Post by Teяa253 on Apr 8, 2009 5:08:26 GMT 1
Things take a nosedive for The Avatar guard here...
Ayumi's treachery is unveilied, and basically the whole Avatar Guard realizes what a fix they got in...
This is worthy of being a chapter 32, but oh well. it's chapter 67.
CHAPTER 67: AN AGONIZING DEFEAT
Because of their appearances, Cheng and Taki were able to get back into Ba Sing Se past The Order’s forces, which had in fact taken over the western area around where The Avatar Guard’s base was located. They did not know the exact location (for all of the main bases of either group were well-hidden), but they seemed to be scouring the area.
Cheng and Taki were assigned an area to scour, and incidentally, it was the area where it was. As a result, while the other Order members of their group were searching around there, they chose the area where it was, and naturally just claimed to have found nothing.
“What’s Katara doing,” Taki whispered to Cheng, “why isn’t she appearing; what’s taking her so long?”
“I don’t know,” Cheng replied truthfully, “but think—she probably knows what she was doing. I mean, she’s gotten us this far.”
Unfortunately, they were heard by some of the others, including the Commander who was in charge of their group.
“Who are you talking about,” he snapped at them, “speak now.”
Luckily Cheng thought fast, as Taki was rooted to the spot. She was scared that they were going to hurt Cheng, and was therefore nervously messing with her katana, a weapon that she individually did not use nearly as often as her trademark razor-sharp Kyoshi fans; [“They’re so sharp you can cut yourself by thinking of them” she boasted]
“We were talking about Fire Lady Ayumi,” he replied quickly, “surely she knows what she is doing wherever she is now.”
“The Avatar Guard has her, you idiot,” the commander replied, “but whatever. Get back to searching.”
However, the time of ‘scouring’ only lasted half a day. Late that evening, The Order got an unexpected visitor: Katara II—The Dark Warrior.
“Did ya miss me?” she laughed, and her raspy voice, combined with her method of disguise that she used to make her voice sound even lower, made it actually sound rather funny.
“What do you want,” said one the guards on the walls. They said it forcefully, but Katara could tell that they were worried.
“The Avatar Guard is coming,” she warned, “so I suggest that you prepare yourselves. You’ve got enemies all around you.”
“Really now,” one of the soldiers chuckled; he looked like a high-ranking officer; “Sir Warrior, I think it is you that has your facts mixed up. You have enemies all around you.”
The Dark Warrior chuckled. “Surely,” she said, “you’ve heard the news by now; but I guess not?”
“What are you playing,” he asked, “is this some sort of mind game?”
“Not at all,” The Dark Warrior replied, “I just thought that surely your Order would have informed everyone that The Warrior of the Black Hand is just a 15-year-old girl.”
She removed her helmet for a moment and smirked.
“As for enemies being all around you,” she said, putting her helmet back on, “that is what it is about to seem like. Cheng, Taki, that’s your cue.”
Cheng and Taki pocketed their Order Emblems and made it so their faces were recognized again.
“Let the games begin,” they said in unison.
“And if we die here,” said Cheng to Taki, “we’ll die together. Death will not separate us.”
“No,” said Taki, “no it won’t. But we’re not going to die; not here at least.”
Cheng smirked, and the two of them took off. According to Katara’s timing, the rest of The Avatar Guard would be there within an hour or so, and so they figured if they could avoid their enemies for that long they would. As a result, Cheng and Taki were avoiding fighting unless they actually had to, and were lingering generally around The Dark Warrior, who was clearly able to ensure that no one died that she didn’t want dead.
The remainder of the Avatar Guard showed up and began wreaking havoc. Using large amounts of water, the waterbenders were able to get themselves over the wall. The airbenders glided over, the firebenders blasted themselves across and the earthbenders just lifted the ground around them to get across.
The Elite members of The Avatar Guard all did well at staying alive, but because of the wall advantage that The Order had, many of The Avatar Guard’s soldiers began falling. Incidentally, almost none of the major Order members seemed to be there, for none was in sight except for Yang and Orzon. Naturally, Orzon was looking for Tenoko, for it had been her that had captured his wife.
Like Ayumi, Orzon knew about Maric and Malak being Tenoko’s children. He figured that she would try to watch over them unlike before [though they were decent at defending themselves considering how young they were], and he was right. Although she wasn’t right next to them, Tenoko was not moving very far from the twins, so he fought his way over.
“Crikey,” Tenoko exclaimed as Orzon confronted her and the two started fighting, Orzon fighting just as fiercely as Ayumi had, “why is it that I’m always the one who gets pulled into a big fight?”
Unlike Ayumi, Orzon did not have some sort of friendly rivalry with Tenoko, and so he was not going easy on her like Ayumi had been. [Just like Tenoko had gone easy on Ayumi] he was swift, powerful, fierce, and relentless. It seemed that the anger of him knowing he was fighting the woman who captured his wife was fueling his energy.
“You,” he said, launching a powerful attack at her, “you were the one who took my wife from me,”
“Indeed I was,” said Tenoko, sidestepping the attack and throwing some of her own; she was actually attacking this time instead of only countering and defending, “all is fair in the game of war. I actually would almost be inclined to say that she let me capture her. I never understood the way she operated, but she usually outsmarted me with tactics; I guess my side was just a little drunken luck.”
“Perhaps it was,” said Orzon, “or perhaps you have some considerable skill.” He glanced out in the direction which the Avatar Guard had come from, and saw a small glint on the horizon that was not the sun; “Nevertheless,” he continued, “you are my enemy.”
“I should assume so,” Tenoko shrugged, “so I guess we fight, as is customary in the art of war.”
The battle between the Fire Lord and the former Water Chief was truly awe-inspiring, even more so than the one against Ayumi. Huge, dazzling bursts of fire combated amazingly enormous water formations as the two masters fought their way to victory against the other.
Like his wife, Orzon was very nimble. However, Tenoko won that award easily, as she was almost never on her feet—she was usually flipping or spiraling through the air preventing an attack or throwing one of her own. Orzon was a little more stable; standing his ground and attacking from one spot as opposed to flipping and jumping all over the place like Tenoko was. Both of them had swift reflexes, and with the exception of Orzon searing Tenoko’s arm, it seemed that neither one could land a powerful hit on the other.
Meanwhile, the rest of the battle seemed to be going in favor of The Avatar Guard, despite their disadvantages. However, this was unfortunately about to change.
The glint on the horizon was growing closer, and was now easily visible as a fiery object cutting a burning path across the plains towards the walls of the city. Friend and foe alike stopped to see what it was, as it was rather small, but fast and the flames were huge.
“Spirits have mercy,” Sokka exclaimed, as he was known for his keen eyes; “it’s Ayumi. She’s coming!”
It was hard to tell, but Ayumi was moving fast enough towards them, cutting a blazing trail towards the city, that she was soon recognizable as the Fire Lady.
“There’s only one way that that could have happened,” said Royota grimly to Zakura, “she must have killed Ryuka.”
“I want to know how she got past all the soldiers,” Zakura exclaimed, as they watched Ayumi meet up with The Avatar Guard troops who were still outside the walls, “I left a lot back there for a reason.”
Ayumi single-handedly annihilated most of the Avatar Guard soldiers who were outside the walls, leaving the rest to the Order members, and blasting herself over the walls.
“Did you miss me,” she asked, beaming, “or should we halt this war and go our separate ways?”
“They have the advantage,” Royota whispered, “if I were you Zakura, I would run. They want you, and they want to destroy the avatar cycle. We are here to die for you, and if that is what it will take, then that is what we’ll do.”
“No,” said Zakura, “I am not going to run like a coward.”
“Capture them all,” said Orzon, “take them to Lake Laogai; take the others that we spoke of to the Fire Nation.”
Even the Dark Warrior was captured during this chaos. Somehow, she had lost control of her power. All of the firebenders had actually seemed more powerful, but after The Dark Warrior lost control, they realized that a crucial figure had been lost, and she too was captured.
“Xin Shing is in the Fire Nation,” Zeruda whispered as she passed Zakura, “they’re taking you to Lake Laogai with the others. Don’t worry.”
Zakura even admitted defeat. It hurt her to watch all of her friends get captured, and she hoped that some of the younger ones would be alright. She had noticed that Meili had gotten Zuki out of the fray, and that was a relief to her, but Zakura accepted her fate—Ayumi’s return; Ryuka’s [assumed] death, and the loss at the walls—An Agonizing Defeat.
~Azula~
Ayumi's treachery is unveilied, and basically the whole Avatar Guard realizes what a fix they got in...
This is worthy of being a chapter 32, but oh well. it's chapter 67.
CHAPTER 67: AN AGONIZING DEFEAT
Because of their appearances, Cheng and Taki were able to get back into Ba Sing Se past The Order’s forces, which had in fact taken over the western area around where The Avatar Guard’s base was located. They did not know the exact location (for all of the main bases of either group were well-hidden), but they seemed to be scouring the area.
Cheng and Taki were assigned an area to scour, and incidentally, it was the area where it was. As a result, while the other Order members of their group were searching around there, they chose the area where it was, and naturally just claimed to have found nothing.
“What’s Katara doing,” Taki whispered to Cheng, “why isn’t she appearing; what’s taking her so long?”
“I don’t know,” Cheng replied truthfully, “but think—she probably knows what she was doing. I mean, she’s gotten us this far.”
Unfortunately, they were heard by some of the others, including the Commander who was in charge of their group.
“Who are you talking about,” he snapped at them, “speak now.”
Luckily Cheng thought fast, as Taki was rooted to the spot. She was scared that they were going to hurt Cheng, and was therefore nervously messing with her katana, a weapon that she individually did not use nearly as often as her trademark razor-sharp Kyoshi fans; [“They’re so sharp you can cut yourself by thinking of them” she boasted]
“We were talking about Fire Lady Ayumi,” he replied quickly, “surely she knows what she is doing wherever she is now.”
“The Avatar Guard has her, you idiot,” the commander replied, “but whatever. Get back to searching.”
However, the time of ‘scouring’ only lasted half a day. Late that evening, The Order got an unexpected visitor: Katara II—The Dark Warrior.
“Did ya miss me?” she laughed, and her raspy voice, combined with her method of disguise that she used to make her voice sound even lower, made it actually sound rather funny.
“What do you want,” said one the guards on the walls. They said it forcefully, but Katara could tell that they were worried.
“The Avatar Guard is coming,” she warned, “so I suggest that you prepare yourselves. You’ve got enemies all around you.”
“Really now,” one of the soldiers chuckled; he looked like a high-ranking officer; “Sir Warrior, I think it is you that has your facts mixed up. You have enemies all around you.”
The Dark Warrior chuckled. “Surely,” she said, “you’ve heard the news by now; but I guess not?”
“What are you playing,” he asked, “is this some sort of mind game?”
“Not at all,” The Dark Warrior replied, “I just thought that surely your Order would have informed everyone that The Warrior of the Black Hand is just a 15-year-old girl.”
She removed her helmet for a moment and smirked.
“As for enemies being all around you,” she said, putting her helmet back on, “that is what it is about to seem like. Cheng, Taki, that’s your cue.”
Cheng and Taki pocketed their Order Emblems and made it so their faces were recognized again.
“Let the games begin,” they said in unison.
“And if we die here,” said Cheng to Taki, “we’ll die together. Death will not separate us.”
“No,” said Taki, “no it won’t. But we’re not going to die; not here at least.”
Cheng smirked, and the two of them took off. According to Katara’s timing, the rest of The Avatar Guard would be there within an hour or so, and so they figured if they could avoid their enemies for that long they would. As a result, Cheng and Taki were avoiding fighting unless they actually had to, and were lingering generally around The Dark Warrior, who was clearly able to ensure that no one died that she didn’t want dead.
The remainder of the Avatar Guard showed up and began wreaking havoc. Using large amounts of water, the waterbenders were able to get themselves over the wall. The airbenders glided over, the firebenders blasted themselves across and the earthbenders just lifted the ground around them to get across.
The Elite members of The Avatar Guard all did well at staying alive, but because of the wall advantage that The Order had, many of The Avatar Guard’s soldiers began falling. Incidentally, almost none of the major Order members seemed to be there, for none was in sight except for Yang and Orzon. Naturally, Orzon was looking for Tenoko, for it had been her that had captured his wife.
Like Ayumi, Orzon knew about Maric and Malak being Tenoko’s children. He figured that she would try to watch over them unlike before [though they were decent at defending themselves considering how young they were], and he was right. Although she wasn’t right next to them, Tenoko was not moving very far from the twins, so he fought his way over.
“Crikey,” Tenoko exclaimed as Orzon confronted her and the two started fighting, Orzon fighting just as fiercely as Ayumi had, “why is it that I’m always the one who gets pulled into a big fight?”
Unlike Ayumi, Orzon did not have some sort of friendly rivalry with Tenoko, and so he was not going easy on her like Ayumi had been. [Just like Tenoko had gone easy on Ayumi] he was swift, powerful, fierce, and relentless. It seemed that the anger of him knowing he was fighting the woman who captured his wife was fueling his energy.
“You,” he said, launching a powerful attack at her, “you were the one who took my wife from me,”
“Indeed I was,” said Tenoko, sidestepping the attack and throwing some of her own; she was actually attacking this time instead of only countering and defending, “all is fair in the game of war. I actually would almost be inclined to say that she let me capture her. I never understood the way she operated, but she usually outsmarted me with tactics; I guess my side was just a little drunken luck.”
“Perhaps it was,” said Orzon, “or perhaps you have some considerable skill.” He glanced out in the direction which the Avatar Guard had come from, and saw a small glint on the horizon that was not the sun; “Nevertheless,” he continued, “you are my enemy.”
“I should assume so,” Tenoko shrugged, “so I guess we fight, as is customary in the art of war.”
The battle between the Fire Lord and the former Water Chief was truly awe-inspiring, even more so than the one against Ayumi. Huge, dazzling bursts of fire combated amazingly enormous water formations as the two masters fought their way to victory against the other.
Like his wife, Orzon was very nimble. However, Tenoko won that award easily, as she was almost never on her feet—she was usually flipping or spiraling through the air preventing an attack or throwing one of her own. Orzon was a little more stable; standing his ground and attacking from one spot as opposed to flipping and jumping all over the place like Tenoko was. Both of them had swift reflexes, and with the exception of Orzon searing Tenoko’s arm, it seemed that neither one could land a powerful hit on the other.
Meanwhile, the rest of the battle seemed to be going in favor of The Avatar Guard, despite their disadvantages. However, this was unfortunately about to change.
The glint on the horizon was growing closer, and was now easily visible as a fiery object cutting a burning path across the plains towards the walls of the city. Friend and foe alike stopped to see what it was, as it was rather small, but fast and the flames were huge.
“Spirits have mercy,” Sokka exclaimed, as he was known for his keen eyes; “it’s Ayumi. She’s coming!”
It was hard to tell, but Ayumi was moving fast enough towards them, cutting a blazing trail towards the city, that she was soon recognizable as the Fire Lady.
“There’s only one way that that could have happened,” said Royota grimly to Zakura, “she must have killed Ryuka.”
“I want to know how she got past all the soldiers,” Zakura exclaimed, as they watched Ayumi meet up with The Avatar Guard troops who were still outside the walls, “I left a lot back there for a reason.”
Ayumi single-handedly annihilated most of the Avatar Guard soldiers who were outside the walls, leaving the rest to the Order members, and blasting herself over the walls.
“Did you miss me,” she asked, beaming, “or should we halt this war and go our separate ways?”
“They have the advantage,” Royota whispered, “if I were you Zakura, I would run. They want you, and they want to destroy the avatar cycle. We are here to die for you, and if that is what it will take, then that is what we’ll do.”
“No,” said Zakura, “I am not going to run like a coward.”
“Capture them all,” said Orzon, “take them to Lake Laogai; take the others that we spoke of to the Fire Nation.”
Even the Dark Warrior was captured during this chaos. Somehow, she had lost control of her power. All of the firebenders had actually seemed more powerful, but after The Dark Warrior lost control, they realized that a crucial figure had been lost, and she too was captured.
“Xin Shing is in the Fire Nation,” Zeruda whispered as she passed Zakura, “they’re taking you to Lake Laogai with the others. Don’t worry.”
Zakura even admitted defeat. It hurt her to watch all of her friends get captured, and she hoped that some of the younger ones would be alright. She had noticed that Meili had gotten Zuki out of the fray, and that was a relief to her, but Zakura accepted her fate—Ayumi’s return; Ryuka’s [assumed] death, and the loss at the walls—An Agonizing Defeat.
~Azula~
