Author's Note: This is an Avatar AU and my first fanfic. I used the characters and many of the underlying concepts from the recently completed Avatar series and have manipulated them into a new plot. The title is Latin for "From the Smoke into the Flames". I hope you all enjoy it...please comment :D.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender or any of the characters from it (which is a good thing b/c I could NEVER have written that Finale XD). They belong to Mike and Bryan.
The wind is raging, bolts of blue lightning strike the earth with thunderous might and precision. All has come to this…the culmination of years of planning, scheming, and posturing on this field. The king watches his orchestration unfold as fire flares, wind spirals, water flows, and the earth rises from nowhere to deal a devastating blow.
His musings are interrupted by an ambitious waterbender who sculpts a graceful yet ferocious tube of water and aims straight for him. He smirks as he propels himself upward, avoiding the stream with a backflip and creating an attack of his own on the recoil. The waterbender falls quickly, and the battle rages on as if nothing happened.
The king's triumphant victory is interrupted by the sight of the avatar in the corner of his eye. He still cannot believe that this is what is destined to defeat him…to destroy his years of planning. He aims a strong attack right for the unsuspecting "savior", but the avatar dodges it in time. The fight was on…the struggle of the century.
He aims another attack, but the avatar responds with a giant wall of earth and a scythe of ice. The king laughs at this simple attack and quickly counters it with a mid air flip and an impressive upward maneuver. "Is that all you've got?" the king asked tauntingly.
Below, the war raged on. On one side, the elite firebending corps directed hot bolts of blue lightning into the line of Earth Kingdom onagers. On the front lines, the Kyoshi Warriors battled opposing fighters to gain the right flank, while the Dai Li fought to gain control of the left side. In the center, the Earth Kingdom foot soldiers seemed to be making progress, but another onslaught of fire arrows drove them back.
Above, the avatar and the king continued to exchange blows. The avatar shot a flash of fire that the king easily dodged, but his effort distracted him from the funnel of water that pulled him to the ground. Taking advantage of this momentary opportunity, the avatar mixed a wad of earth with a powerful blast of fire. He then spun the massive ball with a blast of air and shot it toward the king. The king looked up at the last second, and…