Chapter 3: A scene never seen
Garfield walked back and forth in his room, he needed to think. He thought about the guard that came to the castle harmed and said the assassin wanted to talk to the king and queen. Garfield thought this would be a trap and said he could go instead.
"Your highness…" Garfield looked at the now open doors, one of the maids had opened it and seem to want to talk.
"What is it Kole?" Garfield asked the pink haired girl.
"Your parents want to see you." She said. "They're in the throne room waiting."
Garfield nodded and walked with her to the throne room. "How you doing Kole?" He asked.
Kole looked a little surprised at him. "Umm… Does my opinion matter?" She asked. "I thought only the ones with fame or money were the ones the had a say in anything…" She muttered.
"Umm… I was just curious." He said a little shocked.
"Umm… I'm good." She almost whispered. "I shall see you later your highness." She nodded before Garfield entered the throne room.
"Son, we have thought about your offer to go for us to this meeting. We do not like it, but you'll go with three of our best guards." Garfield nodded.
"We do not like to send you, but have no choice." Marie said as she touched her heart and looked away.
"We trust you to either bring down the assassin, arrest her or end her." Garfield nodded.
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Garfield sat in the dark wooden chair tapping his fingers on the table. The meeting was set up in a tavern, none of them were going into each others home base.
The three guards stood behind him, the two on the sides held their hands on their swords in their belt.
Suddenly the windows sprung open and three figures moved in. Garfield recognised the white hooded girl from last night. Garfield and the guards jumped when they broke down the windows. She jumped over the back of the chair and sat down with her feet on the table.
Her guards stood behind her on each side with crossed arms.
Raven lifted her hood and revealed her face.
Again Garfield was stunned, he did see her purple hair, but her eyes were the deepest night purple he had ever seen. She kept her scarf up covering her mouth and nose.
"I see the king and queen didn't dare face me themselves." She said as she placed her feet on the ground and rested her head on her hands.
"What's that supposed to mean?!" Garfield hissed.
"I asked for the king and queen, not their spoiled son." She said. The guards drew their swords ready to attack.
"I'm not spoiled!" Garfield yelled.
"Really…" Raven mocked.
"Whatever!" Garfield grumbled before he shook his head. "What do you want?" He asked.
"Getting straight to the point are we? No small talking?" Raven smirked.
Garfield didn't answer.
"Nothing?... Let's start by name, I'm Raven… I'm sure you have have heard of me."
"I have, and you have heard of me too it seems."
"Yes, prince Garfield… And I must say, I'm surprised they sent you. I thought you would be the last they would send to meet a never caught assassin." Raven's smile grew as her aura seem to grow dark as well.
"What did you want to discuss with my parents."
"Easy, the poor people your parents ignore." She said.
"We don't ignore anyone!" Garfield defended.
"Really now? What about the people outside the city wall… Where all the people your parents care so much about live?" She eyed him waiting for an answer.
"Everyone in our kingdom is important." He said loudly.
Raven raised an eyebrow. "Why do you think so many people come to the Den?" She asked.
"The what?"
"The Den. Our Den, where I live… Where over half of your people live." She smiled evilly again. "Where the poor seek shelter and food."
"We've never heard of it." Garfield said.
"That's the point, every poor person comes there." She pointed to her forehead to the mark. "This symbolize my family and membership in the Den. My guards here hold the same mark." She motioned to Jason and Malchior to reveal their mark. Jason's mark was on his neck and Malchior's was on his wrist.
"This mark means much to the Den. We may steal from your people, but only when needed. We don't steal things we don't need."
"What about the killing? You claim to be an assassin, I have only seen one you've killed." Garfield said.
Raven smiled again. "I only kill those who deserve it." She said.
"What about that man you killed when we first meet?" The guards looked at the prince surprised.
"He had done my brother wrong…" She said. "My brother was outside of the Den in the city to buy something he wanted to give me. He was looked down upon, hard." Raven sent him a deadly glare, which almost made him back down. "That man I killed emptied his bucket of rotten fish and slime on him."
Garfield was actually shocked, someone in his kingdom had been so cruel. "Why?"
"My brother also gave me the piece of information on some words he were called on the way. Want me to list it?" Garfield didn't answer as Raven pulled out a worn piece of paper. "Let's see; Piece of trash, useless, poor scum, trash holder, lost, slave… And the worst; Thief scum."
Garfield looked at her in shock.
"That was what drove me off the edge, nobody hurts my family like that. Anyway, I wanted to discuss the problem with the poor."
Garfield didn't say anything as he was still in slight shock.
"We don't have any rights, we teach our own children, we work hard for your benefit. The belt your guards hold their swords too were made by our people. We're looked upon as slaves, and we won't tolerate that much longer."
"You're not slaves, we bought these." Garfield said.
"No, your guards came into our territory and stole our belongings. It doesn't surprise me that they told you they bought them, after all… You're the next in line, and will probably follow their rules, and follow everything they do. Like a good little prince." They could hear the anger in her mocking voice, she was building up anger.
"I will consider it." Garfield said.
"No you won't… I know the royals won't listen to the poor, not even if it comes from you. But I have to now, you know… Move our precious poor people so your royal snobby ass won't catch the innocent." She stood up, pulled up her hoodie and nodded to her guards. They followed Raven as she jumped out and up the window.
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Raven stood on top of the church with Malchior and Jason behind her, they watched the tavern as prince Garfield sat down in his carriage with the guards following on horses.
"What now Rave?" Jason asked as he noticed Raven's death glare at the prince.
"We move the villagers to the Den and cover the cave entrees. We move them to different location, the one with the waterfall." She said, not taking her eyes off the prince.
"Okay, let's move." The three jumped off the building before shooting a hook to the next building, from there they ran across the roof until they came to the wall. They leaped over the edge and into the water, Raven swam first until she came to the sewer's entrees, three swam inside.
They jumped onto the edge of the inside of the sewer, from there they walked.
"I hate the sewer, it smell nasty." Malchior complained.
"Well get over it, we're going to use that entrees often from now on." Raven said, she heard Malchior groan behind her and couldn't help but smile.
They walked up to a stone wall, before Raven began to touch after something. The boys looked at her weird before she hit the right brick and pushed it inwards. The wall separated and they walked in.
The boys looked surprised when the wall closed itself behind them. "What? I know every single entrees of the Den. Sometimes I think we have too many, someone is bound to find them." Raven walked further with the boys following her. "They're all well hidden…" Raven sighed when they reached the large hallway that lead to the main room.
"Welp, I'm getting drunk from here on out." Jason said before going over to the wine he loved so much.
"Do you need anything Raven?" Malchior said trying to flirt with her, she saw this of course.
"For you to get out of my face." Raven stomped off. In the corner of her eye she saw Victor hold Melvin, Timmy and Theeter as they giggled at Malchior's rejection, Raven smiled.
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Garfield came back into the the castle and told his parents the minor detail about the meeting. The guards were set back at their post when they got back, so Garfield could lie all he wanted.
When he talked about the meeting, he left out the parts like; Raven's brother, the Den, the poor villagers outside the wall. He merely told them that the poor wanted more respect.
"What do you mean, we give everyone in our kingdom respect." Marie said sounding shocked.
"Apparently not, she said there's villagers outside who wants to rebel against us."
"We need to catch this girl, she seem to be the spark of this." Mark said as he looked out the window.
"What will happen when or if we catch her?" Garfield asked.
"We have two choices… Either hang her or end her in any way… Or make her respect us and see our way."
"What?" Garfield asked.
"We'll have to teach her how to be a female." Marie exited the room when one of the maids came to get her a minute ago. "She need to be set in her place." Mark growled.
"How? She seem pretty wild." Garfield said.
"Well then… Raven was her name?" Garfield nodded. "Then we need to tame this bird." Mark turned to Garfield. "We'll catch her, if we can tame this girl, we can stop this 'revolution' they're starting."
"Where did you get revolution from?"
"rebellion then…"
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