Well, here is my 2nd fanfic and I'm still not all that good so...most of you know the drill. Be nice, give criticism (but still be nice), encouragement and ideas. Oh and follow this rule: If you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all. So, if you aren't going to be nice than don't review at all. Or even simpler: NO FLAMES...please.

--TheGirlScholar--

"From now on I'm Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. I"ll be a knight."

--Alanna The First Adventure--

--A Cluster of Reeds–

Alanna was sitting on her bed. Not doing much of anything. She was just sitting and thinking. She was thirteen years old and she had never imagined something like this would happen. She had always been so careful! What could have possibly made her do what she did?

Flashback

All of the pages and squires had gone into the city. They had all been given a free day to do whatever they wished. She had lied and said she did not feel well and stayed behind at the palace.

After they had departed she had gone down to a river she had found inside of the Royal Forest. It was a good ways in and off of the trail. It was a risk but she was almost positive she would not get caught. This would be her first time swimming in over three years. She knew she shouldn't but the temptation was too sweet.

The feeling of the cool water rushing over her body was so utterly refreshing. The water was a good depth for it came to her jaw where it would come to Gary's chest. It was a bit funny that she was so short and her friends so tall but we have all gotten a laugh or two out of it and now the humor is almost gone.

Her attention was brought back to a twig snapping nearby in the brush. She was usually calm and in control but how was she supposed to be calm when she was so far away and her clothes on shore? It was just too far away to reach in time!

She then spotted a cluster of reeds to her left and dove into them just as a sneering boy came into the open. She could not really see his face but from what she could tell it seemed very .. Familiar...

"What's this?"

The boy who had come into the secluded little place which held a river, her discarded clothes and her naked body was none other than Ralon of Malven. Anger surged through her body. I saw him leave with the other boys with my very own eyes! However did he get away?

"A set of page's clothes? But the nly other page at the palace is Alan of Trebond and he's si-Oh...Alan? Alan, come out come out wherever you are." Ralon said with a smirk plastered on his ugly, fat, pig head. "I know you're here farmer filth now come ou-"

Ralon seemed to grin. Then Alanna could hear approaching feet in the water. And worse, it was coming straight towards her!

She shrunk back as far as the bank of the river permitted.

"There you .. are!" He said while pulling her out of the reeds by the leg. A piercing scream went out through the air. Surprisingly, the scream that could be heard all the way in the palace did not belong to Alanna.

A few minutes later Alanna was trudging back up to the palace. All she could do now was go to her chambers and wait. Ralon, the filthy pig, was bound to tell the Duke. Or worse, his majesty, the royal King of Tortall. She now could only wait. Wait to see what would happen to her.

End Flashback

Knock. Knock. Knock. Knock. Kno-

"OUCH!"

"Oh...sorry Alan."

"Great Mithros Raoul! What's your fist made of anyway?"

"Well I don't really kno-"

"Alan tell us. It's a lie, is it not? Just one of Ralon's big, fat, stupid lies? I mean you aren't really a ... girl are you?" That was the prince talking within his air of superiority.

Alanna sunk onto the bed with her head in her hands.

"What's going to happen to me," she groaned.

Raoul and Jon looked about ready to faint. Gary on the other hand recovered quickly from the shock and took this time to ask the question that had been irking him ever since they had heard this rumor.

"Alan," Gary said while sitting on the bed next to Alanna. "Before we can do anything we-the royal majesties-everyone-I have to know on thing. Alan cannot possibly be your name for it's a lad's name! Well, what is?"

"Alanna. Alanna of Trebond."

"But you're a girl."

--Prince Jonathan--

---Alanna The First Adventure---

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--TheGirlScholar--