Holding Everything

Chapter 32: Out Of Time

My eyes widen with shock, "Too bad for you though," she says while picking under her nails nonchalantly.

"What?" I ask, not understanding how that could be a bad thing. She suddenly shoves me to the couch and shows me her leather wristbands, the jewel glows red and she taps the center just like when she was explaining it when she first showed me. The time that pops up isn't 00:00:00 like before, but instead 03:17:04 pops up, the third set of numbers decreasing by the second; showing I only have a few hours before Mo's Hunt ends.

"Time's ticking, Cunt." She says mockingly while standing up and walking toward the door.

"How long have you known?!" I ask, standing up abruptly and pull her shoulder so that she faces me again. When our eyes meet, her eyes are glowing slightly as if her blood has begun to boil now that she's about to begin to go after the target. Her mouth curves into a smile of mockery when she speaks.

"All damn day!" She laughs out loud, exaggerating her tone even more, "Ugh-!"

Lillya, who winces in pain, lets out a strained grunt as she strikes Mo in her gut and steps back to then send her knee into the same spot for a double-hit. She turns to me and grabs my wrist with her undamaged hand and we break into a sprint out of Mo's home. We run down the spiraling floor leaving the others behind; when we get halfway down I turn back and see Eren has begun chasing after us, but Rika nowhere in sight.

"What are we going to do, Lil?! Even after we get back home we don't know where to start looking!" I yell through heavy pants, my sides begin to cramp and hurt from the lack of exercise and my breathing becomes hard to keep under control.

"You just have to try! Just concentrate on finding her, we gotta get to her before Mo does, she stalled us on purpose!" She yells, her voice rasped, exposing how tired she herself is becoming. As we continue running I catch a glimpse of Mo's doorway, she walks out and smirks at me, leaning onto the railing to watch us run, Rika comes running out of the doorway moments later.

"KOOOUUUU!!!" I hear my name being screamed from behind, I look back to the sight of Eren sprinting as well, but because of the bag in his hand he can't catch up. When our eyes meet he stops; sliding a bit from the lack of friction on the ground; and with all his might, he flings the bag towards me straight across the open air and missing the center tower by seemingly inches. My heart drops as the bag glides through the air, the distance only seems to grow wider as I fear that it won't make it across.

"It's not gonna make it!" I hear someone scream, I look around and notice a large amount of people are watching, as someone reaches out to catch it on the level below me I see Mo suddenly hop onto the railing and push herself downward as if to boost the speed of her descent.

"Hands off!" she screams, just as the bag is about to land in the strangers hands, Mo grabs it and clutches it closely to her chest to guard it; her body slams right into the unknown being. "Idiot!" She screams back at Eren before effortlessly hopping onto the railing and hoisting herself up to the level I'm on. "Don't let just anyone touch this, dumbass." She says in an irritated hushed tone. She tosses the bag at me and I peak inside, White Limbo lay hidden inside and I nod, feeling like this must be pretty important for Mo to do such a thing.

"Kou!" Eren finally catches up as we stand there, "I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking at all, I just felt like in case I didn't catch up you could leave if you needed to with or without Rika and I." He slumps forward and supports himself with his hands on his knees, his panting in between words showing how tired he is.

"Leave you, why would I do that? I need all three of you in order to-" He cuts me off with his hand and shakes his head, once catching his breath he speaks.