Kira woke up in the main hall of the castle, which was wracked and almost empty except for a little group of raiders, Drakar and Roderick that were beside her and, for Kira's pain, her parents, tide up as well, their white short tunics and their dark blue trousers torn, stained with blood and their bodies covered in cuts and bruises, like they had been tortured. They were watching straight to her with sadness and pain in their eyes. She was torn apart between emotions, in the bright side it looked like the citizens were able to escape with some guards, as did her sister with Steffensen and some more. The bad side, dad she was hopping not to be, but came true the moment she woke up were her parents, that she thought had left with their Chief Protector, which she saw dead in a corner of the main hall. She felt nauseous and strange, unable to focus correctly in her surroundings.

"It was about time you woke up, you little brat!" Kira heard Roderick said, annoyance in his voice while she tried to burn the ropes that tided her and her parents to no avail. They had done something to her, she didn't know what was, but it make her feel powerless, vulnerable and…fearfull.

"Don't treat her Highness like that, Rod" Drakar said in a playfull but smuggling tone. "Your Majesties, as I said to you, your daughter is unharmed and safe, and it will be really bad if something happened to her, isn't it?" Drakar look straight to the King and The Queen while they were looking to their daughter. Drakar failed to see the determinate look on Kira's eyes and that she was able to mouth out a "She is safe" to her Royals look back to him, pain in their eyes, but said nothing.

"Well, if you wanted like that… it would be the bad way" Drakar said extending one hand to take a whip that was being handed by one of the raiders, which took Kira with another raider and extended her tided arms to expose her back. "I'll ask you again, where is the artefact?". Kira shook her head softly and pleading to her parents, as trying to say to them "Don't answer", they looked at her and saw an intense look in her silver eyes, she wasn't giving in. They didn't answer.

Drakar grip tightly the whip and raised over his head to pull it down as strong as he could in Kira's back. Kira gritted her teeth and winced in pain but managed to remain standing without screaming. The Royals also winced at seen her oldest daughter getting whipped.

"Please stop!" Queen Katrina cried out.

"Tell me where artefact is, and I'll stop" Drakar said

"Don't say anything!"Kira shouted to her parents, still her intense look in her eyes

"Shut up!" Drakar roared while whipping her again in her back. Kira winced again and clenched her teeth to avoid screaming, almost biting her tongue in the process, her little body being push forward by the strength of the hit

"Don't hurt her anymore, you bastard! She is just a girl!" King Boris roared to him. That annoyed Roderick more.

"JUST A GIRL?! She killed, burned to death three quarters of our men and is JUST A GIRL?! You really don't know what you have" Roderick scream in anger to them.

The Royals didn't know if he was angry because Kira had killed all those men by herself or that he couldn't have her powers, as they knew that he was a sorcerer, but they couldn't avoid looking at their daughter in complete astonishment. That their 8-year-old daughter used her powers to dispose of almost all those men that overrun the capital was something impressive and horrifying at the same time, they didn't know which one was on top of the other.

Kira's intensity flickered for a second but regained it afterwards. In her eyes there was determination and the look of a little girl that had been forced to grow fast, as she had seen many horrors in just a few hours and was attempting to stand her ground against the enemy, protecting the kingdom as the prophecy they read and told their daughters so many times. The Royals grimace at this revelation in front of them, closed their eyes and took a long breath before opening them with the same decided look that her daughter had.

The coming and going of asking, whipping and shouting continued until the white floor surrounding Kira was stained of blood, her white short tunic torn and smeared, her silver eyes watery of pain and she was on her knees, Drakar was spilled all over with her blood and both were panting.

"As I see I can't convince any of you, we should change tactics…" Drakar said in between breaths. He then took Kira by her tided wrists lift her and throw her to the royals. He then ordered to a couple of his men to grip the royals and take them closer to their daughter while he got rid of the whip and took one of his mans' sword, got closer to Kira and lift her up by the hair.

"She looks quite like you, Queen Katrina" Drakar said in a more serious and little annoyed tone whilst he put the sword near Kira's neck. "Last time… Tell me where the artefact is, or she dies!" Before any of the rulers responded, they heard Kira snort.

"You won't kill me! You said it yourself, you need me, you wanted me. If you really didn't need the advantage of having me you'd have killed me and throw my dead body to them to accomplish what you want. You can't kill me, or you'd lose your vantage"Kira said with hatred in her eyes and smug in her tone.

"She's a smart one, isn't she? As you said, I'm going to take you as our slave, so…" Drakar trailed off. He throws Kira to the ground again, signal one of his men to take her, went close to Queen Katrina, grab her by the shoulder and put the sword in her neck."Start talking!" He growled.

"Get your dirty hands out of her! You son of a …" King Boris started saying but was cut off by a punch to his jaw.

"Unless you tell us were the artifact is, don't speak!" The raider that was holding him growled him throw clenched teeth. King Boris watched in anger and despair at Drakar and his men.

"Go ahead! Do it! I'm not afraid of dead! I'll go with the gods and see your plans go down!" Queen Katrina said, determination and bravery in her eyes.

"I can see from where your daughter obtained the energy and the stubbornness… Quite feisty ones you have with you, I don't envy you." Drakar said to King Boris with a mocking tone, then he shrugged "If you said so…" He trailed off and sliced the Queen's throat with the sword.

"NO!" Both King Boris and Kira cried at seeing Queen Katrina's live drown in her own blood. Kira's resolution broke as she did, crying with desolation at the sight, guilt overwhelming her as she had tried to make him put the sword down and not to change of victim. King Boris was mad in anger, every composure lost, trying to hit any of Drakar's man. "You bastards! I'll kill you! I'll use my kingdom to take you and your filthy mans down!" Drakar roared between cries

"Uggg… royals…" Drakar said, and then use the same stained sword to thrust King Boris through the chest.

"NO! Dad! No, no, no, no!"Kira shouted, devastation and despair in her voice, her vision clouded by tears. She started crawling towards her parents' dead bodies. She cried desperately for her parents to wake up, she couldn't believe her eyes, in just a few hours her life had changed completely. The pain that she was feeling started to shift into pure hatred and rage and with all her remaining strength, she tried to burn the ropes and the enemies that surrounded her. White fire started slowly to light her ropes, allowing her to break free and jump straight to Drakar's face, white fire in her hands. Drakar managed to get hold her before she touched his face and tried to push her back but allowed Kira to seize his arm, burn it and bite his hand to free herself.

"AGH! Catch that little bitch and stop this nonsense!" Drakar shouted, "I'll go behind to search for the artifact. Roderick, I don't know what you did to her before but do it again and stronger! I don't want our new acquisition to go burning everything and everyone." And with that Drakar went away to search. In the meanwhile, Roderick and the rest of the raiders tried hardly to stop and restrain the raging Kira, that had regained her step after been shoved to the wall.

When Drakar return, they had a bounded and unconscious Kira and several of them were bitted and burned. "Well, you did have a party without me" Drakar said sniggering with an angry tone. "Let's go, I didn't find anything… at least we have something valuable to take with us" He said with a smirk while grasping Kira by her chin.