Chapter 1
Within the darkness of the training room,two shadowy figures were engaged in a battle.
The two clashed and slashed at one another with their bright red sabers,causing electrifying red sparks to fly off. The figures relentlessly slashed at each other,trying to get the other to surrender.
"You won't win this time,Catra!"a small young child named Adora told her sparring partner. A feline child named Catra smirked as she thrusted her saber at Adora though it got deflected. "We'll see about that!"she replied.
Adora lunged towards Catra,feinting the saber at her right shoulder then quickly lowering it at her hip. Catra saw right through the attempt and blocked the slash and began advancing onto Adora with hard attacks forcing Adora into the defensive. Adora managed to block most of the attacks while searching for an advantage.
Then an idea popped into her head.
She kept blocking Catra's quick attacks until she saw Catra pause for a moment before she twirled the saber and thrusted it at her chest,hoping Catra fell for the bait. She did. Catra rose her saber up horizontally and blocked the attempt with a smug smirk on her face. Quick as a snake,Adora moved her saber underneath Catra's then,using all of her strength,heaved Catra up and flipped her to the ground.
The feline yowled in surprise as she was lifted off the ground and landed heavily onto the ground,losing her saber in the process. She went to grab the saber but Adora kicked the saber from her reach then placed the tip of her saber on Catra's back. "Looks like I was right."Adora said extended her hand to Catra.
"Yeah yeah. Consider yourself lucky."Catra said as she accepted Adora's hand and got up. The darkness of the training room soon disappeared and was replaced with a bright light which showed Lonnie,Kyle,Rogelio and their training supervisor,Scales,not too far from them,watching. Scales approached them and looked at them with a smile. "That was an excellent performance from the both of you. Keep it up and you two will be the best fighters the Horde has ever had."he told them.
Catra and Adora looked at each other with huge grins on their faces. "Thanks sir."Adora told him.
He nodded then walked off.
The other kids swarmed around them once the supervisor was gone. "Nice job Adora,Catra."Lonnie told them in her usually bored 'whatever' voice. "That really was impressive,I'll give you two that."Rogelio said,his voice being so deep that it seemed that his words always had an echo to them. "I wish I could fight as well as you two."Kyle told them wistfully. His smile seemed to drop a bit as he said that.
"Thanks,"Adora said. And you will. You just have to practice more."Adora added. "Really? You think so?"Kyle asked his smile coming back. "I know so."Adora replied. "Well I don't know about you guys but I'm gonna head out. You coming Adora?"Catra asked as she walked out of the training room. "Yeah."Adora told her. She waved the others goodbye before she hurriedly walked to Catra.
They walked through the hallway of the Horde in silence for a while before Catra spoke. "You didn't do too bad at that sparring match." "Didn't do too bad?"Adora repeated incredulously. "I mean it could've been better. Too sloppy in my opinion."Catra said nonchalantly,shrugging. "Yet I was still able to beat you."Adora said with a smirk.
"As I said before,you got lucky."Catra repeated. "Sure."Adora said rolling her eyes. They went back to the bunk and flopped down on their bed. Adora put her hands behind her head and stared at the ceiling above her. She felt the furry body of Catra as she curled beside her. Absentmindedly,Adora moved her hand through Catra's mane and felt the vibrations of Catra's purr go through her arm.
They stayed like that for so long,just still and blissful silence,until the loud growl of Catra's stomach sounded. "Sounds like someone's hungry."she chuckled. Catra groaned then got up from the bed while she smacked Adora on the head with her tail. "I'm gonna try and find something to eat in this empty place."Catra said as she slinked out of the room.
"Just make sure you don't leave any blood or a half eaten carcass this time!"Adora called after her,unfortunately, remembering the time when she had come across one of Catra's half eaten carcasses. She heard Catra laugh before silence flooded the room once again.
Tiredness overcame Adora'a body. Her arms and legs went limp and her eyes started to droop. She tried to fight the exhaustion but soon decided to let it take her into a calm and dreamless sleep.
Hours later,Adora felt someone roughly shaking her. She slowly opened her eyes,yawned then rubbed away any sleepiness from her eyes. She came face to face with Catra who's entire mouth was caked in blood that was still slightly fresh.
She screamed.
Catra quickly covered her mouth with her hand. "Hey! Are you trying to wake the entire Fright Zone!"Catra exclaimed. Adora pushed Catra's hand from her mouth while glaring at her. "Next time don't stand over me with your mouth covered in blood!"Adora retorted. "No promises."Catra replied. Adora gave her a look. "Oh come on. Your reaction was priceless."Catra told her laughing. Adora rolled her eyes. Once Catra managed to stop laughing,she spoke. "Anyway,you wanna do something exciting?"
There was her usual mischievous glint in her turquoise and yellow eyes as she said that.
Adora groaned knowing already that this was going to be bad. "Why do I have a feeling that it's something bad?"she asked. "It won't be bad...if we don't get caught."Catra said casually.
Adora wanted to tell her that she was crazy,that whatever she was thinking was going to go wrong. But she would be lying if she said that she wasn't in need of a little adventure. She leaned up on her elbows and looked closely at Catra. Her discolored eyes seemed to become brighter than usual and she smiled her usual smug,mischievous smile. Adora knew she would regret this but at the moment she just didn't care.
"I'm in."
Author's note: I'm currently working on a She-ra fanfic in honor of season 4 which comes out on November 5. For this story in first two chapters Catra and Adora are six years old.