She-Ra : Princess Of Power [BOOK 1]

Chapter 2: The Soldier and The Sword [Part 2]

The tall Princess leaned down to be face to face with the creature. She gently took the arrow out of its eye, which caused it to writhe in pain. It immediately calmed down when the Princess took its face between her hands, bringing it down. She took her sword and aimed it so that the gem was right in front of the injured eye of the creature. The gem glowed again, only not as bright as before. Glimmer and Bow stared in shock as the creature's eye slowly healed, and scarred nicely. 

"Glimmer?" Bow breathed out. 

"Yeah, I see her Bow." Glimmer said in awe, unable to tear her gaze away from her. The Princess leaned against her sword as she stumbled. Her body glowed for a moment before she transformed back into herself, and looked over to Bow and Glimmer. The latter snapped out of her shock and teleported next to her. 

"Hey!" Adora exclaimed as Glimmer pulled the sword away from her.

"There is no way someone like you could actually be She-Ra! Explain right now how you could transform into her!" Glimmer demanded, keeping the sword at bay. 

"What do you mean?! I don't even know who 'She-Ra' is or what just happened!" Adora shot back. 

"And it's going to stay that way, we can't have a Horde Soldier walking around freely while wielding the power of She-Ra." Glimmer snapped. 

"I calmed a worm down, big deal!" Adora snapped as well, just as annoyed. 

"Alright you two, that's enough!" Bow cut in before Glimmer could respond. "Right now, what we should focus on is getting to Bright Moon in one piece, preferably before the Royal Guard, or worse, the Horde finds us!" He explained, causing the two girls to ease up a bit. Just then, the creature from earlier got back up, growling angrily. The three of them screamed in unison, turned around and ran away as fast as they could when they saw it rush forward, chasing them. 

Adora tripped more times than she could count, seeing as she was focusing on urging Spirit along with her. As she looked ahead, she barely had the time to realize that she couldn't see any  more trees in front of her, before falling down a very steep hill. Spirit managed to stay on his feet, for the most part. The other three rolled down like tumbleweed before crashing into each other as they reached the ground. Adora groaned and looked around. Right ahead of the peculiar group stood a tower in ruins. Despite the cracks in the walls or the vines that embraced it in their suffocating hold, the place had an odd charm to it. Only when Adora squinted, did she realize that the bright walls were actually crystals, catching the faint light of the moons, adding more beauty to the building.

Bow got to his feet upon hearing the creature getting closer. He dragged Adora, Glimmer, and Spirit to the building. "We could hide there, come on!" He urged. They now all stood in front of the shut door. Glimmer tried to pry it open but it wouldn't budge. Something caught Adora's eye. It was a small pad with the shape of a hand engraved on it. She hesitantly placed her hand above it. The pad whirred as it came to life, a blue light going up and down, scanning Adora's palm. The pad beeped and the door finally opened. Glimmer and Bow stared back at Adora in shock. They were about to question this before hearing the creature come closer. They rushed inside, and closed the door just when said creature rammed itself into the door. 

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Lonnie, Kyle, Catra and Rogelio stood in front of Shadow Weaver who was pacing back and forth in her room. They watched as their commanding officer finally stopped and took a steadying breath. 

"So, Catra... Let me make sure I'm getting this right." She said, turning slowly as to face the very frightened girl. "You took Adora into the Whispering Woods even though she repeatedly asked you to come back, resulting in her getting lost and possibly injuring herself. Now, Adora is out and about in the middle of the night in rebel territory with nothing but her staff and her horse... Have you lost your mind?!" She yelled out, causing Catra to stagger back in shock. Even Kyle, Lonnie and Rogelio were starting to get scared even though Shadow Weaver previously said they weren't in trouble. The commanding officer eventually composed herself, but it was clear she was still furious. "Catra, you are to go out there again and find her. I don't care how long it takes, I forbid you to come back empty handed." She ordered.