I reached the kingdoms limits and stopped running to catch my breath. I had been running for about two hours straight. I may have that power source in me but, it obviously hadn't taken full affect, or it had its limitations. Shaking off some of my fatigue I looked around at my surroundings.
I had unknowingly hidden behind what was a home. Ruined and abandoned probably long ago after the William and my sister over threw the King. The King's death was broadcasted over all the news stations and any station for that matter. I remember where I was. I was walking home from school with Harriet.
We were walking down Buxom Street, we were looking at all the new clothes that had come out for summer. We talked about going away on an adventure this summer, instead of being stuck at home with our mom and dad, working. As we continued on down the street I seen my favorite store, Technic Inc. I pulled my sister by the wrist and ran into the store.
"Alice will you ever be a normal girl?" Harriet asked with a chuckle. I picked up a watch that I had been eyeing for months. It was a holographic watch that had everything, from holographic face calling, to holographic maps. It was truly a gem of technology.
"Sorry Harriet I don't think I'll ever be a 'normal girl', as you put it." I replied with an emphasis on the word normal. Putting down the watch, beginning to browsing through more gadgets. "Really Alice! What's so bad about being normal? You always make it sound like it's a bad thing." She said fiddling with her hair.
"You know people are going to think you're crazy if you keep making all these gadgets and weird inventions. Hell people are already talking about us. What with our parents being-" "Some of the most interesting and best people are." I said cutting her off sharply. "What?" She asked quizzically.
I sighed putting down the gadget. "Some of the most interesting and best people, are crazy. Harriet if everyone was normal, or the same then what would the fun in that be?" I paused and turned around to meet her gaze. "Being different may be frowned upon by people, but that won't stop me from being who I am. I am different from other girls. I like being different." I said calmly.
She shook her head and smiled. She began to open her mouth to respond, when a panicked reporter, interrupted a broadcast. "The King has been assassinated, I repeat the King has been murdered." I tore away from the screen to look at Harriet. We looked at each other fearfully. We began to run out of the store. Harriet and I quickened are pace and began running towards the King's building. It was a skyscraper that was over six hundred meters tall. and towered over the entire kingdom. It was a shiny metallic reminder of the King's wealth and importance.
Once we reached the front of the skyscraper, the King's military forces had blockaded the entrance and had made it impossible to get inside. They were dressed in black and white army military suits and knee length trench coats and steel toed boots. "Get back everyone! This is a hostile situation!" One of the men shouted.
"Alice how are we going to get to mom and dad?" Harriet asked tugging the at my cuffed sleeve. I looked around for an entry point, I then remembered the old hidden escape hatch that was used as an escape root in case of emergency. Motioning for Harriet to follow me, as we both snuck around the back and to the hidden door.
Tugging and clawing hastily at the vines that covered the door, till I had removed them all. Hastily I entered in the pass code, the door opened slowly. Harriet and I began to push on the door to make it go faster. Then we crawled inside and into the lab.
I shook my head trying to muffle the gun shots that rang in my ear. Wincing at the sight of my parents corpses. One year, give or take, had passed, since then. Tears streamed down my cheek. Curling up into a ball I began to rock myself, the tears beginning to dampen the knees of my jeans.
