[ THIS CAPTER CONTAINS blood, MAJOR character injury, minor character injury, fighting, mentions of weight loss, and somewhat suicidal thoughts. (Not that bad don't worry) If you do not like what this chapter contains I recommend skipping it, though the plot wont make much sense]
"Where the hell do you think yer goin'?"
Henry tried to back away, but his body wouldn't move. He wanted to scream, run away, but he couldn't. W-was that man...dead?! Henry had his mouth open, but nothing would come out, the only movement he had was his hands shaking. He felt sweat run down his face. He couldn't breathe, no matter how much air he took in, it felt like it did nothing.
The man pulled Henry to face level, Henry couldn't process a word he was saying, no matter how hard he tried. He was too panicked to hear, next thing he knew he had agonizing pain in his left cheek, as he flew in the air, and hit the rock hard ground. No matter what he did, he wouldn't get up, he just ended up gasping for air, as he was picked up again, and getting struct in his right eye.
Everything started to blur, he felt them tugging at his har, screaming at him, and then being thrown on the ground again. It felt like a never ending cycle, the only thing he heard was when he heard something pop in his arm when he was thrown on the ground for the...seventh time? He lost count of the amount of times he was thrown, punched, kicked. He wanted it to end, he thought he was going to die, so why wasn't it happening? Why was he still here? just to feel pain?
His face felt swollen, he tried getting up, he put his hand on his forehead to only realize his hands were covered in warm, crimson blood. He's never bled so much before, if he wasn't going to get beaten to death, then he was definitely going to bleed out.
"This guy really is hanging onto his life, heh, guess we have to keep going"
The other guys laughed, getting excited to watch the life leave his eyes. The guy cracked his knuckles, getting ready to throw another fist. Before he could he got knocked in his face.
"WHAT THE HELL?!"
Henry looked confused as he looked up to see a furious Ralph, One hand in a fist, the other clenching Henry's phone. His eye's screamed pure rage.
"R-Ral-ph, get-get out of here" Henry warned.
Ralph didn't listen, He was blinded by anger, he is NOT going to let these men get away and beat Henry up like he's some sort of punching bag.
"Collin, what the HELL do you think you're DOING!?"
The guy chuckled, before his face went completely serious. "I'M GOING TO KILL HIM WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE YOU MORON!"
Henry never heard such an evil laugh come out of Ralph's mouth, but it just kept going.
"HAHAHAhah, If you want to kill him, you're going to have to go through ME FIRST!" Ralph yelled as he drew his fist up into the air.
"Tch, that'll be easy, all those times you go to the gym, looks like its done nothing for you but make you lose weight"
Ralph scoffed. "We'll see about that"
Ralph dropped Henry's phone next to him, and put himself into a fighting position. Collin did the same. Collin signaled his friends to do the same.
"Tch, i knew you couldn't do it without your little band" Ralph gave him an ass eating smirk.
Collin signaled them to cut it, "alright, one on one, let's do this Ralphie~"
Ralph was the first to throw his fist, which was immediately blocked, Collin lunged at his side, and thrashed him on his side. Ralph stumbled a bit before landing a hit on Collin's mouth. Henry watched as he inched himself closer to his phone. He just needs to grab it so he could call the police, and he could get help.
"HEY!" one of Collin's friends points to Henry reaching over to get his phone. Henry felt himself panic as one of his friends ran over.
Ralph turned around to see what's going on before he was knocked in the face by Collin. Henry looked up to see one of Collin's friend's glare down at him. Henry knew what was going to happen. The guy bent down next to Henry and grabbed his hair, Henry winced in pain, He knew what was going to happen. He's seen it in shows, all the time. He's going to get his face bashed into the ground.
Henry braced himself for impact, when he felt the grip on his hair loosen. He looked up in bewilderment, to see Ralph strike the guy's face with his foot. Ralph was about to bash the guy's face with his foot before Collin smashed Ralph's face with a rough fist.
Ralph's back hit the wall as he held his bleeding nose. Shit, I lost focus, I really need to keep an eye on him, so I could make sure Henry's okay. He's beat up really badly, and his arm is bent in a weird way. I need to get him to the Hospital as fast as possible.
"Hey, what happened to this being a one on one?" Ralph said weakly.
"It stopped being one, once you kicked my friend in the face." Collin cracked his knuckles.
"THAT'S NOT FAIR! HE WAS GOING TO GET HENRY!"
"Well them's the breaks, pal"
Ralph swiftly ran over to Collin and lifted him up by his shirt to face level. He thanked himself internally that he had a big growth's spurt during 7th grade. Ralph drew his fist up to punch the gang leader, but before he could throw the punch he heard Henry scream. He turned around to see someone pull Henry on his broken arm. Ralph dropped Collin and ran over to Henry.
"DROP HIM."
Ralph growled, as he ran over to the guy holding Henry. Two other guys stepped in front of him, blocking him from getting to Henry.
"Move it."
"HAHAHA, sorry we couldn't hear you, what?"
"MOVE IT!"
Ralph gripped the back of the guy's head and slammed his face into his knee, before bashing his face into the wall next to him. He turned over to look at the other to see him swiftly move out of the way, only so he could see Henry thrown next to some mysterious body on the ground that was covered in crimson red blood.
Ralph's eyes widened, that was a bloodied body, next to Henry. A bloodied body possibly dead. Collin did that, these kids from his Highschool did that. The people he is fighting, did that. Ralph stumbled back as he opened his mouth in horror. He needed to save Henry, but the people he's fighting are possible murders. They're acting like this is nothing. Have they done this before?
"Oh, it looks like he's found it, I guess now he knows who he's playing with. Not so cocky now huh?"
Ralph froze, he felt his hand ball up into a fist, he's beyond angry. He was infuriated, he was horrified. He turned around and stared at Collin. Collin saw a man he'd never seen before because the man that looked back wasn't Ralph.
"You're a monster"
Collin looked a little startled. "W-What?"
"I SAID YOU'RE A MONSTER, BUT I GUESS YOU ALREADY KNEW THAT HUH?!"
Ralph watched Collin reach into his back pocket for something, Collin locked eyes with Ralph, he never looked away, not even once. He heard him mutter something to himself, but Ralph was on a mission, and his mission wasn't over until Collin was out of commission.
Ralph walked up to him, grabbed his shirt and pounded his face with his now bloodied fist. Ralph hated how sensitive his knuckles were, but it's not like he would let that stop him. He grabbed his shirt again and bashed his face into the cement wall. Collin stumbled back holding his bruised nose, to somehow stop the bleeding. Collin gave Ralph an aggravated look, before the mysterious object Collin had pulled out made itself known.
Ralph felt a sharp shooting pain rise up his arm, as he stared down at a long stream of warm, crimson blood stream down his left arm. He looked up to see Collin holding a box cutter with his shaky, rigid, right hand. Ralph gripped his arm, to stop the shooting pain in his left arm. He glared at Collin, before throwing his other fist at him, he bashed him in his right eye. Collin fell back, but instantly shot up and stabbed Ralph in his other arm.
Ralph hissed in pain, as he saw his warm blood ooze out of his arm. He stumbled back as he watched Henry throw his good fist at one of Collin's lackeys. Ralph looked up at Henry as he saw Henry start to fight. His immediate reaction was to scream at him to not to, but he realized he can't be there and fight for him at the moment, so this will just have to do. Ralph kicked Collin in his face, but Collin dodged and slid his box cutter down Ralph's arm into his palm. That did it. He screamed in agonizing pain. He fell back as he stared at his bloodied arms, he watched as the crimson oozed out his cuts. He stared blankly at his bloody palm, if he makes it out of this alive, he'll need stitches for sure. Ralph sluggishly got up and stood in a fighting position.
"Give it up Ralph, you know I already won, with your hands looking like that, you don't stand a chance."
"That's what you think, I still have my legs. Besides, you know my skills are much superior if you had to take out a box cutter."
Collin growled as he lunged to take a hit on Ralph, but before he could Ralph propelled his leg high into the air, hitting Collin's jaw in the process. Collin stumbled back, as he looked at what his friends were up to. He watched as Henry bashed their faces to the walls, and ground only using one arm. Where'd he even get those skills from? I never even see him at the gym.
But before he could focus back on his fight with Ralph he got knocked in the face by Ralph's sneakers. Collin looked back at Ralph as he gave him an ass eating smile. It's the fact that that asshole could muster up a smile at all. That did it, no more playing by the rules. Collin opened up his box cutter and jabbed it into Ralph's side.
Henry looked over to see Ralph fall onto the ground with a stab wound to his stomach. Henry quickly knocked the guy into the wall before rushing to Ralph's side. Ralph's vision began to blur as he fell onto the cold ground. Henry needed to get out of there, Collin is too much to handle, and Henry has no fighting experience at all. Henry has a broken arm for crying out loud.
Ralph watched as black spots danced into his vision, he heard muffled voices, as his vision started to go black. Henry ran over, bent down by Ralph's side, as he heard police cars in the background. Thank God Henry thought to himself. He heard Collin, and the rest of his lackey's run off as he stayed by Ralph's side as he drifted off into unconsciousness.
[author's note: I'm so sorry for the long wait, a lot of thing happened during the last month, so I apologize for that, I hope you enjoy this chapter, and sorry for the long wait]