Author's note:

Hello, again! I'm doing a new weekly challenge that I came up with for Bleach. I decided to do this 100 idea challenge and instead, write short stories! This first one; Knights.

This is part I of the story & important things are to be noted for less confusion:

-Rukia is the princess as she was captured by Aizen during the earlier arc.

-Aizen is the dragon. After all, he is the main villain in the earlier arc and most dragons in stories are villains.

-Renji is the knight. And for those who are 6th division lovers, you will notice that his sword and shield are symbolic. The colour is Cobalt Blue & the flower is Camellia, both representative of the 6th division of Bleach.

-Renji's steed, the large white animal, is supposed to be Zabimaru in its 'animal form,'

Hope this helps! Please enjoy!

"The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armour. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time" - Frank Miller

She rested her chin on her palm and pursing out her lip, blew out the piece of hair that hung in between her eyes. She yawned and smacked her lips softly as she was ready to slumber. As her head nearly hung from her palm, she flinched as she tried her best to fight the heaviness in her eyes, but it couldn't be helped, they wanted so badly to close. The day was unreasonably warm and the humid only made her lazy and even sleepier. Her entire body drenched in her own sweat, the stains already seen around her armpit area that seeped through her once pretty pink dress, before the dragon kidnapped her asleep and stuffed her inside the abandoned tower. She gave in the fight to stay awake when the ground beneath her shook.

It began quite mild and she brushed it off to convince herself that it had been her sleepiness. Her nap was again confronted by a stronger shake that came from beneath. Her brows furrowed as she adjusted her tall pink cap that had swerved off to the side from the resulting quake.

"Aw come on!" she fixed the cap to the middle of her head and leaned out the tiny opening of the slim, granite-made castle – tower, sorry.

Her frown was transformed into surprise when her eyes diverted at the incoming dragon heading towards her prison.

She covered her mouth with her hands to contain her laughter when she realized the dragon was more fat than tall – though rather handsome if you ask me. He waddled as he spread out his tiny wings and puffed out heaps of smoke from his nose. His brown bangs waved quite well over his face for nice framing and his glasses shone from the glare of the sun. He let out a smirk as he eyed her from above.

"Come out of there, young princess" he breathed out smoke from his nose, snickering each time he made a step forward that caused the ground to shake.

The princess clung on to her balcony, her eyes frantic as she panicked for safety.

"Leave me alone, dragon!" she yelled out, wiping her arriving tears with her pink sleeve.

She shut her eyes close and finally, the ground went still.

Opening her right eye slowly, she smiled in relief as she whispered to herself the sight in front of her.

"Knight Renji!" she gasped as the knight proudly stands behind the dragon, pointing his odd black and white sword at the beast. His helmet wavered over his eyes and his lush red hair poked out from a small hole at the top of the helmet, bouncing as he rode on his steed.

"Aizen – dragon! I'm here to slay you and save the beautiful creature imprisoned in that tower! I will- OW!" his speech was interrupted as he scratched his head violently and looked up at the princess, her arms crossed in frustration.

"What the hell was that for?!"

"What's wrong with you?! You're supposed to be fighting the dragon, not giving him your to-do list!" he growled and noticed she played with a rock she picked up from her room and glanced at the rock she threw beside him.

"That damn princess is always throwing rocks." He mumbled to himself and rotated his shoulders back.

"Alright, alright, calm down" he shifts his helmet and patted the neck of his large, white and purple striped baboon-snake hybrid, charged towards the dragon.

Shielding himself with his cobalt blue coloured shield, embroidered with the camellia flower in the middle, he groaned from the sudden breath of fire, making himself open as the dragon punched his stomach and manages to insert a sharp nail inside, injuring the red headed knight.

"Oof" he falls to the ground, holding his stomach as he crawled to his fallen sword, panting from the pain of the nail.

"I gotta…save..the princess…" as he extended his arm out to the sword, his hand was stepped by the heavy weight of the dragon's foot and let out a scream of pain.

"You think you can save the princess?! YOU?!" the dragon laughed maniacally, his short arms spreading out as his wings flapped aggressively.

The dragon's laugh was discontinued when a swift petal sliced through his cheek. He swiftly rotated and widened his eyes in astonishment.

"YOU!" he blasted his green, stubby finger at the figure as his breathing became less rhythmic and more violent.