Raven hummed a soft tune as he was doing some pushups. Because apparently even supernatural beings needed to do physical exercises.
Mana and extremly vitality may keep them in shape, but that doesn't mean they will grow because of it. Well mana might till you reach your prime for some.
"700." Raven grunted out as he finished his seventh set of one hundred pushups. Of course this wouldn't really be a challenge for him, but he learnt some basic gravity magic, doesn't ask how he got it, just believe that Lori had it laying around. Totally not someone dead and body burned… ok a few bodies.
The gravity magic was used to increase his weight, he also got the hell of it, had thrown on his power canceling cuffs. It's why he was struggling.
"757." Raven growled out before he fell to the ground exhausted.
"That's enough of this." He said to himself as he took off his cuffs, though he did leave his gravity magic on. Always be training.
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Raven pondered on the process of denying the existence of something from creation.
He had spent the last few nights thinking it over properly since he returned to Lorelei's mansion.
He held creation as his finger tips, he could create what he could understand. So to create, he had to learn.
Knowledge + Desire = Creation
So what was destructions recipe?
A form of knowledge? Knowing the exact detail of what you want to destroy? Maybe just wanting to remove it from creation?
Perhaps, it was a form of mental gymnastics he had to work out. Some part of his mind restricting the use of the second half of his true magic in fear of it? Well, probably not fear, but some form of mental inhibition.
Perhaps related to his trauma or newly learned past. Maybe he has to kill the bastard who kidnapped him? Reunite with his mom? Both?
Why couldn't everything be easy and concrete? Oh right, the root was a chick, and females were complicated creatures he had no desire to try and figure out.
"Hm, I'm curious now though, is the five true magics based off the root itself then?" Raven pondered that as he thought it out.
The first, Denial of Nothingness, Creation and Destruction. All of creation sprang forth from the root, and it all shall be destroyed and returned to the root eventually.
The second, Kaleidoscope, Opperation of Parallel Worlds. From all of creation, universes, multiverses spewed forth, and all connected to the root. Connection with Space.
The third, Heavens Feel. The elevated soul of a higher being. Becoming a perpetual motion machine infinitely generating an equal amount of mana, prana and etc. The lifeblood of the root perhaps? The origin of the original soul?
The fourth, a mystery.
The fifth, The Blue. Time itself. Wielding the time generated by the root and using it as desired.
Creation and Destruction.
Space.
Time.
Soul.
Unknown element.
It was a curious thing. Each true magic had two facets to it for main use or power granted. It was interesting. Perhaps the root had a thing for the number two?
"Fuck it, I'll get some pizza." Raven said as he cleaned himself up and headed out to find a decent pizza place.
He needed some fresh air.
•~~~~•
Raven hummed as he flew through the sky as a crow. He was looking for a pizza place that seemed good and he hadn't visited yet. A tough challenge without leaving London.
"Caw?" Raven let out as he saw the magic circle form by his side. Curious he landed on the top of a building and returned back to human form and accepted the call.
"I didn't do it." Raven said after it went through.
"Sometimes I wonder how you are still free. Then I remember no one would he insane enough to leave you near others if they locked you up." Hades spoke up and Raven laughed.
"Sup boss man, got a job for me?"
"No, but I'd like for you to come down to the underworld, my wife wants to meet my new friend. Also bring some pizza. I'll send a reaper to your location in an hour to bring you here." Hades said and hung up.
"Aww, we're friends." Raven cooed as he began cackling before shaking his head and returning to crow form as he flew off, deciding to go with a top tier pizza place.
While he waited though…
"Come out, and I promise this will be done before my pizza order is ready." Raven said as he stood in front of an alleyway. A pair of glowing red eyes stared back at him. Tears in those eyes.
"I, I didn't want to do this. My body just did it. The blood tasted so good, but I hurt someone. I killed someone." The voice said spiraling from the start of their conversation and Raven grimaced.
A ghoul with a working consciousness, mostly. It was truly fascinating. However he would like to study them, he had work to do. So with a sigh, he stunned them, and then froze them fully. Then bound their mana.
"I'll study you later." Raven said as he smiled and sent the block to his workshop.
"Oh, the pizza should be done soon." Raven cheered before he flew away from the spot, after ye threw up some ignore me spells. Truly, living with non magicals was a pain in the ass.
•~~~~•
Raven finally arrived at Hades' castle, the thing was grand and amazing. Befitting of the god of the dead.
The reaper who guided him waved goodbye as they teleported away.
"Sugar Daddy I'm home!" Raven called out happily. He heard annoyed grumbling and laughter, so he followed it.
He eventually found a throne room, after a few works turns, and saw Hades sitting on a throne in his human form, with a beautiful woman with him.
"Raven." Hades said as he stood up and the room changed into a living room style area. Raven placed down the pizza.
"You aren't going to introduce me to your friend Hades darling, or perhaps is this a bastard child sired by you like how you're brothers are?" The lady asked in a sickly sweet tone.
"Of course not Persephone, you know I'm nothing like those two man whores. Now, why don't we do introductions. This is, Raven Inanis, Magician of The First True Magic. Pain in my ass contractor/friend. Raven, this is my wife Persephone, goddess of grain, agriculture, vegetation and the underworld. My queen." Hades introduced and Raven snickered at the look of shock on her face.
Though he was impressed that no fear crossed her face at all.
"Hi. Pleasure to meet my sugar daddys queen." Raven said as he offered a hand to shake as the goddess snapped out of her shock and shook his hand while laughing.
"Sugar daddy?" She asked amused.
"It's what I call him. I mean, I'm being paid for my services yes, but still getting free stuff, so sugar daddy." Raven said with a smile.
"That's hilarious." She said before they all started eating.
•~~~~•
"Now tell me, how did you meet my husband. He had explained some stuff to me, but not everything." Persephone asked curiously.
"Well I supposed it all started when I got body jacked. This conglomerate of souls using shadows as a medium used my shadow magic to try and take over my body. However I'm guessing I was subconsciously fighting it, because damn was I hallucinating according to what I found out." Raven said as he took a sip of the brovided beverage by himself, alcohol. The Queen of the unferowlrd gasped softly.
"Then I went to take on my animal form for the first time. A crow. I'm amusing the symbolism let them take full control physically. On the inside I met myself, or rather to say I was myself split into two different sides, Yin and Yang, to borrow that phrase. They fought for dominance. Neither was getting a foothold and just kept beating each other up, though one side had an unfair advantage. As expected of me." Raven couldn't help, but to toot his own horn.
The goddess of the underworld looked worried at that, as did her husband. Both knew what such cases meant. It was not good for the soul.
"However on the outside of my soul, the people there used a ritual of sanity. Some decently strong angel came down, or so I assume, didn't get to count their wings. She was gorgeous though." Raven said with slightly red cheeks as the goddess giggled in amusement. Hades only grumbled about no good pidgins.
"Long story short, they subdued the being, whom I learned went by Legion, and the angel enhanced my abilities inside my soul as the conglomeration of souls was beating my split souls ass."
"So what did my soul do? They became me again. So I kicked its ass while being juiced up by the angel. Long story short, I nuked that motherfucker-"
"Watch your language!" Persephone said as she smacked him on the top of the head with a iron cooking tool.
"One, ow. Two, rude. Three, no interruptions please, it's a miracle I can focus this long." Raven said as he rubbed his head.
"Now where was I?"
"Nuked a motherfucker." Hades said before getting smacked too.
"Thanks. Yes, now I just nuked them, and they left everything there were to me. Time passed and I enjoyed myself on a positive energy drug fueled high. Needless to say not good for everyone else. I was like a kid on a sugar high." Raven laughed as he remembered all the chaos he unleashed on Hogwarts during that short time.
"Next long story short, I crashed and then resumed my normal life after being adopted by a momma wolf and her mate and child, or at least I think I was, and getting therapy by them and my bestfriends, still confused on that. Anyway, I took flight as my crow animal form and eventually after some cave shenanigans, I also somehow ended up in your realm, also questioning that, and met your husband. Then you know the rest." Raven said as he finished the story up.
"I see. Well then, I supposed I can't leave you like that. You're a mess. Husband, fit him with some clothes befitting of someone belonging to the underworld." Persephone said as she stood up and walked off.
Raven and Hades blinked at each other unsure what just happened.
"Did I just get adopted again?" He asked and Hades was also unsure, but he listened to his wife in these matters.
"Probably." Hades said after another moment of considering and having Raven follow him.
•~~~~•
"Ok, I'll admit it, these clothes are pretty damn cool." Raven said in appreciation.
Anicent death dragon scaled boots, black pants made from the silk of a rare spider found in the underworld that was pretty strong. A buttoned up white shirt made of scales and silk, but still looked like a normal fancy shirt. Then a black vest and a black suit jacket top.
"Probably gonna ditch the vest though. Just doesn't feel right." Raven said as he looked at himself.
"It doesn't suit you." Hades said in agreement as he snapped his fingers and the vest vanished.
"Much better, now though, what could your wife be doing, or getting?" Raven asked and the god shrugged.
"I never understood the mind of females, even after my millions of years on this planet." Hades said and Raven nodded in agreement.
"There you two are. Oh don't you look ravishing. I'm sure all the girls in your school must pine after you constantly." Persephone said and Raven chuckled dryly.
"Nope. Too scared mostly. I've got a certain… reputation there." Raven responded back.
"Too bad for them. Now, I noticed you already had an earring and necklace, so I thought this would be good for you instead." Persephone said as she held out a small hair tie. A little black pin with the symbol of a crow on it, but the crow had a pointed helmet floating over its head and two wreaths of dark flowers around its feet.
"It has a little bit of my own power inside it, alongside some of my husbands." Persephone said with a nudge as Hades grumbled about abuse and filled it with a bit of his power.
"A new piece of jewelry, and a bit of something for you to study, as I'm sure a magus like yourself would love to study." Persephone said smiling and Raven bowed his head slightly as he said thank you and lengthened his hair a bit and put it in as a ponytail to use the hair tie.
With a bow slightly deeper, he vanished in a burst of shadows by Hades teleporting him out.
"I hope you know I'm adopting him eventually." Persephone said and Hades sighed.
"Figured as much, but I hope you noticed what I did." Hades said and the woman snorted.
"I may not be as old as you, but I know enough. His energies were off, they shouldn't be so perfectly calm and mixed together this soon after what he said, so it's probably to due with the cave thing you told me he was mumbling about." Persephone said and Hades nodded in agreement.
"Well yes, though I was referring to the unusual way his soul reacted to the divinity inside the hairpin. It seemed to eagerly examine the divinity and was seemingly trying to form a resistance to it." Hades explained and Persephone went wide eye.
"That's unusual and very scary. Divinity is divinity and the only beings who should be able to become resistant to it are Demi-gods, divine beings and high tier beings. The fact his soul did so… what it went through has me terrified for him. Hades, I want adoption papers. Like yesterday." Persephone said and Hades sweatdropped.
"Lets save the adoption papers for later. Why don't you try and get to know him first before then." Hades said as the woman nodded determinedly.
Persephone would not be denied her newest child. He was already hers, he just didn't know it.
•~~~~•
Morgan Le Fay felt her eyebrows twitch in annoyance as she sat on a stone in some random dimension after having blasted its ruler with her Rhongomyniad.
Truly, it was a weakling.
With a sigh, she stood up and opened a portal to the next dimension, she already explored this one to its maximum reach. Nothing left unturned.
"I can feel it, our time to reunite is coming close. I promise you my Raven, we will be together again soon." Morgan said softly as she wiped a tear and headed into the portal.
The body of a giant creature behind her slowly fading away as she entered the portal and leaving the realm for the last time.
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So yes, Raven is adoption bait if you haven't noticed. Bruce Wayne and him must never meet. He would be adopted so hard and fast and it would be crazy. Bat adoption papers would fly out that utility belt with a pen.
What would his hero name be? Isn't Robin, he'd have those clothes thrown off and be streaking faster then the flash breaking the timeline. Though he'd keep the utility belt, that's for sure.
Batsomni? Ravenbat? Batray? Crowbat? Batcrawler? Silent Bat?
Leave your suggestions below and I might do a one shot of it lmao.
Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed the chapter, till next time!
Bye!
-Voidy, The Slightly Sick Insomniac