The Heroes

The Hero from other world

There was darkness and in the dark he shouted, "What's happening ? Who am I ?" Then he opened his eyes. He knew who he was . He had been Rich and Jesse . They had melted into each other like drops of water running together to form a mighty river. He was Another .

He had in him Jesse's poetry and Rich's logic, Rich's strength and Jesse's liveliness , Rich's determination and Jesse's imagination . All that each boy, alone , was capable of was part of him , but magnified , grown immense .

He towered over the Wolf , which came to heel like a puppy . It fawned at his feet and rolled its eyes to look at him . It no longer brought fear , for fear was unknown to the man who had been Jesse and Rich.

Chapter 1

It was a case of hate at first sight . The Rosens had moved to Brixton when Mr. Rosen was transferred to a new job there . Jesse had been unhappy at leaving his friends , and doubly unhappy at leaving the village on the shore and moving to a town inland , even though Brixton was small enough so that a - ten - minute walk took you into farmland and woods . However, he started school as cheerfully as he could , and in general got along well . But on his second day, trying to find the gym with his arms full of books, he came face to face with Rich Dennison. Literally face to face: Rich came running around a corner and they smacked into each other ,almost bumping foreheads. Jesse's books went flying.

He glared at the other boy . Rich was as thick and solid as Jesse was wiry . He had shaggy black hair and what looked like one eyebrow running across both eyes . He had sullen, heavy expression and the word that came into Jesse's mind was "gorilla." Before he could asay anything, Rich growled, "Why don't you look where you're going ,skinny ?" "I was just- walking --" Jesse began , angrily. Rich gave him a shove that sent him back against the wall . " Don't walk in front of people , then , he snapped .

Before Jesse could reply , he had gone off. From then on , it was war . It was undeclared and the sides were one each , but it was war nevertheless . It took of variety of forms, in class and out of it, but always in school since once away from it they shot they never saw each other. They shot paper clips at each other, stepped on each other's feet while walking up the aisles, or jostled each other while carrying trays in the lunchroom . They never actually fought , mainly because Rich was obviously the stronger and so Jesse avoided coming to blows. But in every other way they never stopped competing .

In social studies and English Jessi had the best of things . He loved reading, was a good talker and wrote poetry and stories endlessy . But math and science gave him hard time , while Rich shone in both subjects . Their duels were fought when Rich correctly worked out an algebra problem on the blackboard while Jesse was still trying to make sense of all those x's and y's or when Jesse's English essays were read aloud as models to the class while Rich looked gloomily at his own paper scribbled over with red penciled corrections . And in sports, too, they kept the battle going . Rich was a powerful batter , a rough tackler , an expert shooter of baskets. But Jesse was faster and more agile . He could climb a rope like a monkey, skim over the high jump likea feather , or shoot ahead of the pack in a hundred-yard dash , his red hair streaming back from his pale face and his thin legs pumping.

Nobody, not even their teachers, seemed to know about the feud , which went on endlessly but always under the surface, Jesse had not yet made any really close friends in this new school . And Rich, although many people admired his athletic powers, was too grim and short-tempered to be like. So they went their own ways, more or less alone, and although neither boy would have admitted it for an instant , they almost looked forward to each day's competition , and were both a bit lost and bored on weekends . 'So things went on for a couple of months , and then, like a witch's cauldron, everything boiled over on Halloween.

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