OKAY, IT TOOK A WHILE. BUT I FINALLY FIGURED HOW TO DO THIS CHAPTER.
I KNEW WHAT I WANTED BUT COULDN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO WRITE IT DOWN.
& MALCHOIR IS NOT TROY
NICE TRY THO.
HERE
I'LL GIVE YOU A LIST TO VOTE ON, WHO YOU THINK TROY IS.
1. KITTEN
2. RED X
3. FANG
4. TIMMY
5. MAD MOD
6. BROTHER BLOOD
7. JINX
8. ADONIS
9. JONNY RACID
BE SURE TO VOTE AT THE END OF THE STORY. I WANT TO KNOW IF YOU GUYS CAN GUESS IT.
BE SURE TO VOTE. I'LL LET YOU KNOW IT EVERY UPDATED CHAPTER WHAT THE VOTES ARE.
UNTIL I REVEAL IT TO YAU ALL.
SO LETS STOP THE SMALL TALK AND THIS LITTLE DOGGY ON NOW.
CHAPTER 4
GARFIELD'S POV.
"Yes! This should defiantly be enough to marry Raven." I had a huge smile on my face as put my coins away, into my hiding spot that no one knew about. Not even my parents could find it, where I would hide things. And they've been searching for years.
"Garfield! Hurry up! We have to go!" I heard my dad call for me. For some reason there was a town meeting and everyone was required to go. This was unusual, because women and children were usually not allowed to go. But there was the widows that had too, since their husbands were dead, but they still weren't allowed to speech in the meeting. They were thrown to the side of the church, in the far back. Being near manhood now, meant I had to go to these boring meetings.
We were at the church, within a few minutes as other men, where filing into the building.
"Father? What is this about?" I asked him, with that knaggy kiddy tone.
"I don't know son." Was all I could get out of him as we took our seats. "Settle down Garfield. It's starting." I stopped fiddling in my seat as the governor took the alter. (Yes the town meeting is in the church.)
"I have been informed that our pride country…" Yat yat yat, does this guy ever stop talking? I'm not from Great Britain, I was born in this New World. So why should I give a damn about it?
"New taxes have been passed by the crown. And will take effect immediately. The King gives his best wishes to all of you." The governor stepped down, as commotion threw the church began to pick up.
'New taxes! That's just great! That's all my family needs! We barely make payments with the old taxes!' "Father, can't you argue against it?" I looked at him with pleading eyes.
"It was order by the King. It must be followed."
"But it's not fair. Why should we have to care about what's happening in England and Europe. And support what's going on there." I said with anger in my voice, but my father gave me a slap across the face.
"Don't you say that about our home country. You are a loyal British subject. You got me. Right now a great thing is going on there. They're trying to get rid of those evil servants of Satan." My father just gave me a cold hard stare.
"Yes father." I could only bare out. (I'm pretty sure this took place during the Burn times. Don't yell at me if I got the two time periods wrong.)
RAVEN POV
I was busy in the garden, plowing out all the weeds as I yelled at the ox for stopping again.
"Raven!" I heard some one call my name, I turned to find Garfield running up to me.
"Hello Garfield." I greeted him as I finally got the ox to me again.
"Raven? Did you hear?" He came up to me, out of breath.
"Hear what?" I looked down at him with a confused look.
"They set up a new tax. A big one this time." Garfield looked me straight in the eye.
"You got to be kidding me. Don't we have enough to worry about?" My voice came out harsh as I said this to myself.
"Yah, why do they have to evolve us with their little burning witches hunt." Garfield said with venom in his voice.
"What?" I looked at him with a state of shock on my face.
"You haven't heard?" I just shook my head and wondered what he was talking about. "There's been a huge witch hunt threw out, all of Europe. I heard that many witches have been burnt at the stake." Garfield began to give me that 'What's wrong with you' look. My face had gone paler, as I took in the news. 'Shit! The witch hunts better not come here. If I'm caught, I'm dead.' My thoughts were interrupted, by the calling of Mrs. Wilson.
"Raven! You have a letter." She came up to the fence and let me walk the rest of the way. I gratefully took the letter, and found that it had been written by my mother. Mrs. Wilson quickly left as Garfield came up to me, curiously.
"Who's it from?"
"My mom." I said flat out, as I began to read it. As I read, each line, my body tensed up as fear washed over me, until the letter finally, fell out of my hands, into the muddy dirt. Garfield looked at me, with a scared look on his face.
"Are you okay?" He gently placed a hand on my shoulder.
"My mom…" I was starting to sob now as he pulled me into a hug, trying to calm me. "She was…she was…burned to…death." I choked even harder, as tears streamed down my face.
My mom, was all I had. She was the only person in the world I could trust, while growing up. She was always there for me and she had promise, to join me in the New World, hopefully in two years. I haven't seen her, in nearly seven years. She was the last family, that cared about me left and now she was gone. Now all I have left is Garfield, for now. Hopefully Troy want beat him, but if he dozes I'll never see him again. I felt some one pull me up in tight to their chest. I looked up to find Garfield trying to calm me as tears streamed freely down my face. He rubbed my back smoothly as his hand sent tingles down my back.
GARFIELD POV
It was nearly dark, when I returned home. Raven had broke down and cried for several hours. It took a while for me to convince Mr. Wilson to give her the rest of the day off. Man, I feel so sorry for her. She has been through so much, in such a sort life time. She had told me everything about her. Every last painfully member to the ones that she visited in her sleep.
"Hello Garfield."
"Hello Mother." I looked up to find myself in my house. Mother was just putting a bowl of potatoes down on the table, as my Father is sitting there waiting for his meal. I could never get why he couldn't get it himself. Why he had to have Mother prepare it for him. I sat myself down, as my family got ready for dinner.
"We still don't have enough to cover the new tax." Replied my Father as looked up at my Mother.
"Oh dear, what are we going to do?" My Mother looked up at him worriedly.
"How short are we, Father?" I looked over at him with a confused look on my face.
"We don't even have half of the amount they're charging. I don't know what else I can do." Replied my father as he rested his head on his hand.
'Great, if we don't pay this off, we could loose the farm. Do you still like England now Father? Do you?' I let our a sigh as I began to think of something. 'I could help pay it off, but that means I'm using the money I saved for Raven. God. What do I do? She's done in two weeks.'
RICHARD POV
"Good morning Kori." I woke up bright and early today. I gave Kori a kiss on the cheek as I great fully took the meal she had made for me.
"Good morning Richard." Kori replied as she sat herself on the other side of the table from me. "You are going in early today?" She looked up at me with a questionable look.
"Yes I am. Try get everything done as soon as possible. I'm hoping to be able to come home early today. If not. Then hopefully I can leave early tomorrow." I replied as I let myself scan Kori's every last curve. Hey she's my wife now. I can do that if I wish. We were both living in a house that I and my father had built. It was finished last month and we were finally on our own. Everything was going swell. Life was perfect. I couldn't ask for a better way of life. I still didn't get why people complained about life. All you had to do is make money, fall in love, get married and live happily ever after. I couldn't see why people were struggling with life. It was so easy. Learn to read and write and your set once school has ended. Is it really that hard.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" My attention was quickly brought back to the sound of some one knocking at the front door.
"I will get it." Replied Kori, as she went to get up.
"No, it's okay. It's probably Mr. Crone the priest. He said he may stop by today, to talk about a new alter for the church." I got up and left the room as Kori replied a 'Alright honey' thingy. 'Women. They think of the most stupidest things. But hey. You gotta love them."
I open the door, to my surprise to not find Mr. Crone but…
"Garfield?"
"Hello Richard." He replied in a mannering way.
"What going on?" I tried to sound polite and not rude with on of those 'What do want? Or Why are you here?' questions.
"I was hoping to ask you for a favor." Garfield looked up at me with pleading eyes.
"Why? What's going on?" 'Garfield? A favor? The kid never asks help from anyone.' I looked at him confused as he seemed a little afraid ask what ever was going on in his head.
"You see, I had to give my folks some of my money to help pay off that new tax and well. That money I was going to use to marry Raven. I was hoping, you could loan me some?" He was rubbing the back of his head as he asked me. I was giving him on of those 'You gotta be kidding me' looks. "I'll pay you back with interest." Garfield quickly yelled in defense.
"Why should I?" I crossed my arms and looked down at him.
"I love her and I want to give her a better life." 'Was that all he could use for his defense. He loves her and what better life could he, give her?'
"Garfield, even if you don't have enough to marry her, she'll still end up in a good home with Troy and he'll…"
"No! Don't say that about Troy! The guy is a jerk. The only reason he's nice to you is because you're rich, you have money. She's been threw enough. Troy see her nothing more that a prize, a juice piece of steak for his liking." Garfield looked at me straight in the eye, as if daring me to say another thing.
"Garfield, if you wanted to marry her so badly, then why didn't you just send a letter to her father." I looked down at him with a duh look.
"I can't."
"Why not?"
"Her blood line father is dead. And don't say her mother, she's dead too." I had a complete shock on my face. When some one had a family member died, every one knew about it. I looked down at the strange boy, who was sitting down on the stairs.
"When did her family die?" I sat myself down next to him. He let out a sigh and slowly told the story.
"Her father was kidnapped by British troop and was forced onto the British navy. The boat he was on, was attacked. No one survived it." He paused for a moment to see that I was confused. 'If her father was killed, then who's the one, giving Wilson the okay to bid her off.' "Her mother remarried." He replied looking down at the ground, knowing I was really confused this time. "She was five when she lost her father. They were doing really well. Her father had gotten a job in a court house. He wasn't anyone big or anything, but he made enough money to support his family. Once he died everything went down hill. Her Mother remarried so guy that turned into a drunk. The guy was always getting fired and what was worse that he did to Raven was…his friends would pay him to have forced sex on her. All the money he got, went to getting drunk. He would disappear for days at a time. Leaving Raven and her Mother struggling to survive." Garfield said in a bitter tone. I looked down at him to let him continue. "Her mother was just burned to death." My eyes grew wide to hear this.
"Why?" I stutter out the words.
"For some reason, her mother couldn't bare his child. She had a hard time getting pregnant and when she would .She would lose it or it would be a miscarriage. So he blamed her for witchcraft. Believing that she was killing her own kids…I think it's his fault, she kept loosing kids. I think that beer is really not good for you, if you're getting drunk every night." Garfield finished his story.
"So, this father of hers, is really not her father?" I asked unsure of how to ask.
"Yes. Can you please help me, help her."
I began to think of what I should do.
SO, IS RICHARD GOING TO HELP GARFIELD OR LEAVE HIM HANGING?
BE SURE TO REVIEW AND TO VOTE!
I'LL GIVE YOU A LIST TO VOTE ON, WHO YOU THINK TROY IS.
1.KITTEN
2.RED X
3.FANG
4.TIMMY
5.MAD MOD
6.BROTHER BLOOD
7.JINX
8.ADONIS
9.JONNY RACID
TRUST ME YOU'LL BE SHOCK. I THINK IT'S ONE OR TWO MORE CHAPTERS THEN THE WITCH TRIALS BEGINS, AND TWO OF THE TITANS ARE GOING TO GET SWITCHED WITH THEIR ANCESTORS.
I'VE DONE A LOT OF RESEARCH ON THIS AREA. EVEN THE BRITISH THING IN TRUE.