Raven (NOT EDITED)

+ 10 What I have Learned +

I HAD to trigger her beast.

I lose the feeling of Stacy and Brady's presence and stop.

Turning around I notice them a few feet back, Brady was frozen and scrunching his eyebrows in concentration. Stacy is trying to comfort and help him.

"What's wrong?" I question coming up to them.

"He heard something." Stacy replies.

"What was it? A demon?" I question. "If it was we better move faster, April seems to be attracting all of them." I add warily.

"No, something in his head." She responds.

He heard a voice in his head? How crazy is he?

"That doesn't sound right..." I say, but Brady stirs, his eyes lighting up in excitement.

"It's April." He whispers.

"April is in your head?" I question doubtfully.

"Yeah, her trigger caused everything to awaken, including her connection with me." He responds calmly.

"How is she even connected to you? You hate her." I ask still doubting this whole thing.

"I can't explain now, we have to keep running. I can talk with April on the way there and the plan will still work out." He says excitedly and starts to run.

Having no other choice I follow.

This whole plan was confusing.

I had multiple pieces of a puzzle, waiting for then to click together to create a picture of understanding.

Somehow Brady and April were connected, was it their beasts that were connected?

Brady wanted April to go to his camp, he wouldn't tell us why that was so important.

Somehow Stacy and I were important to this, maybe it was because I was one of the last shapeshifters, but then why was Stacy here.

Was our friend group really that important to him?

It was weird, we acted like Brady was our leader, but he wasn't. He was just a stubborn guy with a gift that he probably didn't deserve.

But he knew April. They were connected.

The crows nest was a hard thing to process too. Sure I had been wanting to leave the dump for years, but it was home. I guess it was perfect timing to leave though, 'Sir' was going to banish me anyway, might as well leave.

Then there was guilt too to sort through.

I ruined Brady's stupid plan.

I brought April to the crows nest. I made sure I was her partner for the games so that I could hide her from at least one threat. I told April things I shouldn't have. I let her run and tap into her beast.

I triggered her.

That was the worst, now she would remember everything she lost.

But she still wouldn't know why we needed her.

Why she was chased by demons constantly.

The answer I hope I could give her one day was so complex.

I wanted to tell her that her beast was the cause of countless demon deaths and that there was a whole prophecy for her life. But I couldn't.

I had all of these puzzle pieces, my memories and thoughts pieces to complete a three thousand piece puzzle. Each of them different from the other.

I thought through all of them for hours, they all still a jumble of stuff.

But then I thought back to April and Brady's connection. How she and him could telepathically communicate.

Then a sound so pure and gorgeous could be heard.

A simple

Click of pieces sliding together to create my picture.....

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-Jovie