Niah just closed her eyes anticipating the pain she will going to feel from the blade of machete when suddenly the one-eyed pirate like man fell on the ground drowning with his blood.
Out of nervousness, without looking on her back to checked what or who killed the man that nearly killed her, Niah ran as fast as she could despite of pain from aching ankle.
She ran without even knowing where to go and what is she running for, she suddenly stumbled into a large root from an old tree that made her out of balance and fell into the hill.
"Ahhhhhhh!!!" she continuously rolled bumping to some barks and dried leaves until she striked into a large tree.
"Ahh sht.." she cried in pain while caressing her shoulder that bumped strongly to the tree.
"There she is!" exclaimed by the man who accidentally saw her to inform his companions that also dressed like the man who nearly killed her earlier.
Niah immediately stood up and reach for something the can hold on to so she can regain her balance. In spite of struggling because of her clothes and the pain from her wounds, she chose to run again as fast as she could down to the hills so the approaching group of men will not catch her.
"KILL HER!!" instructed by the man full of piercings and have a largest body frame of them all. Men followed his order and took out their bow and arrows then shoot it toward Niah's direction.
"Ahhwww!!" she bewailed out of pain she felt from a cut of an arrow's blade that nearly stricked by one of the raining arrows but instead of stopping she continued her run thinking and hoping someone will save her.
A little while she finally reached the foot of the hill finding out what awaits for her
"A river?!" she reacted in dismay. Its not an ordinary calm river but instead its a raging river and there is no boat or anything useful to cross the river can be found around the area.
"Stop running! you have nowhere to run now!"
"P-please.. don't kill me, I am not the one you are intended to kill! I-I dont know how did I get here but trust me! I am not the one you were tasked to kill.." she explained as tears came out continuously from her eyes out of fear but she was stupefied when they just burst into laugh after hearing her.
" You think you can fool us?!" said by the big framed man that seems to be their leader while walking toward her.
" Do you know that a target like you have the biggest value??" he said while touching my cheeks with his right hand. Niah was trembling while asking him to have mercy on her
"Mercy?.. hmm" the hunter's leader pretended to think for awhile.
" Okay, because you kindly asked.. I can show you a little mercy" her eyes glowed up from what she have heard but this glow doesnt stay for just one minute because of the next statement he said
"I'll let you choose.."
"Choose from w-what?" she asked nervously while watching the man turn his back and walk toward his bow and arrow resting on his disciples hand.
"Yes! you may choose, your highness" he said while dipping the arrow's head in to an oil which was an oil from a blue poisoned toad's skin
"Its either you will die through this arrow or you will die.. through that" pointing to the raging river at Niah's back.
"Wait, w-what?" she gave him a perplexed look but he just point his bow with arrow to her
"ONE!"
"P-please dont do this!"
"TWO!!"
Niah decided to just close her eyes and accept what will going to happen to her, hoping that its just a dream, hoping she will wake up after this nightmare
when a sudden loud bang spread on the area and a group of horse riding men with a wolf mask arrived holding some unlightened mini bomb
"I thought our agreement was clear?" asked by the man in white wolf masked riding in a white horse to the leader of the men who where trying to kill me
"Give it to us and just not meddle for now, and we will promise to stay out of your way and territories!"
"Give a nice reason to obey your wish." Niah noticed that the white wolf masked man's eyes were intently looking to her while waiting for the hunter leader's response
" Please just let us have her and we will leave" pointing the arrow again at Niah's direction
"I bet her price was too high for you to plead to me like a fat scaredy cat"
"You dont have to stain your hands for this private mission, we are just following orders"
"ONE!!"
" TWO!!, think about your choice again young lady!"Niah just closed her eyes and waited for the arrow to hit her when the man in white wolf's mask pointed his bow to her
" THREE!!!" The both men fired their bows and as what the man in white wolf planned. His arrow hit the hunter's arrow that may hit Niah destroying it as it fell in to the ground due to a strong impact.
"WHAT THE?!!" The hunter's leader furiously looked to him but he only recieved a naughty smile from it that made him more irritated.
"Bring me the girl" he commanded to a man wearing a brown wolf mask that immediately obeyed him and walked toward Niah and held her arm.
" Kill them all" he commanded to his other colleagues.
The sound of swords echoed in the area after his command
Out of shocked Niah squealed and fight when she noticed that the man holding her arm will bring her to the man riding the white horse that made the masked man stoop down of his horse and walk toward her.
" I love a fighting and squealing woman" he said as he blinked to her
" What do you want from me!" she furiously asked tiring of cluelessly running and fighting for her life in this unknown place but instead of getting a nice answer the man just made his face closer to her neck and ear that made her even more uncomfortable
"I need many things, and I am glad if you are willing to give it to me " he whispered to her using his sexy voice.
"W-what?! I dont ev--" Niah cannot able to finnish her statement when the man wearing a white wolf mask blew a white colored powder to her face that made her dizzy and eventually passed out.
" She's more nice when shes asleep" the man in white wolf mask commented after the carried Niah at the back of his horse securing her with ropes so she will not fall
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What are the real reasons they want to kill Niah?
Who are those hunters and men riding horses?
Why are the man in white wolf mask saved Niah from the hunters?