Blood!

Seeing blood in their eyes I suddenly froze, grabbing Monty's shirt with my hand and clutching Daisy tightly up my chest feeling myself go pale seeing we were outnumbered

The men attacked all at once, screaming at the top of their lungs with their barbaric tones and held their weapons up in the air for us to see

Monty was staring right at them then I heard something plopped to the ground as they were advancing closer to us. It was the bags he was holding, he took a wide step forward making me let go of his shirt "Stay here and don't move" he commanded

He took another step forward then another until he was no longer within my reach towards the thin man who was lunging at him with a long stick, catching his arm and punching him in the gut as he took the stick thwacking it on the head of another man who was charging at him from the side, the force broke the stick in half leaving the man falling into the ground

My heart started pounding heavily in fear as a muscled man got through and was racing towards me but Monty reached out with his long arms and grabbed the man by his long hair and hurdled him back kicking him in the side of the head

The three men were now sprawled on the ground in pain but I couldn't see the other two, that was when I felt a sharp cold object pointed at my side I held Daisy even tighter, forcing myself to turn to look at my perpetrator with eyes wide in terror.

Realizing he was just a teenager, guessing he was even younger than me, I could see how nervous he was and was staring at me with scared eyes, sweat quickly dripping down his forehead as he was trembling more than me which vibrated through the knife "D-D-Don't move or I-I'll hurt you" he said taunting me, I kept quiet as I moved my gaze back to Monty

Making sure that the men were unconscious and with one brisk movement he turned around to face me when he was suddenly body slammed by the muscled man earlier, barreling himself vigorously onto Monty

They both fell to the ground, rolling around, each attempting to pin the other. The man doubled Monty's size but he was faster than him, he scooped a handful of dirty and threw it on the man's face blinding him instantly

Monty hurriedly stood and ran towards me, the teenager next to me frightened as hell was gawking at him and wasn't paying any attention so I took the opportunity to escape, rushing over to Monty but as I did I also notice the muscled man was up and was right behind him holding a stone in his hand "Monty, behind you!" I shouted

Breathing heavily he managed to crouched down leaving the man out of balance and falling face first to the ground, Monty lifted his head meeting my eyes as sweat and dirt covered his bruised face. He sprung up, sprinted towards me and swiftly encased me in his body, his arms hurling us both rotating our positions, all I could do was close my eyes

*Stab*

"I-I-I'm sorry" I heard a faint cry as the kid's voice stuttered followed by fast retreating footsteps

Opening my eyes I could see the muscled man scrambling on his feet, blood flowing down his face and murder was in his eyes glaring intensely at us. He was smiling menacingly as he marched in our direction pulling out a dagger from under his clothes

Monty unwrapped his arms around me and stood in front of us shielding me from the man, all I could see was Monty's back as he hastily went ahead meeting the man's movements until they came face to face

All I could sense was Monty hugging the man and after a split second slowly both began to sink onto the ground in silence, I covered my mouth with my hands as I saw blood pouring between them, shakingly I urged myself to advance closer. The muscled man fell backwards lifeless as Monty steadied himself and rose up to hug me

I held onto him tightly, frantic and shocked from what had happened, I was so relieved that it was all over and that we were safe until I could feel my hand wet with some kind of warm and thick liquid seeping through his shirt. I looked down at my hand over his shoulder, seeing it was covered in red warm blood. He was bleeding out. A lot

He collapsed into my arms "Monty! Monty! Talk to me!" I exclaimed with a trembling voice, I was shaking all over as blood flooded the ground, I burst out in tears unable to control them as I held his body closer to mine

"Hey… Why are you crying? I'm still alive, silly" Monty said playfully

I let go of him and distance myself from his face looking at him in disbelief, "You're far from funny! I thought you were dead!" I shouted at him, my face rested onto his shoulder crying thankfully he was alive

"But if we don't get back soon I might actually die" he pointed out, I forgot he was still bleeding

I carefully stood up and assisted him then scanned his body for the stabbed wound, he was wounded pretty bad on his side "That kid really got me there" he said chuckling

"How can you be so relaxed when blood's literally flowing out of your body!" I complained to him as he just stumbled over to the bags and got his dirty shirt, tore it up and tied it to his side to stop the bleeding

I went to look for a long stable stick that he can use, one of the men who were lying on the ground shuffled, I quickly grabbed the stick and scurried back to Monty handing it to him

He took the stick and used it as a cane to support himself. I bet the wound hurt like hell but he tried his best not to show it. I grabbed the bags and walked beside him gently stuffing Daisy in one of the bags. I also checked the food if it was still okay.

We hurriedly walked towards the castle together