Chapter Four: Consequences
Her mouth hung open limply in disbelief to what she had just witnessed, her mind telling her this could not be real, her "sight" telling her it was. As the monk's knees thudded to the ground, sending a ripple through the earth, her eyes started to feel pained, her mouth widening into a speechless O. As his upper body followed suit, hitting the hard ground below, her form shuddered, and her eyes abandoned the pain, as she felt a wet sensation replace it.
"Twinkles?..."
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Ozai stared content at the sight in front of him, the boy's sparking body drop to the ground, remaining still except for the uncontrollable tremors the lightning induced in him rhythmically. A curl hooked lip as realization hit him. The Avatar, the last threat, the boy had fallen to him, he had won! He rushed onwards to the pathetic figure shuddering face down on the floor, intent on finishing the job. His eyes now almost leaping out of their sockets with excitement, it was time to end this.
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The voice came back swift and focused to her mind, yelling at her with a hundred voices at once, the chaos in her head letting only one objective pass unobstructed
"Help him!"
Her legs kicked out subconsciously at this new purpose, practically screaming in her mind to use them, but all she could achieve was crawling on all fours to him, her mind blocking out the concept of standing, the single thought of propelling herself towards him as quickly as possible overriding her sense, her panic causing her to feel the blindness in her vision seep in, darkness outlining the edges of her peripheral vision, outlines becoming blurred, her hands no longer recognizing the smallest stone shards and chips littering the floor from their crash, her hands grazing and cutting themselves on these natural caltrops, not even a flinch betraying her focus though. At that moment only two objects maintained form in her state of panic. The small outline but a few feet ahead of her, flaring and shaking periodically, and the larger, bombarding outline launching it's way towards the first, it's speed making hers obsolete.
Even though Aang could not have been more than several feet away from her, the journey felt stretched for miles, doubts flashing across her mind, palms with countless drips of blood becoming slippery with sweat, legs maintaining their current marching tempo no matter how much she urged them on. The centre of her mind focused on reaching Aang before the storming Ozai, the back telling her she won't. Her eyes began to well with tears as she crawled, all the doubts and horrid possibilites enclosing the other thoughts like a barrier, tearing hope away. Aang was gone, the fire lord would reach him first and nobody lived now to stand up to him. But then her hand gripped soft matter on its unthinking path, her mind snapped back into the moment and hope restored her senses, her hands tightening their grip on the outline as it succumbed to another involuntary jerk. Toph lunged forward the remaining inches, hands stumbling over themselves as they came to rest on the bodies torso, droplets already beginning to soak the skin as her mind swirled around itself, trying to find the next part of a plan, an action, coming up useless, unwilling to offer any shred of aid, before a dramatic temperature change to her right did the thinking for her.
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His trophy lay in front of him he knew, but now this earth kingdom insect was blocking his line of sight to the defeated face of the testament to his power. He wanted to look into the eyes of the Avatar, to see the glow faded from them and replaced with closed eyelids, but instead his eyesight met the pale, sea-foam eyes of the girl before him, sides cascading with water. Such a sight from a young blind girl even wavered his raw emotions for split second, his eyebrows curving outwards before resuming their hard stare, no weakness should be shown here.
"Stand aside girl."
