Post by Teяa253 on Jan 1, 2009 12:25:48 GMT 1
chapter 63... wow I'm doing this too fast, but oh wellz.
Maric and Malak learn the secret of Tenoko that Ayumi revealed to Tenoko in the previous chapter, but they don't take it so well...
oh yes, and there's Reyson ownage, and some Sanaki ownage as well, so enjoy.
CHAPTER 63: WE'VE GOT A BATTLE TO WIN
Granted, there was still plenty of action during the time Tenoko and Ayumi had gone off. Reyson found himself in a hard situation surrounded by rouge Order earthbenders. He may not have had very much actual combat experience, but he had had plenty of training.
“What’s this,” one of them exclaimed, “looks like we found ourselves the little prince Lord Xin Shing spoke of.”
Zeruda had done well in keeping Reyson’s existence a secret from The Order, but after recent events and Zakura’s new policy regarding younger benders, she decided to let him use his own judgment.
One thing was certain: Reyson was no coward. He may have had a sheltered life, but he had his own policies and life lessons.
“When the time comes, just act,” he thought to himself, and then he thought of Malak and Maric, who he saw not very far away, locked in fierce combat against other enemies.
“You have me surrounded,” said Reyson, “but prince Reyson is not about to step down and accept defeat. You’ll have to take me down kicking and screaming, for I am the rightful heir to the Fire Nation throne.”
“We’ll see about that, pretty boy” said one of the earthbenders: a gruff looking female who reminded Reyson slightly of Zakura, though Zakura’s face was friendlier looking.
“Pretty boy, huh,” said Reyson, shrugging and taking a step backwards, “if I recall, pretty boys don’t do this,”
His reaction was a huge blast of lightning that knocked two of the earthbenders off their feet and left them unconscious. Reyson used this gap to make a break for it, but one of them made a rock jut out of the ground to trip him on the way. They thought he was down, but he wasn’t. Reyson, right as he fell, put his hands out, landed on them, and using the momentum from his fall, he pushed himself into a handstand.
“Gotcha,” he laughed, doing the splits in the air for a second [just to show off] before flipping back onto his feet.
The earthbenders however, were joined by several firebenders, and so Reyson was outnumbered about 13 to 1. They were determined to take him down, since they knew that he was the rightful heir to the throne and wanted that possibility of him acquiring it when he was older removed.
Reyson was a swift boy, and was very nimble like his mother. Zeruda, being a Zuroc Sensei, had taught Reyson many of her moves, and therefore he was quick, nimble, and light on his feet. He had also adopted some of the moves used in the Dragmire Flips, and was using them to his advantage, spiraling through the air and actually making his enemies take a step or two backwards.
The only reason these warriors were being intimidated by a 16-year-old boy was because they knew that he was a prodigy, and in this day and age a prodigious bender was always marked as highly dangerous. However, they were not about to let him overtake them; they were just more wary around him. After all, there were very few people fighting who were under the age of 18 (more like under the age of 21) and so they figured that if there was a bender in his or her teen years on the battlefield, that they were prodigies.
Repeated blasts of earth and fire came flying at Reyson, but he was able to nimbly avoid many of them, sometimes reflecting the fireballs, other times using the walls of earth as platform to jump onto and then off of as they passed.
However, all it would take would be one misstep and they would hit him, what with all the attacks they were throwing at him, and sure enough, that time came. He was painfully hit in the middle of his chest on his left side, causing him to stagger. He fell onto one of his knees, trying to recover his breath.
Immediately, his enemies closed in around him, but they didn’t know that they had closed in on two people, not one. A little red blur had shot into the fray right as the earthbenders and firebender surrounded Reyson. He looked up to see that it was Sanaki, and she had taken a fighting stance, planting her bare feet firmly on the ground.
“You’re not going to hurt him,” she said, and her cute, tiny voice made them laugh at her.
“Awww,” said one of the men, “does the little girl want to play with her boyfriend?”
Ironically, Sanaki was a year older than Reyson, but her small size made her look younger sometimes. Nonetheless, it was clear that she was well-developed despite her size. She was just short and thin.
“I’m 17, thank you,” she said, “and he’s not my boyfriend; just a good friend I’ve made in the past. Now get out of our way. Otherwise you’re going to have to go home knowing you just got beaten by a blind girl.”
“Luckily,” said a seductive voice in the crowd, which happened to belong to a single waterbender, “I know how you blind folk work.”
Immediately he shot icy blasts at Sanaki’s hands and feet, not only rooting her to the ground but also hindering her “sight”. Reyson was still too short on breath to attack [for firebending was based on breathing] and so they seemed helpless.
However, this was Sanaki. She always had another trick up her sleeve. She acknowledged this as well.
“Think,” said Sanaki, “with clothes as baggy as mien, you’d think that I’d have a trick up my sleeve. Well, I do. I was once called a Blind Dragon. Here is why.”
Sanaki spewed fire from her mouth at her enemies, and then at her hands and feet, freeing them from the icy grip which they had been locked in moments before. With her hands and feet free, she took a deep breath again and pointed two of her fingers at the waterbender.
“Prepare to either die or get out of my way,” she said, hoping that her move would work like she had trained so hard for,
Reyson stood up and watched Sanaki. She was blasted backwards a few feet, (and wasn’t hurt, but was massaging her rear on which she had landed) but not before she had shot a bolt of red lightning at her opponents, taking them down.
Sanaki Foxx was also a prodigy, and she, like Alzar, Reyson, Zeruda, Ayumi, Orzon, and Katara, was able to wield red lightning. It was only naturally learned by literal descendants of the legendary Sanaki Li Chan, and since Sanaki Foxx was the only one in her family who had ever been able to use it, she understood at once why she had been named Sanaki after she had first discovered she could wield it.
“I am a literal descendant of the great Sanaki Li Chan,” said Sanaki proudly, “and you failed to heed my warning.”
She turned to Reyson and helped him up.
“Let’s get out of here,” she said, and took off to a safer place on the battlefield [where they wouldn’t get surrounded].
In the meantime, Maric and Malak were showing their enemies just what they were able to do when teamed up. They were fighting Michiko and Fukuda, and, like Ayumi, they knew of the twins’ relationship to Tenoko.
“You know that blithering drunken Water Chief,” Michiko asked, seductively, as she and Fukuda walked around the twins who were both back-to-back, “well, she’s your real mother.”
“What,” Malak gasped, “Tenoko?”
“I spoke clearly,” said Michiko gently, does this fact bother you?”
“Tenoko...” Maric exclaimed, “She’s the one who gave birth to us?”
“Think,” said Fukuda, “if she was any dumber she wouldn’t even remember her own name. She obviously didn’t love you two enough, for she didn’t even recognize her own children.”
“She’s not our mom,” Malak shouted back, her eyes watering; she was clearly not able to accept the sad truth about Tenoko not recognizing them, “we don’t even know her.”
“You don’t have to know her for her to be the one to bear you,” said Michiko, “why else do you all have the same eyes—the same moves; the same waterbending talent, even the same NAME?”
Neither Maric nor Malak said anything, but Malak looked ready to cry.
“Face it,” said Michiko, “she could care less about you. I doubt she even knows what I just told you. She doesn’t know or care who you are.”
“That’s not true!” Malak bellowed, tears flowing down her face, “you lie, you treacherous monster!”
However, by this time, Tenoko had returned to the battlefield, and contrary to what Michiko had said, she did know this, and she was not about to let this slide.
“Don’t you dare lay a finger on my children,” she bellowed, smashing through any obstacle that got between her and the 4 waterbenders.
“Ah,” said Fukuda, smirking, “the drunken idiot herself arrives.”
“You can call me whatever you want,” said Tenoko stiffly, “but DO NOT EVER say or think for one moment that I did not love or did not care about my children.”
Since Fukuda and Michiko could not effectively surround Maric and Malak [since two people can’t surround anyone], Tenoko was able to joint them with no difficulty.
“Your mom’s here for you,” said Tenoko, embracing the two of them, “and she’s not going anywhere without you.”
However, though sometimes it was hard to tell, Tenoko had her guard up, for she expected an attack from the Order’s Water Tribe Chief and/or his wife.
Malak was still sniffling when Tenoko stood the two of them up.
“On your feet, Kemet, Komae,” she said,
“What did you call us?” the twins exclaimed,
“My bad,” Tenoko replied, “those were the names I gave you before The Order ripped you two away from me 14 years ago. I suppose those can be your middle names now. I’ll leave that up to you two. Right now though, let’s fight. We’ve got a Battle to Win.”
~Azula~
Maric and Malak learn the secret of Tenoko that Ayumi revealed to Tenoko in the previous chapter, but they don't take it so well...
oh yes, and there's Reyson ownage, and some Sanaki ownage as well, so enjoy.
CHAPTER 63: WE'VE GOT A BATTLE TO WIN
Granted, there was still plenty of action during the time Tenoko and Ayumi had gone off. Reyson found himself in a hard situation surrounded by rouge Order earthbenders. He may not have had very much actual combat experience, but he had had plenty of training.
“What’s this,” one of them exclaimed, “looks like we found ourselves the little prince Lord Xin Shing spoke of.”
Zeruda had done well in keeping Reyson’s existence a secret from The Order, but after recent events and Zakura’s new policy regarding younger benders, she decided to let him use his own judgment.
One thing was certain: Reyson was no coward. He may have had a sheltered life, but he had his own policies and life lessons.
“When the time comes, just act,” he thought to himself, and then he thought of Malak and Maric, who he saw not very far away, locked in fierce combat against other enemies.
“You have me surrounded,” said Reyson, “but prince Reyson is not about to step down and accept defeat. You’ll have to take me down kicking and screaming, for I am the rightful heir to the Fire Nation throne.”
“We’ll see about that, pretty boy” said one of the earthbenders: a gruff looking female who reminded Reyson slightly of Zakura, though Zakura’s face was friendlier looking.
“Pretty boy, huh,” said Reyson, shrugging and taking a step backwards, “if I recall, pretty boys don’t do this,”
His reaction was a huge blast of lightning that knocked two of the earthbenders off their feet and left them unconscious. Reyson used this gap to make a break for it, but one of them made a rock jut out of the ground to trip him on the way. They thought he was down, but he wasn’t. Reyson, right as he fell, put his hands out, landed on them, and using the momentum from his fall, he pushed himself into a handstand.
“Gotcha,” he laughed, doing the splits in the air for a second [just to show off] before flipping back onto his feet.
The earthbenders however, were joined by several firebenders, and so Reyson was outnumbered about 13 to 1. They were determined to take him down, since they knew that he was the rightful heir to the throne and wanted that possibility of him acquiring it when he was older removed.
Reyson was a swift boy, and was very nimble like his mother. Zeruda, being a Zuroc Sensei, had taught Reyson many of her moves, and therefore he was quick, nimble, and light on his feet. He had also adopted some of the moves used in the Dragmire Flips, and was using them to his advantage, spiraling through the air and actually making his enemies take a step or two backwards.
The only reason these warriors were being intimidated by a 16-year-old boy was because they knew that he was a prodigy, and in this day and age a prodigious bender was always marked as highly dangerous. However, they were not about to let him overtake them; they were just more wary around him. After all, there were very few people fighting who were under the age of 18 (more like under the age of 21) and so they figured that if there was a bender in his or her teen years on the battlefield, that they were prodigies.
Repeated blasts of earth and fire came flying at Reyson, but he was able to nimbly avoid many of them, sometimes reflecting the fireballs, other times using the walls of earth as platform to jump onto and then off of as they passed.
However, all it would take would be one misstep and they would hit him, what with all the attacks they were throwing at him, and sure enough, that time came. He was painfully hit in the middle of his chest on his left side, causing him to stagger. He fell onto one of his knees, trying to recover his breath.
Immediately, his enemies closed in around him, but they didn’t know that they had closed in on two people, not one. A little red blur had shot into the fray right as the earthbenders and firebender surrounded Reyson. He looked up to see that it was Sanaki, and she had taken a fighting stance, planting her bare feet firmly on the ground.
“You’re not going to hurt him,” she said, and her cute, tiny voice made them laugh at her.
“Awww,” said one of the men, “does the little girl want to play with her boyfriend?”
Ironically, Sanaki was a year older than Reyson, but her small size made her look younger sometimes. Nonetheless, it was clear that she was well-developed despite her size. She was just short and thin.
“I’m 17, thank you,” she said, “and he’s not my boyfriend; just a good friend I’ve made in the past. Now get out of our way. Otherwise you’re going to have to go home knowing you just got beaten by a blind girl.”
“Luckily,” said a seductive voice in the crowd, which happened to belong to a single waterbender, “I know how you blind folk work.”
Immediately he shot icy blasts at Sanaki’s hands and feet, not only rooting her to the ground but also hindering her “sight”. Reyson was still too short on breath to attack [for firebending was based on breathing] and so they seemed helpless.
However, this was Sanaki. She always had another trick up her sleeve. She acknowledged this as well.
“Think,” said Sanaki, “with clothes as baggy as mien, you’d think that I’d have a trick up my sleeve. Well, I do. I was once called a Blind Dragon. Here is why.”
Sanaki spewed fire from her mouth at her enemies, and then at her hands and feet, freeing them from the icy grip which they had been locked in moments before. With her hands and feet free, she took a deep breath again and pointed two of her fingers at the waterbender.
“Prepare to either die or get out of my way,” she said, hoping that her move would work like she had trained so hard for,
Reyson stood up and watched Sanaki. She was blasted backwards a few feet, (and wasn’t hurt, but was massaging her rear on which she had landed) but not before she had shot a bolt of red lightning at her opponents, taking them down.
Sanaki Foxx was also a prodigy, and she, like Alzar, Reyson, Zeruda, Ayumi, Orzon, and Katara, was able to wield red lightning. It was only naturally learned by literal descendants of the legendary Sanaki Li Chan, and since Sanaki Foxx was the only one in her family who had ever been able to use it, she understood at once why she had been named Sanaki after she had first discovered she could wield it.
“I am a literal descendant of the great Sanaki Li Chan,” said Sanaki proudly, “and you failed to heed my warning.”
She turned to Reyson and helped him up.
“Let’s get out of here,” she said, and took off to a safer place on the battlefield [where they wouldn’t get surrounded].
In the meantime, Maric and Malak were showing their enemies just what they were able to do when teamed up. They were fighting Michiko and Fukuda, and, like Ayumi, they knew of the twins’ relationship to Tenoko.
“You know that blithering drunken Water Chief,” Michiko asked, seductively, as she and Fukuda walked around the twins who were both back-to-back, “well, she’s your real mother.”
“What,” Malak gasped, “Tenoko?”
“I spoke clearly,” said Michiko gently, does this fact bother you?”
“Tenoko...” Maric exclaimed, “She’s the one who gave birth to us?”
“Think,” said Fukuda, “if she was any dumber she wouldn’t even remember her own name. She obviously didn’t love you two enough, for she didn’t even recognize her own children.”
“She’s not our mom,” Malak shouted back, her eyes watering; she was clearly not able to accept the sad truth about Tenoko not recognizing them, “we don’t even know her.”
“You don’t have to know her for her to be the one to bear you,” said Michiko, “why else do you all have the same eyes—the same moves; the same waterbending talent, even the same NAME?”
Neither Maric nor Malak said anything, but Malak looked ready to cry.
“Face it,” said Michiko, “she could care less about you. I doubt she even knows what I just told you. She doesn’t know or care who you are.”
“That’s not true!” Malak bellowed, tears flowing down her face, “you lie, you treacherous monster!”
However, by this time, Tenoko had returned to the battlefield, and contrary to what Michiko had said, she did know this, and she was not about to let this slide.
“Don’t you dare lay a finger on my children,” she bellowed, smashing through any obstacle that got between her and the 4 waterbenders.
“Ah,” said Fukuda, smirking, “the drunken idiot herself arrives.”
“You can call me whatever you want,” said Tenoko stiffly, “but DO NOT EVER say or think for one moment that I did not love or did not care about my children.”
Since Fukuda and Michiko could not effectively surround Maric and Malak [since two people can’t surround anyone], Tenoko was able to joint them with no difficulty.
“Your mom’s here for you,” said Tenoko, embracing the two of them, “and she’s not going anywhere without you.”
However, though sometimes it was hard to tell, Tenoko had her guard up, for she expected an attack from the Order’s Water Tribe Chief and/or his wife.
Malak was still sniffling when Tenoko stood the two of them up.
“On your feet, Kemet, Komae,” she said,
“What did you call us?” the twins exclaimed,
“My bad,” Tenoko replied, “those were the names I gave you before The Order ripped you two away from me 14 years ago. I suppose those can be your middle names now. I’ll leave that up to you two. Right now though, let’s fight. We’ve got a Battle to Win.”
~Azula~
