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The Madman's Heart
By Midnight
Jubilation Lee sat next to the old store that sold tons chests and such. She pulled her old coat around here 14-year-old body while watching the customers walk by looking for their Christmas Day gifts. She frown at the thought of each of these people having a warm loving home to return to while she slept in the old Hollywood mall for the zillionth time in her life. She blocked out the holiday sprit for now and noticed that her money was getting a bit low. She slowly got up not really wanting to do much of anything today and made her way to the main area of the mall getting ready to put on her "light" show. She noticed that the crowd around her as slightly bigger along with a man who stuck out like a sore thumb. He had long blond hair and very tall, almost as if he belonged in a jungle not a mall. She frowned and her eyes scanned the area looking for any cops. She smiled when she saw none and stood up on one of the edges of the plant holders.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I have a real treat for you tonight, in order to celebrate Christmas to its full potential, I have arranged my very own light show for you fine folks." She said loudly and let a few of her smaller pafs fly from her hands amazing a few of the smaller children. She smiled and let more out as they formed streamers and fireworks around her. She dropped her hat skillfully and a few coins fell into the hat as she worked her fireworks. "Only here will you see someone like myself with the powers to create Fireworks from scratch." She said and more coins hit her hat as she let the colors increase to hot pinks and bright blue and greens. She made some bright while others dim enough to look almost a blackish purple. Those were the rarest of all, the black, only when she felt her control slip up did those show from the depth of her soul which held the hard track, scars, and the growing up she had done in most of her short life. The crowd seemed to love it as she worked her natural charm 'I'm big' on them.
"Wow, momma, I wanta do that." A young boy said off to her left side and she turned to him and let a small paff fly at his face close enough so that he could see the twisting the paff did to shine brightly, but far enough that he couldn't get hurt. He smiled more brightly and pointed to the paff to show his mother. The older lady sat a few dollars in the hat before looking at the paff with slight interest.
After a few short minutes Jubilation could see the crowd slightly break up and she reached down to pick up her hat before a hand stopped her. She looked up to see one of those chubby rent a cops smiling at her. She smiled back and grabbed the hat with her other hand shoving the money in one of her many pockets.
"Looky what I have here, the mutant girl. Time to face the law now mutie." He said and Jubilation smiled before giving him a small fist full of fireworks blinding him. His grip loosened enough for Jubilation to make a quick get away and she ran towards the south end of the mall and ran headfirst into another man. This one was tall and had short blond hair and his eyes seemed to be out of place. They held a sense of pleasure that he would get from hurting her and at the same time were hungry for something more then just beating her to a pulp. He brought out a bat and smiled to her with a hungry grin.
"Here mutie, mutie, mutie." He said and then slammed the bat into Jubilation's side sending her flying a few feet before hitting the ground next to another man. This one had the same grin only his face, but it was slightly off, as though he didn't really want to hurt her but had to. He raised up his bat and was about to bring it down if not for the pafs that flew into his eyes at the last second. Jubilation slowly backed away from the two men looking for an escape route but only saw that the crowds of people had backed away and four men stood around her hold different items. Two of them had bats, but she had already semi dealt with them, one had a chain with a spiked ball on the end and he started turning it around, and the last one seemed to stay slightly away from the group and had no weapon in his hands. This man nodded to the other one and he flew at Jubilation chain and ball first. Jubilation jumped to the right barely missing the weapon.
"We got a lively one here, Jack." The man said and he swung the chain at Jubilation, who backed up, but it caught her wrist and she heard a sickening crack as the chain wrapped around her arm. The man pulled her over to him and she fell to the ground only the land on her all ready hurt arm. The other man pulled out a shotgun like weapon that seemed to advance for Jubilation to know exactly what it was. He pointed it at Jubilee and smiled as he began to pull the trigger. Jubilation closed her eyes not wanting to see the bullet come out and heard a scream. She looked up to see the man in the crowd with long blond hair throw the man with the gun several feet with great easy. He turned around and looked at her for a second before grabbing the second man and throwing him up against a wall. Jubilation watched in fascination, as this man seemed to take care of all four of the men in no time at all.
Jubilation slowly got up and went to walk over to the man cradling her hurt arm that seemed to be aching instead of shearing with blinding pain. She wasn't sure if she should come to near to him, because he seemed to have a feral look in his eyes that would almost have scared her if not for the fact he just saved her life more or less. She stood back a bit as he turned around and looked at her for a second before turning to leave the mall with out a single word. She looked at the four men only to see that one had gotten to the gun and was pointing it towards the Blond man's back. She didn't have any time to think before rushing at the man to push him away and keep herself at a safe distance from the shot. She made it to the man's side when she heard the gun go off and jumped at him trying to knock him down, which seemed easier said then done. She felt herself fall with him as he was caught unbalance and she did have any time to get further down then what she was and a shearing pain entered her side. She looked down and just above her hip was a bloodstain that seemed to get larger every second. She put a hand to her side and then looked up at the man who she knocked down holding out her slightly blood covered hand in shock. 'I just got shot, oh my god.' The thought raced through her mind a hundred times within a few short seconds.
The man got up and rushed over at the guy with the gun back handing him into the wall on the other side of the mall. A sicken crunch could be heard as he hit the wall, but Jubilation barely noticed Jubilation watched barely registering anything before she was hit by another pain as the bullet seemed to twist inside her. She held her side as black dots danced before her eyes in a way they hadn't for a long while. She barely noticed the blond man picking her up and carrying her out of the mall into a jeep. All Jubilation could think of was 'Am I going to die?'