Ch.8: Less Body than Soul

My body swung in the air, I couldn't see anything yet I could feel everything. My body was cold and empty, I was empty I didn't know what to feel but then I knew I had to follow Slade; if not for me but for Raven, and my friends.

Before anything the door opened up and I heard chattering of people! I saw teens walking in and then older people, they clicked on the lights and everything went silent! They all saw the puddles of blood around me, then my body leaving its own small drops of blood. But what stopped them was my green skin, they could see it clearly and my eyes kept a dead glare at them waiting for something to happen.

I looked around and saw Richard, Victor, Kori, and Raven. They all looked at me but only two knew who I was. I saw Victor's mouth drop open and the words 'oh no!' come to his silent lips. Raven stared at me with no emotions, her eyes were wide and her mouth was open.

It took almost 5 minutes before Richard came forward he crept up to me avoiding the puddles and still keeping his eyes on me.

"What are you?" he asked confused and worried.

I didn't answer and I just bowed my head and he saw the S on my forehead. He also saw tears fall from my eyes.

"He forced you to his side didn't he?"

I shook my head but still didn't speak.

"You don't have to work for him, we can help!"

"No! No you can't I have no other choice Richard! I made this decision and I have to live with it!" I yelled out.

At the sound of my voice he knew who I was automatically.

"Garfield? Is that you? You're green and you work for Slade?"

"I just don't work for him Robin, I am his apprentice."

At the word Robin stepped back and almost fell over. I felt the anger pulse inside of me again and with out a moments notice the ropes snapped under my pressure. My body hit the floor with a thud but I jumped up and began to run out of the gym but a hand caught mine.

The hand jerked me back and I saw it was Raven holding me, her eyes brimming with tears.

"Is it true? Tell me is it true?" she said with her voice rising and sobs mixed in.

I wanted to hold her and tell her it would be alright but I couldn't. I felt tears coming to my eyes and the rage still in my body and pulled my hand free from hers and ran as fast as I could. I couldn't believe how fast I was running but I couldn't care less! My body was beginning to give out so I hid behind a wall of an apartment building.

I sat there and slid down the bricks. I was sobbing and trying to keep the anger inside of me. I screamed and punched the wall in front of me, the bricks cracked under my strength but it opened small wounds around my knuckles!

"What's happening to me? This is of all things why does it have to be me!" I screamed out into the abyss.

From out of no were a deep evil voice echoed in my mind.

'Because you never let me out! I feed off of your anger and need to be let out once in a while. But you keep me locked inside of that box in you're mind and now I can finally free myself!'

"Who are you?" I yelled out to no buddy.

'I am you Garfield, you're inner self, you're demon or Beast as some of you're emotions calls me.'

"So you're the thing that keeps making me loose my mind! Why are you doing this stop it I command you!"

'I can't be stopped little Logan, you had a choice to stop me a long time ago but now its to late I am going to destroy you from the inside out and use you're body for my bidding!' it chuckled.

I shook my head and held it hard I tried to shut the Beast up but it was telling the truth I have let it out.

'You know you liked what we did to those three idiots. If we work for Slade we can do that to more people, and maybe I will leave you sooner than I expected.'

"Yeah your right, it was pretty relaxing I loved showing those three losers not to mess with the man."

'Good, so will you do it some more? For Raven? Hell I can help you get her if you're nice enough to me.'

I thought about it for a second and then a devilish grin came to my face, my eyes lost there shine, my body seemed to pulse and my hair spiked straight up in devilish styles!

"Yes! We must satisfy all of our anger and I will retrieve Raven for myself! We will be the ruler of this school and in time even we will surpass Slade and send he to the Hell's to rot and watch us rule!"

As I began to laugh something shattered inside of me!

"No! I don't want to hurt any buddy that's not me! We have to find a way out of this monsters grip and save everyone!"

"No we will win and we will rule that is it!"

For minutes I fought between my emotions but in the end my evil took over, it was just too strong! I smiled and cackled in the darkness of the alley and ran off to my home.

I walked into the Boy's Home and slammed the door. I heard a group of kids walk up to me. It was the smaller younger kids of the Boy's Home. I ignored them and ran into my room and slammed the door. I double locked it and lay on my bed. I noticed my cloths had blood on them again so I cleaned and washed myself.

I did not hear any feet coming up the steps or waling into my room or even knocking. No I sat in the shadow of my room and waited for tomorrow. But in my mind I and my Beast were fighting; finally the Beast came out and gave me a proposition!

'So think about this kid, you work for Slade but you tell him for every person he has you whack or beat up you get 20 of the prophet. What do you think about that?'

I sat there and thought about it, with that much money rolling into my pockets daily I could bye Raven everything she ever wanted, give her a lifetime of joy!

"I like that idea, lets go for it." I smiled in the shadows.

Then from out of no where there was a large pound on my door, I got onto my floor and looked outside I saw more than one pair of shoes. I opened the door and met Victor, Raven, Kori, Robin and Ms. Brumfield standing at my doorway; all of them had looks of worry on there faces!

"Garfield what happened back there?" asked Richard confused.

"Nothing that you would care of." I said calmly.

I saw his body twitch and this time Victor came forward.

"That wasn't you're blood on the floor Gar, it was different shades of color, yours is like a raspberry so tell me what happened?"

I sighed and sat on my bed the group came in and I saw Raven had tear stains on her cheeks, a pain of guilt shot me in the heart.

"I had gotten a letter from Raven in the morning that told me to meet her in the gym, but when I got there I was not met by Raven but by Slade, Plasmus, Overload, and Cinderblock. For a while we just talked about me joining him, but when I refused he attacked me with his goons, for a while I thought I was going to die but." I could not finish what I wanted to say.

"But what Garfield tell me!" blurted out Raven.

"I snapped, something inside of me came out and I attacked and beat up those three idiots by myself but Slade still was able to beat me he told me of a way I could get rid of this thing inside of me, if I worked for him he could find a way to get rid of it so that's why I was given the mark to get rid of the Beast, to get rid of everything inside me."

"You can't do it Garfield, we won't let you, Slade is a dangerous kid and he will hurt you and everyone else with that power inside of you. You can get rid of it any other way you can take anger management, self control anything but work for him." Richard said softly.

I nodded this wasn't me doing it, it was the Beast I told them I would find another way and they left but Raven stayed behind.

"I know you lied to us Garfield, there is something else holding you and I can feel this Beast inside of you. I want to help you and I will try to but you have to promise me you will stay away from Slade."

I sighed and before I knew it she wrapped her arms around me and held me tight! I felt a flush of warmth for a moment and the Beast was pushed back; for a moment. I felt tired and weak but her arms kept me up and strong and she looked into my eyes and left and just like that she was gone and the Beast was back.

"Silly little girl, Garfield does not live here anymore! This is going to be my time to shine and now slut, jock, softy, or weakling is going to hold me back! When I get threw with all of this, I will be the last one standing!"

And as night came my eyes kept and evil stare and they were shut into darkness forever to sleep till the dawn of hell awoke me and the rain of the Beast was just beginning.