THE COMBATANT||KTH

CHAPTER 02

"HELP!" A loud feminine scream echoed through the thick greens.

"PLEASE HELP!" it repeated.

Naaila jolted up from his embrace and looked around.

"Somebody needs us." jeon whispers as he looks around the forest trying to find out the direction of the scream. " It's from the west, let's go." She walks up and drowns herself in her dark cloak with weapons, gloves, and turban covering her hair to disguise herself. She climbs onto her horse and turns back to see the prince coming towards her now fully dressed on his black horse with his cloak on him. He raises his hand to reach her face and brushes his fingers over her features. He grabs the free end of the turban on her shoulders and tucks it on the other side covering her face.

"Let's go, my comrade," he smirks and signals his black foal to move while Naaila follows him on her white horse.

After riding a few minutes in the woods, they see a few men and hear some muffled screams.

"Looks like it's the people of Wolfaan again." Jungkook scanned their outfits and faces.

"You from the right, me from the left. Hostage spotted in the middle. Go there when I wave my sword at you." with that she moved forward to face the bunch of men. She shot an arrow at the man who was holding the girl on her knees. The rest of them were now alert and turned in the direction of the arrow when they saw her coming. She quickly took out her sword and slashed three men in one go. She raised her sword and waved it in the air when jungkook came from the other side killing the men one by one. When all of them were dead, they both nodded at each other signaling that they did a good job, and got off their horses walking towards the girl.

Jungkook took small steps observing the girl while naaila followed him. their faces were covered and they were in thick clothing. No one would identify them as the royals belonging to two different kingdoms. Naaila is also disguised as a male soldier.

The lady was in rich silk robes and jewelry made of precious diamonds and gems. The carriage carrying her was thrown aside and her men were tied to the tree. her hands were tied and her head was hung low, strands of her silky brown hair falling onto her face. She was from a big kingdom, naaila confirmed. Jungkook carefully untied her ropes while naaila sliced the ropes of the soldiers tied to the trees with her sword.

He stood up and stretched his hand for the girl to take it and stand up. Naaila put her sword back into its place and walked towards the weak girl.

" Who are you, woman?" jungkook politely asked the girl in front of him who was now standing on her feet.

" I'm Alana Kim, princess of Avalon," she stated. Her pink lips trembling due to the cold wind from the stream.

" Avalon? Are you the daughter of King Kim Mugang?" jungkook questioned and she nodded her head. Naaila observed them conversing as her head tilted to the side with one hand gripping the sword and the other resting on her waist.

"What are you doing here in the forest? It is dangerous for a young, beautiful woman like you to roam around in the areas especially where there are men of wolfaan." naaila stated in a deep voice pretending to be a man. Jungkook nodded in agreement.

"The king of Avalon is sick and I came here in search of herbs for him. My guards were attacked with anesthetic arrows and I was captured." she let out a deep sigh.

" But who are you?" her eyes danced between both the warriors standing in front of her.

" We are the guards for the forest of Erewhon." Jungkook held his head up. She nodded her head in understanding.

"Thank You so much for coming in time and saving me. If not for you both, I don't know what would've happened." she gave a small but genuine smile at both of the warriors.