- The Prouds 198
He found a third guard, sneaked behind him,
grabbed his head with his left hand, and put his sword
against his neck saying firmly, “If you shout or call other
guards, I will kill you. Where are the rooms of the king and
his son?”
Then, with a louder voice, he repeated the question,
“Where are the rooms of the king and his son?”
The guard replied, “All right, I will tell you. Go
ahead two hundred feet and you will reach their rooms.”
Jarvis covered the guard’s mouth with his left hand
and slashed his throat. After that, he hid his body and
walked ahead nearly two hundred feet. When he got there,
he found tight guard, so he started watching.
Then, he saw a guard, went upstairs behind him,
grabbed his head tightly with both hands, with his left hand
on the guard’s forehead and his right hand on his chin, and
twisted his head breaking his neck. As he moved his body
in order to hide it, another guard saw him and panicked as
only a crazy reckless man would dare break into the
greatest king’s palace alone without assistance!
The guard shouted to warn everybody in the palace,
“Intruder, we have an intruder.”
Then he looked at another guard, “Go and tell the
commander of the guards of the palace.”
More guards came to where Jarvis was. He headed
to the guard who blew his cover, hit the guard’s sword with
his and then struck him in the chest.
Then he headed towards another guard, hit his
sword twice then stabbed him in his stomach. He then
headed towards a third guard and, after the guard blocked