Ancient Greece
"Cover your face! Sweetheart, please cover your face!" Mother begged. I pulled my hood up over my eyes and looked back at her crying face. "Mother, I'll be okay, I'll be okay." I said, hugging her. "Princess," my father said, "Princess Athanasia, be careful my daughter." I climbed on my horse and looked at my parents faces one more time before my look alike took my place at their sides. I looked around my home and galloped through the courtyard and out the front gates as I galloped into my new life.
"Athanasia! Athanasia! Wake up! It is time to train!" My eyes flew open to the sound of my "father's" voice. "I am up, I am up. Just let me change and freshen up." I yelled down to him. I pulled my long flowing brown hair back and tied it with my gold ribbon. I looked at myself in the reflection of my water bucket. I looked at my faded scroll work all over my arms, legs, and flowing beautifully up my neck, missing my old life as Princess of Greece. My short white dress didn't look as white as it once was and my blue eyes looked dull. I missed my true parents and hated my new home.
I walked downstairs, leaving footprints in the dirt on the steps. With my twin blades on my back, covered by my hair. I looked around at the small hut outside of the great jungle of Greece. I smiled at my fake mother and asked, "Where is 'father'?" "he is outside waiting for you." She said. I stepped out the door and into the sand of the end of the desert.
I blinked in the bright sun, screwing up my face to see. I looked into the jungle, looking for my instructor. I saw a flash of metal and jumped out of the way just in time. I looked back at where I was once standing and saw a glinting blade sticking out of the sand. I looked to where it had come from and sprinted into the jungle. I flung myself onto a tree and began climbing. I jumped back and forth between branches dodging blades as they flew at me.
I stopped as the flow of the knives ceased. I looked around unsure of where to go, waiting. Something hit me from the side sending me, screaming, towards the ground. I looked at my attacker and didn't see my father. I saw someone with the look of wanting to kill me. I reached for the nearest tree branch as we were falling and grabbed ahold. My attacker fell without me, but a snapping branch stole my attention. I looked up in time to see a second attacker flying towards me from a higher branch. I pulled my twin blades out and stabbed him through the chest. I dropped the body down below and took off into the trees.
Night had fallen by the time I found my father's corpse. By then I knew I couldn't go home. I walked through the forest leaving yet another life behind. I pulled out my swords ready for another fight. I ran deeper into the forest. I came to clearing, breathing hard. I dropped down to the jungle floor and looked around. I sat in the middle of the clearing, and I as I drifted off to sleep, I dreamed of how my life was before someone had tried to kill me, back to when I was a Princess of Greece.