Without the slightest hesitation, he picked the door on the left. Well, with some hesitation, as this was the moment that would alter his fate forever. The youth sighed, though the audience could not see the perplexed look of agony on his face. With his back turned to the anxious audience who were driven almost mad with nerves, he quickly replayed the princess's slight hand motion in his head and picked the door on the left. He dared not blink, as this was either his last breath, or his first married breath.
As he struggled to open the heavy wooden door, he shot a look to the princess in the split second that a fair lady stepped out and batted her long eyelashes at the youth. Suddenly the amphitheater was taken over by the shouts of the audience, who had waited so long for a new crime it didn't seem to matter to them what the outcome was. But it did, as the shouts turned from sounding joyous to sounding malevolent. "He cannot be with anyone else! He belongs to the princess!" chanted an increasingly rowdy crowd. A badly concealed grin spread across the youth's face...
As the King tried to call order to the riotous crowd, his daughter sat silently and wept. For she knew that this would only anger her father more. "I...I...I... I can't believe this is happening to me!" exclaimed the beautiful lady who had stepped out of the left door. As she broke down and wept, the youth thought he should comfort her, but he knew he had to make his way towards the princess.
So as the youth made his way towards the princess, not caring if the King would be further angered, he heard a sudden shriek from within in the audience. "The tiger! The tiger has been let out!" and everything instantaneously fell into a silent pandemonium. All of the youth's hope had been lost, and he went a ghostly shade white.
"That idiot!" cried the princess, upon realizing that the beautiful lady who had come out of the left door had opened the door on the right. "Why....Why?!" and the princess jumped over the side of the rail and into the arena. If she had to face her true love (or so she thought, she was quite young) being taken away from her again, she would rather face her fate with him. But the King had other ideas.
"Guards!" exclaimed the King in a somewhat panicked manner, with the kind of voice you hear in the movies. "Grab her! Bring my daughter back!" but it seemed almost too late. That is until the princess started using her head for the first time in what seemed like ages. Dashing across the arena floor, the princess pushed the jealous lady who had opened the door in front of the tiger. It might not have been the nicest thing to do, and maybe she instantly regretted it, but not for long, as before the viciously misunderstood tiger could close his jaws around that beautiful lady the tiger was suddenly pulled back. And you know who pulled it back? None other than whoever you think did.
Were you expecting more? Maybe the King sacrificing himself for his daughter, the youth, in an act of extreme strength pulling the tiger back with his bare hands? I thought about it. Although it sounded a bit, well, cheesy. The real problem here was who would sacrifice their lives for two more young people in love? Would you, if you knew they were meant to be? I thought about that too, although I came to the conclusion that I would never do that. So it's up to you to imagine whoever you want performing that act of courageous selflessness...
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