Ok: I got this idea after reading a book about the Romanov family. This is just a prolouge and I understand that somethings will be confusing, but it will all be cleared up as we go along with this sotry. Enjoy. I do not own anything HSM related.
"In my hands I have the warrants for the death of the imperial Montez family." a rebel officer smirked to the once royal family.
"What?" Emperor Alberto Montez demanded stading up. "This can not be possible!"
"I'm afraid, Emperor. The new government has sent word from the capital."
The Montez family looked in shock and terror at each other. Next to the emperor was his Empress Maria. On the other side of her was her husband's heir, their only son, Prince Alexander. He was only fifteen years old. Behind the three of them were the four Grand Dutchesses, Isabelle, Elizabeth, Josephine and Gabriella. Isabelle was the oldest at twenty-two, ELizabeth was next at twenty-one. Josephine was nineteen and Gabriella was the youngest daughter at seventeen.
"Your country is changing." the officer stated as several men entered the basement behind them. "The new government is concerned that all of your supporters will try to get you back in power and we just can not have that."
"At least spare of my children." Alberto pleaded. "I beg you, as a father, please spare my children."
"I'm sorry." the officer stated, not feeling apologetic at all. "Long live the Emperor."
The next thing the Montez family knew, their patriarch at been shot in the head quickly followed by his heir. The Grand Dutchesses screamed in fright . Soon the room was filled with gun shots. Once all the screaming ceased, the soldiers began the tasks of trying to sneak out the bodies without them being seen.
Meanwhile, in the one of the palace's secret passage ways, a young man was trying to save the royal family. The young man had known them his whole life. His father had been the Emperor's longtime friend and general in his army. Jack Bolton had been killed the week before when word got out about an upsrising to get the family out of captivity and back in power. Now, it was up to his son, Troy Bolton. His father had told him it was worth getting at least one member of the family to safety, that way the Montez family would still live on. Troy's pace quickened when he heard the gun shots and the screams started. He peeked through a one way mirror that was made to look like a portrait in its frame on the other side. His eyes settled on the one dutchess who always had his heart, the Grand Dutchess Gabriella Montez. The two had been playmates when they were children and soon grew up to be lovers. Their fathers were just starting to arrange for their marriage that was to have happened in a year's time. But that was before the war started.
When the fighting turned deadly, the family began to evacuate the palace servants and their familes before even thought of themselves. On the night that the Montez family had planned to escape, the rebel army showed up on their doorstep. For six months, the family was a hostage in their own palace. The soldiers leered at the young Dutchesses with hunger and lust. Before he was kicked out of the palace, Troy made it his job to escort Gabriella wherever she went in the palace to ensure that the invadors kept their hands off of her. If only Gabriella's sister, Josephine, had someone to watch over her. Within a month of being taken hostage, the nineteen year old had been raped by a soldier. Troy remembered hearing the sobs as he guarded the room Josephine and Gabriella shared together. Gabriella held her older sister through the night as she wept. The younger sister felt guilty about having her own personel body guard when her sisters did not.
Troy had not wanted to leave Gabriella and her family, but his father needed his help to form a plan to get the family to safety before it was too late. The small army gathered underground. The townspeople loved the royal family and many volunteered to help get them out of the country. What they had not planned on was a warrant for Jack Bolton's arrest. Jack knew that if he had been arrested, he'd be tortured to death in the most painful way known to man. So, when the rebel army found him, he began taking shots before a bullet to his chest killed him. Troy had no time to mourn his father as it was now up to him to rescue the Montez family. Only he knew of the secret passage way was located. He instructed that the volunteers, which now included his and Gabriella's life long friends, to meet him where another passage way that would take them out of the country unnoticed started. They were told if Troy had not joined them by sunrise to go on without him. They all hoped that it would not come to that.