Chapter 1
With Raven
The bright sunlight seeped through the windows of a small apartment in Tokyo, Japan. It fell of the face of a sleeping eighteen year old girl. She slowly opened her eyes to reveal them to be a beautiful violet color.
Her name was Raven Roth and she was Tokyo's youngest and best journalist photographer. She slowly turned over and looked at the clock. It read 7:30am. Raven sighed and lay still in her bed. Her long ebony black hair flowed over her pillows. She looked at the many hanging photos hanging on her bed room wall, and she listened to the already busy street traffic of Tokyo.
With a groan Raven sat up in bed and pulled the black silk covers off of her body. She mad her way to the bathroom door in her room. Inside Raven looked in her mirror.
She had very pale skin but it had tanned slightly over the months. Her violet eyes held a tired emotion. Her black hair had knots and tangles from a nights sleep and even had violet tips dyed into them. The most odd thing that Raven had noticed on herself was a red jewel on her forhead. She had researched and found it to be called a chakra and was used to help visions. She rolled her eyes at some of the lame comments she had received because of it.
Raven turned the knob to the shower and began to pull her cami and shorts black pajama set. Once the water was warm enough, she climbed in and let the water fall onto her. Another thing about Raven that she had she never forgot was that she can never remember what her life was like about a year ago. The last thing she could remember was a red light, everything else was just blank.
After washing her hair and body, Raven turned off the shower and stepped out. She grabbed a towel and started to dry off. After ringing the water from her shoulder length hair, she wrapped the towel around her waist and stepped into her bedroom only to be startled by a loud thud from the apartment living room. She hurried out to see what had happened.
Inside laying on his face was a boy. He was about twenty years old and he was taller than Raven. His hair was was a bleach blonde with fire white tips. When Raven came in bearing only a towel he looked up and grinned.
"Uh hey Rae," he said waving stupidly. Raven knew he was just by his voice. It was her room mate and working partner, Lei Hontono.
"Lei, how many times are you going to trip over something in this place?" Raven asked slightly annoyed. It was true enough that Lei did not have any balance what so ever. The first time she met him, he had just tripped over a chair leg.
Lei groaned and got up. Unlike most men, Lei wouldn't drool over Raven in just a towel, he had his limits to that stuff.
"Sorry Raven," he said bowing. "You got a letter from the boss today by the way, here."
Lei pulled the letter out of his back pocket and handed it to her. It had Japanese writing all over it. Raven could of course read it as her address and the news company she worked for. Raven took the letter and thanked Lei. She headed for her room.
Before opening the letter, Raven got dressed into black, baggie jeans that consisted of a lot of pockets, zippers, straps, and studs. She slipped into a black T-shirt with an anime cat face in the middle with Japanese writing scrawled all over the sleeves. Once her hair was combed out, Raven opened the letter.
With every word that she read, Raven's eyes grew bigger and bigger. When she was finished her mouth was hanging open. Getting up, she walked into the living room where Lei had cleaned up the things he spilled when he had tripped and was now watching tv.
"What did the letter say, Raven?" he asked when she walked into the room.
For a second Raven was lost as to what she had just read, but then a grin spread across her face.
"Start packing Lei, we're going to Africa."
With BB
"And so that ends this tour of Africa at Africa's Animal Kingdom. Please drop by the gift shop and drive safely," Garfield Logan said over the Africa's Animal Kingdom tour bus.
Happy tourists started off the bus, and Gar smiled. His job, atleast to him, was the best. He drove the bus to the garage and parked it. Twirling the keys on his fingers, he walked out into the reserve.
"Hey Gar!" Garfield turned around to see his African friend in a jeep driving towards him.
"Hey Zebey! What's up?" Gar asked as the jeep skidded to a stop next to him.
"Zerk says that you have to give Talola a bath before you head home," Zebey said with an annoyed look on his face, but Gar's eyes lit up like a light bulb.
"That's fine with me," Gar said, zooming off leaving a dust cloud in the shape of his body and his tour hat behind him. Gar came back and grabbed the hat. "Haha, forgot my hat."
Gar entered a pen with a baby elephant in it. He picked up a large bucket with a sponge, animal shampoo, and a hose draped inside.
Talola, the baby elephant, looked up and trumpeted at him in delight. Gar laughed and closed the pen gate behind him. He started to fill the bucket with water.
"So, Talola, what has my favorite girl been up to today?" Gar asked as Talola filled her trunk up with water.
He looked at her and she looked at him. Then all of a sudden Garfield is sprayed with the water in Tolola's trunk. He blinks with his face soaking wet. Then he starts laughing again. Turning around to get the sponge and soap. He feels that his hat is being lifted off his head.
His eyes narrowed as he turned around to see that Talola had put Gar's hat on her own head. Gar blinked, again, in surprise.
"Lookin good girl," Gar smiled and Talola blew her trunk again.
After Garfield had washed Talola he locked the pen she stayed in. He then headed off to the main office building to sign himself out of work.
Inside was only is boss. Gar blew back his ear-length, bark brown hair out of his face. The only thing that was bad about his job was his boss, Zerk the Jerk as Gar would call him.
"Garfield, just the man I wanted to see," Zerk said looking up at Gar.
Zerk was a short man. His dark brown skin matched his brown eyes and was only slightly lighter than his curly black hair. Zerk also was very heavy (fat). Gar never did make fun of him for that, but everything else he did.
"Yes Zerk?" Gar asked as he signed himself out.
"I was just informed that in three days two reporters are going to be visiting and doing a news story for Tokyo, Japan," Zerk watched as Gar blinked at the sudden news.
"Wow, really? Who'd coming?" Gar asked after he finished signing himself out.
"There's Lei Hontano and Raven Roth." Gar froze as Zerk said the second name. He had remembered the name Raven from somewhere, but where? He decided to forget about it.
Zerk told Gar a little more about the journalist coming to his work then let him go home. He took his surfur jeep and headed to his small one-peroson hut.
Garfield Logan didn't get much money but made due. His house was small and not that strong but it was very comfy. Gar stepped into his bedroom and looked into the mirror. His hair was getting longer everyday. His skin was a perfect golden color and his eyes, which were his trademark, were deep emerald green that always looked animal like.
He took his dirt filled shirt off and flopped on his bed. Something then came back to his mind. Zerk had said that a girl named Raven Roth was coming to the tour animal reservation, and his mind just clicked on the name.
Gar never really could figure out about his past but never really thought about it again. He just turned over onto his side and fell asleep. He would think about his lost memories later.