Ch.3: Fight in the Diner
There they sat, for god knows how long, just talking. Even the son of two Titans spoke about anything. The green skinned warrior sat there talking to his long lost friends. For some time they forgot what they were talking about until a red motorcycle pulled up in the parking lot to the side.
"Oh shit! David, he's here!" cried Tina as she pointed at the chopper parking at the window.
"Oh no! He's early, quick get behind the counter!" he yelled to her as he ran into his kitchen and pulled out his old shotgun and loaded it from under the counter.
"What's going on?" asked Logan confused.
The two hysterical workers didn't answer as they waited for the door to open. The belled jingled and a figure walked into the room. The figure was a man, tall and slim wearing a leather jacket and leather pants. In his pocket was the handle of a gun and the changeling saw a pocket knife in his jacket sleeve. He had long greasy hair slicked back to his skull so tight the skin on his face was pulled up. He had empty eyes red and blue with color. His nose was long and pointed and his teeth were more like fangs gleaming in the light. He was one bade looking mother!
"What's up fat ass? Whore! Old timers! I'm back!" pointing to all he had mentioned.
Non one said anything just looking away from him. The evil stranger ignored them and walked up to the counter so close to Tina's face that she could smell the alcohol on his breathes.
"Well…what are you waiting for?" he asked coldly.
Tina reached into the cash register and pulled out a large handful of green bills. The stranger snatched the money out of her hand so fast it made her jump with fright. He slowly counted the bills. When he looked up he gave the blonde waitress such a cold look that it sent shivers down her spine. He laughed to himself and gave her a slap so hard to the face it sent a blood curdling echo in the building. She sobbed at the pain in her cheeks and cussed under her breath at him.
"Stupid bitch! Your short 200 bucks! Now I was nice till now, you will suffer!" he spat in anger.
"You…you can't teach people this way!" she cried in anger.
Before anything else was said his fist balled up and made a straight impact onto her forehead sending her to the wall and making her recoil in sobs with pain.
"I can do anything I want god damn it!" he yelled as he pulled out the pocket knife and flicked it open.
He grabbed her shoulder and pulled her up with force and placed the cold steel on her small thin neck.
"Never fuck with me!" he yelled in a hysterical laugh.
"Kenny, don't do it!" yelled David as he pulled the shotgun out from the counter.
The stranger known as Kenny laughed in his steps and removed the blade from her skin before anything bad happened. He looked at him and made such a quick movement that David couldn't pull the trigger, the knife flung from the mad man's fingers and slammed into David's right arms and made him fall to the floor in a cry of pain.
Garfield looked at his son and saw the hatred in his eyes. He grabbed his son and whispered into his ear.
"I need you to use your powers, make me a sword and then you get around him so he can't pull out anymore weapons." He whispered in such a low tone it would never be heard in an empty hallway.
James nodded and touched the floor with his hand and a long blade of steel came from out of the floor silently and the changeling grabbed it in his palm and jumped up from the table and his son rolled along the floor changing into a small green and purple cat crawling along the floor. Logan swung the blade and was able to get it so close to Kenny's neck he could feel the wind on his throat.
"So, another rebel? How pathetic." He laughed as he reached in his pocket.
The green warrior saw his face change completely as he found nothing in his pocket. He looked to his other side and saw the little boy standing near him and all the cooking, kitchen, and his own knifes pointing at him glowing in a eerie purple mist.
"Sucks to be on the other side of the knife huh dick?" laughed Logan.
"Go ahead and kill me! Star another war asshole! Do you know who I work for!" he laughed as he removed his leather jacket and showing a black tattoo on his right shoulder.
And at that moment Logan nearly dropped his weapon. The tattoo was a Price Passion sign but now in the middle of the two P's was a large crooked R.
"Riku Price, I didn't know he would hire such a disappointing collector?" the changeling said trying to keep his cool.
"Don't think I don't know you, your Garfield Logan and you just wait, you will get yours, just like they will!" he laughed hysterically.
Logan dropped the blade to his side and pointed towards the door.
"You leave now, and I ever catch you in here again or anywhere again, I will slit your throat with no worry."
The made man looked to is sides and walked away. He opened the door and turned back to give Logan a final word.
"I will remember to leave a rose on your grave." he snarled.
The green skinned father looked to his green haired boy and gave him a node and the boy gave a small smile.
"Hey butt-head! My dad is a Titan and Titan's fight together! So bring your boss we can take him and you down together!"
Kenny gave the boy a small smile and a laugh and walked away. But a sharp pain entered his lower back and as he felt his buttocks he felt a small object sticking out of each side. Then the pain hit him again and he jumped around screaming in pain at the two pocket knifes sticking out of him.
"Nice shout." smiled Logan as he patted his son on the back.
The blade disappeared in his hands and he looked over to Tina and helped her to her feet. She looked at him with wide eyes as he left to help David up.
"We need to get you to the hospital big guy, that wound looks nasty." He sighed as he wrapped a towel around the bleeding hole in his arm.
"I have had worse, hell I've been shout in the heart once, now I can take a little knife fight wound." He laughed as he grabbed a mop and began to clean up the small drops of blood coming to the floor.
Logan walked over to see James with his hands on Tina's face concentrating hard. He was amazed to see the redness in her face go away and the blood from hr nose disappear at a moments notice.
"Mom taught me it, but it's hard to do it, she said I will get better at it in my teen years." He laughed.
"Yeah she was pretty good at 14." The warrior laughed remembering the first time he had felt Raven's healing powers after the battle with the H.I.V.E gang.
He sat David in a chair helping him making sure he didn't fall and held Tina's hand next to him.
"How long has he been taking your money?" the changeling asked with astern face.
"Well I think a couple months, but at first it was a loan, now he works for the little Price Passions remaining in Jump City. He had never gotten so violent before." The cook sighed.
Tina looked at him with a blush on her face and looked away.
"We need to go back to the Tower, I don't think he will be back for a while." He smiled as he held Tina's hand.
The two nodded and watched the father and son walk out the door leaving them and there customers scared. Then Tina walked back to the cash register and placing the money back into the machine still holding the smile on her face.
"What's with the smile?" David asked in a whisper as he helped her up.
"Big brother, I think I am in love with Garfield 'Beast Boy' Logan!" she laughed as she sat down in a chair.
David looked at her with a shock; his little sister was in love with a married man!
The father and son got onto the bike again and rode home faster than they had come.
"Dad, what do we tell mom?" asked the little boy.
The emerald man looked at the road ahead and sighed.
"I guess I will have to tell her the truth, but I want you to go to your room when we get home o.k.?"
"O.k. I will." smiled the child.
Inside the man was worried, for his son, for his wife, for his friends. How was he going to break the news that the Price Passion has returned?