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"Please! I'm begging you guys! Just one night!" Adora pleaded, giving her two best friends the biggest, saddest puppy dog eyes she could muster. Glimmer covering her face trying to block Adora's pleading expression with a growl. "Dang it, Bow! Why did you teach her that?"
"I didn't! Adora is just a really good self-learner!"
"Guys, please!"
"Adora! I'm Queen of Brightmoon." Glimmer quickly turning away, the puppy eyes have no effect if you don't make direct eye contact. "I can't drop everything just for you!"
"Glimmer..." a sad almost heartbreaking whine as if Glimmer have just kicked a small puppy. She might as well have with Bow dramatically gasping and pulling Adora into a hug, cheeks pressing together as they both started staring at Glimmer's back.
"Glimmer...she needs us." Oh great. Even Bow's voice was breaking. Bow, one of the heroes of Brightmoon, also having one of the biggest bleeding heart of the Rebellion. She could feel those large teary puppies eyes burning into her back, now twice as strong.
The soft whining and pleading "Glimmer!" being repeatedly thrown at her. Glimmer glancing at the corner of her eyes, seeing those begging wide eyes still staring at her. The dramatic little pouts on their trembling lips and...oh Etheria. The queen threw her head back with a loud frustrated groan. "Fine. One. Night." She grumbled through gritted teeth.
Adora and Bow squealing over their victory as they enveloped their friend into their Best Friend group hugs.
"Thank you thank you thank you! You are the best! C'yra is really easy to handle, I promise!"
"Yeah, yeah. I mean her mother was certainly easy to handle..." Glimmer rolling her eyes as she could still remember the terror and headache the monstrosity now known as Adora's wife used to be...still is. She could already feel that headache almost forming.
"Glimmer...we're babysitting. Not watching a hostage." Bow said sternly before squealing to himself. "Oh my Etheria, I can't wait though! C'yra is just such a little adorable fuzzy baby!"
"Haha, yeah." Adora blushing and gushing with pride over her daughter. "Just remember she's super curious so she does try to wander a lot. If you give her some papers and crayons though, she'll be distracted for most of the night."
She pulled her two friends in for another tight hug. "Again. You guys are the absolute best."
"Yeah yeah. We know. Bring the little furball here so you can go out with your big furball."
It was just for one night anyways. The Queen of Brightmoon should be able to handle one small half-Magicat, half-First Ones, right?
"Uncle Bow! Auntie Glimew!" The young kitten jumping out of Catra's arms, chirping happily as she padded towards the two. Her large furry ears twitching within the messy mass of light brown hair. Blue eyes shimmering wide and sparkly. Her furry tail swaying back and forth as she ran to Glimmer and Bow.
Bow letting out a squeal as he quickly crouched down, embracing the young furry girl into a tight hug before getting up and spinning her around. "C'yra! You beautiful adorable girl! How are you?!" C'yra letting out a happy noise as she was lifted into the air. "Happy!"
Catra going to Adora's side and wrapping her arms around her wife's waist, resting her head on Adora's shoulder. "You sure those two can handle it?" They both watched as Glimmer poof next to Bow, plucking the kitten out of his hands with a grin and poofing several feet away from the archer. Bow letting out a whine and chasing after Glimmer, the magic queen only teleporting around him, dodging his attempts. C'yra squealing at the magic game of teleport tag.
"I trust them. They are the Rebellion's best." Adora says confidently, her hands wrapping around Catra's, thumb rubbing soft circles against the back of Catra's palm. Catra rolled her eyes at that with a snicker.
"Right. The absolute best." She watch as Bow trips and lands right on his face.
C'yra quickly squirming and jumping out of Glimmer's hands, rushing towards the fallen archer. "Uncle Bow. Did you die?" She asks, prodding Bow's head.
"If only he really was that easy to kill." Catra says sarcastically before tugging Adora by the wrist, a smirk on her face. "Let's go already, babe. You said you wanted to show me something?"
Adora blinking before nodding, remembering in the first place why they needed someone to watch their daughter. "Y-yeah. Let's go meet up with Swift Wind."
"The weird bright guy with the horn, right?" "Right." Adora nodding, turning back to her two best friends and her daughter. Bow clinging onto C'yra's ankle dramatically and groaning like a zombie. "Okay, guys. We're off. Behave for Uncle Bow and Aunt Glimmer, okay C'yra?"
As she said that C'yra swiped at Bow with a surprise hiss. Bow rolling to his back and playing dead. Glimmer rolling her eyes at this and giving the two wives a wave. "We got it from here. Just go on your dumb date already." Catra and Adora both looking at each other with blushing face as they linked their fingers together and left. The two giggling lovebirds finally leaving.
Glimmer closed her eyes, giving out a sigh. Perhaps she shouldn't have just use her teleport so much like that. At least it was a simple job.
"Uhm...Glimmer..."
Glimmer's eyes opened slowly, her mouth twisting into a scowl as she heard Bow's tone of slight panic. She sighed. "Please tell me you did not just lose the child." It hasn't even been more than 10 minutes.
"I did not lose the child." Bow's voice was slightly wavering. "She ran out...through the window."
"WHAT?!"
Glimmer quickly teleporting to the window, sticking her head out in a panic. "Bow! You were suppose to watch her!"
"I did! I watch her run around. Stare at the window...AND JUMPED OUT." Bow screaming, pulling at his hair. He rushed to the window and began climbing out, Glimmer quickly stopping the archer from doing so. "Also just so you know, WE were suppose to watch her, Glimmer!"
Glimmer letting out a frustrated growl as she held onto Bow and the two of them teleported down to where C'yra would have landed.
"Well at least she landed on her feet." Bow said with a relieved sigh as they look down at the tiny little footprints that seem to have trailed off. Her jumping out the window and landing on her feet at that height and age was an amazing feat itself though.
"Yes...and right into the Whispering Woods. Ooooh...Bow, this is so bad. Like super bad."
"Like 'accidentally spraying Catra with a hose' bad?" Bow winces as he still remember the stitches he had to get. He gingerly rubbed at his side, the phantom pain still there. He couldn't even water the plants without the scars throbbing.
"No! Like 'accidentally losing Catra and Adora's 4 years old child in the woods' bad! Let's go!" Glimmer yelled as she took a hold of Bow's wrist and they teleported into the forest after the tiny footprints. The tracks still fresh and going even deeper into the woods.
Just how hard would it be to find one little kitten in the forest?
Apparently...extremely hard.
Painfully hard.
Horrendously difficult.
It been almost an hour and still no sign of the young Magicat.
Glimmer panted as she was forced to use her legs once again. Her teleporting taking a lot out of her since she ended up wasting so much of her magic playing with the young Magicat halfling earlier. A hindsight for the Queen of Brightmoon.
Also let's not forget the many metal spiders that attacked them. Always fun. Her body covered in scratches and she picked a leaf out from her hair with a groan.
"C'yra...here girl. C'mere!" Bow making little kissy cooing noises as he continue to check in the overgrown bushes and trees. His body also covered in scratches and he had some twigs sticking out of his hair.
Glimmer moving away several branches before finding herself in a small clearing. A little house deep in the middle of the Whispering Woods.
"Hello?" Glimmer calls out.
"Is that more guests, I hear?" A strange tiny old woman replies, exiting her little hut, fixing her giant round framed glasses on her face. C'yra letting out a happy mewl in the woman's arm as she shoved tiny fistfuls of berries into her mouth. The fur around her face covered in the sticky sweet red berry juice. She wave her sticky hand at the two. "Uncle Bow! Auntie Glimew!"
"Ah. You must be the one watching over little C'yra." The old lady says as she walks to the two, giving the dirtied child back to Bow. "You should do a better job. The forest is no place for a child to play by themselves." The strange lady chastises the two of them with a disapproving tone.
"R-right...sorry?" Bow says awkwardly.
The lady only smiles at that, seemingly pleased with the simple response as she then shove a jar full of the same sweet red berries into Glimmer's hands. "All is well. C'yra is safe. Now why don't you all take these berries back home and be sure to share it with Mara and the others later."
"Uhh...okay...?" Glimmer only reply, completely flabbergasted as she held onto the jar, her eyes glancing over to Bow who only shrug, a small sticky palm being slapped onto his face and smearing the berries juice on him. C'yra letting out a happy chirp as she continue painting on her new canvas, repeatedly chanting "Berries! Berries!"
The two quickly turning around with the Magicat kitten in hand as they head back into the forest. C'yra happily waving her red-stained hand over Bow's shoulder at the old lady. "Bye bye, Gramma Razz!"
"Bye bye, C'yra dearie! Have your mothers bring you by for a visit next time!"
"Bow...who was that lady?" Glimmer finally asks as they exit out of the woods, finally reaching Brightmoon. She felt exhausted and completely out of magic.
Bow...a person who lived in the Whispering Woods for almost his entire life only blinks, his face completely smeared with the sticky red juice. C'yra finally tired out, curled up in his arms, snoozing peacefully. "I have no idea...I just know I really want to take a shower..." he only says completely and utterly exhausted.
After returning back to Brightmoon and cleaning up—another game of tag breaking out as C'yra refused to take a bath, the two having to chase the kitten all around the palace. Glimmer finally returning to the room after fully recharging under the runestone. Bow laying flat on his face exhausted and dead to the world as C'yra sat next to him happily doodling. Her tail swaying back and forth as she was continuously scribble with a brown crayon. Her ears twitching and flickering about. Happy little mewls and chirps coming out from her small smiling mouth.
"Uncle Bow! Auntie Glimew! Look look!"
"Oh, what's this?" Bow lifting his head from the spot, cooing gently as the young child lifted her picture proudly, tail swaying and ears twitching as she showed her babysitters the drawing she had painstakingly spent 10 minutes of her 4 year old life making.
"A pishure with mommies!" She proclaims with pride. A little purr rumbling from her small frame.
"Of your mommies? Oooh!" Bow propping himself on his elbows, oohing and ahhing over the picture as if it was the most amazing thing ever while Glimmer rolled her eyes with a smile before it twisted down into a frown, her brows furrowing as she examined the picture closely.
The yellow scribble she could tell was easily Adora...but instead of her signature ponytail, the scribbes coloring of blonde hair was wavy and messy. Instead of using any red for the jacket, Adora seem to be colored in white. Like...She-ra? She seem to have been drawn wearing the white tunic and skirt?
Her eyes moving to the smaller brown scribble obviously being Catra. The wild curls being scribbled over and over again with brown. Little jagged outlines to give a bit of a furry look to the little kitten's other mother. There wasn't much details to Catra's compared to Adora as if the young kitten-like girl didn't bother to draw any clothes for her Magicat mother. And actually did it look like Catra was on all fours?
"C'yra...what are your mommies doing in that drawing?" Glimmer asks with an wondering tone.
C'yra only grinned at the question, her little fangs poking out as her tail continue swaying softly behind her. "They're wrestling! They do it almost every night!" Bow's smile twitching as his eyes slowly widen with horrified realization.
"I saw them wrestling when I have to go beddy bye time! Mommy sometimes turn into big lady and she wrestle with Mama all night long!" She pointed at the little brown scribble. "Mama always making hurt noises when they wrestle. So it makes me scared. But then she keeps telling Mommy to keep going." Both Bow and Glimmer's face were completely pale as the young child continues. "She always yell things like 'More!' 'Faster!' and 'Harder!' They really like to play wrestle a lot!"
Glimmer quickly snatching the picture and teleported away. Leaving Bow and C'yra in stunned silence.
"Why did Auntie Glimew took my pishure?" C'yra looking at Bow with confusion, her ears and tail drooping. "Was it no good?"
"Oh...uhh...your picture was so great that Auntie Glimmer went to show it to your mommies!"
"She went to show it to mommy?!" She perked up excitedly and Bow really didn't know if he could continue looking at the pure innocent face. "Yeah...she went to go show your mommies the amazing drawing. Yup...definitely. "
Glimmer definitely teleported all the way to where Catra and Adora's date was, just to yell at the two idiotic mothers. Apparently they were also wrestling during that time and Glimmer really wish she knew the type of magic to scrub images clean from her memories.