High school modern AU. Yeah yeah very original, I know. Enjoy XD also, everyone looks the same just no magic powers

Adora bursted out laughing. She fell against the lockers, clutching her stomach, her other hand covering her mouth. Her laugh was dorky and full of snorts and puffs of air as she struggled to catch her breath.

Glimmer crossed her arms, not pleased.

"Oh shut up, Adora. It's not my fault the guy was an idiot. Bow saw it too."

"It's true." Bow piped up. "I mean, I don't condone violence, but it was kinda unavoidable for her."

Adora sniffled, her eyes watering from the force of her laughter. She giggled, wiping her eyes.

"Oh man. I really should've been there."

Glimmer grunted in agreement.

"Mhm. You should've been there."

Adora caught the slight attitude and rolled her eyes. She pulled her bag over her shoulder and pushed off the wall. She motioned for the two to follow. The trio headed down the loud, semi-filled hallway.

As they walked, the occasional greeting or fist bump was directed towards Adora. Not surprising as she was the football and soccer team captain.

The position of captain came with its perks. Popularity. She was known all around the school, sports being one of the biggest parts of the school's history.

"You know I had practice that day." Adora defended herself.

"Still." Glimmer shrugged. "Not fair to leave me alone, unsupervised. Shit always goes down."

Adora rolled her eyes and made eye contact with Bow. You would think Bow, being Glimmer's boyfriend, would be able to chill her out a little. Guess not.

As they walked, they noticed other students were heading in the same direction. Someone shouting was coming from the same direction. That could only mean one thing. A fight.

Adora, Glimmer and Bow looked at one another. Who was crazy enough to fight at this early in the morning? Only one way to find out. The trio hurried down the hall, following the growing yelling.

Rounding the corner, there was a crowd forming, watching whatever was going on.

It was strangely less rowdy than you'd expect to hear during a fight. The crowd was talking amongst themselves, some recording the event. Adora, Bow and Glimmer carefully pushed their way through the crowd to get a good look. When they got to the center, they couldn't help but stop and stare.

A girl was standing there, hovering over a guy, menacingly. She was a cat-human hybrid, her puffed up tail whipping around angrily. She had wild, curly brown hair, a black leather jacket, a dark red tank top with matching ripped leggings, and black sneakers. A red beanie covered what was obviously her ears. The girl had a sneer on her freckled face.

"DON'T YOU EVER PULL THAT SHIT ON HER AGAIN. YOU UNDERSTAND ME?!" She spat.

The poor guy, a member of the baseball team, nodded, clearly having taken a few punches from her. The bloody nose spoke volumes.

The girl clutched the dude's shirt, bringing her face close to his.

"APOLOGIZE!!" She commanded.

She jabbed a claw-like nail at a girl standing a few feet away. She was tall, kinda muscular. Obviously scorpioni. She had short, white hair. She wore a similar style to the angry girl, but was wearing a jean skirt and black vest instead of leather. She looked worried and clearly upset. Adora tilted her head, trying to figure out who they were. She'd never seen them before. Looking back at the cat girl, Adora realized something. The cat-girl was standing up against the guy for the other girl.

Adora felt proud of this stranger. She admired someone who stood up for others.

The guy grumbled out an apology before the cat girl released him, scoffing.

"Ugh jocks like you make me sick to my stomach. You jocks think cuz you're popular and athletic that you can push people around. Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but you ain't shit. Learn that and grow up. Next time I see you picking on another hybrid, you'll wish you were dead."

The cat girl walked over to the scorpion girl, her anger simmering down. She talked to her for second before the walked in the direction. The cat girl looked up.

Adora felt her heartbeat pick up. Those eyes. One sky blue, the other amber yellow. Bright, full of a mix of emotions. Adora and the stranger held eye contact for a moment. The girl looked Adora up and down and then at Bow and Glimmer.

She scoffed, wrinkling her nose in disgust.

"Ugh this school is filled with preppy assholes and self-absorbed jocks." She grumbled, before pushing pass Adora and Glimmer. The two hybrids made their way out of the crowd. Everyone slowly dispersed, now that it was over. Adora looked over at the poor guy, whose friends helped him up and probably took him to the nurse. That girl really did a number on him, though she was small.

"Hey."

Adora became aware of her surroundings again. She turned to her friends, shock on her face.

"Wow." She breathed.

Glimmer raised an eyebrow.

"Adora. You're blushing." She noted

Adora touched her heated cheeks.

"Am I?" She asked.

Stars, those eyes. They stared right into her soul.

Adora blinked, shaking the thought away. The three headed towards their destination, totally late, but they never got into trouble.

As they walked, Adora couldn't help but replay the scene in her head, over and over again.

Who was she? Why hadn't she seen either girls around before?

A shoulder bumped hers, jolting her out of her thoughts. Glimmer and Bow were staring at her.

"You ok?" Bow asked. "You've been in lalaland ever since we walked away. Does it have to do with Catra?"

Adora's brows scrunched up.

"Catra?"

Glimmer rolled her eyes.

"That menace to society we just saw beat up Kirsten. Her name is Catra."

Catra.

"You know her?" Adora asked. "I've never seen either of those girls around before. Are they new?"

"Yeah." Bow answered. "They just transferred here this year from The Horde."

The Horde was know to be the most dangerous school in the town district. The students there did drugs and fought all the time. Test scores were low and crime rates were high. Nothing good came from that school. At least, that's what everyone said.

"Really?? What are Horde students doing here?  Seems like a total switch of environment."

Bow and Glimmer hummed in agreement.

"Anyway, Catra is pretty much a loner. She only hangs out with Scorpia. They transferred here at the same time. Scorpia is pretty friendly. She's in the yearbook club with Perfuma and I and she just joined the ice hockey team. She's a beast on the ice from what Mermista tells me, but she's so nice."

Adora could definitely see that. Scorpia was strong but sensitive. A giant teddy bear.

"Catra, on the other hand." Glimmer groaned. "She's like a ghost. You don't see her unless she wants you to. I have math class with her. She's quiet unless you push her to talk. Then she's annoying and tries to bother the shit out of you."

Adora giggled. "I'm sure she's not all bad. Maybe she likes you."

Glimmer lightly punched her in the arm, huffing.

"She's such a menace to society. She broods all the time, never paying much attention. She's always the one to end up in all the fights. She's already leader of detention. Trouble follows her, so I suggest staying away from her, Adora. Trust me. She's just a no-good street rat."

Adora couldn't believe Glimmer. A street rat? What is she, a Disney character? A diamond in the rough is what Adora heard.

She grew curious. Catra was intriguing. She didn't seem all that impressed when they first made eye contact earlier. She obviously didn't think too kindly of jocks. That had to change. Adora has to know more.
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Adora waved bye to her friends. School was done for the day. Adora decided to head home right away to get some much needed sleep.

Bow and Glimmer stayed after for cheer practice, so that left her alone.

With her bag over her shoulder, Adora exited through the back of the school. She paused when she saw someone sitting, hunched over on the steps, their back to her. Adora recognized the leather jacket. Her heart fluttered.

Catra.

Adora fiddled with her bagstrap, contemplating on if she should talk to her or not. She really wanted to but didn't know if Catra was the type of talk to strangers.

"Are you done staring??"

Adora jumped. She didn't think Catra had noticed her.

The other girl still had her back to Adora. Adora cleated her throat.

"Sorry."

She approached Catra, moving around so they were looking at one another. Catra had her chin on her knee, her arms wrapped around her legs. Her eyes were looking up at her. There was a purple and black ring around her left eye.

"Are you ok? That eye looks like it hurts."

Catra scowled.

"Fuck off. Not like you actually care, blondie."

Adora hadn't expected such a heated response.

"I do care, actually. My name's Adora."

Catra lifted her head. She slumped against the brick wall, rolling her eyes, wincing only a bit.

"Sure you do. Ok, let's get it over with."

Adora grew even more confused.

"What are you talking about?"

Catra laughed.

"Oh please. I'm not stupid. You obviously aren't here to be buddy-buddy with me. So, what do you want? Money? Drugs? Information?"

Adora wasn't prepared for that. Was Catra really that mistrusting?

Adora shook her head, gathering her words.

"No. I don't want anything from you. I just.... Ive never seen you around before and I've heard some pretty bad things about you and wanted to know for myself."

Adora bit her lip, fiddling with the bag strap.

"I was just curious after what happened with Kirsten. You just interest me and I guess I want to get to know you. You seem to not really think highly of jocks."

Catra crossed her arms, rolling her eyes.

"Of course I don't. You preppy jocks and popular kids are all the same. Only caring about your little group and your perfect image, and don't think twice about the rest of us. You just write people like me off and never think of us as equals. Only fans that adore you and do whatever you want and when we step out of line, you get all snotty and do whatever you deem necessary to stomp us under your foot like nothing."

Adora was hurt by that. Did she really come off that way to Catra?

Adora has been raised to respect and treat everyone as equal, no matter who. She had never bullied or excluded anyone. She was told to be one of the nicest people in school. Obviously, Catra had never met her.

"I'm not like that. Neither are my friends. We've never been mean to anyone or thought lesser of others. Brightmoon High does have it's rotten apples, but not everyone's like that here. You probably just haven't met the right people."

Catra seemed to be analyzing her. Adora stared back into her gaze.

"I really admired what you did for you friend earlier." She mentioned. "Standing up for her and all. That was really brave of you, although a little overkill."

That made Catra's face soften. She broke her gaze, looking around.

"Oh. Yeah that guy was a major dick. Decided we were his next victims and I wasn't gonna just stand there and let him harass my friend. He was so typical."

Catra rolled her eyes.

"He obviously didn't know who he was messing with."

Adora tilted her head, signaling for her to elaborate. Catra checked out her nails.

"I pretty much ran The Horde. People knew my name and knew to stay away. Guess you preppy jocks didn't all get the memo."

"I'm not preppy." Adora huffed.

Catra raised her eyes back up to her. She smirked.

"Sure thing, Adora. Haven't convinced me otherwise."

Catra sighed. She stood up, grabbing her bag.

"Listen. The things you heard about me are probably all true. You and I run in totally different social circles. You seem decent, so I don't want to ruin your reputation by being caught with me. I'm bad news and I'll only make your life harder. Trust me. You don't want to know me and I'm fine with having Scorpia as my only friend. I've never had more than that and it's all I need to get through high school and life. You're popular and have a ton of perfect friends and will probably do something good in this world. I don't want to taint that. If you know what's good for you, forget I exist, though that's a bit dramatic for my taste."

Catra headed past Adora. Adora didn't know came over her. She placed a hand on Catra's shoulder, stopping her.

"Wait!"

Catra flinched at the sudden contact. Adora dropped her hand immediately.

"I get where you're coming from. This is all knew and you don't trust it. However, I still want to get to know you. If you want, we can only talk away from everyone. I just want you to give me a chance to change your mind about me and I'd really like to get to know you and maybe prove all those rumors wrong. I think there's always more than what someone has only going on outside."

Catra looked her up and down, mulling it over.

"You're being serious?" She questioned, as if it was uncommon for someone to actually want to befriend her.

Adora gave a firm nod and a shrug.

"Yeah. I'll even give you my phone number."

She took out her phone as proof of how serious she was being. Catra hummed. She shrugged nonchalantly.

"Sure. Your funeral. Let me know when you wanna cut the crap out and run when your friends start giving you shit for talking to the school reject. Don't say I didn't warn you."

Adora smiled at her success.

"Trust me. I'm stubborn." She shot back. "I don't plan on backing down."

A small smile spread across Catra's face.

"Sure thing, idiot. Like I said, let me know when you've had enough."

With that she turned and walked away. Adora stood there, watching with a dopey smile.

Things were about to get interesting around here. She could feel it.

So yeah. Thoughts and opinions in the comments and yeah :)