Post by Teяa253 on Jan 2, 2009 11:55:27 GMT 1
This was my motto in life at one point...
but now it is also the title of the 64th installment of my series. This chapter is a bit weird. it turns out that Ayumi seems to have planned ahead. but is she one step ahead of Katara?
that's to be decided.
CHAPTER 64: EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
Tenoko gave the twins their needed boost of confidence, and they were able to get back up and fight again. Meanwhile though, there was another family having issues. Zakura was facing her parents and her two younger sisters in a 4-on-1. Her sisters may not have been benders, but they were swift and powerful warriors just like Zakura’s elder brother had been before he had lost his life to the hands of The Avatar Guard. Because of this, Zakura’s sympathy for him was limited.
“Kyomi, Kaoru,” said Zakura, chuckling, “you two have grown a bit since I last saw you. Yasuda would be proud.”
The four children of the Ishiko family, from eldest to youngest were Yasuda, Zakura, Kyomi, and Kaoru. Yasuda, the eldest child and the only son, was deceased; Zakura was 23, Kyomi was 21, and Kaoru was 19.
“What in blazes happened to you,” Kaoru asked, looking at Zakura with a sense of haughty disgust. Zakura had not been as muscular as she was now when she had left home, and her choice of clothing was far from the high-class appearance that her parents and siblings had.
“I became awesome,” Zakura replied, her arrogance kicking in. she had no respect for her family, since they were, after all, trying to kill her; I had to. I’m the avatar.”
“I never thought that my sister would be the cause of a whole war,” Kyomi remarked, “but then again, you were always an unpredictable one. Yasuda was right about you.”
“Duh,” Zakura replied, “that’s why I was scared. Wouldn’t you be scared if you found out that you were the person that your family was trying to kill when you were only 7 years old?”
“If you knew,” said Kaoru, “how then did you keep it hidden so well? You were never one to keep a secret unless it was important. Surely you didn’t know of it at that age.”
“I did not,” said Zakura, still warding off the huge earthen walls and boulders her parents were launching at her, and blocking the attacks from her sisters, “I didn’t learn it for sure until I was 16. There was no way for me to prove it, since I didn’t even get anyone to teach me earthbending until The Four Benders came along.”
“The Four Benders, huh” Zhang remarked, launching another rock which Zakura smashed with her fist again, “admirable people; pity they had to waste their lives away for the likes of the avatar—the fools.”
“Hey,” Zakura snapped, using some swift bending skills to get right up to her father’s face. She grabbed him by the throat, and the others paused as well, not wanting to give Zakura a reason to attack.
“You can insult me all you want,” she snapped, “but do not insult the honor of the four greatest benders to ever live.”
Zakura let him go and the moment she did, she was surrounded by a barrage of attacks, even from Zhang, who had wasted no time in snapping back and continuing to attack.
Zhang and Zao Lin were amazing earthbenders, which might have explained why they were mad at Zakura. She was their least favorite child for personal reasons, and to know that she was the only bender out of their children likely angered them. Nonetheless, they had no good reason for disliking Zakura other than that she was the avatar, but at this point, Zakura didn’t care either.
“you do realize that I am not trying to kill you,” said Zakura after merciless barrages of rocks and knives and swipes of the blades of her sisters, “for if I was, I would not only be lowering myself to your pitiful level, but I also would have invoked the avatar state don’t you think?”
“Use your excuses,” Kyomi leered, “kill us if you want to,”
“that’s the thing,” said Zakura, locking Kyomi’s feet to the ground with ice, so that Zhang and Zao Lin could not undo her work ,”I don’t want to kill you.”
Kyomi was met with a swift kick to the face that [naturally] shattered the ice around her feet and sent her flying several feet away where she landed unconscious. Zakura knew that her sister wasn’t going to die from it, and so she had no sympathy.
This process was soon about to repeat itself on an angered Kaoru. She was angry that Zakura had just taken down Kyomi, and she tried to retaliate. However, Kaoru, a non-bender, was no match for Zakura, a fully-realized avatar. Even if bending was not an issue, the Ishiko family stood no change against Zakura, who was also stronger than most men, despite her short size.
Once Kaoru and Kyomi were down and out, Zhang and Zao Lin decided to make sure they were alright.
“We’ll finish this later,” Zao Lin warned, “prepare your self.”
And with that they vanished with Zakura’s sisters into the fray.
In the meantime, Vigo was side-by-side with Mulan, and the two of them were dueling against Ju Long and Yang. Mulan soon learned about Vigo’s inability to speak, and thus she tried her best to communicate with him. Her airbending skills had increased several-fold since she had last seen her ex-husband, and she figured that if he was going to challenge her that she would accept the challenge.
He actually engaged Vigo in combat, and Mulan took that as her cue to not only help Vigo but also keep Ju Long and Yang at bay. Ju Long noticed Mulan rather quickly as a result.
“So,” he said, “here we are, meeting on the field of battle”
“Aye,” Mulan replied, “imagine the look on our baby girl’s face if she saw her mother and father fighting to the death on this forsaken battlefield”
Ju Long said nothing.
“I suppose by turning against me and threatening not only my life, but the life of our unborn child, that I must fight you,” Mulan continued, “and if that is what it shall take, then that is what we shall do.”
“Ha,” Yang scoffed, “save the small talk. This kid knows how to fight.”
She pointed at Vigo, but did so at just the right time to get a slab of earth jammed at her face. She was knocked back, but quickly recovered her stance. She took to the skies but Vigo wasn’t blind. He shot rocks up towards the heavens at her, some making their mark.
Her retaliation was fierce, tearing winds that were almost like ice cold knives slicing through Vigo’s body. Nonetheless, Vigo was a master earthbender, and it would take a lot more than cutting winds to move the stubborn boy. Vigo was a defensive fighter, and so instead of waiting his energy attacking, he was hoping to wear out his opponent by blocking her moves instead of counterattacking. Some moves though he did counter to his advantage, but this was rare.
In the meantime, Katara’s face has spread into a grin as she watched the fighters on both side reduce in numbers and in energy.
“You are all playing right into my hands,” she said, smirking, “just like I predicted. I don’t even need The Dark Warrior to make things go my way. Like I warned you all—I’m always one step ahead of you.”
Of course, no one was there to hear her, but she didn’t mind. Things were playing out exactly as she had hoped. However, she had left out one crucial part of her operation—her family; and as the battle started to die down, The Order pulling a premature retreat for seemingly no reason, they finally noticed her. She had since discarded her black armor, and was just clad in her everyday Fire Nation attire.
Katara soon found herself being swept off her feet by her brother, her mother right behind them. The Avatar Guard seemed to be celebrating a victory. The Order must have had something else in mind for abandoning their base this quickly, but at the moment they were going to worry about thing such as casualties and leave the planning to the strategists.
Katara’s mother was in tears.
“That...” she exclaimed, “That was you the whole time; all that destruction... Why, Katara... why;”
“I hate this war,” Katara cried, “Do you realize what it’s done to me—what it’s made me become?”
“Katara,” said Sokka, who had always been Katara’s ‘voice of reason’ before they were separated, “just calm down. We’re here for you again. This was a heavy blow on The Order; losing one of their bases like this. This war won’t last much longer.”
Katara said nothing. She knew that she was going to get pestered with questions if she went with The Avatar Guard. She sighed.
“I don’t want to talk about what I did,” she said, “I just want to be alone.”
“Well,” said Sokka, “we have a whole big Order base that’s probably big enough for you to fine a place to be by yourself. Just relax, Katara. It’s over for now.”
But it was far from over. The Avatar Guard was surprised to find that The Order’s Base had been stripped of anything other than things used by the public, so in essence, instead of finding The Order’s plans or such, all they had was a semi-clone of their base in Ba Sing Se. additionally, there was the issue of a certain Fire Lady who was chained down at the camp. She was conscious again, but had not moved since Tenoko had captured her and chained her down.
“You,” Zakura exclaimed upon seeing her,
“Aye,” Ayumi replied, “me. What’s your point?”
“What are you doing here?”
“You think I chained myself down? I was captured, you idiot.”
“Surely you’re not that pathetic; or are you?”
“Wouldn’t you like to know, Little Miss Avatar,” Ayumi leered, “I thought your gang would have taught you by now—Expect The Unexpected.”
~Azula~
but now it is also the title of the 64th installment of my series. This chapter is a bit weird. it turns out that Ayumi seems to have planned ahead. but is she one step ahead of Katara?
that's to be decided.
CHAPTER 64: EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
Tenoko gave the twins their needed boost of confidence, and they were able to get back up and fight again. Meanwhile though, there was another family having issues. Zakura was facing her parents and her two younger sisters in a 4-on-1. Her sisters may not have been benders, but they were swift and powerful warriors just like Zakura’s elder brother had been before he had lost his life to the hands of The Avatar Guard. Because of this, Zakura’s sympathy for him was limited.
“Kyomi, Kaoru,” said Zakura, chuckling, “you two have grown a bit since I last saw you. Yasuda would be proud.”
The four children of the Ishiko family, from eldest to youngest were Yasuda, Zakura, Kyomi, and Kaoru. Yasuda, the eldest child and the only son, was deceased; Zakura was 23, Kyomi was 21, and Kaoru was 19.
“What in blazes happened to you,” Kaoru asked, looking at Zakura with a sense of haughty disgust. Zakura had not been as muscular as she was now when she had left home, and her choice of clothing was far from the high-class appearance that her parents and siblings had.
“I became awesome,” Zakura replied, her arrogance kicking in. she had no respect for her family, since they were, after all, trying to kill her; I had to. I’m the avatar.”
“I never thought that my sister would be the cause of a whole war,” Kyomi remarked, “but then again, you were always an unpredictable one. Yasuda was right about you.”
“Duh,” Zakura replied, “that’s why I was scared. Wouldn’t you be scared if you found out that you were the person that your family was trying to kill when you were only 7 years old?”
“If you knew,” said Kaoru, “how then did you keep it hidden so well? You were never one to keep a secret unless it was important. Surely you didn’t know of it at that age.”
“I did not,” said Zakura, still warding off the huge earthen walls and boulders her parents were launching at her, and blocking the attacks from her sisters, “I didn’t learn it for sure until I was 16. There was no way for me to prove it, since I didn’t even get anyone to teach me earthbending until The Four Benders came along.”
“The Four Benders, huh” Zhang remarked, launching another rock which Zakura smashed with her fist again, “admirable people; pity they had to waste their lives away for the likes of the avatar—the fools.”
“Hey,” Zakura snapped, using some swift bending skills to get right up to her father’s face. She grabbed him by the throat, and the others paused as well, not wanting to give Zakura a reason to attack.
“You can insult me all you want,” she snapped, “but do not insult the honor of the four greatest benders to ever live.”
Zakura let him go and the moment she did, she was surrounded by a barrage of attacks, even from Zhang, who had wasted no time in snapping back and continuing to attack.
Zhang and Zao Lin were amazing earthbenders, which might have explained why they were mad at Zakura. She was their least favorite child for personal reasons, and to know that she was the only bender out of their children likely angered them. Nonetheless, they had no good reason for disliking Zakura other than that she was the avatar, but at this point, Zakura didn’t care either.
“you do realize that I am not trying to kill you,” said Zakura after merciless barrages of rocks and knives and swipes of the blades of her sisters, “for if I was, I would not only be lowering myself to your pitiful level, but I also would have invoked the avatar state don’t you think?”
“Use your excuses,” Kyomi leered, “kill us if you want to,”
“that’s the thing,” said Zakura, locking Kyomi’s feet to the ground with ice, so that Zhang and Zao Lin could not undo her work ,”I don’t want to kill you.”
Kyomi was met with a swift kick to the face that [naturally] shattered the ice around her feet and sent her flying several feet away where she landed unconscious. Zakura knew that her sister wasn’t going to die from it, and so she had no sympathy.
This process was soon about to repeat itself on an angered Kaoru. She was angry that Zakura had just taken down Kyomi, and she tried to retaliate. However, Kaoru, a non-bender, was no match for Zakura, a fully-realized avatar. Even if bending was not an issue, the Ishiko family stood no change against Zakura, who was also stronger than most men, despite her short size.
Once Kaoru and Kyomi were down and out, Zhang and Zao Lin decided to make sure they were alright.
“We’ll finish this later,” Zao Lin warned, “prepare your self.”
And with that they vanished with Zakura’s sisters into the fray.
In the meantime, Vigo was side-by-side with Mulan, and the two of them were dueling against Ju Long and Yang. Mulan soon learned about Vigo’s inability to speak, and thus she tried her best to communicate with him. Her airbending skills had increased several-fold since she had last seen her ex-husband, and she figured that if he was going to challenge her that she would accept the challenge.
He actually engaged Vigo in combat, and Mulan took that as her cue to not only help Vigo but also keep Ju Long and Yang at bay. Ju Long noticed Mulan rather quickly as a result.
“So,” he said, “here we are, meeting on the field of battle”
“Aye,” Mulan replied, “imagine the look on our baby girl’s face if she saw her mother and father fighting to the death on this forsaken battlefield”
Ju Long said nothing.
“I suppose by turning against me and threatening not only my life, but the life of our unborn child, that I must fight you,” Mulan continued, “and if that is what it shall take, then that is what we shall do.”
“Ha,” Yang scoffed, “save the small talk. This kid knows how to fight.”
She pointed at Vigo, but did so at just the right time to get a slab of earth jammed at her face. She was knocked back, but quickly recovered her stance. She took to the skies but Vigo wasn’t blind. He shot rocks up towards the heavens at her, some making their mark.
Her retaliation was fierce, tearing winds that were almost like ice cold knives slicing through Vigo’s body. Nonetheless, Vigo was a master earthbender, and it would take a lot more than cutting winds to move the stubborn boy. Vigo was a defensive fighter, and so instead of waiting his energy attacking, he was hoping to wear out his opponent by blocking her moves instead of counterattacking. Some moves though he did counter to his advantage, but this was rare.
In the meantime, Katara’s face has spread into a grin as she watched the fighters on both side reduce in numbers and in energy.
“You are all playing right into my hands,” she said, smirking, “just like I predicted. I don’t even need The Dark Warrior to make things go my way. Like I warned you all—I’m always one step ahead of you.”
Of course, no one was there to hear her, but she didn’t mind. Things were playing out exactly as she had hoped. However, she had left out one crucial part of her operation—her family; and as the battle started to die down, The Order pulling a premature retreat for seemingly no reason, they finally noticed her. She had since discarded her black armor, and was just clad in her everyday Fire Nation attire.
Katara soon found herself being swept off her feet by her brother, her mother right behind them. The Avatar Guard seemed to be celebrating a victory. The Order must have had something else in mind for abandoning their base this quickly, but at the moment they were going to worry about thing such as casualties and leave the planning to the strategists.
Katara’s mother was in tears.
“That...” she exclaimed, “That was you the whole time; all that destruction... Why, Katara... why;”
“I hate this war,” Katara cried, “Do you realize what it’s done to me—what it’s made me become?”
“Katara,” said Sokka, who had always been Katara’s ‘voice of reason’ before they were separated, “just calm down. We’re here for you again. This was a heavy blow on The Order; losing one of their bases like this. This war won’t last much longer.”
Katara said nothing. She knew that she was going to get pestered with questions if she went with The Avatar Guard. She sighed.
“I don’t want to talk about what I did,” she said, “I just want to be alone.”
“Well,” said Sokka, “we have a whole big Order base that’s probably big enough for you to fine a place to be by yourself. Just relax, Katara. It’s over for now.”
But it was far from over. The Avatar Guard was surprised to find that The Order’s Base had been stripped of anything other than things used by the public, so in essence, instead of finding The Order’s plans or such, all they had was a semi-clone of their base in Ba Sing Se. additionally, there was the issue of a certain Fire Lady who was chained down at the camp. She was conscious again, but had not moved since Tenoko had captured her and chained her down.
“You,” Zakura exclaimed upon seeing her,
“Aye,” Ayumi replied, “me. What’s your point?”
“What are you doing here?”
“You think I chained myself down? I was captured, you idiot.”
“Surely you’re not that pathetic; or are you?”
“Wouldn’t you like to know, Little Miss Avatar,” Ayumi leered, “I thought your gang would have taught you by now—Expect The Unexpected.”
~Azula~
