Hardships

Dont Leave Me

Adora's POV:

"Its over Adora! Surrender to me, and watch as we take over your precious little Bright Moon!", Catra yells as we circle around each other. I growl and tighten my grip on my sword and lunge at her, swinging my sword at Catra. Catra jumps out of the way out of my view. My heart beating spectacularly fast, I was already weakened by the blasts I took from the cannons of the tanks the Horde fired at Bright Moon and well, me. I knew she had to be getting tired too, and she was still definitely injured from the couple of hits I landed on her. Why does she always gotta attack when we are tryna get shit together. Especially with the damn portal she opened up.

"Its not over yet Catra!", I yell looking around trying to see where she's at. I hear her chuckling and grit my teeth. I felt her feet on my shoulders as she jumps down from god knows where. I shivered when she tucked a piece of hair behind my ear and whispers, "Of course its not over yet. Its not over till darkness takes over Etheria. Till I see the same pain you put me through. TILL I SEE THE LOOKS ON YOUR 'BESTIES' FACES AS THEY REALIZE HOW WORTHLESS YOU ARE!". I yell in pain as she digs her claws into my back and rips the skin there.

Before she could jump off my back, I grab her leg pinning her in place and slamming us both into the rocks that are surrounding us. I groaned by the impact and I heard her breathing become labored as she groaned a bit. She kicks me in the back, sending me to the ground as she jumped up on a rock. I growled and dug my fingers into the ground. "You know Adora, this whole time I've wanted you to come back to the Horde. To me. But no. You had to go play fucking dress up with the princesses, eh? Just throw away the 15 damn years we spent together away right? For some damn sparkly princesses and a weirdo in a fucking crop-top. This is my revenge. This is ME winning and I won't let you and your little bestfriends get in the way", Catra growls as she looked down at me, her tail waving back and forth in an erratic movement.

"I-Im sorry Catra", I say in a shaky voice, now realizing how bad I felt. I left her. I abandoned her. I left her in Hell, quite literally too. I look up at her through teary eyes and say, "Im so so sorry, I never meant to leave you". Catra's expression steeled and she jumped down and grabbed me by my hair and growled, "Y-You're sorry?! I dont give two fucking shits Adora. You left me. You abandoned me. You DONT UNDERSTAND THE SHIT IVE BEEN THROUGH TO PROTECT YOU WHILE YOU WERE RUNNING AROUND PLAYING PRINCESS. CLEANING UP THE MESS YOU LEFT AT THE HORDE. I-", Catra's voice cracked and her hand on my hair started shaking violently, "I-I was tortured. Beatened. Almost to fucking death by Shadow Weaver. To get YOU back. SHE LEFT ME FOR YOU! The only fucking mother figure I had always hated me. Why? Because YOU always had to be Ms.Perfect. Everything has always been 'Adora this' and 'Adora that'. I was always looked at as your fucking pet. 'I have only kept you for this long because Adora is fond of you' right? Entrapta. Scorpia. Shadow Weaver. YOU! YOU ALL LEFT ME! L-Like I was trash. And after EVERYTHING I DID FOR YOU. . YOU LEAVE ME?!". At this point we both had tears streaming down our cheeks.

I look into her eyes, my own eyes widening when I saw nothing but hatred, hurt, and anger in them. This isnt the Catra I remember. She growls and scratches my eye, making me yelp in pain and clasp my hand against my eye and stumble back. I watched as she ran along the rocky walls that were surrounding us before she leapt and took her claws out taking a strike at me before I quickly grabbed my sword and closed my eyes before thinking and jabbed it in front of me.

I felt my heart drop when I felt something hot hit my face and a loud gasp. I opened my eyes and more tears brimmed my eyes. In front of me, Catra's eyes were wide as she had blood spilling from her mouth my blade sticking through her torso. I fell to my knees letting go of my sword, as she dropped to the floor. I watched as she grabbed the sword handle and pulled it out, blood oozing out of her wound. I crawled over to her side, only to see a smirk on her face. "I-I guess this is how it ends, E-Eh Adora?", Catra says in a wheezy voice as she laid on her back her chest heaving erratically , her voice extremely gruff. I pull her head onto my lap and used my hand to put pressure on the wound, sobbing quietly to myself as I looked at my ex-bestfriend. I put my hand in hers and said waveringly, "N-No dont say that. Y-You're not leaving me yet Catra!". 

Catra looks up at me and asks shakily, "H-Hey Adora?". I look down at her, letting my tears drop onto her face and ask quietly, "Y-Yeah?". Catra brings her other hand up to my face with a grunt of pain, her hand shakily wiping tears from my eyes and she says gravelly, "D-Dont cry princess y-you won. T-", Catra is interrupted by the Horde's retreat horn and her own raspy coughs. I grab the hand that was on my face and yell frustratedly, " I DIDNT WANT THIS!! I-I DIDNT WANT TO HURT YOU!". Catra's grip on my hand started to weaken and I felt my heart drop and she looks up at me and says softly, "Y-You're b-beautiful Adora. I-If I die I want you to k-know that I-". I watched in horror as she stopped mid-sentence, her breathing becoming increasingly labored and her eyes closed.

I slapped her cheeks making her eyes open again and yell shakily, "NO! NONONONO! D-Dont close your fucking eyes! Y-YOU'RE ALWAYS SO DAMN STUBBORN. SO FIGHT. Come ON!". I looked into her eyes and saw nothing but fear no matter how hard she tried to joke about the situation she's in, shes scared. I am too. I cant lose her. "Adora!~ We did it! We-", I hear Glimmer and Bow yell before their footsteps stopped by my side. I looked into them through teary eyes and say softly, "P-Please, help me get her to the infirmary. S-Shes going to die. I-I stabbed her w-with my sword a-and I-I-I didnt mean to".

Before I knew it, Bow grabbed Catra from my arms and said, "We are going to help her. For you Adora. But shes staying as a prisoner here until Queen Glimmer figures out the punishment thats fit for her when shes nursed back to health". I nod and Glimmer nods aswell before teleporting us into Brightmoon's infirmary. We walked in, making my way to a private room so that the injured warriors and others dont fucking strangle Catra while shes here. She lost consciousness about 3 times as we tried to get her onto a clean bed.

I clear out a messy bed and tell Bow to lay her down. He does so and calls a nurse. I was growing impatient and decided to do my own magic. I put my hands on Catra's wound putting pressure and closing my eyes. I kept on concentrating till I felt something surge through me. I hear gasps and open my eyes to see a glowing bright light around Catra and I and her wound. I watched as it became less serious and formed a still pretty deep gash on her torso. Finally a nurse came in after a while. "Isnt this the Horde's captain? Im not attending this beast", The nurse says in a plummy tone. I look at her with wide eyes and she looks at me and says, "You cant seriously expect me to take care of the monster that took my father away?! That almost killed the queen. Almost KILLED ALL OF US!", The nurse says as she gets in my face. I dont like your tone you bitch. Shes still a fucking human, and shes about to die.

I growl and yell shakily, "Enough! She is dying! Isnt it your fucking job to SAVE and HEAL people?! Wrap her wounds! Please. Let her rest here. Once she can speak and fuck, open her eyes we'll move her to a cell for interrogation. J-Just please do something!". The nurse was about to say something when Glimmer barks, "NOW NURSE! We are not the Horde. We do not let anyone die. Now do your fucking Job". The Nurse nods and starts taking off Catras clothes, I watched as they cleaned her wounds and wrapped them before I saw all the scars and bruises scattered everywhere on her body. After a while Glimmer ordered me to my room to get some rest. Rest how can I rest when I stabbed my best friend well ex-bestfriend. God damn it Catra you better not leave me. I sigh and run a shaky hand through my hair. "I-Im so sorry Catra", I say shakily before I wrapped myself in the blanket on my bed like Catra used to do as a kid when she was upset and tucked my knees towards my chest and cried myself to sleep.

To be continued...