Fan Fiction ❯ The Act of Shadows (Part 1) ❯ Way to Fall ( Chapter 4 )
[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]
"Why?"
Raven was sitting on top of the cathedral. Trying to contemplate what happened to her. Her past, which has stood silent for so many years, now suddenly and violently comes back to her. She wanted to forget everything. What she learned, who she known. It was something she wished that would've never happened. For a time she thought that her past would stay silent.
But then, at that moment, she realized that she made the biggest mistake anyone could make.
"You can't run from your past."
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"Dimitri?"
"Yeah?,"
Raven, wearing a military jacket with "SD-11738: RAVEN" written in the back, was floating beside Dimitri who was busy reading "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy, Wearing the same jacket with the words "SD-74010: CROW."
"Have you ever wandered if you were made for a purpose?"
Dimitri put down his book, "I believe that everybody is the controller of their own fate, I think that we weren't put on this earth for a specific purpose but it's our decision weather we are going to be something or nothing at all. We either follow the words of who we trust or we make our own paths."
"But to know your future don't you have to know your past?" said Raven
Dimitri looked at Raven, "That's different for us. We don't have a past."
Raven started rubbing at the jewel embedded in her forehead. Having no idea where it came from.
"Would you quit rubbing that thing," said Dimitri "I'm afraid you're gonna die if it accidently falls out."
Raven let out a slight laugh "You worry too much."
Dimitri replied back, "I hope so."
"Raven, Crow."
They both stood up as Colonel Mishkin walks in through the door, his heavy bombers jacket, as with his pale white mustache, was covered in snow. He was a big man who was slighty overweight and in his late 50's
"It's about time for lights out. Crow, I'm afraid that your rifle excersise's will be moved inside for tomarrow, this blizzard isn't going to stop anytime soon so be expect more inside excersises this week."
Dimitri nodded in acknowledgement.
"Raven, your study's will be cancelled tomorrow. Enjoy your day off."
Raven nodded, but Dimitri noticed she wasn't phased by this, normally she would be enthusiastic.
"Now, it's time for lights out." said Mishkin as he left the room.
As Dimitri put up his book a head poked out of the door, "Hey, Leon's calling a snowball fight tommarow. You two up for it?"
Dimitri looked at Raven, who seemed to be preoccupied with something else. "Sure, tell him to count us in Dave."
David pointed to Raven, "Remember, no flying. We all can't do that."
Raven looked at David and nodded, a slight grin on her face.
AGENT VOICE! GET TO YOUR ROOM NOW. YOU STILL GOT COMMUNICATION LESSONS TOMMAROW!" Yelled the Colonel.
"SORRY SIR!" Dave yelled back as he ran for his room.
"Goodnight Dimitri"
"Goodnight" Dimitri replied back as Raven left for her room.
The clock on Raven's desk read 2:27 A.M. as she got up and grabbed a paper with various numbers she written on it earlier. She steped out of her room, the corridor was dead cold as she floated into it so as to not cause footsteps. It was dark and the wind was howling outside due to the blizzard. As Raven made her way through door after door, her words kept saying in her head:
"In order to know your future you must know your past."
As she reached a door with the word "ARCHIVES. CLEARANCE REQUIRED" she went up to the doorknob with a keypad on it. She grabbed her paper.
"If I make one mistake, the alarm will go off." she said to herself as she entered the numbers. 6-7-8-7-0-9....
As she got to the last number she noticed that the last number was worned off and barely legible after being in her jacket pocket for so long. She couldn't tell weather it was a 1 or a 7.
Starting to worry, she put two fingers on the 1 and the 7 numbers and pressed them simultaniously
The LED Screen above the keypad flashed a message.
ACCESS APPROVED!
Raven let out a sigh of relief.
As she entered the Archives room she saw rows and rows of files, one of them held the answer to her past.
She pulled out her paper and started to read.
ROW 22F FILE: R
As she floated towards the 22nd row she froze as she heard footsteps. The footsteps seemed to get louder and Raven flew up to the dark ceiling the footsteps started to fade until it was nothing. Raven continued her search.
She floated toward Row 22 and searched for the Files that started with "R".
When she finally found the R's she rolled out the File door quietly as she searched for her name. Then she finally found it, the answer to her past.
As she pulled it out, an old tattered book and a manilla envelope with the words: "TOP SECRET." written on it tumbled to the floor. She grabbed the book and put it in her jacket pocket for later reading. She lifted the papers out of the envelope and started reading her file.
PROFILE: Subject was the daughter of a master of supernatural art's known to the agency as "Trigon." Trigon was meddeling with the affairs of the Agency and was subject to a raid. He was killed in a standoff inside a church which lasted for 6 hours. Only 2 out of 8 member's came out alive. What they retrieved was an infant daughter who looked physically augmentated with supernatural powers and a journal of his exploits.
The journal revealed that the subject was a project of Trigon's to be "A supreme being." and said that she contained powers far beyond comprehension.
At the age of 9, the subject was found to have a power over levitation. All science research as to how this was possible was proved inconclusive.
We believe that the journal might hold the key to unleashing these uncomprehensive powers however most of the journal is written in an complicated language which no decoder has yet to understand.
We will continue to keep the subject here for further observations as we continue to understand the journal. The subject, when her powers are fully realized, shall become a valuble trump card in future negotiations for the Agency.
I have signed that all the contents stated in this report are true.
Colonel Konstantin Mishkin.
She was stunned, she finally learned her past
She fell on her knees and cried.
"I was created to be a weapon?"
Suddenly the footsteps came back but Raven was too shocked to move. As she kept crying, Colonel Mishkin came and put his hands on her shoulder.
"There, there. There's no reason to be sad. Your father was an awful man. He planned to use you as a tool of destruction. If we diddn't save you from him, you would've been nothing but a tool."
Raven looked back up at him and screamed at him "WHY? SO YOU COULD USE ME AS A TOOL LIKE HE WOULD HAVE? LIKE A WEAPON TO THREATEN OTHERS TO FOLLOW YOUR EVERY WHIM?
"You will learn your place here, you will learn your purpose."
Raven started feeling this emotion she never felt before, all the anger and hatred towards Mishkin started to grow and swell inside her. her breathing got heavier as this rage started to take over her body. She clenched her fist and looked up at Mishkin. Mishkin stared back at 4 red eyes.
Mishkin backed off. As he did, he saw Raven start to change into a monster. She grew about 12 feet and black tentacles made out of some black energy mass started to surround her.
"I AM NOT A WEAPON. I AM NOT A TOOL"
She grabbed Mishkin by the feet and lifted him up to her face. Mishkin was staring at the face of fear. The very same fear he wanted to use to control was now staring him down into his very soul.
She throws him towards the brick wall where he lands with a thud. One of the black tentacles start to grab the support beam to the wall. She pulled it and the wall came crashing down on Mishkin as he screamed for help.
The alarm was activated "EMERGENCY, EMERGENCY: ARCHIVE ROOM HAS BEEN BREACHED. ALL DEFENSE TEAMS REPORT THERE IMMEDIATELY. USE EXTREME CAUTION."
Dimitri burst through the door and rose his rifle. What he saw changed his life forever.
Mishkin's hands sticking out of the pile of bricks, motionless. He raises his rifle
to fire at the beast. but when the beast turned around and shown her face. Dimitri dropped his rifle.
"Raven?!? It can't.."
Before he could finish speaking a tentacle came and swiped him into the large row of filing cabinets. The falling cabinet triggered the other to fall and the rest fell like dominos. Files and papers scattered all over the room. Dimitri was completely knocked out.
The beast left outside the wall, into the cold blizzard.
"Is he still alive?".........
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< br> The bells in the cathedral now started to toll 10 times. Raven immediatly left to fulfill her engagement.
The alleyway was covered in papers and trash. sitting by the light post was Dimitri, twirlling a pistol on his finger.
Raven landed on the other side of the alleyway
"Dimitri...." she didn't know what to say.
"Raven, it's been a long time."
"Dimitri, what is this all about? Why did you try to kill me?"
"I'm following orders, weather I like them or not."
Raven stood there, a reddish mark still on her neck earlier from today.
"The Agency wants you dead, for Mishkin"
The memory replays inside Raven's mind. "The fool got what he deserved."
Not caring much for Mishkin, Dimitri just stares back.
"Katrina..."
Raven clenched her fist's
"That name means nothing to me."
"That name mean't everything to me, it mean't my life, my family, who I cared for..."
Raven just stared at him.
"..who I would die for."
"Dimitri, I don't want to do this."
Dimitri raised his pistol.
"Can you do something for me?"
"What?" said Raven
"Take off your cloak. Weather I kill you or you kill me, I want to see your beautiful face one last time"
Raven reached back and took off her cloak, her face, filled with uncertianty, stared back at Dimitri.
Dimitri activated the laser on his pistol. The red dot climbed up her arm, then up to her neck and head. Then it reached the jewel as it flickered in red.
Raven started creating a black energy mass on both of her hands.
The sky flickered with lightning and it started to rain.
The Raven and The Crow, both ready to kill each other, stared down each others soul's only to find the same common thing, the unconditional love they had for each other.
It was now a question of which one was going to blink first.
Raven was sitting on top of the cathedral. Trying to contemplate what happened to her. Her past, which has stood silent for so many years, now suddenly and violently comes back to her. She wanted to forget everything. What she learned, who she known. It was something she wished that would've never happened. For a time she thought that her past would stay silent.
But then, at that moment, she realized that she made the biggest mistake anyone could make.
"You can't run from your past."
________________________
"Dimitri?"
"Yeah?,"
Raven, wearing a military jacket with "SD-11738: RAVEN" written in the back, was floating beside Dimitri who was busy reading "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy, Wearing the same jacket with the words "SD-74010: CROW."
"Have you ever wandered if you were made for a purpose?"
Dimitri put down his book, "I believe that everybody is the controller of their own fate, I think that we weren't put on this earth for a specific purpose but it's our decision weather we are going to be something or nothing at all. We either follow the words of who we trust or we make our own paths."
"But to know your future don't you have to know your past?" said Raven
Dimitri looked at Raven, "That's different for us. We don't have a past."
Raven started rubbing at the jewel embedded in her forehead. Having no idea where it came from.
"Would you quit rubbing that thing," said Dimitri "I'm afraid you're gonna die if it accidently falls out."
Raven let out a slight laugh "You worry too much."
Dimitri replied back, "I hope so."
"Raven, Crow."
They both stood up as Colonel Mishkin walks in through the door, his heavy bombers jacket, as with his pale white mustache, was covered in snow. He was a big man who was slighty overweight and in his late 50's
"It's about time for lights out. Crow, I'm afraid that your rifle excersise's will be moved inside for tomarrow, this blizzard isn't going to stop anytime soon so be expect more inside excersises this week."
Dimitri nodded in acknowledgement.
"Raven, your study's will be cancelled tomorrow. Enjoy your day off."
Raven nodded, but Dimitri noticed she wasn't phased by this, normally she would be enthusiastic.
"Now, it's time for lights out." said Mishkin as he left the room.
As Dimitri put up his book a head poked out of the door, "Hey, Leon's calling a snowball fight tommarow. You two up for it?"
Dimitri looked at Raven, who seemed to be preoccupied with something else. "Sure, tell him to count us in Dave."
David pointed to Raven, "Remember, no flying. We all can't do that."
Raven looked at David and nodded, a slight grin on her face.
AGENT VOICE! GET TO YOUR ROOM NOW. YOU STILL GOT COMMUNICATION LESSONS TOMMAROW!" Yelled the Colonel.
"SORRY SIR!" Dave yelled back as he ran for his room.
"Goodnight Dimitri"
"Goodnight" Dimitri replied back as Raven left for her room.
The clock on Raven's desk read 2:27 A.M. as she got up and grabbed a paper with various numbers she written on it earlier. She steped out of her room, the corridor was dead cold as she floated into it so as to not cause footsteps. It was dark and the wind was howling outside due to the blizzard. As Raven made her way through door after door, her words kept saying in her head:
"In order to know your future you must know your past."
As she reached a door with the word "ARCHIVES. CLEARANCE REQUIRED" she went up to the doorknob with a keypad on it. She grabbed her paper.
"If I make one mistake, the alarm will go off." she said to herself as she entered the numbers. 6-7-8-7-0-9....
As she got to the last number she noticed that the last number was worned off and barely legible after being in her jacket pocket for so long. She couldn't tell weather it was a 1 or a 7.
Starting to worry, she put two fingers on the 1 and the 7 numbers and pressed them simultaniously
The LED Screen above the keypad flashed a message.
ACCESS APPROVED!
Raven let out a sigh of relief.
As she entered the Archives room she saw rows and rows of files, one of them held the answer to her past.
She pulled out her paper and started to read.
ROW 22F FILE: R
As she floated towards the 22nd row she froze as she heard footsteps. The footsteps seemed to get louder and Raven flew up to the dark ceiling the footsteps started to fade until it was nothing. Raven continued her search.
She floated toward Row 22 and searched for the Files that started with "R".
When she finally found the R's she rolled out the File door quietly as she searched for her name. Then she finally found it, the answer to her past.
As she pulled it out, an old tattered book and a manilla envelope with the words: "TOP SECRET." written on it tumbled to the floor. She grabbed the book and put it in her jacket pocket for later reading. She lifted the papers out of the envelope and started reading her file.
PROFILE: Subject was the daughter of a master of supernatural art's known to the agency as "Trigon." Trigon was meddeling with the affairs of the Agency and was subject to a raid. He was killed in a standoff inside a church which lasted for 6 hours. Only 2 out of 8 member's came out alive. What they retrieved was an infant daughter who looked physically augmentated with supernatural powers and a journal of his exploits.
The journal revealed that the subject was a project of Trigon's to be "A supreme being." and said that she contained powers far beyond comprehension.
At the age of 9, the subject was found to have a power over levitation. All science research as to how this was possible was proved inconclusive.
We believe that the journal might hold the key to unleashing these uncomprehensive powers however most of the journal is written in an complicated language which no decoder has yet to understand.
We will continue to keep the subject here for further observations as we continue to understand the journal. The subject, when her powers are fully realized, shall become a valuble trump card in future negotiations for the Agency.
I have signed that all the contents stated in this report are true.
Colonel Konstantin Mishkin.
She was stunned, she finally learned her past
She fell on her knees and cried.
"I was created to be a weapon?"
Suddenly the footsteps came back but Raven was too shocked to move. As she kept crying, Colonel Mishkin came and put his hands on her shoulder.
"There, there. There's no reason to be sad. Your father was an awful man. He planned to use you as a tool of destruction. If we diddn't save you from him, you would've been nothing but a tool."
Raven looked back up at him and screamed at him "WHY? SO YOU COULD USE ME AS A TOOL LIKE HE WOULD HAVE? LIKE A WEAPON TO THREATEN OTHERS TO FOLLOW YOUR EVERY WHIM?
"You will learn your place here, you will learn your purpose."
Raven started feeling this emotion she never felt before, all the anger and hatred towards Mishkin started to grow and swell inside her. her breathing got heavier as this rage started to take over her body. She clenched her fist and looked up at Mishkin. Mishkin stared back at 4 red eyes.
Mishkin backed off. As he did, he saw Raven start to change into a monster. She grew about 12 feet and black tentacles made out of some black energy mass started to surround her.
"I AM NOT A WEAPON. I AM NOT A TOOL"
She grabbed Mishkin by the feet and lifted him up to her face. Mishkin was staring at the face of fear. The very same fear he wanted to use to control was now staring him down into his very soul.
She throws him towards the brick wall where he lands with a thud. One of the black tentacles start to grab the support beam to the wall. She pulled it and the wall came crashing down on Mishkin as he screamed for help.
The alarm was activated "EMERGENCY, EMERGENCY: ARCHIVE ROOM HAS BEEN BREACHED. ALL DEFENSE TEAMS REPORT THERE IMMEDIATELY. USE EXTREME CAUTION."
Dimitri burst through the door and rose his rifle. What he saw changed his life forever.
Mishkin's hands sticking out of the pile of bricks, motionless. He raises his rifle
to fire at the beast. but when the beast turned around and shown her face. Dimitri dropped his rifle.
"Raven?!? It can't.."
Before he could finish speaking a tentacle came and swiped him into the large row of filing cabinets. The falling cabinet triggered the other to fall and the rest fell like dominos. Files and papers scattered all over the room. Dimitri was completely knocked out.
The beast left outside the wall, into the cold blizzard.
"Is he still alive?".........
________________________________
< br> The bells in the cathedral now started to toll 10 times. Raven immediatly left to fulfill her engagement.
The alleyway was covered in papers and trash. sitting by the light post was Dimitri, twirlling a pistol on his finger.
Raven landed on the other side of the alleyway
"Dimitri...." she didn't know what to say.
"Raven, it's been a long time."
"Dimitri, what is this all about? Why did you try to kill me?"
"I'm following orders, weather I like them or not."
Raven stood there, a reddish mark still on her neck earlier from today.
"The Agency wants you dead, for Mishkin"
The memory replays inside Raven's mind. "The fool got what he deserved."
Not caring much for Mishkin, Dimitri just stares back.
"Katrina..."
Raven clenched her fist's
"That name means nothing to me."
"That name mean't everything to me, it mean't my life, my family, who I cared for..."
Raven just stared at him.
"..who I would die for."
"Dimitri, I don't want to do this."
Dimitri raised his pistol.
"Can you do something for me?"
"What?" said Raven
"Take off your cloak. Weather I kill you or you kill me, I want to see your beautiful face one last time"
Raven reached back and took off her cloak, her face, filled with uncertianty, stared back at Dimitri.
Dimitri activated the laser on his pistol. The red dot climbed up her arm, then up to her neck and head. Then it reached the jewel as it flickered in red.
Raven started creating a black energy mass on both of her hands.
The sky flickered with lightning and it started to rain.
The Raven and The Crow, both ready to kill each other, stared down each others soul's only to find the same common thing, the unconditional love they had for each other.
It was now a question of which one was going to blink first.