SUMMARY: A prophesied princess with powers that will make the country of Clatito invincible, and a street rat-girl who is one of the best sword fighters to exist, who has hidden magic of her own. Was it by chance they met or were they predestined to have their paths cross?

a/n: when reading my stories (especially this one) please pause after reading commas and periods like your supposed to, otherwise you will be very confused and the sentences wont make much sense. I won't update this one for awhile because I want to have written at least 3 more chapters, right now I have 4 written. I like where this story is going unlike the gift that cursed so I'm going to finish this one before I go back to my other story. Enjoy reading!

Alina:

"Alina, once the smoke is burning inside the outer wall run." Alina silently quoted, mouthing the words as she thought of what her father had told her. She gazed out the tall window of the tower at her vast kingdom going up in smoke before her. Columns of houses lined up horizontally row after row lay inside the inner gate. Fields lay between the inner and the outer gates.

Sharpening her vision she magnified her view beyond the outer gate to see the nearby woods with smoke rising from them. Her kingdom was burning before her, because of her, because of her "gift". Mother and father had both disappeared a week ago, leaving the kingdom in her hands. They had gone out of the castle for some reason and had not returned. Alina had waited in the same room since they first left, gazing out, still holding on to the faint hope that they would come back at any second.

A single tear rolled down her chin as she was reminiscing over her fathers departing words.

"Do not let them get you, they know of the powers that lie inside you, they will stop at nothing to get and to control you. You are the hidden gem that was prophesied by their people. To gain the power they desire, they most use you, whether you are willing or not. You must never allow this to happen, if you have to flee until you know how to reclaim our kingdom with the powers that reside inside you do so. There is always the small chance our soldiers can hold them back and not allow them to reach the outer gate. But that is only a hope, a fools dream. Alina, once the smoke is burning inside the outer wall, run."

So she had sat, since her parents left for reasons unknown to her. They left her on her own, abandoned her, in her opinion. For this past week Alina sat watching the smoke come closer and closer to the outer gate, knowing that she was the cause of it. It was because of her they rampaged her kingdom, killing her people. IN the mean time she could only sit in watch, with orders to flee if she most, she was a let down, a disappointment to her kingdom.

When she broke away from her thoughts her eyes widened with horror at what she saw. In the little time she spent thinking, the flames, the cause for all this smoke, had spread and was now burning next to the outer wall. She knew that at any moment the fire would be inside the outer wall and with it her enemies.

She was proven right, within moments the fire jumped over the outer wall. She knew what she must do, and for the first time in her life, Alina ran.