A/N: Last chapter and the second part of the fight. It all ends here, what will happen? Enjoy ;)
I had never heard that voice before, I hadn't seen who was the person over me, but I knew precisely who it was by that statement. And that made my blood boil because no one will ever slaver me. Ever.
I used all the strength I could find to get the person off of me, rolled over and quickly got up on my feet, ready to fight. The Governor stood up and looked me in the eye with a devilish smile. He was taller than I expected and smelled bad and cruel… just as I expected. At that moment I already hated him.
"You're a very fine lady, I almost feel guilty to have find such a beautiful and useful person all in once!" he said as he inspected me. He turned over and gestured to three of his men to join him and I was circled by them. "I'm definitely not leaving without you, no matter how many people of mine I lose."
I looked at the others; all adult men that soon would be dead or highly burnt. One especially was very muscular and I guessed that he was an earth bender. The sweet sound of thunder broke the air and I looked up at the sky then turned back my gaze on my opponents.
"Smart decision to chose three water benders to fight a fire bender. If only you'd been smarter when you decided to bring a water tank truck as a source of water," I teased the Gov.
He raised an eyebrow in surprise. "And why's that a bad decision?"
Of course, I didn't share my plan and attacked instead by bending down, straightening my leg and turning over, a trail of flames following my move and burning the earth bender's feet so he couldn't sense anything anymore. He screamed in pain and fell to the ground. The three others had shielded themselves with water and I knew at that exact moment that I couldn't stay trapped there if I had to fight them all by myself. So I grabbed my knife and made a deep cut in the Governor's palm before running away.
I heard him scream to the others to go after me and I tried to hide but there were no place for that. All of a sudden, I felt my movements getting harder and I also felt very cold. Soon I could no longer move because I was frozen on place and one of the water benders went in front of me to contemplate his work – and also to see it melt right before his eyes. I kicked him in the guts and turned to the other as we engaged in a physical fight.
I punched him and he pushed me away, creating some distance between us. We looked at each other for a second before I began to run toward him, but he turned the water on the ground into ice to throw me off balance. Instead, I used that at my advantage and slid on it, passing between his legs and standing up behind him. Before he had time to turn around I applied a pressure on his calf with me foot to make him fall on his knees and then snapped his neck as the other guy stood up, holding his stomach. I walked toward him and back-kicked him again in the guts this time with fire. He screamed in pain as the flames consumed his insides. As I was catching my breath
I felt my body getting hard like a rock. I didn't have control of it, couldn't move my arms nor legs. I tried to look behind me in hope to find the source of this but of course I couldn't.
I was lifted a few inches off the ground, but nothing was touching me. All my weight seemed to have fallen in my feet, making it extremely uncomfortable to be hanging loose in the air. The force that kept me over the earth turned me around and the Governor was standing before me, our eyes at the same height, doing weird uneven movements with his hands. I noticed that his wound was covered with a piece of cloth.
"You're not easy to catch, are you?"
"What did you expect from a fire bender?"
"I expected to convince you to join me before Rick did," he explained.
"How did you know I existed?"
He pretended to think. "I saw hints in the woods."
I cursed under my breath at that and suddenly a question popped in my head: did he know Shi?
"Why did you join Rick's group?" he asked.
"Because I wanted to."
"How could you know if you were joining the good or the wrong side?"
"I didn't know, only accepted the first offer I got."
"Did you ever regret your decision?"
That was a foolish question that I didn't want to answer by fear to doubt about Rick's loyalty. And anyway, it was none of his business. And anyway, I didn't have time to reply: a mass of air aimed at him and delivered me from his blood bending, making me fall to the ground again and reminding me about my bleeding nose. The Gov turned around and Rick propelled him back with his people behind the fences. That must've knocked him out quite well!
"Are you okay?" Rick ran toward me.
"Yes. How's the fight going?"
"We won't be able to hold them any longer, they have too much resources."
I looked up at the sky and then at the thunder. "Alright, then I guess I no longer have a choice…"
My heart began to pound heavy once again as the two of us spread in the yard. Keeping an eye on the thunder that was coming our way, I called Daryl to get his attention and gestured him toward where I had to go. He nodded. I began to run as he hit the ground with his foot and lifted both fists before his face, his elbows blocked. A rock elevated from the ground diagonally to propel me inside the circle Tyreese and I had made. Daryl yelled something to Carol and then all of our people began to retreat from behind the fences and tried to block our opponents. A lightning emerged from the clouds and caught in the metal of the bars placed around me. Then time slowed.
I tightened my fists and raised only my indexes and middle fingers. As my heartbeat beat like crazy, I slowly approached from a bar placed behind me and exhaled right before touching it with the tip of my fingers. Heat and pain quickly flood through me but if I stopped I'd die, so I let all the air that I had left in my lungs out into a scream as I redirected the lightning toward the water tank truck. Electricity caught in the raindrops on the engine, its metal boiled, the lightning caught with the water contained inside, which connected with every drop of rain. Okay, long story short: the truck exploded. The lightning's travelled through every droplet around and electrocuted everybody on the other side of the fences.
Our water benders all sighed and dropped their hands to their sides as our shield fell and rain restarted to fall on our side. All of us were safe and the Governor's army was defeated.
I'd done it.
