Now Kira was alone. She knew her little sister would be safe. Steffensen was the most reliable men between the councilmen and was her father, King Boris, best friend, and Arendelle's Queen Iduna's Cousin. She knew that he was going to take everyone that he could save to their neighbor kingdom, Arendelle. It was a three day walk around the mountain and woods that separated both kingdoms, so they could gather there and ask for their support to get back to whomever was behind this attack. Or so she thought.
She started jogging towards the closest person she could see that needed help. She was able to help the man stand and carry him to one of the guards that were just at her sight. "Please, carry him to safety, and any citizen that you or the other guards finds" Kira said to one surprised Capitan of the guards.
"Yes, Your Highness, The King and Queen are also gathering people to safety in the castle. I will tell the rest of my man to do the same and engage only for defense. Please, go to safety yourself". The Capitan said to Kira
"I will, after I help your men gathering more of our people to safety, after all, I'm good at sneaking" Kira said with a sly grin to the Capitan. He had seen the girl grow, and he had lived first handed her abilities of sneaking around, normally after taking the chocolate of the kitchens in the palace or to escape her lenguage classes to go sword practicing.
"I insist you make your way to the castle, Your Highness. I wouldn't forgive myself if something happened to you under my watch." The capitan pressed
"I know, but I can't stand doing nothing! Or why would I have this?" Kira said raising a hand and making appear in her hand a silver-white fire.
"Alright, but please be cearful and don't use your gift unless is absolutley necesarry." He gave a nod and then put an arm around the man's back and under his arms and one of the man's arm over his shoulder and then he was on his way to the castle.
Kira turn around to look at the fires in the market and the city. She could hear screaming, and sound of explosion, but she also could hear laughter. She narrowed her eyes and concentrated at nearest flames, put her hands up and with a couple of twist of the wrist and then the extension of her arms, the normal orange-red flames turn into silver-white ones and then extinguish them. She was able to control fire, a special one, one that supposedly has pass through generations of the royal families coming from the first ruler of Arkaria, King Arkay, although it haven't been seen in centuries. The Arkarian prophecy said that there will be more abilities to come if fulfilled, but until now she had silver-white fire powers that flowed in her as naturally as air or blood flowed through the body of any living being.
She went to the next closest fires and did the same, and so on until she was in the main street of the city and she could see who was attacking. It was a large group of raiders, looters and thugs that were destroying and killing anything and everyone that passed by. In horror, Kira could see them laughing while slashing the lives out of her people, women been rapped, children kick to the ground and stabbed, fire spreading everywhere while the raiders took everything they considered valuable for them. One of the raiders stop after seeing her.
"Look what we have here!" The raider said out laud with a depraved smirk. "Hey, Drakar! Can we take her?"
The man named Drakar was a tall long-black-haired man, with pale skin and a scar going through the upper right side of his face to the left side of his jaw, bright-green eyes and his hands were big-calloused ones with several more scars on them. He had a smirk on his face and you could see a golden central tooth and some rotten. The voice that came out of him wasn't as imponent as his presence, you could say that it was the voice of a man used to barging and violence, but it didn't seem to go with his physique, or that was Kira's thoughts.
"Well, what a surprise! The Arkarian Princess in the flesh! And I thought you were older… well… it doesn't matter, I think of numerous ways of taking advantage of this." Drakar said with a laugh at the end, no hint of mercy in his eyes. Kira raised her hands and got in a defensive stance, she was going to defend herself and her citizens.
"HA! Look at her! The little princess thinks that she can take us down! Ha ha ha!" Drakar blurted out and the group of raiders that had gotten closer to see why their leader had stop burst in laughter too.
"I would be careful with my words, Drakar", said a man behind them in black robes. He was shorter than Drakar, and his hair was white from age, but he had the same merciless look in his hazelnut eyes that Drakar did
"What are you talking about, Roderick?" Drakar said with an amussed look towards the elder man.
"I can sense that she wilds powerful magic in her, I'm a sorcerer, so is she" Roderick said in a plain voice. "I suggest we take her but be cautious"
"Ah, well, we agree on something at least. We take her! Men! Grab her! We are going to use her in our favor!" Drakar roared to his men. Rapidly, all the men that were surrounding them started walking closer to Kira, while she started to walk slowly back. She knew those men will try everything to get her, even if it meant hurting her, or worse, hurting others so she surrendered. So, she prepared herself to block their way, so she could get away. She started looking frantically for a route to escape and she was able to find one by her left side, behind a bunch of raiders. In that moment she heard a battle cry of a group of men and with the corner of her eyes she managed to see that the Capitan of the guard and a group of his men were clashing their swords against the raiders'. Taking the advantage of the mild distraction that the collision of both group had caused, she used her powers to form a wall of silver-white fire between the rest of the raiders and herself, secure her way out and sprinted to the guards to aid them. She fired to the floor near the raiders to cut the path to the guardsmen and protect them, but soon as she did that, she felt the warm that emanated from the fire wall behind her.
She turned around to see that her fire was put down by the sorcerer named Roderick. He blasted some energy bolts at her and she was able to block them with more fire, causing located explosions when both powers collided. Dark blue and silver-white continue crashing for a little while until Kira was able to shoot him with fire in the shoulder as a warning shot. Roderick got angry and frustrated and looked over to Drakar, who nod towards the rest of the men that where gathering with them. The men start running, swords raised to Kira, and she started blocking them with fire, but something distracted her. A scream of pain, but that felted almost like a whisper.
She turns to see that the Capitan of the guard was standing right behind her and had been stabbed through and through the abdomen, blood spilling from the wound, the sword and his mouth. He was looking to Kira with pleading eyes and managed to mouth out and apology and for her to run. The man that had taken care and protected her and her little sister since she had conscience, that had protected her parents, that had walked with them innumerous times to the city and even make blind eyes of some mischievousness of her sister and her was dying in agony in front of Kira's eyes. That was the last drop. Anger flickered in silver eyes that turn a shade darker, she gritted her teeth trying to control herself, she had sworn not to hurt another people with her powers, but it was a promise she made towards her people, not invaders.
So, in that dark thought, she blurted out a scream of rage and the raiders start to burst in fire. Screams of pain and despair coming from a lot of the raiders could be heard in the deadly silent throughout the stone streets with the sound of the sparkling fire. Kira kneeled beside the Captain and with her tiny fingers closed the man's eyes. She stood up and started walking towards the rest of the raiders that were around, while the guards that where left run away to the castle. Kira continued with her undertaking, bursting to flames every raider that came to her sight, while searching for the leader and the sorcerer that where the minds behind this but mysteriously banish into the thin air while she watched the Capitan die. She managed to burst in flames some raiders that were chasing after a group of arkarians and a family that she knew that lived in the streets near the coast. She kept searching for the raider leader until she found him alone in a main street. The stone floor was covered in ashes and the white buildings were now a greyish one, destroyed, corpses were all over around the streets, which only make Kira grow angrier from the pain.
"So, you find me" Drakar said with an evil smirk in his face.
"Only you" Kira said in an ice-cold tone. She could see in his face that she had fallen in a tramp, but she knew that her path was going to be block. She didn't know how, and she was about to find out. In a few seconds she could see raiders coming from the shadows of every lateral street, and a small group closing the path that she came from.
"That's it?" Kira said, unamused. "And here I thought you were all strong men… you can't even take an 8-year old girl down" Kira taunted them with her own smirk, and in a second, she was putting in flames at the larger group of men that were behind her. She took one of the swords that the raiders dropped, and she turned again to throw fire to other raiders that were coming her way and managed to barely parry a raider at her right with the sword. It was harder than she thought, it'd be, as the swords that the raiders were using was of a very heavy rough iron, not as the swords that the Arkarian guards used, lighter and sharper, and she was weaker than them, but she managed to stand her ground.
"She avoided a slash coming down to her by sliding through the space in between the raider's legs and then attacked has strong as she was capable off to the raider's back, then she rolled over her left side to avoid another raider at her right. It was easier from the fact that she was several foots smaller than them. When she straightens up again, she saw a group of raiders leave to the castle and in her distraction, she didn't see coming a blow to her that knock her out to the floor.
"Damnit! She is stronger that she looks!" Roderick said rubbing the hand that had used to hit Kira. The few raiders that were left, took an unconscious Kira from the floor, tided up her wrist behind her back and start walking towards the castle. "She took quite a toll out of our group" Rodrick said with a look of annoyance.
"Don't worry, we will gather more people after we take what make this kingdom so prosperous and maybe we could use her to make them give it to us, then you can have her and do whatever you want with her" Drakar said with an unpleasant smug.