Wielders

Chapter 14

 "wait." Lucas lifts and extends his palm at tense duo. "I'm not here to fight, i'm here to make a deal." Jill looks exhausted at Lucas's words. "why should we listen to you?" Malcolm looks surprised at her but Lucas just smirks. "because you are all too tired or injured to see this battle through," Lucas points at his time clone, "i made that Lucas be a lot weaker so when you killed him it would drain you of your energy through time." Lucas then looks at Malcolm with a confident smirk. "You have two injured teammates, you Jill are too tired to fight me and you Malcolm need to save your strength to carry them all back to your apartment." Lucas grins victorious and Malcolm gives Lucas a puzzled look before he looks at the exit. "what's the real reason you're letting us go Lucas, after all i'm fine i didn't do any real fighting." Lucas's smile fades as he looks away away from Malcolm. "Don't be fooled by appearances my fight with Josue left me with serious injuries I barely had enough energy to heal and steal my two objectives before getting here," Lucas looks at Malcolm with a deadpan expression, "and I was thinking since you the destroyed the bomb," Lucas then mumbles something under his breath about not being able to kill him, "and I stole my prizes I thought we could call this night a win-win situation." Malcolm starts to consider it, since Jill looks exhausted. "So basically you're a thief with a rich company and you're too tired to fight us so you want me to let you go, am i right?" Lucas looks frustrated at Malcolm's simplification before he responds. "you try healing in time all the time it gets tiring," Lucas pulls out and looks at his pocket watch, "besides being the thief is my role in our circle." Lucas looks up from the pocket watch. "The whole point of the lawsuit against the city was to turn eyes away from places like the museum, where I stole my first prize the wells clock." Lucas let's a pause occur before continuing. "but that was also meant to get the attention of the guardians of the second set of objects, you guys." Lucas turns his back to them. "So how about we call it a night since I can't fight and neither can either of you," Lucas turns around and stretches hands out, "however if you want to kill me that bad now is your chance." Malcolm looks at Jill then back to Lucas. "get out of here, but the next time we meet you won't get away this easy." Lucas smirks knowing next time he won't be alone. "I know," Lucas starts to glow dark yellow, "till next time." Lucas runs out of the hallway noting the missing Josue body as Jill starts panting heavily. "you should have killed him," Jill rests herself on the wall as Malcolm raises an eyebrow at her, "we don't know if we'll get a chance like this again." Malcolm smiles as he telepathic puts a chair under her and carries her. "if I did you and Claire would have to walk to our old apartment." Malcolm gently telepathically picks Claire up and starts walking out of the hallway. "what about Josue?" Jill looks worried about Josue before Malcolm responds. "don't worry I felt Kim here a while ago she probably took him back to her apartment." Jill laughs a little at the comment. "they really need to hook it up," Malcolm stares off into space, before coming back to reality when he hears Claire's voice. "they are perfect for each other, huh." Malcolm then stares off into space again. "yes they are." Malcolm glances at Claire, seeing her smile in the dimly lit hall. The next morning a girl wearing an orange bathrobe is blowing into a hot drink in a small apartment. Her orange hair barely reaching her shoulders as she blows on the drink. The small apartment has orange walls and black couches along with black tables. The white cup in her hands matching her milk white skin. "you know what we need?" Kim's smile is shown but her eyes remain hidden. 'he said we.' Josue walks into the room, bandages all over where Lucas's chain and true time touched him. "an ice-cream machine in this place." Josue sets his hot chocolate on the coffee table in front of Kim and sits on the same couch she is on while lighting a smoke. "What we need is for you to stop smoking ,in fact give them here." Kim extends her hand out and Josue reluctantly gives her the cigarettes and as she puts them in the pocket of her bathrobe sticks her other hand back in front of Josue. "And by the way i want my coin back since you decided to start smoking without telling me." Josue pulls out the coin and stares at it before reluctantly handing Kim the coin. "Fine but what do you think about the ice cream?" Kim raises a playful eyebrow at Josue. "what does ice cream have to do with hot chocolate?" Kim blows on her drink and sips as Josue sips on his drink. "are you kidding imagine ice cream with this Kim, imagine." Kim thinks of this, an image of an ice cream machine in her house coming to her head, before looking at Josue's bandages. "sorry for not being a better healer, but the cards are random." Kim looks away from Josue towards the ground, making Josue frown. Josue puts an arm on her thigh causing her to look at him, he then smiles at her. "You saved me from beating myself to death and you bring me here to heal and relax," They blush now as he looks directly into her eyes, "and you always know how to cheer me up." Kim is now blushing furiously so she tries to change the subject while looking away from him. "careful you might rip the bandages." Josue removes his hand from her leg. "I don't need these bandages, you know that but i would feel better about them If I beat Lucas." Josue looks disappointed remembering how weak he seemed fighting Lucas. "I've been too soft lately this was a good thing so i can get back to my full potential," Josue gets up, the look of disappointment still on his face, "I also don't know who told him about us so until I know that I can't rest." Kim gets annoyed at Josue's tone. "BAKA!" Josue looks surprised at her words before he stares at her. 'she's been reading too much manga, I need to get her away from Jill.' Kim looks even more annoyed and mad at Josue. "you should take every mission you come back from alive as a victory." Kim looks on the verge of tears as she remembers a faint memory of her brother. "you have no idea how we worry about you guys if you get hurt and If you died...if you died..." Tears start to roll down as she refers to herself and some other girls in the black regime regime much to Josue's dismay. "hey now," Josue stands in front of her and comforts her, "I won't leave you alone ever OK?" She looks at him with tear stained eyes. "Promise?" Josue smiles and wipes the tears off her eyes. "promise."