Lost in the Forest

Catra Has been trying to escape the forest for weeks after the last battle, however it seems to be changing around her as she fights to run away. Adora convinced Glimmer and Bo to help her find her friend Catra, and bring her to safety, but their patience is running thin.

Author's Note: This story was originally written as a Christmas gift for my girlfriend. She has given me permission to post it. My other story will be returning soon. Sorry about the wait, haven't been feeling well lately. Anyway, hope you enjoy!

To Lia: I love you so much. You are spectacular, and amazing, and I feel so damn lucky to have you each and every fucking day. I knew you were special from the instant we started talking. Something felt right and easy. I knew I wanted to talk to you, and I didn't wanna stop. You were confident and smooth, and something about you called to my omega and made me want to roll over and call you alpha. Aaaaand then you actually talked to me! I enjoyed each and every minute of that more and more. Everything I learned about you just made you seem even more perfect for me. Which is probably why I never gave up on pushing you to give me a chance. I swear each and every damn thing that came out of your mouth made the voice in my head scream louder and louder. "Don't let this woman go dumbass! She is amazing and perfect for you!"

I don't know if you know this already or not, but when I made my character in Ark I intentionally made the character a little ridiculous (not that I wanted her to look ridiculous) just because I wanted you to see me as a real woman. For some reason, I thought completely unrealistic CGI boobs would do the trick.

But that is how stupid head over heels in love I was with you from so early on. I love you, you have had my heart for about six months now, and I am so happy you took it. Merry Christmas! I love you so much baby

Chapter 1

"Mother fucking…" Catra complained kicking twigs. "God damned!" Her whole body was sore as she held to her side. Her temperature was clearly rising from the wound, infection assuredly growing and causing her vision to grow weary. "Special sword-wielding!" Her growls built as did her anger with both Adora and herself. "Self-righteous!" She cracked her knuckles angrily. "Grrr!" Catra spun around taking her anger out on an innocent tree. Her claws tore through the bark with angered and heated huffs. "Ahhhhh!" Catra screamed! "How! Can! She! Just!" Catra collapsed to the forest floor, denying tears through sheer force of anger. "Leave" The broken whimper infuriated her more than anything. How could she be this weak? Her whole life had been being trained to shut off any part of herself that could ever feel anything even close to this! "Just go find a fucking sword that makes you all tall… bright and…" Catra growled frustrated by how both of Adora's forms made her body react. "And you are so much better! The rest of us are chopped liver?! What were WE! What were we to you! Nothing?!" Catra's heart sank lower. "Was I nothing to you!" Catra growled needing to escape this fucking forest already! As if it wasn't bad enough that she couldn't escape the thoughts of Adora, this forest made no sense! She had been heading north for hours! How could she not be back at the compound by now! Nothing about this damn place made sense; nothing at all made sense anymore for that matter. "What do you want!" Catra screamed into a thickening fog infuriated with the forest seemingly shifting around her, keeping her trapped regardless of what she did. Catra groaned, feeling her would open back up painfully from her overexertion. "Fuck!" Catra complained the pain finally breaking through her training and taking her down to the ground. "Go and get a sword, new friends, an extra twenty centimeters and better hair and your whole life means nothing to you?!" Catra fought to keep wary eyes open as her body burned painfully. "I… mean nothing to you?"

"Catra it's over! The attack didn't work!" Adora attempted to reason as she searched the trees.

"Adora she attacked us again!" Bo argued losing two arrows into the trees, only catching leaves.

"Really Adora, what is your plan? Just keep allowing her to ambush us until she kills one of us!?" Glimmer held up her father's staff defensively.

"What do you want me to do!" Adora raised her sword, transforming into She-Ra.

Catra sprinted, leaping along the tree limbs, narrowly avoiding each of Bo's arrows, her body seeming slow and sluggish as each arrow seemed to come closer and closer to being a deadly hit. "I am taking you back or I'm taking that sword!" Catra sneered, leaping from a tree and attempting to swipe at Adora but being stopped by She-Ra's sword. As Catra felt their hand land on the flat side of the sword she was infuriated by the gentle act of kindness from her former friend. If Adora had defended as her whole life's training had demanded Carta's main weapon would be gone; her fingers would have been severed. But no! Adore intentionally only defended the attack, and didn't use the opportunity to turn Catra's flawed attack into an ideal opportunity to turn the tides of the surprise battle.

If the subtle act of kindness wasn't enough Adora looked at her through those same caring eyes! Catra growled infuriated. "You could at least not go easy on me!"

"Catra." Adora whispered.

"Because I am not the coward you are! And I will take advantage of your kindness!" Catra swung up and under the sword with her free hand.

Glimmer narrowly saved Adora from being gutted by Catra by teleporting her away.

"Adora! Are you ok?" Glimmer rushed to Adora's side afraid she had been too slow.

"Bitch!" Catra went to strike at Glimmer for messing with her attack.

"Glimmer!" Bo cried out scared, shooting three arrows at Catra from near point blank range.

Catra had to abandon any attempt to land her strike on Glimmer for any hope to so much as survive Bo's arrows. She torqued herself in mid-air, successfully grabbing one arrow before it went straight through her skull, and evading a second headed for her heart. However, there was nothing she could do to save herself from being skewered by the third. It cut straight through her abdomen running her through with ease.

"Catra!" Adora lunged to catch her. It processed quickly for Adora that the placement of the arrow had an incredible risk of getting easily infected, and that by the time Catra returned to the compound.

"Don't you dare!" Catra snarled, using the arrow she had caught, throwing it in Adora's path to ward her off.

"Your hurt!" Adora stopped herself before being hit by the arrow.

"Don't you dare pity me!" Catra made her way back to her feet, clutching to her side where the arrow ran her through.

"Don't!" Adora called out, worried for her friend, seeing that Catra was about to run again.

"S… stay away! Or next time I won't be so slow and little glitter girl won't be able to save you!"

"Catra stop!" Adora tried to reach out, but she was already gone back in the trees.

"Adora I think it is time to give up on her." Bo warned.

"No!" Adora denied. "Not gonna happen!"

"Adora as much as I would like to believe in never giving up on friends…" Glimmer shook, knowing if Bo hadn't saved her she would have been lucky to only be severely hurt.

"She is scared! She had been stuck running around this forest in circles for weeks!" Adora reasoned, lowering her sword and returning to her normal self.

"Yeah! And so have we! But the three of us seemingly keep getting assaulted by a cat monster!" Bo complained picking up his arrows.

"She is not a monster!" Adora snarled at Bo for even considering calling her friend that.

"Look, although his choice of words may not best…" Glimmer attempted to soothe high tensions.

"Not the best! He just called me friend a monster after trying to kill her!"

"She just tried to kill all three of us!" Bo snapped.

"She is scared!" Adora repeated.

"So are we!" Glimmer gave up on playing arbiter.

"I!" Adora recoiled. "Is that true!?"

"No! I love the thought of getting my throat clawed out! I'm out here for fun!" Bo snapped.

"She wouldn't!" Adora defended.

"The only thing stopping her is that I teleported you away."

"And that my arrows would have killed her if she hadn't stopped."

"No! No that isn't true." Adora refused to believe the truth.

"Adora. We can't stay out here. We are just risking our lives." Glimmer argued.

"We aren't!" Adora tried to disagree, but gave up knowing it was futile.

"We are going home before she kills us!" Bo declared.

"What! No! She is hurt! She needs us!"

"No, she doesn't Adora. Now come on, we can go home and rest in order to prepare for her next big attack while being around real friends who won't try to kill us!" Glimmer suggested hopefully that she could convince Adora to just come home and forfeit this hopeless conquest for someone who clearly wanted nothing to do with her.

"Guys! Come on! Not only is she hurt and in need of our help! But if she were to try to attack us she would be way slower and easier to take back to safety now because of her wound!" Adora cheered like she was making some huge revelation.

"No Adora! We have been running circles out here for two weeks, and all it has gotten us is an innumerable amount of scrapes, scratches, claw wounds, a terrible need for several showers and a bath, and trench foot!" Bo raised a boot as a demonstration.

"Come on! We are so close!" Adora protested.

"You can come with us or stay here searching for her. It is your choice!" Glimmer offered.

"I won't leave her alone in this forest to die! I am not that cruel, and she may have attacked us, but she is still my friend! I still care about her!" Adora pushed.

"Ok, then Adora. We wish you the best." Bo righted his pack on his back.

"We will be back with my mom and the other princesses. You are welcome home whenever you are ready." Glimmer offered.

"Guys!" Adora tried again hopelessly.

"I hope you come home soon. We will miss you." Glimmer sighed guiltful for abandoning Adora, but she knew that this wild goose chase was no good for either Bo or herself.

"Keep in touch… Ok? The both of us and the rest of the princesses will be more than worried about you as long as you are out here." Bo requested.

"Yeah sure." Adora answered back hollow as she turned her back on her friends, looking off in the direction it seemed Catra had run off in.

"Adora?" Glimmer asked worried.

"I'll Check in on Saturdays ok? Stock up on supplies or whatever." Adora offered cold.

"We gotta get home, it'll be dark soon and there is no navigating these forests in the dark." Bo urged.

"Yeah." Glimmer agreed more than a little scared.

"Goodbye, and good luck getting home." Adora waved off to them both as she grabbed her pack and headed off, using all of her training to her fullest ability in an attempt to follow any and every small track that Catra had left behind.

End of Chapter 1