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RAVEN by erraticlyme

  Action Collection: RAVEN" by erraticlyme  erraticlyme 

''Move out of my way Damon!'' She snarls. Fist clenching and her ever changing eyes glaring. But he did not move. His bloodshot eyes staring back at her. Searching, pleading.But her resolve will not crumble and his attempts to make her stay are futile.He rake his hair with his fingers in the growing frustration in his gut.''Raven, please just stay. We can fight this together'' he says but she cannot be swayed with his words of reassurance. She knew that nobody can help her because a monster is inside her and it's only a matter of time before it can totally consume her and take over her body.''No Damon!'' She screams, the veins in her neck were thick against her skin and her eyes turns into a shade of night filled with danger and warnings ''No. . . Nobody can help me. Eris is already gaining more and more power inside me'' the last two words caused her voice to crack and her ever changing eyes turns three shades lighter. Yes, Eris, goddess of discord, quarrels and fued. Eris personified all chaos and strife resulting in the warfare, death, unhappiness and pain. She is Eris' supposed reincarnation and soon Eris shall claim her body and regain her ethereal form with the promise that she will again cause great pain and suffering amongst the humanity.

Raven kept fighting her, denying her out of her body but doing so causes Raven's body to weaken and experience excruciating pain. She did not care, all she wanted to do is to stay away from anyone, from people whom she might hurt once Eris is able to take over her body. She wanted to find the weapon that can kill Eris and will prevent her from ever coming back knowing full well that it will bring her her death too.

''Raven, I will not let you do this. I will protect you from the Erinyes, from Eris.'' He offers with determination and promise in his eyes but she only laugh bitterly, shaking her head and licking the bottom of her lip because she knew that he wasn't supposed to be protecting her, if anything, he should be punishing her for he is once was one of the Erinyes also known as the Furies whose sole purpose was to pursue and punish sinners.

''You are one of them Damon. Can't you see what it can bring?'' She bit off, but her words sting her too and her eyes, her eyes that can never lie. The eyes of an Iridescent, the raise that were cursed by the gods because they are Eris' descents. The eyes that changes color according to her true feelings and inhibitions, changed into the color of a newly bloomed rose with tinges of black and blue at the corners of her irises. The colors that represents a mixture of affection, guilt, anger and sadness because her heart is irrevocably in the hands of the man that was supposed to punish her and bring Eris' death. His unblinking bloodshot eyes well up with blood for his raise have had blood for tears together with their immortality, a characteristic for all Erinyes. He did not want to let her go, but Raven has always been a strong headed person even before she discovered that she will be the one to fulfill Eris' vow to come back every 600th year of her death and shall claim the body of one of her descents. Damon knows it too but as he sees Raven's eye color changing, his longing to make her stay and protect her magnified to ten folds knowing full well that what she's saying differs from what she truly feels.

''Don't do this'' he pleaded once more, but Raven's need to protect humanity is greater than any greedy inhibition she has. Her eyes starts to change colors again as her gaze volleys from his face and to the ground. She purses her lips placing her hands on her hips while her foot staccato tapping on the forest floor. But there is an eerie silence around the forest and soon Damon knew exactly why.

''Raven, they're coming!'' he hissed, marching towards her attempting to pull her out of sight but it was to late. His fellow Erinyes moved fast surrounding the two of them.