Post by Teяa253 on Apr 8, 2009 5:55:02 GMT 1
here's chapter 90, and this is where The Order starts to crumble [or so it seems]
Michiko and Fukuda appear, and their personalities are divulged before and after an epic waterbending duel between them, with their opponents being Tenoko and Katara I.
enjoy.
CHAPTER 90: FUKUDA AND MICHIKO
True to Reyson and Mulan’s words, the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th floors of the tower were all completely deserted. The 17th floor, also true to Mulan and Reyson’s word, was where Michiko and Fukuda were waiting. Both of them were side by side, their arms crossed, watching as Zakura’s Elite poured in.
“Surely you do not plan to use all of your forces for this battle,” Fukuda remarked, “for that is a folly that would cost you the lives of many of your dear friends, Avatar Zakura.”
“You think correctly,” Zakura replied, “I see the Lyautey couple’s tactics clearly from here. They figured we’d be wounded enough to only want to send in one or two people pre duel instead of just going all out with all of our forces, despite how weak they are, and just kill you both.”
“Zhin is a smart woman,” Michiko replied sweetly, “and Tu-Sung is a smart man. So, what is your plan, Avatar Zakura? Do you plan to risk the s of your comrades just to see the Water Chief and me, his wife, dead? Or perhaps are you scheming up another objective as we speak?”
“Neither,” Zakura replied, “I already know what I intend to do.
“Well, let’s hear it,” said Fukuda bluntly, “let us see if the logic of Katara Altina II has rubbed off a little on you.”
“I’ll let that girl’s mother deal with you two,” Zakura replied, “and also the woman who held your position before it was usurped from her.”
Katara and Tenoko stepped forward. Katara looked agitated, but otherwise she too had recovered rather nicely in the time between the 4th and 17th floors. The two of them stepped forward.
“As for me,” Zakura replied, “I’m reserving my forces for my parents.”
Fukuda smirked. “Very clever,” he remarked, “you really do think things through much better than you used to, young avatar.”
“Perhaps it is because I took the time to make some friends,” Zakura replied, “instead of make the avatar my enemy.”
Michiko and Fukuda did not respond to this, but rather, turned to Tenoko and Katara [Katara I, since Katara II’s location is currently unknown] and bowed in a Water Tribe fashion.
“Are there any remarks you two wish to make before we commence?” Fukuda remarked, glancing from one of them to the other. The rest of Zakura’s Elite were on the walls, watching. Sokka of course, was watching his mother, and the Dragmire twins were watching Tenoko.
“Aye,” Katara replied, “I want my daughter back.”
“We did not take her,” Michiko replied, “She is a very smart and very mature young lady. She knows how to handle situations like that, and we knew how to handle her. The last time we saw her proper was when she left our fortress in the Northern Water Tribe.”
“Either way,” said Tenoko, stepping in, “may the best benders win. If I am indeed defeated, that simply means that you two were fit to run the Water Tribes than I was. Do you plan to kill me upon my defeat?”
“Not at all,” Fukuda replied, “you are an honorable woman, Tenoko Dragmire; as are you, Katara Altina I.”
Katara smiled. “It looks like my daughter rubbed off on you,” she replied, her tone having changed completely; “honor was something that she always held in very high regard. In the brief moments that we met before coming here, she told me that she had developed her own code of laws that she followed. Does this sound familiar?”
“Aye,” Fukuda replied, “it does. Your daughter really is a very strong young lady; very well-behaved as well.”
“Alas though,” said Michiko, “such a thing should not be expected from a girl of only 15 years. The poor thing should have had a proper childhood where she could have grown up and made some friends. Regardless of my stance in this war, I do believe that she had had a very difficult life. No one should be forced to grow up that quickly.”
“What side are you on,” Tenoko exclaimed, “here we are about to fight each other to the point of incapacitation, and yet you sympathize with Katara here because of her daughter?”
“Aye,” Michiko replied, “surely you remember the prophecy that The Warrior of the Black Hand made on that battlefield the last time we met, am I correct?”
Tenoko thought back about how Katara said that the side that was not fighting for a good cause would eventually wind up with nothing, and therefore, she nodded.”
“Then it is settled,” she remarked, “let us duel and decide our fates.”
The fight actually began rather suddenly, but Katara and Tenoko, though they had never actually stopped too long to talk to each other, were already working off of each other’s techniques. Michiko and Fukuda were doing the same thing, but they had already planned their attacks and strategies out beforehand, and so all in all, an incredible waterbending performance was taking place.
Huge walls of ice were being thrown at each other, and then getting melted into water, which got thrown back, but was immediately repelled and swung back as shards and spears of ice. These shattered into tiny fragments of ice and water that were shot back as bullets, and they were deflected and gathered up as a wall of water, and this cycle continued again and again, with slight variations.
Katara was much like her son Sokka in this regard, using a lot of power and endurance, which complemented Tenoko’s defense and speed. Despite their ages, Tenoko, Katara, Fukuda, and Michiko were all very fast, especially considering that they had iced the floor in their little central “arena” where the duel was taking place.
Huge spikes of ice were flying towards the waterbenders on both sides, and some were intercepted and sent back as huge water projectiles. All four of these waterbenders were using martial arts techniques from each nation, for in this day and age, most skilled benders had to know at least one other “foreign” martial art in order to have bending skill that was any good. This was the logic behind the training that The Four Benders gave during their training of Avatar Zakura.
Michiko and Fukuda continued to work off of each other in the complementing style, but eventually, as a stalemate set in, with neither side able to land a hit on the other side as of yet, Katara and Tenoko decided on a different tactic, and they did not need any actual communication other than a glance before they realized that this was what they had to do.
Katara’s tactics suddenly “reversed their polarity”, going from offense and endurance to defense and speed. She was matching Tenoko’s skill, a lot of which was countering her opponent’s moves. Michiko caught onto this first, and decided to change her tactic, assuming Fukuda would catch on, without even a glance.
Unfortunately for them, this was their fatal mistake, as he did not catch on soon enough, and her offensive moves were immediately exploited with counter moves from Tenoko and Katara, who ended up blasting her against the wall, freezing her there and disabling any movement. While Tenoko did the finishing touches, they both switched their focus to Fukuda, who they knew would try and unfreeze his wife if he ever got the opportunity. In fact, this eventually led to his downfall.
He loved Michiko enough that he consistently was trying to free her and ward Tenoko and Katara off, despite the possibility of a loss as a result, which he started to see coming. In fact, his opponents both had switched their tactics again from Tenoko’s ‘defense and speed’ style to Katara’s ‘offense and endurance’ style, which eventually overwhelmed Fukuda, who soon surrendered.
“Alas,” he remarked, now on his knees with his hands in the air, “we have been bested. Congratulations, Katara Altina; Tenoko Dragmire—you have defeated us. I just have one more request before you two leave us here to die—please free my wife.”
“We have no intention of killing you,” Tenoko replied, “but rather, we will worry about what to do with you when the time comes.”
Taki ended up blocking Fukuda’s chi flow, and did the same to Michiko once Tenoko and Katara unfroze her from the wall. They did not look upset at all, and they accepted their defeat with grace.
“You claimed once to me,” said Zakura, as Michiko and Fukuda’s hands were bound behind their backs, “that you both just ‘went along for the ride’. Why was that?”
“our reasons are our own,” Michiko replied, “but by the time we realized where we went wrong, we knew that we would receive this fate either way; for our deeds are going to be hard to repay. We knew we would be imprisoned even if we did switch sides, and betraying Xin Shing would just mean that we would be put to death.”
“Perhaps then,” said Zakura, “when this war is over, I’ll try and sort things out. I don’t want my enemies dead if they don’t have to be. I would much rather see them repent and become normal people like the rest of us. I don’t want to do any harm to the world either.”
“We realized that you were a good person long ago,” Fukuda replied, “and Michiko stated our reasoning for why we did or didn’t do what has or has not happened. We accept our fate.”
“And that is why I intend to be merciful to you two,” Zakura replied, as they began moving onward, “so don’t worry—you’ll come out of this alive. Until then, you are simply prisoners.”
They smiled back at Zakura. They really did take their defeat very well, and this was the reason why Zakura, come the right time, was planning to be lenient towards Fukuda and Michiko.
~Azula~
Michiko and Fukuda appear, and their personalities are divulged before and after an epic waterbending duel between them, with their opponents being Tenoko and Katara I.
enjoy.
CHAPTER 90: FUKUDA AND MICHIKO
True to Reyson and Mulan’s words, the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th floors of the tower were all completely deserted. The 17th floor, also true to Mulan and Reyson’s word, was where Michiko and Fukuda were waiting. Both of them were side by side, their arms crossed, watching as Zakura’s Elite poured in.
“Surely you do not plan to use all of your forces for this battle,” Fukuda remarked, “for that is a folly that would cost you the lives of many of your dear friends, Avatar Zakura.”
“You think correctly,” Zakura replied, “I see the Lyautey couple’s tactics clearly from here. They figured we’d be wounded enough to only want to send in one or two people pre duel instead of just going all out with all of our forces, despite how weak they are, and just kill you both.”
“Zhin is a smart woman,” Michiko replied sweetly, “and Tu-Sung is a smart man. So, what is your plan, Avatar Zakura? Do you plan to risk the s of your comrades just to see the Water Chief and me, his wife, dead? Or perhaps are you scheming up another objective as we speak?”
“Neither,” Zakura replied, “I already know what I intend to do.
“Well, let’s hear it,” said Fukuda bluntly, “let us see if the logic of Katara Altina II has rubbed off a little on you.”
“I’ll let that girl’s mother deal with you two,” Zakura replied, “and also the woman who held your position before it was usurped from her.”
Katara and Tenoko stepped forward. Katara looked agitated, but otherwise she too had recovered rather nicely in the time between the 4th and 17th floors. The two of them stepped forward.
“As for me,” Zakura replied, “I’m reserving my forces for my parents.”
Fukuda smirked. “Very clever,” he remarked, “you really do think things through much better than you used to, young avatar.”
“Perhaps it is because I took the time to make some friends,” Zakura replied, “instead of make the avatar my enemy.”
Michiko and Fukuda did not respond to this, but rather, turned to Tenoko and Katara [Katara I, since Katara II’s location is currently unknown] and bowed in a Water Tribe fashion.
“Are there any remarks you two wish to make before we commence?” Fukuda remarked, glancing from one of them to the other. The rest of Zakura’s Elite were on the walls, watching. Sokka of course, was watching his mother, and the Dragmire twins were watching Tenoko.
“Aye,” Katara replied, “I want my daughter back.”
“We did not take her,” Michiko replied, “She is a very smart and very mature young lady. She knows how to handle situations like that, and we knew how to handle her. The last time we saw her proper was when she left our fortress in the Northern Water Tribe.”
“Either way,” said Tenoko, stepping in, “may the best benders win. If I am indeed defeated, that simply means that you two were fit to run the Water Tribes than I was. Do you plan to kill me upon my defeat?”
“Not at all,” Fukuda replied, “you are an honorable woman, Tenoko Dragmire; as are you, Katara Altina I.”
Katara smiled. “It looks like my daughter rubbed off on you,” she replied, her tone having changed completely; “honor was something that she always held in very high regard. In the brief moments that we met before coming here, she told me that she had developed her own code of laws that she followed. Does this sound familiar?”
“Aye,” Fukuda replied, “it does. Your daughter really is a very strong young lady; very well-behaved as well.”
“Alas though,” said Michiko, “such a thing should not be expected from a girl of only 15 years. The poor thing should have had a proper childhood where she could have grown up and made some friends. Regardless of my stance in this war, I do believe that she had had a very difficult life. No one should be forced to grow up that quickly.”
“What side are you on,” Tenoko exclaimed, “here we are about to fight each other to the point of incapacitation, and yet you sympathize with Katara here because of her daughter?”
“Aye,” Michiko replied, “surely you remember the prophecy that The Warrior of the Black Hand made on that battlefield the last time we met, am I correct?”
Tenoko thought back about how Katara said that the side that was not fighting for a good cause would eventually wind up with nothing, and therefore, she nodded.”
“Then it is settled,” she remarked, “let us duel and decide our fates.”
The fight actually began rather suddenly, but Katara and Tenoko, though they had never actually stopped too long to talk to each other, were already working off of each other’s techniques. Michiko and Fukuda were doing the same thing, but they had already planned their attacks and strategies out beforehand, and so all in all, an incredible waterbending performance was taking place.
Huge walls of ice were being thrown at each other, and then getting melted into water, which got thrown back, but was immediately repelled and swung back as shards and spears of ice. These shattered into tiny fragments of ice and water that were shot back as bullets, and they were deflected and gathered up as a wall of water, and this cycle continued again and again, with slight variations.
Katara was much like her son Sokka in this regard, using a lot of power and endurance, which complemented Tenoko’s defense and speed. Despite their ages, Tenoko, Katara, Fukuda, and Michiko were all very fast, especially considering that they had iced the floor in their little central “arena” where the duel was taking place.
Huge spikes of ice were flying towards the waterbenders on both sides, and some were intercepted and sent back as huge water projectiles. All four of these waterbenders were using martial arts techniques from each nation, for in this day and age, most skilled benders had to know at least one other “foreign” martial art in order to have bending skill that was any good. This was the logic behind the training that The Four Benders gave during their training of Avatar Zakura.
Michiko and Fukuda continued to work off of each other in the complementing style, but eventually, as a stalemate set in, with neither side able to land a hit on the other side as of yet, Katara and Tenoko decided on a different tactic, and they did not need any actual communication other than a glance before they realized that this was what they had to do.
Katara’s tactics suddenly “reversed their polarity”, going from offense and endurance to defense and speed. She was matching Tenoko’s skill, a lot of which was countering her opponent’s moves. Michiko caught onto this first, and decided to change her tactic, assuming Fukuda would catch on, without even a glance.
Unfortunately for them, this was their fatal mistake, as he did not catch on soon enough, and her offensive moves were immediately exploited with counter moves from Tenoko and Katara, who ended up blasting her against the wall, freezing her there and disabling any movement. While Tenoko did the finishing touches, they both switched their focus to Fukuda, who they knew would try and unfreeze his wife if he ever got the opportunity. In fact, this eventually led to his downfall.
He loved Michiko enough that he consistently was trying to free her and ward Tenoko and Katara off, despite the possibility of a loss as a result, which he started to see coming. In fact, his opponents both had switched their tactics again from Tenoko’s ‘defense and speed’ style to Katara’s ‘offense and endurance’ style, which eventually overwhelmed Fukuda, who soon surrendered.
“Alas,” he remarked, now on his knees with his hands in the air, “we have been bested. Congratulations, Katara Altina; Tenoko Dragmire—you have defeated us. I just have one more request before you two leave us here to die—please free my wife.”
“We have no intention of killing you,” Tenoko replied, “but rather, we will worry about what to do with you when the time comes.”
Taki ended up blocking Fukuda’s chi flow, and did the same to Michiko once Tenoko and Katara unfroze her from the wall. They did not look upset at all, and they accepted their defeat with grace.
“You claimed once to me,” said Zakura, as Michiko and Fukuda’s hands were bound behind their backs, “that you both just ‘went along for the ride’. Why was that?”
“our reasons are our own,” Michiko replied, “but by the time we realized where we went wrong, we knew that we would receive this fate either way; for our deeds are going to be hard to repay. We knew we would be imprisoned even if we did switch sides, and betraying Xin Shing would just mean that we would be put to death.”
“Perhaps then,” said Zakura, “when this war is over, I’ll try and sort things out. I don’t want my enemies dead if they don’t have to be. I would much rather see them repent and become normal people like the rest of us. I don’t want to do any harm to the world either.”
“We realized that you were a good person long ago,” Fukuda replied, “and Michiko stated our reasoning for why we did or didn’t do what has or has not happened. We accept our fate.”
“And that is why I intend to be merciful to you two,” Zakura replied, as they began moving onward, “so don’t worry—you’ll come out of this alive. Until then, you are simply prisoners.”
They smiled back at Zakura. They really did take their defeat very well, and this was the reason why Zakura, come the right time, was planning to be lenient towards Fukuda and Michiko.
~Azula~