Ch.18: When the Time Is Right

I sat there, on the concrete floor of the doorway. The house behind me had large holes in the walls and broken glass. I kept looking at it and wishing it wasn't my house. Raven stood beside me and helped me up, Victor and Bumble Bee were behind me and I saw the tears running down his face. Richard and Kori had come with us and surprisingly she was holding his hand, fingers laced. I walked into the house and looked around, glass was shattered across the floor and the fluffing from the couch and seats were spread around and on the floor were stains of bloody footprints. Tears filled my eyes when I saw them and my teeth gritted so hard that I felt blood floe from my gums.

Raven held me tighter and I placed my head on her shoulder as we walked up the stairs. The footprints were our tracks. They led us to a closed door with yellow tape around it. I saw the blood seeping from the edge and staining the carpet. I looked back quickly ad let out a moan of hate. I checked the other kid's rooms and found all the bunk beds un-made and glass shatter everywhere but nothing more. I walked into my room with Raven as Victor followed to his room. I moved the broken glass on the bed away and leaned back, I saw Raven sit next to me and lean down and came closer to me. I inhaled her scent and it calmed me but stabbed at my heart with pain and I sobbed. I got up and sniffed as she put her arms around me. I looked up and saw the picture of me Ms. Brumfield, and Caitlyn at the park from a year ago. I picked it up and as I looked at it, it feel from my hands to the ground and I feel to my knees and held back my anger and cried, for the first time in a long 3 years I was crying out of control, tears feel from my face to the ground.

I felt soft hands on my cheeks and saw Raven looking into my eyes. She gave me a soft smile and placed her lips against mine and wrapped her arms around mine. As we pulled away I gave her a smile back. And as soon as she let go of me a police officer walked into the room and pulled me to the side.

"I am sorry lad, I truly am, but we need to get you and these kids to a more homely place. We can't have you living here anymore; we have a new placed a few blocks down the way. It was vacant for a while so it will need some fixing up before it is good. I contacted the guardian's relatives and could only get a hold of her son. He said he would be the guardian of you all now and will be her in two days. Let me take you and the 4 others to the new residents and start fixing it up."

"Of course officer, but what about the kids?"

"They will be coming here to gather there things and come to the new home. There are beds and towels and other things being donated by a factory not far from here. They send there wishes."

"Tell them we all said thank you." I said quietly.

I walked down the steps with Raven beside me to the police car and sat in the back next to her.

Back in the house Victor, Bee, Richard, and Kori were stopped by a younger looking cop.

"Hey, hold it kids, were do you think your going?"

"To the police car with our friend."

"I wouldn't do that, I don't think that kid has all the marbles right now and should be watched carefully."

Victor looked down at the car and Garfield and back up to the officer. With a yell he slammed his large fists into the police officers nose breaking it on contact. The man fell back on his butt and growled.

"You both need to be locked up in the Looney bin!"

"Go to hell with your insane asylum." mumbled Victor as he went down to follow Garfield.

I sat in the car and looked up into the skies as it drove off. I wondered who would be next. Who will Slade kill to end me? Richard? Kori? Victor? Raven? No he is to smart to kill them he will take me down from beneath me, and I wont let him. I needed to end him now before any more people were killed. But how?

'I know a way.' said the dark voice of the Beast.

'So you show yourself now?'

'Yes… I am sorry Logan but that necklace has been holding me back, now that it is off I can talk for myself. You have a lot of angry emotions Garfield and we can use them to help us kill Slade!'

'Do you have any ideas?'

'Plenty but we need to talk another time.

'Tell us!' yelled the voice of Raven in my mind.

I looked over to my side and I saw her eyes looking into the distance but I could see that she was focused on me.

'Leave us alone women!'

'No she can help us!'

'Fine she can help but she better not mess with our ideas!'

'I won't because I got a better one.'

'Tell us Raven.'

The car drove off into the distance followed by 2 others. Then the world went black. Slade walked around in his hideout with a large smile on his face.

"What are you thinking about?" asked Terra from the doorway.

"How we can strike back against that little boy next, this is getting good." He laughed.

"You're doing this just because aren't you?"

"True but I have my other wishes to."

"Well wait a while o.k., what are you going to do with Plasmus?"

"Oh I think you are going to like this."

"What is it?"

"We torture him then we kill him in front of Garfield!"

"And how are we going to do that?"

"We can strike back at Garfield again like before but this time kill no one, you fire only if your seen, and you give him this!" smiled Slade as he pulled out a glass bottle with a skull lid and a red blood like liquid inside of it.

"What is that?"

"I got it off of an old scientist named Dr. Chang, he sells a lot of weird stuff on the black market, and it's a sleeping potion strong enough to put en elephant to sleep with the sniff of its scent."

"Very nice, so we make him smell it?"

"No you make him drink it, and when he awakes he will have no memory and we will make him our own little slave. We can make him the ultimate killing machine with no human remorse!"

"I love you when your bad side shows!" laughed Terra as she wrapped her arms around Slade.

"When the time is right we will strike and we will rule the school and this pathetic city in time!"

And the two shared an evil laugh into the night knowing there plan will work.