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Overview[]
Unaraq and his dad along with Lord Cupun aid the Qiangdian navy fend off the invaders, while Palartok arrives just in time as part of reinforcements to redeem himself. How will Sappak, Inuksuk, and Kimaru react when Anguta stalks them from the veil? What is the fate of Fifth Nation?
Aloi, and Senge are having trouble with the idea of harming the soldiers or permitting to hurt each other. With what the nomadic people have taught them will they stay out of the fight, or succumb to the sin of harm and help Jushi?
The beginning of the end, Senlin awaits Rong Yan on Jinyin island, the Avatar heeds his call. Who will make it off Jinyin alive?"
Chapter 20: The Avatar and the Great Betrayer Part 3: Apotheosis[]
Book 3: Earth
Chapter 20: The Avatar and the Great Betrayer Part 3: Apotheosis
"What's the plan?" Senge asked her.
"Stand clear of the friendlies and conjure a tornado it'd be able to help us reposition some of the Omas," planned Aloi.
"Wow that's better than my idea," commented Senge.
"Which is?" Aloi wondered.
"Knock them out unconscious in a god-sized cloud of farts," Senge joked, he chuckled but Aloi didn't share the humor. Senge cleared his throat he thought the humor would help ease the tension of battle.
"Sorry, ignore that," he apologized to her.
"Wait! What about...." he paused.
"No nevermind that's too cruel," he resumed.
"Or..no Nam would curse me with death. Even thinking about it is a thought crime," Senge commented.
"How do we not kill tons of soldiers?" Senge wondered.
"Wait! I have an idea!" beamed Aloi.
"What? What is it?!" Senge demanded from her.
"Soundbending!" she beamed.
"How though?" Senge questioned her.
"Well...it might end up being friendly fire, something the Earth King will not be happy about but, we could stop them from killing each other," Aloi replied.
"I was kind of hoping you'd..." paused Senge.
"...explain it?" Senge bugged.
"Fine, fine, but..." sighed Aloi.
"What?" Senge bugged again, he was concerned with her answer.
"It's going to harm them for some time probably longer than normal," Aloi admitted she felt guilty of even suggesting to harm the soldiers.
"No, we can't harm them!" Senge disagreed, he waved his arms in front of him. An arrow found its way toward Aloi, Senge noticed this and created a strong enough breeze that redirected the arrow back into the direction it came from. Aloi was lucky Senge was there otherwise the arrow would've struck her in the skull.
A flaming boulder had been flung in the air toward a legion of soldiers, the legion leader shouted something. The boulder stopped some of the men's faces cooked in the radius of the boulder, they threw it back at the siege tower that tossed it. It blew a huge hole through the siege tower, the top part, and the men on it fell to their deaths and could've been crushed by all the weight that fell with them.
The Yapo earthbenders formed into a line of fifty men and shifted the earth in front of them into a field of quicksand. A battery of Oma Kingdom soldiers fell victim to this trap and they panicked as they sank further in. In a matter of seconds, eighty men were now chest-deep in the sand. The Yapo benders then solidified the sand into solid earth.
Bojing chuckled, "Eighty easy kills!"
The Yapo easily dispatched the trapped soldiers, rocks traveled in Sunhuai's direction one of them hit him in the eye. His right eye swelled up with pain as he bent over and covered it with his hands. Taishan reacted aggressively and jumped up and down to create a mini earthquake. He was shot in the shoulder he was a threat that needed to be stopped.
The non-benders staggered as did the benders then he was struck in his waist with another arrow. He snapped the stems off as more Yapo intervened in front of him. Taishan injured ran to the backline where healers would remove the arrowheads in his body. Sunhuai retreated as well, another volley of arrows and projectiles from the siege weapons rained down from the skies. Several Qiangdians and two Yapo triad members were killed in the barrage.
The Provincial Guard carried fire lances and crouched under the artillerymen with hand cannons. They aimed and lit the wicks of the fire lances. After five seconds a sequence of rockets blasted off the metal rods and soared over to the Oma Kingdom. Some of the men rose walls that were effective and crumbled upon the rocket once it crashed into the barrier. While others were less fortunate the missiles hit their targets and exploded on impact. Eight to ten casualties per rocket from a line of twenty fire lancers, only seven of them missed.
Senge ran in revolutions in a big area he repeated his movements faster and faster as he increased in speed. The air conjured a large tornado, Aloi cupped her hands and screamed into them she bent the frequency of the scream. It had gone to a frequency that could disorient people and made animals wild, Senge released the tornado both he and Aloi controlled the tornado around the Qiangdian forces. It rotated in the field of strife the front lines of the Oma soldiers fell to their knees and covered their ears.
The soldiers on the Qiangdian side were confused but some took advantage and ran over to kill the incapacitated enemies. When they neared the tornado they too heard the odd sound in the tornado that spun in the center. They fell prey to it and screamed their heads off Aloi from a distance changed the beat to ease her allies instead. While their enemies bled from their ears she had ruptured their eardrums. However, while they've disabled a portion of the front line the siege towers carried on toward the exposed wall made by the Yapo.
Cannons on the wall defended the exposed wall, soldiers slid down from the top and stood their ground on the bottom. They took a line formation and then with their strength they rose the wall back to its normal height. One of the men on the siege tower slammed his fist on the cannon furious, multiple projectiles aimed at the area of the exposed wall.
The first few did no damage but a dent was made by the fifth boulder that crashed into it. Still not enough to break through, a cannon from the wall fired at the siege tower in front. The cannoneer part of the siege tower blew up, this eliminated another siege tower and killed all the cannoneers within.
A Nationalist in commoner clothing yelled, "MOVE!"
The man was dressed like he must've lived in the Upper Lower Ring or the Lower Middle Ring, he was pale-skinned, and had long brown hair. The Qiangdians took a gander and saw the Nationalist's ears emit smoke he was vexed. He moved his arms in fluid movements the men noticed sparks of lightning conjured from his fingertips they were a bit startled and split from the middle.
"These Omas need to be taught a lesson!" he hissed, he became a conduit to whatever powers he released from his fingertips.
A long arc of lightning came out of his fingers and chained to five enemy soldiers. The men were electrocuted in place and they fell to the ground dead, the man went mad with power and continued his blinded massacre of Oma soldiers.
The distracted Qiangdians in the middle were shocked at the mad man who ran into the field of strife. Chains of lightning were fired at random soldiers the intensity of the volts increased the more wrathful he felt. Some of the victims imploded and showered their friends' red rain, organs, and sometimes limbs. The newer soldiers who haven't experienced this kind of event cried out like children who've tripped and gotten a scrape.
Another cascade of arrows, cannonballs, hand cannon shots, and rockicles showered both armies, back and forth the projectiles went more men dying by the second. Lightning flashed from one area of the Qiangdian army as well, more Oma soldiers died due to electrocution.
Another tornado with a wild frequency found itself near the Oma front line. More men fell their knees as they shut their ears from the sound, their ears ruptured and bleeding. At the same time, somewhere near the Outer Wall, was a zookeeper who swept the floors near the pens of the zoo animals. He took a step back startled and dropped the broom when he saw the animals had gone into an animalistic rage. The result was from the 'banshee' tornado made by Aloi and Senge.
Another defense line formation stood on the cement near the docks at least forty to fifty soldiers stood there ground. They stomped down and small discs of earth popped out of the ground, the men all repeated a set of moves and continued to shoot discs at the men on the ships. Sappak fell on his rear after the ship shook violently. He rose to his feet while Inuksuk ran over to the stern where he examined the damage. A disc flew passed Inuksuk and plunged into the water, there had been earthbenders nearby.
A pirate attempted to assist him but as the benders overwhelmed them he missed the shot. However, it still hit someone accidentally, the pirate's shot shattered Inuksuk's skull, it killed him instantly. The pirate was horrified that he ran to another part of the ship he had hoped that no one saw the friendly fire. Sappak watched as a plume of smoke came from a gun behind their headship.
But he didn't see who killed Inuksuk he ran over to Inuksuk's fresh corpse. Bone bits scattered across the deck of the ship Sappak lowered his head in sadness and sighed. The men will not be happy to know their commander was killed. He grabbed a rocket and lit it with spark rocks, this signaled to the men that a leader of the rebellion had fallen in combat.
A purple flare lit the sky some of the men distracted by it knew what the signal met and so it motivated them to fight harder. At the same time, Kimaru saw the flare from the distance he thought nothing of it because he knew this would happen. The search resumed for the magistrate, the specialists followed behind him.
They slammed their feet on the ground and sensed the vibrations around them, Kimaru pulled water out of the moisture of the air and formed icicles in both hands. Unirak, Cupun, and Unaraq, with a hidden camp near Laogai they led to the harbor showed up with them. Two-hundred southern soldiers came to aid the Qiangdian marines who needed more reinforcements.
One of the specialists take a deep breath and exhaled as he concentrated he reported on his findings when Kimaru noticed the man had taken longer. Kimaru asked him, "What do you see?"
"I see a ton of footsteps, heavy footsteps," he reported.
"Reinforcements?" questioned another.
"That's the likely outcome," he said.
"Where are they?" Kimaru inquired.
"Six blocks away but they're heading toward the docks it seems," guessed the specialist.
"How many?" Kimaru continued with questions.
"Mmm, I'd wager...a squadron," he guessed.
"Damnit remain hidden don't let them see you," Kimaru hissed.
"But while detecting them I found our target," he paused.
"...I can feel a rapid heartbeat and quick hollow breathing a bit to the north. Follow me," the specialist said as he jogged north.
The magistrate scribbled with a quill in his left hand he was finishing up some orders to send to the admiral. The scroll was long so it might've been a large order being filled, another hidden camp near Tuo. The closest one to the port Qiangdian ships hidden in a cove left unchecked by the Northern Rebellion-Fifth Nation coalition he had hoped.
As he went on with the order the door burst open and he jumped up and screamed. He bumped the table which resulted in the inkpot spilling all over the scroll he cried out, "NO!"
"Times up," Kimaru grinned wickedly. Kimaru clopped into the office alone, the Magistrate terrified of the assassin who approached him.
His eyes looked down at the pocket nailed underneath the desk where a hand cannon rested already loaded with a shot. He warned the assassin, "Don't get any closer! I'm warning you!"
While he was scared he held his ground he could just kill the intruder and start a new order he thought. He pointed the hand cannon at Kimaru, the office was shaken by a small quake the man staggered and hit his back on the wall. His back ached in pain the hand cannon on the floor next to him, he clutched it again. His hands shook in terror as impatiently tried to steady his aim to kill the assassin. His aim was nearly still he pulled the trigger.
The shot lodged into a barrier of earth that was bent in front of Kimaru, a bit of smoke emitted from the barrel of the hand cannon. He seemed a bit befuddled because he thought the assailant was a Tribesmen, with his armor but the stranger protected himself with a barrier made of earth. His voice trembled with fear, "Y-you're an e-earthbender?!"
"No, I'm a waterbender!" yelled Kimaru he threw both icicles at the magistrate. Both were stabbed into his chest. Where he lay bleeding, his breathing hollowed he was on the brink of death Kimaru melted the icicles and allowed the blood to pour. He refroze the icicles in his hands, no stains of blood were on either icicle. .
"He's dead, let's go!" he called out the earthbenders who burst out of the floorboards of the office.
"We should see what the squadron is going to do and carefully pick them off one by one," one of the men suggested.
"Good idea at least then maybe we can find the Qiangdian Admiral," approved Kimaru.
Anuzi Forest, Northern Tuo Province, Qiangda Kingdom
Rong Yan traveled on the back of Shen through a forest known as the Anuzi forest, the leaves here were a pristine green color. There was one patch of land near the coast that had smoke rising Rong Yan saw that the patch of the forest was on fire.
It grew and continued to grow more Rong Yan lightly slapped Shen's scales and shouted, "I'll be back!"
He leaped off the neck of his dragon and flashed his eyes, he twirled in the air with the use of airbending. The strong winds picked up and he conjured an air spout he transferred the oxygen out of the fires and produced it to smoke that he instead redirected in the skies above.
Soon in a matter of minutes, he extinguished the fires in the forest, the sky went from a bright blue to a cloudy gray. He felt a bit downcast for the potential loss of life. He spun further and closer to the water where Shen hovered past and Rong Yan jumped back on his dragon's neck. Rong Yan and Shen carried on their way northeast toward Jinyin which wasn't far off.
Palartok stood at the bow of the Northern Water Tribe flagship as its admiral his arms were behind his back and positioned near his waist. He observed the inlet as he the reinforcements went down the huge river where smoke columns could be seen at a distance he knew they were near.
The armor was fitted to him, he wore a variety of skins of different beasts around his body, his cloak was made from the hide of an elephant seal. The belt around his waist had the brand insignia of the Northern Water Tribe. He wore leather bracers with metal plates that protected his forearms, where a hidden blade was kept in the right wristguard. His boots were made from whale shark skin, he wore a black headband with a wooden carving of his son's pendant. The face paint on his face mostly covered the upper part of his head. His hair was held in a topknot with braids to his left and right sides of his head. They were long enough to rest on his shoulders, the spaulders he wore had the tusks of a walrus bear adorned on each shoulder. The lower half of his body had the bottom half of a cloth brigandine, his waterskin to his left. He carried a shield on his back and a sword on his right in case he was ever chi-blocked.
A warrior approached him, "We've received a report from the port of Ba Sing Se, sir."
"The Southern chieftain says, the Northern Rebellion and the Fifth Nation have made landfall," reported the warrior.
"How far are we from them?" Palartok questioned the soldier.
"According to the helmsman, was only two hours away at most, Fleet Admiral," answered the warrior.
Palartok slightly nodded his head, "Tell Admiral Oomailiq to send orders to the rest of the fleet. We attack sight," commanded Palartok.
"Yes, fleet admiral, sir. I'll get right on it," nodded the warrior as he ran off.
Palartok shed a single tear from his left eye he kissed the ring on his left ring finger and whispered, "This is for you, Tukkutok."
Jushi landed on the ground near the exposed wall, the Earth King's Qingniao and rider personally had him dropped off near the wall. He scanned the outside and saw Aloi and Senge nearby, Aloi called out to him when she saw him exit the wall, "What are you doing here?!" .
"The Council approves of my plan!" smiled Jushi.
"What plan?! We've been knocking out these guys for a while but there's too many!" Senge was not amused for plans.
"Start fighting now!" he suggested to both airbenders.
"No, we're staying out of this!" Aloi declined.
"Well he's not wrong we should be doing something, otherwise we could be killed," agreed Senge.
"Senge! We're nomads for cao's sake!" Aloi shouted at Senge she was sickened by his choice of words.
Senge gasped and covered his mouth, "Aloi! Watch your language!"
She then covered her mouth as well and apologized, "I'm so sorry may Mother Rati forgive me!"
"Do something!" yelled Jushi annoyed by both of the Nomads. He ran into the field of strife and slammed his right foot down. Jushi lifted his arms and turned the ground in front of him and his brothers into the mud. He controlled the mud and sank the men further in he felt like a traitor as he did this and trapped the men waist-deep.
Only the archers were technically free to defend but firing a single arrow took a few seconds. The few seconds needed to kill a ranged soldier if you were a bender or even a warrior. He saw a barrage of projectiles that flew into the field of strife, he covered himself in a dome of earth that ensured his protection. The Qiangdians with shields formed a shield wall, hand cannon shots were fired into the shields of the non-benders but only produced sparks and left dents in shields.
The dome was dropped as soon as he felt safe one of the Qiangdians shouted to another, "How did he do that?!"
"How did he liquefy the earth...like...like he was waterbending?" the other asked in disbelief.
The others ignored what they said and saw this as an opportunity to kill the front line that was trapped. An ax-wielder charged at Jushi but Senge blasted him away, Senge jumped into the air and then conjured an air spout. .
"Senge wait!" Aloi called out but he couldn't hear her.
Another barrage of airs propelled in the air Senge stopped them all in a bubble of air and once he released them they fell to the ground without heads. Senge dodged boulders as he fought the Oma Kingdom soldiers. The lightningbender saw that Senge needed help that he tossed balls of lightning into the formations and cackled as they exploded and fried some men.
Meanwhile, back on the harbor, Unaraq clashed blades with a jian-wielding pirate their blades parried and sparks came out. The pirate tried his best to overpower Unaraq and vice versa but their match was met. Each warrior has dodged every slash, hack, or slice made by the other he saw an opportunity and sliced the upper thigh of the pirate's right leg.
The pirate staggered but an arrow killed him when it struck his heart. The pirate warrior fell on his knees dead and Unaraq bolted his head in the direction of the arrow. He complained, "Hey, that's kill stealing!"
The Kingsmen archer said nothing and jumped onto another rooftop, and ran off as he searched for another target. Unirak and Cupun were back-to-back as they kicked, and slashed at their enemies they were right behind the marines in line formation as they watched their rear and made sure there were no sneak attacks.
A disc struck Da Fu in the stomach, then an arrow in his right shoulder Sao Feng intervened, the next disc and safeguard him with a body shield made of iron. The disc shook the shield which hurt Sao's hands because he dropped it afterward. He whistled and two pirates dragged Da Fu's body into the infirmary in the ship's cabin. Sao Feng notched to flaming arrows onto a longbow and fired, a barrel of blasting jelly blew up and killed six marines.
Cupun and Unirak split from Unaraq no longer in each other's eyesight or earshot, they had run off to other parts of the harbor. Southern waterbenders spun and balanced on top of water spouts in the waters of the port. They smashed waves into the ships of the rebellion, some jumped on the forerunner and Sappak quickly dispatched them with his mammoth bustard mace. He crushed skulls with ease and even deflected an arrow with his mace.
The Northern Rebellion's numbers dwindled little by little, the Oma flagship finally arrived but the captain set off a flare instead. He received word from Gao and was ordered to pull back all the naval ships that weren't destroyed. The Oma ships removed their anchors and sailed home, Zei the thief on Sao's ship called out to the Pirate Lord, "Lord Feng! The Oma Kingdom is pulling back! Why?!"
"What?!" screamed Sao he dashed to the stern and saw as they fled.
He slammed his fists on the railing on the ship's stern. He barked orders to Zei, "Send word to Sappak, those Omas are fleeing, they're abandoning us, craven piyans!"
Thirty minutes later, the Oma ships were signaled to anchor the cannon ports were opened the Northern Water Tribe were ready to open fire. The Oma flagship anchored and boards were placed for Palartok and Oomailiq to cross. Oomailiq questioned the rear admiral, "Why are you here?"
"We were ordered by our Earth King to pull back, most of them haven't seen battle, good luck, friends. The rebellion is losing, hit 'em hard!" answered the captain.
Palartok nodded, he exchanged looks with Oomailiq and they boarded their forerunner again. The boards were removed and the cannon ports were closed again, the reinforcements carried on down the inlet. They positioned themselves and barricaded the Fifth Nation fleet and the remaining forces of the Northern Rebellion with nowhere to go.
Cannon ports were opened upon, glaive tossers were ready to fire, the Fifth Nations ships were hit with a volley of cannon fire. Ships were ripped into with glaives that cut through the hull like a hot knife through butter. Oomailiq deployed waterbenders on rafts. Their job was to trap the ships on icebergs they created after freezing some water. It prevented them from moving forward and whatnot. One of the rafts carried five waterbenders the men skidded near it and formed a giant ice spike that punctured the hole of the Northern Rebellion flagship.
"Lord Sao, Northern and Southern ships are attacking stern side!" Zhifang yelled, he saw a purple flare go off.
The Fifth Nation ships turned a bit to return fire although many began sinking from the sudden sneak attack. The Fifth Nation firebenders worked together to help return fire and dropped fireballs on coalition ships. Zhifang hit the bow of a ship with a massive fireball with the help of another firebender. The fires were extinguished and the waterbenders on the ship returned fire with icicles.
Panzi ran up to assist his brother, "Zhifang! I'm here!"
He called out to his brother but the mean older twin ignored him he understood his brother was busy focused on the battle. Panzi ran over to him he turned his brother around and squealed when he saw that Zhifang had to icicles in his face. Zhifang died after the first hit and the body fell back and off the stern's platform.
Panzi wailed in pain his twin brother gone forever, then he roared like a tigerdillo but was ironically shot in the throat with an arrow while he showed off to the enemies who didn't care.
Sao's crew were dying, he watched as another Fifth Nation went down but he went on with firing flaming arrows in key spots. Da Fu was impatient with the healers inside the cabin he wished Yi Wu Shi were present he was the best healer in the crew on Sao's ship. But they were in Shouchun, at the same time, Wu Shi and Mako were cackling at some jokes while they ate fattening foods on the docks somewhere in Shouchun.
Zei flung rocks at the Tribesmen but he was hit from behind by another disc, it killed him instantly. Another crewmember fell, the cannons of the flagship fired onto the docks Unirak and Cupun were nearby. The barriers made by the marines didn't help and several men have been bombed. A cloud of smoke and fire littered the area his father and his sister's father-in-law were at. Unaraq screamed, "Nooooo!"
He ran toward the cloud of smoke but was halted by a wall of earth, he turned around and saw an earthbender from the rebellion. Kimaru walked forth with icicles in hand he snuck an ice clamp, on Unaraq's left foot undetected, "You look familiar, kid. I've seen you somewhere..."
Unaraq lifted his machete and tried to charge but tripped as he was standing on his feet Kimaru buried the icicle into Unaraq's throat. In the smoke cloud Cupun's ears rang with pain he saw Unirak under rubble and dragged his friend's body to safety even with the blurred vision he currently dealt with. Unaraq fell back down and rolled on his back.
While Unirak was found to be still breathing unfortunately Unaraq laid dying as more blood gushed out of his wound. Kimaru ran off and saw the flagship of the Northern Rebellion was sinking in the bow, the ship was about to keel over and Sappak hopped into the water and swam his way to shore.
Upon escaping the waters he cracked a Tribesman warrior over the head and killed him. Unaraq tried to put pressure on his neck but was losing strength. He coughed out blood in agonizing pain, Palartok was in the water on a spout as well. His idea was to bend the untouched mines underneath ships and watched as they blew the hulls of the ships. The rebellion only had about ten ships that were a bit damaged but were good enough for battle.
The ship of the Northern Rebellion broke in half and landed on another mine that blew debris in all directions. A piece of wood broke a wooden shield of one of the Northern marines on one of the Tribesmen ships. The stern of the Fifth Nation flag runner also exploded Sao Feng barked orders at the men as the fire consumed the stern.
Waterbenders were deployed on rafts to trap ships on small icebergs, Palartok peered over to the left side of the docks and saw Unaraq and then to the right where he saw Lord Cupun with Chieftain Unirak unconscious. He slammed a wave on the docks that washed several pirates and rebels into the water and surfed on the spout over to Unaraq.
When Palartok reached Unaraq he was pale and in a pool of his blood he needed to act quickly so that the chieftain wouldn't feel the same pain Palartok did. It wasn't a good idea to try and give aid to the prince in the open. To stop the bleeding he put his index into the prince's wound and then used waterbending with his free hand and dragged the warrior to safety.
Palartok grabbed the second necklace that adorned on his neck and yanked it from himself. He held the vial over Unaraq who's hand shook as he slowly reached for the vial of oasis water.
Palartok removed his finger from Unaraq's neck and the bleeding pooled out steadily, he removed the cork from the vial and bent out the water onto his palm. The small ounce spun on his left and glowed brightly, Palartok pressed his left-hand onto Unaraq's neck, Palartok took in a deep inhale and shut his eyes as he remained attentive on the healing. Once he exhaled he saw that Unaraq's wound was gone and all that was left was a scar.
"Stay here, kid," said Palartok as he ran off and left Unaraq in a dark corner to rest.
Unaraq sat in a corner with his head resting on the wall of a house. His neck was bruised he gently padded his legs and found a large knife that he kept on his right leg hidden underneath his pants. He pulled it out and examined it then his new friend Yali, the chi-blocker came to his mind he remembered a line that she said, "The art of pressure points is known as chi-blocking, this is the most powerful weapon against a bender."
He used the knife as a sort of crutch and powered through onto his knees from there he mustered all his strength as he slowly and excruciatingly rose to his feet. He felt dizzy and so he leaned on the wall for a few minutes, after that brief moment of regaining vision and balance he ran toward battle again.
He went against Palartok's wishes but now he sought revenge. He eventually found his assailant and saw that he was busy combating an earthbender. He snuck up behind Kimaru and punched him hard in certain areas of his back. A wave of water fell from Kimaru's control he felt pain in his limbs and he struggled to bend he turned around and ignored the earthbender.
He stopped dead in his tracks bugged-eyed when he came face-to-face with Unaraq again, "You...no you're s-supposed to be dead!"
"Anguta knows it wasn't my time yet, but she told me to tell you it's..." grinned Unaraq.
"...YOURS!" he yelled he thrust his blade into Kimaru's chest.
"Wh-what...did you...do to...m-me?!" whispered Kimaru into Unaraq's ear his breathing was dull. .
"I only made this fight fair," Unaraq finished, he removed the blade and another warrior took Kimaru's head clean off his shoulders.
Unaraq watched the warrior bag Kimaru's head into a sack and ran off. He chuckled and cried at the same time because he can't believe he made it out of that alive. He ran east to find his dad and Lord Cupun.
Jinyin Island, Tuo, Qiangda Kingdom
From Shen's neck, he pointed to the island in front of their view, "There!" he told his dragon.
Shen remained silent but dived down toward the island as he lowered in altitude. Senlin sat on a stone seat in front of a stone table with a kettle and a cup of hot tea that he began to drink. Shen landed several yards from his master's enemy, "I thought you'd never come, boy!"
"I read your message, let's not waste time," Rong Yan mentioned.
Senlin flipped the stone table to the left and broke everything on it. He stomped the ground which brought up three boulders and he kicked one with his left, the second with his right, and third, he spin kicked it at the Avatar. Rong Yan dodged, side steps and, ducked under the third. But immediately he was attacked with more Senlin didn't want to provide the Avatar with a chance.
"You've run from me for too long, I should've killed you at the air temple," Senlin told Rong Yan.
"I'm here now," Rong Yan spun around and used all the force he could muster from that spin pushed Senlin back with a blast of air. Senlin rose a wall of earth, the blast was ceased by the earth wall, it went passed on the sides and top of the wall but Senlin remained unaffected.
The island shook and both men staggered quite a bit as they tried to maintain their balance during the earthquake that rippled from Yu province. The wall sank instantly while a giant boulder headed in Rong Yan's direction. He gasped and put his hands together in front of him, Rong Yan split the boulder in half the force of the boulder however pushed him back a bit. The halves crashed to his side and sounded loud thuds.
Suddenly he's met with a line of stalagmites right out of the ground no time to take a breather. He jumped over the line and liquified a patch of earth in front of him. Senlin was shocked and he sneered, "You've found yourself quite the master, Avatar."
"I've never seen your kind of bending," he commented, Rong Yan swapped into a chuanxin stance he stood his ground. But instead of fire being conjured he said bent sand out of the liquified patch toward Senlin. He attacked Senlin with sand except Senlin magnetized the sand to his skin, Rong Yan resumed the attacks that did nothing to Senlin.
He continued to add armor to Senlin, the sand hardened into solid earth. Rong Yan remained unaware of this and carried on until he realized that Senlin now had armor and it was due to his oblivious vision.
When Rong Yan caught on he flashed his eyes and shifted into a xu bu stance and stood low then he pivoted his body and dragged a wave of water to jet at Senlin. The Great Betrayer acted on time and swiftly moved his arms in a clockwise motion. He lifted himself on a large pillar the wave crashed against the pillar-like ocean waves on the high rise against a cliff.
Some of the water returned to the ocean that circled the island of Jinyin while smaller portions stayed as big puddles. A source of water for Rong Yan if he ever needed to waterbend again, Rong Yan pulled all the water nearby and used it to propel himself into the air onto a water spout. Senlin slammed his fists onto the pillar, it quickly hurtled to the ground and caused another earthquake. The Avatar was knocked off balance and the spout collapsed. Rong Yan fell to the ground and stopped a potential injury with an air cushion.
Rong Yan thought to himself, "Hunzhang, he's playing this smart, he's fought an Avatar before."
"You've defeated me once, I'm not going to let you put me in that cell again," yelled Senlin from a distance. Senlin changed into a deing kiu stance, he stood shoulder-width apart, one balled fist near his waist, his torso pivot a bit to the side, and the other arm was raised in front of him with an opened palm facing toward a small hill. He swung that arm like a blade and sliced the top of the hill and drop kicked it at Rong Yan.
Luckily, Rong Yan burrowed underground before the hill could injure or kill him Senlin chuckled and slammed his foot down. He was able to sense the vibrations in a large radius around him where he found Rong Yan's breathing and heartbeat underground. Now in the jai kiu stance, he burst the Avatar out on a stalagmite.
Rong Yan's tunic was caught on the big spike that emerged from the ground, Senlin joked, "Only badgermoles burrow underground, Nationalist."
At this point, Senlin believed he easily won how formed a small rock into a rockicle to secure the kill. As it soared in the Avatar's direction Rong Yan shifted the form of the spike into the sand and it collapsed and dropped him to the ground on his rear. He asked Senlin a rhetorical question, "You don't stop talking do you?"
He blew air out of his mouth that sent his nemesis away from him and created distance between both of them. When stopped himself with a back roll slid back a bit from a distance and burst out a line of stalagmites out of the ground after Rong Yan again. He defended himself by countering the move and cut the spikes of the stalagmites off with a pressured crescent-shape wave of air. Senlin rolled to his left side and slammed both hands into the ground and caused another earthquake much large than the last. Two tremors crawled on the ground toward the Avatar this time.
Rong Yan had enough the patch of sand that stood in front of them was used by Rong Yan, he used air to blast a cloud of sand into the area. He blinded himself and his opponent he thought but that was cut short when it didn't work. Senlin knew Rong Yan's location all he needed was seismic sense and more head-sized boulders flew in the Avatar's direction no matter where he stood. Rong Yan sidestepped, side rolled, and jumped back in a cartwheel fashion, and avoided the projectiles. .
"How does he know where I am?!" Rong Yan was frustrated in his thoughts. He blew enough air to carry on with a light sandstorm.
Meanwhile, Jushi helped the Qiangdians while Senge was also in the air on an air spout where his self-appointed job was to stop smaller projectiles from killing Qiangdians. Aloi stayed in the back near the wall she chose to refuse to fight. Jushi now on a sand vortex asked Senge on his air spout, "Why isn't she helping?!"
"She doesn't want to kill!" Senge shouted back.
"She'll die if she won't, and then Unaraq will blame me!" remarked Jushi.
"Tornado!" Senge hinted.
"Tornado? Is that what you guys have been doing?!" shouted Jushi.
"Yes! But I make the tornado and you make the spikes!" yelled Senge.
"You're not like the average Air Nomad I often meet, I like it!" commented Jushi.
Jushi slammed down knees first and caused an area of effect tremor that turned into a shock. Every stumbled around while Senge used his spout for the base of his tornado. He ran around it as Jushi tossed spikes into the twister. After a while, the spikes flew out into random areas as it forced itself into the regiments in front of them. Some were impaled by the spikes that flew out others were sucked into it and flung several yards in the air and to their deaths.
Jushi channeled a stream of sand into the vortex and formed a sandstorm with Senge's help they intensified the strength of the sandstorm. Aloi later came to her senses after she did a prayer in the back so Rati wouldn't curse her.
She threw a barrier of sound around herself and her friends before she was ready to spin in the air on a vortex herself. She inhaled a ton of air and when she was ready she unleashed a psychic scream that rang and echoed in the ears of thousands even people in the Lower Ring heard the scream that frightened children.
The first line of men from both sides fell disoriented again which incapacitated the front lines. She captured a blade being unsheathed from the enemies and amplified the sound and released it on her enemies. A ton of the men had their eardrums burst and they bled from their ears as they wailed in excruciating pain.
Those who couldn't handle it died, Jushi and Senge were frozen in their protective barriers as they witnessed soldiers had fallen. They observed as the Oma soldiers in the front lines bled from their ears as they panicked further.
The commander from the top wall was also terrified he shouted from the wall and went unheard, "What the cao was that?!"
"Did you see her?! That nun is crazy!" he barked at the cannoneers.
At the same time, the sandstorm raged on Jinyin island, the attacks from Senlin ceased for a few minutes now. Rong Yan stopped the sandstorm and the sand dropped to the ground, when his surroundings were clear Senlin was nowhere to be found.
Senlin popped out of the ground behind the Avatar with tossed a small sharp rock at the unsuspecting Rong Yan but fortunately only cut his right arm. Rong Yan blew fire out of his mouth at Senlin then blasted him back with air again both had space in between them that was several yards long.
He clutched his right forearm with his left hand and saw that blood was secreted from his wound. He was angry now he stood in shifa stance and sprayed a continuous channel of it at Senlin. Senlin counteracted with a wall that he rose in time. The wall shook a bit when the spray made contact with it, Rong Yan concentrated more energy into it as he controlled his breath.
Senlin broke a sweat the fire was hot and the wall began to heat up, the middle of the wall began to change colors. He rose more of the wall up when he noticed the portion that was once in the middle had started to melt.
Rong Yan didn't stop in anger he went on with the fire that he sprayed at the commander. A drop of molten rock dropped on Senlin's foot that he screamed in pain extremely loud and dropped the wall. He ducked under the fire and attempted to maintain the molten wall at this point. Suddenly, Senlin's wall completely melted at this point, the wall formed into a wave that was aimed at the Avatar. Both Senlin and Rong Yan were in shock, jaws dropped, and eyes widened. Senlin examined his palms and then the back of his hands he questioned himself, "I can lavabend...?"
"I CAN LAVABEND!" he cackled, the wave he pointed at his rival was spread more the patch of sand now expanded and heated into a pool of lava in front of him.
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