I wrote this page on the weekend when I was at a cottage with no wifi. I only managed to type out the page of it today. I didn't get to type out as much as I wrote but I'm getting there so don't worry.
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Mastering waterbending involved years of training and scouring all the water tribes for good teachers. Lim would never take those years under their tutelage in vain. Now for the escape he was the teacher of people he would free.
The barracks the bandits used to keep prisoners was visited by s father who was broken up from a woman only to learn she raised his daughter. She died of a heart problem. His daughter shed tears from her eyes to her chin when she met him two days after her funeral in the Earth tribe. He wanted her to work hard, think for herself, sing a song when the birds were by, and start her own family-he would wear gloves not wanting to dirty his grandchild's skin.
He didn't find any prisoners. What he found was a strong glass of water for Lim to use as a waterbending tool. He moved back to Lim feeling the plan to escape was on his shoulders. Alongside him, trapped on the wall were firebenders. They were the bandits that took him with their clothes on their elbows impaled by water spears. A true waterbender can use a spear of solidified water into ice as a perfect weapon.
"You're too slow." A prisoner anxious to escape after the turmoil she went through in those cells told him.
He ignored her going ahead with tossing the glass of water in the air. Lim saw the water—he needed it when all the other water he used turned into steam. His bending process was turning the water splashed into an orb, twirling it around his waist when it was at his level, keeping his hand in mind for his attack, and eyeing the firebender twins with glasses and ponytails. They heated molten hot fire unleashed in the shape of a bird, versatile and fast attack Lim had to launch his water skyward to dodge, yet he fell on his back.
The twins were eyeing each other with their teeth at full grin.
"We did it. We stopped this hero trying to be the Avatar." said the twin standing left.
"He was naive, didn't keep in mind it's the Avatar's task to save the helpless and only she, the current Avatar can control all four elements."
The twins were so proud of themselves they missed the water right where Lim wanted it to be. The twins jumped planning to hurl a finishing fireball. Lim could control water with his hands. With his bending he focused on the water over them turning their bodies into pillow sheets of ice. Both brothers fell on their backs; arms being restrained in ice.
They were stuck like Lim when he fell down with his hands in his pockets.
"I don't control all four elements like the Avatar. You're right about that. People reached the pinnacle of waterbending much faster than me, left me feeling ashamed because other kids' parents would bring it up to my dad. What have they told me about waterbending? Everything. Being able to free prisoners is just phenomenal. The Avatar may solve all problems keeping each side neutral, but standby for this runaway railroad waterbender."
Lim only wished he had a lady to hug him for telling his enemies his path and sparing them like the Avatar would. All he gained was a realization of how he was in a war against bandits when the twins grunted trying to escape. He had an idea.
The remaining bandits had shields put on their arms forming a barricade. All of them holding their shields wanted to make the prisoners grovel for trying to break free. A black armoured bandit ranked highest in the base forced them to be his wall. All these men blocking the exit and crushing all the powerless prisoners hope,was daunting like the knight hoped.
'My son has failed. Why are five percent of children working with their parents failures.' the knight thought.
The knight expected the door to fly off when the 'Champion of Freedom', what a few people from all four tribes called him, made it to his area but he just opened the door as he and the prisoners walked out in single file. The twins were held by the waterbender and they were trapped in doors of ice with their eyes covered in a blindfold made of ice.
The knight would only fight for the freedom of one of them-they were twins but only one of them was his son and the other was a simpleton who looked like his son.
"Hello." Lim said with a smile that told the knight he thought he had leverage. "I'm just here to free people you stole when they don't belong to you. I don't have three strength to beat all of you. Lookie though, I have two men who belong to you, big ice I can transform into water, and a big cliff for them to fall down. If the leader here will fight me one-on-one...I'll let them go."
Lim and the knight were staring eye-to-eye despite the knights eyes being limited to a small slit in his helmet. After staring the knight talked to his men. There was tension in the air because his stare was enough to make the men put their shields away. Lim held his end of the bargain turning the ice on the twins into a puddle of water.
Lim thought that was a bit of a waste since he worked hard making those blindfolds.
One of the twins scampered to the knight for a hug and to Lim's surprise the other one ran to be in the barricade of bandits.
Lim sat down cross legged when their duel started. The knight twirled his axe sword around intimidating most of the prisoners except a girl with pigtails. Lim could imagine all the slices he would make so he wasn't fearful of the weapon. To Lim's surprise the top of the weapon popped off showing an oil gusher nozzle. The knight was preparing to make an enormous flamethrower shown by fire created in his left hand.
The chain attack was settled when black oil sprouted out of his weapon and the flame in his hand touched the oil. In an instant a inferno was moving towards Lim. He didn't panick waterbending the puddle to make a whip, controlling the whip his bending helped him get in the air by hitting the ground with his elongated water.
Lim was saved from the inferno of fire but it was now a situation where he was up a creek without a paddle or waterbending. The knight shot oil balls out of his weapon getting in the air.
