Denial, Blood of The Fae

Raven groaned as he opened his eyes. Thankfully no bright light, but his back hurt, a glance to the side revealed he was laying on the floor inside a magic circle.

He stared at his hand, it was human looking, but he could feel his new power sitting snugly under his skin, ready and waiting to be called out. To transform him from his human appearance to his demonic form.

What should he call it though? The dawn energy, as he had swiftly called it in his soul, was pulsing.

[Dawn Trigger]

Yes, that is what he'd call it. Dawn Trigger. He was totally not ripping off Devil May Cry, totally not… Ok, maybe a little, but he didn't want to spend five year thinking up a proper name.

"He's awake." The voice of Lorelei said and Raven glanced up from his spot still laying on the floor and saw Lorelei alongside Albus and Minerva.

"Lori? What are you doing here? Also why am I inside a ritual circle?" Raven asked confused. Did it have something to do with Legion and Shadow?

"What do you remember?" Lorelei asked and Raven hummed as he put pieces together. Something had happened while he was on a journey inside his soul and memories.

"Hm, I took in my Animagus form, a crow, and then shadows consumed me." Raven said, he decided he'd keep what happened inside his mind mostly a secret.

"Well the shadows as they called themselves, or Legion, took over your body and took on a demonic like form." Albus explained and Raven let a small hum out.

"Legion, they were inside my head. I had to fight them." Raven noted out loud as he tried to think about the best way to go about this.

"You fought them? Did anything special happen then?" Lorelei asked, she knew damn well he wasn't saying everything, but she didn't care, she taught him well enough to tell her if something bad happened.

"Hm, I was getting my ass beat for a while, broken ribs, internal bleeding and the like. However a beautiful blonde haired woman with green eyes appeared and I managed to take on my own demonic form and beat them pretty easily." Raven said as he mixed up how things went.

"Then before they died, Legion said they left everything they were to me." Raven declared the final part of his half true story. He demonstrated by having the shadows form whispy chains around his arms which took on their demonic form.

"Interesting." Albus noted the color change. Perhaps it was unique due to the nature of their existences.

"Yes, also what ritual is this? It seems to be some kind of suppression ritual tied with calming and fusion matrixes." Raven noted as he stared at the runic writing of the circle.

"Ah, yes this is the ritual of sanity. It calls upon the power of a higher tier being of angelic nature to calm a person down by their choice." Albus explained calmly.

"So that lady must have been an angel. It certainly explained her beauty." Raven said with a small blush as Albus and Minerva snorted. Lorelei smirked.

"Does someone have a crush?" Minerva teased and Raven growled and huffed as he turned away as he stood up.

"No." He said a little to quickly as he waved his hand cleaning the ritual circle up. With a pout, he would deny ever appearing on his face, he strutted out the room.

"You know, I think this actually did him some good. He seems much more expressive. A bit more open about his feelings." Minerva noted and Albus nodded in agreement.

"Of course he does. Obviously something else happened and he is not saying anything. He didn't lie, but he didn't tell us everything. So that combined with the angelic power coursing through his system, he is probably on a emotional high currently." Lorelei explained before she took one Phoenix express back to the clocktower.

She had a lot of paperwork to do.

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Raven hummed as he stood on the astrology towers open deck. It had wards to prevent people from falling, but he didn't want to fall, he wanted to ascend.

With a wave of his hand he conjured a mirror, it would vanish within a minute, and then his form shrunk down to that of his Animagus form. A crow.

Pitch black feathers and blue eyes. Somewhat larger then your average crow. His wings feathers were pristine. His beak as strong as steel.

"Caw!" Raven called out as he took flight. Instinctively using the wind currents to fly about. He soared through the sky. The freedom of flight making him feel free.

Raven flew down towards the first open window he saw not connected to a room and entered, taking on his human form.

Eventually after walking around for a couple hours, he returned to his room and found Izzy sleeping on his pillow and decided to join her for a nap, he didn't feel tired, but he wanted to try and sleep. He was mentally tired.

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The next morning after breakfast, and noting that all the extra students were gone, he leaned on Legion being made up of those souls, he decided to head out and start practicing his new powers.

With a curious smile, he headed out to the woods and out of sight.

There he started practicing his shadow manipulation.

•Shadow Chains

•Shadow Spikes

•Shadow Whip

Those were the three forms he had seen and bothered remembering. Each unique in their own way.

Shadow chains could be used to bind weaker opponents, or momentarily make an opening for a stronger opponent.

Shadow spikes was purely offensive. A decent attack with multiple uses, but also good at buying time or stalling preparations.

Shadow whip was just a lazy way for him to do things. Coffee mug one inch to far without leaning forward? Shadow whip pulls it closer.

Raven laughed a little as he organized the shadows around him into figures, humanoid looking, with horns for his amusement, and had them punch a tree as hard as he could make it, the tree had a fist size hole half way through it.

"Ok, they have a decent amount of strength, and if I reinforce the shadow and imbue it with even more mana then needed…" Raven felt his grin widen majorly as the tree went flying into another tree and taking it down as well.

"I should probably replant those." Raven noted as he waved his hand and fixed the trees. He broke people, not nature, unless it was burnt down, not much he could do there.

"Still, fun times ahead~" Raven giggled as ways to use this in the bedroom came into his head. It would be a fun summer this year.

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Chapters much shorter then the last few, but I hope it was still good.

-Voidy, The Freezing Cold Fingers Insomniac