Raven stumbled out his portal and gracefully landed face front on the couch with his bloody clothes. He ignored the grumble of Hades for staining the couch with blood.
"I'm home~" Raven deliriously mumbled out before embracing Morpheus' realm.
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The next time he opened his eyes he found himself on a much more comfortable spot, a bed. His beady eyes glanced around before he remembered opening a portal into Hades' throne room and then passing out on a couch.
Good news, he was clean. Bad news, he was in for a lecture. Worst news, he probably has to explain why he is missing a part of his soul tha needs to heal for a while.
So with a huff he stood up and noted his physical exaustion was gone, but he could feel the part of his soul that belonged to part of his face, left shoulder and arm was still mostly gone.
"I can barely move it at all, guess I'll puppeteer it." He mused aloud as he could just move a couple fingers at best. "Freaking Indra."
With a huff he willed on a set of new clothes and moved towards where he sensed three people. Hades, Persephone and Izanami.
"Why are you puppeteering your hand?" Hades asked with a bored drawl as he was draped over his throne.
"Training?" Raven offered as he began a full puppeteering act of his own body.
"I see." Hades said, and then in that next moment Persephone was swinging Raven around by holding him up from his armpits like he was a child.
"My son is home!" She said brightly as she held him up like a cat with one hand and waved a signed adoption paper up victoriously. "Hooray!"
Raven just sat took that moment to transform into his crow form, but halfway through it failed and he just ended up sporting a pair of large crow wings and his feet turned into claws. His eyes a vibrant black.
"Oops." He mumbled as he tried to hide the shivers in his body. Izanami in her cat form landed on his right shoulder and stared at him, then she gasped as she fell, halfway down she reverted to a human and gasped as she pointed at him.
"Your soul!" She whispered in shock. Hades took that moment to glance at his sons soul and gasped in anger. Persephone just stood confused as she still casually held her half crow son up.
"My soul?" Raven tried to play innocent. Hades stood up in his throne and moved to stare into Raven's black beady eyes.
"Do not lie to me my son. Who has harmed you this bad!?" He demanded and Persephone finally understood something, someone, gad damaged her sons soul.
"Myself?" Raven said with a large smile even he knew was fake as he focused and made the crow parts revert back into his soul.
"Wanna try again?" Thought it was stated like a question, Raven knew it was a command and he slumped like a cat with its neck held by a mama cat, which was currently not incorrect for his situation.
"I'd like to be set down first." Raven said and he was sat on Persephone's lap as she held him tightly.
"Explain." Izanami said as she sat with Hades across from the mother-son pair.
"Ok, so it all started… when did I fall unconscious?" He asked curiously.
"4 hours ago."
"Four and a half hours ago. I was teaching my apprentice as usual, however I noticed something and quickly sent her away with a portal. Then in the next moment a purple mist started to cover the area." Raven spoke as he used some magic to form an illusion of what he was saying, but miniature.
"Dimension Lost." Hades said with recognition of the Longinus tier sacred gear.
"Correct! Then these brats show up proclaiming how I should join them to prove human supremacy or whatnot. I wasn't listening as I was focused on the goldmine before me. True Longinus, Dimension Lost and Annihilation Maker. I was salivating at the thought of owning those things, so I began playing with the children as I mentally worked on a ritual to rip them out their souls while keeping them alive." Raven casually explained.
"Did you just force a balance breaker?" Hades asked unsure and Raven nodded happily.
"Yes, I induced a fake emotional high of such a degree that the sacred gear reacted and evolved. Thus, balance breaker." Raven casually mentioned as he went to continue the story.
"Anyways, that's when he showed up." Raven said as he showed the arrival of Indra.
"Devendra." Hades spoke in realization of why Raven showed up covered in blood.
"Yes. It was all fun and games for a while. Mocking, pot shots and more. I started preparing, but he wanted to go all out in the beginning, the dickweed." Raven explained as he showed the giant floating swords becoming useless as he summoned his ultimate technique to counter Indra's attack.
"I lost." Raven admitted as he showed the result of the clash. "That's what happened to my soul, but I'll recover." Raven said casually as he looked at his own soul and noted it was recovering much faster then last time, he should be healed within a week this time.
"The soul doesn't heal Raven, especially when casted off like you did." Hades said grimly and Raven smiled.
"Then I am the exception, because my soul has already slightly recovered, now I can manipulate three fingers instead of two!" Raven cheerfully made three of his fingers move.
"He is not wrong, he had healed." Izanami said in disbelief. "Wait, how could you know this! You've done this before!" She said in realization as all three turned their heads to Raven who was about to try and escape.
"In my defense, I did try to block a full power shot from Zeus, powered up by Velzen, Slayer of The Divine, The Greatest Killer of The Millennia. It takes something grand to block that." Raven casually admitted and Persephone took a deep breath as she stood up and gently set Raven down besides her as she stood up from the couch and summoned her armor.
"I'll be back, I have to commit patricide." She said in a calm tone as Hades restrained her. "Husband." Her tone was dark and she demanded answers.
"While I would love to rip into my foolish younger brother, killing him would do no good. He needs to suffer first." Hades said darkly.
The husband and wife duo started planning something truly malicious, so Raven grabbed his shocked cat and quickly left back to Hogwarts. He was a busy man, plus he had some more explaining to do, mostly to Rose about what happened.
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Hello everyone, it's been a while!
Nothing big is really happening, I've just gotten invested in a story I'm writing as a side hustle. It's a horror story, I'm planning on posting it on Amazon to try and get some side income in. Especially since it's short form horror, I can quickly churn them out. 10k words isn't that hard to push out when I'm motivated and use my time for it and try not to get to distracted. Plus I've got some people as beta testers for the story too, I'm actually trying and everything. Using all the resources I can.
Anyways, I'm still going to post here, I'm not one of those people who will suddenly drop their fanfiction writing over a real story, but I will be posting less here as I'll have less time to write.
So until next time!
-Voidy, The Insomniac Writer!