Rise of the Malactric Heir

"This is my home," she said, "and I want to do everything I can to keep it from being destroyed, I will not let anyone invade our home like this."

"We understand, but are you sure about this?" the queen asked.

"Yes, I am," she responded.

"If that's what you want," the queen sighed, and the princess smiled before turning to face Adora, who looked at her as she smiled.

"So, will you take me along with you guys for the time being?" she asked.

"Sure, you can come along, but you must be cautious," she responded, and the girl smiled brightly.

"Thank you, Adora," she said, and Adora smiled and patted her on the shoulder before stretching off a little.

"Tired?" Alix asked and she glanced at him.

"I think I might actually want to sleep," she responded, and he smiled at her as the general entered the living room, accompanied by two other knights who bowed their heads.

"These are the ones, shall we go?" the general asked and the king and queen looked at Adora who sighed before smiling.

"Well, let's go and see where they saw the enemies, I have a feeling that whatever we may find, we might not like it," Adora responded and they smiled before nodding.

"All right, let's go," Alix said as they exited the castle, got into separate cars, and drove into the city, which was large, fancy, and full of people of all kinds.

While looking out the window, Alix noticed a child running towards his mother and he smiled then sighed before bracing his head back against the seat and Adora glanced at him, then smiled when they finally came to a stop and got out of the cars, after which they looked around and sighed.

"Where did you guys see them?" Alix asked the knights and they looked around and then sighed.

"Please follow us," one of the knights said as he walked away and they followed him to the center of the city and Adora sighed then looked between the streets.

"The hell were they doing? Admiring the view?" Alix asked and Adora chuckled.

"I doubt it, why would they lurk here for no reason at all?" Adora asked as she sighed.

"We don't know what they were doing, we only saw them lurking around here because of the marks," the brown haired knight sighed, and they looked at each other before looking at the knights.

"Guys, take a look around and see if you can find anything, they didn't come here for so long just to admire the view," Adora said.

"Got it, split up, two by two or more, not less than two," Alix added and they smiled before splitting up into groups of two and three.

After they split up, they used their abilities to carefully search the city for anything suspicious that could lead them to the enemy.

While walking in an alley, Adora felt as though someone was watching her and she turned around but saw no one and sighed.

'Am I seeing things or am I being watched?' As Adora looked up at the building, she felt someone's presence, and her eyes began to glow bright blue as she looked around.

"Whoever you are, I suggest you show yourself now or you will be sorry," Adora said, and someone chuckled.

"Is that right? You're adorable, and that mask did conceal a lot more," someone said and Adora clenched her right fist.

"Who are you?" she asked.

"Someone who works for those you are attempting to defeat, I have been ordered not to lay a hand on you but... I have no intention of following that order, princess," the person responded as a shadow formed in front of Adora and a guy with black hair and blue eyes appeared before her with a smirk on his face and before she could attack him, he vanished and she smirked.

"I see you use the shadows quite well, that's a nice ability," she said, looking around.

"Thank you, princess, even if you guys find out what we're up to, there's nothing you can do to stop us, give up," he replied, and she scoffed.

"If your leader knows me as you say, he should know that I won't stop until you're all dead," she said, and the person chuckled.

"I see, then I'll take you with me," he replied as he appeared in front of her, and before she could touch him, she felt something wrapping around her feet and she couldn't move.

'What in the world is this?' Adora sighed as she peeked and noticed a blue mark on her shadow.

"You can pin shadows and immobilize your opponents, which is cool," she muttered as he smiled at her and she looked at him.

"You're cute, I guess that's more reason why he likes you, why do you want to kill us so badly?" he asked, leaning in closer to her.

"You should ask your leader that, he is the one who messed up my life," she responded, and his eyes narrowed as she took a deep breath and her eyes began to glow blue as the fox appeared beside Alix, Ifrit, and Sarah, and they looked at it.

"Can you come with me? I think the princess is in a bit of trouble, she didn't summon me but I sensed someone with not so good intentions around her," the fox said as it rushed off and they followed it.

"Listen to me, if you don't let go of me, I will kill you; I suggest you don't touch me," Adora said, gnashing her teeth as the guy passed his finger across her face.

"You can't break free without severely injuring yourself; don't go threatening me princess, you are in no position to do so," he replied as shadows wrapped around her arms and she sighed.

Adora's eyes widened as he was about to touch her body and the shadows started pulling and his eyes widened as he looked at her.

"I said, don't touch me!" she yelled, and the blue glow from her eyes turned to red and Alix and the others heard her and ran in her direction.