Chapter 6
The once close siblings stood opposite each other, the resemblance between the two was uncanny. Condor stood ready with a whip made of water in each hand, Gouki stood the same, but with fire whips in stead. Condor cracked the first attack, whipping at the side of his face. Gouki defended by bringing his own whip from the same hand against him. His cracked the counter attack at Condors bust, but she twisted her body away to evade it. Quickly she span and kicked, a blast of ice needles shot at him, but Gouki melted them with a well timed blast of fire. Suzu Eika punched the cold ground by her feet, and a column of ice shot up and entombed her brother. For just a moment, she though she had won. The column bust open as just hot water and Suzu had to use her water bending to stop herself from getting wet. Gouki smirked as he was perfectly dry. The sun is still high in the sky, Condor noted in her head, and so long as it is, I can't defeat him with water bending. Unless… It was time for a special attack. For a moment, Suzu Eika focused her energy on her Chi, which didn't take her long as she had a lot of training to learn. She bended a wave of the partially compacted snow over her head and collapsed it down on herself. After a quick explosion of gold, the pile of ice moved, and two gold orbs glared from it at GoukiKuroihaato.
"Quick, Katara. I think Condor is in danger!" Cried Aang skidding into the room where she was. Katara looked up from the old scroll that she was reading. Zuko, who was also in the room reading another scroll, looked up in curiosity to.
"In trouble? Where?" Katara sprang to her feet.
"This way! This man came out of nowhere and I think he was after you, Condor and Rocci! We got to help her!"
"Why didn't you just you just help her your self. You are the avatar, after all." muttered Zuko, looking back down at the scroll. This earned a glare from Katara.
"Because... She...I..." Aang stuttered speachlessly, he wasn't entirely sure why he had run, but Condor's voice had seemed so sure and controlling. "I had to warn everyone" Katara walked a little towards Aang and asked him to take them to Condor. If the attacker was who Katara thought it was, then Condor may need some back up. The two teens ran out of the snow house and back towards were Aang last saw the water bender who saved his friend.
Fwh-BOOM! The loud explosion sounded like a giant rock had slammed into the ground. The two of them as well as the hand full of villagers that had followed them, charged faster towards the crash from where Aang had left Condor. He froze in his tracks when he arrived at the fight scene. A huge creature with bulky, muscular legs that seemed uunproportoinate to the overwelming size of the thing, broad sholders and long, powerful arms that ended in giant, three didget, hands. In the heart of the creature, apparently made of ice, was a pink mass spread out in a star shape with a hint of black at the top end, near the creatures round hill of a head. It roared with a voice that sounded partually like a monsters should be but with a familiar voice along with it, then swiped its hand across at Gouki. The fire bender leapt back elegently away from the brutal strength and punched a fist of fire at the back of the creatures hand, It screached out in agony and stumbled away from its attacker a little. For just a moment, the audience caught the beasts attention, it turned its powerful head towards them as the hole in its hand vanished, two golden orbs of glowing power seved the dutie as eyes. Gouki took advantage of the distraction and blasted fire at the pink blob in the midle of the giant opponent. The thing screamed loudly and the pink star at it center began to squirm about. The thing in the creature was human. A girl. It was Condor. Katara gasped as she watched her friend collapseto the flioor, every last ounce of energy was drained from her simple body. Condor's brother strode over to the teenage girl, who lay in a puddle of freezing slush, picked her up and launched her onto his strong sholder.
"Here is what I am going to do: I will take you back, sister, and you will be compleatly obediant, and I sware that I will never take another person agaist the laws of the lands again." Explaned Gouki, begining to walk away with her
"No!" she snapped horsly, beating at his back fruitlessly and weakly.
"It was not a deal, it was an order! And if any of your little friends here deside to follow us now, I will kill them crully" He said the last part loudly so that they cold all here him, Condor gasped and looked back at Katara, she then sighed submisivly and closed her golden eyes and agreed. Gouki then fasened his pace, taking his four years minor sister with him. Life was back on a low again, for Condor, with no chance of looking up.
Running into the Fire Lords study, the messanger waved a scroll in his hand.
"Your lordship, I have a message from the Avatar and prince Zuko!" Panted the young man, placing the small scroll on the beautiful desk that was infont of him.
"Thank you" Nodded Fire Lord Iroh, taking it and reading it. His eyes widened in supprise. "prepare a ship for me immediatly, we have found the one known as the Master." They had been looking for Master Gouki Kuroihaato for some time now, after hearing that he was abduting people and selling them as slaves illigaly, he immediatly came on the wanted list. Iroh rose from his seat and left for his chamber to ready himself for sailing again. His mind wondered back to his time in the army, then to the wild turky duck chaise that was his nephues quest for the avatar. The next thing that the old man remebered was what was said in the letter, one line in particular; Zuko had written 'his man is a treat to the avatar, my son and his mother.' When did Zuko have a son? Who was the mother? Presumably it was someone from the southern water tribe. But Zuko had not been there, or even looking for the nice miss Katara for nine months, it was almost six now. The smart, old man had a small but sudden idea of who the mother of his grand nephue could be, Katara sprang to mind. Iroh quickly got back to his chamber and wrote a reply to Zuko's important letter, telling they young man of his plan. The last thing on the letter, Iroh asked about Zuko's son slyly. He hand not even become Fire Lord yet, and the young prince Zuko already had a possible hair to the throne. Iroh smiled and ordered a servant to send the letter to the south pole on thier fastest Dragon Hawk.
Suzu Eika Kuroihaato slumped forward on the edge of her old bed in her old room, everything wals like it always was in there. The cot had been taken away, her clothes had been cleaned and the sheets changed. She ran her long fingers through the messy mop of bangs that had come out of her low, traditioal bun and sighed with her gold eyes closed. She missed the cold air of the south pole and the way the sun hit the snow at sunrise and made it glow. The childeren that came to watch her dancing with the element around her and wize words of the village elders. But most of all she missed little Rocci's innosent smiles, Katara's warm friendlyness and her new godsons cute ways. Freedom and hope came in second to those three.According to the captain, they were in Earth waters right now and were heading to the Fire Nation so that the crew may get to see thier family again for the month.It was coming up to a holiday in the fire nation so it was only fair. But Conor felt an air of darkness approching in her life. Somthing big was going to happen when they stepped of Fire Nation land.Somthing big and auful. She shuddered at the darkness and tried to push it away in her mind. Someone was going to die.
At the same time, Aang, Sokka, Katara, the newly collected Toph, Zuko plus two new members to the quaint gaang; Kazumi and Rocci. An odd expression spead into the young, novice earth bender that echoed the feeling inside of Zuko. It was Toph who said what they were all thinking in the end
"Someone is goning to die."
Iroh also felt the same impending darkness as the other two groups. A storm approched in the distance.
A/N: Woo another cliffi. Guess whats gonna happen, go on guess.
A/N: Couldn't have left Toph outta the story, now could I?
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