Hank taps Lincoln's forehead with his cane. "You look familiar to me. Perhaps hitting you will refresh my memory." Hank was on his way to attack again, but that was stopped by Lincoln's hand gripping it tightly. Immediately afterwards, Lincoln made Hank fall and then hit him in the nose with a heel, breaking him.
"Ahhhh. My nose is broken."
Hawk eventually lost his phobia of blood, so seeing it come out of his friend's nose didn't make him go away. "You damn Blind." Hawk tried to hit Lincoln, but Lincoln dodged it by pinning him in the face. "Ah, damn it."
Hank bounces back, and after wiping off the blood, he and Hawk try to hit Lincoln, but he dodges, leaving the spectators who watched the whole thing from the stage door stunned.
"Hold him." Hank lunges at Lincoln but bounces back, causing Hank to fall into the snow.
"Lincoln, beware." Lola sees Hawk arrive carrying a metal pipe, which he hits Lincoln in the ribs, causing him to drop his cane and kneel in pain. Hank seized the opportunity to take Lincoln's cane again. "Nobody punches me in the nose." He hits Lincoln on the cheek with the cane, causing him to fall to the ground as they both attack the albino boy, hitting him with the pipe and a cane and giving him one or two kicks. "Come here, you bastard." Hank catches Lincoln in a bear hug with his arms crossed, and Hawk takes the opportunity to punch him in the face and stomach.
Lincoln spat out blood from all the blows when he suddenly heard an unmistakable sound—the sound of a knife opening with a blade. It was Hawk who had pulled out a knife. "We'll teach you to respect us, you damned blind man." Hook was on his way to bury the knife in Lincoln's stomach, but he kicked it away. Hawk, trying not to fall, grabbed Lincoln's shirt and cut it open, exposing his stomach.
"Ah. Stupid shirt." Hawk throws the rag on the ground.
Lincoln felt the cold winter breeze. The beautiful gift Leni had given him was ruined by that damn thing. Lincoln separated his arms to free himself from Hank's grasp.
"Don't waste your time, cockroach. You can't..." Hank saw how Lincoln broke his embrace and managed to free himself by tying Hank's jaw and retrieving his cane.
Hawk returned his knife, and Hank went back to take the metal pipe. "We are two against one. What are you going to do? Hit us with your cane?"
Lincoln squeezed the hand in which he was holding his cane so much that veins were identified on his arm and hand. "I don't need my cane." Lincoln threw his cane against one of the walls of the theater.
Hank and Hawk attack at the same time, but Lincoln stops the blow by grabbing the pipe and kicking Hank in the stomach. He then kicks Hawk's hand, causing him to drop his knife.
Hank grabs Lincoln's arm, but Lincoln punches Hawk in the face several times and kicks Hawk in the chin. Then he grabbed Hank by the wrist and wrapped him around him, crushing him to the ground.
Hawk gets up again and runs towards Lincoln, but he kicks him again, this time in the chest, causing him to fall back ten feet and crash into a tree.
Hank makes a final effort to attack Lincoln. He jumps on the blind boy to crush him, but Lincoln grabs him by the face and throws him through the air with one hand.
"How? How could he lift me up so easily if I weighed over 100 kilos?" Hank bumps into the tree, hits himself directly in the head, and falls on top of Hawk, both of them taking hits.
"This guy... he is a real monster." An unconscious Hawk, followed by Hank.
A minute later, the police arrived because an assistant called them. While one of the officers, a stocky Caucasian with a mustache and blond hair, handcuffed Hank and Huck, another with darker hair and a weightier beard received remarks from one of the pageant organizers.
"Let me get this straight. Are you telling me that this boy withstood these two gorillas with his pipe and his fist and that he beat them too?"
"So it's official. We saw it with our own eyes, the girls and my stagehands." The organizer answered. The officer turned to see Lincoln, who was sitting on the stage steps. The boy's head was tied with a bandage and gauze on his cheek and covered with a sheet. The boy was wearing a black shirt that the stagehand had given him, and Lincoln was holding his torn shirt in his hands.
How am I going to explain this to Leni? Lincoln wondered in his mind as Lola's classmates watched from the door.
"He's so handsome." Claudette said, leaning against the doorframe, while Chyna took a picture of the boy with her cell phone and proceeded to kiss the screen. Jackie, on the other hand, wanted to approach Lincoln, but her legs were trembling. Without a doubt, Lindsey was the most bewitched person, as she imagined herself in a wedding dress walking towards an altar and a suit-clad Lincoln extending his hand, awaiting her.
Some time after the police finished taking statements, they asked for copies of the security cameras to use as evidence, so they took Hank and Hawk, who will now face charges of robbery, vandalism, speeding, and assault.
"Okay girls, everyone's in," said the coordinator.
Lola walked in next to Lincoln and noticed that the other participants didn't move; they were too busy looking at the albino boy. In a second, a thought occurred to Princess Loud, followed by a disdainful smile on her face. "May I have a moment, Lincoln? I want to be with my friends."
"Of course, Lola." Lincoln smiled and proceeded to take a front-row seat.