Fight! Fight! Theseus!

Chapter 8: Jun The Icarian



At a nearby police station, two officers, a Blau and a Shylian were conversing about the recent breaking and entering.
"Did you give it the sample yet? I hate getting near that thing." Said the Shylian twitching
"Of course I did and you know I hate it too, but we're required to do since we collected blood sadly."
"Yeah yeah, sorry for having you do it I know it's freaky."
"I already told you earlier it's fine, just know you owe me one."
Inside the room was a massive robotic figure, thousands of wires connected to the walls and the ceiling, it was mostly white and had human-like hands with extremely long and sharp needle-like nails, the head of it only bore a singular eye, the room it was set in seemed like it was out of a psych ward, and the thing itself barely spoke, no one in the department knew much of it and it supposedly just appeared out of nowhere, but all officers were forced to use it for analysing blood as no machine was on its level, slowly its hands and nails touched the blood, it flew inside it and immediately, it began to laugh in many different tones.
Meanwhile, Theseus and Kancer were planning to go shopping.
"THESEUUUUUUUSSSSSSS QUIT TAKING SO LONG" Yelled Kancer whilst banging the door of Theseus's room.
"I'M ALMOST DONE, I'M CURIOUS WHAT THE NEXT MISSION IS SINCE I GOT SO MUCH MONEY."
"UGH FINE, WHATEVER."
Theseus got his first payment of four thousand Solars, which was almost as much as both his parents monthly income combined, he was extremely ecstatic and almost cried.
"YES, MY FIRST EVER PAYCHECK, AND IT'S SO MUCH MONEY TOO, wait, is this child labour? WHO CARES! FOUR THOUSAND IS FOUR THOUSAND AND THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS."
After about twenty minutes he received a message on his phone simply saying groceries, he disregarded it as a bug in the system and quickly tried his best to compose himself in the bathroom since he was technically going on a date with Kancer, although she said it was simply just shopping, he felt it was more than just that, nor was he sure he even liked Kancer in that type of way.
"Heya! Sorry I took so long" he said as he waved smiling
"YEAH, TOOK YOU LONG ENOUGH, Didn't your parents teach you to never keep a girl waiting!? " Kancer grabbed the collar of his shirt looking as if she were going hurt him.
"Hey I said sorry alright! I'll give you some blood as compensation if you don't keep a grudge" He continued to nervously smile
"Fineeeeeeeee" Kancer lets go and quickly pricks his finger.
"You always have to make it hurt each time, here, take it." He points his finger out letting her feast.
"Thank you!." She quickly drinks up whatever she can get and seems to be in a better mood. "I wonder how you manage to taste so good, what's your blood type?"
"I don't actually know I never really cared for it."
"Hmm, well pay attention next time I'm curious."
"Wouldn't you know? I mean don't you do this to many?"
"Of course not, you're like the main person I taste."
"What? Like? Really?" Theseus seemed both happy yet weirded out.
"Well yeah, sure I had like three or four guys in the past but you taste the best, NOW COME ON LET'S GO!" 
She grabs his hand and quickly runs with a big smile on her face.
On their way out, a loud argument is happening between an Icarian and a nearby Shylian guard.
"THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT MY JOB IS EITHER, YOU'RE NOT HELPING SHITHEAD."
"C-Calm down Jun, we're not your enemy alright?" A sweat drips from the security guard's forehead.
"Are you talking down to me? Can you even comprehend who I am?"
"Kneel." The Icarian stared deep into his soul almost commanding him.
"H-Hey, that's not nice, how about we go talk to the boss right now?" He smiles nervously trying to strike a compromise.
"I won't tell you it again you dysfunctional creature." The Icarian eyed down on the guard, he wore black gym pants and a regular white T-shirt, he also had bandage wraps from hand to his forearms, as well as some over his shins that weren't visible, his hair was a dark black and it was tied back loosely in a high messy man bun, his eyes were a dark color and beneath them he had eye bags.
The shylian, confused about what to do took too long to decide, the Icarian kicked forward as if he were going to break down a door, the guard tried his best to stop this kick with all his might grabbing onto it thinking he had a chance of winning, but that was his biggest mistake.
"YOU REALLY THINK YOU CAN STOP ME? JUN THE ICARIAN?" With his foot stuck in his grasp, he simply spread his wings and flew a couple of meters into the air, the guard held onto it for his dear life.
"NOW DIE GROVELING YOU EASILY REPLACEABLE USELESS TOOL." The Shylian began to cry.
Theseus sees him flying up and quickly thinks.
"Kancer! Help me get to him!."
"T-Theseus are you crazy? That's The Jun! He's like one of the strongest here!"
"And I don't care! There's a life at stake here!."
"One of these days you're going to need to pay me tenfold for this."
Kancer grabs Theseus and then bursts into the air with her special boots, Theseus leaps out of Kancer's arms and flies directly into the Icarian latching onto him.
"CALM DOWN MAN HE'S JUST DOING HIS JOB." Theseus barely hangs on.
"WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?" With the added weight onto him Jun begins to waver around in the air
"I'M THESEUS ADONIS CIRILLO LAMBROS, THAT'S WHO I AM, NOW CAN YOU JUST PLEASE LET US DOWN, I'M SURE WE CAN HELP YOU OUT."
"YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I WANT, NOT ONLY THAT BUT YOU DARE LATCH ONTO SOMEONE AS GREAT AS ME." His grasp weakens.
"OF COURSE I KNOW YOU'RE UH, MAD ABOUT SOME JOB RIGHT?"
"YEAH, THE DUMB FUCKING BOSS ONLY GAVE ME THE WORD GROCERY, HOW THE FUCK AM I MEANT TO KNOW WHAT TO DO."
"WELL, I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS, NOW JUST LET US DOWN SLOWLY AND WE CAN HEAD THERE STRAIGHT AWAY."
"I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M ON ABOUT BUT IF IT WORKS IT WORKS."
"Ugh, there's no point wasting my strength on tools like yourself, fine, don't think you've been spared dysfunctional Shylian, thank Theseus for having a smidge of intelligence.
"THANK YOU THESEUS, THANK YOU." The Shylian says as he begs
"No problem!" He gives him a thumbs-up with a proud smile on his face as he holds onto Jun's arm.
They slowly descended and the second they did Jun shook both of them off of him causing them to fall onto the floor.
Without wasting any time "Now then Theseus, where's this job at?"
"Oh just uh, follow me I'll lead you there."
"I'm going alone." His eyes were fierce yet full of void.
"You see I kinda have the same job so I'm sort of forced to go, Y'know?"
"Hmph, fine then, lead me." 
Theseus quickly got up from the floor, Kancer went to check up on him.
"Kancer? Really? What the hell are you doing here."
"I'm his partner alright, we're doing the jobs together."
"I swear if either of you bring one more person they're dying."
"NONO, NO ONE ELSE IS COMING DON'T WORRY."
"Good, my patience weighs thin, so get a move on, NOW."
They all quickly walked out, with Theseus leading them.
"WHAT THE FUCK DO I DO, I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO GO, IT JUST SAID GROCERY SO WOULD ANY GROCERY STORE DO? DOES A SMALL ONE COUNT OR DOES IT HAVE TO BE BIG?"
Theseus started to panic and became nervous with every minute.
Jun simply walked along them, he thought about his mother and how much he loved her, hoping that when he got back home she'd make his favourite dumplings.
Kancer kept thinking about backstabbing Jun and was always behind him at every moment.
"Don't even try it you psycho, I could see your intentions a mile away." Said Jun walking carefree with his hands in his pocket.
"Ugh, just don't hurt Theseus alright?"
"Are you commanding me?" He turns to her staring at her with the intention to kill her on the spot.
"No, it's just a simple request."
"That's what I thought, and sure, as long as the kid takes me there I don't care, speaking of which, what's taking so long?"
"R-R-Right!? We're almost there!."
"AHHHHH WHERE IS IT EVEN? THE CLOSEST PLACE I KNOW IS LIKE, THAT ONE GROCERY WHERE I FOUGHT THAT GUY. Wait a minute, wasn't there a bigger grocery near there? Surely the boss wouldn't have us go to some random place, it has to be for a reason, thank God they didn't realise we were walking in circles the past couple of minutes, that time bomb-ticking maniac is gonna stress me to death."
Soon they reach a popular grocery market known as Soldona.
"T-This should be the place, surely, no doubt in my mind."
"Great, let's get this over with."
Jun walks in first but Kancer pulls Theseus aside.
"You have no idea what you're doing right?"
"pfffffft noooooo, what do you? Me? Knowing? I know it all I mean phone and, maps and stuff and."
"Be honest."
"THIS IS MY BEST BET ALRIGHT I DON'T WANT TO DIE."
"Geez, just know that this guy mainly fights with his legs alright, if we ever face him at least you'll know what he does."
"What about his second wind?"
"I told you we don't go around telling everyone, it's a secret, and his is probably very powerful seeing as he's one of the main guys at the organization."
"Life is so long yet so short, it was nice meeting you Kancer." Theseus slowly drops to the floor.
"DON'T SAY THAT THESEUS COME ON GET UP." Kancer tries to pick him back up.
After Theseus whines for a while more, they enter the store, surprisingly it seems normal enough, except they can't seem to see Jun.
"Do you see him?" Says Theseus looking at all the customers with carts.
"I was just about to ask you the same thing, not at all."
"Maybe he just shops often and is buying something."
"He is quite loud, hm, weird, oh well let's just look around."
It was quite a spacious but simple grocery store, but it had tons of aisles that had cuisine specific to each race. 
"I wonder what Fungians eat often."
Kancer put her mask up and decided to lay low since more people seemed to be around.
"No clue."
"Right right, you can't talk much." Theseus awkwardly tries to look for something interesting around the shelves.
"Hey come here, what's this weird jar?" He finds a peculiar jar that seems to contain a sphere-like object, but because of the mistiness of it, you couldn't quite make out what it was.
"No clue."
"Really? Can't you say anything else?" After looking for a bit he gives up and notices there aren't any customers around him anymore.
"Where'd everyone go-?"
Immediately the eye within the jar began to stare at Theseus, and every other item in the store appeared to be either an organ, or some sort of drug.


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