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𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧. ❛ 𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒓𝒂 ❜

     𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍, she was left confused. Utterly confused. She didn't know what she was supposed to be looking for. They had no knowledge of what the totem looked like. Did they even know that the totem existed or not? Adora looked at the two friends ahead of her, struggling to keep up with their place.

     There were dozens of tunnels, intersecting in several different ways. Adora wondered if they had taken a wrong turn, several turns ago. Sure, Entrapta was a semi-genius, smart person, but something about Adora didn't trust her. She wasn't completely sure why either, maybe because she was interested in everything that was causing her trouble.

     The chasm was large and unfortunately for them, there was a tiny chasm, inside a chasm. Catra looked around, "We're going to have to jump for it."

     "Okay!" Entrapta said, gliding over the area that had glimmering steam rising from it. Catra frowned, she wished that things came that easy for her. Adora looked around for anything that might help her. She saw and old staff that must have fallen inside the chasm from an Etherian soldier. She used it to leap over the divide of land.

     Catra ran and left for it. She almost fell down but Adora caught her wrist. "That's for helping me earlier." She said.

     "So we're even." Catra joked.

     "Yep," Adora said, they followed Entrapta deeper into the cave.

     "Look!" She said. There was a large wooden box over a tall hill.

    Catra looked at it, "That's going to be a difficult climb, and I'm out of rope."

    Adora assessed the hill. She knew how to climb it. She was surprised that she did, but she found a way. She just need to get to that first small ledge she saw ahead of her. "Give me a boost."

     The others looked at each other, then they both rose Adora up. She reached the first ledge and then almost fell. Adora persisted. "Hurry up, Adora we don't have a lot of time!"

     "Thanks, Entrapta." Adora said. She finished climbing.

     It was true, there was barely an hour left and the feisty blonde knew that they were running out of time. Adora raced to open the large wooden box, she opened it up. There was nothing inside.

     "What is it?" Entrapta asked.

     "Nothing?"

    "What?" Catra yelled.

    "There's nothing here!" Adora told them. It was horrible news. They were down five hours and they only had one more hour to find the totem. Entrapta instantly went to mumbling at her technology pad.

     "There's no way. This can't be. Maybe I messed up a couple tunnels ago, maybe we need to go back a couple tunnels and try a different path." Entrapta suggested.

     Catra was done with the prophecy. "No! I've had it with this prophecy. Totem or not, we're going back to Bright Moon!" She yelled.

     "Catra!" Adora yelled.

     "Don't try to change my mind!" Catra told her. Adora felt the ledge that she was on start to shake, the whole tunnels began to tremble with some sort of thing. "What's that?" Catra asked Entrapta, hoping that she would have the answers for them.

     "It's them." Entrapta said, sighing.

     The three of them ran as fast as they could out of the cave. Dodging boulders and other things. They were headed back to the site of the meteorite. Glimmer called Catra's communication pad while they were on the run, "Did you get the totem?" Glimmer asked.

     "No." Catra said.

     Glimmer nodded, she tried her best not to show any emotions. She knew that they were almost fated to begin a battle with the ancient people. "I'll get the princesses ready to hold Bright Moon as a place of security for the people of Etheria." Then she disconnected.

     Catra ran over to the others. "How are we supposed to get back up the chasm?" It was something that felt even more daunting when they realized the time crunch that had been placed before them.

     Entrapta used her hair scale up the cliffs and grab the rope. She held on to it and pulled Adora up, then Catra. The three of them looked up at the sky above them. It was flooded by choas. There were dozens and dozens of ships coating the sky like stars, if they actually knew what stars looked like. They were in danger again, with a threat very much like the Horde. The thing about this threat was that they had magic as well.

     Catra worried about the princesses back in Etheria. "We have to get back now."

     "Swift Wind?" Adora called.

     "Right here, Adora." Swift Wind said, trotting in. They got on and took off towards Bright Moon, where the battle of a lifetime was about to occur.