Chapter 130: Birth of a Hero Part 4 (1/2)
Serval boys were laughing, pushing around a little girl. She did little to nothing to fight back, clutching her bag sobbing. The boys didn't budge at all, continuing to push and pull her around like nothing more than a toy to them. Once they started trying to snatch the bag, that's when the girl started reacting. ”Please, don't. Leave me alone!”
This only egged on the boys as one ripped the bag out of her hand only to yell, dropping it cutting his hand. ”Crap that hurt!”
”How the hell did you cut your hand on the zip?”
”Major bad luck, I say.”
The girl fell to her knees, crying as they began throwing out drawings and pictures from her bag with little care. That was until a voice was heard yelling out. ”Leave her alone!” The boys turned around, seeing another older boy running at them with a temper growing. Rushing in, he punched a boy in the face knocking him to the floor. The others retaliated ganging up on him overpowering the boy knocking him to the ground kicking him over and over.
The little girl watched in horror only for a car to drive past spooking the bullies as they ran away. ”You got lucky this time loser!”
The boy jumped up running after them before stopping throwing a rock. ”Cowards! Are you alright, Hollie?”
Hollie wiped her eyes picking up all her drawings, most were of her mother taken from photos. ”I am now. Thank you, Monty.”
Monty wiped his mouth, smiling. ”Well, I couldn't let some bullies push my little sister around. Ah, I almost had them.”
The car driving past stopped as Christopher stepped out, looking at both of his children with a slight annoyance. ”Hollie what have I told you about playing outside alone?”
”Sorry, daddy. I saw some pretty flowers and wanted to pick them…”
He kneeled down, holding them both close sighing. ”It's fine, your big brother came heroically to your rescue like he always does.”
Monty grinned as his father wiped the blood from his face. ”A hero never runs from danger when someone is in trouble!”
”Is that so? Well, that's just like you Monty the hero of the Montagues.”
He nodded intensely with a heroic smile. ”That's what I want to be. Monty Montague the superhero.”
This is the untold story forgotten to time. One of bravery and might but also corruption and anger. A tale of one boy who lost everything but pushed through with his one real dream. This the story of Monty Montague the first hero of Rhinefield.
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Monty sat in his room, staring at the poster of Vanguard frowning. Butch came in knocking. ”Hey, Bro, I heard you saved Jinx again today.”
”It's Hollie. What did I tell you about calling her Jinx Butch, don't go spreading that rubbish any more than it already has?”
Butch shook his head, leaning against the door. ”Jeez, what happened to you?”
”Don't you get it, Butch, I lost again. I got beaten up by some bullies. I didn't save Hollie; I just draped their attention to me… Why am I so weak?”