Bra was shocked at first by 17's brave protective words, but was quickly annoyed when she concluded the only reason 17 was being so protective of her was because she was his ticket to the 55 million dollar reward.

Realizing this Bra began thinking of a way to escape right there and then. She could kick her horse and have it gallop away but with her hands bounded she'd surely be thrown off the horse without being able to hold onto the reins properly. Even if she did mange to ride off without being thrown off the horse then what? She couldn't ride into a town and ask for help, people would ask too many question and become suspicious.

All of this didn't matter because as the princess was busy trying to think of a way to use this opportunity to make her escape it appeared 17 was winning. He had already knocked the older brother out, but the younger brother was the more experience fighter and proved to be more of a challenged for the famous bounty hunter.

As Bra watched she didn't know who she should be cheering for. On the one hand she hated 17 and wanted to get as far away as possible from him. On the other hand the bandit brothers wanted her for reasons Bra didn't even want to think about.

As the princess was dreading the worse it seemed the worse was going to happen after all when the young bandit slashed 17 with his knife. The wound must have been serious because 17 cried out in pain and fell to the ground motionless. The perverted look the man gave her made the risk of breaking her neck trying to ride away better than dealing with him.

"Yes!" Bra's mind screamed in relief as 17 stood up and grabbed the bandit before he had a chance to get his hands on her.

The princess watched in anticipation has 17 turned the bandit around and punched in right in the face sending him flying backwards. Once he was on the ground 17 easily kicked his knife away then picked him up by the shirt and slammed him against the tree knocking him also unconscious.

"Halt! Who's out there?" A commanding voice demanded stopping 17 in his tracks as he walked back to the princess on the horse. Before he even had a chance to respond four lower ranking soldiers appeared.

"What happened here?" The leader asked looking down at the unconscious men then up at 17 and finally the princess still tied up and gagged. It didn't look good for 17, but he tried to talk his way out if anyways.

"You see officers we were own our way to town when these two bandits tried to rob us." 17 partially told the truth helping Bra off her horse then untying her and un-gagging her trying to make it seem normal, but of course it wasn't.

"Why was the young lady tied and gagged?" The solider asked ruling out the possibility she was a servant as 17 tricked the thieves into believing.

"You see she's my wife and she was misbehaving so I had to tie her up." 17 explained insulting every woman that ever lived or would live. This was one degrading statement Bra as a Princess and more importantly a woman couldn't let pass.

"You macho bastard!" Bra fumed smacking 17 upside the head to the shock of everyone.

"Miss is this man telling the truth? Are you his wife?" The leader was finally able to ask after getting over the shock that a woman would strike a man. Bra took this chance to test her acting skills.

"Oh Mr. Solider!" Bra began to sob.

"This terrible horrible man kidnapped me from my village!" Bra lied breaking into tears.

"What no!" 17 protested, but no one was going to believe him over a beautiful crying girl.

"Arrest this scoundrel!" The captain order the other soldiers who grabbed 17 and began tying him up.

Authors Note – Looks like Bra's finally gotten rid of 17. Or has she?