Raven's backstory:
Flashback:
Raven was running, as fast as she could.
Down random hallways and through random doors, trying to find an exit.
She noticed a group of people wearing black outfits and masks approaching her from one direction so she turned and ran the other way. Finally, she found an exit, the only problem was that now there was a group of masked bad guys coming after her. She stepped into the snow that was outside the facility and shivered, she hadn't been outside in two years and it felt weird. She had no time to dwell however and she continued running, ignoring how her feet started hurting from the cold.
It was dark outside, Raven could barely see in front of her. She had never really had the best vision.
Raven slipped
She fell
And the next thing she knew, she was falling off a cliff.
She hadn't even seen it there and now she was falling.
The air was sweet and reminded her of the cotton candy she had with her sister.
Olivia...
Was she okay?
Raven would see her soon.
That was the last thing that passed through her mind before she hit the ground.
What Raven didn't know was that the drink she had taken a sip of earlier was not wine, it was vampire blood.
She had drunken vampire blood.
Meaning, She would awake again, just not as a human.
Sure enough, a few hours later Raven opened her eyes only to find a bright light shining down on her. She closed her eyes again quickly because it was causing her head to hurt. After a few seconds, she opened her eyes again and sat up quickly which caused her head to spin.
She looked around.
She was in her cell
The same cell that she had been in for the past two years. Had the whole escape and fall off a cliff thing been a dream?
She squinted her eyes
The lights in her cell had never been this bright
The noise had never been this loud
She had never been this hungry
The cuts and bruises that usually littered her arms and legs from sleeping on the ground were gone.
What was going on?!
After a few moments, a doctor came up to her cell with a clipboard in hand.
"How are you feeling?" He asked casually and Raven shrugged. "You took a nasty fall," He told her and her eyes widened.
So it hadn't been a dream?
Then how the heck was she alive?
"How am I alive?" She asked cautiously
"You're not, you're dead," He said calmly.
Raven was confused, what was that supposed to mean?
"Before you fell you ingested vampire blood, you died with vampire blood in your system meaning you are now a vampire in transition," He said all this very calmly even though Raven was kinda freaking out.
Vampire?!
He had to be joking right?
Was she supposed to laugh?
"Drink this" He slid a vial of some dark red liquid into her cell "You'll feel better."
Raven felt angry
She wasn't even really sure why she was angry
She grabbed the vial of what she guessed was blood and threw it at the wall.
No way was she going to drink more vampire blood or whatever.
The man sighed and turned to walk away.
Raven, however, wasn't done with her pent-up anger.
She wasn't sure what made her do it but the next thing she knew, she was grabbing the door of the cell in front of her, and with all her strength, she yanked the door, right off the hinges.
How did she do that?!
The man who had walked a few steps away turned back, surprised.
He took a knife out of his pocket and began approaching her but she wasn't going to surrender that easily.
Everything happened in slow motion. He swung at her and she saw it coming so she dodged the attack and instead kicked him in the stomach sending him flying all the way back and hitting the wall.
No that couldn't be right...right?
She wasn't that strong... or was she?
She hadn't meant to actually hurt anyone.
She ran to where the man had fallen and checked for a pulse... there wasn't one.
Oh God... she had killed someone.
Before Raven could stand and try to escape again, something caught her eye.
His head was bleeding, and now there was blood on her hands.
Both physical and metaphorical blood on her hands.
Raven had always hated blood, the color, the smell, any of it. But now-
She was slowly bringing her hand up to her mouth but then she stopped.
Ew
What the heck was she doing?!
She wasn't about to eat his blood, that was gross.
But she wanted it...
No, no she didn't!
Yes, she did....
Raven again was bringing her hand up to her mouth. She tried to stop herself but she couldn't. She wanted this
She needed this.
The blood tasted normal, metallic, bitter. Raven wasn't sure exactly what she had been expecting-
But then it hit
It was... beautiful?
Little lights were exploding in her head at the amazing taste.
Why hadn't she done this earlier?
Has blood always tasted this good?
Raven froze, no she couldn't be doing this, it was wrong.
But the pain in her head was gone, the lights in the hallway that had previously been too bright had diminished, she was no longer shivering from cold.
Raven was running down the different hallways trying to find the one that led to the exit.
Why did this place have to be so big?!
Finally, she found the right hallway!
She made a sharp turn but-
There were already people there....
There were two guards standing in her way and once they spotted her they immediately put their guns up, ready to attack. She could hear more footsteps coming but when she turned to see who it was, no one was there.
A few seconds later, however, two more guards walked down the hallway, pointing their guns at her.
Had she heard them from all the way over there?
Weird...
The guards were slowly approaching her and Raven was freaking out.
Sure she had killed the other guy but that was an accident, she hadn't meant for that to happen. One of the guards pulled the trigger and a bullet came speeding in Raven's direction.
But she... caught it?
How was that possible?
Then Raven had an idea, she grabbed the end of the gun and pushed it back, hitting the guard in the face. He immediately doubled over in pain and Raven took the opportunity to take the gun and push it right into the chest of the other guard.
It went in through his chest... and out through his back.
And just like that, Raven had now killed two people accidentally. She felt like crying, but there were still two more guards approaching her cautiously. She had never used a gun, so she didn't even bother trying to figure out how to use the one in her hand. Instead, she opted to knock them out, not kill them. She was already a murderer as it was.
She used all her strength to hit the end of the gun against one of the guards but instead of knocking them out, the barrel of the gun went through his head.
What. The. Fu-
No, Raven wasn't old enough for that word yet.
She quickly let go of the gun as blood squirted onto her face and clothes, ew.
The last guard dropped his gun and began running away, Raven let him.
What the heck was happening to her?!
What was going on?!