The Tides Of War

The Heart p1

Catra rides Melog through the forest. Melog stops, tossing her to the ground. Catra yelling as she makes contact with the dirt.

Melog grunts. 𝙒𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙜𝙤 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠.

"Ow! What's wrong with you?!"

Melog mews, 𝙬𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙣'𝙩 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜.
"Stop it! Stop it! I told you, I'm not going back."

Melog growled and flared before pinning her to the ground.

Catra struggles, "You saw what happened! Adora chose Shadow Weaver, okay? Not me! Adora doesn't want me! Not like I want her."
𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙎𝙞𝙡𝙫𝙚𝙧? 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙. Melog mews sadly.

Her eyes brim with tears and Melog licks her cheek. She hugs Melog.
"She doesn't deserve someone like me. "

footsteps approached them and Melog turned them invisible as a clone passes. Still invisible, Catra follows the clone. Horde ships hover in the sky over the site and a Horde Spire perches on the dirt, surrounded by clones.

After trailing the clone. She spotted symbols in the dirt, then looked up in horror.

"What?"

The clone walks into a Horde camp. A huge green triangular blade hangs in a structure pointing down at the ground as clones stand guard. Beneath the probe, a purple light shines from a cluster of crystals buried underground.

voices started whispering indistinctly.

The Clone winces.

Lowering his hood, revealing the chip in his neck. He glances back, but Catra is hidden. He continues on, and Catra trembles in fear.

On Prime's ship, Horde Prime addresses his troops.

"My brothers. The time has come at last. No longer shall She-Ra stand in my way. The Heart shall be laid bare, its power mine for the taking."

"Cast out the shadows. Bring the universe to Prime's light. Cast out the shadows. Bring the universe to Prime's light. Cast out the shadows. Bring the universe to Prime's light." They all chanted.

Horde Prime grinned, "Begin the acquisition process! "

He presses the Horde symbol on his screen and it flashes. A green light beams over the camp and Catra startles.

Catra gasps.

The green probe lowers towards the ground. Clone guards stand on a circular wall surrounding the sight. Prime presses the symbol again and the blade begins to whirl and lower towards the purple crystals. A bright florescent green light emanates from the ground and spreads over the camp. Aboard the ship, tubes run into Prime's body and he raises his arms as an image of the planet glows with green light. Catra watches as green light symbols spread over the ground and through the forest.

𝙽𝚘𝚝 𝚏𝚊𝚛 𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚢... [

A woosh passes through the trees of the Whispering Woods. Silver panted ands she followed Catra's trail. The striped magicat felt the wind turn cold and gasped, missing her branch and hitting it and falling to the ground.

She groaned and winced as she looked around her. Green symbols branched across the ground, all First Ones' writing. As they got closer to her, a pain in her chest grew. Silver backed up in a panic, looking behind her, more of the sickly green writing cornered her, coming from a different direction. And most likely they were actually heading to the main Beacon. But they had to cross her path first.