We Meet Again 2

Twenty-one

(Raven)

I watched as this piece of shit treat my best friend as if she was a chew toy! He hit, slammed, mocked, and made lude gestures towards her, and I felt... angered! Why would they do this to her! Never in the history of Scathe was a woman placed in battle with a man! Either she's being punished, which meant death, or it was clearly entertainment, which in other words, my Star was doomed. But no matter what this bastard did to her... she still stood up, never falling in defeat.

Her stamina was on point, but the blows she's receiving was no laughing matter, even if laughter was all around me from these dammed souls. Then she seemed to have had enough. She screamed... and pulled something out of her being, as she forcefully connected a fisted jab to Capricorn's jaw.

"Yes!! Yes!!" I said a little too loud for my taste, but all the same, Capricorn staggered back. I was alleviated by Star's comeback, but it was all temporary. Capricorn got angry. He charged Star with a fist from hell, then hit her with such a force, that it seemed that he'd carried her entire frail body on the end of his fist!

She hit the wall like a sack of bricks and fell to the ground. I could feel my blood pressure rise, along with my fury! I felt my nose wrinkle and my eye twitch. The Beast was arising! I will protect my family! As this fend was about to deliver the final blow to my Star! I stood quickly from the chair and said...

"STOP!"

"Halt!" Slade the coward spoke behind me, and the unknown female chuckled again...

'Who is that!'

"You call this a battle! This is rubbish and is this worthy of Scathe? How can you pit this woman, or any woman against a male member who was clearly trained for years? I'm calling this a default! Never has this been done before... ever... since I was inducted into this organization! And if a female prospect is going to be a part of Scathe, then she will not battle a male in recruitment!

"Is that your final word Beast?" Slade asked.

"Yes, as final as your last breath!" I shot him a look of repulsion. The female chuckled again.

"So... young Beast, what do you suggest? Clearly the other members wish to see a finally to this battle. What do you plan to do?" She said and her voice sounded very smooth. Much more sensual than Rose's voice... kind of erotic, but with a venomous slur to it as if she was on some type of aphrodisiac.

'Could she be the head of the snake? No worries! My plans was to end all things Scathe... so why not now.'

"Hmp! He's big, plump, and juicy, just as I like 'em!" I raised up from my seat and slowly made my way to the battle arena. In less than a few minutes, I stood in front of my friend, staring this leach down with one motive...

'Make him suffer before his demise! 

Nobody hurts my friends!'

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(Writer)

BB sat at the island in Terra's kitchen and watch his boys have fun designing their own pizza. Terra then went to her wine fridge and poured BB and her a glass of red.

"Chateau Lafite Rothschild 2014." She sat a half full glass in front of him, parading around like they were still a couple. BB looked at her like she was crazy.

"I'm more of a beer man myself. But thank you for the effort."

"Hum... I knew that, but I thought since we're having pizza, I figured it would complement dinner." She said as she took a small sip of hers while mixing salad in a big wooden bowl.

"Yeah, so would a Coke or water." BB said under his breath.

"What was that babe?" She caught a little of what he said, but BB just shook his head.

"Dad, I'm making you the cheesiest pizza in the world!" Jr said with a wide smile in his face.

"Thanks son. You're the best!" BB winked at Jr and both the boys were tickled. Terra was a bit envious of this new child that came out of nowhere. He held BB's attention, so she felt that all of his time was spent keeping an eye on the mysterious child, and not on her or Dill.

"So... what's the story with little Garfield?" Terra sat across from BB while the boys places tons of meat toppings on their pie.

"Well what's there to tell. He's my son, I'm sure you know how that works." He took a small sip of the wine.

'WOW!! This is really good, not bitter like I expected, for it being a red wine.' BB thought to himself whilst taking another sip.

"What I mean is, how did you find out about him exactly? I know that he belongs to Raven. I can clearly see her in his face, but what happened... you know... why is he here?" She said and BB's eyes grew two sizes bigger. He was very offended by her inadvertently saying he shouldn't even have been born. Terra caught on and put her hands up in a defensive way.

"No... no... please don't misinterpreted what I'm saying. All I'm saying is that if he's around the same age as Dill, were you and Raven 'together' while we were? She asked knowing the boys were out of ear shot of the conversation.

"In a way... yeah, but we broke up. I was never unfaithful to you Terra. I wasn't the one that ruined our relationship, you were."

"That's where your wrong Gar. You obsessed over Raven... always. It's no surprise that you would have sex with her, yet alone produce a child. I just want to know when it happened." She said and took a longer sip of her drink.

"Well to answer your question, it was the night of her mom's burial. You were so pissed that I went to my best friends' mother's service, that you broke up with me over the phone that very night! And not to mention, you were messing around with Jillian, so... I was tired of it. I wanted one person, just one... that loved me no matter what, and that person was Raven. Besides, don't act like you didn't know I was in love with her since forever, even before we started dating."

"So, I was your substitute. I mean if you were so in love with her, then why did you date me?"

"I dated you because you asked me to a movie, remember? I thought that you really liked me, and I wanted to have a genuine relationship Terr. I thought you could give me that, but we both know better, right?" He said and Terra nodded her head in shame, knowing that she took him for granted because he was a nice guy. BB continued after a brief pause, to let his statement sink in to Terra's narcissistic mind. 

"I never had the courage to ask her out. She was one of my best friends, and I didn't want to muck it up.  But never, in a million years, did I even question that she wanted more than friendship, because she never let it be known. But I was wrong. She loved me just as I love her, and when you ended things with us, I took a chance, and it paid off."

"Yeah your son." Terra gave a weak smile.

"Yeah, my son." BB looked back at Jr and also smiled. Terra started to feel the squeezed, so she changed the subject.

"So, how's things? Is there any leads on this crazy group that's terrorizing the world?"

"We're making little progress. You're witness account helped out a lot. Dill was a big part in it too. I'm just sorry about what happened to you in order for us to get positive ID on one of the members. You didn't deserve that. You might be a bitch, but you didn't deserve it Terr." They both laughed at his comment.

Terra's gotten caught up in her ex's alluring smile, then poured him more wine. BB knew her intentions but still accepted the drink.

"Mom... we need help with the oven please." Dylan said very excited to eat his and Jr's finished product.

"Okay baby." She got up and went to the boys, while BB took smaller sips of his red. He had no thoughts of pulling an all-nighter here with Terra. After the meal was done, he was out of there.

'Heh... she pours me one more, then I'll be calling Uber! Man this shit is... wonderful! (the wine) When my bae cones home, we can enjoy things like this together. Man I miss her.' BB giggled to himself as he watched them place the pies in the pizza oven.

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(Edited 2021)