys! No you're worst then them! You used to be kind and nice, playful and a prankster, but all you are now is a piece of trash who doesn't care for anyone!" Rose snarled out and Raven growled as his fingers bled black and bent the bed railing he was grabbing.
"You will watch how you speak to me, or-" Raven was cut off.
"Or what!? You will silence me? Beat me within an inch of my life? Smack me around? News flash, it's nothing fucking new to me! All you are is a bad person!" Raven stared at Rose, and truly stared at her, he just wanted to hold her up by the throat and rip out her eyes.
"I'll rip out your still beating heart and feed it to you. That's what I'll do to you. So watch your fucking tone with me!" Raven snarled out as he got in her face and all she did was headbutt him.
He took a deep breath.
"Figure out your emotions, and then talk to me again later." He growled out before he changed into a crow and flew off.
Rose sighed as she felt the energy coursing through her slowly retreat back into her core. She had never been that angry, but now that she was calm again, she looked back at it, and she could only remember the eyes of Raven.
So cold, but screaming for help. For anyone to help him, from what she wasn't sure, but she recognized those eyes, she saw them in the mirror all the time when at the Dursley's. So lifeless, uncaring of anything, but still oh so full emotions.
She had wanted to reach out and grab him, but it felt like something was holding her in place, preventing her from reaching out and grabbing him.
Her own cowardice?
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Raven sighed as he changed back into his true form from the air as a crow and just let himself slam into the ground onto his back, he didn't even feel it.
He had just suddenly been so full of anger, he had snapped at her. She had been angry, her friends were basically statues, stuck as there were until cured.
Yet, the moment she had snapped at him, all he could feel was burning hot anger, a demand to burn everything down to cinders.
He shook his head at his thoughts, he could feel them demanding he rip and tear everything until nothing was left. Until everything was dead and ashes at his feet.
With a moment he found himself in his Dawn Trigger, Dawn energy glowing around him, seeping into the ground and pulling the natural energy of the world towards him.
The pure energy, so filled with corruption and bloodlust, demanding the death of humans, but suddenly the exact opposite also flooded into him, protection of humans, uncorrupted and loving.
"Mom?" Raven weakly asked before he was surrounded in some kind of material.
He lost consciousness soon after, the last sound he heard before imaginable pain fully knocked him out, was the sound of a single heart beat.
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Morgan Le Fay froze in place as she felt a rush of emotions slam into her from the one remaining link she had tied to her soul.
Pure and unadulterated fear. She heard a faint whisper weakly reach her ears and tears started flowing out her eyes.
"Mom?"
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A glowing crack appeared in the area nearby and out stepped a man in his prime wearing simple clothes and a floating golden crown with glowing blue gems.
He had white hair and dark blue eyes. Pale skin. He seemed human.
However the most catching thing was the child of about six sitting around his shoulder happily playing with the crown. Tossing it and catching it as it came flying back. It was a girl with white hair and green eyes.
"What are we doing here daddy? It's creepy looking, and what's the heart looking thing?" She asked curiously and the man smiled.
"Daddy just wanted to see something he was curious about for a while. We're going now, and it does look like a heart." The man laughed as the heart shaped cocoon made a heart beat sound as the two left in the glowing crack as it closed up.
"Good luck Raven Inanis, your journey will be tough, but we will succeed, for we are us after all." The man whispered under his breath unheard by the child.
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Rose Potter grumbled to herself as she slowly made her way down the stairs, she had just opened the chambers of secrets entrance thanks to Moaning Myrtle.
She wished she had Raven here right now, or she would once she met Tom Riddle.
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Three hours later in the forbidden forest, the cocoon stared cracking and glowing before it broke apart into energy and was absorbed into Raven before he fell to the ground on his stomach.
However his appearance had changed yet again.
(Man I promise this is the last appearance change for a while lmfao)
Raven still had his stunning white hair down to his mid back, however there was dark blonde streaks in it now. His eyes were a glowing cyan color with slits, however there was marks under his eyes as if from not sleeping. His skin was pale, though he had patches of what seemed like scales perhaps.
His fingers still had that blackened look, but much sharper, his toes had received the same treatment. They looked like they could slice through steel with ease.
Pitch black horns with blue rings glowing with dawn energy were coming out of his head and pointing forward. His ear were tipped and pointy like daggers.
The wings and tail of his demonic form were now natural on him and they were much larger now and could draped around him like a full proper cloak with ease. His tail longer then he is tall laid flat at the moment, but sharp enough to cut through almost anything.
If one were to see his body, they'd see black lines symmetrically covering his body and glowing at times before settling down.
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Raven opened his eyes with a groan as he looked numbly at himself in a mirror, his true form had changed again, he really wished this would stop.
"I feel so-" Raven paused as he felt an emotion, not his own, but one he felt in the presence of Behemoth.
Pure fear.
Without a moment of hesitation he shifted into a human form, without pain, and flew following his instincts.
He didn't need wings or magic, he just moved as if defying gravity itself by sheer will.
He found himself by a giant rock and he kicked it and with ease shattering it. A giant tunnel no doubt for the basilisk revealed itself and he moved through it before arriving on a curious scene.
The floor melted around Rose who laid panting on her knees and glaring at a… partially solid soul? The youngest sibling of the twins laid on her back unconscious behind Rose. The wand of Rose in the hands of the partially solid soul who was writing in the air using the flagrante spell.
"Voldemort has always been my past, present and future. I am Lord Voldemort." Baldy Jr. said as he tapped the written name and mixed it up revealing "I AM LORD VOLDEMORT" to be read.
"Oh wow, an anagram, so impressive." Raven snorted as he dropped down in front of Rose, he didn't turn back towards her. He didn't want to right now.
"Who might you be?" Voldemort asked and Raven only smiled kindly, extremely annoyed.
"Your biggest annoyance."
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Oh boy, two whole chapters in a day, quite impressive for myself I must say, and they're both 2000+ plus words.
Anyway for those wondering about what the fuck is happening right now with Raven, do not worry, answers will be given after next chapter, so chapter 62. 3 more chapters to go.
Anyways I hope you enjoyed the chapter, until next time my dear readers!
Bye~
-Voidy, The Insomniac