It had been a fairly cold winter day when the tiny personification of the Teutonic Knights was wandering aimlessly around the city.
The year is 1255 and the construction of Königsberg had been completed the month before.
Most people had heard of major cities being personified, but often didn't realize it was true.
A girl smaller than the Teutonic Knights lied under a piece of bark that had been torn from a tree.
Her clothes were torn, her white hair gray with dirt, and the people that walked by her either didn't realize she was there or they ignored the frail shaking girl.
Light blue eyes looked from person to person as Alana stayed huddled under the bark that failed to keep her warm.
A faint sound escaped her when she was nearly kicked in the face.
She'd closed her eyes and waited for the impact that never came.
"Why don't you pick on someone your own size?" Came a high-pitched voice.
Curious, the girl opened her eyes and looked up to see a boy not that much bigger than her with white hair and white clothes.
"W-wer..."
She was going to ask who he was when another voice interrupted him.
"Oh, Teutonic Knights."
Blinking, Alana looked at him and saw the cross on the cape she heard he always wore.
"If you have a heart, you should know well enough to leave her alone."
That made Alana blink.
How had he known she's a female?
Shrugging, the person left.
The boy looked at her and smiled, holding a hand to her.
"You can call me Gilbert," he told her.
Slowly, she reached a hand out to him.
"Alana."
Once their hands made contact, Gilbert pulled her up and looked her over.
"Care to stay with me at my place?" Gilbert asked. Alana's eyes widened at that. "R-really?"
The male nodded.
"Ja, of course."
With that, Alana thought it over before coming up with something.
"One condition though."
"What's that?"
She pointed to him and said, "Bruder."
Gilbert's eyed widened and he gasped at that.
Obviously, he hadn't been expecting that.
As time wore on, Alana and Gilbert's relationship stayed as it was since that day.
Brother and sister.
The teenage appearing duo stood in front of their leader and listened as he spoke.
"I hear by announce that the Teutonic Knights now be referred to as Prussia and Königsberg now his capital."
Those words made the siblings overjoyed and they hug each other tightly.