Why can't I have it!?

Chapter 1 edited

"How long has it been two..three days maybe?" Ren said in his hillbilly accent while wiping his sweaty forehead.

"Shut up just keep hammering ,and it won't take much longer to pay the tax." remarked Ren's friend Hu.

They were in an earth kingdom mine which had absolutely no sunlight, and very little visibility granted only by one torch that was already on it's way on dying.

"All right all right. I just don't see the point in this ,breaking rocks? Don't they have their precious benders to do these here things for them" said Ren. "Wish I was a bender... hey Hu doncha wish you were a bender?"

"...No"

"Come on, wouldn't it be great if we could just go BAM!BAM! and break these suckers?" said Ren excitedly while doing some very bad Hung-Gar kata.

"Who put us in these chains in the first place! Who decided that we Non-Benders should pay tax just because we can't fight in the army and shoot dirt or... fling fire or even splash at other people!" Hu said angrily "Also weren't we placed here by those damned earthbenders while closing the door in on us?." saidan indignant Hu talking about the cruelty on which they were handled.

It wasn't like Hu, he had always been a guy who was indifferent to a point where he was almost emotionless.
Hu just continued hammering away at the rocks with his big metal hammer.There was a certain animosity towards benders Hu always had. The room stood still in an awkward silence till Ren decided to break it.

"Hey Hu, are we really that inferior compared to them bending folk?" asked a worried Ren.

"Who knows?" Hu replied coldly.

The two kept on hammering for hours in a world where the only colors where the grays of the rocks ,the orange of the fire and a dark shade of red which was visible on the faces of two exhausted non-benders.

All of this has gotten Ren bored. Quite bored infact that Ren all of a sudden got up and knocked his hammer on the walls.

"What are you doing?" asked a puzzled Hu

Ren ignored Hu's question and just kept on hammering and hammering, until suddenly Ren cracked a hollow spot and opened up a big hole in the wall. Ren looked out of the hole and saw what looked to be a very dark maze lighted only by a few torches as well.

"Lookie here Hu!!" Ren shouted "Wonder you might reckon this thing is?

"Leave it Ren, just a few more rocks and were outta here." said Hu "I don't really need any more trouble."

"No way Hu, this like one of em' expeditions you know?" he replied impatiently "C'mon it beats staying here."

Hu reluctantly followed Ren through the opening in what looked to be a Catacomb. It was dark with only fleeting hallway torches giving any source of light. They made their way through the tunnel over mounds of fallen debree and past the rats who were scurrying down the stone floore which felt cool on their bare feet. They kept on walking through the catacomb until they reached a curious site.

"Doors?" questioned a curious Ren. "Big metal doors?" he added while going to them feeling the cold steel against his palm.

"I think we should head back, there's nothing to see here anyway."

Ren ignored his friends' warnings and proceeded to one of the big metal doors. As he opened the door and what he saw and what he felt were absolutely absolutely beautful. The warm and gentle carress of

"Sunlight." said a Raid who was ecstatic by the discovery.

Hu who was also a pleasantly surprised decided to take a look around. They were in a sort of balcony which overlooked A magnificent courtyard surrounded by the green grass and a few white rose-tulips. and in the middle is what looked like an arena which was slightly elevated and had the green Earth Kingdom insignia in the middle.

Then they heard the sound of Metal clanking up against stone in what sounded like a marching rhythm.

"Ren, I think it's one of them Earthbenders. We should hide." whispered Hu to his friend

Ren just nodded in agreement as they crouched behind a huge boulder opposite the location where the benders were coming out.

Three men in the typical green earthbending uniforms came out looking like royalty next to an old man with his ragged clothes.

"Hey Hu that's ma Pa!" asked a surprised Ren "Wonder what they're gonna do to him?"

The soldiers then placed a blindfold on the old manand stepped back quite a distance till they were about ten meters away.

"Hey Ren they're gonna..!"

"Ready!" shouted one of the benders as they got into their horse stances.

"Aim" shouted the bender again, as he stomped the ground and a boulder came out.

Ren then went into a mad dash trying to reach the man who was supposedly his father on time.

"FIRE!" shouted one of the soldiers as they punched a solid straight with their right hand.

After a few seconds, there lay not one, but two corpses sprawled across the arena whose red blood contrasted with the green surroundings.

A door was suddenly slammed opposite of them, "There's another one." remarked one of the soldiers as they set on to chase this man.

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