School was about to start and instead of preparing her bag for the next day, Sira was running around the large garden of a mansion in the heart of Finland. She didn't know what she was doing there, Shura and Elyn had just mounted her on an airplane and planted her on the other side of Europe with the only premise of "be yourself".
And that had been it.
For this reason, the only daughter of the family that inhabited the mansion had become extremely fond of her despite not having exchanged more than two or three words with her. Vitani, that was the girl's name, followed her everywhere and had fun like never before despite the language but thanks to the skill developed in the Sanctuary, Sira knew how to make herself understood through gestures and mime. Elyn couldn't be more pleased with her and Shura… he just prided himself this hyperactive girl was going to inherit her golden armor. While Sira was dedicated to playing, they fulfilled the authentic mission entrusted by the Sanctuary: find the next Scorpio Saint.
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However, Sira began to ask herself questions after a week living with Vitani. She missed her life in the Sanctuary and wanted to return as soon as possible to start the school year, sometimes her tantrums made Shura mad as she was the only one who understood her when she got tired of speaking greek. Fortunately, Vitani didn't understand a single word for so the girl always blamed that despair on Sira's young age.
The problem came the night Vitani became interested by the girl's discomfort, Sira didn't realize the seriousness of confessing things like that Shura and Elyn weren't her parents, a version that the two adults had given to Vitani's parents; She also told her that they came from Greece and many other things that Vitani couldn't understand no matter how much the girl expressed herself... Until Sira's voice sounded in her mind:
"I'm sick of this! I want to go back to the Sanctuary and Shura doesn't want!”
"How have you…?"
The seven-year-old girl looked at Vitani, Sira didn't understand Finnish, nor English, but she did know that certain words seemed to be universal in any language, so she finally confessed:
"Cosmos."
Frightened, Vitani turned away from Sira, looking at her like a weirdo. It was then when Sira understood how far her words had penetrated: Vitani wasn't able to answer her via cosmos, so communication with her would be null, if Vitani started running she would notify her parents and her intuition told her that if that happened... the mission why Shura and Elyn had traveled to Finland would have failed miserably. That could only indicate one thing: "This isn't a game and that when it comes to missions... just an error can be life-threatening." Aioros had said.
Sira ran after Vitani, the owner of the mansion had left seconds before her room, taking advantage of the fact that the little girl had been petrified. Sira saw her at the end of the hall so increased her speed, and reached the corner in a blink of an eye; however, her body collided violently with that of an adult. Looking up, Sira watched as several servants who had been kind and affectionate to her days before, looked down on her with hate: There were four of them, one of them holding Vitani and making sure that Vitani didn't scream by placing a knife over her neck; the rest debated between looks what to do with the witness who had just appeared in their plans. As a trainee apprentice in the Sanctuary, Sira wasted no time - not after the one she had wasted in Vitani's room - her body moved swiftly toward the armed man, raised her hand, and snatched the knife from him with a single blow, immediately afterward. She kicked his ankle and twisted his arm, completely destabilizing him despite the difference in height; with such movement, Sira also pulled the hostage away from his captor and took advantage of the momentum to throw him face-first against the other three adults who had not expected that such a small girl could move in this way. Right after that, Sira grabbed Vitani by the wrist and yanked her away in the direction of an exit.
However, seeing herself in the dark and in a house unknown to her despite the time she had lived there, was an impediment that forced the girl to desperately take a measure: she stopped dead in the middle of a hallway, looked the wall in fury and concentrated his cosmos on her free fist. She hit the wall releasing all the energy at the exact moment, causing the wall to crack and expose the outside. Not caring in the least about the sound it caused or the amazement her power had generated in Vitani, Sira continued her career to lose theirself in the forest she remembered behind the mansion. There, under freedom, it would be much easier for her to hide and flee from the servants who had decided to kidnap the family's daughter.
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But the servants had long planned that plan and fate wanted to guide the two girls directly to the wolf's mouth. There in the forest, there was a couple waiting among the bushes, the expert gardeners who knew how to remove the earth to make their silent steps and hide from the eyes of wild animals. Surprising two girls, ages seven and twelve, would be much less expensive than the others believed.
Warned by their companions, the forest managers managed to create the perfect trap that divided them: something was different in the seven-year-old girl, so, after making the appropriate deductions, they managed a quick perfect trap perfect for catch her in a matter of minutes.
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Sira didn't stop running at any time doing aimlessly to deviate from the obvious path that perhaps their captors would follow to hunt them down. The escape was much more tiring by constantly pulling Vitani but something in her mind had been activated and saying her that she should save her friend as soon as possible... Until her foot activated something on the ground.
A net began to rise and the girl's body seemed to move by pure instinct, Sira released Vitani and pushed her away but she left trapped in a net that lifted her a few meters from the ground. Now, Sira was locked up and away from Vitani:
"CORRE, VITANI!" (Run!)
Vitani didn't understand a word but she knew that she must continue on her way without the little girl's company. Unfortunately, she had barely advanced a couple of steps when one of the gardeners appeared before her, cutting off her path. Sira clung to the net and tried to break it using her cosmos but that wasn't as easy as opening a hole in a wall. The man was talking to Vitani but the little girl wasn't understanding anything because they were communicating in Finnish but whatever it was, her new friend wasn't willing to accept it.
She had to do something, and she had to do it quickly. Sira thought of Saori, what would have happened if that girl had been her goddess? She as future Saint of Capricorn had to protect her from any danger. She began to scream, hoping to get the attention of the man that approached to Vitani but none of her screams was of any use; being trapped, the girl wasn't a threat so the man grabbed Vitani by the hair and started to pull her to take her back to the mansion:
"EH, GILIPOLLAS, MÉTETE CON ALGUIEN DE TU TAMAÑO!" (Ey, asshole, pick on someone on your own size!")
Her insults didn't take effect and Vitani walked away hopelessly, telling the name of Sira for to help her. What if it had been Saori? Something bad was going to happen to Vitani and she could have been Athena ...
"She-Ra ran to save her goddess using all the movements she had learned but the kicks that opened the earth and her fists ripping the sky was not enough, no... she needed much more to save the person who had saved her the life when welcoming it in the Sanctuary… She should to fight and to burn the cosmos of her interior!" Sounds in her mind. Shura's Tale. The story of the warrior She-Ra who managed to save Athena.
Sira concentrated on that image that her mind had created long ago, believing herself the embodiment of this warrior, the next savior of the goddess. She remembered Shura, how she had seen him fight in the Sanctuary's tournaments using his own hand as a sword... She-Ra's sword.
The Capricorn Saint's voice was heard again in her heart, ending the scene she had seen reflected in Shura several times. "So she stretched out his hand, feeling how it could feel like a sword! And then, she screamed with all the force of her lungs"
"FOR THE GLORY OF ATHENA!" Sira stretched out the fingers of her hand, brought them to chest level and concentrating all the cosmos she was able to keep there. She moved the hand slicing the air adding a new cry...
EXCALIBUR!
The ropes broke cleanly, and a beam of light pierced the man dragging Vitani in half, halting his footsteps.
Sira fell to the ground, exhausted by such a release of cosmos but adrenaline still ran through her veins. She stood up at full speed, took Vitani's hand again, and ran off to lose theirself in the forest, unaware of the real damage her attack had done to the man in charge of catching them.