PRINCESS// MICHAEL CLIFFORD

Chapter 1

"The rebels managed to cross the border and get to the territories on the outskirts, the first villages were affected and were looted, destroyed by them, and all their innocent citizens have suffered abuse, violence and many of them lost their lives.
Very soon they will overcome even the suburbs and the guards placed on the border of the city, they are fast and very aggressive and have no problems killing women or children. They want to gain power and rule the country killing anyone who gets in their way.
They are more than a hundred and move with assault machines and are trained since childhood for war, our soldiers are struggling to defend themselves and fight against them.
In the past month they have killed more than four thousand innocents and warriors, I'm afraid that if they are not stopped, they will destroy the city and then kill anyone who will dare to oppose them."

"Do you have any questions Princess Rebecca?" asks Lieutenant Gallagher looking at me as soon as I raise my hand, all the gentlemen sitting around the table turn eyes upon me and I clear my voice before speak.

"So did they destroy the Prada boutique too?"

Everybody looks at me in disbelief, what is wrong with them?
My question is of utmost relevance, if the rebels took away from me even Prada where will I go buy my bags and matching shoes? A princess can't have only a hundred pairs of shoes and two hundred bags to survive.

"Her Royal Highness, innocents are dying in your Kingdom, children are orphaned every day and you are next in line to the throne after your father, we must get you to safety" the lieutenant says and I roll my eyes and get up, bewaring not to crease my black dress, I click my heels on the floor of the secret room equipped with computers and armed soldiers to defend us.
"Joe" I say, coming up beside the lieutenant who stiffens for the name.
"Call me Lieutenant Gallagher, Her Highness" he says and I snort, putting my hands on my hips, feeling all eyes focusing on me.

"Let me get this straight because probably wearing these diamond earrings keeps me from hearing. So you want me, the princess as well as the only heir to the throne, to cross the entire territory which is full of rebels ready to kill me, to get me into the so-called safe zone, don't you?" I wonder sarcastic and everyone remains silent.

"I have heard for months that our army was killed off by these fellows and they couldn't even shoot them because they were too fast and good with weapons and now you want to send me with a few security guards around the Kingdom?" The lieutenant looks down as soon as my eyes focus on his, I'm not used to have eye contact with people, I am the Princess, it is disrespectful to stare at me.

"L-lady, we must protect you" one of them says and I smile bitterly.
"Well, if this was the plan then I'm sorry but you're failing at your job" that said, I'm about to leave the room but a deep voice stops me as soon as I put my hand on the silver door handle.
"Princess Rebecca I have a plan" a man says, I turn to see a Colonel dressed in a uniform with his determined gaze on me and a disturbing grin on his face, I look at him while he leans some sheets of paper on the projector and points at the screen on which a map with red and green points appears.
"As you can see, this is the area outside the boundary and as your royal eyes can see it is full of red points and only four green ones" I move closer noticing all those red spots and only four small green signs, as he said.
"The red points are all the lost battles, the ones where our army was exterminated, those in which rebels gave us a kicking, well, do you see those green dots?" He says, pointing them with a blue laser, and I nod.
"Those are the not totally failed battles Miss" I slightly open my mouth, only four fights have been nearly successfully?
"Princess Rebecca you must get beyond the borders crossing the city, the suburbs and the rebels' territories to reach to the Royal Island where you can be safe and become our Queen, but you need protection" he says and I'm tempted to give him a round of applause for telling me things I already know.
"Well, you have just told me things I already knew" I say rolling my eyes but the Colonel stops me again.