Read Max Stone: Book 1- Genesis :: Chapter 4- Max vs Bolda

(Outside the cafe Max is seen crouch down in the middle of the parking lot holding a stiff yet frightened Kayla who looks like she's ready to pass out)

Max: Kayla?

Kayla: (Deadpan) Yes.

Max: You OK?

Kayla: (Deadpan)Yes.

Max: Can you stand?

Kayla: (Deadpan) Yes.

Max: Can you move?

Kayla: (Deadpan) No.

(Max looks at Kayla smiling from her response)

Max: (Shouting) Blake, take Kayla inside!

(While humming, Blake carries the stiff Kayla inside the cafe as though he was carrying a stick)

Bolda: I heard you and the Warriors Guild have been looking for me, Lighting Wielder, so glad that we could get your attention.

Max: (Nonchalant) To be honest, to be honest we were actually about to give up and call it a night...

(Max get into fighting stance and puts on his serious face)

Max: Ready when you are.

Bolda: BONDYA!!!!

Max: What?

(Bolda rushes in and attacks Max by slamming his giant mace the sice of a wrecking ball down to the ground making a large crater followed by dirt and rocks flying in the air.)

Meanwhile

Blake: So that's the dude who killed my ice cream, I'm gonna enjoy watching Max kick his A.

(Suddenly Blake stands up after hearing some strange noise)

Blake: Who's there come get some!

(Two street knight appear running toward Blake)

Knight2: Let's play little boy!

Blake: (Screams) PEDOS!!!

(Blake pulls out three marbles with k.g. numbers written on each of them and throws it at them)

(The Marbles only manage to hit Knight1 in the face giving Blake the opportunity to use his sword)

Blake: Cross-Sprint!

(Blake strikes Knight1 down then blocks an incoming attack from Knight2 stopping him from getting cut by his knife)

(Knight2 then kicks Blake to the wall then spins his knife around, basically showing off.)

(Knight2 turns around and hears footsteps and spots Kayla standing in front of him as she quickly shoots ketchup from under her sleeve, squirting him in the face.)

Knight2: AH!

(With Knight2's guard down, Blake runs in with a flying knee-kick to Knight2's face, knocking him out cold to the floor.)

Blake: Whew, thanks Kayla, but I had him.

(Kayla carefully walks over the knocked out knight.)

Kayla: I'm sure you did, but I tend to lose it when kids get hurt.

Meanwhile-Outside

(The dirt from Bolda's attack begins to fade showing no signs of Max's body)

(Max then appears standing on top of Bolda's shoulder-plate and kicks him in the head making him back away a few feet and almost falls down doing so)

Max: I know we just started, but are you even trying?

Bolda: (Angered) GAH!

(Bolda shoots out his mace but Max manages to block it with the impact pushing him back)

(The ball of the mace then drops to the ground leaving Bolda open for an attack so Max runs his way preparing for the finisher)

Bolda: (Smirks) (That's right, come closer.)

(Bolda retracts his mace making it shoot over to Max, but he sees it coming and swiftly cuts the rope that connects it)

(Max then ducks from the incoming ball as it shoots into Bolda like a cannonball sending him rolling to the ground, but he gets back up only to face Max right in front of him.)

Max: Hey.

Bolda: (Confused) Um... hello-

Max: Lightning... SWIPE!!

(Bolda is finished off by Max's finisher making a huge impact against him as it rains pebbles of dirt and rocks)

Max: You guy mess with Genesis, you mess with the Lighting Wielder.

(Blake appears and hops on Max wrapping his arm around him)

Blake: You mess with the Lighting Wielder, you mess with BLAKE mother-F-fing Skyhart!

Max: (Wry) Yeah.... That too...

Kayla: (Giggles) (Thanks to those two, I forgot what I was so afraid of, so this is what it's like to have guardians protecting you.)

(Later that night, the knights were arrested shortly after a small group from the Warriors Guild showed up to restrain them.)

(The duo's celebration comes to a stop when they see Mima's car pulling up)

Kayla: Perfect timing, now we can-