Chapter 9: The Mission
Garfield and Raven was cuddling up to each other against a tall dark tree. Their clothes was on, but hung loose around them. "I love you…" Garfield whispered into her neck.
"I love you too…" She whispered into his forehead and kissed him gently. "Never let me go again, please."
"Never…"
"Promise?" She looked into his eyes.
"Promise… As long as you never leave me again." He whispered.
"Promise."
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Red-X walked down the dark forest, he held his sword close. It was a silver sword, similar to the one Garfield owned.
He hadn't believed him when he said he killed the witches. He had never told people about his past.
It was told and known that only a hunter with the right blood could really kill a witch. The real blood being either a family member of an old hunter or getting blessed with the blood.
Garfield's grandfather had been a hunter, his father before him, and his father before him. The only non-hunter in the male line was Garfield's father, who instead became a farmer.
Sadly, doing that was a mistake. A witch Garfield's grandfather had hunted before came into their home to kill them. She killed Mark and Marie Logan, Garfield survived when his grandfather came into the house just in time. Garfield's master was his grandfather seeking revenge, he didn't tell this to Garfield, in fear that it would corrupt him or for Garfield to become too attached to him.
It broke his heart that he couldn't say anything to his grandson.
How did X know this? He was always a step ahead of everyone, without Garfield's notice he had dug into his past. Many books by Garfield's grandfather had been left in Gar's house. He wasn't ashamed to say he broke into Gar's house, he was proud.
Breaking into a hunter's house was a crime yes, mostly because of safety. But X's curiosity had gotten the better of him.
Red-X moved deeper into the forest. He wanted to kill the witch, for some reason he felt like he could. As if something was dragging him towards a witch.
Stepping out on a gravel road he looked to his sides. A small cottage was laying in the distant by a small field. The cottage looked to be enough room for two.
Something drew him towards the cottage, he jumped into a tree as the door opened. A pink haired pale woman walked outside and into a small garden in the front. She settled down a started to pick carrots and potatoes. Not long after a redhead man came out of the door.
X started to walk up to the cottage, he really needed a drink. "Greetings." He waved as he came closer.
The pair looked at him for a second before the man said. "Honey go inside." She nodded and went inside. "So, what brings you out here good sir?" Wally asked leaning on the fence separating them.
"I was just passing by when I noticed your little cottage and I was wondering if you had some water." X smirked.
"Of course, hold on." Wally went inside and soon returned with a mug of water. "Here you go good sir." Wally smiled handing the man the mug.
"Thank you, who's your wife?" X looked at the window and saw the pink haired woman staring at them.
"Her name is Jenna, we lived here a few weeks now." Wally chuckled. "She's pregnant with our first child now, that's why she's so shy at the moment." Wally whispered the last part.
"How nice, how long?" X asked taking another sip.
"Just a few weeks, she's having some morning sickness, but she's coming around." Wally smiled as he looked at Jinx in the window.
"Could I meet her?" X asked, the pink hair gave him a strange feeling.
"Umm… Sure…" Wally said unsure, he went inside. Not long after they came back, Jenna hiding a little behind Wally.
"Hello fair lady, I'm Sir X of Jump." He gave out his hand.
She shook it with a slight smile. "I'm Jenna of this cottage." She joked with a smile. Jenna was wearing a knee long black dress with a leather belt with a few stones on it, the dress was simple with long arms.
"I was passing by looking for someone. Has any of you heard of Garfield Logan or Raven?" X asked.
The pair looked at each other before turning back. "No or yes, we have heard about them, but we haven't seen them around here." Jenna said, she placed her hand on her cheek thinking.
I hope they're not anywhere nearby.
"Very well, thank you for your hospitality." X gave them their mug back before nodding and walking off.
"Do you think he noticed?" Jinx asked after X vanished from sight.
"I hope not." Wally said with concern, it was true that Jinx was pregnant and he wouldn't want their child to die anytime soon, not to mention Jinx.
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Garfield woke from his short nap, he looked down at a ball of purple hair. He smiled, seeing that Raven was asleep as well.
A branch breaking nearby made Garfield jump. He looked around, before shaking Raven awake carefully.
"Huh?" She groaned.
"Shh! Someone's here." He whispered, Raven's eyes widened and the sleep left her completely. Raven quickly jumped up in the tree hiding herself between the leaves.
Garfield frowned as he felt Raven leave him, but if this person only found him it would be so much easier for them to leave.
"Who's there?" Garfield asked standing up.
"It's us." Victor and Richard came out of the darkness of the forest.
"Oh, what are you two doing out here?" He asked.
"We could ask you the same thing." Victor said as he came closer to Garfield.
"I was out looking for something." Garfield turned around, not wanting to face them.
"Garfield, we know about you and Raven." Richard said walking around to face Garfield.
"What?"
"We saw you leave that one night and we followed you to the pond, we saw you dancing and kissing Raven." Victor said making Garfield turn to him.
"You did?" Garfield looked down at the ground ready for the yelling he thought would come. When it didn't happened, he looked at them. They were smiling.
"We're not mad bro. We're happy that you found someone you love." Victor cheered.
"You're not mad?..." Garfield asked not really over the fact.
"No, we have had troubled relationships before. Kori used to be a noble." Richard said, both victor and Garfield turned to him. Knowing what he started he finished. "Kori used to be a noble daughter. On one of her birthdays I was hired to guard her, we talked, got to know each other, when we fell for each other." Richard chuckled at the momori. "When she said she wanted to be with me, she had to choose between marrying who her father wanted her to or me. She choose me and got disowned."
"..." Both Victor and Garfield looked at Richard stunned.
"She's okay with it, she says she'd rather be with me and be a common than be married to another noble." Richard said. "But we got our lives in hand and live happily from now on out, next time I see her, I'm going to give her this." He held out a small wooden box, he opened it. A small jewel ring was placed there, with another simple ring next to it.
"Wow…" Garfield said, he turned to Victor. "Your turn."
"Bee was a slave servant, she was going to be sold to some lord to serve, I got to know Bee at the market a few weeks earlier. When I heard she was going to be sold, I gathered up as much money I could and bought her." The boys looked at Victor strange.
"Hey, I really liked Bee. I treated her as a person, which she is thankful for. We fell for each other, people didn't like that a master smith married a servant, so we moved to Jump. We got our lives together and now…" He smiled. "... We live happily ever after."
"Wow… Maybe my relationship isn't so hard…" Garfield sighed.
"Hey, I think your's is harder, but you fight hard for it. I mean, she is hunted by everyone but you. You're fighting harder than any of us, and keep fighting." Victor said for comfort.
"Thanks, that reminds me…" He looked up in the tree. "Rea, it's not dangerous." He said.
Raven fell from the tree, her legs caught a branch as she hung upside down behind Garfield. "I know, I wasn't sure whenever they wanted to see me." She said, scaring Garfield so he jumped into Victor's arms.
"Get a grip man!" Victor said with a sigh as he dropped Garfield.
"You scared me Raven." Garfield walked up to her.
"That's what you get for calling me 'Rea'." She said with a smile.
"You don't like pet names,Rea?" Garfield teased with a smirk, making Victor and Richard chuckle a little.
"No, I don't Beast boy." She teased, Garfield froze. Nobody had called him beast since his parents lived. They used to call him Beast Boy, since he was so much like animals.
"How did you know?" He asked.
Raven smiled. "When you slept, I got teleported into your dream. I saw some memories." She gave him an evil smirk as she jumped down.
"W-What did you see?" Garfield gulped.
"... Enough." Raven's evil smirk turned to loving comforting one, she walked up to him and wrapped her arms around him. "I'm so sorry." She whispered.
Garfield wrapped his arms around her and whispered. "It wasn't your fault."
"Well, well, well… Looks like someone has been lying to the law…" The group turned to see the horror that was Rorek, Red-X and a big group of guards. "You know what the law say about witches Garfield."
"I know the witch law inside and out!" Garfield yelled as he pushed Raven behind him.
"Then why haven't you followed it?" Rorek took out a scroll and read out loud. "The punishment for not performing the witch burning ritual is to be placed in jail until the witch has been burned. - The main reason for this is that one has been spellbound by the witch, any hunter with feelings for witches -"
Garfield cut him off. "I know what will happen to me! The only thing is… Only a hunter can start the flame to burn a witch." He yelled.
Rorek smiled. "Luckily, our own Red-X has the same blood as a hunter." Everyone's jaw dropped.
"I do?" Red-X asked.
"Yes, as captain of the guards I am required to know at least something's about my army. You sir Red-X, has the same grand, grand, grand, grandfather as Garfield here. Christian Logan two children a son and a daughter, one married a woman and carried the Logan name further, and the daughter married a man with the name Todd." Rorek explained. "But it goes so far back that one wouldn't think of you two as family."
Garfield looked at X with shock, X returned the glare.
"well now, guards take this group to Jump guard station. I want them all in jail, the witch shall be unharmed until the burning." Rorek ordered before he turned to walk away.
"Raven?" Raven looked at him from behind him. "Can you teleport?" She shook her head.
"No, only transform, teleportation is emotional spell." Raven explained.
"So, we're screwed." Richard said.
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The group sat in a dark wooden carriage, all chained up. "So, what now?" victor asked, he looked over at Raven, who sat in the back corner with Garfield asleep. He held his arms around her, refusing to let go.
"We'll be let go, but Raven…" Richard sighed, he too looked at the sleeping pair in the corner.
"This is sad, we thought we had it tough. Look at them…" Victor pointed to them. "... They were meant to be."
"Yeah…" Richard sighed.
"But what will happen to us? Will they just let us go?" Victor asked, him being a blacksmith he hadn't been in jail before.
"Most likely, they're going to make sure we're not under any spell. Which we're not, so for us… It's going to be quick. They will most likely not let us go before Raven is gone." Richard sighed again.
"I won't let it happen." Garfield opened his eyes and stared at Victor and Richard, his grip tightened around Raven. "I won't let them hurt her." Garfield felt tears drip down his eyes as he remembered the sight of Raven getting burned in a dream, if that was bad…. He didn't want to think about if in real life.
"What's your plan?" vic asked.
"I don't have one, but…" He trailed off before looked at with a small smile. "... I think I know someone that can help."
He closed his eyes and called. "Mr. Night, Amber?" He yelled in his mind.
"What is it that you need mister Logan?" Amber's voice called.
"First; How can I talk to you if you're from Raven's mind? Two; we need help."
"We can speak with you since she allows us. What is it that you need?" Night said.
"We have been captured, and they're going to burn Raven!" He screamed.
There was a long pause before Amber spoke up again. "We cannot do anything, Raven is our maker and it pains us to know she will soon die, but as long as she lives for now we can help you save her."
"Thank you…" Garfield muttered not knowing that the connection was over.
"What?" Richard asked.
"Huh? I was talking to someone in my… Or Raven's mind." He looked down and saw that she was still asleep. "She created two creatures that can talk to me too."
"Oh…"
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when the carriage stopped Garfield, Richard and Victor was put in a simple stone jail, waiting for Raven's ritual, they were lucky enough to get the same cell.
Raven was taken further and placed in a iron cell, they weren't having witches here so often so they didn't have silver cells. The iron one was good enough.
"So what's the plan?" Garfield asked.
"Wait, they will let you out to see her burning. That's when you're going to act. You said they have someone else to start the fire right?" Night said and asked.
"Yes, Sir Red-X or something…"
"You'll be placed in the front if you're lucky, you will have to push this X away from Raven. If you give her enough time, she'll escape with her magic." Amber explained.
"I hope so…" Garfield thought before closing his eyes.
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Sunrise came way too quickly for anyone's taste, but Raven was already up. She was looking out the small iron barred window. The view was nice, she could see the castle from here, which said a lot about how high they were. The jail was placed inside a mountain, so if anyone was stupid enough to try and escape they would get caught or just fall to their death. The only ones who could escape was witches or anyone who could fly really, but the prison had rarely witch prisoners. It wasn't built for it, witches was supposed to be burned on the spot.
The only reason Raven wasn't, was that Brother Blood, Rorek and Red-X wanted to make her suffer from what her father had done, but Rorek wanted revenge.
"I WILL NOT ASK AGAIN WITCH!" Rorek screamed in Raven's face as she was chained to the wall.
"And I will not tell again! Your brother is DEAD!" She screamed back, she didn't tell him that it was her that killed him, but he had to face it.
"I DON'T BELIEVE WHAT WITCHES ARE SAYING!" His voice lowered. "There all evil, lying creatures of hell." He said, Raven saw the one tear he tried to hide from her.
"He loved you…" Raven said low.
"What?"
"He missed you…"
"He killed so many innocent, he left me…"
"... Because he didn't have the heart to kill you."
"... Don't speak about him…" Rorek felt tears roll down his eyes, he turned his back on Raven not wanting her to see them.
"He spoke greatly about you… He was born first wasn't he?"
"Yes…"
Raven stopped speaking, she felt Rorek's sorrow. The closest she had to a sibling was Jinx and she was nowhere to be seen.
"Did… Did he say anything else?" Rorek turned his head slightly, looking down at Raven.
"Yes, he would talk a lot about what you did as kid. To be honest, I always wanted to meet you, maybe not under these conditions, but still. It's nice to meet his brother eye to eye." Raven said with a smile, at this point Rorek had turned fully around and was now looking at Raven directly.
"So he did miss me…" Rorek sat down in front of her, he wanted greatly to hear more. "H-How did he die?"
Raven didn't want to answer that. "He died…" She didn't want to say she killed him. "He… He isn't dead, he is banished… But as good as dead…" Raven said, it wasn't a lie, but it wasn't the truth either. "He was banished into a pond, the spell was powerful I felt it. I saw it happen…" She said. "I tried to stop them, but…" Again not lying, but not honest.
"I see… Who killed him?" Rorek looked at Raven, she felt hope and a plan of revenge.
"I can't remember…" She lied.
"Very well…" Rorek turned to leave but he took a long good look at her before he locked the door.
"I'm sorry Rorek…" Raven whispered to herself as she closed her eyes again. Tomorrow was the day, the day of her death.
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"Brother Blood… Is the ritual ready yet?" Rorek asked as he came into town square, where the burning was going to be held.
"Yes, tomorrow the fire will be set and the witch will burn." Blood smiled at his work.
A wooden cross placed in the middle of a stone circle with hay spread around. The cross even had decoration on it, symboles of hell, the devil, death, witchcraft anything.
"Morning or evening?..." X asked as he jumped down from his grey horse.
"Tomorrow evening, the fire will be more powerful in the dark…" Blood said, he didn't look away from his creation. "It's beautiful, isn't it?"
"Yeah, sure… But what about the others?" Red-X asked.
"They're innocent. Spellbound by the witch. Once she's dead, we'll set them free. But they need to see the burning for it to happen." Blood said finally turning away.
"So, they'll be free to go?"
"No, not at once. We'll have to keep an eye on them or they could go home to their family. Garfield is the only one without a family, but he's the one who has been under the spell the most. We'll have to watch him for a while.
Without any of them's knowledge a black red eyed raven was sitting in one of the windows far up in the church. A black cat with golden eyes looked at the scene with the bird.
"Our vision was correct, now we need to warn our Raven…" Amber said telepathic to Night.
"Indeed Amber, come on…" Night shot out his wings and flew towards the prison. Amber ran into a shadow and vanished from everyone's sight.
As the two shadow creatures got to the prison they saw the sun. They had spend the entire day waiting for their moment to come, now was it.
They flew into the prison, taking a visible form. Amber walked around like a normal cat, Night flew around giving Amber signals whenever she was close or not.
Their job here was to get the keys for Garfield's handcuffs. If they could do that Raven would be one more step from being dead.
"Now…" Night said as he flew over Amber's position. If Amber got caught she would either be blamed as a witch cat trying to save Raven, or just be thrown out.
Amber moved from behind a box she ran across a room and ended up behind shield that laid on the ground. She curled up, trying to take as little room as possible.
"Where to now?" She asked.
"To the door, I'll see if I can open it…" Amber looked out from the shield, true enough Night was flapping his wings while trying to use his claws to open the door. He finally did it. "Now…"
Amber moved to the next room, it was a weapon room. Swords, daggers, spears, shields hanging on the walls. Amber moved, she gently walked along the hallway of weapons. she ended up at a door in the end.
"It'll take too long for me to open this one, you'll have to phase." She heard Night say. She didn't like to phase, but it made things quicker. She needed to see the room in order to do this.
Fly me to the keyhole, I need to see the room first." Night did as told and lifted Amber to the keyhole, she looked in and vanished. Night waited for Amber to open the door from the inside, she came out with her head as the door opened.
"Okay, the key should be around here. Maybe Rorek's office." Night said, he flew over to a door that was marked with thick ink.
Rorek
"That could be it…" Amber said sarcastically. The two shadows got inside the room though phasing again.
"Now where coul-" Amber was cut short as keys fell in front of her. She looked up and smiled as Night had been the one to drop them.
"We need to get them to Garfield now!" Amber said as she picked up the keys in her mouth. Having Night fly them there would make too much noise, they needed to be quiet.
"I promise Sir Rorek…" They heard, just as they got out of the room. They almost panicked and jumped, but Amber just got under a closet before she was spotted. Night flew high up and sat down on a wooden pole in the roof.
"Good, now leave me." X did as told and went to the training room and Rorek went into his office.
"Move, move, move!" Night shouted, Amber ran down the hallway the way they had come, they stopped as they came to the prison door. Luckily it was a bar door, so Amber could just walk through with Night following.
They ran down the set of stairs until they came to crossway. "What way?!" Amber yelled.
"Left! I remember seeing the view from Garfield's window! He's to the left, Raven is further down and to the right!" Night said, the two quickly ran the left hallway and found the cell.
"How do we open it?" Night asked.
"We phase, you saw the room right?" Amber asked.
"yeah, I saw it through his eyes." Night said. "Come on!" Night flew into the room, he opened as small portal for Amber to walk in. She came in a second later.
The boys in the room looked shocked at the scene as a black cat and a raven came in out of nowhere.
"What the-?!" Vic started, before Garfield stepped forward.
"Amber, Night, do you have it?" Amber spit out the keys on the floor. "Good, now do I leave the cuffs on or just go bare?"
Amber meowed, at least that was what Richard and Victor heard. "Yes, don't let them see you without them." Heard Garfield.
"Thanks…" The two animals started to fade as their part was done.
"Good luck!" Both yelled.
"Thanks… I need it…" Garfield muttered as he held the keys close.
"What was that?" Victor asked as he walked up to Garfield. Garfield didn't answer at once, but turned Victor around and started to find the keys to his cuffs. Surprisingly, Garfield was the only one they took the handcuffs off.
"That was Amber and Night, Raven created them as a child. They know what will happen and they're trying to save her too." Garfield left the cuffs on but open. "Don't take them off, they'll get suspicious." Garfield warned as he moved to help Richard.
"So what now?" Richard asked.
"We wait..."
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Longest chapter I have ever written! My god, not even I can wait anymore, I'm starting on the next one right away! My god!
Also I wanted to say this: Trigon being a good and protective father, I think I took elements from "Teen Titans Go!", but don't hate me, I don't like Trigon being abusive…
