The Last Empress of Mars

I will be making revelations to you that will change your life as well as the perception of the World around you and most importantly, will put you in the eye of the storm and expose you to great dangers but all is not negative and in this endeavor you will also be provided with great allies, new and old, who will be there to protect you and to help you achieve your destiny. Perhaps the most important revelation I must make to you at this time is the truth about how you parents died in that so called automobile accident. It was not an accident and your parents died protecting you and your baby sister. Yes, my dear, your sister is alive and reuniting with her is something you must do at the appropriate time. When your parents died, you and your sister were taken to the hospital, she was only suffering from slight burns and I decided it would be safer to separate you, so I took the difficult and painful decision of sending her to live with Marrese, a trusted friend on the other side of the country. Like you she has been receiving the best possible education and like you she has been receiving the best martial arts and weapons training available. As the elder daughter, the mission I will shortly explain falls to you but in case anything should (God forbid!) happen to you, it would pass on to her. She can also be your most powerful ally and she is your only remaining blood relative, so it would be wise to meet her as soon as it is safely possible. She is also being informed upon my death of all the facts so that both of you will know the magnitude of what lies ahead. Let me begin by telling you that your true name is Felicidad Caminante (for various reasons we anglicized the name to Felicity Walker) and that you are in fact the direct descendant of Venetian explorers with a long and proud family history of bravery, truth, curiosity, duty and honor. It was your ancestor, Valentino Caminante, who was a trusted friend of Zheng He, the legendary Admiral of the magnificent Chinese Treasure fleet of the early fifteenth century. Valentino was given the honor and duty of being selected as the third family that would protect 8 artifacts handed down from antiquity. Artifacts that could mean the difference between a happy and free world or a sad dictatorial world and could also protect the