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Summary: Years ago a great battle was fought. A battle of epic portions. The world continues on in balance…in the fire nation, Azula and the other's have accepted their lives at least they thought they did.
Warnings Overall: yuri, het, swearing, blood
Remain in the Mind
Wind pushed and pulled the dirt with a soft-violent hand, in this midnight moonlight. The sent of freshly blossomed Moonflowers also pushed and pulled with the wind current. Small fires dotted the valley below. A sickly peaceful aura came from them.
After all this time. After everything that has happened. Here I em. On the edge of what I left. What I did. Here where I swore I never return. Never. This day was never in the cards.
Days of old past threw my mind's eye. Pulling my emotions to come forward. I easily push them within the depths of my subconscious. Years I have lived without them. Tonight would be no different.
I hear the branches rustle. I em not alarmed. I was waiting for something to happen. Lately I heard a band of misfits have made this path, leading to the City, their own. I feel nothing as the first one strikes, at least try to. He's down. Soon three other join the man. No their not dead…yet.
Looking down at one I see surprise and undeniable horror reflected in his eyes. How easy it would be to stop the low life's beating heart. How painfully he would gasp in his last breath.
Looks like you'll live tonight. I smile turning to another being appearing on the path. The black and dark maroon of their uniform stood out brightly and definiley in the moonlight. Another appears next to the first but this one got into a Ready Fire Position.
"Is there a problem here?" spoke what must have been the officer of the patrol. He's eyes capturing everything in this midnight scene. He smiles at the men at my feet, yet when his eyes raise to me they harden trying to figure out if I'm friend or foe.
Friend or Foe. Once I was a friend, now I'm-
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Next: Adulthood. Every child wants to grow into it. Then every adult wants to escape it.
