Chapter 7
(a few minutes earlier in Artic's ring His POV)
I sucked in a deep breath as I heard the wolves growl from their cage.
The gate went up and they rushed out at me, fangs bared.
They began to circle me. "5 against one that's not fair of well time to end you guys sorry!" I said as I brought one of my large front paws down on one of them dazing it.
That's when the others jumped me. "*AAAAARGGGGGGGH* OK THAT'S IT GOOD BYE AND GOOD NIGHT!" I yelled rolling on my back stabbing one of the wolves on one of the pikes. "1 down 4 to go so who's next?" I asked ducking under an attack.
"Ok now I'm glad Alli and I went down to the south pole and that she had me run with that pack of Polar bear dogs, those fighting and hunting skills are coming in handy right about now." I muttered as I bit down on the neck of a wolf. I spat out the blood in my mouth.
I might have liked meat but not with the fur.
I took my front right paw and swiped it across one of my attackers. My once snowy white coat was becoming blood stained as blood gushed from the two wolves I had killed.
The ground had pools of blood forming around the bodies of the dead ones.
I gulped down the nervousness that was beginning to form. The pushed me to the ground. I fell to my back. "Ha-ha perfect!" I thought bringing my hind legs as close to me as I could, then the two wolves launched at me.
As they came closer to me it was almost as if someone put everything into slow-motion. They were mere inches from my paws then I pushed my front and hind paws forward claws bared. My sharp claws cut through their bodies making more blood pool around the last wolf was the biggest and the meanest looking.
"*RRRRR* BRING IT ON PAL!" I boomed with a manic grin splayed across my maw. The throaty growl that left us as we charged at one another with all our force.
This wolf was proving a challenge as we tumbled around biting and clawing at the other. He sunk his teeth into my left foreleg and wouldn't relinquish his hold on me.
I now had an opportunity for a fatal attack. "SAY GOOD NIGHT PAL!" I roared as I sunk my teeth in his neck. He was just a bit smaller than me but strength wise we were a fair match.
I held tight with my teeth till his body fell limp in my maw. I stood and let the smile grow on my face as I caught my breath and spat out the fur and blood that had collected in my mouth.
(Minutes earlier in Star struck's ring Her POV)
I held my bow tightly in my right hand and an arrow in my left as the Beast of a woman came out holding her own bow and arrow. "So, are you ready to die young fool!" She laughed.
Compared to me she was large and I was rather small but size only played a small part in this. Skill, speed, and strength were the key elements in this twisted game.
"We'll see who the fool is at the end of this when I defeat you!" I Yelled taking a quick aim at her. She caught my arrow inches from her face without even blinking.
It became a pattern for us.
Deep breath, draw back your arrow, Aim, Exhale, let go, repeat.
"Ok I'm getting tired of this game!" I panted. I tossed my bow to the ground and took off my quill.
I sucked in a breath through my nostrils, closed my eyes, brought my hands around me in a calming motion, opened my eyes and saw her taking aim at me, then I sent a flurry of punches and kicks at her releasing a flurry of flames at her.
Her bow and arrows disintegrated before our very eyes. "Good bye!" I picked up my bow and jumped on her using it as a tool, I held the bow tight to her neck.
She tried to pry me from her back but I would not let go not till... "Finally, she's...dead...better than me dying at least." I panted as she fell limply to the ground.
I stood my throat felt tight as I collapsed I felt the cuts her arrows made in my back sting as I slipped out of consciousness.
(Minutes before in Mayoko's Ring her POV)
I tied the blindfold on my eyes as the gate creaked open I felt a petite woman come out but I wasn't about to take that as a sign of weakness. I felt the others enter their rings and fight.
"Ok so now what Mayoko you could fight, cower, or wait and let her be undoing. Just like Great Grandma Jade taught me." I thought taking deep breaths in and out. "A good earth bending master waits for the right time to strike. you need to use jings, but not just positive and negative, neutral you have to do nothing, it's the key to earth bending it means listening and waiting for the best time to strike!" Those words my great grandmother had told me when she was training me in earth bending it was something that all of us knew even the non, air, and water benders.
"Ha-ha you're gutsy fighting me blindfolded! Where is your armor or are you a fool?!" She laughed walking up to me and pulling the blindfold from my eyes.
I had them closed so I wouldn't lose concentration. "Well aren't you going to say something!" She snapped at me shoving me but my feet only slid back.
"A true warrior lets her actions speak for her not her mouth." I said as I relaxed my stance. "*GRRRRRRRRRRRR* Will you just fight already!" She yelled. "No, I won't I do not start fights I end them." I said confidently.
She picked up a sword from the wall and rushed at me. I slid out of her way, being Avatar I was determined to learn key fighting techniques for each element.
I moved with the skill of an air bender although I couldn't air bend just yet. "Why don't you show me some of that petty bending girly!" She said Slashing the blade at me but I grabbed it in my hands blocking her attack.
She let out a growl and I smirked. I could only block her so much before I'd get tired.
I was beginning to tire out but I didn't let it show.
I thrust my arms up when she came at me sending an earth pillar up. I flicked my opposite wrist pulling my blades from my back, and stomped my left foot hard crumbling the pillar to dust. I spun around moving my arms and wrists making my blades fly around me. I closed my eyes and used my seismic sense to see her and just before she could bring her blade down on me I brought mine up and into my hands.
I opened my eyes and smirked pushing her back to the wooden wall. I grinned wide as she struggled against my twin blades. She kicked my leg in the shin hard.
"*AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAArggggh!* You really think a kick to the shin will take me out? Guess again!" I said, Lighting up my blades in fire.
We battled for what seemed like an eternity. I had many severe cuts and slashes on my body but she barely had any. I collapsed to my hands and knees sweaty and bleeding.
I panted to catch my breath. She walked up to me with a blade in her hand, then rose it above my head. I made fists and shakily stood. But I just fell back to the ground in a heap. "Hmm-hmm-hmm-ha-ha-hah-ha-ha-ah-ahh-ah-ah-ah-aha-ha-ha-ha! Not so good, now are you?" She laughed, I felt magic surge through my body as I stood again rising with the help of my wings.
"I will not lose to you!" I said summoning my Moon Blade. "HA-HA do you think that, that puny knife can beat me?" She asked seeming amused.
But the blade I wheeled was far from small, even in the hands of my great uncle on my mother's side it was large.
But she was right I wasn't a match for her even though I had magic, her skill was better than mine.
I shakily was on my knees my breath was ragged and blood and sweat dripped my face. "Hmm-hmm. Want me to put you out of your misery?" She asked.
"No..." I said with authority, my eyes glowed white as I spaced out.
I felt all floaty and spirt-y. "Hello Mayoko." I heard a female voice say. "Huh?" I said looking around but I couldn't really move. "Wha-who are you!" I asked when I saw a woman with water tribe clothes and her hair done up in a braid with some hanging out around her face.
"I'm You." She said. I took a moment to comprehend. "Wait Avatar Korra!" I said with a grin. "Yep, looks like you could use a bit of help out there huh?" Korra asked me. "Yeah even with my magic and using all the elements I know. But it didn't work she kicked my butt... I was beat. I can't find a weakness!" I Yelled.
"I'll help you. We all will." Korra said I looked to the side and saw all the past avatars.
I felt myself return back to my body.
My eyes glowed as I controlled all four elements and threw rocks, ice, fire, and AIR! "I will not lose to you this is the end of the line for you!"
After a few moments, I had her pinned to the ground with earth.
