Queen Raven

Chapter One

I was tied to a tree as I watched my friends and my family being torn apart by wolves. Then their red eyes landed on me.They all pounced at the same time with their jaws opened and I couldn't do anything but close my eyes and brace myself, with my face still wet from the tears from watching my loved ones being torn apart.

I woke up at the crack of dawn from another nightmare. They're getting worse and worse. I might need to make some potions to make them go away. I went to the bathroom and washed my face to get rid of the images from my dream and I got dressed in a sports bra and leggings and running shoes and I tied my dark hair into a ponytail. I grabbed my phone and headed to the gym. As a few people passed by me in the halls they bowed their head in my direction.

It was still early so I didn't have to worry about running into too many people. I walked into the gym and started my workout. I spent the next hour doing all types of fighting styles. I'm the best fighter, I taught all my soldiers how to properly fight. I learned how to fight when I was 7 years old. I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn't notice someone walking into the gym.

"Raven!" A man's voice called, he scared me and I almost dropped the throwing knife that I was holding. I spun around and saw Blaze, king of vampires walking in. "Blaze! You scared the crap out of me." I put my knife down. Blaze had dark brown hair, his eyes were so brown that they looked almost black. He was wearing a navy blue business suit. He was tall and handsome. I grabbed a towel and wiped the sweat off my neck and face,"What are you doing here, Blaze?" He walked over to the weapons and grabbed one of the throwing knives and threw it at a target, he missed, he missed the target by 10 feet. "I've been trying to call you but you never answered. I was wondering when you were going to visit the vampire kingdom again." I rolled my eyes, sure visiting the vampire kingdom is better than visiting the werewolf kingdom, werewolves are monsters, yeah, vampires drink blood but that's for survival, werewolves just kill for fun and sport, it's honestly disgusting. Just as bad memories were starting to appear, I shook them away.

"I've been busy." I said with a shrug. Blaze turned away from the weapons and walked towards me, he stopped at arm's length. "I know you've been busy, but you need to make time, you have to remember you are the queen of three kingdoms and you need to split your time wisely." I stood taller and pulled my shoulders back, "I do the best I can, all I ever do is work, I even get up extra early to get my workout in to have at least some time to myself. I go to the kingdoms when I can and now I have to go get ready to meet with my mother." With that said I grabbed my phone and left the gym to get ready.

He has no right to tell me how to run my kingdoms, I'm only queen of the vampires until Blaze finds his soulmate, then she will be queen and I can be queen to my other two kingdoms again.

I hurried to my room so people wouldn't have to smell me, I needed to get into the shower quickly. After avoiding those who live in the castle while on my way to my room, I finally made it without running into anyone. I quickly undressed and threw my clothes in the hamper, I might be a queen but that doesn't mean that I don't help with cleaning up the place, of course if mother found out, she would scold me about how, that's for the servants and only them.

I turned on music from my phone and stepped into the shower, feeling the hot water against my skin felt blissful. I could feel all the stress going down the drain with the water. I just stood under the shower head for a few minutes humming along to the music playing. When the few minutes were done I started washing my hair and body, I put some face wash on my face that smelled of pomegranate. I stepped out of the shower and wrapped a soft towel around my body and another around my hair. After drying off my body, I put on a robe, and used the towel around my hair to get some water out of it. I walked into my closet and got into the most formal outfit I could find, if I wore what I wanted mother would nag me. I noticed some outfits were gone but I thought nothing of it and waved it off. After a few minutes I finally decided on a black pencil skirt that stopped just above my knees, I put on a white blouse with black polka dots on it with sleeves that stopped between my elbow and wrist, to go with the outfit I put on black stilettos. I blow dried my hair then straighten it, then pulled it into a sleek black ponytail, it now reached my mid-back. Finally I put on my locket and tucked it under the fabric of my shirt. I put it on every morning and take it off every night. It was gold and was engraved: "Remember Raven, you will always be loved and remembered, love forever and always Lucian." It also had a Raven engraved under the words.