Chapter 4: Little child
Two days had passed, Garfield and Marie had gone to the mall to buy new clothes, some books so she could learn to talk and read, and Garfield got a little gift he wanted to give her. A small little necklace. Marie didn't stop him, she thought it was cute of him to buy her something she could own.
Mark stayed home, trying to one: Hold the lab off his tail, and two: Take care of Raven.
It wasn't that hard as she was more like a child, a little confused, curious child. She would pick up random items and look at them. It they were very important Mark would carefully walk up and take them out of her hands.
"Yeah, Garfield broke his leg. I will be back as soon as his leg is back to health. I will also look out for Rav-! The Subject, I'll be on the lookout." Mark hung up the phone and looked at Raven.
She was sitting on the couch, her head tilted slightly to the side.
"Don't worry, nothing is going to happen. I have to call Garfield's school to say why he didn't come today." He called Garfield's school and quickly said why Garfield didn't show up today.
When he hung up again, both Garfield and Marie came back home.
"Hey, honey." Marie kissed her husband as she sat down the two bags she was holding. Garfield was holding one.
"Garfield, I'm going to have to wrap your leg in a casket. I called the lab and said you broke your leg so I can't go back for a few weeks." Garfield nodded slightly.
An hour later, Marie had a fake casket wrapped around Garfield's leg. They were lucky to have some crutches from a long time ago when Mark broke his leg.
"Just in case, if they're spying on us…" Mark didn't finish the sentence. He shook his head. "Anyway, you got some new clothes and some books right?"
Marie nodded with a smile. "Yes, we bought some in different sizes. I don't understand why you refused her to come with us."
"We can't risk her outside, it's not like she fit in. She has purple hair, she would only fit in an anime, maybe!"
"I know, she is not normal…" Marie looked at Raven, who seem to have Garfield trying to explain that he wasn't in pain. "I wish it would be easier to help her though. She deserve to have some love after what she has been through."
Mark smiled. "She will. Anyway, could you change her clothes?" Marie nodded.
"Raven." Marie caught the girl's attention. "We have some new clothes for you, shall we get changed?" Raven looked at Garfield and Mark a little worried.
"Go on, you can trust Marie." Raven nodded before following the woman. When the two girls had left Mark turned to Garfield. "You have to go to school tomorrow, I'll teach Raven to talk while you're at school. Don't bring anyone home, right now we can't trust anyone." Garfield nodded, he knew the situation.
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Slade looked through a window. Inside a bright white room, a white haired female with blue eyes trained, well… Eye, she had an eyepatch.
Her eyes was narrowed as she fought against a robot with her dualed katanas. She wore a simple battle suit, a scaly top with a black tank top over it, black tights with metal armor on her hips and knees. A metal belt with a dagger and a knife and a few other items for use.
Slade watched his daughter train. His thoughts wandered, could she get The Subject? She was well trained and she was more than capable of bringing someone back to the lab. But the problem was that, Raven wasn't human, she could kill with her mind just by looking at someone.
The Subject was deadly.
Rose Wilson, his daughter was also deadly, but at least she was human. Rose's mother had tried to hide her from him, but he found them in the end. Rose's mother had mysteriously died a few nights later, leaving Slade to raise his daughter.
Slade tapped the off button of the robot she was fighting. Before he pushed the speaker button. "Rose, I would like to talk to you for a moment."
Rose looked at the glass and sighed. She wiped sweat from her brow before walking into the dim lit room.
"What is it father? I was in the middle of training…" She glared.
"I have decided to send you on your first mission." Rose's eyes lit up slightly.
"What is it?" She asked.
Slade pulled out a file from under the desk. "A few days ago, this subject escaped." He opened the file and showed a rather angry picture of The Subject. "She is really dangerous, she can kill just by looking at you."
Rose looked at the picture. The Subject was pictured while she seem to attack someone. The long purple hair was pooling around her as she was on her knee ready to jump someone. Her eyes were glowing red, she had sharp teeth and claws.
"What is she?" Rose asked as she raised an eyebrow.
Slade leaned against the table. "She is a weapon that was going to be delivered to her human DNA's owner. He requested a living weapon."
"I have heard about it, you are it's master, right?"
"Yes, Mr. Scath, her human DNA's owner said I needed to train her. He would not accept her before she followed orders to the max." Slade looked down. "I was to be her owner until she was trained and I have gotten my pay. I need her alive, hurt I don't care. She is capable of healing herself so that is no problem."
He paused. "The Subject has been living for a few months-"
Rose cut him off. "But it says she is 16 years old."
"Yes. Mr. Scath had a wife, Mrs. Roth, she was pregnant when she fell ill, Mr. Scath didn't care for his wife. He wanted his child to be powerful, so he hired me. He hired me to deform his child into something invincible and powerful. She was kept in a tube for fifthteen years before Dr. Logan freed her from the tube. Technically she is only a few months old, but her body is 16."
"Was that really a good idea?" Rose asked, the whole idea was crazy to her.
"The Subject's DNA was split into many different forms. Somehow we kept the fetus alive while we took small pieces of her DNA. In the end, we had to use the original DNA." Again he paused. "Dr. Logan somehow gave her life with the mixed DNAs. I don't know what he did, but he knew what he was doing."
"Shouldn't you only need Dr. Logan then?" Rose asked.
"No, Dr. Logan is helpful in some ways, but we can't make the new life. The Subject has to be captured. She is invincible anyway and cannot die. She is alive and I will have her back." He looked up at the roof.
"I don't really understand this." Rose admitted. "She is the original DNA. She can't die because of her mixed DNA."
"Yes, she is the last of her human DNA. But we mixed other DNA types, I cannot remember what, but I know they were not human or animal DNA."
"I take the challenge." Slade smiled, he would have The Subject back soon.
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"Good, you are getting better." Mark smiled at Raven. Over the last few hours she had really improved in her speech. Raven was sitting on the couch in a black tank top with gray sweatpants, she also wore long black socks. And last she had a blanket over her so she wasn't going to freeze.
"Yes, that is…" She thought for a moment. "Good!"
"Yes, it is." They heard the front door open and Garfield limped inside before closing the door behind him. "How was school?" Mark laughed, Raven didn't noticed Garfield's grumpy look before he entered the living room.
"It sucked, everyone was worried and I almost forgot about the fake injury multiple times!" He dropped down in one of the chaires.
"Sucked?" Raven muttered as she tilted her head. Mark looked at her, before shooting his face to Garfield, he frowned.
"Sorry, Raven…" The girl turned to him. "Don't use that word."
She nodded. "Okay."
"Anyway, I was able to teach her the basic of talking and reading, we will work on writing tomorrow." Mark sat down in a chair. "She is smart, I'll tell you, she learn pretty quick." He ran his hand over his face. "She was able to read in the matter of minutes, it was almost scary."
"Well… she isn't completely human, is she?" Garfield looked over to Raven, who seem to be reading, or trying to, read. From the looks of it she was reading The very hungry caterpillar. It was really cute from Garfield's point of view. A teenage girl reading a children's book.
He chuckled to himself. Mark noticed the look and looked at Raven, wrapped up in blankets and reading the children's book. He smiled himself, she wasn't more than a little girl seeking guidance.
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The story 'The princess that loved the stable boy' is taking longer than I thought. So I'm working on other things while slowly working on the next chapter of it. I'm sorry to keep people waiting, but I'll work on this one.