Lost opportunities
A young princess with white hair and crimson eyes stared dumbfound at the crater before her, covered in dust and light burns. Ashes and smoke around her small shaking figure, quickly the dead silence was broken by shouts and screams of grief or pain. As the world started to become clearer, a samurai clad in red and with long, black, spiky hair, named Ryouma, held back a tiny girl, Sakura, crying and desperate. Her bigger sister, Hinoka, clinging to her pegasus was still attempting to make sense of what happened, next to her a boy also with white hair was looking at where had stood his mother a few minutes ago. Then he raised his bow towards the dragon shape-shifter, tears flowing down his cheeks, accusing her for the misery which had transpired.
It was not her fault!
Mikoto had been a kind mother and, from what the nohrian girl heard, a good queen despite the death of her husband and the four kids she had to raise. One of them had been kidnapped or killed by Hoshido's sworn enemy and thus had left a hole in their family, the ruler had always hoped that lost child would one day find its way back home.
It was not her fault!
Weeks ago a ninja who had been captured by that nation had reported that the missing heir was alive. She was brought back to her homeland and met with her mother, her brothers and sisters. The whole country had cheered for their princess' return, citizens from all over gathered to see the recovered girl.
She didn't know that the sword would act like that...
The queen had dragged her daughter across the capital to the statue of a white dragon, Hoshido's protector. Presented her to the towns people, told them that this child had escaped Nohr's clutches and was able to come back home. As a symbol, the sword granted by its king would be broken and melted to show that the child would never go back to that place.
It was a gift in order to make Father proud, to survive outside the fortress...
Nobody expected the blast that blew away the light of Hoshido. Later historians would hypothesize that King Garon had simply intended to use the lost princess as a nuke, others would say he had predicted that she would meet the queen of the opposing land and that she was the real target. It didn't matter at that point of time because for the girl who had been manipulated and didn't belong in neither country, this was simply the day when she had become a complete orphan.