She-ra, the Great Princess of Power

Chapter 13 The Sapphire of Time (part 2)

Adora found herself on the cold ground of the glacier. Catra was next to her, scared but unharmed.
A wall of ice devided them from the others.
"Glimmer? Bow? Can you hear me? Are you okay?" Adora called her friends.
"I'm fine, Adora. But I'm not in good company" Bow said with Scorpia standing next to him.
"Frosta and I are okay" Glimmer said.
Adora took a breath of relief.
"What do we do? The drill was crashed under the ice. We can't use it to get out of here" Catra asked.
"We have to reach the temple with the Sapphire of Time. There's an oculus we can use to get out" Frosta explained.
"A what?" Catra looked at Adora, who had the same confused expression she had.
"An oculus is a round hole in the ceiling" Scorpia clarified.
"How do we get to the temple? This place is like a labyrinth" Bow looked at the galleries around them.
Frosta said the power of the sapphire extended to the rest of the glacier. They had to walk along the gallery that showed their past to find the temple.
"We'll meet there" Glimmer said. She looked at Frosta and the girl made an embarrassed face.
They started to walk along a gallery without talking.
"Looks like we have to do this together" Bow sighed.
"I'm as thrilled as you are. Anyway it's better if we forget we're enemies until we get out" Scorpia said.
"Temporary truce?" He asked.
"Temporary truce" Scorpia agreed. She shook his hand with her claw and they began to search for the temple.
Adora and Catra didn't come to the same solution. They were walking shoulder against shoulder, pushing each other.
"Good job putting us in this situation! You're really the dumbest person that Hordak could have chosed to be Force Captain!" Adora yelled.
"What do you know!? You weren't there when I was doing my job!" Catra hissed.
"Romeo told me everything about your disastrous missions!" Adora smirked.
"Of course he did! You two and Lohni always loved to talk behind my back!-" Catra tripped because Adora stopped pushing her.
"What is your problem!?" Catra looked at her.
Adora remembered what Glimmer said about bullies, and started to feel bad for how she treated Catra.
"You're right, Catra" Adora gave her a hand to stand up "I'm sorry for making fun of you before I joined the Great Rebellion. That wasn't okay" .
Her apology was oddly nice to hear for Catra.
Adora openned her arms to give her a hug, but Catra punched her shoulder.
"Hey!" .
"What? This is how we've always done in the Horde" Catra argued.
"Heh, that's true. I'm just not used to that anymore" Adora nodded.
The two girls continued to walk without pushing or yelling at each other.
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In another gallery, Glimmer was walking behind Frosta.
"We're getting closer to the sapphire. I can feel it" Frosta assured, even if they haven't seen a memory yet.
"If you say so. . ." Glimmer replied with no enthusiasm.
"Ugh! Cheer up, would you, Gloomer? If this is how you have to be, then I wish I was stuck with that scorpion girl or her clumsy friend" Frosta said.
Glimmer's face turned red for the anger.
"Well I'm sorry, but this situation isn't hard just for you!" .
"Excuse me?" Frosta looked at her.
"You heard me! I didn't want to make a big deal of your dibs for the sake of our mission, but now I'm done!" Glimmer yelled "We used to be so close when we were little. What happened?" .
In that moment, the wall beside them showed a memory of the two princesses as kids.
They were outside Frosta's castle. She was showing to Glimmer how good she was at skating on a frozed lake.
"Now it's your turn" Frosta took her hand to guide her.
"I-I'm not sure about thi-this" Glimmer stammered.
"I know you can do it" Frosta encouraged her.
Despite Glimmer's initial fear, they were doing pretty well. They were dancing on the ice hand in hand, but at some point Glimmer slipped out of her glove and Frosta lost grip on her. The little princess slid on the lake with no control and crushed on a snow hill.
"Glimmer, are you okay!?" Frosta asked worried.
"That was fun!" Her friend exclaimed, jumping out of the snow.
Some older kids got closer to mess with them.
"Look. It's the princess of Bright Moon" One of them said.
"Isn't it too cold here for a little thing like you?" A girl asked.
"My friend Glimmer is not a little thing!" Frosta shouted.
"Glimmer? What kind of name is that?" The older kids started to laugh.
"You also think it's a weird name, right?" One of them asked to Frosta. She looked at Glimmer and then looked at those kids.
"I think her name. . . should be Stammer!" Frosta said, siding with them and making her friend run away in tears.
That's when the memory ended.
"Why did you start making fun of me?" Glimmer asked.
"I. . . You wouldn't understand" Frosta turned around to not look at her.
"I can understand perfectly. That's my problem. I'm always so caring and understanding. Then if somebody breaks my heart, I have to pretend that I'm okay" Glimmer angrily said.
Frosta remained silent. She didn't want to talk about it, so she kept walking and Glimmer had no choice but to follow her.
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Scorpia was tired of the way Bow was looking at her.
"Can you stop staring at me? It gives me the creeps" .
"I'm not going to lower my guard. Next thing you know, I'm on the ground, unconscious because of your venom" Bow argued.
"It's not like I'm complainig about the arrows you have. I can't take off my tale, but you could at least put away your bow" Scorpia replied.
Bow decided to put his weapon in the quiver.
"Can I ask you something? In the Crimson Waste, why did you let Glimmer escape?" He wanted to understand why she did that.
"So she told you" Scorpia sighed "Bow, is it? I may be part of the Horde, but I'm not like them. I don't enjoy kidnapping and enslaving civillians" .
"Then why do you work for Hordak?" Bow asked.
"Because I have no choice. If I don't obbay to his orders, my kingdom could be destroyed like those villages that no longer exist" Scorpia explained.
She noticed Bow's frightened expression, that's when the ice wall next to them showed the memory of a burning village.
"Is that. . .?" Scorpia was watching with dread.
"My home. It was attacked by the Horde when I was ten. My mother helped me get on a horse and told me to never look back. I haven't seen her since that day" Bow placed his hand on the wall. Only Glimmer's family knew that.
Scorpia went to touch his hand.
"I'm sorry. If I had the power to change everything, neither of us would be in this horrible situation" She said.
Bow thanked her with tears in the eyes.
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Frosta and Glimmer were still wondering in the galleries of the glacier.
"You said we were getting closer to the sapphire" Glimmer said.
"I lied! I have no idea where we're going!" Frosta screamed "I'm so pathetic. Everything in my life is fake. My friends are fake; even my fur coat is fake" She took off her coat and threw it on the floor "I can't even use my powers to keep my kingdom safe. All I'm good at is mistreat those who care about me" Frosta sat down and covered her face with her hands.
Glimmer went to pick up her coat, then she sat next to Frosta.
"Needing help doesn't make you pathetic. It takes bravery to allow others to give you a hand" Glimmer told her.
"Why are you even helping me? Don't you hate me after what I've done?" Frosta asked, removing her hands from her face.
"You hurted me, but I don't hate you. It's not my thing to hold a grudge" Glimmer said.
"That's a thing I've always liked about you" Frosta smiled and took her coat back.
Another memory was showed. It was the moment when the two princesses met for the first time. Glimmer was timidly hiding behind her mom; Frosta went to take her hand. Their memory started running along the gallery and Glimmer and Frosta followed it to the door to the temple.
The princesses bumped into Scorpia and Bow, and Glimmer accidentally teleported all of them inside the temple.
"We did it!" Frosta smiled, looking at the Sapphire of Time.
"Glimmer, you're getting better at teleporting others" Bow congratulated with her.
"That was so weird. . ." Scorpia said.
"But where are Adora and Catra?" Glimmer asked.