Why, hello there! I didn't see you there before. Welcome to Fist of the Sky!
Author: Who gave you intro authority?
Creativity: Ah… heheh… no… one…?
Author: Well then, I do believe we have a problem here. Pardon me a moment…
Creativity: Umm… Sure? Why are you heading over to the supply closet?
Author: Oh, just grabbing some supplies for New Years, like one of my personal favorites…
Creativity: Oh no…
Author: Oh yes… MY PATENTED NEW YEARS FESTIVIZER! Guaranteed to light up the night sky and fill it with the echoing din of festivity!
Author has produced giant, over the top rocket launcher with many additional rocket and explosion-dispelling devices attached and is now aiming it at Creativity.
Creativity: GREAT MOTHER OF…!
Author: LANGUAGE!
Author unleashes the full might of the Festivizer on Creativity, resulting in pandemonium, smoke, explosions and fun party noises. The smoke clears and Creativity is unconscious and smoking still while Author is lounging on master chair, Festivizer propped over his shoulder.
Author: I run a very tight ship here.
So sorry about that, now where was I? Oh, yes! We're doing the intro for the seventh chapter of Fist of the Sky!
So, our Best Friend Squad in the making, Adora as She Ra, Princess Glimmer, Bow and Ferah were on their way to Plumeria, relief supplies in tow. What misadventures will they face on their Humanitarian mission? Find out next, on Fist of the Sky!
"Are we there yet?"
"No."
"Do you know when we'll be there?"
"No."
"Do have any guesses?"
"No."
"Could you at least try to have a conversation with somebody? It's better than just plodding in silence."
"Why bother when the next question you're going to ask is 'are we there yet'?"
Ferah groaned in exasperation as she threw up her hands, her tail swiping about before she remembered to wind it around her waist. She'd accidentally tripped Bow a few hours ago with her tail and despite his repeated insistence he was fine, she'd noticed the archer had been keeping his distance and constantly checking out of the corner of his eye that he wasn't within swiping range of the appendage.
"If it helps, we're at least within Plumeria's borders. It shouldn't be too long before we get to princess Perfuma." Glimmer told Ferah. The two had been going back and forth with Ferah asking about how close they were or otherwise trying to find something to talk about with her, since she still felt awkward talking to Bow after she tripped him, and Adora/She Ra was currently hauling the cart. Not that the task was particularly strenuous, but she was currently pulling it instead of lifting it since the branches were lower-hanging in this section of forest and considering how nature-centric the people of Plumeria were, they didn't want to get off on the wrong foot by snapping the branches off trees because they wanted to carry the cart instead of hauling it. Thus, they had to contend with rocks, bumps, dips and other such annoyances that required a bit of forethought and concentration.
Ferah and She Ra traded out on hauling the cart a few times along the way, with the most recent switch being about forty five minutes ago by Ferah's estimate, though that guess could very well be skewed by the fact that she couldn't see the sun to make a guess. Luckily, Bow leapt in to rescue them from the monotony.
"So Ferah, what was it like to grow up in the mountains? If you're comfortable sharing, that is." Bow asked before adding the little addendum very hastily.
"Well, we only had running water in the sink, and there was no temperature control for it. I don't really know how it worked, but ma said it used rain barrels out back and some sort of… 'suction system?' I didn't really get it. We almost never wore shoes or boots unless we were heading in to town or otherwise going on a long hike. We always bathed in a stream that was near the house. It was always cold, but I really liked it. Heh, I remember one time when I was fifteen, I decided to hike down to the waterfall that the stream came from, and then started trying to climb my way up. I got about a third, maybe halfway up before ma caught me and told me to get down. Boy, did she really let me have it for that one." Ferah told them, leading them to all stare at her for a few moments before She Ra accidentally rolled the cart over a dip in the road, causing it to jostle. Luckily, she managed to avoid having anything being thrown from the cart and everyone remembered to keep their eyes on the road.
"So, was this waterfall really big?" Glimmer asked, trying to sound casual about the whole thing. Ferah shrugged.
"I mean, it was pretty strong. We normally meditated under it and meditating under a weak waterfall is no good. It wasn't backbreaking though. Besides, there was an even bigger one downstream I wanted to try climbing once I conquered the first one. Ma expressly forbade me from going near that one after she found out what I was planning." Ferah shared before she felt the familiar sensation of her eyes welling up a bit. She immediately tamped down the sensation before rubbing her eyes a bit. She Ra noticed the action and frowned a bit but opted not to press on the matter. Besides, it was right about that point that they heard the sound of voices in the distance, likely children based on the pitch.
"Wow, I guess we're closer than we thought." Glimmer commented as they picked up the pace. As a nice bonus, the branches were no longer so low to the ground, so She Ra could heft the cart above her head with ease and not have to worry about the rocks and potholes. After hopping over a large root they felt a sense of relief at the sight of the kingdom's residents. There were kids running about playing, adults going about their business, all behaving as though there wasn't a war going on and the enemy wasn't camped on their territory. Setting aside that particular bit of unnerving realization, Ferah couldn't help but feel something was wrong. It was just a sensation in the air. Not in a 'we just walked into/are about to walk into a trap' kind of sensation, but more of a 'something is inherently wrong with the area' kind of sensation.
"Do you guys feel that?" Ferah asked as she looked around.
"Not really but check that out." Bow pointed out. Following his gesture, Ferah saw that the plants in this section of the forest really weren't doing so well. Ferah's heart fell.
"I guess that'd explain it." Ferah said sadly.
"Mom didn't mention anything about the plants dying." Glimmer muttered as she examined a small three-leaved plant, withered and dull.
"I don't think she knew." Bow replied.
"I've never seen anything like this. Even the very air just feels wrong." Ferah added her own two cents.
"I guess living in the mountains would give you a sense for this sort of thing after a while." Bow guessed before he started looking around.
"Hey, where'd Adora go?" He asked before the three of them heard a pair of thumps behind them on the roots. They looked around to behold the sight of She Ra standing heroically atop the root, cart held above her head.
"Okay, full stop. Are you just going to stay as She Ra the entire time?" Glimmer asked, slightly exasperatedly.
"Well, I told queen Angella I would. Besides, people like me better as She Ra. Could Adora do this" She questioned before she started to lift the cart up and down like it was a light weight. Glimmer just groaned and pinched her brow. Ferah watched the display with interest, more out of the idea of getting a spar in with Adora when they got back to Brightmoon. Though, perhaps a display of combat prowess might help boost morale around here. Not like there would be any harm in it…
"Hey guys, what is that?" Bow asked, causing them to all look towards the horizon. They could see a large column of smoke rising into the air that immediately had everyone on edge. It was safe to assume that in a kingdom where nature was revered like it was in Plumeria, fires and smoke were big no-nos.
"I'm going with trouble." Ferah muttered darkly, her tail flicking back and forth as her fists unconsciously clenched.
"That must be the Horde camp." She Ra guessed before they were suddenly interrupted.
"You're here!"
The group all turned to see that the residents had taken notice of their arrival and were rushing over to meet them. At the front was a young woman with blonde hair, tanned skin and onyx eyes. She was dressed in a pink dress with a green shawl and had several pink flowers in her hair, as well as a tiara crafted from said flowers.
"Princess Perfuma! I'm commander Glimmer of…" Glimmer started, hand outstretched to shake the now identified princess Perfuma, only for Perfuma to merely point at Glimmer's hand and cause a bouquet of flowers to materialize out of midair, which got a bit of a jump out of Ferah before a flower crown materialized on Bow's head. Then she heard a poof noise much closer to her, and Ferah realized she now had twin pairs of flower chains around her wrists. While Ferah was a little weirded out by it for a few moments, it was fair to assume that this was just a standard greeting from Perfuma, and Ferah couldn't disagree that it was quite the lovely greeting.
As Ferah turned to see what Adora/She Ra would be getting, she realized that no such flowers had materialized on her. Instead, Perfuma and the rest of the citizens of Plumeria were all staring at She Ra, a collective starstruck look in their eyes. To her credit, Adora was doing a good job of presenting herself as exceptionally heroic. She even had the confident smile down, though Ferah could tell she was still more than a little nervous. A nervousness that only became more intense, with a dash of confusion when the crowd started to gather.
"The Universe has heard our pleas and brought us the legendary She Ra to help us save our home!" Perfuma gushed.
"I'm even more glad that I'm not the one who found that sword now." Ferah murmured to Glimmer and Bow, the latter of which nodded. They'd literally just gotten there and now the acting monarch of the kingdom was immediately calling on Adora to save the kingdom, or assuming that she was just here to do that.
"I mean, I get she's a messianic figure an all, but maybe give her a few minutes to take it all in before you throw 'save our civilization' at her." Ferah continued, still keeping her voice low.
"Well, it's not like Adora didn't expect this. Kind of comes part and parcel of the whole 'She Ra' thing." Glimmer pointed out as she and Bow gave Adora their best encouraging smiles and a thumbs up. The best Ferah could muster was a sympathetic smile before she began talking with Bow under her breath.
"The Horde sets up a camp here and the plants start dying. I can't believe that's a coincidence." Ferah muttered as her tail continued to flick.
"I was thinking the same thing. Still, Angella ordered us to keep out of it, so long as Plumeria isn't aiding the alliance." Bow replied, his expression sour on that last note. However, it wasn't sour for very long as their attention was drawn back to Adora/She Ra, just in time to see the crowd converge on her. Of note were a child that couldn't be much older than three or four that was clinging to She Ra's right arm, while another woman was giving She Ra a massive hug. And there was one person who was… sniffing her hair? Why were they sniffing her hair?
"Oh, I would be really freaking out right about now…" Ferah muttered as a chill ran down her spine as she watched Adora begin to do just that as she tried to extricate herself from the crowd. She could already picture the kids going after her tail. Oh, First Ones how that would hurt…
Luckily, Adora managed to safely escape the crowd and return the baby to its mother before hurrying to join the group. Perfuma was already walking away, calling eagerly for them to follow her. Ferah hurried along and gave She Ra a sympathetic pat on the shoulders, strange as the spectacle would have been, given She Ra towered over all of them.
"Our people have lived her in tranquility for thousands of years. We're known for our beautiful flowers, our majestic trees…" Perfuma explained, though the words were somewhat contradicted by the fact that they were watching one of said trees, a very young one at that, wither and die before their very eyes.
"And this, is the Heart Blossom; the center of our kingdom, and the source of all my magical powers!" Perfuma finished explaining. Ferah breathed a little sigh of relief, which gave way to awe when she was able to behold the sheer size of the tree in question. It was gargantuan!
"Well at least this tree is fine. What's happened to everything else?" Ferah asked, getting an elbow from Glimmer.
"Tact!" Glimmer hissed out of the corner of her mouth, to which Ferah rolled her eyes while resisting the urge to smack Glimmer in the side with her tail. Though she wasn't quite above using said tail to tap on Glimmer's opposite shoulder, getting her to look over at She Ra, who didn't look the slightest bit guilty. Ferah managed to restrain a snort of laughter but couldn't quite keep a minimal smirk off her face. Luckily, Perfuma didn't seem to have noticed, since she was more preoccupied with the ground right about now.
"We're going through a little rough patch, but I'm sure that the universe will right itself soon." Perfuma said, with a smile that didn't look quite convincing. The way she was stroking her hair to the point of tugging on it wasn't exactly encouraging either.
"Everything is dead or dying." Glimmer pointed out, leading Ferah to take her opportunity for an elbow. Glimmer glared at her but opted not to reply. Practice what you preach, after all.
"Look, the blight hit right after the Horde arrived, we… we don't know why and nothing I do stops it." Perfuma explained, her sunny personality giving way to real fear and uncertainty that she must have been keeping bricked up behind the earlier sunniness.
"But don't dwell on the negative, look at the positive! The Heart Blossom is still healthy and now the She Ra is here and now the celebration's about to begin!" Perfuma declared, the sunny façade immediately back. Needless to say, they were all caught off-guard to the point that they only really snapped out of it when Perfuma began to magic all sorts of flowery accessories onto She Ra.
"Celebration?" Ferah and Adora asked simultaneously before the latter was dragged off by Perfuma. Getting the sense that Adora could need rescuing before the night was out, Ferah broke into a jog in pursuit of the bubbly nature princess and her captive, with Bow and Glimmer hurrying after them.
It didn't take too long before they reached the aforementioned celebration, and while Ferah normally would have been enthusiastic about a festival of some kind (She'd loved the ones that the old village would throw for seasonal events), she couldn't help but think that throwing a celebration while the Horde was on your doorstep and your homeland was dying around you wasn't a terribly good idea. It was about this moment that Ferah had a small epiphany, that being her mother's use of the phrase 'burying your head in the sand'. Somehow it had eluded her all this time, but now it clicked.
"Okay, so what do we do now? Because I'm completely lost." Ferah asked Glimmer, who shrugged.
"Join the club. Let's just focus on keeping Adora from cracking and running off screaming." Glimmer replied.
"What are the odds on that?" Ferah asked as they watched She Ra get placed at a seat of honor and then had bowls of various fruits and such foisted on her. And… giving her kids? Why exactly were they giving her kids?
"Right now? Dwindling." Glimmer replied with a groan as she watched Adora trying desperately to… handle… the situation. It wasn't going very well.
"I'm so happy that after all these centuries of being gone you finally returned, and in our hour of greatest need?! Just like in the stories!" Ferah heard Perfuma exclaim, so she got a bit closer to listen in on some of these stories, picking a spot next to Bow.
"What stories?" Adora asked, sounding a bit concerned about them.
"The stories we've been telling for thousands of years! She Ra, the warrior who tamed the Beast of beast island with a single word!" Perfuma declared, using her magic to pull aside several branches to reveal a carving of a very familiar swordswoman facing down a beast. Ferah frowned at the story. There was embellished storytelling, then there was this.
"That's nothing. What about the time She Ra defeated a squad of Horde soldiers on a flying horse? Or or or, the time she saved Thaymore from a legion of Horde soldiers? Or the time she borrowed my toothbrush, and used it to defeat an army of Horde soldiers?" Bow exclaimed, using a stick to mime the supposed toothbrush story. This time, Ferah couldn't resist a groan and smacked him upside the head with her tail.
"Ah, Bow, that's not true…" Adora muttered, looking much more uncomfortable with the little ones clinging to her legs.
"You're right… It was…!" He started before Ferah smacked him again, harder this time.
"Jeez, how strong is that tail? I'm going to have a bump!" Bow exclaimed.
"Bow, I get that you're trying to help, but right now you really aren't." Ferah muttered out of the corner of her mouth. Bow rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. And also because of the pair of tail slaps.
"Sorry. Guess I got a little carried away." Bow apologized.
"To be honest, you probably weren't going to make things any worse. I can't help but feel these people are set up for disappointment no matter what." Ferah replied.
"What do you mean? They love Adora!" Bow replied.
"No, they love She Ra. She Ra who apparently could tame beasts with a single word and defeat entire armies single handed." Ferah pointed out as she watched more gifts and food get piled into Adora's arms, including a wind chime that Adora had to ask Glimmer the name of.
"We're so excited for you to heal our land and bring all the plants back to life. Will you be doing it before the Drem circle?" Perfuma asked Adora.
"Oh, here it comes…" Ferah muttered, her tail flicking back and forth in agitation.
"What do you mean? She could totally heal the land." Bow replied. Ferah frowned.
"I'm not saying she's incapable of it, but can she do it now? I know I'm technically a latecomer on this, but last I checked, she's only had that sword for a few days at most. Do you really think she's got the whole thing figured out just like that?" Ferah asked. Bow's face fell a little bit.
"Couldn't you be a little more positive? Have a little faith?" Bow asked. Ferah sighed.
"Normally I would, but I don't like the attitude these people have. They've been having this problem for how long, with the Horde clearly responsible, and they've done nothing to try and figure out what's wrong or get rid of the Horde. Now, they're putting everything on Adora to put things right? What if she hadn't shown up? What if she can't magically fix everything? I don't know, I guess it's just how I grew up. You wanted something done, you handled it yourself, especially since I was always weirdly strong. Waiting for the world to offer a magical fix-all just doesn't gel with me I guess." Ferah explained, though she did soften it a little, regarding their hosts.
"I guess that makes sense. Still, I believe Adora can do this. She's She Ra after all." Bow replied. Ferah frowned a bit as her tail curled. That sentiment was dangerously close to the problem at hand, at least in her eyes. However, she decided to push those thoughts aside and tune back into the conversation.
"…lus, I don't like the look of that smoke. The Horde is up to something big. Maybe we should investigate." Adora tried to reason. Unfortunately, that only seemed to put the Plumerians on the back foot.
"We?" Perfuma asked hesitantly before looking around before turning back to She Ra.
"This is my power." Perfuma said as she conjured a beautiful red flower from nothing. Unfortunately, it didn't last very long, withering after only a few moments.
"I grow plants. We're not… strong enough to go up against the Horde." Perfuma explained, sounding a little disheartened, only for Ferah to shoot her a questioning look. How would they know? As far as Ferah heard, they hadn't even tried so far! At least, Perfuma hadn't.
"All we want is to live peacefully in our ancestral home." Perfuma concluded. The people looked between their princess and She Ra, who looked more unsure than ever. And then the chanting started.
Ferah couldn't help but cringe in sympathy for Adora as the crowd started chanting She Ra's name.
"Oh, and this just keeps getting better…" Ferah muttered before she noticed that Adora had managed to beat a hasty retreat, along with Bow and Glimmer. Ferah hurried after them and found Adora pacing in the woods.
"I don't know what I'm doing, I don't know what I'm doing…" Adora repeated over and over again.
"They can't really expect you to heal an entire forest right now, right?" Ferah asked, though she already knew the answer.
"Sounds like it." Glimmer replied.
"I can't heal a bruise, let alone Plumeria!" Adora continued, throwing her hands up in the air in stress.
"There's multiple stories that say She Ra has healing powers." Bow reminded her, though Ferah had the distinct sense that wasn't helping.
"They also say I fought the Mantisaur! I don't even know what that is!" Adora exclaimed.
"Wait, do you mean Manticore?" Ferah asked.
"Oh no. Mantisaur and Manticore are two completely different things." Glimmer informed her.
"Neither of which are going to help me heal a whole forest!" Adora cut in, her eyes bugged out with fear.
"What if you just concentrate really, really hard? That usually works when you need to transform, right?" Glimmer suggested.
"I don't think that's how the healing powers work." Ferah pointed out.
"Well, do you have a better idea?" Glimmer shot back.
"Not really, aside from trying to find the root cause of the sickness. I get the feeling that even if Adora did heal the land, she'd only be treating a symptom and not the cause." Ferah argued.
"Well, let's try telling that to the Plumerians. They'll understand, right?" Bow suggested. Ferah frowned and crossed her arms as her tail curled.
"Somehow, I doubt it. The Legendary She Ra tried explaining that to them and they wouldn't budge from heal the land! Heal the land!" Ferah muttered as she crossed her arms and shot a soft glare back towards the village.
"Well, I guess I better try to heal it then." Adora resolved.
"If I really can heal things, then it shouldn't be that hard, right?" Adora muttered before she closer her eyes and started concentrating. A bright yellow glow began to emit from her as she raised her hand and thrust it forward. For a moment, Ferah thought she saw a rainbow pulse come from She Ra's hand. However, she was a little more distracted by the loud crack that followed, which drew everyone's attention to a section of tree that had been bluntly and violently parted with the rest of the tree.
"You know, that's kind of what happened with the training dummy, only with way less splinters." Ferah commented.
"Not. Helping." Adora growled frustratedly before she took a deep breath and grabbed her sword.
"Let's try this again." Adora stated before the glow resumed. She held her sword up in front of her and tried again, only for something that was definitively 'not healing' happened. This time, it was a burst of blue energy erupting from the sword, causing a nearby boulder to explode. The boulder would have been Glimmer, had she not teleported out of harms way.
"Magic blast. Definitely not healing." Glimmer informed Adora, who took another deep breath, only for yet another mishap to occur in the form of another magic blast. However, this one instead struck a small lizard, which then proceeded to sprout rainbow feather wings and a horn, both of which looked suspiciously familiar…
"Wait, is that why the horse could fly?!" Ferah exclaimed, utterly stupefied by what had just happened. Unfortunately, this seemed to be the breaking point for Adora, who proceeded to do a side kick into a tree, knocking it and several other trees behind it over. The succession of impacts was progressively more cringe-inducing with each crash.
"Huh. Never tried doing that before…" Ferah muttered as she began examining the log that Adora had struck while Glimmer and Bow tried to console Adora as best they could.
"Don't worry about it, you'll figure it out soon." Bow encouraged, only for Adora to brush it off.
"Soon isn't good enough! The Horde is poisoning the land and the people expect me to fix it, but I can't! I thought I was better as She Ra. Turns out I'm no good no matter what form I'm in…" Adora moaned. At this, Ferah whirled around to deliver a 'how dare you' speech to Adora, only to be prematurely interrupted by a loud thoom in the distance, coming from the Horde camp.
"That can't be good." Ferah muttered as her tail began lashing about.
"She Ra, come quick!"
The group turned around to see Perfuma rushing towards them.
"Something absolutely terrible has happened!" Perfuma told them before turning around to run back to the village. The group followed behind, all the way to the Heart Blossom that Perfuma had shown them earlier. It quickly became apparent what the problem was. The large tree they'd visited earlier was withering; it's leaves having turned purple and falling from their branches to the ground. Worst of all was the pink gem having turned a dark purple and the black/green veins that were spreading around the trunk more and more by the second.
"The Heart Blossom is dying." Perfuma told them. IT was obvious how much those words terrified Perfuma and the rest of the villagers.
"Please, She Ra. Heal our land." Perfuma begged Adora, who took a deep breath and approached tree. Glimmer, Bow and Ferah offered their encouragement, but Ferah was still concerned about what would happen, should She Ra succeed.
Adora walked up to the tree and took a deep breath and placed her hand on the tree as a familiar yellow aura surrounded her. Unfortunately, after a few seconds it became apparent that nothing had changed, save Adora transforming back from She Ra to her normal body. The sudden swell of mutterings and whispers had Ferah on edge. Her tail wound around her waist tightly as she watched it unfold.
"Sorry. I don't know how to heal." Adora informed them sadly as she turned to face them.
"Who are you? And where's She-Ra?" One of the villagers asked. Adora took a deep breath and began
"My name is Adora. I was chosen to carry the sword of She-Ra, but... I haven't been doing this for very long, and I don't know exactly how it works yet." Adora told them. Ferah could feel the mood of the crowd shifting.
"She's just a girl!" One of the older residents shouted, much to Adora's dismay and Ferah's barely concealed disdain.
"I never meant to deceive you. I am She-Ra, I'm just not the same She-Ra." Adora assured them, though it did little good. Ferah clenched her fists and bit her tongue. If she opened her mouth now, she was going to say and/or do something stupid.
"Then you can't save us?" Perfuma asked fearfully before another loud THOOM echoed through the air, coming from the Horde camp.
"Wait! There might be another way. I know the Horde. I think they're using one of their machines to poison your land. If we wanna save your home, we have to stop them!" Adora told them, but Ferah could see it wasn't working. The crowd had completely turned against Adora.
"You're not She-Ra from the stories! You were supposed to save us!" One of the citizens shouted, with others chiming in with their own cries of fear and anger. Ferah grit her teeth. Her nails were digging into her palms and her knuckles were turning white. They'd come this far to help them, Adora tried her best to solve the problem the way Plumeria wanted it solved and this was how they treated her?!
"It will be all right, I promise. We will rebuild. We have to believe that the universe will repay the Horde for their evil deeds eventually." Perfuma tried to placate their people, but it fell on deaf ears once a loud BOOM echoed throughout the village. There were cries of fear as people desperately looked around, trying to find the source of the noise, though it didn't take long to find. All eyes were on Ferah as a transparent silver aura burned around her as she glared furiously at the villagers.
"I can't believe this." She muttered as her tail hung still; unnaturally so.
"You refuse to take any action to save the forest if it involves the Horde, you refuse to allow us to aid you in trying to find the root cause of the problem, and when the only solution you will accept doesn't work out, not only do you decide to turn tail and run, but you complain and belittle the one you begged and begged to do something about your problem?!" Ferah roared, her voice carrying much further than one would have expected. However, she wasn't done.
"The universe isn't going to protect you from the Horde! It isn't going to magically stop the forest from dying! You have options! You can do something! But instead, you waited for someone or something else to solve this catastrophe for you! At least Adora tried! She at least has that much claim! You all just gave up the moment your supposed magic solution for everything turned out to not be as all-powerful as you built up!" Ferah continued before the aura suddenly vanished and she just exhaled angrily before turning to march off into the forest.
"Wait, where are you going?" Glimmer demanded, not quite as shellshocked as everyone else was by Ferah's outburst.
"I need to cool off." Ferah replied through clenched teeth as her tail lashed about as she stalked into the undergrowth. After a while she reached a clearing before she grabbed her face with both hands and let out a series of unintelligible angry noises into her palms before she snapped and sent a charge of energy down her leg before delivering a straight kick to a nearby boulder, obliterating it!
"Stupid, stupid, STUPID!" Ferah ranted to herself before she slammed her head against a tree.
"You just couldn't keep your temper in check, could you?! Couldn't have tried to bite your tongue a bit! Couldn't have at least tried to be a little gentler with them. Noooo, you just HAD to go and call them out like that! Great job, idiot! GREAT JOB!" She continued to rant before she turned around and sank to the ground against the tree.
"Why do I keep making a fool out of myself like this?" She moaned into her hands before she heard rustling in the bushes not too far away. Immediately, Ferah was on her feet and in her combat stance before she saw it was just Bow, Glimmer and Adora emerging from the foliage.
"Hey… look, I'm sorry I lost my temper back there. I just…" Ferah started to say before Glimmer held up her hand.
"Ap upup, save it. We'll talk about that afterwards. For now, we're going to go figure out what the Horde is doing to the land and try to stop it. You coming with?" Glimmer asked her. Ferah's eyes went wide before turning serious.
"Absolutely." She replied as she cracked her knuckles for effect.
And that's where we're leaving it for now! So, I didn't expect this chapter to be so long, so we're cutting it in half.
Creativity: Also, Happy New Year everyone!
Author: Yes, that. Also that.
So, a little bit of information regarding the New Year. Come January first, 2020, I will be resuming work on my primary project called Before: Kingdom Hearts. Naturally, this will slow down uploads for EVERYTHING, but this project especially. I got this project, Limit Breaker, Venom: Resurgence and Star Wars: Twilight Blade all to work on, two of which are important for something else I've been working on in the background. And on top of ALL of that, College.
So yeah, time's not gonna be terrible easy to come by. Oh, also, and this is pretty exciting, but it's looking really likely that I'll be getting a bird in the future!
A wish of mine for quite a number of years now, it might finally be coming true. For those curious, I plan to get a cockatiel should all go well. Not sure of a name yet, but I'm leaning towards Phoenix right now.
Creativity: And with that, we should probably sign off.
Author: Good idea. It's kind of cool that we were able to get a chapter for Limit Breaker out for Christmas day and one out for New Years Eve. Hopefully I'll have many more for you in the year to come!
Until next time, thank you for reading, please review and we'll see you next time!