Chapter 4

We both scrambled to our feet, Colin rapidly pulled out his sword, pointing it in front of us. He stood in front of me, with an arm holding me behind his back, trying to shield me from the group of men circling us with swords in their hands. One man stepped into the circle in which we were trapped. He had blond hair and stunningly green eyes and looked to be no more than 20.

"Why hello," He said "May I ask what are the reasons of a knight travelling through my forest in the presence of such a beautiful lady?" He winked at me and I rolled my eyes, clearly annoyed at the fact that this guy had the guts to wink at me.

"May I ask you such a question?" replied Colin glaring at the blond-haired man.

"Well you see, my men and I, more specifically me" He gestured to the men that surrounded us "are looking for something."

"And what would that be?" asked Colin.

"Well, more specifically a woman" He smirked "As you probably know, a king cannot rule without a queen, and since you are the companion of one of the most strikingly beautiful woman I have ever seen" He paused staring right at me and I frowned.

He turned back to Colin "and so in order for you to keep your dear life, you have to hand over the lady."

"What! Never!" snapped Colin.

The man just grinned "So be it, I was hoping that it wouldn't come to this." He sighed "Men, grab the girl and kill her companion." He said waving to the men as he turned and walked to a nearby tree. He leaned against it watching us intently as if it were a show. Anger started boiling up in me, there was no way I was going to marry or even be around him. "These people are crazy!" I thought. I turned around to see the green clothed men closing in on us. Two of them broke off from the group heading towards Colin. They approached me and I smiled. They looked at me confused but still proceeded to walk forward. This was the first time I was actually happy that just one year ago I had earned a black belt in Tae Kuan Do. "So all that hard work was not for nothing." I thought. I smiled at the fact that no one here knew of this type of martial art. I might even have a chance to escape. Just as the sound of metal clashing against each other, the two burly men jumped and each grabbed my arm. I kicked one in the stomach and the other one I flipped over my head, who fell with a loud thud. More men surrounded me, several had already fallen unconscious. I turned to see the blond haired man staring directly at Colin with an amused look on his face. He then pulled out his sword and started walking to where Colin was, already fighting with two men at once. Colin was with his back turned towards the leader. It finally dawned on me what the blonde-haired man wanted to do. He either wanted to knock Colin unconscious or even worse, kill him. I sprinted off towards him, just as he raised his sword above his head, ready to strike, I rammed my whole body into his which sent his sword flying in a direction and we both went tumbling down a hill in the opposite direction. The leader grabbed my waist in the process and landed on top of me at the bottom of the hill. He gripped my waist tighter and leaned in close to my ear.

"Well, well, well, look who we have here" He smirked.

I smiled the most innocent smile I could and then punched him as hard as I could in his jaw. I pushed him off of me and ran in the opposite direction of the hill. I glanced behind to see him getting up, holding his jaw tenderly. I ran as fast as I could, my dirty blonde hair flying behind me, escaping the ponytail I had put it in. All of a sudden, I felt arms around my waist, pushing me down to my stomach. I twisted only to find the blonde-haired man on top of me with the most annoying smirk plastered on his face. I aimed another punch for his face but this time he was prepared. He grabbed my wrists and held them tightly. He smirked as I struggled against his grip but he was stronger than me. I heard laughter and turned my head towards the sound. I saw a small group of five men, clad in the same green and brown clothing, staring at me and the man on top of me. The biggest man of that group came closer and leaned on his staff.

"Well, well, Master Robin, what have you got there?" He asked chuckling.

Robin laughed "What I've got here is one of the feistiest creatures I have ever seen of ever been near in my entire life, John." I glared at him.

"I see you're quite right; you've got one nasty bruise on your jaw there. John laughed.

Robin got up, pulling me up with him. "Oh yes" He smiled mischievously "This woman here is on e of the best fighters I have ever seen and I have decided that I will wed her today."

I stared at him flabbergasted and Johns face suddenly turned serious "I suggest you don't do such a thing just yet."

"Why not?"
It's no good in marring someone who doesn't know you. How long have you known her?"

"Well…um…about 30 minutes actually."

"30 minutes! Are you mad?!" shouted John "You don't just marry a girl you barely know for 30 minutes! It's like the time when your father tried to marry you off to Maid Marion!"

"I had to call off the engagement! Besides she was spoiled and I didn't even love her!" replied Robin.

Just as John was about to speak, Robin raised on of his hands. "We'll continue this conversation later. For now we need to get to camp before lunchtime. I have things to do. Do you have any extra horses?"

"Yes we do but we only brought an extra one, we didn't know exactly what was going on." replied John.

"It's ok, anyway she's riding with me." said Robin reaching out to grab the reins of the horse.

I yanked my hand out of his "I'm not going with you anywhere!" I snapped.

"Oh really, well you'll have to, if you are to be my wife!"

"I would never marry a pig like you!" I growled backing away slowly, holding my hands behind me, so he wouldn't grab them again.

"Fine, looks like we're not going to be doing this the easy way." Robin sighed and got on his horse.