Post by Teяa253 on Mar 7, 2008 8:43:56 GMT 1
Yeah, so here's the 7th installment of Avatar: Mysteries.
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WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS
Tera grabbed mine and Aang’s hands. Suddenly, we were whisked away in a vortex of who-knows what. We found ourselves in a very dark prison. “They are taking them here for the time,” Tera warned, “stay here and out of sight. I’m going to have a look around.”
“What if they catch you?” I asked,
“They won’t catch me, Sokka,” Tera replied, “for I am too powerful.”
“Are you an earthbender?” Aang asked,
“More like an anything bender,” Tera replied. I can bend anything to my will—literally. I would show you, but now is not the time or place.”
“Okay,” I replied, not fully believing her, but at the moment, I had no choice. We waited, and a few minutes later, we saw Fire Nation soldiers with two crates. I noticed in the darkness that they had dropped the metal one and were rolling it to where they wanted it. I guess they felt like beating up on Sanaki a little more.
I had been so close to getting out of the crate. I waited for the next time they opened up the crate, mustering up all my energy in the meantime. I had tried to attack, but I guess they had been expecting it. They punched me in the chest, knocking the wind out of me, and then jammed me back into the crate as hard as they could. I was surprised that my small, weak frame had survived all of this. I wondered how Toph was doing. Even though we were in the same position, I felt somewhat guilty that I had dragged her into my mess. I didn’t care about the others—Aang and Sokka were alright, and Zuko and Katara were obviously now just mindless benders. The technique that my waterbending friend had learned from the Supernatural worked, but had a price.
I was okay, but I heard a lot of scuffles that I assumed were from Sanaki. I felt sorry for that crazy kid—she didn’t know what kind of trouble she was getting into. I heard them say something about dumping us, and I knew that it couldn’t be good. I felt them pick up my box, and heard the sound of them strapping my crate atop Sanaki’s crate.
“Tera,” I whispered, “they’re going to dump them into the ocean!”
“SHH,” Tera whispered, “they’ll hear you. We don’t want to be heard yet.”
We waited until the soldiers left. I wondered why we couldn’t just grab the crates and vanish back to camp, but Tera had something else in mind.
“There are more coming,” she warned, “These are the ones that will dump Bei Fong and Li Chan into the ocean.”
We followed them on their way out of the prison. This place was huge. I kept hearing scuttling noises above me, as if we were being followed,
“It’s just a beaver-rat or something,” Tera said reassuringly, but I thought otherwise. In the little light, I actually thought there were two of them. I told this to Aang.
“It looked like Zuko and Katara to me,” he told me, and I was shocked. However, if it had been them, they must have heard me, for I heard no more sounds of ceiling movement. We followed the fire nation onto the ship, where Tera used metalbending to get us into the smuggler’s hold.
“How did you do that?” I asked,
“It’s a gift.” she replied, “So is this!” I saw Tera turn to Aang, and I watched as she made Aang dance. She was using bloodbending on him! There was no full moon for another 13 days, and it was mid-day. How did she do that? Tera released Aang and smiled at me. Having done no damage, Aang was not too concerned. “That was fun,” he said, “I can’t believe you can bloodbend whenever you want.”
“Yeah,” I added, how did you do that?”
“I am called a Supernatural,” Tera replied, “They are sort of like Avatars, except they can bend anything, anywhere, and they’re much, much rarer. There can be more than 1 on the planet at a time, but they usually don’t appear for hundreds of years at a time.”
“So,” I asked, “why are you dressed like an earthbender?”
“Why not,” Tera replied, “They have comfortable clothing, they don’t wear shoes, and I love these bracelets.” She showed off bracelets on her wrists and ankles. They were not much different from those that Toph wore normally.
“Sokka,” I heard Aang shout, “They’re dropping Toph and Sanaki!”
Aang had been peering through a porthole, and sure enough, I saw the crates, both attached, plunge to the depths.
“Leave this to me,” said Tera, and Aang and I watched. Tera plunged through the ceiling, and dropped straight into the water. We suddenly vanished and appeared on shore. The ship exploded immediately after. This was Tera’s work I presumed.
I could feel the water surrounding my crate. It was getting very hard to breathe in here. Suddenly, I noticed the wood bend like I would bend metal. The only reason I noticed this was because my hand had just been there. Water poured in, removing all air from my vicinity. I felt an arm grab me around the chest and I was dragged upwards. I fell unconscious when we surfaced. Aang and Sokka meanwhile, were watching me. I didn’t know they were, but Tera did. She suddenly slipped up, froze a platform of ice, and then stomped it. It had the effect of earthbending. I was launched towards the beach, still unconscious.
I had already passed out from the lack of wind and air, so I never noticed that someone had just jammed their fist through my crate. I was wrenched out of there as I shot for the surface. When I came to, I was drifting in the water. Now, when I get wet, I am completely blind, so as far as I knew, I was in the middle of the ocean.
Tera was standing back on the beach with me, looking out at Sanaki struggling.
“Why didn’t you get her?” I asked,
“I will,” Tera said, “but this is quite amusing. Let’s enjoy the moment.”
“What’s there to enjoy?” I asked, “I don’t like to see people suffer.”
“Fine then, ruin the fun.” Said Tera playfully, and snapped her fingers. Suddenly, right as she snapped, Zuko and Katara appeared. I noticed Tera giving orders, and Zuko and Katara following them. Katara lifted Sanaki’s body out of the water via bending, and Zuko surrounded her with fire to rejuvenate her. I looked down and noticed that the waterbender that Sanaki had been with had appeared, and was nursing Toph back to health. Sanaki was brought back to shore, coughing and gasping for breath, as Zuko spun fire around her to rejuvenate the little firebender.
“Tera,” I said, “why did you delay rescuing Sanaki?” I paused. Sanaki’s waterbender was stroking my neck with some healing water, and it felt really good. I turned to her. “What’s your name?” I asked, but, like Sokka, I got nothing out of her. She did not speak.
“Gosh,” said Tera, “if I knew it would offend you so much to see Sanaki struggle for life like that, then maybe I’ll leave right now. I already told you why I did it: I did it for my own enjoyment.”
I scowled. I would have tried to beat her up if I was in better condition, but I wasn’t so I just succumbed to my weakness.
I never wanted to touch any water ever again. I felt so sick and exhausted. However, ‘Tera’ as she called herself, seemed to find it great fun to pick on me some more once we got back to camp.
“I’ll help heal you,” she said, since my friend was busy with Toph. However, instead of using healing water, she just used regular water—a whole wave of it over me, drenching me again. I was frustrated that she was attacking me for no reason.
I did notice that Tera was unusually cruel to Sanaki, but there was nothing I could do about it. We were still trying to recover from the shocking incident of Toph and Tera getting captured. Zuko and Katara sat lazily in a corner, looking around blackly, occasionally staring at each other. They were quieter than a tree on a day without wind. This Tera figure seemed to know what was going on with them, but wasn’t speaking. There were a lot of things I wondered about that girl, but that would just have to wait until later…
~Mai~
You can also view this story here.
WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS
Tera grabbed mine and Aang’s hands. Suddenly, we were whisked away in a vortex of who-knows what. We found ourselves in a very dark prison. “They are taking them here for the time,” Tera warned, “stay here and out of sight. I’m going to have a look around.”
“What if they catch you?” I asked,
“They won’t catch me, Sokka,” Tera replied, “for I am too powerful.”
“Are you an earthbender?” Aang asked,
“More like an anything bender,” Tera replied. I can bend anything to my will—literally. I would show you, but now is not the time or place.”
“Okay,” I replied, not fully believing her, but at the moment, I had no choice. We waited, and a few minutes later, we saw Fire Nation soldiers with two crates. I noticed in the darkness that they had dropped the metal one and were rolling it to where they wanted it. I guess they felt like beating up on Sanaki a little more.
I had been so close to getting out of the crate. I waited for the next time they opened up the crate, mustering up all my energy in the meantime. I had tried to attack, but I guess they had been expecting it. They punched me in the chest, knocking the wind out of me, and then jammed me back into the crate as hard as they could. I was surprised that my small, weak frame had survived all of this. I wondered how Toph was doing. Even though we were in the same position, I felt somewhat guilty that I had dragged her into my mess. I didn’t care about the others—Aang and Sokka were alright, and Zuko and Katara were obviously now just mindless benders. The technique that my waterbending friend had learned from the Supernatural worked, but had a price.
I was okay, but I heard a lot of scuffles that I assumed were from Sanaki. I felt sorry for that crazy kid—she didn’t know what kind of trouble she was getting into. I heard them say something about dumping us, and I knew that it couldn’t be good. I felt them pick up my box, and heard the sound of them strapping my crate atop Sanaki’s crate.
“Tera,” I whispered, “they’re going to dump them into the ocean!”
“SHH,” Tera whispered, “they’ll hear you. We don’t want to be heard yet.”
We waited until the soldiers left. I wondered why we couldn’t just grab the crates and vanish back to camp, but Tera had something else in mind.
“There are more coming,” she warned, “These are the ones that will dump Bei Fong and Li Chan into the ocean.”
We followed them on their way out of the prison. This place was huge. I kept hearing scuttling noises above me, as if we were being followed,
“It’s just a beaver-rat or something,” Tera said reassuringly, but I thought otherwise. In the little light, I actually thought there were two of them. I told this to Aang.
“It looked like Zuko and Katara to me,” he told me, and I was shocked. However, if it had been them, they must have heard me, for I heard no more sounds of ceiling movement. We followed the fire nation onto the ship, where Tera used metalbending to get us into the smuggler’s hold.
“How did you do that?” I asked,
“It’s a gift.” she replied, “So is this!” I saw Tera turn to Aang, and I watched as she made Aang dance. She was using bloodbending on him! There was no full moon for another 13 days, and it was mid-day. How did she do that? Tera released Aang and smiled at me. Having done no damage, Aang was not too concerned. “That was fun,” he said, “I can’t believe you can bloodbend whenever you want.”
“Yeah,” I added, how did you do that?”
“I am called a Supernatural,” Tera replied, “They are sort of like Avatars, except they can bend anything, anywhere, and they’re much, much rarer. There can be more than 1 on the planet at a time, but they usually don’t appear for hundreds of years at a time.”
“So,” I asked, “why are you dressed like an earthbender?”
“Why not,” Tera replied, “They have comfortable clothing, they don’t wear shoes, and I love these bracelets.” She showed off bracelets on her wrists and ankles. They were not much different from those that Toph wore normally.
“Sokka,” I heard Aang shout, “They’re dropping Toph and Sanaki!”
Aang had been peering through a porthole, and sure enough, I saw the crates, both attached, plunge to the depths.
“Leave this to me,” said Tera, and Aang and I watched. Tera plunged through the ceiling, and dropped straight into the water. We suddenly vanished and appeared on shore. The ship exploded immediately after. This was Tera’s work I presumed.
I could feel the water surrounding my crate. It was getting very hard to breathe in here. Suddenly, I noticed the wood bend like I would bend metal. The only reason I noticed this was because my hand had just been there. Water poured in, removing all air from my vicinity. I felt an arm grab me around the chest and I was dragged upwards. I fell unconscious when we surfaced. Aang and Sokka meanwhile, were watching me. I didn’t know they were, but Tera did. She suddenly slipped up, froze a platform of ice, and then stomped it. It had the effect of earthbending. I was launched towards the beach, still unconscious.
I had already passed out from the lack of wind and air, so I never noticed that someone had just jammed their fist through my crate. I was wrenched out of there as I shot for the surface. When I came to, I was drifting in the water. Now, when I get wet, I am completely blind, so as far as I knew, I was in the middle of the ocean.
Tera was standing back on the beach with me, looking out at Sanaki struggling.
“Why didn’t you get her?” I asked,
“I will,” Tera said, “but this is quite amusing. Let’s enjoy the moment.”
“What’s there to enjoy?” I asked, “I don’t like to see people suffer.”
“Fine then, ruin the fun.” Said Tera playfully, and snapped her fingers. Suddenly, right as she snapped, Zuko and Katara appeared. I noticed Tera giving orders, and Zuko and Katara following them. Katara lifted Sanaki’s body out of the water via bending, and Zuko surrounded her with fire to rejuvenate her. I looked down and noticed that the waterbender that Sanaki had been with had appeared, and was nursing Toph back to health. Sanaki was brought back to shore, coughing and gasping for breath, as Zuko spun fire around her to rejuvenate the little firebender.
“Tera,” I said, “why did you delay rescuing Sanaki?” I paused. Sanaki’s waterbender was stroking my neck with some healing water, and it felt really good. I turned to her. “What’s your name?” I asked, but, like Sokka, I got nothing out of her. She did not speak.
“Gosh,” said Tera, “if I knew it would offend you so much to see Sanaki struggle for life like that, then maybe I’ll leave right now. I already told you why I did it: I did it for my own enjoyment.”
I scowled. I would have tried to beat her up if I was in better condition, but I wasn’t so I just succumbed to my weakness.
I never wanted to touch any water ever again. I felt so sick and exhausted. However, ‘Tera’ as she called herself, seemed to find it great fun to pick on me some more once we got back to camp.
“I’ll help heal you,” she said, since my friend was busy with Toph. However, instead of using healing water, she just used regular water—a whole wave of it over me, drenching me again. I was frustrated that she was attacking me for no reason.
I did notice that Tera was unusually cruel to Sanaki, but there was nothing I could do about it. We were still trying to recover from the shocking incident of Toph and Tera getting captured. Zuko and Katara sat lazily in a corner, looking around blackly, occasionally staring at each other. They were quieter than a tree on a day without wind. This Tera figure seemed to know what was going on with them, but wasn’t speaking. There were a lot of things I wondered about that girl, but that would just have to wait until later…
~Mai~
