Chapter 7: The Tigon puppet (Part 1)
Raven didn't look back. She couldn't. Still, she had never felt this much… Sadness. She had barely ever felt sadness. After her mother died she blocked so many of her emotions out, but when she meet Garfield. Everything returned, and reminded her of how much it hurts.
Gotham kingdom was a land that consisted of many villages, each with it's own lord. But King Wayne was the land's ruler in all.
Jump village's lord had passed away not long ago, and Rorek was in power at the moment.
Steel village was ruled by a man with the name of Roy Harper, he was a lot like Richard.
Markovia village was ruled by Brion Markov, there were rumours that said he could control the element of Earth, but they were most likely not true. He also had a well known sister.
Atlantis village was ruled by a man with the name of Garth, also known as Aqualad since he would spend a lot of time in the water.
The kingdom had started as an alliance over 900 years ago, and ended up evolving into a great kingdom. All the villages was placed inside the walls.
Letting out a loud sigh, she started walking again. She was just outside Gotham Kingdom. She stood near the east parts of the wall, the walls that kept their land safe, had one flaw. There was a small cave going under it somewhere where there was barely guards, the cave was hidden with cave was made for people like her, witches, mages, gypsies or down right hunted people.
There was a small camp covering the area. Small tents set up around, a campfire, small tent shops. This place was one of the safest places for… Anyone.
Raven made her way through the camp. Some people turning their heads, some knew who she was. But no one would dare to go up to her. She made her way to the major of the camp.
Many would be surprised when they see her. Myths said she was a strong, tall, beautiful woman. Most of which was true. But Kole, as her name was, was a little smaller than anyone would think. Beautiful, yes. Strong, yes. Tall, not so much. She had a deep navy blue eyes with half long pink hair.
Anyway, Kole was one golden hearted girl. She had the power to turn her body into crystals, and make powerful crystal weapons.
Raven made her way to the bigger tent by end of the road, it was pretty obvious that she lived there. She had meet Kole before once, Kole had needed help with some guards and Raven saved her people from a certain death.
Gently Raven knocked on the wooden pole that helped create a small door. A minute later, Kole showed up at the door.
"Oh Raven, a pleasure to meet you again." She smiled, stepping away from the door she let Raven inside. The tent seem to be bigger on the inside. There was a small living room with a small connected kitchen. A small curtain separating a small bedroom.
They walked over to the small sitting area. "What brings you here?" Kole asked, she stood in the kitchen making some blueberry tea.
"I need some help, I ran away from my father." She took the cup Kole offered as she sat down. "I… I fell in love with a hunter…" She muttered.
Kole didn't seem surprised, she chuckled a little. "I knew it, Argent told me. 'The princess of magic will soon come to fall for the one no one foretold.'" Kole smiled sweetly.
"Whoa, whoa! Slow down. You're saying she saw me fall in love with a hunter?" Raven asked surprised.
"Well not exactly, she didn't say anything about the hunter, only someone nobody would suspect." Kole shrugged.
Raven sighed in anger and frustration. why was her love life so weird?
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Red-X smiled to himself, he left the hunter a few hours before and had seen a certain girl walking alone in the forest. He was about to go up to her, but she vanished into a mountain.
He had stood there just staring at the wall before he went forward. touching it, something burned his hand.
He jumped back in surprise. "What the-?!" He looked at his hand, the burn marks leaving only a mark.
The mark was of a half full moon.
X knew what that meant, that he had been in touch with witchcraft. He could get the trouble off by saying he found a witch camp. Which was indeed true, but if he couldn't prove it, he would have to be punished.
X looked up, the moon was half. The mark showed which day he found the camp.
Turning around, he ran to the nearest guard post in the area. It wouldn't be far, the wall itself went over the mountain, and the hidden door.
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Trigon flew down in the center of Markovia village. Transforming into his 'human' form he roared out.
"Where is my daughter? Puny humans!" His magic acted out, red magic flew out capturing humans, womens, men, children.
When people only screamed, he took to high levels. His magic started to set the village on fire. Fire burning everything. Quickly climbing onto tall buildings, small buildings. The fire danced around, as people ran. People panicked. It had been over a thousand years since he last burned something to the ground like this, but he didn't care.
It felt good, to see people run away in fear, to see blood pooling around them. The smell of burning wood, burning flesh.
In the middle of the crowd a young blue eyes, blond girl stood. She stood still, letting her arms get hit by people as they ran by. She was looking at Trigon, looking as his magic made it's way around her people.
Trigon noticed her in the crowd and yelled. "Puny human! You dare to stand and watch as I burn you family!" Tigon's flamed surrounded her.
Terra, as the girl was named. Stood her ground. People had gotten out, many harmed with serious injuries.
¨Terra stood still, she was in some sort of trance as she glanced at the dark power before her.
"Weak minded human, but I sense your power. You are no witch, but you could be useful." Trigon laughed. His magic picked up the tranced girl. "Your magic controls the earth."
Trigon let the village burn to the ground, leaving many homeless and harmed. He took Terra with him and ordered her to find the hunter; Garfield Logan.
"When you find the hunter kill him," Was the last Terra heard before she was set out to find the hunter.
She wasn't a witch, so that would help alot. Silver couldn't harm her.
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X had found the nearest guard post. It was just a few hours away. He ran up to them, since he was in armor he wouldn't be questioned.
But as he got closer, he saw people. People in need, the people had come from Markovia village, they looked harmed in so many ways. He ran up to them. Forgetting about the hidden door he found.
"What happened here?" He asked, running up to a blond man. He recognized the man as The Lord.
"W-We… *Cough* Were attacked… *Cough, cough*... By Trigon." Brion passed at the spot, some guards of his came to aid him.
"He's also worried, his sister, Terra didn't follow. We fear that she didn't make it, but he keeps believing she's still there." One of the guards said as he pulled the lord to his feet.
"We'll take care of him." The other said as he supported The Lord's chest.
Red-X walked away from The Lord and walked over to the wall guards. The peoples had been running to the wall for safety, the village of Markova was the closest to this side of the wall.
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Garfield hadn't been himself since the breakup with Raven. He barely ate anything, he didn't sleep. All he could think of was Raven, how her hair would flow gently in the wind, how her eyes shone in the night, how her touch made his legs feel like jelly, how they danced on the pond.
"Hey Gar…" Victor greeted with a small sad smile. They knew how he felt, they had seen them that night. Victor felt so bad for him, Garfield had never felt this love before. His master would warn him about any kinds of girls, his master didn't love him like that, he was taken from his parents at the age of eight to start his training.
"Hey Vic…" Garfield muttered, he walked over to the fire, sat down and just stared at it.
"You hungry?" Richard tried, he held out a piece of bread to him.
Garfield looked at it before looking away. "No, I'm not hungry…" Garfield sighed, a small tear escaped his right eye.
They had heard a rumor that said. 'When a tear falls from the right eye, it's of sorrow. But when it falls from the left eye, it's of happiness.'
"Gar, you have to eat. It's been two days, you haven't eaten anything." Richard said, his voice filled with concern.
"Anyway, we're going back to Jump. We need to get Garfield here to a doctor." Victor stated as he poured a bucket of water on the flames.
They began to pack up their camp, and with 'they' Richard and Victor was the ones packing. Garfield was almost asleep on top of the horse, seeing him almost asleep they let him. They knew he didn't sleep at night.
After the boys finished packing they started their ride home. Garfield's horse was lead by Victor's since Garfield was still sleeping.
As they came to the entry of Jump village, they saw carriages with hurt peoples. Many had burn marks, broken limbs. Many of them was sleeping, others crying and one on top of a white horse was crying harder.
"My sister…" He muttered through his sobs.
The group tried to ignore them and get Garfield to the doctor, then they could go back to the peoples.
"LOOK! The hunter!" One shouted and pointed at sleeping Garfield.
Many peoples started to walk up to them, asking for help. "I'm sorry peoples of Markovia, but the hunter is in no condition to fight any witches tonight." Richard shouted, getting the people to calm down and walk back to theirs.
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"This is nothing that can be healed from me." Doctor Light said with a sigh. "This is a broken heart, only to be healed by the one who broke it." Light shook his head.
"R-Raven…" Garfield muttered in his sleep, he just didn't wake up right now. They figured it was the tiredness of being awake for so many days as he has.
"He seem to have either grown attached to the witch, or he madly wants to kill her." Light said, stroking his goatee and raising an eyebrow.
Vic and Richard looked at each other with a knowing look.
"Hurray!" Richard turned to the window, the people of Markovia was cheering. In the middle of the crowd a young blond female stood, she was looking at the building they were in.
Richard noticed something in her eyes, they were so dark. Sending shivers up his back and they were filled with darkness. Narrowing his eyes, he looked closer.
Terra started to walk towards the building, ignoring the people who tried to talk, hug or even touch her. She came to the door, and walked inside.
Richard, Vic, Garfield and Light was on the second floor of the building. He placed his ear on the door, footsteps could be heard from outside. Richard locked the door, getting some strange looks from his friends.
"Victor, we have to get Garfield out." Richard whispered, the steps outside had stopped and he knew she was right there.
"Why?" As if a cue, the door shot open. Rocks flew with it as it hit the wall.
A loud girlish scream broke the trance of shock the boys were having. They looked at Light, the only one who could have screamed. He blushed as he dove behind a counter.
"Victor get Garfield out of here, I'll distract her!" Richard ordered. Victor nodded and threw Garfield over his shoulder. The door wasn't an option as Terra was blocking it. He threw himself at the wall.
Luckily the wall was weak at his impact, it broke down as Victor began to run towards the forest of Jump. He knew about a small hut nearby, where Garfield could rest.
Richard noticed Terra looking after Garfield and Victor. She looked like she didn't notice Richard at all. She looked the direction and started to walk.
Richard threw out his sword, just in time Terra created a stone sword and blocked him. They began to battle, their swords hitting each other again and again, none of them managed to get any really good hits.
"Sir Richard! Do not hurt my sister!" Lord Brion yelled as he entered the room and saw Richard in combat with Terra, he had Terra against a wall with their swords still strong against each other.
"This isn't your sister, she's hypnotized by magic. Look at her eyes, they're darker!" Richard yelled, sweat ran down the side of his eyes.
"I do not care! Unhand her now!" He yelled, he stepped forward and got Richard to back away from Terra.
She smiled, aimed her sword toward Richard. She was about to strike, when Richard threw himself out of the way and out the huge hole in the wall. He quickly got to his feet and fled into the forest.
Terra smiled to herself, right before she was shot in the shoulder by a random arrow. She fell to the ground. Her eyes closed for a few seconds, before they shot open. White light coming out.
Brion stood back in shock. When the light died down, he saw Terra's eyes doing the same and returning to their normal eye colour.
"Ow… what happened?" She asked, she tried to sip up, but the arrow was still in her shoulder.
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Raven had just left Kole's camp. She was heading to the next kingdom in search of a man named Herald, he was the king's son in the kingdom Limbo. The fact that she knew he would help her was that, one; He knew Kole. Two; he was a magic user.
Herald had the power to teleport, he wasn't a witch. Witches and wizards where a considered a different race in… Every kingdom ever. Magic users where humans with one small harmless ability, witches had more abilities and could learn a lot more spells, which was considered bad.
Raven walked down a narrow path well hidden from the main path. She started to hear voices. Burying herself deeper into her blue cloak, she fought the voices.
"Your father miss you…"
"You should have listen…"
"You deserve to be evil…"
"Like father, like daughter…"
"You are evil…"
"Don't deny it…"
The voices kept telling her. She tried to fight them, but they only got stronger and stronger. That's when it hit her.
He was close.
Quickening up her pace, she jogged deeper into the forest. She ran into a small crowd of bushes and trees in an attempt to hide. The loud sound of a hawk made Raven run even faster.
She just got into the bush when she heard loud thumps on the other side of the bush. It got closer.
Raven closed her eyes and calmed herself down. She let her breath calm a little longer and just sat there barely breathing and barely thinking.
The thumping started to walk away after standing still for a few minutes. Raven let out a sigh of relief.
That was a mistake.
The person was still there, and he heard that sigh. A dark laugh made Raven swallow hard, her father was right behind her.
"Why are you scared deary?" He asked, his voice was so different for her. It sounded evil. She gulped as she realised what had happened.
At that moment she wanted to cry. A tear escaped her eye before she caught it. She yelped when she felt magic cover her body, she was about to teleport out of there, but before she could chant her words. A red tentacle of magic covered her mouth.
"No, No, Deary. I've been looking for you for far too long, I'm not about to let you go." He chuckled as she struggled against his magic. "It's no use.
He still held her with his magic, but she was still trying.
"Dear daughter." He never said 'Daughter', Raven looked at him shock. "Look into my eyes." At that moment, she turned away. She knew what he would do if she did.
"MPHM!" She shouted into her gag.
Trigon chuckled. The magic wrapped itself around her chin, forcing her to look at Trigon. She closed her eyes, letting out a musing sigh he used his magic and forced her eyes open.
She looked directly into his eyes, they swirled with magic and colours… Raven felt her body grow tired. Her own eyes began to swirl with colours, green, purple and orange. Her eyes slowly fell down and her body fell limp.
Trigon chuckled to himself. "Dear daughter, you will never have to worry about anything again. All I want you to do, is end the life of that hunter. And we'll go back to our life like nothing ever happened. Doesn't that sound like a good idea?"
All Raven could do was nod. The wrapping uncovered her mouth, allowing her to speak. "Yes Father, that sounds wonderful." Her tone was dead and sounded almost drugged.
"I will let you to it then…" The wrapping unwrapped itself, dropping her to the ground. She stood up, she was leaning to one side like doll with loose strings. Tigon smiled.
A cross controller made of silver with a glowing purple gem on each branch appeared in front of Trigon. The controller had a thin white string fading into nothing under each gem.
Trigon's smile grew wider, from now on out. His daughter would follow each command without questions.
