Episode 1
Part 4

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(using ⁉️ when the panic attack starts/ends)

I soon calmed down enough where I could try to identify who was helping me. My hands travels up their arms to their wrists, and once I felt rope, I open my eyes wide to see a beautiful steel blue I admire so much.

I jumped back, releasing her from my grasp, yelping as my back crashed on the forest floor. "Woah! Are you okay?"

Her voice calmed me down again as I panted. I looked around me to see Bow standing behind blondie, worried. I was still in the Whispering Woods. I was shaken up by how much I cried today. I internally groaned. "Yeah. I'm... I'm fine."

We heard whimpering and Bow pulled us up and we raced over to find Glimmer. We found her, and a destroyed village. I shrink back, but Bow grabs me and puts me in front of him. I whimper quietly and try to hold back more tears. Glimmer picks up a broken shard that was left behind.

Blondie asked the question, "What happened to this place?"

Glimmer grew mad, and I tried to scoot away from this place.

"Don't play dumb with me. I bet you were part of the raiding party that did this." She goes to point at blondie and Bow grabs her arms to keep her there, letting me go.

At this point the attention isn't on me. I sneak past all three of them and head away from the destroyed city. "What are you talking about? The Horde didn't do this."

Glimmer grabs blondie by her restraints and leads her into the damage. She looks back and see my panicked eyes and tries to call out for me, "Hey-"

"Pay attention, spy." She was lead away from me, her eyes worried and filled with desperation to help me. I shook my head at her, and walked off.

I wrapped my arms around myself and sat on a stump once I was far enough away from Glimmer's angry ranting about the Horde.

⁉️panic attack starts⁉️

I held back tears as I knew exactly what happened to that city. Because I was the one that ordered it. I was the one who planned it, all of it! Of course I never told Glimmer or Bow, but the guilt of me being the reason Glimmer was so mad about the Horde, tore me down. The stone walls that took me so long to build, broke down just like that. Ripped apart like paper. Unable to be rebuilt as it once was before.

I heard yelling as panic was slowly crawling up my spine. "Hey-! Get back here!"

I looked up to see the Blondie running towards me, Glimmer and Bow far behind her. The panic stopped as I jumped in my skin.

⁉️panic attack ends⁉️

Blondie ran too hard and couldn't stop in time before reaching me, so we crashed into the cold grass, her legs slightly straddling my hips. I groaned as our heads bumped into each other. She sat up, her tied hands on my stomach, as she asked the big question, "Are you okay?"

"I was but with you sitting on me is making me uncomfortable." I looked to my left, avoiding her gaze and trying to hide the blood running across my face. Blondie looks flustered and stands up, holding out her hands to help me up. I gladly took it, feeling how soft with a slight roughness her hands are, and dusted off my clothes once I was upright again. "Why did you stay back? Is something wrong?"

"I'm fine, blondie. I just needed a quick break. Thanks for asking, though." I put my eyes everywhere but on her as I walked away, straightening my clothes from being tackled.

Once I was by Bow's side, he put his hand on my shoulder, with a look of concern. I shook him off and walked through the destroyed village. My arms wrapped around me to give me some form of comfort. My eyes watered but I held them back.

I needed to stop acting so weak.

No matter how hard I tried, one single tear fell but I was able to throw it away before anyone could see me. I sighed out, and looked up to the sky. The blank, empty sky. Only thing blocking it was the trees. As I looked down but still in front of me, I saw some leaves fall off trees, said trees looked to be shaken by something. I stared, confused.

Bow and blondie caught up to me. And by that point, we could hear Glimmer screaming and the sound of her teleporting. She suddenly pops out of some bushes, the sword held downward in front of her, her eyes wide with fear. As she comes closer, her voice appears to be wavering, "There's something out there. Something big."

The bushes she ran out of shake, as the ground starts to rumble very softly. I hold onto Bow's right arm to help with my balance. I mumble out a small, "Guys?"

"How big?"

The ground rumbled harder, causing all four of us to fall back, causing Glimmer and Bow to release their weapons and me to let go of Bow. The green grass and dark dirt start to rip open in chunks as a giant grey bug with blue accents and eyes burst out.

I yelped and started to crawl backwards, my (ec) eyes never leaving the sight of the monster. The others stayed where they had fallen, now sitting up, as Bow squeaked out a, "So, pretty big then-"

He was cut off by the creature screeching and starting to move towards us. Everyone else stayed in their spots as the bug tried to squish the princess before she teleported our of the way. "Watch out!"

She teleported onto a tree branch that was close to the bug's face. She leapt onto the face, practically shoving her glittery power onto it, before jumping back onto the ground. (I said onto too much)

Bow and Blondie stared at the pinkette with shock. Before she yelled and all three jumped back as the beast tried to smash them again, unaffected by the attack.

Blondie stood up, moving backwards, only to step in a crack in the ground created by the grey thing in front of her. The beast roared and raised its leg to attack once again, heading towards blondie. Bow walks in front of her, his bow and arrow raised as he took a shot at the thing.

I looked at the area around myself to try and find anything to defend myself, or even better hide me from the thing. Luckily, I found a hole in a tree that I could hide in. I quickly crawled over, my eyes glancing back every once and a while to make sure the beast's focus never transferred to me. Glimmer's battle cries and the sounds of her magic echoed slightly around me.

I heard her grunt to my right, looking over to see her thrown against the tree. I look back to see the monster shifting it's glaze between me and the princess. I fell onto my back with fear and started shaking.

I never read anything about this thing before. It's eyes stopped on me and it slowly crawled towards me. I shifted backwards, whimpering loudly. My eyes filled with tears for what felt like the tenth time today. I thought this was the end, and I deserved it, for all those I've killed (indirectly yet directly).

I called out a cry for help. Bow sent out an arrow from behind to help hold the thing back, but ended up being rocketed forward between me and Glimmer. I couldn't see anything anymore, as my tears blurred my vision. The only thing I could make out was the shape of the giant bug and the bright, cold, blue eyes.

Glimmer's yells as she tried defending her and Bow against the beast was the only thing that was ringing in my ears. Just as the monster was about the take a bite out of Glimmer, the tough voice of Blondie shouted out, "Hey, bug brain!"

The bug turned its head towards blondie, the thought of us no longer in his head. I still couldn't see her, but I could slightly hear her struggling with something. The sound of metal hitting something tinged out, and I realized she probably has the sword we had tried keeping away from her.

We being Bow and Glimmer.

"Oh, where's a blinding flash of light when you need one?" She screams as the bug starts towards her. The sword falls out of her arms again, producing another clang once it makes contact with the ground. I watched as she lifted the sharp object to defend herself against one of the bug's attacks. A light started to shine from the contact. Then blondie shouts something seemingly random, "For the honor of Grayskull!"

It produced an even bigger blinding light, making Glimmer, Bow, and I shield our eyes. When the light died down slightly, all three of us stared at the scene in complete shock. In Blondie's place, was a giant lady with long flowing blonde hair. She was clad in white with gold accents, with a red cape behind her. What was making the scene more shocking was the bug looking as though it is bowing to her.

My jaw fell to the floor as my face grew red.

'This lady was super hot!'