Rainbow Machine

Chapter 4

Purple Lotus Blossom

Dareth sat down on the chair his head in his hands. His twin sitting across the table looking at him. A glass of oil in front of him. He had been like this for hours. Zane had went and grabbed Danny who sat at the bar with a blanket over her shoulders with a rather strong drink in her hands, although she only sipped it. Zane whispering to her every so often taking her hand in his. They had both lost there father and brother that day.

The bar had closed now. Midnight sat at the piano lightly thunking the keys melodiously. Dareth groaned running his hands down his face.

"So I blew up…?" Dareth coming out of his daze.

"Yeah...we were working as bodyguards for an actress. She insisted we work together. Guh...she was a looker." Archie said looking around at Danny. "So whose the doll?" He asked about Danny. Dareth turned to look at her. She had a few stray tears running down her face.

"She's my doctor. Her names Dr. Danny Pierce. We had to run, Garmadon showed up and attacked the city." Dareth said. Archie smiled straightening his tie.

"Ah so she's free huh?" Archie said

"Archie...she just lost her dad and little brother." Dareth watched as Danny leaned on Zane who put his arm around her shoulder. Archie watched undoing his tie completely.

"Harsh...poor thing." He said putting the tie on the table. "Come on there are beds upstairs. They can stay there." He walked toward a door they thought was a broom closet. It even had closet in fancy writing along the door.

"Zane...Danny. My brother said you can sleep upsta...well I guess its the attic." Dareth said watching his brother pull on a string. The latter came down.

"But isn't it his room?" Danny's voice sounded so small to Dareth. It would have broken his heart...if he had one. He patted Dannys shoulder as he motioned to the latter.

"I sleep at the port in a cupboard in the kitchen." He said. Danny gasped looking at him. She narrowed her eyes.

"Hey uh...do you know...maybe you know how Dareth got his elemental power?"

"Eleme...what?" He looked at Dareth and pointed at Zane.

"He and I can fuse together to create Dane." Dareth told his brother. Archie thought about it and shook his head.

"Nah no clue. Never heard of it at all." Archie watched as Danny went up the latter followed closely by Zane. Dareth climbed up the stairs to look around out of curiosity. Danny stood in the middle of the room.

"Dareth...what about you?"

"I'll be up in a bit." He told her. Zane took his sisters and leading her over to the sizeable bed along one wall. There was a second smaller one that Zane sat down on pulling off his shoes.

"At least its warm." He told his sister who nodded.

"It is. Almost perfect camping weather isn't it?" She asked with a soft smile. The bed was rather lumpy as she crawled into it. She felt someone pull the blankets up to her chin. Her tired, wet eyes looked up into Dareths eyes. He reached forward catching another tear before it slid to far down onto her pillow.

"We're here...we're not going anywhere." He told her. Danny seemed unable to keep her eyes open listening to his voice.

"You can't...promise...that." Her voice growing lower with every word as she fell into a very troubled sleep.

Dareth climbed back down the latter. "Are they alright?" Midnight asked holding out a warm cup of oil for Dareth. Archie was sweeping the floor. It was gorgeous in the bar. It was a lot smaller then his, but it looked higher class then his. He took a look at the drink list and it was so much better then his. Purples, cream, Onyx, and mother of pearl was the color lay out to the marble, mahogany, and light uses of wallpaper on the walls. The laps along the walls were dim and cast shadows everywhere. It was by far the most beautiful bar he had ever been in.

"Do you like it?" The voice melted over the words.

"Its breathtaking. Far more then my own piece of junk bar, that houses college students nightly." He said looking around at her. She smiled pushing her hair to the side.

"Yes well…" She said with a milky smile with honey dripping from her words.

"Alright beautiful. Everythings cleaned, locked up tight, and no signs of people hiding anywhere. You can run if you want." Archie said. Midnight nodded.

"Thank you Archie. I'll see you tomorrow." She picked up an umbrella and pulled on her coat. She leaned up kissing Archies cheek before Archie opened the door.

"Stay safe." He told her. At least it wasn't raining anymore. Archie turned back to see his brothers look on his face.

"You got some lipstick on your cheek." Dareth told him. Archie looked at the reflection in one of the wine glasses.

"Ah that cheeky vixen. She does these things on purpose. If she wasn't a nindroid I'd swear she loved me." Archie said.

"Archie...nindroids can love." Dareth told his slightly older brother.

"Sure ace...sure…"