Chapter one

The Alien

Shuri had been devastated when she received the news of her father's passing in the terrorist attack. She held no resentments towards anyone for it, but it still hurt worse than any wound. She was wandering around the border of her homeland of Wakanda, getting some fresh air and trying to relax, but for her it was easier to relax whilst she was working, it didn't help that as a prodigy, she found every task she was set too easy. Little did she know that someone would fall out of the sky and into her life very soon, and this person would bring about a change to how Wakanda saw things.

As Shuri was about to head back to her home, she saw something unusual, it looked like a swirling, golden, upside-down tornado that was floating about a story in the air just outside the border, it had just manifested itself in front of her eyes! Something like a pulse of energy rippled from the centre to the edges, and with a boom, a figure plummeted from it and crashed to the ground! With that, the tornado-thing faded away, leaving the figure as the only sign that it was there. Shuri was quick to run through the border and to check on the figure. Whatever it was, at least it was alive, she could see a few members of the Border Tribe rushing up to them, and she was glad to see her brother's friend, W'Kabi, leading them, but even he gasped at the sight of this figure, and on inspection, Shuri could tell this was, despite having a similar form, not a human: it looked female with a slender, tan-skinned character of feline origins with athletic body physics. She had angular features, such as a pointed chin, straight nose, and slanted, almond-shaped eyes. She had three freckles on her cheeks, and soft curving dark eyebrows. She also had small fangs, large, black, catlike ears slightly buried within her hair, a long prehensile dark brown cat tail, and light brown horizontal markings on her arms, with three on her back that resembled a tabby cat's stripes. She also sported short and messy cedar brown hair. She was wearing a reddish leotard, with a black garment that covered her collar, she also had a small, diamond-shaped opening above her chest, and around her waist was a black belt. She had burgundy and black leggings, and she was barefoot. All her clothes had rips and tears in them and whoever this was had quite a few injuries. Now, Shuri knew this was an outsider, but she just had a feeling that she should help her,

"W'Kabi?" she asked, "help me get her to my lab"

Catra's eyes were heavy, and everything hurt. As she finally managed to open her eyes, she could see that she was in some kind of sprawling, futuristic lab. She was lying on some kind of bench which felt oddly comfortable for something so solid. As she got up, she looked around these new surroundings; the lab was circular in shape with a huge pillar that was decorated with beautiful art, of some description, that had a modern looking aesthetic. There was a glowing white spiral staircase going up and around the pillar, leading to another floor of the lab, made of some kind of smooth, glowing metal fitting right in with the rest of the high-tech lab. She had been in a small alcove embedded into the pillar, and all around the room were workbenches that were filled with intriguing tech, the floor was made up of lots of black geometric shapes with white borders. There were also some floor to ceiling windows which showed a wonderful view of what could only be described as a colossal mine shaft with stretching stalagmites and stalactites of some form of glowing blue material, and all around this mineshaft was an underground network of trains, except the rails were bordered by odd looking panels that shone some form of light onto the trains as they passed.

In short, it was beautiful.

"Ungubani?" Catra span around as fast as she could to face the sudden sound, her tail straightened, her fur stood on end and her claws shot out completely ready for any sudden attack! She then noticed that she was now facing a girl. She looked young, with skin like a Tiger's Eye gemstone. She had a kind face and was wearing, what looked like black leggings with a matching black sleeveless vest which was topped with a ruby red sleeveless jacket/waistcoat and around her neck was some form of string-based choker which was embezzled with pretty gemstones, and she was wearing a bracelet made of large, black beads. Her hair was long and black and braided as well as being in a ponytail which kind of reminded Catra of Adora. "Uyintoni?" she asked her, not that it made any sense to the Etherian at all. Catra deduced that, whoever this was, was speaking in a different language, she sighed in exasperation,

"Listen," she said with an air of malice, "I have no idea what you are saying, but I am trying my best to be a good person, so how about you let me out before things get ugly?"

"Oh, you only speak English?" the girl responded in surprise, "forgive me, I simply assumed you could understand any language seeing as you are an alien." Catra raised her eyebrow in confusion, so she was on a different planet?

"Where am I?" she asked the girl, hoping that she wouldn't have to fight her. She may enjoy the thrill of being in battle, but ever since she had turned over a new leaf, she tried her best to not cause fights with the inhabitants of other worlds.

"You are in Wakanda" the girl replied, "on a planet called Earth"

Earth? Catra hadn't heard of a planet like that before,

"Stupid name" she retorted before biting her tongue, "sorry, old habits" she then looked around at the lab once more, "what is this place? Who even are you?" the girl smiled in a kind and non-threatening way,

"My name is Shuri, a human, and as I told you, you are in Wakanda." She announced, "and who and what are you?"

"Um… my name is Catra" Catra stumbled, she still wasn't used to others not knowing her, she had done a lot of evil things and a lot of people on Etheria still didn't forgive her. "I'm an Etherian, from Etheria" Shuri held her hand out to her at this,

"it's nice to meet you, Catra" every instinct in Catra's body told her to run, or to flip this girl on her back and use her to get out of this place, but the way Shuri was acting wasn't with any intent to harm her, so she reluctantly retracted her claws and took the girls hand and shook it,

"Nice to meet you too, Shuri"

Hey guys, Portal Master Mania1 here, I just wanted to let you know that I am aiming to upload one chapter of this story per day. i am also going to upload images related to my upcoming stories on DeviantArt, with this being the first one: /klMV5

Feel free to comment, let me know how you feel the story will go, but I must say I am not taking requests, I have a whole thing planned for this.