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arms with silver bracelets on each one. One of
its wings was dripping with blood, making her flying difficult. The
soldiers had a small canary cage. While the coif soldier scared
her, the other managed to slap her to the ground.
    "Haha," laughed the chubby soldier. He
picked up the fairy and put her inside the cage.
    I wanted to keep going, but something was
holding me back. The soldiers started to laugh and taunt the fairy.
She cried helplessly inside the cage. Is thas how Auria felt? Was
she crying and sobbing at this very moment. I couldn’t do nothing,
I had to intervene!
    “Release her!” I shouted. The soldiers
turned around stunned.
    "Who the hell are you?" asked the coif
soldier.
    "Leave her alone," I replied as I took out
my weapons, "Anything you have to say to her you can say to my
sword and shield."
    "Ho ho," wheezed the chubby one. "What do we
have here? Feeling a bit warrior-like, peasant? Go back to the farm
and tend to the pigs."
    "Funny, I thought I was talking to one.”
    "What did you say?"
    I stepped forward and pointed them with my
blade, "Release her or die at the hands of Miaflore's finest." The
pig pushed the cage to the other, almost knocking him back.
    "Y-you are a miaflorian?" he babbled.
    "With pride!"
    The soldier’s face turned red with rage, "A
'florian roaming freely on Balora? Over my dead body!" He took out
his axe and charged towards me. I was impressed by his agility,
being fat and all. He took a swing to my head that I blocked. The
hit was strong enough that it pushed me to the side.
    “My axe will cut you to pieces,” he said. He
continued knocking me around as I defended and resisted.
    “Bust his head open!” yelled the other
soldier, holding the cage.
    The chubby man was indeed strong, but I knew
he couldn’t keep up his rally. His exhaustion was beginning to
show. As a last attempt to kill me before his strength ran out, he
raised his axe high and tried to pummel me down. But unlike him and
his weariness, I was just warming up. I opened my shield to the
side and blocked the axe outward. He was left open and defenseless.
I thrust my sword forward and pierced him through the chest. He
squealed as the bloody tip carved through his back. His body lost
its prominence and fell back. As I walked over the dead body, the
remaining balorian shook with fear.
    "How could you beat him? He was
stronger!”
    He was going to be next and he knew it, so
he did something I did not expect. He threw the fairy into the
stream.
    "You save her and let me escape or you fight
me and let her drown," he said anxiously, "Your choice.”
    My temper urged me to kill him, but I had to
save the fairy. I put away my weapons and quickly ran to the
stream. The soldier dashed to the bridge and escaped.
    The current was not strong and it reached
beneath my chest. It was of no danger to me, but for the hand-sized
fairy, it was. I went under and saw her in the cage, the current
pressing her against the bars. I grabbed the cage’s top handle and
pulled her out.
    After returning to land and releasing her,
she laid in my palms, forlorn and barely breathing. I raised her
close to look at her more properly, and that's when she slowly
opened her eyes.
    "Brave warrior" she said with an echoing,
shrill tone, "I thank you for my rescue."
    "I just couldn't leave you to those
soldiers. Is there anything I can do for you now? Take you
someplace or..."
    "No, it is too late. Inside... the damage is
done." A thin line of blood came out of the corner of her right
eye.
    "There must be something we can do," I
desperately said.
    "You cannot do much more, but I can. Please,
get me closer to you."
    I got suspicious. What was she going to
try?
    "Do not worry,” she added, “I will not harm
you." She stood up on my hands as I carefully approached her to my
face. She then slowly climbed it, putting four arms on my nose and
two more above my eyes. She then kissed me on the forehead.
Immediately, I felt a warm sensation go from my head to