Crimson Blood

Chapter 26

Scorpia's POV:

I sighed as I walked away from Catra to leave her to herself. My eyes caught onto towers of crates in a room with green lighting as I propped one up onto my shoulders with ease.

"Might as well be helpful," I sighed, as I started walking towards the transport where I saw Lonnie, Kyle, and Rogelio loading crates onto the transport. Their eyes looked tired as I noticed Rogelio's tail wrapped around Kyle's waist and smiled remembering the teasing that we used to do to them when we were younger.

"Hey, guys!" I exclaimed as I took the crate in my hand and put it onto the transport.

"Hey, Scorpia," Lonnie replied, tiredness masking her voice as she made an effort to smile.

"What's that?" Kyle whimpered as he took a look at my bloody arm.

"Nothing it's just-" before I could respond I felt Lonnie swoop behind me and lift my arm to examine the marks.

"These are claw marks," she stated, narrowing her eyes at me in suspicion.

"Um... yep! Got scratched by a badger a few minutes ago!" I stammered nervously as a trickle of sweat went down my forehead.

Lonnie glared at me as she continued to look down at the scratches on my arms.

"It's just a little scrape, it'll be fine," I stated, trying to divert her attention.

"Just a little scrape?!?! Scorpia! Get out of the clouds, these are cat claw marks!" she burst out with anger but I have a feeling it wasn't directed at me.

"Did Catra do this?!" she exclaimed in a mix of anger and shock.

"Well yes- but I'm sure she didn't-" I got cut off by another comment from Lonnie.

"Didn't mean to? Scorpia, we've given her enough chances, you gotta stand up for yourself," she told me as she attempted to soften her tone. Next to her, Rogelio grunted in agreement while Kyle raised a shaky thumbs-up.

"You're right." I sighed with sadness, "I need to start doing something." I took a breath in to avoid showing the pain behind my words.

"Just-'' Lonnie cut herself off as her throat went dry, "Take care of yourself." she breathed out as she enveloped her arms around me and dug her face into my chest.

'You give good hugs," I commented while Lonnie gave me a soft smile and nodded.

"I don't know what you're gonna do but whatever it is, good luck." she smiled as I noticed Kyle and Rogelio mimicking her smile.

"Thanks, guys," I said gratefully before leaving them behind at the transport and heading up to the room I shared with Emily. Ever since Entrapta and Hordak had been working together on a bigger project, Emily sometimes felt alone when Entrapta was away. I'm not saying that Entrapta didn't pay any attention to Emily, she did, she would bring her tiny food every day, read her stories, and work on software improvements, whatever that was.

"Emily," I started with tears in my eyes as Emily looked up at me with wonder.

"I'm sorry but I know that Entrapta loves you and I can't take you away from her," I said before leaving that room for the last time.

Glimmer's POV:

"I don't understand! All the runestones should be connected but..." my words drifted off as I thought about the different runestones, "The Black Garnet." I gasped as I remembered when I was trapped in the Fright Zone.

"Scorpia..." I thought, with flashbacks of Frosta's Princess Prom.

"Out of all people, why does it have to be someone that's a part of the Evil Horde?!?!" I burst out with annoyance.