Saint Peter
A young boy named Nate once started to wonder why his town was named Saint Peter. So he decided to ask the oldest man he knew, his grandfather. “Hey grandpa! How did our town get the name Saint Peter?” he asked. “Well Nate, we might have to sit a while to talk about this…” said Mr. Archibald.
The story went…
A couple hundred years ago in the town where the Archibald family lived when people got sick o r ill they would go to a magician. But another man claimed he could cure anyone as well, Peter Petrelli. Peter was hated by the magician community of the town who called themselves “The Saviors”. Some encouraged him to take classes and get his Savior Certificate “for your own good” they would say. Peter refused he was loyal to health care methods his father had taught him and was sure they were effective. The Saviors harassed him whenever they got the chance; they even made a chant against Petrelli. The chant went “Peter Petrelli the fake, false, forged, and smelly always so shady oh the petty”.
After a Wednesday meeting the Saviors announced they required the people to pay for their services. Many were ok with this, but the poor were worried the day would come for one of them to get ill and not be able to meet for the services.
A couple weeks later a women with low resources got bit by a snake and went running to the home of one of the Saviors. He refused to treat her, for he knew her economic means. She was close to death when crawling on the streets begging for help when Peter Petrelli ran into her. HE carried a bag with an emergency kit and was able to save her life free of charge. The women thanked him and being so grateful of this man she went and told everyone she knew about her experience. Peter Petrelli became a hero to the poor and the rich of his home town.
After saving the poor women, others came to him for help. The Saviors started to loath him even more than before; they discussed him and decided chants weren’t enough anymore. The planned to get rid of him one way or another, for the people became to doubt on the powers these magicians claimed to have. A couple months passed and Peter had gotten attacked a few times but nothing major. But he did earn the respect of the whole town, people talked about him as a saint, Saint Peter; he was even referred as one in church.
On a summer day, Saint Peter was visited by the first women he saved and her daughter. Little Marissa as they called her had been sick for a few weeks now as well as other kids from her school. After examinations Peter was stunned to find blue rashes on the girl and blood coming out of her eyes. He had never seen anything like it and decided to keep the girl under observation; he gave her many types of syrup which made her feel better but didn’t cure her completely. Shortly after other kids came to him as well, and then adults. Everyone was scared and started to get sick with this curios disease. Peter started to study the roots of it and discovered it was a plague of rats which were the cause. He showed everyone how to prevent getting sick and found a cure along with one of the magicians; that was then shunned from the Saviors. Everyone was so happy they named him mayor of the town.
Peter changed the laws which were imposed by The Saviors and made non magical practices legal instead of frowned upon like before. Everyone loved him since he ruled fairly and was nice to all, even to the Saviors. After his death the town was named in his honor.
“And that Nate, is why our town is called Saint Peter.” finished Mr. Archibald.
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PETER PETRELLI
