Denial, Blood of The Fae

Raven let a small giggle out as he sat on his bed kicking his feet about as he played with his cat Izzy, a small cat toy in hand.

It was the middle of the night and he enjoyed the benefits of not needing to sleep.

He heard a creak and slowly turned his head to see Melinoe floating there like a ghost, her hand over her mouth trying to contain her laughter.

"You. Saw. Nothing." Raven said slowly as he started forming a holy spear in hand.

"I saw nothing." She agreed with a slow nod as she sweat dropped.

"Lord Hades, God of The Underworld, request the presence of Raven Inanis." Melinoe said with a serious face after a moment and he nodded as he placed Izzy down and stood up as his clothes changed to something more offical.

With a nod the two disappeared.

Meanwhile sitting on Raven's bed, Izzy the cat slowly changed into a beautiful silver haired woman sitting naked on the bed.

"What could Hades want with my Raven officially?" The lady muttered confused before she shrugged and slid under the covers, she'll change back before he arrives back. So with a pleased smile she closed her eyes and let herself fall asleep.

•~~~~•

Raven hummed as he sat across from Hades, a glass of wine in hand as he hummed and then turned his head slightly to look at the person beside Hades.

Poseidon, God of The Sea.

Sitting on the table between them was a blue-green-silver trident, decorated with beautiful ocean colored crystals. It radiated power, but it was also dimmed.

"So to repeat, you're trident suddenly was weaker, the enhanced control over the oceans it granted to you much less powerful. It also had this rune appear." Raven said with a curious him as he dragged his finger over the weird rune on the trident.

"Yes, I was in a council meeting when suddenly I felt it, so I summoned my trident to me and it was like this." Poseidon said and Raven nodded his head as he picked up the trident to better examine the rune.

"How interesting. It's not a language I know of. Instead it's like bits and pieces of different languages was put together to make a new alphabet and given power." Raven mused out loud as he deeply inspected the rune.

"Though the trace amount of energy I can feel inside the rune is interesting, the power of your trident is powering the rune, but there is a faint undertone of a energy I don't quite understand or know properly there too." Raven said as he placed the trident back down.

"Can you fix it? I've heard rumors of old foes of mine stiring and need to be prepared." Poseidon admitted. Hades glanced at his brother with a look of slight panic and understanding.

"No doubt. Leave it with me for a day and I'll have it fixed." Raven assured as he grabbed the trident and stored it away inside a pocket dimension.

"Very well, normally I wouldn't trust someone with my weapon of power, but elder brother trust you, so I will as well." Poseidon said and then vanished in a bunch of mist.

"Can you actually remove it in just a day?" Hades asked and Raven snickered.

"I could remove it now, but how many opportunities do I get to study such a fine weapon without murdering a deity?" Raven asked with a smirk as he shifted into his pajamas.

"Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go take a nap to rest my brain, and then spent the remaining time studying the trident." Raven said and opened a portal and vanished.

"I probably should have called Hecate instead of him…" Hades had a sudden realization of dread at the thought of Raven understanding and being able to forge divine grade weapons.

"Did I just doom the world?" Hades asked himself.

•~~~~•

Raven let a maniacal giggle escape his lips as he sat in his workshop studying the trident, he had studied it while it was surprised by the rune, but then removed it.

It wasn't that the rune was hard to remove, but rather one had to be able to seperate the energies of the trident and the rune, and then overpower and destroy the rune in just a single moment.

Easy work.

Studying the trident after the rune was removed was an interesting experience for sure. Once he shoved the useless knowledge out, the knowledge of its creation laid bare to him.

It all made sense to him, but the actual process just eluded him.

Divine energy was the core of the trident. At its essence it was the divine energy of Poseidon given a special form that linked with his domains and enhanced everything that was Poseidon.

However the process of making that part of it was a struggle, how did one enhance the power of a divine beings domain?

More research was required.

•~~~~•

Raven let a small cackle out as he stood, posed, atop a rock looking slightly down at the twins.

"Are you sure you two want this? You know what's happened every other time." Raven said as his gaze turned cold. "I will show no mercy, I will beat you two into the ground." Raven declared and the twins nodded.

"Very well, then I shall impose onto you the truth." Raven declared as he held his hand up and a giant orb of energy formed above them.

"Battle tactics number one." Raven declared as the orb started glowing brighter and bigger.

"Misdirection." Raven appeared in front of the twins and smashed their heads together before grabbing them by their necks and tossing them away hard. Then in an instant he appeared above them and kicked them into the ground as he just stood floating in the sky like he could stand there.

The twins were quick to start shooting at him with blast of magic.

"Trying to use my own spells against me? Cute." Raven declared as his magic started bubbling to the surface in a terrifying way that made it seem like it was gravity and started pushing down onto them.

"Wait, I know gravity magic." Raven remembered with a chuckle and added that in too.

"Test number 1. Stand." Raven declared seriously. "I will let this fire in ten seconds." A glowing orb started forming in his hands and taking the form of a spear. "This has enough power to wipe out Europe and still leave leftover destruction, so I suggest you get moving and find a way to block it."

Raven wore a smile as he declared his intent to destroy Europe.

The first second the twins couldn't move.

The second second they twitched.

The third second the orb started shrinking and elongating.

The fourth second they slowly pushed themselves up from the ground.

The fifth second they managed to get onto their knees. The orb finally became shaped like a spear.

The sixth second they were shakily raising to stand, their hands glowing red.

The seventh second Raven's energy spear was glowing brightly and took a defined shape. Details littered the spear.

The eighth second they stood straight and their hands held up. Words leaving their throat in Irish tongue, he felt a slight annoyance at that for some reason.

"A Thiarna cumhachtach na cosanta, a Sucellus, cosain sinn ar aon bhagairt." They spoke in unison as they moved their hands forward and energy formed in front of them and took shape. Raven was pleased by their high speed incantation abilities.

(Oh mighty lord of protection, Sucellus, protect us against any threat. - Translation)

The ninth second passed and Raven moved his arm to throw the spear as the eneegy produced by the twins took shape of a shield with a mallet and jar on it. Raven wanted to destroy it.

The tenth second came to be and Raven tossed his spear forward. It landed directly in the middle, arguably the strongest point, and cracks appeared immediately.

"Just remember, if this spear lands on the ground, bye bye Europe." Raven declared as the twins focused even more and pushed out more magic as the shield started repairing itself.

"Well done." Raven applauded their ability to use such a descent defensive ability.

"Thank you. It took a lot of effort and time to workout over the summer." They declared and he smiled widely before vanishing as their eyes went wide.

He reappeared in front of the spear and landed a kick to it and sending it piercing through the barrier and landing in the ground as the twins paled and watched in slow motion as the spear started glowing brightly.

It fizzled out then and broke apart into energy.

"What a shame, it used all its energy to pierce through the barrier." Raven said with a smile and lifted his hand up as ten more formed around him. "Now try with ten." Raven smiled happily as he made them all fire ahead.

The twins could only watch helplessly as they waited for them to pierce their quickly reformed barrier, however this time something changed, the mallet and jug on the barrier seemed to take on more detail and glowed brightly. It didn't pierce through it. Instead the spears were consumed by it and the barrier broke apart.

"How?" The three stared in confusion, then Raven snarled slightly as he felt a weird divine presence in the air and huffed as he realized divine intervention had happened.

"Since a divine being wants to help you, I supposed I should increase the difficulty no?" Raven asked aloud as the twins paled before they were assaulted by a bunch of energy beams.

Just pure magic, he knew better then to fire holy magic or dawn energy at them. He liked his twins alive.

So with a beautiful explosion, Raven let himself fall back to the surface of the world and gently touch the ground, thank you gravity magic.

Raven used a minor bit of wind magic to clear out the smoke and smiled as he saw the twins healing. Regeneration is always a nice busted ability to have.

"Is this all you have?" Raven asked with a smile as he walked up to them.

"Perhaps we are incapable of doing anything against you by ourselves, but it's a bit unfair, two against one, even if you are dominating us, so why don't we make it fair." The twins spoke together.

Raven watched curiously as they hugged each other and suddenly started glowing a bright red and Raven let a loud and unhinged cackle out as his eyes let him understand just what was happening.

"Hahahahaha you two are truly a fucking right!" Raven's cackles got louder as the bright red light disappeared revealing just a single being standing there.

Glowing red eyes, crimson red hair. Pale skin. Classic looking vampire.

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"So my dear friend, what is your name?" Raven asked with a smile as he focused on the being before him.

The souls of George and Fred, brought together to bring about the being they should have been. A single soul with the might of two souls. The magical energy of two souls enhanced beyond their limits. The physical might of two dead apostles brought together and multiplied. The mental capacity most likely also greatly enhanced.

"I am Forge our dearest bestfriend. We, I, am so happy to get to meet you. I was the being the twins were before they seperated. I can feel that my existence is a temporary thing till they can figure out how to make this last longer." Forge said with a sigh, but he still smiled.

"It's like they did the fusion dance." Raven cackled away before suddenly he ducked down and did a low sweep kick aiming for the legs of Forge who suddenly appeared aiming claws at where his throat had been.

"Impressive." Raven said as he swept Forge off his feet and then moved even faster to land a second spinning kick to their side to launch them away.

"Thank you." Forge said appearing again with a glowing red covered fist as they landed a punch to the side of Raven's head. He went flying away.

"Wow, that actually hurt. I'm greatly impressed with your raw power." Raven said as he floated in the air with gravity magic.

"Since I can see how your physical capabilities are, let's test your magic now." Raven said and a giant magic circle formed below on the ground and glowing brightly.

"Ha! Can't expect anything less from you Raven." Forge laughed gleefully before he leaped up and used a nearby tree to bounce off and escape the magic circles radius just in time as it glowed brighter and a giant ice spear shot out of it.

"Still a little slow on the execution of that." Raven grumbled in annoyance before he sighed and fired a blast of fire straight at Forge.

Forge cast his own water spell that met the fire head on. A tsunami of water clashed against the tsunami of fire. They tied out and came together to form a giant steamy area.

"This reminds me of a book I read." Raven mused with a grin as he leapt backward and fired off a blast of small ice spikes as a pillar of stone tried to impale him.

"Flawless earth and water magic." Raven praised as he kicked the stone pillar breaking it and using a shard to smash the second one attempting to impale him. "Not to mention your enhanced vision in this steam." Raven mused for a second before he fired a giant magical blast into the ground.

"Thank you." Forge said as he appeared and landed a devastating sucker punch to the face.

Raven merely smiled and turned as if the punch did nothing.

"Cute." Raven said before he faded away and in his place was a grinning emoji face with a scarecrow like body covered in glowing runes.

"Well fuck." Forge said before he went up in a giant explosion.

Raven appeared again, slowly walking down the crater, freshly new of course, clapping away as he did.

"I'm impressed. For a freshly reawakened new being, who's technically a toddler fresh out the womb, I congratulate you on your ability to use the skills and abilities of the twins, and your own, so well. Let's spar again soon." Raven said with a smile as he didn't move as a red beam shot out of his hand like a laser and impacted into Raven's shield.

"The games over, thanks for playing." Raven smiled softly at Forge who smiled back, if a bit confused, then realization, as he glowed and then broke apart with reality cracking like glass to reveal the twins.

Raven noted they were unconscious and grabbed them with gravity magic and flew through a portal back to Hogwarts and laid them down inside his room on his bed.

"I had fun." Raven mused, even if he was mostly joking around, Forge did actually make him somewhat serious. Only partially though since half his arsenal was useless against them without worry of death.

"I should make more non lethal spells and attacks." Raven mused before he started working on some new spells, also idly he flicked a book out his shelf and laid it on the table with a note for the twins.

Blood and Me, by Anton Gregovic

A good beginning book on blood magic, of all types.

•~~~~•

In a pitch black void, a man with one blue eyes and one golden eye cackled away like a madman as he focused on something only he could see.

In the distance a small crack in the black void appeared, tiny and invisible to all, but still there and existing.

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Originally this was much longer, but I realized that I didn't like half of it, so I basically deleted it and rewrote the whole fight between Raven and Forge. Was it shorter? Yes. However the original one just felt repetitive and lame. So I rewrote it.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the chapter. I would have gotten it out earlier, but I've been sick as fuck and I'm just now getting out of it. Then again, I thought I just had a killer fucking headache, but nope, fucking fat ass fever of 102. Was burning my brain lmfao!

Found out when I accidentally bumped into a coworker and they said I was fucking burning hot, I may or may not have said an inappropriate joke, thankfully they laughed it off. I got sent home then since I had just arrived.

#where-my-sick-hours-at-damnit!

Anyways, till next time!

Bye~

-Voidy, The Sick Insomniac

P.S. Being sick fucking sucks for me. My eyes are already light sensitive as fuck, being sick makes it worse, swear it was like looking at the sun all day.