Time Passes 5

"Yarden, you're here?" Jasmine shouted happily before Alexis managed to turn. But when the blonde did, it was amazing how the rapid beating of her heart calmed down when she caught sight of him casually reclining on a tree branch overlooking the cliffside they were on.

'..How long has he been there?' Alexis wondered idly before putting it out of mind. She didn't care right now, it wasn't important, she was just glad to see him

"Oh you guys are like seriously in for it now." Mindy went from fearful to grinning in an instant.

It was almost absurd how much faith her friends had in Yarden. Alexis would probably have questioned the validity of it all, if she weren't under the same effect.

"Oh great, some other brat here to whine at us about how cruel were are." the rifle wielding man snorted.

"Heh, he's just like this little pansy hippy, don't mind him," his huge friend snorted while waving dismissively at Jaden who was rubbing at his jaw and glaring up at the man, "I'll deal with him, we'll see how confident they are when I smack him around too." he claimed and began making his way over towards the tree Yarden was in.

In response, Yarden slipped out of the tree and landed in front of it casually, "Is that right?" he snorted and began walking over to meet the man, not at all bothered by the seeming near one foot in height the man had on him, "You know though shit head?"

"Know what brat?" the suited man asked.

"That's ma pal yae just punched, A' hope yae don' hink am gonnae let yae get away wae tha'." a familiar thick Scottish brogue suddenly left Yarden's mouth.

The man stopped, and his brows furrowed confusedly over his dark sunglasses, "Wha-?"

That was all he got the chance to say though before Yarden suddenly rushed forward seemingly clearing the last few feet between them in the blink of an eye. The huge suited man gagged and doubled over as Yarden's fist was suddenly in his stomach.

His sunglasses fell from his face and landed in Yarden's hand as he pulled back and then his knee came up and Alexis winced as the sound of bone crunching rang out throughout the area.

Loudly.

Blood sprayed into the air from the huge mans sudden broken nose and he fell backwards, limp.

"Who's a fuckin' pansy new' ya stupit' wimpy wee cunt?" Yarden snorted, casually slipped the sunglasses on over his eyes and turned his attention to the last two men, "Right, new' you two are next fer yer shite." he threatened the remaining two men and literally walked over the top of the huge man he just knocked out, stepping on his face, broken nose and all as he began making his way over.

How savagely brutal.

There was utter silence as everyone stared at him gobsmacked. But despite his utter brutality, Alexis found herself enraptured at the way he swaggered forward, a snarl on his lips. A smile grew on her own lips.

Her eyes flickered to the two remaining men that were staring at Yarden in horror, "W-what are you doing! D-Deal with him!" the short older man gave a sputtering order to his subordinate.

The rifle toting man took his aim from Wheeler and aimed at Yarden. Yarden in response just continued walking forward, not afraid at all, "Go fer it ya' poncy wee bitch'," he snorted, "It's goin' up yer' arse though if yae' dae'."

The tranquilizer gun trembled in his grip. A moment later, the suited man threw it down and sprinted away to the other side of the clearing, "I don't get paid enough to deal with crazy freaks like this!" he shouted before disappearing into the jungle and vanishing from sight.

"Joshua, get back here you co-" the older man shouted after him, but by then Yarden had already reached him and grasped the man by his collar and absurdly, lifted him into the air one handed.

"Awrite' there old timer?" Yarden bared his teeth at the older man.

"N-now boy, think this through, you don't want to go making an enemy of us, in fact we could use-"

"Shut it," Yarden cut him off, "A don't gee' a shit. Fae new' oan' though? The monkey, he belongs tae me. And a' say ay' can stay in the jungle way eez' faemily, awrite?"

"Y-you can't, do you have any idea what-"

Yarden casually tossed the old man to the side and the grunted as he slammed into the ground, "A just told yae' a don't gee' a shit," Yarden jerked his chin threateningly at the old man, "Yer lucky am' no rippin' yer heed' aff after yae got ma pal hit ya stupit' old poofter."

The Scottish teen took a threatening step forward towards the old man, "New' if yae' go anywhere near ma monkey an eez' faemily, al know, awrite? An I'll fuckin' hunt yae' doon' and kill yae, noo' beat it!" he snarled.

The old man gave a trembling shout before pushing up onto his trembling little legs and running away, leaving his unconscious subordinate behind.

Yarden stared after him for a moment before turning to Jaden and walking over to him, holding a hand out to the brown haired boy, "You alright mate?" he asked, the thick accent suddenly gone.

It was almost eerie how quickly he could turn that off and on.

Jaden stared at him stupidly before shaking his head and laughing, "Ah, it isn't bad bro, it'll just bruise a bit," he accepted the hand and let Yarden pull him to his feet, "But sheesh bro, you sure were brutal there. Not that I'm complaining, you sure saved our butts there."

"Good good," Yarden nodded before turning to look at the other four who were staring at him in various variations of stupefied shock, "And how about you idiots?"

Alexis couldn't help the huff of amusement that left her, crossing her arms and shaking her head, "We're fine Yarden, thanks for saving us." the blonde replied.

"..That was kinda hot." Mindy added before any of the other two making them gape at her.

"Good," Yarden repeated before looking at Alexis and raising his eyebrow at her, "Now what have we learned?"

...He was singling her out for some reason. She didn't know why though, "..If we're dealing with shady guys always have you around to beat them up if they get violent...?" she hedged.

Yarden blinked, "...Well yes...but that's not what I meant," he sighed and gave her a deadpan look, "I mean, how about using that pretty little head of yours and employing some of that common sense? Why the hell were you idiots searching for Chazz in the jungle?"

Alexis opened her mouth to reply, before promptly freezing, "...We were following Jaden?" she replied.

Yarden palmed his forehead.

"You're supposed to be the smart one," he groaned but dropped it and turned to face Wheeler who was just kind of staring at them, head cocked to the side, "Alright monkey boy, Wheeler was it? Feel free to go run off and be with your family now, if those guys come back and bother you just come find me at the academy, you know where that is yeah?" he spoke to the monkey.

It was amazing in a way how he casually just rolled with it and didn't ask any question, just started having a conversation with a monkey.

Wheeler cocked his head to the other side before his helmet flashed, "Understood, Understood! Wheeler thanks you!" the mechanical voice echoed from his helmet as he replied.

"Right, one thing though before you leave," Yarden said and stopped Wheeler in his tracks as he was about to make his way over to his family. The monkey looked at Yarden and cocked his head to the side again and in response, Yarden walked over to them and promptly wrapped his arm around Jasmine's waist and hoisted the girl up over his shoulder, "This is mine, I'm the only one allowed to kidnap her."

Jasmine yelped, "Yarden put me down!" she demanded, her cheeks going red. Then her eyes suddenly widened, "Wait, what do you mean kidnapped, how long were you watching us!?" she demanded.

"Long enough to see how stupid you were all acting." He snorted.

"...Wheeler understands, mate of strong human!" Wheeler nodded, and then turned and made his way over to his family.

"Mate, what the heck do you mean mate you dumb monkey, I never agreed to anything like that!" Jasmine's flush turned neon red.

"Don't you think you're teasing her a bit much?" Alexis raised her eyebrow at him.

Only to yelp herself as she was suddenly tossed his other shoulder, "Yarden what are you doing?" she couldn't help but laugh despite how things suddenly turned.

"Don't think you're getting off scot free, In fact, I should spank you as punishment, I literally told you where Chazz went before you left the classroom and you still ended up in this stupid situation," the Scottish boy retorted, "This sweet booty is now the property of the great pirate Yarden Odhar, anyone with objections should speak up now or forever hold your peace!"

"What about me?" Mindy hopped over and pouted at him before Alexis or Jasmine could retort themselves.

"If I had a third arm I'd claim that booty in the name of the Great Yarden Empire while I'm at it," he replied without missing a beat and Alexis looking over her shoulder could see him grinning, "Well, you can just follow along. Attempting to flee will just result in me chasing you down. Escape is not possible."

Now his name was an Empire!?

"Ah, you say the sweetest things." Mindy beamed.

Jasmine on the shoulder opposite Alexis slumped and just gave up, "You know what, I don't even care anymore." the auburn haired girl simply gave up.

Probably the smartest decision any of them had made all day.

"You know Jae, now that I looked at this, it's obvious," Syrus sighed in defeat, nodding his head, "Yarden is just built different than us."

"That's just cuz he works out bro, maybe we should to!" Jaden laughed and pat the blue haired boy on the shoulder.

Alexis saw Syrus eyes go to her and Jasmine hanging over Yarden's shoulders, "You think so?" his eyes shined hopefully.

It didn't take a genius to realise what he hoped for. 'Well, sorry Syrus but you'll need to look somewhere else for 'booty' of your own.' Alexis snorted inwardly.

Her and her friends were apparently already the property of Yarden Odhar.