Chapter 2

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"Don't stop sweeping."

Jobien gritted his teeth and he wiped the sweat that was coming from his bro. "Yes sir."

It was the middle of summertime in Yorknew City. The days were long and humid and most of the nights were filled with cooler air. Jobien yawned stopped sweeping for a minute to flex his wrists. As shitty as this job see med to him at least he was able to get a job at such a young age. Nobody really wanted to hire any kid that was only fifteen-years old, but he got lucky when he was able to land this job. He did not even have to interview for this job. He basically begged for the job.

His hands worked the broom over the wooden floors of the shop quickly, picking up dirt, cat hair and dust. The boss of the shop that he was working at only gave him simple and easy jobs. All Jobien had to do was feed the cat, clean, and handle the sales whenever the boss could not deal with it. Of course, the pay was not great but at least it was something for him to get by with.

He was only in Yorknew City for three weeks so far. Of course, he always kept an eye out for somebody that could be looking for him but so far, he did not notice anyone. Nobody gave him any suspicious looks except for the customers that would ask him why he was working at such a young age which of course he did not respond. He pretended that he could not hear them and changed the topic quickly and started asking about there life instead. Of course, it was rude, but he would rather not tell anyone about his life.

He yawned and pushed his hair out of his face. The money that he would earn from working here he would spend carefully. He bought brand new clothes (which he really needed) and spent his money carefully on the food that he would buy. The only most of expensive thing he did buy so far was a set of daggers. Which was to defend himself if he happened to run into any trouble on the way home.

Which is home being an abandoned apartment building on the outskirts of Yorknew City. So, he was sure to run into some trouble someday on the way home.

Somebody is watching me.

He turned quickly to look out the door, but nobody was standing there. Every now and then, Jobien would get a feeling that somebody was watching him. Sometimes it would be a customer staring at him wanting to ask him a question but sometimes nobody was there, and it was just a weird feeling that he was having.

"Hey kid." His boss grumbled as he sat in the stool by the register. He was smoking a cigarette and reading the newspaper. "Are you okay?" He looked up and peeked at Jobien.

"Yes of course." Jobien nodded and let out a soft sigh. His boss nodded and then motioned him to come towards him. With the broom in his hand, Jobien walked towards his boss. His boss set the newspaper down and looked at him in his eyes.

"Why don't you work inside today, and I'll work outside?" His boss suggested.

Jobien did not mind working outside. He preferred it. He loved looking at the people and greeting everybody that walked by him. Even if they did not stop to shop. But of course, working outside did worry him a lot. He was sure his father was not dead and most of all he is sure that his father had went out and put a bounty against him.

"Okay." Jobien said, turning away to go put the broom back in the back room. He felt his boss eyes bore into his back as he went and put the broom back. Jobien turned around and his boss looked the other way. His boss then headed outside and started to set up his booth outside. Jobien took his place behind the cash register and leaned on the counter, closing his eyes as he felt his thoughts leave his head.

He did not realize how long he had his eyes closed because when he opened them, he saw somebody standing right in front of him. A noticeably young pretty woman with long blonde hair in a mint dress stood at the counter. She was holding a glass vase that matched the color of her dress. She raised an eyebrow.

"Are you ready to check me out?" She asked, puzzled.

"Yes of course! Sorry I was thinking about something." Jobien said, rubbing the back of his head. She nodded and he rang her up quickly. He wrapped up the glass vase in brown paper (so it would not break) and then put the glass vase inside of the bag. She paid for the vase and walked out with it. She called out to him.

"Have a nice day!"

"You too!" Jobien called back out and leaned against the counter once more.

The shop suddenly got filled with people and Jobien had been ringing up orders constantly after the young girl had left. People were shopping a lot more today than usual. By five in the afternoon you had sold more than 40 items to customers that had walked into the store wanting to buy something. The more people that buy stuff here the bigger your paychecks were. Which was rather good for him.

Usually there was a large amount of tourist that came to Yorknew City. So today probably meant tourists have just came here. You observed everybody that walked in and out of the store. Nobody gave Jobien a dirty look or a weird look which made him relax a lot more.

After a couple more customers came in and walked out with purchases in there hands the boss walked in and gave Jobien a smile and a thumbs up.

"Great work today kid! You are managing to sell a lot of stuff. I am glad I hired you." He said with a smile. Jobien smiled back and nodded his head.

He was about to say something else until a little girl ran into the store followed by a boy that was right behind her the entire time. She ran up to the counter, her bright blue eyes staring into Jobien's. Jobien looked down at her and gave her a small smile.

"Do you guys sell ice cream here?" She asked politely. Jobien held back a chuckle and nodded his head.

"No, we don't sell ice cream here." He told her gently and she nodded her head. The boy that was with her rolled his eyes and then looked at Jobien.

His eyes were piercing through his own. He was taken by surprise of how blue his eyes were. The boy then looked away and grabbed the little girl's hand. "Come on I told you this was a waste of time and there wasn't going to be any ice cream here." The boy sounded annoyed and he walked the little girl out of the store.

His eyes. It was almost like he was reading every single emotion inside of me.

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"Like I already told you earlier. You did an amazing job today!" His boss told him. He then, handed Jobien 400 jenny, for today's work. Jobien took the money and nodded and waved at his boss. Signaling that he would see him tomorrow for work. He began walking home, his feet were almost dragging as he headed home.

Before he went home, he stopped at a small store and looked around for a little bit. He ended up buying food for the night and a glass of soda. As he headed out of the store, his mouth had stretched open to a huge yawn.

Working is killing me.

I should be doing what kids my age do.

Having fun and playing with other people.

Since Jobien lived in the outskirts of Yorknew City the walk would take him about 30 minutes to get home. He frowned and which he could live closer in the city. It would be a lot easier than running or walking everyday just to get on time to work.

Thunder clapped over his head and lighting lit up the sky as the rain decided to slowly start to fall onto him.

Great.

He quickly picked up the speed, clutching the bag of groceries closely to his chest. Before he knew it. The rain was already started to downpour upon him which he then broke into a swift sprint to get home. His hair getting soaked and falling around his forehead and into his eyes. He pushed his hair out of his way and continued his way to get back home.

Jobien was almost home when he turned the coroner but then he heard someone yelled out loud. It was a little girl's scream down an alley across from where you were standing

Shit.

He could feel his heartbeat speeding up in his chest. The pounding of his heart was emitting to his ears.

Fuck. Should I go and call the police. No, she needs help right now. I must do something now. If I call the police, then they will never get here on time. Someone could be hurting her right now. Someone is attacking her right now! What if-

The voice of the person that was attacking the little girl cut into your thoughts, "I will kill you if you do not tell me where those kids are with the Hunter's License. I suggest you tell me if you don't want to die here."

His vision suddenly flashed red and too the thoughts of his father torturing him. Jobien dropped the bag of bread onto the soaked rain street and clutched onto the glass soda.

"Get away from HER!" Jobien shouted into the dark alley. His eyes flashed to the girl. It was the girl that came into the store early asking if him if they sold ice cream at that store. Her hand was trembling and clutched a blood-stained material of her dress. Her head was resting against a side of the dumpster. Her eyes were filled with fear. Above her, a man with medium brown hair and a large build held a long dagger. He turned towards Jobien, snarling.

"Why don't you get lost little boy. Or do you want to get stabbed too?"

Jobien glared at him, holding the glass soda bottle in his right hand he slammed it into the wall. The glass shattered against the wall, the pieces of glass falling onto the floor. The soda poured onto the floor and mixed with the rain puddle that was below his feet.

"Watch yourself." The man chuckled darkly, pointing his dagger towards Jobien.

Without a second thought, Jobien rushed forward. It has been a long time since he has fought somebody. There was a huge difference between there heights, Jobien, being on the much smaller side while the other guy was larger than him.

I have the advantage.

He seems like a low-level thug.

I mean he went after a little girl.

He swung his dagger towards Jobien's face as he got closer. He is slow. Jobien thought as he noted the sloppy technique, he was using to swing his blade. He ducked quickly underneath the swing and pushed him with all his force. The force of the push was enough to send the criminal back and away from the little girl.

His right hand gripped tightly onto the bottle as the guy began to approach him.

"Now. I'm really going to fucking kill you!" He yelled at Jobien. His eyes glowing with fury as thunder boomed overhead. He charged at Jobien quickly and took a swipe towards his stomach. He dodged it quickly taking a jump back before the blade could cut him. But before Jobien could follow up he punched him in the gut. Knocking him onto the ground. Jobien groaned and licked his lips. A feeling was coming over him.

A feeling of bloodlust.

Jobien stood up from the ground and prepared himself again. The criminal ran towards him and attempted to stab him with the blade. Now. His hand quickly shot up and grabbed his wrist. Using all his strength, Jobien twisted it, forcing him to drop the knife that he was holding in his hand. Jobien quickly slammed the broken glass bottle into his stomach. Emitting cries of pain from the criminal. The criminal fell onto the ground.

Kill him.

The criminal was clutching onto the broken glass bottle that was now in his stomach. Jobien wanted to kill him. He could fell his bloodlust over taking his whole body as he looked down at the man. He leaned down to rip out the bottle from the man and then remembered

The little girl.

Lightning lit up in the sky as rain started to pour even harder onto the three of them. "Get lost. And if I ever see you again. I will fucking kill you." Jobien growled, his eyes staring at the criminal. The criminal, shaking and holding onto the weapon that was still lodged in his stomach scurried quickly away.

There was more blood from the little girl when he got closer to her. Jobien pressed lightly against the wound that she had, attempting to stop the bleeding that was coming from the wound. Her eyes were fluttering to open to close.

"Hey! Hey! Keep your eyes open for me. Okay? What's your name?"

Jobien got even closer to the little girl. Pressing against her wound.

"Alluka." She whimpered.

He looked down at her, Alluka's eyes were turning dull and they were fighting hard to stay open and look at him.

"That's such a nice name. I am Jobien. Do you live close by?" He asked her. Jobien heard footsteps stop at the alleyway and he turned to face the person that was standing there. It was the boy that was with her earlier today. His snow-white hair was matted down onto his head, from all the rain of course. His sapphire eyes stared at you.

"He saved me." Alluka cried out.

That must be her brother.

"Please! I can heal her! I can save her I promise! Just we need somewhere safe!" Jobien yelled at him.

His eyes widened and nodded his head.