Chapter one
~Arkadia: Market Place~
In the village of Arkadia, it was well into the day, passed noon. Villagers were hustling and bustling around. Children were out playing, mothers were out shopping for tonight's dinner, store owners were selling their merchandise and goods, making their days money.
But this wasn't a normal day in Arkadia, far from it. A normal day in Arkadia...
Included some mischief and ruckus.
"GET BACK HERE YOU THIEF!" Yelled a store owner at his booth. "Guards! Guards! That- that girl stole my candles and fruit! Without paying!"
Now this is a normal day in Arkadia.
A slim figure covered from head to toe in ragged clothing ran and pushed through the crowd of people in the shopping area of the village. The only thing visible were her eyes. Bright green. She looked behind her briefly and chuckled when she saw three guards chasing after her. "Too easy." She said to herself before jumping on a barrel and climbing on someones house.
"Up there!" A guard shouted, pointing upwards with his sword. He had shaggy hair and a deep booming voice. Very handsome as well. "On the roofs! Get there, now!" He commanded the other two guards who then separated and ran to find a way up while he chased after the girl, keeping sight of her from the ground.
The girl smirked. She jumped from roof to roof, messing with the guard that was surprisingly keeping up with her. She would grab clothes from peoples drying racks and threw them down onto the streets or she would drop barrels filled with water down in front of the guard hoping to hit him, but of course not making impact cause he would somehow catch them and put them down.
"Hm. Must be a new recruited palace guard." She mumbled to herself. "A good one at that too. I need to leave and get back home, before- woah! Hey, buddy." She greets a raccoon who suddenly jumped and sat on her shoulder. "Anya sent you, didn't she?"
The raccoon merely cocked it's head.
"Thought so. That means i need to get this guy off my tail." She said and glanced down to the guard. Her eyes widened and she turned her head back to the raccoon, a smirk making its way onto her face. "How about helping me out a bit, hm?"
~Arkadia: Palace~
"Mom. Please, i don't want to talk about this again."
"Well, we're gonna have to talk about this eventually Clarke."
"Then can we not talk about it right now?" Clarke says standing from her seat in the thrown room.
Clarke's mom gives Clarke a stern look. "Clarke. You're turning eighteen in a couple days. I've let you put off this question for months. Now is the time to talk about it. About your marri-"
Clarke flinches and covers her ears and shuts her eyes. "Please don't say it."
Abby sighs. "We really need to talk about it, sweety."
"I know, we do. I just-"
Suddenly a knock echoed through out the room signally someone was at the entrance of the thrown room. "Abby- I mean, Queen Griffin." A lead guard greeted, dragging in three other guards, who all had smudges of dirt and scratches all over their bodies.
"Kane. What's the meaning of this?" She asked standing from her thrown, looking at the new town guards she hired.
Clarke eyed the three guys as well, noticing all three of them were boys she knew Kane were training in the palace garden months ago. Finn, Murphy, and Bellamy.
"Seems like it's that thief in the market place, again."
"Her? Again? This is the fifth time this week. Heck, i don't know how many times she's stole from the market place in the past couple years."
Clarke's ears perked up at this. She hasn't heard of this 'thief' from her mother before.
"I know. She did a number on my new recruits." Kane said, gesturing to the boys.
"I took a wrong turn and ended up in a pile of shi-" Murphy started, but shut his mouth when Kane hit the back of his head.
Finn shrugged. "I just lost sight of her. I swear she jumped from one roof to another and then vanished."
"I had sight of her the whole time... But then an animal attacked me! And i tried to get it off, but when i did she was gone."
"What kind of animal was it?" Clarke suddenly asked.
"A raccoon." Bellamy replied.
Clarke let out a laugh but quickly covered her mouth and pretended to cough instead when her mother gave her a look. "Hm, that's- uh- that's horrible. I'm sorry that happened."
"Right." Kane started. "I just wanted to give you an update that she is on the move again in the markets. And that we'll be on look out."
Abby nodded. "Thank you Kane. You guys are dismissed."
Clarke watched them bow to her and her mother and then walk out through the double doors.
Abby sighed and sat back in her thrown. Her hands lifted up and she touched her forehead, rubbing them circles.
"Now Clarke-"
"Do you think i can visit the market place?" Clarke asked facing her mother. Her blue eyes pleading. She's never stepped one foot out of the palace walls. She's been curious ever since she was little to what was out there in the village and beyond that, but she was never allowed to.
"No Clarke, you can't."
"Why not?"
"You're royalty. And you heard what Kane just said. It's dangerous out there. There are thieves and so much more out there."
Clarke frowned. "Of course." She mumbled, before exiting the room.
"Wait- Clarke we still need to- Oh forget it. We'll talk later."
Hey! Sorry for the short first chapter, but anyways, I've been watching old Disney movies and thought it would be cool to write the romantic parts of Aladdin and mix it with Clexa. So there won't really be any bad guys or genies and what not. Haha. Sort of gonna follow the story of Aladdin, but with my own twists. So i hope you like it!