Devil charged at Arthur again, they had been going at this for the past ten minutes. Devil tried axes, swords, daggers, and even guns. But he had yet to graze Arthur,who was not doing so well himself,he was tired and his knife was dented.
Arthur dodged the longsword swing by ducking and cut Devil´s thigh, making him fall and kicking his face, throwing him some meters away.
He was about to finish him, but Devil created a gun and shot at him, making him have to dodge.
Arthur ran to him again, somehow dodging the bullets and moving at an unnatural speed. Devil got up and ran over him too, they exchanged some hits, not managing to seriously hurt eachother, but Devil did manage to knock the knife out of Arthur's hand.
He grabbed both Arthur's wrists and headbutted him, finally managing to land a hit. Arthur responded with a knee to the gut, followed to an elbow to the neck. Devil grabbed onto him and threw him to the ground, managing to inmobilize Arthur.
He started to land hits on him, barely getting blocked by Arthur's arms.
"Die already, you fucker!" Arthur stopped one of his punches and threw a punch to Devil's face, knocking him backwards.
Arthur wanted to follow but Devil created a sword and got up. He swang the sword downsides, when Arthur dodged, he swang upwards, his moving was getting sloppy and his slashes lacked speed.
Arthur dodged, and punched him everytime he attacked, Devil's face was covered in blood and wounds. Arthur grabbed his hair and pulled him down, where he met a hit of Arthur's knee.
Finished him with a straight, clean hit to the jaw that straight up knocked a few teeths out and left him out of combat.
"Huff...Huff" Arthur looked exhausted and was panting heavily, other than that, he did not seem to be very injured.
He walked over to his knife on the floor and picked it up, then he went over to Devil, who was knocked out and grabbed him by his neck, aiming the knife at his heart.
He was about to finish him off when he heard the sounds of the police alarms getting closer, it seemed the police had finally tracked the location by some means, maybe a hero with tracking powers had helped.
"You get to see another day, lucky you. Though it may be in jail"
He ran straight to Jenny and started untying her, also ripping off the power restricting necklace. Jenny was barely conscious and very hurt, so Arthur picked her up and put her on his back, exiting the fabric by the backdoor.
They managed to get away from the police and reached a safe place, Arthur put her slowly in a nearby bench.
"We need to get you to an hospital" Jenny coughed and spit some blood "No, we can't..."
"What do you mean we can't?" Jenny shook her head and looked at him "I'm being searched for the police and the heros... for some crimes...The hospital probably has a list of searched people...I can't go to antartica, please..."
Arthur repressed a long sigh and put a hand on his forehead "For fuck's sake...I'm going to have to make some calls..." He pulled his phone out and Jenny's vision started to go blurry and then completely dark.
"Hey...Hey...Don't go dying on me, alright?" He slapped her face a few times but she eventually lost consciousness.
***
Jenny woke up in a bed, it was not her bed. Nor the ceiling was in any way familiar to her, her first thought was that someone had kidnapped her and panicked, until she remembered what happened last...Day...Week...Month? Jenny had no idea how long had she been unconcious.
She was all covered in bandages, but her wounds were already closed and she felt much better.
"Where the hell am I?"
"You are in a friend of mine's house" Arthur appeared through the door with a plate full of fruit. "Eat, it'll do you good, you've been sleeping for some hours now"
Jenny picked up the plate, staring at it for some time. "Why did you do it? Saving me, I mean" Arthur opened the window of the room, it was around five in the morning and the city was quiet.
"Why? I don't know, it seemed like the right thing to do by my ideals" Jenny smiled a little and ate a slice of apple.
"Your ideals,huh? I recall you mentioning that in the fabric too, though I don't remember what happened exactly" Arthur leaned in on the window,the street lights reflected in his eyes.
Jenny spoke again a moment later "How the hell did you even defeat those guys? I couldn't even defeat the leader on his own. You must have one hell of a power"
Arthur turned around and looked at her "It's really nothing special. That guy was pretty close when he guessed my power, but he wasn't quite right, wanna take a guess?"
"Eh...He said something about super reflexes, I think, so maybe super speed?" Arthur shook his head "No, but you aren't exactly wrong either"
"Oh,come on dude, just tell me already" Arthur lit up a cigarrete and put it on his mouth "I can slow down time"
"What? That's so freaking overpowered, it's just not fair!"
"It may be, but it has it's downsides too. First of all, it burns through my stamina like hell, so most of the time I only use it for defense, like dodging or blocking. Second of all, I can only slow it down like one second and it's not like I completely freeze time" Jenny ate a little more of fruit "Well, when you put it like that... It's still unfair though"
There was some silence after that, then Jenny broke it.
"I wanted to say that... Thank you. Not everyone would've done what you did for me today, you're a little weird but maybe... Kinda cool too"