A Thieves Tale
Chapter 1:
"I am Speed..."
"I am the definition of Haste..."
"I am invincible…"
"Stop That Thief!"
"I am in huge Trouble!" I said running from the police. Why you may ask? Well I just stole from a local market, nothing big really, just some stuff to tide me over for a while; A couple baskets of food, about 10 yards of nice cloth, some jewelry, and some money from a wealthy family. Nothing big right? Well apparently it's enough to catch the attention of the earth kingdoms soldiers. I could easily out run these guys, (If I had my normal clothes on…) but in order to not attract the attention of the soldiers (That I was now trying to out run…) I had to wear a skirt, bodice, and the whole she-bang. And that is not easy to run with, not to mention doing flips, trying to avoid carts and trying not to trip on the ground that keeps coming up on me from the soldiers earth bending. I could also take them on easily but with this stupid get-up I can hardly fight! Right as I was trying to decide which way to go I hit a person head on. "Crap!" I said under my breath.
"What the-" The boy started but I cut off when I grabbed him by the hand and took him into a deserted house, and shut the door. After a minute of listening at the door I cracked it open to see that the soldiers had past.
"They are so stupid…" I said smirking, then turning around to see who I had dragged in here. I saw a boy about my age, with shaggy hair and a burn mark on his eye. "Look I'm sorry I dragged you in here… I just couldn't risk you telling them where I went." I stammered.
"Why?" He asked, with a straight face.
"Now that would be a stupid move on both parts. If I tell you, you could betray me, or I could trust you, not likely, you would get charged for holding out information on a Fugitive that's top on the Earth kingdoms most wanted list. So see you really don't want to ask that question." I said about to walk out when I heard the rumbling of rocks getting nearer, my eyes widening with fear. "CRAP! THERE HERE!" I yelled quickly flipping up to the rafters, and basically spreading myself out on so I could keep myself up but distributing my weight on them. "You didn't see me! Act sick or injured!" I said with pleading eyes, "Please!" I quickly added right as one of the walls blew in almost making me fall.
"Where is she?! Answer me!" One of the soldiers yelled at the boy.
His eyes quickly fluttered up to me, "No, please no. Don't tell." I mouthed with my eyes still pleading.
"I'm sorry Officer, but there is no one here." The boy said with the same straight face he had on before.
"Don't lie to us boy!" The soldier said looking around; not seeing anythingm but then suddenly shot a rock at a main rafter, knocking me down. "So someone was here. Tsk, Tsk Tsk. You shouldn't have lied to us boy, now your going down with her." The soldier said signaling the others to come in, all circling around us; both of us falling into a defensive position.
"WAIT!!" I screamed taking a dagger, and slitting the sides of my skit. "Ok that's better. You may pursue if you want, but just think about what you're getting into. I mean surely you must know who I am." I said with a smirk forming onto my face.
"You are a thief that is wanted in the town." The soldier said.
"Yes that is correct, but that's only part of the story, that is what you see, not what I am. See difference." I said still smirking.
"You know girl I'm getting sick of your attitude." The soldier said.
"Well then were in agreement, your sick of my attitude, and I'm sick of your face, and your voice, and well you really. So why don't you just take your little friends and run along now." I said giving a little 'shoo go away' movement that you usually do to little kids who won't leave you alone. "When I said 'now', we need to run, we can't take these guys. Even if they do seem really dumb, I've had experiences with types like these. They seem really dumb but they make up for that in brute strength." I said softly to the boy behind me.
"Why?" The boy asked
"Girl you don't know who you're insulting." The soldier said warning; I could tell that he was seriously debating on whether killing us on site, or taking us back to the village.
"NOW!" I screamed while running head on at the soldier, knocking him down and clearing a way for her and the boy to run. "Just keep running!" I said to the boy as we were running. Once we were a couple hundred yards away, we stopped running. "I hope we lost them…" I said panting. "Look I'm really sorry I dragged you into this, I just couldn't risk it, but it didn't work, your now in as much trouble as I am…" I said then thought about it for a minute. "No wait, I'm still in deeper." Then the earth started to rumble, "Oh crap, oh crap," I kept repeating, "RUN!" I said but it was too late, a rock shot up and was aimed at the boy. I ran in front of it to push the boy away from it. The boy ended up ok, but the rock hit my left leg. Boy did it hurt. "AH!" I screamed, clutching my leg. The boy looked like he was about to run but his conscience caught up and he came back and picked me up and put me on his side, so I could use him as a crutch. "Wait," I said, and hopped around so I faced the soldiers who just caught up. I breathed in and then raised my arms up and breath out so two whips of fire came up from my hands, I then whipped them around, and caught all of the soldiers in its fiery rope and brought them all together. I then tightened the whips so that the fire started burning there clothes and then there skin. The world started going dark and I looked down and saw my leg bleeding, not a second later did my fire subside and I fell into a world of black. The last this I saw was a mix of horror and surprise on the boys face…
