Chapter 389: Riven's Return

Pete was pushed around by three upperclassmen, stumbling around like a rag doll.

"Back him!"

Senior Webby, a fat man with a freckled face, laughed and pushed Pete.

"Push him out! Push him out!"

"Back him! Back him! Back him!"

The other two laughed in agreement.

"Hey, what are you doing?!"

Mark saw the rude behavior of the three people, put his bicycle aside, and stood up to stop the group of people.

Seeing Mark stand up, Webby stopped pushing Pete and looked at him unhappily.

"Mark Padraic?"

He knew Mark as a Padrick.

Having farmed in Smallville for many years, Peter's influence in the town was undeniable.

Coupled with the "notoriety" of Azu and Rocky, many nearby gangsters did not dare to approach the farm or provoke Peter's family.

Webby recognized Mark's identity immediately.

Although he was a little unhappy when he saw the other party standing up to stop him, he didn't dare to take action.

"This is none of your business, Mark, go away!"

"Pete is my friend and I won't let you bully him."

Mark stood in front of Peter and said firmly.

"Do you know what he did? He threw my newspaper into the water."

Webby pointed at Pete and said: "Do you want to stand up for him? Kid, then pay for it, ten dollars."

When he heard that the other party asked Mark to pay ten dollars, Peter immediately became anxious, "I have already apologized to you, and the newspaper is not that expensive. I was willing to compensate you for the same newspaper, but you didn't agree and gave me my The newspaper was thrown away."

After Mark heard what Peter had to say, he said to the Webbys: "I don't have ten dollars, and I believe no one will agree to your excessive request."

"Then you just want to go against us? Kid."

Webby, who was embarrassed by Mark, was a little angry.

Regardless of Mark's identity, he directly reached out and grabbed Mark.

When Mark saw the other party taking action on his own, he immediately dodged to the side.

Webby's attack failed and he shouted to his two companions: "Catch this kid!"

After hearing Webby's roar, the two people recovered from their daze and immediately rushed towards Mark.

"Boom!"

Mark, who was dodging left and right, was able to deal with the opponent with his agility, but he soon fell into a disadvantage.

With a "bang" sound, Webby punched Mark in the face.

Mark staggered backward after being beaten, feeling that the world in front of him was spinning.

"Get out of the way!"

After punching Mark, the panting Webby shouted to Mark, who was standing in front of Peter and refused to fall even though he was dizzy.

"No!"

Holding his sore nose and facing the fists of the three men, Mark shook his head and said decisively: "Never!"

Although he will be beaten, as a friend, he will not abandon Peter under any circumstances.

Webby glared at him angrily, "You think you can protect your friends?"

Mark gasped slightly and replied: "Of course, because I have a more powerful weapon than you!"

"Weapons? What weapons?"

"Courage, guys like you who only bully those weaker than you don't have any courage at all!"

"Very well, I'm going to beat the shit out of you."

Webby was laughed at by Mark and walked towards him angrily.

But the next moment, the menacing Webby suddenly heard a weak voice.

"whee."

Although the tone was serious, it was followed by a chuckle, like a child who couldn't help but laugh.

Webby looked into the distance in confusion and found a clown standing there.

The clown has messy orange hair, the smile painted on his white face is red, not orange, and his eyes are strange bright silver.

It was wearing a baggy clown suit with big orange fur-ball buttons on it, and cartoon gloves on its hands.

Webby stared blankly at the clown who suddenly appeared.

He suddenly thought of the recently popular movie called "The Return of the Clown".

He secretly went to the cinema to watch it once before and was quite frightened.

Now seeing the same scary clown as in the movie, his hands and feet suddenly became numb and he dared not move.

"Webby," the clown said, walking up to him, "get a balloon, just one."

After saying that, the clown handed him a handful of balloons.

"Balloons will float," the clown said with a scarlet grin. "Everything will float, and soon you and your friends will too."

"No, no, no!"

The frightened Webby shook his head desperately and backed away after hearing the clown's words.

With a "boom" sound, he felt as if something hit his back.

Looking back, he found that the clown was standing behind him at some point.

"Webby, come float with us."

The clown grinned his big red mouth, and then pointed to the nearby tree with his white-gloved hand.

Balloons were piled under the tree, against the tree, not dozens or hundreds, but thousands, red, blue, green and yellow, as if grinning at him.

"No!"

Webby was so frightened that he let out a scream and ran away.

"Boom!"

Under the shocked looks of Webby's two friends, Webby didn't know why he went crazy, and suddenly screamed and ran away.

Flustered, Webby hit a nearby rusty mailbox hard, and was knocked unconscious with a "bang".

The two of them were stunned for a moment, and hurried over to check on Webby.

Mark and Pete, who didn't know what happened, looked at each other.

"What happened?"

Pete asked stutteringly.

He only saw that Webby, who was about to punch Mark, suddenly stopped, and then hit the mailbox like crazy.

"I don't know."

Mark shook his head.

He looked in the direction of his farm, and a purple shadow flashed by.

Noon.

"Raven."

At Padrick Farm, Peter, who came back from the town government, stopped Raven who was about to go upstairs.

The tall Raven wore a lavender baseball sweater and had short blue hair.

After half a year, Raven's height grew faster than Mark. She had been on the farm for less than a year, but she looked like a four or five-year-old girl from other families.

Other girls change a lot when they grow up, but my daughter has changed so much in less than a year, from a baby to a little girl. Peter feels that life is like a fleeting moment.

His daughter and son are growing up, and he is one year older.

Touching his face without any changes or wrinkles, Peter wants to express his feelings about the aging of life.

But touching the smooth skin, he suddenly feels nothing.

There is no way, this is the "pain" of longevity, not being able to feel the sadness of the passing of time.

Peter thought with some "sadness".

"Dad, is there something wrong?"

Raven blinked and asked Peter innocently.

"I heard that Webby hit his head on the mailbox and fainted."

Peter coughed, put down the newspaper he had just taken out of the mailbox, and asked Raven, "He said he saw something scary."

Raven walked down the stairs and continued to blink her innocent eyes at him, "Dad, what is a scary thing?"

"Like a clown holding a balloon."

Peter pinched Raven's fair face, who was still pretending to be stupid, "I remember that when I took Star-Lord to the movies a few days ago, a little girl sneaked into the cinema. The name of the movie was "It."

"And the little girl secretly watched the whole movie."

While Peter was talking, he picked up the guilty Raven.

"The girl who secretly watched the movie that adults and big children can watch is called Raven. Padrick. Now I am holding her. Does she have anything to say?"

What she did a few days ago was exposed by Peter. Raven looked at him in surprise, "Dad, you know?"

She thought that Peter didn't find her when she was secretly watching the horror movie.

"Of course, do you think Dad is a fool?"

"Okay, I admit my mistake, Dad. I shouldn't have sneaked into the cinema and watched the clown, but I heard from Clark that John also liked to watch horror movies when he was a child, and he secretly collected many DVDs."

Raven brought out Azu.

Peter fell into silence for a moment after hearing this.

Clark, this big mouth, really can't keep secrets.

"Azu is not your role model."

Peter scratched Raven's nose, "Let's put the horror movie aside for now. Do you have anything to say to me about Webby being scared and hitting the mailbox?"

Looking at Peter's serious eyes, Raven lowered her head, "I'm sorry, Dad, I just want to protect Mark."

"I promised Dad before that I would always protect the weak him."

Peter was stunned when he heard Raven say this.

He remembered that half a year ago, on the night he picked up Mark, Raven did say this to him.

He had forgotten it, but Raven didn't expect Raven to remember it.

"So, when you saw Webby bullying Mark, you used magic to create an illusion about the Joker in his mind?"

Peter remembered that Raven had used this trick in her previous life, and her soul entered someone else's body, causing the other person to fall into infinite pain and fear.

The Flash was psychologically traumatized by her trick.

"Yes, Dad, I want that guy to be punished a little."

Although she didn't like Mark very much at first, the reason for her dislike was that he robbed her father's attention, and Raven didn't really hate him.

After half a year of getting along, although she didn't completely eliminate her dislike for Mark, she also had feelings for this younger brother.

So when she saw Mark being bullied, she would stand up immediately.

"Because I am a sister, I won't let Mark be bullied."

Raven blinked her purple eyes and looked into Peter's eyes, "The most important thing is, Dad, I don't want you to be sad. If Mark is really beaten by those guys, you will definitely be unhappy."

"I just don't want to see you unhappy, Dad."