Mark of Trigon Chapter 8: Four Days Left
With the passing of another day, the dread of the situation only drew closer.
The dread would only get closer, that was the logical problem.
As of now the teams were starting to get desperate, Garfield was concerned about how desperate, Batman had even gone as far as to track down Trigon cults and interrogate them, 'interrogate' in Batman's language meaning to beat the snot out of them when none of the cultists said anything remotely helpful.
Just stuff along the lines of: "Trigon will come." - "Our lord starts the next phase of Plan B in mere days." - "One of said heroes is once again a noble sacrifice."
With each passing day, the teams grew more desperate, and Garfield began to see that there were ONLY two options, to prevent it the noble way or to let it happen.
The noble way to prevent it was painstakingly obvious, but the teams outright refused for such an outcome, and letting it happen was a very dangerous risk.
But the more Garfield thought this over and over, trying to find where he went wrong, a phrase that Trigon had responded with during the reveal of the ritual rushed through his head again, it regarded the noble sacrifice.
"Then I'll just claim your soul."
It hit Garfield like a truck, he realised that if he died, Trigon would just claim his soul and who knew what he'd do with it.
Garfield was not only a sacrifice willing to make a sacrifice, but he was also, as some would put it, Soul-Trapped.
Both outcomes could end with his death, it became clear that if he was to truly win, he would have to live through this.
Would he still be soul-trapped if he beat Trigon?
Something Raven would likely know the answer to, but he wasn't sure about telling her such a thing, it would only make things worse.
Things were bad enough already, he seemed to be an irrevocable sacrifice that would end up being a catalyst to his very home becoming conquered by the demon that cursed him.
Telling them that he was also soul-trapped would drive them over the edge.
A voice in his head told him that Raven should know, that she would understand, that just like the last talk, that it would be between them.
This really was one heck of a ritual, he remembered something rather similar to it in a video game he played, the power was called Soul Tear (A/N: Sorry couldn't resist the reference)
He decided that he would likely have to tell Raven about the fact that he may be soul-trapped.
