Chapter 8: The Trigon Puppet (Part 2)

Garfield was just waking up. The strange thing was, he wasn't home, not even in the tent, not even on the horse he remembered he had fallen asleep on.

He was in a tall grass field. Tall mountains reaching the sky in the distant, it wasn't many trees around, all but one HUGE tree. He could barely see the the leaves as it was taller than the sky. That's also when he noticed that the sky was bright yellow with a small tint of orange, clouds were pink.

Garfield looked around, his eyes fell to the sun in the horisont. It was setting, halfway into the grass. He stared at the sun for a good while, a soft breeze running by him, grabbing small pieces of his hair and dragging them with it.

"W-Where am I?" His voice surprised him, it echoed.

"You're home." A soft gentle voice said behind him. He turned around, Raven.

She was standing there with a long white dress. Her hair was longer and reached her lower back. She was smiling with both her gentle sweet eyes. Her lips was pointing upwards gently with the warmth in them.

Garfield stepped forward, he placed his hand on her cheek. She was real. He thought it was just a dream. He couldn't help but let tears of joy fall.

"Don't cry, I can't stand see you cry." She kissed his hand gently, before pulling him into a hug. Before she could blink, Garfield had her in a close, bone breaking, embrace.

"I missed you so much." He whispered, he felt her smile into his shoulder. He smiled back.

"I missed you too…" The hug lasted a long while. When they finally pulled apart, they looked at the sun, they didn't dare let each other's hands go, but the sun. It was in the exact same place.

"What?" Garfield asked. His eyes narrowed, but he was fairly sure they had been hugging for at least ten minutes.

"The sun never sets here." Raven said, Garfield looked at her, she was looking dead ahead.

"Raven, what's going on here?" Garfield asked. Raven didn't respond, but he caught something move inside her eyes. A flash of yellow.

He pulled his hand away from Raven. She looked at him shocked. "Garfield, what's the matter?" She asked, her voice sounded so innocent, so gently, but not Raven.

"You're not Raven." He said taking a few steps back.

"What are you talking about?" She asked, she reached out a hand to him. He saw it again, the flash of yellow. "I am Raven."

"You may look like Raven, but you're not my Raven!" Garfield was now screaming. The echoes had grown louder with him.

"There is only one of me, Garfield did you hit your head. Let me see." She took a step forward, but Garfield backed away again.

"Stay away from me! You aren't Raven!" As his last word echoed, the mountains began to crumble. The grass became brown and died under his feet. The huge tree started to die, leaving a hollow grey shell. The sky turned from a beautiful yellow to a dark grey.

Raven herself didn't change much. Her dress changed from white to black, her eyes flashed yellow and stayed yellow.

"So I'm the bad girl?" Her voice changed to a demonic maleish voice, he could hear the faintness of the real Raven's voice, but it was so thin and gone.

"Whoever you are, you are not Raven. I love Raven with all my heart, I know Raven, I know her eyes. You will not dare to take her form in any way!" He screamed.

Raven's eyes turned completely black, before she transformed into something. A gigantic black shadow. Four red eyes stared down at him as it grew to almost hit the sky.

The creature bowed down to his level and smiled. "Puny human, your Raven is gone forever! You will never see her again! Accept it! `YOU WILL NEVER SEE RAVEN AGAIN!" The monster screamed. The high noise forced Garfield to cover his ears.

"You're wrong! I will see her again! And when I do, I will never let her GO!" As his words echoed, blood started to flood under his feet. He looked down, the blood almost made him lose his lunch.

The creature laughed, and as it did. Fire started to spread. One of the creature's big claws motioned to the dead tree.

"Follow me human." Garfield hesitated before going. They came up to the tree, blood was pouring from someone hanging chained higher up. Garfield followed the blood trail with his eyes.

He almost fainted when he saw Raven hanging in a cross position, the blood coming from her feet, hands, mouth, head and eyes.

Garfield started to climb the tree, but was stopped by the creature.

"Do not attempt to save her, it's hopeless." Just as he finished, fire catched the tree.

Garfield looked at Raven as the fire started to climb towards her. As it hit her feet, her face changed from emotionless to pain. She didn't scream, she didn't cry, she swallowed the pain and looked like the bravest person ever.

"I have to save her!" Garfield yelled as the flames had taken half her body.

"You cannot. This is her fate, nothing will stop it. I admire your hope, but sometimes you need to know when it's lost." The creature turned away from the fire, it stopped not long away waiting for Garfield to follow.

But he didn't, he just stood there, in shock. He was watching the love of his life burn away.

"Raven…" He muttered, full sorrow.

"I wish to save her too." This made Garfield turn to the creature. By now it was smaller, it looked like the size of a two story building, but had the form of a cat. It's once flour red eyes were changed into two golden cat eyes.

"What are you?" Garfield asked.

The voice of the creature had changed from the male demon to a normal female. "She was our maker. Oh, pardon me, I am Amber."

"That didn't give me any answer, but why did you attack me when we're on the same side?"

"She was trying to reach you, but got a little out of control." A new male voice said. Garfield turned, the tree had stopped burning and looked dead. On the remainings a black raven with red eyes sat.

"And you are?" Garfield asked.

"I'm Night. Raven created us as a child, we were her only friends at the time. We still care about her, and want to saw her. But at the moment, she isn't capable of asking for a cup of water." Night said. He brought his wings out and placed himself next to Amber. They were about the same size, Night being slightly taller.

"What are you?"

"We're shadows, or imaginary friends as you humans call it." Amber said, she smiled a little.

"So are you real?" Garfield asked pointing a finger at them.

Amber looked at Night, wanting him to answer. "Yes, we are very real. As long as Raven is in the state she is we are required to stay inside her mind."

"But contacted you because of one reason." Amber looked down at Garfield worried. "Father has taken control of Raven's mind. He had ordered her to kill you."

Garfield looked at them shocked. "No, she wouldn't!"

"You're right, she wouldn't, but Trigon has her mind at the point." Night said calmly.

The sounds of bells was heard in the back.

"Looks like our time is out. We'll be in touch Garfield." Amber said before they started to vanish. They closed their eyes, letting themselves fade.

Garfield's eyes opened slowly, carefully he sat up and rubbed his forehead. He looked around, he was in a small house. Victor was sleeping in a chair across the room and Richard was sleeping in the bed by the other wall.

The room was small narrow with dark grey with a dark wooden panel. Wallpaper was slowly ripping off the wall. There was two beds in the room and a chair, a dark wooden door and a dusted window. Garfield looked out the window. They were in a deep forest, a forest he didn't recognize.

He rubbed his eyes before carefully stepping out of bed. He realized that he didn't have much clothing on. His pants was the only thing on in fact. He placed his bare foots on the ground and shivered. The floor was cold.

Ignoring it, he went into the next room. It was a living room. Light yellow clay, with dusted windows, a stone fireplace, two wooden rocking chairs. Garfield went over to a small kitchen in the corner, it was merely a counter with a chest on it. To his disgust, it was a molded bread piece on the side.

"Eww…" He muttered. Not wanting to stay inside this smelly house, he went outside. The fresh air felt amazing, but he quickly came to remember that he was half naked. He yelped and ran back inside.

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"find him."

"Kill him."

"He deserve to die."

"He deserve to suffer."

"He needs to die."

"NO!" Raven screamed to herself. But she couldn't stop moving. Her body was moving against her will.

"Please!" She screamed.

Nothing happened, her body kept walking. She knew where it was taking her.

Garfield.

She had somehow heard her father speak to her body, telling her to kill Garfield. She didn't want to, but her body seem to not mind.

"NO! I WON'T KILL HIM!" She screamed.

Still nothing.

"Dear daughter, you cannot fight me, no matter how hard you try." Trigon's voice said. Raven felt her mental body get wrapped in his red magic.

"LET ME GO!" She screamed again, only to get laughed at.

"You cannot deny me anymore, dear daughter. You are forever a puppet, my puppet, my princess." Trigon laughed loudly as the magic forced Raven to the ground on her knees.

"I… Don't… Want… This…" She whispered as she began to sob. The magic wrapped itself around her body, making chains from her arms, legs, neck and waist, all connected to the stone floor under her. "Garfield… Please… Survive…" She sobbed as she watched her body walking towards him.

She knew her body was walking towards him, Trigon forced her.

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Garfield, now fully dressed, sat outside the small house. He was sitting in a high branch looking at Jump village from afar.

Victor and Richard had told him what happened when he was out. Sometimes it felt like he was some sort of Lord more than a hunter.

All weapons had been left with their horses in Jump, seeing as they were in a huge rush. This girl, Terra had tried to kill him.

"Raven…" He sighed.

He closed his eyes and listened to the sound of nature. As he listened, he heard a soft sound of something coming his direction.

Dodging out of the way, just in time to see a black arrow being shot right into the tree trunk. Another arrow came not long after the first. This time Garfield had to jump from the branch. He landed roughly on the ground below, he got out of the way just in time as another arrow shot at him.

Garfield looked in the direction where the arrows had come from, there in the darkness of a tree, stood Raven.

She had a black cloak on, holding a black bow aimed at him. Her eyes were black with a pure white iris.

"Raven!" He yelled, another arrow shot towards him. He looked into Raven's eyes. She weren't there.

He had learned that sometimes a powerful witch could take control of other witches, their eyes would show no emotions, only what they were commanded to, knowing the witch was a good thing at this point.

Luckily he didn't like Raven, he loved Raven. He knew a lot about her, she knew a lot about him. They could see each other in and out just by looking into each other's eyes.

Garfield looked at the house, he only had the silver dagger with him. He didn't want to use it, but… No, he wouldn't use it.

"Stand still mortal, you're making it harder for yourself!" Her voice was darker and doubled.

"Raven! It's me! Garfield, remember?" Garfield tried, he took gentle steps towards her. She only stared at him, raising her bow at him. Another black arrow formed as she drew the string. But she didn't fire.

"You do remember…" Garfield put his hands up, trying to get the real Raven back.

"Silence mortal, you're voice is like daggers to my ears!" She screamed, Garfield noticed a small tear running down the side of her face.

"Raven, I won't hurt you and I know you won't hurt me." Garfield took another step, her bow tightened.

"Silence."

"No, Raven if you can hear me. Don't give up, I love you. I love you with all that I have. I could never bear to hurt you. Never. Please, come back." He plead.

Raven seem to flinch as he spoke, her eyes changed back for a second. Before more tears began to fall.

"Silence, I will shot!"

"Then go ahead." Garfield lowered his arms and just stared at her.

"N-NO!" Raven's eyes changed back and forth within seconds. She fired the bow, but got it out of the way just in time, it hit a tree.

Her eyes changed back to normal, but she fell to the ground. Garfield was just fast enough to catch her.

"I love you." He whispered.

"I love you too." She whispered back, before she kissed him lovingly.

Their kiss evolved from soft, never-leave-me-again kisses to stronger, passion kisses. Their kiss became much more feeling as Raven felt Garfield's tongue on her lips, asking for access.

She let him enter her mouth and their kiss became a fight for dominance. They slowly fell into a bliss of each other's touch.

The last thing any of them heard was their gasp of pleasure.

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I will not go any further! Don't even ask! But I hope you see what I did there... ;)

Also, I'm feeling very inspired now...