Adora's PoV
We made it back to Bright Moon hours ago after retaking the the outpost but (AC/N) hasn't arrived yet, it is almost night and I'm starting to get worry
'what if something happened?'
"Hey guys.... have you guys seen (AC/N)? Or Swifty? Do you know if they are back yet?" I ask my friends as I walk inside Glimmer's room. bow was on the table, fixing one of his arrows and Glimmer was sitting next to her window, reading a book
"Ohh hey Adora, I assume she did, we saw Swifty an hour ago" Bow says normally, letting his tools on the table and looking at me
"Wait, what?!" I say surprised
"Yeah... I assumed by now you two would be sparring on top of each other" Glimmer teases, smirking at me
"Glimmer!" Bow and I say in unison. I blush hard at this
"What?!.... Somebody had to say that" she says innocently, going back to her book
"I... I'm going to look for her" I say, walking to the door
"Wait.... She really didn't come to you?" Glimmer asks worry. I stop and turn my head
"No...she didn't" I say sadly
'if she is here....why didn't she look for us?'
"You think something happened?" Bow asks also worry, starting to raise from the table
"I'll find her and let you know" I say and they nod, slightly worry. Closing the door behind me I walk towards the stables. If could talk to Swifty maybe I'll know where she is. In the stables I find Swifty eating apples
"Hey Swifty..... Are you ok? Where is (AC/N)?" I ask worry
"Hey Adora... I'm ok and (Y/N)... She says she was going to go for a walk... in the garden...." he says normally but frowns thoughtfully before saying
"....She said you two were going to meet there" he says now worry and confused
"Yeah.... Right I forgot...." I lied
'In the garden? Why would (AC/N) lie to him like that?'
".....I just wanted to know how it went? Is (AC/N) ok?" I ask, hiding my worry
"Well.... To be honest we slipped up for a while and when I found her.... She looked on edge... out of place... and little terrified... she was crying" he says looking sad
"....I tried talking to her on our way back but she just kept saying that everything was ok. That she was just sad because we didn't find anything" he finished
"Ohh ok, thanks Swifty, get some rest" I say, caressing his nose and walk away
"Adora.... is she going to be ok? I got the feeling she hid something from me. Like she found out something she didn't want to find" he asks worry, with so much concerned in his eyes
'what happened out there??!'
"She will!! I will find her and see that she is fine" I smile to him and walk away, making my way to the gardens
'i knew I should've gone with her....I shouldn't have let her go without us... What could’ve happened..... What if she is hurt and didn't tell Swift Wind. What if what she found it's bad, really bad... She didn't come to us when she arrived.... She didn't come to me'
Finally stepping inside the garden, I start to look around for want sign of her but there was none and now that it was night it was starting to get harder to see. Thankfully a lanterns were helpful to walk around. After at least half an hour I found her sitting the the edge of the small lagoon in the farther side of the garden. Her knees tuck into her chest and her head was tiredly laced on her knees
"(AC/N)?" I ask lowly. Stepping closer. She stiffened before slightly relaxing and turning her her to me
"Hey Adora.... How are you?...." She says, forcing a weak smile and willing her eyes to show happiness and normalcy rather than the desperate fear it was truly in them. She is trying to hide whatever is bothering her
'she didn't say ~gorgeous~ she always calls me that'
Taking a steady breath so I wouldn't ask something that would make whatever she was going through worst, I sit down next to her and gently place my hand over her knee and she jumps startled and leans away before looking at me and willing her herself to relax. Taking an exhausted guilty sigh
'why?!'
" ... Sorry.... I'm a little on edge" she laughs lowly, holding my hand gently and kissing it lovingly, and there was a little calm and steadiness in her body after it
"Are... are you ok? Swifty told me that you looked a little.... Scared" I ask hesitantly, not wanting to worsen what she was feeling
"Yeah.. I am... there is nothing to worry about... I promise...." she says sweetly, looking at me with loving eyes. Such gentle and caring eyes that seeing the despair and fear hidden behind that loving gaze broken every piece of my heart
"....I'm just.... Sad that we didn't find anything, that's all" she lies. But she never lies to me. Moving closer, she passes her arm under mine and cuddles in my side, placing her head on my shoulder softly, and even when I knew something was wrong I couldn't help but smile when she did it. cuddling closer to her, I place my other hand over her knee and noticed the dust that covered all of it, and the tear fabric of her pants and t-shirt
"Are you sure? You are cover in dust, and your clothes..?" I frown worryingly, slightly turning to look a her better, worry that she was hurt. It looked like...
"Ohh that... Yes I... I slipped... Yeah I slipped down a hill by accident" she hesitantly giggles embarrassed, lying again, but I know her, something was wrong
"Sure you did" I forced out a laugh so she wouldn't suspect I didn't believe her. I wouldn't force her to tell me what was wrong, but what I could do was look after her, be here when she was ready to finally talk about it. She looks up at me. Those loving beautiful eyes shining with the light of the moon. There was worry in them, so much that I knew it was eating her up, and yet she gently reaches out her hand towards my face, brushing her fingers so gently over my cheek before saying
"You know I love you right.... with all my heart" she whispers quitely and half hesitant, as if worry that I didn't know or that would ever question it
"Of course I do... And I love you, more than anything (AC/N)" I whisper back. Brushing away a string of her hair and ending by caressing her cheek with my thumb and a soft kiss on her forehead. Smiling lovingly and leans and kisses my lips lightly
"Let's go to bed... It's late" she says against my lips before standing up and offering me her hand, which I immediately took and then we walked back toward the castle
(Y/N)'s PoV
Adora knows I'm lying to her, URGH! I hate lying to Adora, but what else can I do? tell her that my nightmares are about She-ra killing someone with my powers.... I can't tell her that, but I have to tell her. I can't hide this from her.... she deserves to know but knowing her, she would.... blame herself or doubt herself as the new She-ra
I know she is better than the ones before her. She has the sweetest heart in this world. I know she will be an incredible She-ra. Just and kind. I know she would never hurt me or do something like that... That is not why I'm worry
I will tell her but I have to find the right moment for that, but it's not going to be today... Today we are going to the northern regions of Etheria to stop the Horde... For whatever reason they decided it was a good idea to venture this region in the middle of winter
"Fuck! it's sooo cold here" I shiver hardly. I already have like five sweater on and still I'm freezing my ass off. Adora as She-ra sit next to me on the ship and side hugs me, sharing her warmth and I cuddle happily in her arms
I should be scared of She-ra or at least at the presence of her magic, especially after what I discovered, but I'm not. I trust Adora with my life. I know her better than anyone and she would never hurt someone the way that other She-ra did. Whatever happened so that the other She-ra went beserk against that girl, that would neve happen to Adora, not if I can help it. Not to my She-ra
"How are you not cold? You are literally wearing shorts" I laugh, my lips trembling from the cold, making my teeth crashed against each other. She laughs loudly at this and cuddles me close to her, kissing the top of me head
"Because I have you in my arms... And that's all the heat I need" she says playfully, winking and I let out an aww sound at her cheese comment
"You guys think I'm cool right?" Sea Hack asks us from the other side of the ship
"Of course you are... Why would you think you are not?" I ask curious
"Mermista cancelled all our plans this week and she's hanging out with her other friends, and didn't invite me to join, I..." he says sadly. Glimmer teleports to him
"Well... let this mission distract you from all that....We've received reports of Horde activity from the Northern Reach. They've set up some kind of outpost, but we have no idea know why" Glim says trying to cheer him up
"The Northern Reach is nothing but snow and ice. What could they possibly be doing?" Bow asks
"I don't know, but it can't be good" She-ra says worry
"Maybe they want to see the northern lights..... Or be evil and stop Santa from delivering Christmas gifts....." I joke to myself and they look at me confused
".....We really need to have a long conversation people!!" I sigh disappointed
*time Skip*
After a while we decided to continue the journey on foot. We've been walking for almost an hour towards the location of the Horde's outpost.... I think..... I hope so
"Come to think of it, Mermista never invites me to hang out with her other friends. I mean, am I not cool enough for them? I'm so cool. I'm Sea Hawk!" Sea Hack keeps talking
"Yes Sea Hack, yes you are" I say sweetly but a bit annoyed, looking at She-ra examining the ground
'what is she doing?'
I see Bow and Glim looking at his tracker so I walk to them
"What's wrong?" I ask
"My tracker pad's been on the fritz ever since that rogue communications hub messed with it. I'm having trouble pinpointing the Horde's location" Bow says, trying to fix it
'where have I seen this!?'
"Worry not. We'll follow our instincts!...... This way!" Sea Hack shouts, pointing at the direction we came from
"Or, there's this new signal, now. It's big. It looks like a First Ones tech signature" Bow gasps and starts walking towards the right direction. I walk to Sea Hack and take his hand
"C'mon cool sailor boy.... it's this way" I tease, dragging him with the other. Him whispering adventure excitedly under his breath. We walk for a while till we located some small buildings up ahead. When we get closer we see Scorpia, Entrapta and Catra
'oh oh, I don't like this'
"Catra!! It's been awhile" She-ra screams mockingly
"Hey, Adora.... Hey Cub" Catra says smugly
"You're pretty far from the front line. I guess Shadow Weaver's keeping you away from the action since you lost the Battle of Bright Moon" She-ra mocks her. Catra laughs wickedly amused
"Shadow Weaver?.... Wow.... I always forget how clueless you are" Catra laughs evilly
"We're here to take back this land. It's time for you to go back to the Fright Zone" I say, getting my staff. Sadly I lost my sword in Candila.... I guess metal and lava don't combine so well after all
"OwWw Cub, you don't have the guts... You want us to go?! Try and make us" Catra teases
"You leave (AC/N) out of this.... stay away from her" She-ra grunts protectively and angrily
"I don't want to, she is fun to mess with" Catra teases and She-ra jumps to attack her. Scorpia runs towards me and I see Glimmer next to me, she throws a sparkle blasts while I try to knock her out with my staff but for our luck she grabs us and throw us out of the platform with ease. I scream my life out till Glimmer grabs my hand and teleports us to the surface
"Did you see those glowing eyes?" She asks scared
"What glowing eyes?" I ask now terrified
'what is she talking about'
We hear someone grunt painfully in front of us and we She-ra crying out, red vines going up her arm
"No!" I say worry. Glimmer grabs my arm and teleport us to Catra
"What did you do?" Glim asks angrily, Catra just smirks. She-ra still growling and screaming furiously
"Glimmer get out of here!!" I say terrified. Even more now because this She-ra reminds me of the She-ra who killed that girl
'this is not Adora.... It's the stupid first one's tech'
"No!! I'm not leaving you here" Glim starts but She-ra jumps to attack us separating us and the attacking Glimmer as I stayed with Catra
"Haha!!! This is awesome" Catra says happily
"No, it's not!! Catra you have no idea what she is capable of...." I shout angrily and worry. Unconsciously starting to shake from the fear
"....Give me the disk!!" I demand angrily. Looking down at her hand where she had it
"Not a chance!" she says and too fast for me to stop her, runs away to Entrapta and Scorpia. Glimmer was still fighting corrupted She-ra, barely being able to avoid her attacks but with a quick expert move, She-ra punches her in the stomach, sending her flying a good 4 meters
"Glimmer!!" I scream terrified, creating a blast and send it at She-ra's feet, blasting her away but not enough to hurt her. I run to Glimmer and sit her up
"Are you ok?" I ask worry and she nods. Thankfully Bow and Sea Hack run to us. Bow trapped She-ra with a net but she broke out. I stand facing her
"Get her out of here" I say to them and run to She-ra. She raises her sword to strike me but misses by millimeter. My magic stirring wildly inside me, begging me to use it to stop her but I couldn't, if could hurt Adora. With another swing of her sword, it gets stuck on the ground but when she forcedly pulled it out, the ground under my friends caved and dragged them inside the enormous hole
"NOOOO!" I scream, immediately regretting it when She-ra looks back at me with only hatred in her eyes. Almost identical to the look the other She-ra had when she killed the girl, but where the other She-ra's eyes seemed aware and conscious of her actions, Adora's eyes seems control and unaware
"A.... Adora?" I whisper quitely with a trembling voice. Walking backwards while she walks forward smirking devilishly to me. A cold shiver crawls up my back, freezing me in fear and I wasn't entirely sure if it was just for the First One's tech anymore. My magic still roaming violently, desperate to get out, as if it knew...
She strikes faster than I thought and with a miraculously quick reaction I was able to avoid her attack. But she didn't let me enjoy my small victory, she immediately attacks again and and deflected. Over and over it was a game where she attacked and I barely made it out of it
Throwing punches and strikes her her sword, it was starting to become impossible to spar away from her so I ended up creating a barrier around myself to take on her attacks. I couldn't use my magic against her, I wasn't going to hurt Adora and if the past couple of months have show me anything, I doubt it will me much of a difference against so mething of the First One's, and Adora was influenced by its evil tech right now
There was only one way I can help her. Glimmer separated her from the sword back in Dryl when she was like this, maybe it would help this time too. Letting my barrier disappear I run to her, faking an attack to force her to use her sword to strike me down and she did. Raising her sword, she strikes it down to the ground just when I moved away from the spot, successfully sticking it on the ground. With this I go behind her and try pulling her away from it but unfortunately She-ra does the same she did to Glimmer and elbows me hard in the chest, sending me away gasping for air
"(AC/N)!" I hear Catra scream somewhere in the distance, or maybe closer, I couldn't be sure, I was too busy breathing to determine. Seconds later she is next to me, frowning worryingly down at me
"Catra get out... She will... Go" I forced my voice to come out between breaths. I couldn't hear what she said to me because She-ra was already running towards us. Sword raised over her shoulder, ready to strike. Willing myself to stand I create a blast and throw it at She-ra's feet, making her stumble slightly and then I was running. Taking a hold on the sword, which obviously shocked me hardly as the pain spread across my body with an impossibly velocity, but didn't let it stop me. I had to get Adora back and this was the only way to do so until we destroy that disk again
I pull and pull till I see She-ra move her arm and faster than I could create the barrier she punches my stomach with such a force that I felt something crack inside my chest, mostly ribs. The pain was agonizing, the blur of my vision clouding more and more as the pain spread farther. Between breathless inhales and not daring to let go of the sword, I create an harmless her powerful orbe in my hand and force it against She-ra's chest, blasting her away and thankfully she let go of the sword
Fighting down the nausea and dizziness that threaten to take me I forced myself to raise to my elbows. Adora, back to her normal self, laying of the ground next to me unconscious. Coughing out a mouth full of blood in the snow I try to crawl towards Adora. My mind foggy and everything kept swaying wildly around me but I saw when Scorpia picked up Adora and smiling wickedly and victoriously down at me
"Don't touch her... you won't get away with this" I fought to get out but even as I said it I knew it was a lie,she so did she
"We already did" she says proudly and it took all my concentration to keep myself from passing out
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