Chapter 7

Adora was tending to Spirit. He hadn't been groomed in a while and he thoroughly deserved it with all the hard work he had done recently as Swiftwind.

She began to hear some unusual noises from the rebellion camp as she listened closer she realized that something was wrong. Adora and Spirit looked at each other with concern on their faces. She had better investigate first, there was no need for an unnecessary appearance from She-Ra.

She poked her head though the bush to see flames coming from the far east. She turned back to Spirit and said. "Looks like She-Ra will be needed after all." She transformed quickly, aimed the sword at Spirit and flew towards the flames.

When she arrived at the village the Horde was in full force. "It looks like they are trying to squash a rebellion." She-Ra said to Swiftwind.

She looked down at the towns people in the main square, with all sorts of homemade weapons: sticks, farming tools, and a few axes. She knew it was going to be disaster and that she needed to stop it. The Horde and the townsfolk where squaring off. She-Ra had no choice but to land between the warring forces ruining any chance of a surprise attack.

"So what's the problem?" She-Ra asked. "We're tired of being ruled by the Horde!" One man with a flaming stick said. A chorus of "Ya's" followed. "I didn't even know this town was ruled by the Horde." She-Ra said. "We were one of the first towns to fall under the Hordes control." Shouted another Man. She-Ra knew she needed to end this quickly.

She remembered the flames she had seen earlier. "Where's the fire?" She-Ra demanded. "It's on their side." Said a women from the crowd. Clearly the people didn't care about the fire.

"They lit our new technology of fire." Scorpia said like it some how would make a difference.

She-Ra's face was quite serious, what to do, she couldn't allow the Horde to stay in the town she also couldn't allow the townspeople to fight the Horde.

She decided a scare tactic would work. She and Swiftwind turned to face the Horde. "I suggest you run." She-Ra told Scorpia. Swiftwind chose that moment to walk forward frightening the horde troopers. They all knew what She-Ra could do. Once more step from Swiftwind and the Horde collapsed. Their carefully planned attack began to fall apart as members left in fear. Eventually Scorpia had no choice but to run causing any remaining Horde members to follow.

She-Ra laughed that had been her easiest fight against the horde yet. She turned back to the townspeople ready to give them a lecture. But they were already rushing around though either in celebration or to put out the fire.

She-Ra and Swiftwind made the quick run to the sight of the fire which was all ready under control, only a few small flames remained. There was nothing for her to do.

She returned to the town where many of the townspeople stood waiting for She-Ra to speak. She was going to chastise them but how could she when they had been fully prepared and had driven the horde from their town. She-Ra asked them to encourage others to rebel as well and asked them if they would be willing to fight one final battle with the Horde. The answer was unanimous there was another red circle she could add to her map of Etheria.

She-Ra was still shocked as she and Swiftwind left the town. About half way home she ran into the rest of the rebel forces who had come to help. Bow was leading the pack. He was the first to notice that She-Ra was riding up on Swiftwind.

He paused hoping everything was alright as Sh-Ra appeared to be dazed. She rode past the rebels quietly, heading back to camp. Bow sent the rest of the rebels ahead while he checked on She-Ra. He had to run to catch up with her.

She-Ra heard someone running to her, she slowed Swiftwind. The running increased and as she looked around she saw it was Bow. He stopped beside Swiftwind and asked if everything was alright. She quickly told him the story, to which he responded by a few laughs.

"That's not what I meant." Bow replied. He offered her a hand down which she refused. The wind picked up and he pushed a piece of hair out of her face. She blushed a little. He exhaled the last of his embers for She-Ra felt like they were being stamped on after someone had poured buckets of ice cold water over them. He didn't know what to do next. He settled for something plain. "Can we talk for a bit." She motioned for him to hop on Swiftwind.

She turned around and asked. "Do you want to go for a flight?" Bow didn't have a chance to answer before Swiftwind was taking off. She-Ra seemed to return normal on their ascent. "Fly home Swiftwind." She-Ra whispered to her flying unicorn.

"So what did you want to talk about?" She asked. Bow unsure how to start asked. "How do you tell a girl you want to be with her?" She-Ra was glad she wasn't the one flying otherwise they'd have fallen out of the sky.

"Who's the girl?" She asked.

"Adora I don't know if you've met her."

"So why can't you just tell her?"

"I- it's just I don't want to scare her off." She-Ra picked up on hidden emotions in his voice. "You love her." Bow didn't answer, but responded with a question of his own

"Is there anyone you love?"

"Hmm."

"I'll take that as a yes." Bow replied.

"Swifty can you take us down?" "Of course She-Ra." Swiftwind replied. They landed in the middle of a grassy plain with a few very tall trees around them." "Bow I have something to show you." She-Ra said.

"But first I'm sorry that I act like I know you really well, the truth is I hardly know anything about you." Bow said. "You know more that you think." She-Ra replied. "I've got to tell you something I used to like you and honestly I still do but it's nothing to act on." She-Ra placed a hand over lips to get him to stop. "It'll be better once I can show you." She-Ra pulled her sword from her sheath and said. "She-Ra enter the sword." A flash of blinding light later and Adora was standing in front of Bow.

He was simply standing there staring wondering how Adora had got there when he had been talking to She-Ra. It clicked in a little more when Swiftwind transformed back into spirtit. "Bow what do you think?" She asked doing a little twirl. Adora kissed Bow on the lips glad he knew her secret. But Bow still didn't understand what happened.

Spirit who was chewing some grass looked at Bow and said "She's both Adora and She-Ra." The wheels were stating to turn in Bow's head. He looked at Adora and started to recognize the resemblances, between Adora and She-Ra.

Bow looked at Adora. "Well I'm sorry I made so many comments about She-Ra. Must have drove you nuts to listen to me all these years."

Adora smiled "It's ok." "So you really like me?" Adora asked curiously.

Bow cupped Adora's face. "No." Adora's heart dropped. "I love you." He kissed her lightly on the lips. Adora broke the kiss to return the favour of words.

"Wow, do I ever feel lucky." Bow said. "I never thought a girl would love me, at least one as amazing as you." Adora laughed tears streaming down her face. She'd worried so long about nothing.

Bow felt a question bubbling inside him. "Marry me" Bow asked. "Hold on to that one." Adora said, laughing at the all too impatient Bow.

"So that's a yes?" Bow asked hopefully.

"Yes." She placed a finger on Bows lips stopping him from kissing her again. "But not right now."