A Slick Thief
Part 2
Finn, Jake and Slick sauntered back to the town. Slick waited for a good moment for them to enter, he didn't want one of Darrin's golems tipping him off to the fact that he was entering the city with an armed stranger and a magic dog.
The three crept down a narrow alley. Finn saw three statue's marching through the street perfectly side by side, it appeared to be made of something similar to clay and they all carried cheap looking spears.
"What is that?" Finn asked.
"A set of Darrin's golems. He uses them to keep control of the city." Slick said as he pulled Finn and Jake down lower to avoid being noticed.
"Why are we hiding?" Jake asked Finn.
"I'm not hiding because I'm a known thief, those things can somehow report information back to Darrin. If he sees you guys by yourselves he'll send a collector to... "tax" you for passing through. Or interrogate you if they see you with me."
"If those things are harassing people shouldn't we just take'em apart?" Asked Jake.
"He has a lot of those, you can't just fight them all." Slick seemed mulling over something for a few moments before speaking up again. "Alright I know the gig."
"Gig?" Asked Finn.
"Yep, I know just the place for us to break into. You guys just have to act as a distractio-"
He was cut off by Jake. "When we said we would help you we didn't mean we'd rob a place with you!"
"Well how else can you help me! I've got a freakin' day to pay back my debt!"
"This Darrin guys messing with everybody in the city, we have to take him down." Said Finn
"Uh... No. He's got a small army of those golems, goons, all kinds of..." Slick trailed off when he noticed a certain look of enthusiasm wash over both Finn and Jake. "crap... I get two heroes to help someone like me and their psychotic."
Slick backed away from the street and further into the alley only to bump into something hard.
"How long has that been there?" Asked Finn as he examined a lone spear wielding golem.
A moment of awkward silence went by before Jake spoke up. "Is that thing broken? It's not really doing anything."
"Well, well... Looking to topple the big man?" A dark blue skinned creature carrying a dagger appeared from the street. A few of his friends followed closely behind.
Slick didn't hesitate to start explaining what he was doing. "We weren't doing anything like that, alright? I promise you we were ju-"
"Just shut up. I've been at this gig a freaking week and I'm already very familiar with what a loser you are." His friends snickered behind him. "Honestly, Darrin only let you stick around for such a long time because you were amusing to watch, but actually going after him?" He signaled his friends to draw their daggers. "You need a reality check, there's a power structure in this city. And you're at the bottom of it."
He took a step forward before Finn moved in front of him. He studied the boy a moment before bursting out laughing. "Dear lord... This... this child! Did you bring him along for protection!?" His friends joined in the laughter immediately following that statement. "Geez, Slick... You know what? No. This is probably the smartest thing you've ever done. A child definitely could fight much better than you!"
Finn and Jake seemed to silently agree to something with a look before Jake backed off.
The dark blue creature stepped forward. "I'm gonna teach you a few things about using that blade you've got there. It's adorable really, it's red? Be honest, did you win it at a fair or something? Or did you just paint a normal one that color?"
He quickened his step and lunged towards Finn. He slowed slightly when Finn didn't draw his weapon. Before he could make a snide remark Finn grabbed his wrist, and jumped towards him smashing the top of his skull against the creatures nose.
He went reeling back and nearly dropped his dagger, he defensively raised it up before Finn swatted it out of his hand with his blood red sword. Finn kicked him in the stomach before he could recover toppling him to the ground. The creatures friends stood in silence for a moment.
"What just... I- Kill him you idiots!" He yelled out to his friends.
Jake just stretched out a giant fist to knock them all into the street.
"Well that was... really easy" Said Finn.
"Sure hope those golems are more of a challen- OH!" Jake turned around to deal with the golem that had spied on them only to see Slick rubbing a tattered cloth against its forehead. The golem remained frozen.
"What are you doing?" Asked Jake.
-Alright, I'm feeling a little beat tonight so I'll stop this one on page two instead of three like last time. I... Officially have no idea how many chapters it will take to do this thing. I'm pretty much just improvising all of this, as a result this will go on until I eventually make them meet Darrin. This particular story does have an end (Although I only have a vague idea of what the actual ending will be like.) and then the chapter following it will be a new story arc. And that's pretty much the pattern I'm gonna stick to.