The Black Necromancer-Book 4

Chapter 28

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Chapter 28

                “How… What… When?” Kayla stammered, staring at Raven like she had seen a ghost.

                “That’s impossible!” Dahlia breathed, reaching out to touch Raven and then drawing back like she was afraid that her hand would pass right through Raven’s.

                Troy whipped around to stare at Sapphire who was grinning openly now. “You did that!” he exclaimed. “When? How? We left you for what… seven hours?”

                Sapphire’s grin widened. “Tam actually gave me the idea for healing her,” she admitted, shooting a smile at her ex-boyfriend. “He had donated blood to Mitchell to make Luna’s cloak, her camouflage one. We figured that since it was as weaker version, we needed to find a catalyst to make it less inert. So we used my powers in my DNA for the weaker strand and extracted it from the blood surrounding it to make it compatible with Raven’s blood. Since she can adapt to anything, we didn’t even need to find a catalyst; we just injected my powers into her. It was weird. We spent hours trying to figure out a catalyst, but in the end when we experimented using a sample of her blood, we didn’t even need one. It was incredible!”

                A few hours ago, Kayla wouldn’t have understood a single word that Sapphire had said, but this time, she did. And, judging from Troy and Dahlia’s lack of questions, they did too.

                “You guys totally saved my sorry butt,” Raven said with a grin, running a hand through her yellow-streaked hair. “Nice job, by the way.”

                Dahlia flung her arms around Raven. They had become close friends over the six months in which Troy, Dahlia and Hunter had watched out for her back in San Francisco. Raven hugged her back and then wrapped her arms around Troy.

                “What’s with the hair?” Wes, Sapphire’s younger brother, asked interrupting their brief reunion.

                “Wes,” Sapphire chided. “That’s not polite.”

                Raven pulled at one of the yellow locks in her mop of jet-black hair. “Remnants of the poison,” she said matter-of-factly. “We think it’ll last forever; it won’t fade. But as long as I don’t feel weaker, I think it’s okay.”

                Troy smirked. “That’s a bit like Rogue from X-Men,” he told her.

                Raven stuck out her tongue at him. “Except my powers are more like Mystique, right?” she teased back.

                “You share her first name too,” Dahlia joked, slipping her arm around her friend’s shoulder. The three of them were especially close considering no one else understood the human world the way they did; Kayla, Sapphire, Tamarak and Hunter had lived as nomads there while Luna and Cedric had lived at the immortals’ palace.

                Raven rolled her eyes. “Except I don’t think Jennifer Lawrence could turn into a bird,” she grinned. “Maybe it would’ve been easier if I had taken the role.”

                The three of them shared a smile; both Troy and Dahlia were immensely relieved that Raven had survived her ordeal. They shared a bond, even though Troy and Dahlia had lied to her originally and told her that they were twins while they had been working undercover at Raven’s school.