Rescuing the Princess: Part II

The ugly beast was almost the size of a human and walked on 6 legs. No eyes, a giant nose, and teeth like a rabbit could tear apart any thick flesh. And the tongue, long and sticky, peeking out. 

Little Devil held his breath, as the beast approached him and closed his eyes. 

As the beast brought his nose closer to Little Devil, even though he wanted to scream, he remained frozen. Finding nothing to feed, the beast left. 

They quickly rushed and made it to the end of the tunnel.

"I wanted to laugh" 

"Don't you dare" Little Devil didn't look back, as they advanced towards the tall walls of the castle? 

"You know mountain climbing?" Demon asked just behind Little Devil, his hands in the air, to support Little Devil if he needs. 

"Lucky for you, I had recently tried it"

To Demon's surprise, he was a little proud of his partner. Not even he had a brain, he was good at physical exercise too. 

Demon went beside Little Devil and started climbing the walls. 

Just like he was taught, Little Devil kept his arms straight and held onto the stones on the walls, never forgetting to keep the foot at the right angle too. He clearly remembered how tough it got the last time, so the distance between each foot wasn't far and even though the steps were small, there was less risk of falling.

"You are pretty good at it" 

Demon patted on Little Devil's back as both of them reached the top. 

*Clunk Clunk* 

Their head turned towards the sound of the bar being banged by someone. 

"Is it the princess? Did we finish so soon?" Demon was a little confused. The task couldn't be this easy. 

A girl stood near the window being captive..her clothes looked dirty and torn at places. 

Little Devil's gaze fell on her hands, and he turned towards Demon

"A princess never.."

"Washes dishes" Demon completed the sentence. It must have been her maid, so the princess was somewhere else. 

The sound of footsteps approaching made Demon push back Little Devil

"Hide here and when they are gone, look for the princess" 

Little Devil nodded. He knew that once they rescued the princess, both would win. 

The guards took Demon inside and presented him to the king, who had kidnapped the princess. 

Unlike the beautiful castle, his castle was stinking. There were various odors of human sweat, of animals, and maybe of blood. 

From the looks of it, it was not cleaned for years. The cheers and yelling, by the large group gathered around something, had made the room even smaller.

While the king stood at one end of a large cage, the guards brought Demon from the other end and threw him inside.

"You...you have tried to trespass in my land" 

The crowd had momentarily gone silent. 

"If you can defeat, our strongest fighter, I might let you go" 

The public went ballistic, screaming again, their eyes were filled with hunger, the hunger for blood. 

"One of you will die" 

The guard locked the cage and stepped back.

As soon as the gate closed, the bulkier man holding a sword started his attack

*Lower cut*

*Lower cut*

*Uppercut* 

Demon stepped back parrying each one of the attacks thrown at him. 

The man didn't halt for a second and kept attacking him.

*Uppercut*

*Dodge*

*Lower cut*

*Parry*

*Thrust*

*Parry*

The clash of the swords made a loud noise as the man pushed Demon against the bars. The crowd went crazy and screamed more.

Demon stepped away and took a fool's guard and as the man went for the thrust, Demon stepped aside, making the man lose balance and then kicked him hard on his leg.

The sword fell from the man's hand and Demon stood holding his tearing a little flesh from the neck of his opponent. 

The man vanished from the cage, but...

The cage was still locked.

"Did you think, I would let you go?"

The king began laughing and motioned to the guard.

To the right side of the cage, the rails went up, opening the gate to the tunnel. 

*Shit shit shit* Demon took a deep breath.

Little Devil saw it too and ran to the cage, jumping inside, along with the princess.

"What are you doing here?" Demon asked, keeping his gaze at the tunnel.

"There is no other way to escape, I thought once you will defeat the man, it will all go away, but I guess, I was wrong"

They froze when from the tunnel, two human-eating rats came inside. 

It was almost difficult to take one, but two, it was impossible. 

Little Devil slowly pulled the princess behind him and raised the sword. 

*Thump*

"I thought you could use some help" 

The Knight looked at them and winked. 

"Alistair" Little Devil's eyes shone, recognizing the knight who craves danger, and he knew why he would have been here. 

"So you know me?" He had already raised his sword and the three of them formed a circle around the princess.

"Never knew I would be meeting you" Little Devil whispered yelled, not able to hold the excitement. 

"Tunnel is the way out" Demon motioned and both Little Devil and Alistair understood his plan. They just had to position the princess near it.

As they started moving, the gates burst open and more soldiers rushed in. 

Making their movements quick, Alistair and Demon moved forward to defend against the rats, and Little Devil hurried the princess near the escape. 

As the princess reached the tunnel and stepped in, everything froze, except the three knights.

"It was fun...I mean exciting to meet.." Demon put his arm around Little Devil, halting him in between his rumbling. 

"Hope to meet you someday again" 

*Level completed successfully. You both would be thrown out now*