Emilie

20 minutes of walking through the muddy trail, hearing the leaves and branches crunch underneath my boots and hearing the birds chirp.

The trees seem to surround me, they seem sad.
The Forrest, the mountains,
It all seems bigger than what I thought it would be. The horizon became darker and darker.
The sun that shone now became dark clouds. Like death was over me.
A storm.

Air swooped sharply through the trees.

Then the air thickened, I couldn't breathe. The smell of smoke abrupted.

Male screams started coming from all around. The trees in front of me got on fire.

"Shit!"
I screamed, running in the opposite direction.

Running through the trees, gunshots shot through the air.
So close to me
That's when I saw it..them.
People dressed head to toe in black veils and dresses.

Reapers.

A hand jolted my shoulder pulling me against a body. The hand then covered my mouth before I could scream and the other arm wrapped around my stomach.

The person moved my body and theirs behind a tree.

I looked up, seeing Peter looking down at me.

Blue, Blue eyes. Thomas.

I tried to speak but my voice was muffled by his hand.

"You have to be quiet," Thomas whispered to me releasing his hand from my mouth, "I'm going to say this once, it's a lot but you have to endear it, can you do that?"

In shock I nodded my head in response.

"Those people are Crows, they're the guardians of the Underworld..,"

A gunshot flew past the tree startling me. But Thomas grabbed me firmly against his stomach, twisting me around facing towards him. So that our bodies were facing each others,

"I know what I'm doing is suicide. But I need you alive, even if I have to die.
But now, I see why Peter kissed you, it was to protect you. I didn't know.. Anyway I just wanted to let you know.. I love you,"

He stopped as I opened my mouth but continued to speak,
"There's a backpack by my feet, everything you will need is in there.
I - I just wish ... Things could've been differently for us."

He let go of me leaning down and grabbing the black backpack putting the straps around my shoulders, "Thomas what are you talking about? What does this mean?" I whispered loudly at him.

Thomas licked his lips, his blue eyes piercing into my eyes, "It means Neverland is at war, and until I can get you safe you and Peter need to leave."

I threw my arms around his neck hugging him, "But I just got here. If anything Peter and I should stay and help-"

"No, Ravenna, you don't understand they're coming after you. You're the last remaining Siren."

I looked at him confused, "Did you just call me Ravenna?"

Thomas tucked a lock of my hair behind my ear, "There's so much you have yet to learn,"
He leaned in towards my face and kissed me. My eyes shut close while he whispered one last word, "Remember."

I opened my eyes, my vision blurred.

I blinked my eyes seeing I was back in Peter's treehouse.
I looked over at the closet seeing Peter shoving things into a bag.

"Peter."

Peter looked up dropping all the books he had in his hand and ran over to me hugging me, letting out a deep breath, "Oh God. I thought you were.. Where were you? I'm never letting you walk alone again."

Peter then let go of me and walked back over towards the closet grabbing the backpack and the books he dropped and placing them on the bed and putting the books in the backpack.

"I um just went on a walk, like I told you for 20 minutes, and then the air thickened and Thomas.." My voice got caught in my throat. Tears formed in my eyes.

Peter walked back over to me with his backpack around him and rubbed my back, "Thomas will be fine.. Dont worry. "

But I could tell he was worried

"I'm so sorry, I had no idea they'd be coming Rav- Emilie," He grabbed a small little green bean from his pocket and through it on the floor, "We have to get out of here. I-I-I can't afford you to get hurt."

A small green whirlpool appeared on the floor, lightning abrupted through the green vortex.

"Where are we going? What's going on? No one is telling me!"

Peter grabbed my hand and looked st me with compassion, "In order to remember you must forget."

"What?" I said as 3 Crows shot through the door and ran in, shooting their bullets in the air, while Peter and I fell into the vortex.
And a sharp pain growing at my side..

And then, within the pain, I was no longer Emilie anymore.
That wasn't my name,
Ravenna is my name.

I know this now, while my mothers memories flooded through my mind.