The Garfrooms - A Garfield Fanfiction

Level 11

As the four walked across the road, the sky above them started to become brighter and the grass and the wheat started to disappear. Jon, Liz, and Odie were amazed at how they quickly managed to get to Level 11, Garfield was of course not amazed in the slightest and seemed bored.

"Well, it seems we are here," he said in his monotone voice, Garfield was right, there was a bright sky and there were a lot of tall buildings, Jon, Liz, and Odie were relieved that they found a place that resembled home, even if this wasn't their actual home.

"Oh boy! I wonder what shenanigans we are going to get into." Garfield told the three, Jon and Liz looked at their tablets and were relieved to see that Level 11 was also safe just like Level 10, Jon could also see some shops that resembled the ones he shopped at when they were back at home in Muncie. Liz immediately understood what Jon wanted to do and also wanted to scour around for supplies.

Garfield and Odie were not that concerned about finding supplies, they just wanted to relax and enjoy life in Level 11 before they had to go, the two followed where Jon and Liz were going just to make sure they didn't lose sight.

Jon immediately went to a bakery that had a lot of bread and sweets, Liz came in almost immediately to scour the area as well to search for food, and Garfield and Odie tied on entering the door.

Garfield saw a bunch of waffles that had maple syrup on them, Garfield immediately took the opportunity to snatch them and eat them as if they were Lasagna, and he burped almost immediately. "My, that was something," he remarked to the three.

"Want to share some bread, honey?" Jon asked Liz, handing her a slice of toast that had some jam spread on it, Liz looked at the bread with caution and saw nothing wrong with it, she thanked Jon for the offer and drank some Almond Water just in case it was infected with "The Disease". Jon took the same precautions as well.

Garfield and Odie were quite bored and by this turn of events and so they decided to go to the butcher shop which was just separated by two skyscrapers, Jon and Liz didn't even notice that the two went.

As Garfield and Odie were doing some searching in the butcher shop, Garfield found an array of meats from steak to chicken, just as he was about to pick one for himself and Odie a Faceling blocked their way, Garfield knew what was going on. "I am just trying to get some meat for me and Odie!" He explained.

The Faceling understood Garfield and gave the two the meat of their choice, Garfield chose to eat steak while Odie chose chicken, as the Faceling was cooking their meat, Jon and Liz entered the shop.

"Thank goodness, Garfield! I was looking for you and Odie for a long time!"  Jon exclaimed, Garfield, looked at him with the same bored expression he always wore. "No need to worry about me." He told Jon to eat his steak.

"Say... Do you still have chicken?" Jon asked the Faceling "I want to have a bone for Liz and me." He explained.
The Faceling went to work cooking chicken for Jon and Liz, Odie barked several times at the Faceling Butcher, which Garfield interpreted as "Do you have bones on offer?".

The Butcher having managed to cook Jon and Liz's chickens got some bones from the back for Odie. Odie was very pleased and immediately put it in his mouth, Odie was happy that he finally got the chance to eat some bones after quite a long time without eating them since Level 2, The four stood here happy with their meals while the Faceling was satisfied with his business with the four.

After some eating, Jon, Liz, Garfield, and Odie decided to go outside, the sky was still bright and full of clouds and the threes that dotted the landscape still look like they were freshly planted, Jon soon heard a voice that sounded familiar.

"Jon! Jon! Is that you?" he heard it echo across the infinite city, he soon saw a figure in the distance that had Black hair, a green jacket layered with a yellow t-shirt and a brown moustache that looked like a wide grin, Jon immediately recognised who it was in the distance.

"Lyman?! I never thought I would see you here!" Jon yelled into the distance running across the road, Liz, Garfield, and Odie followed suit, The four soon came close to Lyman and were overjoyed to see him, even Odie was happy to see Lyman back. "Come here, boy!" Lyman commanded.

"Jon! I am so glad to see you once again!" he exclaimed "I'd never thought you would bring Liz as well." he said in a state of shock. "It's nice to see you as well, Lyman," Jon replied, after a little bit of silence, Lyman decided to open up to his long-lost friend and explained "I fell hungry and weak! take me in!"

Jon and Liz sympathised with Lyman both giving him a hand on each shoulder. "I could give you my steak," Garfield said, still able to speak. Lyman was thrown back and backed away from Garfield as if he was an arachnid that wanted to bite him "Garfield can speak?!" Lyman exclaimed, "How is this possible?!"

Jon explained how Garfield ate the Silver Tongue treat in Level 10 and was somehow able to talk, Lyman understood but was still curious about long it would be before Garfield would be unable to talk, Jon told him that he also wasn't certain. "Maybe until we get out of this place?" Garfield suggested.

"Would you like to join the team?" Jon asked Lyman, Lyman looked at the group and without any hesitation agreed to join, he explained that he got into the Backrooms by colliding into the door of his apartment and how all the levels made him a bit of a nervous wreck and gave him the fear of being dead.

"Now, Lyman" Jon was about to ask his friend "Where should we go to get back home?" he finally asked him, Lyman thought for a while but pointed out how they had to go through windows of the many buildings to get to Level 12, Jon, Liz, Garfield, and Odie were receptive to Lyman's help and the five went to one of the skyscrapers, the skyscraper had another skyscraper inside of itself, the five knew that this was going to the place that they could exit.

"Garfield, what would you like to say before we go?" Jon asked his cat "I would like to say goodbye to all of the Lasagna in this world." Garfield responded with his monotone voice.