It's been a year since Raven had fell in love and had her heart broken by him. Malchior. The word brought tears to her eyes and fire and hurt to her heart.

Malchior was a supposed charming wizard who was trapped in one of her ancient books. The book itself was mysterious as well as beautiful and Raven longed to hold it in her hands again.

She got up from the comfortless of her bed and slowly approached the trunk. The trunk was as she left it last only a golden light emitted from the trunk. She wondered what it could be but shook her head, and let her fingers touch the trunk. And as soon as she did so a hiss or something like a voice, a voice that seemed to send a chill up her spine vibrated off the walls. Raven.

She stopped a shivered with fear but reached out again, slowly opened the lid, and lifted the book out of the trunk. It was just how she remembered it.

It was glossy white and felt as if it were made of silk. It was embossed and painted in fine, intricate repeating pattern borders that were around the edges. And in the center was an emblem imbedded in the white silk.

Even though the book had been the cause of all the evil Malchior had caused Raven still couldn't stop thinking of Malchior, holding the book in her delicate hands, and tracing her fingers across the cover.

This was absurd. He had betrayed her! NO! She was not going to get caught up in this again! She knew that he was using his magic to make her love him all over again but it would not work! He had broken her heart and he would do nothing more to harm her!

She tried to turn her gaze away from the book and put it back in the trunk but her gaze seemed to be held to the book as if in a trance.

She would not stop tracing the outline of the book with her fingers. Suddenly tired she laid her head on her pillows and with the book next to her fell asleep.

Raven...Raven...How naïve you were to get me out of the trunk...Now I can get inside your mind where you can't escape me...

Raven awoke with a start and found the book to be in her lap. It still looked the same. Beautiful and mysterious. But to her it looked also evil. She looked inside and found nothing. His face wasn't there. It was gone.

Suddenly she was afraid and pulled her blankets close around her. She would not stop trembling and could not control herself.

Finally, as if by willing herself she closed her eyes forcefully and went to sleep. She trembled in her sleep and was shaking with fear. Moonlight had broken through the curtains and encased her with its light spreading across her hair.

While she was sleeping no one, not even Raven knew that a ghostly white figure escaped from the book and surprising it chuckled evilly.

Ice cold venom was dripping with ever word it spoke. "Oh Raven. My sweet Raven. Soon you will be mine and you won't be able to escape my presence again." Malchior.