This is for a contest on EW Amino called #WordsCanExpress where those who enter it will be given a word.

My word is "Confidence" which is defined as "the feeling or belief that one can rely on someone or something; firm trust."

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There are many words on how Sheriff Thompson gets his job done. One of them has to be confidence. He's always telling people that with a little something they can do anything without hesitation. That "little something" was confidence. However, there was one person who didn't seem to be getting the message, so Sheriff Thompson is spending his day on teaching them instead of overseeing the town of Spitbucket.

"Alright Matthew" said Sheriff Thompson.

"It's Prince Matthew" corrected Prince Matthew.

"Whatever. For the past week, you've been kidnapped for 48 times" said Sheriff Thompson.

"What does that mean exactly?" asked Prince Matthew.

"What it means is that, Edward and I had to save you since you just don't know how to keep your guard up" said Sheriff Thompson.

"Oh" said Prince Matthew.

"I've been thinking about this for awhile and decided that I should help you" said Sheriff Thompson.

Prince Matthew scoffs at this. "Help me? I don't need any help. I got this"

"Are you sure about that?" asked Sheriff Thompson. "The last time I checked someone almost stole your crown"

"Luckily they didn't since I screamed and you came" said Prince Matthew.

"Yeah...you need some help" said Sheriff Thompson.

After seeing that Prince Matthew doesn't understand the term confidence, Sheriff Thompson takes him under his wing. He gave out several tips, tricks, and lessons to Prince Matthew in fine detail.

"You want me to do what?" asked Prince Matthew.

"I want you to practice self defense" said Sheriff Thompson.

"B-But I can't do that" said Prince Matthew. "That's against the British Royal Family's code of law"

"I know that, but what if someone were to assassinate you behind your back?" asked Sheriff Thompson.

"That's actually a good point" said Prince Matthew.

"Right. Let's begin" said Sheriff Thompson.

As they were preparing to practice, a woman's scream came heard as gunshots followed shortly that came from outside which alarmed the two.

"What in tarnation?" asked Sheriff Thompson. "Wait here, I'll be back"

Sheriff Thompson leaves as Prince Matthew looked out of the window to see Edward being tied up by Eduardo and his gang.

"Let me go, you filthy bandits!" yelled Edward as he struggling in the ropes around him.

Eduardo smirks evilly as he chuckles. "And why would we do that when it's our lucky day?"

Sheriff Thompson gets out his gun and points it at the three bandits. "Hey! Let him go Eduardo"

"Ah well if isn't it, Sheriff Thompson" said Eduardo. "We'll let him go in favor of you handing the prince over to us"

Sheriff Thompson rolls his eye. "Like I'll ever do that"

"Are you sure? I guess you won't mind if we shot him right in front of everyone" said Eduardo.

Eduardo points his gun right at Edward's head.

"Thompson, please! Do what they say" said Edward.

"Alright! Alright! You got yourself a deal" said Sheriff Thompson. "Just put that gun down"

Eduardo does what Sheriff Thompson told him do. "That's much better. We'll be waiting at the mill. If you're not there with the prince by sundown, you can say goodbye to your loser friend. Let's go boys!"

The trio of bandits left with Edward on a stolen wagon leaving Sheriff Thompson pondering on how he's going to save Edward. Prince Matthew goes up to him.

"What's the plan, Thompson?" asked Prince Matthew. "Are we going to get out of town while Edward is going to be killed or what?"

"No. We're going to rescue him" said Sheriff Thompson.

"We're? You can't be serious" said Prince Matthew.

"I am serious" said Sheriff Thompson. "We need a plan and we need to get you ready"

[Sundown]

At the mill of where three bandits are at, Juan and Marco were seen counting the stuff that they stole.

"Okay, this should be the last one" said Juan. "How many do we have?"

"Hmm...diez" said Marco.

"Really? That's a lot" said Juan. "Eduardo will be so happy"

"Si, él estará emocionado" said Marco. "¿Cuando él está volviendo?"

"I think he'll come back soon" said Juan. "You know him, he likes to wander about"

As they two kept talking, they didn't realize that both Sheriff Thompson and Prince Matthew were hiding behind a couple of barrels as they sneaked into another room.

"Can I change out of this?" asked Prince Matthew. "It doesn't feel right"

"Shh" said Sheriff Thompson. "Not so loud"

"Sorry..." said Prince Matthew.

"Anyway, back on the plan. I'm going upstairs to see if Edward is around" said Sheriff Thompson. "While I'm doing this, I want you to keep those two bandits distracted"

"How am I supposed to do that?" asked Prince Matthew. "You didn't practice with me on how to do self defense"

"That is true, but who says that you need to practice?" asked Sheriff Thompson.

"Well you did" said Prince Matthew.

"Ah right. Whatever. All you need to know is on how to use a little something that everyone has" said Sheriff Thompson.

"And that "little something" is what?" asked Prince Matthew.

"Confidence" said Sheriff Thompson. "Don't believe me? Well you've swallowed your fear into coming here thanks to encouragement. I gave you faith. Now get out there before we get caught"

Prince Matthew nods his head as he goes back into the room where Juan and Marco were at, but he forgot to take cover as Juan noticed him.

"Look Marco, it's the prince" said Juan. "What is he doing here?"

Prince Matthew looks at Juan and Marco. "Uh oh...this ain't good"

"¿A quién le importa?" asked Marco. "¡Vamos a por él!"

Both Juan and Marco took out their guns and pointed them at a panicking Prince Matthew who was freaking out.

"Wait! Please don't shoot me!" cried Prince Matthew.

"And why shouldn't we?" asked Juan. "Give us a reason why"

"Look, my day has been stressful. I've got reminded on the many times that I got kidnapped, witnessed Edward getting captured by Eduardo, and now I'm forced to face you while Thompson is upstairs finding Edward" complained Prince Matthew. "Do you realize on how hard it is be a prince that doesn't know anything yet knows how to trick a bandit into giving me the keys to a cage but ended up failing?"

"We understand your pain" said Marco. "Plus being a bandit is probably much harder than being a prince"

"What? You can speak English?" asked Prince Matthew. "I thought you can only speak Spanish"

"When I first became business partners with Eduardo, I noticed that he had a bad temper so I didn't even bother" said Marco. "Juan here understands everything that I say which gave me the safety of speaking English to him"

"Yes, what you're hearing is true" said Juan. "Eduardo doesn't seem to care about who he's working with and if we try to stand up to him, he'll yell at us. It hurts a lot"

"My...I'm really sorry to hear that" said Prince Matthew. "How I overcome challenges like that, I tend to remember to have confidence. Everyone needs a little something"

"Really? Confidence?" asked Juan. "We never tried that before, but I guess we can do it. Thank you"

"Don't thank me" said Prince Matthew. "You should be thanking the one that said it to me"

Sheriff Thompson comes into the room with Edward who was now free.

"Matthew, you're okay!" said Edward.

"Edward, you're free!" said Prince Matthew. "Are you alright?"

"I should be asking you that question" said Edward. "Did you single handily defeated these bandits?"

"No, all I did was talk to them" said Prince Matthew. "They're actually pretty nice"

Suddenly their conversation ends when the sound of a gun fired off. All of them turned their attention to Eduardo who came walking in.

"Yikes! It's Eduardo!" said Prince Matthew.

"I can't believe that I was gone long enough to see two of my partners failing at their jobs at stopping intruders" said Eduardo. "I thought you two knew better. You're both completely useless! Marco, I expected you to be smarter than Juan, but I guess not"

"¡Càllete, Eduardo!" yelled Marco.

Eduardo sighs heavily at this before growling angrily. "How many times do I have to tell you this Marco? What are you trying to say!?"

Marco chuckles a bit. "I told you to shut up, but that also can mean shut your disgusting trap"

"Wh-What...? You...You can speak English?" asked Eduardo. "Well that doesn't change the fact that I'm going to do the job of getting rid of these annoying idiots myself"

"We figured that you'd say that" said Juan. "Tírate a un poso"

Before Eduardo could say anything, he gets shot right in the kneecap by Juan and Marco as he fell to the ground.

"Ow! My knee!" cried Eduardo. "My actual favorite knee! Why!?"

The next day, Eduardo, Juan, and Marco were all seen behind bars while Edward mocks them.

"Edward, that's enough mocking for one day" said Sheriff Thompson.

"Oh yeah, right" said Edward. "You did good at turning Juan and Marco on Eduardo. How did you managed to do that?"

"Easy! It's called a little something" said Prince Matthew. "Everyone needs to have it"

"That is true" said Edward. "Say, who wants to go the saloon to get drinks to celebrate?"

"I'm in" said Sheriff Thompson. "I was starting to get bored anyway"

"Count me in" said Prince Matthew. "It's on me"

"Hey, can you bring us back something please?" asked Juan.

"Sure!" said Prince Matthew. "Anything for my new friends"

[The End]

Here are the translations on the things that were said in order:

Diez - ten

Si, él estará emocionado - Yes, he will be excited

¿Cuando él está volviendo? - When is he coming back? / When will he be coming back?

¿A quién le importa? - Who cares?

¡Vamos a por él! - Let's get him!

¡Càllete, Eduardo! - well Marco said what it means, but uh, it's Shut up, Eduardo

Tírate a un poso - Throw yourself in a hole