The Warrior Midget, You were right about me making a lot of mistakes from rushing. Upon rereading that last chapter before starting this one, I saw more than a few mistakes that were pretty obvious.

A Slick Thief

Part 4

Finn didn't hesitate to keep striking at Darrin after his previously failed attack. He made repeated swings all of which Darrin evaded. "I'm not quite the slacker those others were. I was in control of this city long before I ever got those golems. And I still will be long after they're gone." He simply kept evading but made no attempt to attack.

"What are you waiting for?" Finn slashed and stabbed a few more times, continuing to miss. As the excitement he had gained from his previous encounter began to fade in this less intense battle a realization dawned on Finn. "Your just going to wait for more of those things to show up." Finn felt a rush of anger and frustration as he understood Darrin's tactic.

"...Yes. That's right. Probably should have brought your mutt with you. You might have actually been a threat. But I guess he's too busy fighting outside isn't he?" He continued to weave between Finn's attacks, never daring to attack and risk leaving Finn an opening. "Well what are you going to do boy? I'd recommend just running. Live to fight another day?"

Darrin spotted someone in the corner of his eye but hesitated to take his focus off of Finn. He narrowly avoided being hit in the head with a chair that was flung towards him. "Finn take him down now!" He snapped back to Finn too late, Finn grabbed the collar of his suit with his left hand and dug the blade into the left side, tearing down in one quick motion. Darrin leapt back, surprised to see only a superficial cut on his body, various coins, a pen, and a pocket watch fell from a hidden pocket in his suit.

"He didn't have the medallion in that one, its definitely in the other side." Slick looked around trying to find something to fight with. Darrin visibly shook with anger before recomposing himself. "Hrm... Slick... You didn't run away. Why did you feel the need to gain a sense of honor at the worst possible time? I've grown so tired of you, there is not a day that goes by where you don't hinder me. I should have ended you a long time ago."

He ducked a punch from Finn that missed his head by an inch. Darrin mumbled to himself "Focus..." Finn followed his strike up with more slashes, Darrin had lost his cool and struggled to evade further attacks. He failed to notice that Finn was backing him up towards Slick.

"You've had this coming a long time." Slick grabbed Darrin from behind and attempted to hold him still for Finn. Darrin struggled against Slick, failing to gain any leverage. Finn repeated his previous technique grabbing Darrin's collar and tearing open his suit. A bronze medallion fell from his it.

"no..." Darrin spoke in an almost inaudible tone. He slammed his head back into Slicks face. "This isn't over!" He flung himself over where the medallion fell only to be kicked off of it by Finn. Finn slowly walked over to the medallion and picked it up. There was a surge of warmth from it, Finn could feel the golems in the city, see what they saw.

Slick stood up holding his hand over his nose. "Jerk nearly broke my nose... Finn, hand me the medallion."

Finn started to speak up with a look of distrust already on his face but Slick cut him off. "I'm ready to turn my life around. This city is still filled with criminals. Your a hero, you need to keep traveling and helping people. Let me hold down the fort here. Those golems are the only thing that could save this city, they can turn it around. If you give me control of those things... I'll transform this city into a utopia. What do you say?"

Finn's expression remained unchanged and a long silence followed them. Finn placed the medallion on the floor and skewered it with his red sword.

"Geez, Finn!" Slick mumbled to himself walking away "I really though that he would buy that crap."

A few moments later Jake wandered into the warehouse. "Hey Finn! Did you win? They stopped attacking." Finn was finished tying Darrin up against a wooden support beam. "Yeah man, we're good here." Finn looked further back into the warehouse until he noticed the backdoor was open.

"I guess Slick's gone, you think he'll just get back into trouble?" Jake asked Finn.

"I dunno man, maybe." Finn mulled it over for a few moments. "Alright, probably. Still we did good here, I guess that enough."

"Can't wait to get back home after all this." Jake mumbled to himself. "Yeah man, you said it." Finn replied.

And so A Slick Thief comes to an end. Will Slick get into more trouble? Yes. Will I make another story about that some point down the line? Maybe.