i don't accept (catradora fanfiction)

5. the sounds of the blade

Adora's POV:
I looked over at my sword, sparkling in the evening light, I walked over to it and picked it up, pretty.
Today is the day my love, is the day you shall be avenged.

The balcony off my room is really high up but I don't want to draw attention to myself, so raise my sword and say, as quietly as I can, the words that transform me, I sat on the edge of the stone railing and watched the sun go down over the top of the line of trees at my immediate eye-line, I feel the air in my lungs and then, I slip my body of the balcony, the wind flowing through my hair, falling, the ground getting closer, and closer, and closer, until my feet slam against the ground and I am out of the castle and on my way to the end.

The whispering woods, stupid name, whispering, like they know all your secrets, like they could be some kind of company, but as I walked through the woods, the dark, silent woods, I felt nothing but emptiness, the hole that Catra had left felt like it was bleeding, the loneliness was cold, painful almost, the path was clear to me, I had walked it hundreds of times, but now as I walk, alone, the trees start to blur together, they start to look the same, and just when I thought I was lost, there I saw it, the blurry outline of the horde.

The Horde, the place where I grew up, the place that made me the person I am today, most people feel some kind of warmth when they talk about the places they grew up because after all it's a home, and a home is where you truly feel that you belong, when I think of the Horde all I think of is rage, the hours of training, the relentless hours they worked us making us into disposable soldiers for them to fight their battles.
When I think of home, I think of Catra, her heterochromatic eyes full of happiness, her beautiful smile, her laugh it was the type of laugh that when you heard it you couldn't help but smile, it's her being around her, thinking about her, kissing her, that's my home.

And the Horde took that away.

I walk up to one of the side doors and use my sword to prise it open, I walked up the long empty corridor that lead to the black garnet chamber, ever since shadow weaver died nobody had gone down there, the deserted path that signified the end drew to a close as I shoved the heavy doors of the chamber and they slowly swung open.
The dimly lit room looked sort of elegant as a red light lit up the crimson rune stone in the centre.
One calculated hit with my sword on the black garnet when it's fired up will take out anyone in the whole of the horde base with a zap from the lighting, death by electrocution, what a fun, painful, way to go.

I walked over to a computer screen and keyboard, on it were the words 'press to activate' Entrapta liked to make things easier for herself, and since she was working on the chamber in was hoping she would have put some useful tips like this laying around, I pressed a button on the keyboard and bloody red sparks began to surround the garnet, I lifted my head to the sound of footsteps, people were coming, I was about to go and shut the doors and in ran Glimmer and bow, they must have figured out that I had left and known that this is where I would be, we had discussed doing this before but Glimmer and Catra shunned the idea because of the risk it would bring if it went south, I would surely die, I'm willing to take that risk now, and Bow and Glimmer being here will prove nothing, they can just die with me.

I looked over at them.
"ADORA THINK THIS THROUGH!" Yelled Bow over the loud electrical noises coming from the rune stone.
"I have" I calmly replied, "this is my final decision."

No sooner has I finished my sentence I raised my sword above my head and with all my might I stabbed it deep into the stone, it glided through it with ease, and then. Silence.

Hello it's me, sorry this chapter isn't that good and it's a bit dark but I have an idea so please bare with me lol