Disclaimer: I'm not going to do this again! You know the flippin' drill! I own Jade,
got it? All the other characters, not mine! NOT MINE!!! Kay, now that I've got that
off my chest, on with the show!!!!!!!
Chapter 5
Malachi's Offer
In the green forest once again, Jade looked around to find the one person that she
needed to talk to. Micah. After what had happened during the funeral of John Garrett,
Jade couldn't be with the living. She wanted to be with the dead.
"Micah?"
"What?!" came a voice from a distance. Smiling, Jade ran towards the direction that
the voice had come from.
She barely had time to catch her breath when two large hands came out of nowhere,
grabbing Jade around the waist and both she and the captuer fell to the ground. Jade
looked up to see Micah's face smiling down at her but Jade couldn't smile. Instead,
she wrapped her arms around his neck and began to cry on his shoulder.
"Jade? Jade what's wrong?"
"My dad! My dad's dead Micah!"
"What? What happened?"
"Malachi.....Malachi came and stabbed him in the back. He was dead before I could do
anything!"
"Malachi! Why if he were still on this side, I'ld give him a piece of my mind!"
With that, Micah got off of Jade and began circleing image of Malachi that he had
brought with a change in the atmosphere. Micah began punching the fake Malachi but
with one quick punch from Malachi, Micah was on his butt before he had a to react.
"Oh yeah Micah," Jade started with a smile,"You really showed him."
"He got lucky." But Jade could tell that his pride had been wounded and there was
nothing she could do to fix it.
"Micah, make that thing go away. I don't like him staring at us like that."
Before he could, Malachi turned to Jade and spoke,
"You can't stop us Outlander. He Who Walks Behind the Rows will not allow it!"
"Micah!?"
But Malachi was already gone. Though that wasn't what Jade was thinking about. Micah
held her close to him so tight that Jade thought that he was worried about losing her.
But she wasn't going to say anything.
But he noticed and let go of her.
"Well, I guess I'ld better be going."
"Yeah, I guess."
"Bye Micah."
"Bye Jade."
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Exploring the corn that surrounded the home where Jade was probably wasn't the
brightest idea that she'd ever had. But there she was, going through this corn and
didn't even notice the trail of followers of the Corn that she had left behind.
She did when she ran into their leader.
"AAAHHH! What the hell do you want?"
"Why are you here, Outlander?"
"None of yor biz."
"Well, I came to make you an offer."
"I don't want your offer."
"I think you do."
"No, I don't."
"How about I just tell you and then you can think about it."
"If you must."
"If you join us and He Who Walks Behind the Rows, we will spare your brother and
sister-in-law from a most horrible death. It is your choice. How much time will it
take you to give us an answer?"
"How 'bout I just give it to you now. I will never, EVER, join you or your little
group. I can't belive you would even think of such a thing."
With that, Jade walked home the way she came.
Closing the door on what just happened, Jade went in search of her brother and
sister. Finding them in the little garden that was on the other side of the house.
"DANNY! LACEY!"
"What?" Lacey turned to see Jade coming towards them.
"You have to leave. You can't stay here!"
"Okay, Okay. But why?"
"If you stay, you'll die. Please just go!"
"Alright. I'll go get Danny and we'll leave."
"Thank you."
25 mintues later, Danny and Lacey left the grasp of the cornfield. That was a much
needed relief.