End Of The World 1
Raven hummed as he walked through the park, his brother, Joey at his side. He glanced over at him, laughing to himself as he looked at the gangster. Over Raven's shoulder was a carrying case for his oversized laptop. He had one headphone in his ear and the other around his neck, something he was infamous for, as he liked to listen to music while he walked. They were throwing bullshit back and forth at each other, talking about the Other worlds...the world where Raven felt at home...The place where he was a black cat with raven wings. His true home...this world was just a stepping stone on the way. They continued to walk, chatting about various bullshit, like brothers will, as he smacked his brother upside the head. "Joey, seriously. Stop skirt chasing. It's kind of annoying. I know that it doesn't bother you, because it's what you do...but just once can you go a day without looking up every girl's skirt? Sheesh."
He looked around, it was the fourth of July, and they were supposed to be meeting the family to watch the fireworks. Raven unscrewed the lid off his Dr. Pepper, taking a sip, he screwed the cap back on, rubbing his long black hair, his hand moving to his red beard. "I hate being part Irish sometimes. Why did I get a red beard?" Joey just laughed, shrugging. The kid had super short hair currently hidden under a blood red beanie. Raven was wearing his typical outfit, a pair of tight jeans and a loose black shirt...it was a wonder he didn't barbecue with all the black. His brother was wearing red shorts and an oversized red shirt, with the beanie around his head. Most people that looked at them could never figure out how they got along...sometimes they wondered the same thing. One was a gangster, the other a hillbillyish goth. Even on the first day they had made the decision to both love and hate each other, just looking at each other's clothing. Raven wondering how a person could wear red shorts and a globetrotter's jersey, Joey wondering how the hell a person could wear black jeans and a black cut-off camel shirt. It just seemed strange.
"Joey! Travis! Over here!" Raven glanced over at Lans, the small guy looked like he was a crack head, which was funny because of his and Angel's, Raven's mum, past of drugs and mistakes. They started walking over, Raven wrapping his arms around the short but strong guy, then turned to his beautiful and short mother. He kissed her cheek, chuckling. "I luv you mum. You're the best."
If you know Raven and Joey, which you probably don't, then you know that Joey was in jail...for some things we won't mention. Times have changed...it's now the year 2013...the last year of Earth. Though, nobody really knows it yet. Oh of course you have your "crazies" telling everyone to get ready and all that stuff, but yeah. Who listens to them? Right? They're nuts. But for once, they're right. Today...the world ends. Literally. Suddenly all those dreams that Raven's had become real. Very real. They sit down with the family, waving to Grandma Kitty, Crystal, Steve the cool black uncle, the freaky uncle Ricky, wondering where the rest of the family is. It's starting to get dark; the family was smart enough to get there early, so they could get a good spot for the show. Everyone sits down, the majority of the family all together without arguing...a miracle of it's own form.
The rest of the family arrives, finding a place to throw down their blankets and chairs, as Raven pulls out a Marlboro one hundred. "Hey, Travis...I thought you quit?" Raven shrugs, looking around.
"Only when Bunny is around." He says, keeping an eye out for his wife. She'd kill him if she saw him smoking, something he had supposedly quit a while ago. What she didn't know wouldn't kill her; at least that's what Raven thought. He looks around, taking in the various sites, getting the feeling he won't be seeing these faces anymore. He doesn't know why, but he suddenly gets overrun by sorrow, a single tear dropping from the corner of his eye as he flicks the cigarette into the lake-river below.
"Hey, Trav! You ok mate?" Lans asks, looking over at him. Go figure that Lans would be the one to notice.
"Yeah...I just got a feeling now...and it's creeping me out. I'll be back." He says, standing up. He starts walking, he slides the headphones over his ears, finding a place of solitude, he lies on his back and starts to sob, unsure of what he's crying for, just overcome with a grief that only a raven can feel. He ponders this, wondering why he feels this, wondering why now, when he suddenly stops, blinking. "The fireworks aren't supposed to start for another ho...oh fuck." He shoots up, racing back to his family as he looks up, seeing the rocket's red blaze careening through the sky. "LANS! ANGEL! KITTY! ALL YOU ALL! RUN! GET UNDERGROUND! EVERYONE! MOVE!" he yells, World War 3 has started and will end...in one day.
He gasps, whimpering as he's suddenly dropped to the ground by a wave of agony, the world becoming a red blur, as he feels a hand lay on his back, he whimpers, gagging from the pain, he stands back up as the pain leaves, he groans, spitting. "What...What was that about...?" He grunts, looking over at his brother. "Thanks...bro? uh...you feeling alright?"
"Yeah. why?" Raven just shakes his head, not wanting to alert his brother to the fact that his eyes are no longer a shit brown, but are now glowing a blood red. The eyes of Diagro. Best not to say anything. He looks around, when he realizes that, for most of the world, time has stopped. He looks over at his Angel, Lans, Joey, Haven, and a few others who are still running.
"Trav, what's going on?"
"It's...the end. Oh god it finally happened." Raven laughed, his laughter almost maniacal in sound. He falls over, still laughing, as he feels his fingers rip; he rolls into a kneeling position, growling as he starts to slam his fist into the ground. "Feels like the worst fucking sunburn imaginable..." He growls as his body starts to shift, Bones snapping and reshaping, fur covering his entire body, his hair growing past his ass to about his knees, He ignores the screams of agony around him as people become they're true selves. He continues to slam his fist into the ground, gasping in pain and agony as his hand starts to pulverize the ground, sharp feline claws raking into his palm. He howls, purring in anger as his back erupts into a pair of beautiful Raven wings that come around to wrap around him as he passes out from the pain.
He gasps, sputtering as cold lake water splashes into his face; he wakes up to look into the eyes of a black wolf furre. He raises an eyebrow, cocking his head to the side. "Who...who the fuck are you?" Lans just smiles, shrugging, On his back is the WolfSlayer, a 6 foot long blade, 2 inches wide, with a deeply serrated edge going along one side of the double bladed sword. He looks around, seeing Diagro, a 200 foot long dragon laying it's head next to him, he blinks into the huge eye. "Joey? Lans? Where's mum?" He looks around, raising an eyebrow.
"Well if you'd open your eyes kiddo, you might know." He blinks, rolling his head to the side to see a fairy, her wrists are shackled in broken cuffs, her wings old and partially shredded, she's sitting on a mushroom. HE chuckles, shaking his head.
"I figured you were a fairy mum...I just didn't know it was that bad." He sits up, rubbing his head, purring in thought. "We still at the park?"
"Yup. The world's been destroyed. Hydrogen and Nuclear war. Wonder how we weren't affected." Diagro raised an eyebrow. "If you can call this unaffected." Raven looked around, wondering what was coming next, as he realized that the world had been ripped to shreds by the nuclear warfare. He chuckled as he saw a little wolf cub chasing a butterfly.
"Hey...Haven...leave that poor thing alone and give bubba a hug." Haven, Raven's little sister looked over, laughing as she pounced on him, knocking him back down, he hugged his sister in a bear hug, kissing her forehead with his lips puckered out, just because he knows she hates it. "grandma kisses!!!!" She squeals in delight and playful fear, trying to push him away. "Hey...haven...want to see something awesome?" He asks, smiling as she nods. He stands up with her in his arms as he spreads his wings out, then wraps them around the both of them. "Big bro got wings." She giggled in glee, as he put her back down, he looked around. "So...nobody else made it?" Everyone just shakes their heads. "Damn....has she noticed?" Another shake of heads. "Let's try and keep it that way. How's she still know it's us...for that matter how did you guys know it was me?"
"Eh...For Haven, it was scent. For Lans and Mom...well that would be me." Diagro said, raising his head to look around. "So...what now? I don't think it's over just yet."
"Nope. won't be for a long, long time. Hey, mom...dad...I've got some things I've got to do...I don't know what you guys are going to do...but I'd recommend letting me find you guys a safe place to get used to this while I go and find some people...unless you wanna take em Joe." he shrugged in a draconic way, his way of saying he'd be more than happy. Raven nodded, looking at them. "I'll be back with friends. I've just...got to do this on my own ok? I love you guys." They nod, hugs and kisses going around. "Haven, be a good girl ok? I'll be back. I promise." She smiles, nodding. He gives her one last hug and kiss, then turns and starts to walk away, a flick of his wrist to his family as he departs. Something's have to be done on one's own.
He hums, making a quick stop in what's left of the mall, foraging through the debris, when he finds a perfectly shaped, heat sharpened BusterBlade. He finds some ribbons, lashing it on his back, he looks around. "I need a smoke." He says, rubbing his feline nose with minor annoyance. "And some clothes." He finds a black leather trench coat lying on the ground; he throws it over his shoulders, his tail flicking absently behind him as he starts to walk. He stops, frowning as he hears the rumbling of a large engine and something heavy coming toward him. He turns around, shaking his head. In front of him, moving it's turret in his direction is an Abrams A1-H1. "No way. Not this early. Fuck no." He drops to all fours, his claws extended into the tar for extra traction; he shoots off towards the tank, his claws making a metallic tapping sound as he ran down the turret, running off the tank, he jumped off, not stopping for anything. He wasn't about to test his strength.
He frowned, stopping with a skid, as a shadow man stood in front of him. He could hear it cackling. "No...Not the door...how did you..."
"YOU FREED ME FROM MY PRISON..."
"Oh fuck." Raven cursed.
"AND NOW YOU DIE...."
"..." The shadow solidified into Raven's old body, a 27 year old, firmly toned white male, with black hollows for eyes, and a dark aura that seemed to destroy the light around the person.
"...So not cool. You defile my old body." Raven growled, charging forward, slamming into the shadow. The hollow only laughed as Raven bounced off, cursing and rubbing his shoulder. "Fuck..." He gasped, the shadow wrapping it's hand around his throat.
"YOU THINK YOU CAN DEFEAT CHAOS?"
"Fuck You Chaos." He managed to get out while gasping for air, his hands fighting the strong grip. He yipped, opening his wings like airbrakes as he was suddenly thrown to the side as if he was nothing more than a ball of paper, landing against the wall with a sickening crunch. Raven whimpered, grunting as he tried to move, he growled at Chaos, as the shadow continued toward him.
"TODAY YOU DIE...FOOL." Raven growled, closing his eyes.
"I made a promise. I promised to come back. I'm not dying this easy." Chaos hissed as Raven stood up, grunting in angry pain as he snapped the bones in his left wing back into place, the bone instantly mending. "You can run, or you can die. You choose."
"FOOL! YOU DARE THREATEN ME?!"
"Yeah, I guess I do." Raven said, closing his eyes, then snapping them open, the pearlescent blue glowing with a pure fire of hatred. "I'm sick of you haunting me. Now you die." Chaos laughed, sliding back into the shadows, when a large wolf came out, slamming Raven, Raven grunted, feeling the strong teeth ripping into his flesh. "I WILL NOT break my PROMISE you old ass mother fucker!" He screamed, his fist slamming up into the shadow wolf, black blood dripping down the furred arm, he rolled the wolf off of him, Chaos laughing.
"WE'LL MEET AGAIN." Chaos stated as he turned and vanished into darkness
"Burn in a fire you old bastard." Raven said, mumbling under his breath. He stood up and began walking, mumbling about how tired he felt when he felt a wind pick up. "Shit. Radiation fucks with things doesn't it? Need to get somewhere with walls." He said, the wind blowing against his back as he walked, cradling his side, he wasn't sure why, but his ribs hurt...and it was pissing him off. He blinked, finding himself in front of the ruins of what used to be the Transit Mall. he slid inside, heading for the bathrooms...well what was left of them. he sat on the floor, curling up into a ball, the trench coat draped over him like a blanket.
"Rrrrrraaaaaavvvvvveeeeennnnnnnn.....I know you can hear me......." He groaned, slapping at the obnoxious sound, too tired to want to deal with it. "Seriously dood. Wake up. The storm's over. You got things to do."
"Go way....oo ired...." Raven mumbled as he felt a talon stabbing his side. "uss wanna seep for a lil longa..."
"Dood, he's not waking up."
"Dood, that's my line. and I know. I just don't want to have to wake him up the hard way...but he's not making it easy. Dood, why are we saying dood?"
"Cause Prinnies are cool?"
"get a life. Raven, I'm warning you, if you don't wake the fuck up, I'm going to make you wake up and you're going to end up in what's left of this world's atmosphere. You want that?"
"Fine..." He groaned, pulling the jacket back around him, he sat against the wall, rubbing sleep out of his eyes; he blinked, blinked again, then whistled. "What are you doin here?" He said to the blue and white striped dragon. Next to the first dragon was a black rainbow dragon, scratching the top of his head with a talon.
"Realm barriers are weak. Badly. You look like shit. Get hit by a train?"
"No...chaos. Did you get hit by a train?" he glanced over at Maz as he said this, chuckling.
"At least I look better then you do furface."
"Whatever scaly. Anyways...you guys got any food?" They chuckled, dropping a deer in front of him. he blinked, ripping a bone off, he began to rip the meat off with a new hunger, not caring that he was getting blood in his fur. He was fucking hungry, and that's all he fucking cared about. Fuck anything else. He stopped, looking at it, then at them. "This isn't radioactive is it? I mean...with all that bombing...."
"Not from here."
"Oh. ewww. Oh well. tastes decent." he said, ripping off more meat. He looked around as he ate, animal caution in his eyes...his mind telling him that it was his food and his alone and anyone else could kiss his black furred ass.
"Hey...Raven...Where's Diagro?"
"Uhm...with my family why?"
"Just wondering. Hey, Orion..." Maziri, the black rainbow said, looking at the holy ice dragon.
"No Maziritis, we are NOT going to bother Diagro. He's got enough shit to deal with without us." The white dragon said, turning back to Raven. Raven blinked, one leg over his head, he was lapping at his inner thigh. he blinked, looking at Orion.
"What? I'm dirty." Orion shook his head, looking at the broken pipe that was spewing water.
"Odd cat. Very odd." Raven raised an eyebrow, shrugging as he finished cleaning himself; he stood up, looking around as Orion and Maziri jumped on a shoulder each (wait....so they are small dragons? And are now riding on raven's shoulders?), He began to walk, humming to himself as he looked around. He had a long walk ahead of him, especially without a vehicle, he began to walk down the road, Seeing a sign pointing to Portland. "Hey...Maybe we could start there." Raven shrugged, following the sign, he figured it would already be destroyed, but what's the worst that could happen? Find a few survivors? Find Rayamon? Maybe even Koto. Course, if he found Koto, He'd just found Tex, but that was just a sort of given.