Inside Limbo Castle

                     Chapter 7 - Inside Limbo Castle

  Raven is kneeling down on the ground in the room. Raven looks around the room as she sighs to herself, and just shakes her head in annoyance at Tifa as she thinks to herself.

               Raven (Thinking to herself)

               Never a simple job, Tifa. Never.

   As Raven stands up she reaches both fingerless gloved hands under her trenchcoat, and pulls out both of her guns Vengeance and Avenger as she then fully stands up and speaks out loud.

                      Raven (Speaking out loud)

                      Jobs like these...

   Raven walks to the door of the room, and as she reaches the door she then kicks it open as she then continues to speak.

                     Raven (Cont'd)

            ...Usually require that I come in guns blazing.

    As Raven kicked in the door she also kicked a Hell Pride right in the stomach sending it flying back with such force that when it hit the wall it tuned to dust. Raven also shoots a demon behind her. Raven then back flips into the air, and shoots the demons that are on the ground as she then laughs while speaking in Japanese.

                   Raven (Speaking in Japanese)

           HA, HA, HA! Yobo (ni) niteiru dareka denwaed no naka de sono guntai!

   Raven then lands on a railing in a crouch in front of two Hell Prides that raised their scythes ready to attack her as she just continues to speak in Japanese.

                   Raven (Cont'd)

Anata shiru. Denwa watakushi o nekkyo, (o) nozoite Watakushi ga hajime e omou sono realtor ni kore basho chikara imasu e uru yasui!

   Raven then jumps off the railing that she was on, and falling backwards she shoots the demons as she falls however one Hell Pride falls after her in an attempt to kill her with its scythe as it got close to her. Raven just aims both Vengeance, and Avenger at the demon, and she quickly squeezes the triggers on both guns sending the demon screaming back to hell as it becomes dust. Raven then falls past a statue of what appears to be an angel that is wearing a crown of thorns on its head, and as raven can see it was crying tears of blood.

    Raven quickly flips around in midair landing on her feet on the ground, and with her guns by her sides she stands still listening for anything out of the ordinary for a few minutes. The Raven suddenly turns around the double doors open, and Raven quickly pulls both of her guns triggers shooting the figure opening the doors. Raven can see that the figure opening is a six foot white rabbit in a tux opening the doors all the way. The rabbit narrows its eyes at Raven as it walks towards her.

    Raven keeps Vengeance, and Avenger aimed at the white rabbit, and she just keeps shooting the rabbit as it just keeps walking towards her. Raven is silently impressed by how the demonic rabbit is showing no fear as it takes the bullets from her guns. However Raven is very careful to not let it show on her face as she speaks to the demon in Japanese.

                    Raven (Speaking in Japanese)

Seijaku kuruing anou? Watakushi te ame ga e anata--anata kereba harawata. So masho              miru karera, masho ka?

    As Raven is about to pull the triggers on both guns she then suddenly hears a child's voice yelling at her in English.

          Child's voice (Yelling in English)

                 STOP!

    Raven then pauses as a little girl in a light blue dress with blonde hair as she runs to the white rabbit, and clings to it placing her right in front of Raven's line of fire. Raven keeps her guns on the white rabbit as she then narrows her crystal blue eyes at the rabbit dangerously. Raven then aims Avenger a little to the left, and a bit above the little girl as Raven the shoots Avenger. The little girl then looks at the white rabbit, and then she looks at the back of her hand to see a small dead demonic spider on it then she lets out a scream.

               Child (Screaming)

               KYAA!

   Raven just tosses Avenger into the air, and catches her gun again as she then apologizes to her in English so the child can at least understand her.

              Raven (Apologizing in English)

              Sorry. Don't like spiders. Too many legs.

   The little girl then turns her head to look back at Raven. Raven then talks to the little girl in a gentle tone to the little girl.

               Raven (Gentle tone to little girl)

Well, you must be Alice. Your daddy is reeal anxious to see you again. And since I'm not gettin' paid by the hour, let’s get the lead out, 'kay?

    Alice looks from Raven to the white rabbit, and back to Raven as she asks Raven a question.

               Alice (Asking Raven)

              What about Rabbi?

    Raven takes a deep breath in, and slowly lets it out as she as asks Alice a question in return because she has no clue as what Alice means at first.

              Raven (Asking Alice)

              Rabbi?

   Raven then looks at the white rabbit that looks right back at her. Realization then hits her like a ton of bricks, and she sighs mentally as she shakes her head. Raven then as gently as she can answers Alice's question.

           Raven (Gently answering Alice)

  Yeah, that's what your daddy wants. A six foot demon rabbit crappin' on the carpet. Forget it, kid.

   Alice just clings to Rabbi more tightly, and Raven braces herself as Alice then starts to yell at her.

            Alice (Yelling at Raven)

NO! THEN I'M NOT GOING BACK! IF RABBI ISN'T COMING THEN I'M NOT GONG EITHER!

    Raven just sighs to herself as she slightly shakes her head as she keeps trying to reason with Alice while also trying not to lose her temper with the young child nor get annoyed by Alice's stubbornness.

          Raven (Trying to reason with Alice)

         Hey now, princess...long ears here ain't your friend.

   Raven then glares at Rabbi with her crystal blue eyes as a warning not to try anything to harm Alice or she'll be more then glad to send him back to hell as she continues to try to reason with Alice, and make her see that she's not safe with the rabbit.

          Raven (Cont'd)

I don't know what he's up to, but demons don't generally want to play tea party, you know? He's dangerous.

     Alice just glares at Raven with tears in his eyes. Raven winces inwardly as she sees that Alice was about to cry. Raven sighs to herself as Alice then responds to Raven.

           Alice (Tearfully responding to Raven)

          That's not true! Rabbi's been my friend for a long time!

    Raven then realizes that Alice thinks that her doll has friendly feelings towards her, and that it just wants to protect her from all the "bad" people. Raven then thinks to herself in English.

            Raven (Thinking to herself)

Looks like a demon possessed her doll. It doesn't seem very powerful...but how can I take it out without her freakin' out on me?

   As Raven is trying to come up with a plan to separate Alice from the demon rabbit she suddenly hears the chinning of a grandfather clock in the castle as it's three o'clock. Alice then turns to Raven with a smile on her face as she then happily replies to Raven.

           Alice (Happily replying to Raven)

          It's tea time!

      Raven just looks over her shoulder in complete confusion when she hears Alice say this. Raven then looks at Alice as she asks her a question.

          Raven (Asking Alice)

         Tea time?

    Raven then looks at the doors as they suddenly start to open. Raven quickly shields her eyes as a bright light is coming from the doors as all can hear is the chinning from the grandfather clock.

             (Fade To Black)