Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Princess and the Lioness. Enjoy the 900-word chapter. I don't own She-Ra, Mattel and a few others do.

(Crimson Wastes, Once upon a time in the wastes.)

Brennus was reminded a lot of his childhood while he continued to walk through the cavern. He heard a hiss and hummed with amusement.

"I'm curious on how well your willing to go to kill me." He grinned and smirked.

Another being leapt at him with a blade and Brennus grinned before parrying the blade.

He could already see another being kick him. He slammed into the wall which cracked.

"Good, fight me. I want you to fight me. You want this fight, like me… You enjoy combat." Brennus stated before another creature attacked him.

A being which had a massive eyeball for a skull fired at him. Brennus reflected the shot into the wall with his blade.

"Your skilled, your strong… Who are you, and why do you hide in this cave?" A massive club slammed into the wall next to him.

He saw another being charge at him. He looked around him at the beings, they were mutants. They all had the signs of it, sick looking skin, unnatural features like the massive eyeball skull.

He turned to the beings while he attacked them all. They were a group and he would honor them.

He slammed into them, throwing them all out of the cavern and into the desert.

Brennus faced the 9 as he grinned and looked at the group, analyzing them all.

One had a green skin tone and showed the skill of a martial artist. He was used to battle, like Brennus.

Another had clawed feet, the one who kicked him? He as one with a neck wound, possibly a mutation? He parried the mutant and the brute to the ground.

He backflipped over the club of a warrior with blood red skin. He was a brute, but he was far from stupid. He fired a blast at another, the lizard like one with a gun. He was forced back by a massive warrior with hulking armor.

"C'MON! FIGHT LIKE YOUR GOING TO DIE!" Brennus roared as he faced the entire group.

He threw the hulking warrior to the ground before grabbing him by the head. He slammed the warrior into a rock before throwing him into the lizard mutant. Neither got up.

He was again driven to a knee by the blasts of the eyeball warrior before he grabbed a handful of sand.

He tossed it into the eye of the warrior and then threw a rock which knocked him to the ground.

"I SAID FIGHT ME!" Brennus saw a shoddy grappling hook wrap around his arm before he yanked the warrior to the ground and threw him.

Brennus faced the 5 warriors left, another threw down his weapon and held up his hands.

4 then. Brennus watched them charge him as he met them head on.

Brennus took a knee to the face, he wretched the club from the bigger warrior and battered him to the ground. He roared and grabbed the martial artist and clawed mutant.

He slammed them to the ground before blasting both of them into the sand, scorching it. He vaulted off the martial artist mutant.

He dropkicked the neck mutant to the ground as he landed in a crouch.

He rubbed at his ribs and then held his blade to the marital artist warrior.

"You are very skilled, if it weren't for my armor, you would have killed me… What are your names, warriors? What are you called by birth?" Brennus asked. He had rarely been hurt through his armor.

Staggering him a few times and even hurting him a single bit through his armor? That was a feat he respected.

"Stickel-Vat… The mutant with the neck is BH. The lizard lips are Lizorr, the eyeball giant is Optikk, the club freak is Quake… Kalamarr is the coward, we call him slush. Staghorn is the armored warrior and the kicker is Hoove… The grappler is Flogg." Brennus hummed and pointed his blade at the soldier before tilting it.

The soldier gasped as the blade nearly cut his neck. Brennus pulled his sword away before spinning it. He sheathed his weapon.

"I could use your skills. You've been oppressed, used, haven't you? You all look ready to die. The desert takes and it slaughters those who cannot fight like you. follow me, and I will make you warriors worthy of your talent… Your other option is you die out in the desert from heat… Are we going back to the Fright Zone or not?" Brennus asked before they continued to mull over the decision.

He turned as they stood up; he already knew their answer.

"Follow me." Brennus motioned forward with amusement in his body language.

He walked forwards with the 9 warriors. A group who would follow his commands well enough.

He wished to show them to Catra and the Horde.

Author notes

Phew, another chapter done! I want to point out these chapters are going to be short and such for now. Next chapter will be on 4 weeks or so and will show Brennus and his group back at the Freight Zone and show more of Catra and Brennus bonding. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!

PS: Skeletor and his army show up next season.