Binas: Now, the fun part everyone wants. The battles, the thrills, the chills, the... OH SCREW IT! Some of you already know what goes down this chapter if you have seen the Book 2 finale: The Crossroads of Destiny.
Also, props to Sunshine-Girl234, she helped me catch a few errors. Also we decided to buddy up on a few Akatsuki stories. You can check her out if you like.
Also the Book Three Premier for Legend of Korra was awesome. Three episodes plus the plot tension equals WICKED AWESOME!
When I am done with this fanfic, I might try a Teen Titans crossover. I won't attempt LoK yet because I want to see Book 3 all the way through first. :3
I took so long because I went to Comicvine for some tips an stuff, and all I got was a JOKE. I didn't get any serious answers other than Aang getting beat up by Tonton and the Avatarverse getting raped with no supporting facts to why, even after I ask. And not once did they listen to my explanations of why the Avatarverse is not a sitting Turtleduck. *Face palm* So if the battle turns out suckish, blame the lack of consulting because I have lost faith in battle threads.
I won't be typing the fights between Katara, Aang, Zuko, and Azula because we all know how those go already if you have seen the episode. This will focus on Deidara's battles for the most part. Sorry if this disappoints anyone, I just wanted to give Deidara his own feat or something like that.
And, FYI, when it comes to some forms of injuries, I am not afraid to tell you what type they are. I find having injuries from a battle to be realistic.
Review time!
Cyber Orteck: I am glad that chapter wasn't a total bust.
Kingtutgaming: I know it is really short. But have no fear, this is where the crazy good stuff happens. Last chapter may have been short, but there is important stuff in that chapter. Mainly symbolism. So it's not a complete waste.
JaDe In NighT: He has his C1, C2 is still in progress but has been experimentally used so far, C3 might show up later. And yes, he does have his land mines and some Earth Style Jutsus.
eenayde: Glad to hear that I gave a good hook. I love that aspect when it comes to movies, books, cartoons, anime, and manga. Heck, that's how I watched World War Z all the way through when I am not a zombie apocalypse fan. ^.^
Yoshi forever 52: I don't mind multiple reviews from the same people. I find it as a good reminder I still got people supporting me. And I thank my browser's built in spell checker. Foreign Language Classes can screw with the spelling ability of your native language, but it's a sign that you are definetly learning another language.
Cinderpelt1600: Thanks for the review. I don't understand why there are so few of these stories. There are only three pages worth of Deidara in another canon universe like Harry Potter, and over half are unfinished along with majority being not appealing. *Shudders at the thought of a ZukoxDeidara fanfiction that I never want to read*
Trivia/Did you know:
* If someone says something tastes like chicken, don't trust them (Unless it's boar meat). PROVEN BY THE MYTHBUSTERS.
* That blue/white fire is way hotter than your standard red/yellow/orange fire?
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Appa and Deidara's bird raced across the sky, straight for Ba Sing Se. The news that Aang shared with them was alarming and unexpected to both Sokka and Deidara respectively.
"Are you sure Katara is in danger, hm?", Deidara asked.
"Yes.", Aang said, "I am sure of it."
"What kind of danger do you think she is in?", Sokka asked.
"I am not sure. In my vision, I saw that she need help.", Aang said.
This got groans from the two peanuts of the Peanut Gallery of Team Avatar.
"You know, it would be really helpful if your Avatar powers were more specific sometimes.", Sokka groaned.
"Agreed. I don't feel like getting trapped because of a vague vision, hm.", Deidara said.
Sokka's eyes wandered around a bit. He then saw a large cloud of dirt on the ground. It was Toph riding on a large mound of earth. Aang saw her racing below and lowered Appa closer to the ground.
"Need a ride?", Sokka asked.
Toph yelped and lost all focus as Sokka's loud voice ran through her ears. She went flying off her earth mound and crashed. Deidara, Sokka, and Aang cringed at the rough landing. They turned around and landed near Toph. Toph slowly got up, wincing at the faint bruising that formed on her shoulders. The rough landing also knocked the wind out of her, causing her to choke on the fresh air that entered her lungs.
"You okay Toph?", Aang asked.
"Next time... Don't... Sneak up... On me... Like that.", Toph wheezed after a brief pause to get some oxygen back in her body.
After Toph was able to breath normally, they headed for the skies. Toph decided to ride on Deidara's bird because it felt 'slightly safer at the moment'. As a slight attempt at a joke, Deidara made a clay seat belt to strap Toph to the clay bird. She frowned at Deidara.
"Are you trying to say I can't handle myself?", Toph asked slightly annoyed.
"No. But if you feel that way...", Deidara said as a smirk grew on his face.
Since the clay bird was technically Earth, Toph felt Deidara's vibrations and knew what was about to happen. She frowned in more annoyance.
"Don't you dare- AHHH!", Toph began just for the seat belt to remove itself and send Toph crashing into the now slightly raised tail, "YOU JERK!"
"Thank you, hm.", Deidara said, "Glad you liked it."
After a few moments, Toph was once more strapped to the clay bird with the clay seat belt; she decided it wasn't worth complaining about the seat belt, and she wasn't going to admit to ANYONE that it actually made her feel safer in the air just like Appa's saddle.
"So how did it go with the guru?", Toph asked, breaking the long winded silence, "Did you master the Avatar State?"
Aang froze up slightly. The question was both unexpected and worried him greatly. Deidara read his body language and it showed that Aang was hiding something.
'Why would he hide something that happened there?', Deidara thought as his eyes narrowed slightly.
"I'm great. Everything went well with the guru. I completely mastered the Avatar State.", Aang said before giving a nervous chuckle before giving himself a down casted look.
Later in the throne room...
Aang explained his vision to the Earth King. The Earth King listened closely, but he didn't seem bothered or worried. It was as if, Aang was over reacting in the Earth King's mind.
"Katara's fine. You have nothing to worry about. I am sure of it.", The Earth King said.
"But, my vision, it felt very real as if she were in serious trouble.", Aang said.
"Well, she meet with the Council of Generals to plan out the invasion, and since then, she has been with your friends, the Kyoshi Warriors.", The Earth King said.
"See, Aang? Katara's probably back at our apartment, talking about make up or something with Suki and the other warriors.", Sokka said.
"I guess you are right.", Aang said, obviously not at ease.
"Believe me, if there was any kind of danger within the Earth Kingdom, Bosco would sense it immediately.", The Earth King said, making Bosco perk up.
Deidara grabbed Aang by the arm and dragged him out of ear shot. He wore a slightly suspicious look on his face.
"What's with you?", Deidara asked.
"What do you mean? Nothing's wrong.", Aang said.
"I know you are hiding something, hm.", Deidara said, "What are you hiding?"
Aang sweated a bit. Deidara was on his tail now.
"I don't want to talk about it. So please leave it alone.", Aang said, trying to negotiate.
Deidara frowned; not pleased by the answer. He saw he wasn't going to get anything out of the Avatar, and gave a look that said 'that this isn't over' before walking off.
Team Avatar, minus Katara, arrived at their repaired apartment. They searched it and saw no signs of Katara and the Kyoshi Warriors ever being here. Everything was untouched and was not moved. It was as if no one was here during their absence. The only sign they could find was the fact Momo flew at them. The downside that proved Aang's vision was the fact Katara didn't accompany Momo.
"Momo!", Aang said as Momo climbed up to Aang's shoulder.
"This place is way too quiet, hm.", Deidara said as he ran his finger on a light layer of dust that rested on a small table.
"No one is here except for us." Toph said.
"Katara IS in trouble! I knew it!", Aang said.
Sokka's face fell in horror. He felt his heart jerk at the possible things that could have happened to his sister.
"Oh no...", was all Sokka could say.
Toph then shifted a bit and pointed at the closed door.
"Wait. Someone is outside.", Toph said as she walked up to the door, "And I know who it is. It's an old friend of mine."
Toph opened the door to reveal an old man with a few extra pounds and a grayed beard and hair. He was wearing a robe similar to the other Upper Ring residents. He looked a bit distressed, but was overall calm.
"Glad to see you're okay, Iroh.", Toph said.
"I need your help.", Iroh said.
The sudden arrival of Iroh shocked Aang and Sokka. That shock morphed into anger. Deidara looked confused at Sokka and Aang. Toph smiled calmly as she waved at Iroh.
"You guys KNOW each other?!", Aang asked.
"I meet him in the woods before we lost Appa, and I knocked him down on accident. He then gave me some tea and great advice.", Toph said.
"Okay, what the heck is going on, hm?", Deidara asked, "Obviously I am missing something."
"It's a long story.", Sokka said.
"May I come in?", Iroh asked and Toph nodded her head, "Princess Azula is here in Ba Sing Se."
"Who's Azula?", Deidara asked as Iroh entered the apartment.
"Azula is my niece and she is crazy and very powerful.", Iroh said.
"So Azula might have Katara.", Aang said.
"She has also captured my nephew as well.", Iroh said.
"Then we will work together to fight Azula and rescue Katara and Zuko.", Aang said, making Sokka have a look of shock.
"Okay, you lost me at 'Zuko'.", Sokka said.
Deidara groaned in annoyance. This was getting slightly irritating. He could care less about Zuko. He only cared about seeing who this 'Azula' was.
"I know how you must feel about my nephew. But believe me when I say, he has changed and there is good inside of him.", Iroh said as he rested a hand on Sokka's shoulder.
" 'Good on the inside' isn't good enough. Come back when he has good on the outside too, alright?", Sokka said as he pushed Iroh away.
"Katara and all of Ba Sing Se is in trouble. This maybe our only chance to work together.", Aang said.
Sokka understood what this meant, and reluctantly nodded. Iroh opened the door.
"I brought someone who may help us.", Iroh said, revealing a battered Dai Li Agent who was tied up and scared out of his mind.
Deidara gave a convert smirk at the helplessness of the Dai Li Agent. The agent's squirming made Deidara chuckle a bit.
Toph encased the agent in some rock pillars. Iroh yanked the gag off the agent's mouth, allowing words to flow freely from his mouth.
"Azula and Long Feng are planning a coup! They are going to over throw the Earth King!", The Dai Li Agent spilled, in hope for mercy.
Deidara groaned under his breath. He was not pleased to hear that name again.
'Can't you just stay out of the picture?!', Deidara thought.
Sokka advanced to the Dai Li Agent with a scowl. He meant business as each word came out.
"In the Crystal Catacombs of old Ba Sing Se! It's underneath the palace!", The Dai Li Agent sputtered in fear.
Everyone dashed to Appa. Even though Deidara would have made another bird, but he wanted to save his clay for when he tests this 'Azula' out. If she was worth the battle, then he would need all the clay he had. So to do just that, he got on Appa and used his Chakra to stick to the bison's back.
Toph got on Appa and latched onto Deidara's arm for safety. Deidara raised an eyebrow in confusing on why would she hang onto him over the others; especially after the stunt he pulled with the clay seat belt. Sokka also seemed to be giving them both a questioning look. Deidara shot Sokka a look that read 'Don't say anything', which prevented Sokka from opening his big mouth.
Once everyone was on, it took only a matter of minutes at Appa's full speed to get to the palace. Toph unlatched from Deidara and got off Appa. She stomped on the ground once, and began reading the vibrations that came back at her. The speed the vibrations reached her was phenomenal.
"Well what do you know. There is an ancient city down there, but it's very deep.", Toph said.
Toph got into a stance and made a tunnel. The tunnel wasn't complete, but it looked rather deep, showing that it was very far under the ground. Deidara took a short peek into the tunnel, unable to see the end of it.
"We need to split up. Aang and Deidara will go look for Katara and the angry jerk.", Sokka said and realized the 'angry jerk's' uncle was there, "No offence."
"None taken.", Iroh said with a slight shrug.
"I will go with Toph and alert the Earth King about Azula's coup.", Sokka said.
Toph shrugged at the plan and walked over to Aang. She gave him a strong punch in the shoulder, confusing Deidara and giving Aang a slight bruising.
"Make sure you kick some major butt for the rest of us.", Toph said.
Aang rubbed his shoulder and gave Toph a nod. He, Deidara, and Iroh entered the tunnel as Sokka and Toph ran for the palace.
The tunnel was spacious and long deep. The tunnel dimmed with every step, giving more room for darkness to over come the space. Just as the light of the outside world faded from view in the tunnel, Iroh Firebended a small flame to light up the tunnel. The range of the new light source allowed them to see a good several feet ahead of them. Aang eventually came to an earthen wall and Earthbended it back, deepening the tunnel. He continued to Earthbend the tunnel deeper each time they came across a wall of earth and dirt.
Deidara followed from behind, with his arms behind his head, careless of what was going on around him. It was just Iroh acting as a flashlight and Aang digging in his mind. Nothing really interesting in his opinion due to the fact he had grown used to the bending of the area over the few weeks he was here.
That brought up another thought, if he was here for a few weeks, was he gone for a few weeks in his world? Was it longer than that? Shorter? Would he want to go back? How would he even get back for that matter? Was this a temporary Jutsu or permanent one? These thoughts had him at a lost until the final blast of Earthbending and Iroh's fire brought him out of his mind.
"-You will come to a better place.", Iroh finished with a smile.
Deidara's eyes widened in awe. He never seen a cavern like this. The ancient city of Ba Sing Se was completely made out of glowing crystals. He had seen some crystals back in his world, but none actually produced light. This was interesting. Very interesting.
They stepped out of the tunnel into the vicinity of Old Ba Sing Se and took off through an arch way into a long tunnel. On the other side of the tunnel, they saw Katara and a pale boy with gold eyes, a large red scar from a massive burn on the left eye, shaggy black hair, and Earth Kingdom robes. Katara was touching the scar until she noticed her friends were there.
"Aang! Deidara!", Katara said as she ran forward and gave Aang a a big hug, "I knew you guys would come!"
Deidara manged to side step out of Katara's way, not wanting to be hugged to death. He gave a slightly annoyed look. Deidara and Zuko studied each other.
"So you must be Zuko, hm.", Deidara said.
"And that makes you the Avatar's new friend.", Zuko said and turned to Iroh, "And speaking of the Avatar, why the heck are you with him, uncle?"
"Saving you, that's what.", Aang said.
"But we could leave you here to rot if us saving you doesn't sit well with you.", Deidara said with sly smile.
Zuko fumed at what Aang and Deidara said and began to lunge at the Avatar. Before he could even take two steps, Iroh stopped Zuko in his tracks.
'He's too easy to set off...', Deidara thought in amusement.
"Zuko, it's time we had a talk.", Iroh said then faced Katara, Aang, and Deidara, "Go help your friends, we will catch up with you."
Iroh and Zuko walked away to talk in private. After a short pause, the trio began to head out of the cavern. By the time they got past the archway into the center of Old Ba Sing Se, they finally decided to speak.
"We have to find Sokka and Toph.", Katara said.
"Agreed, hm.", Deidara said.
'Am I going soft? I am not very pleased with what this world is doing to my head!', Deidara thought.
Before any other words could be spoken, a large lightning bolt hit near the trio. It would have hit if Aang hadn't Earthbended a wall to stop it. Deidara was impressed that the lightning didn't completely obliterate the earthen wall. Normally, Earth Style Jutsus would be defeated by Lightning Style Jutsus, but this wasn't his world, so the elements had their own rules.
'Would Lightning still effect my Jutsus?', Deidara thought, accidentally giving himself a small headache from the confusing thoughts.
The trio looked up and before them stood a girl in dark Earth Kingdom robes with her hair in a top knot with two thick bangs framing the sides of her face. Her eyes were exactly like Zuko's but colder and more hand was extended with all but her middle and index fingers in a fist. Those two fingers were releasing smoke. She had been the one who attacked them with lightning.
"Who the heck are you?", Deidara asked.
"Is that how you talk to a princess, now?", The girl asked with a cold and sinister voice, "But if you must know, peasant, I am Princess Azula, daughter of Fire Lord Ozai. Since I told you that, you might as well give me your name before you perish."
'So this is Azula. I expected someone slightly older and more mature.', Deidara thought.
"I am Deidara, and I am not a peasant nor will I be perishing here, hm.", Deidara said with a smug smirk.
In response to the cheeky smirk Deidara gave, Azula sent another lightning bolt at the trio. Katara quickly bended some water to block the attack. The water vaporized, but stopped the attack.
Azula used the mist to her advantage and jumped onto a crystal. As she leaped, she fired three blasts of blue fire. Aang and Katara managed to stop two of them with Waterbending. One of the blasts nearly hit Deidara, who had to admit, the fire was a lot hotter than he was expecting at its distance from his face. Hotter than normal Fire Style Jutsus that he had been hit with in the past.
Aang then used Earthbending to shatter a crystal pillar. Azula quickly noticed that the pillar Aang was shattering was the one she was on. She quickly jumped off, and out of the blue, was slammed down into the ground. When the dust settled, everyone saw a clay donkey on top of Azula. Azula then scanned to see Deidara smirking as he hands formed a hand sign.
Azula analyzed him quickly and sent a large fire blast at Deidara. He dodged quickly, narrowly avoiding the massive fireball. He quickly remade the hand sign as he landed.
"KATSU!"
The donkey blew up at that moment. When the large dust cloud settled yet again, Azula was still standing and was ready to send fire blasts at everyone in the room. Deidara fumed slightly.
'She tricked me! That fire blast was to distract me so she could escape my art!', Deidara thought as his short temper began to show itself.
Before Azula could execute an attack, a red-orange fire blast slammed into her. Behind Azula was Zuko. He looked like he was not sure who to fight with. Deidara raised his guard some more as Zuko began to move towards Azula, with his palm forward and fist drawled back. The fist was aimed at Aang. Zuko punched forward, unleashing a powerful fire blast at the Avatar. Aang used his Airbending at leaped out of the way.
Katara stepped forward to help with Azula, just for Deidara to stop her. He had a determined look mixed with a slightly ticked off look.
"Katara, go help Aang! Azula's mine, hm!", Deidara said.
Katara was shocked that he even wanted to fight Azula willingly alone. She then frowned.
"Are you crazy? Azula is not someone you can take lightly or fight on your own!", Katara said.
"Maybe I am, but she already messed with the wrong person.", Deidara said and pushed Katara away.
Katara went off to help Aang, who was fighting Zuko and was mostly on the defense with occasional offensive attacks. Just as Deidara turned around, Azula had just shot a blast of blue fire. He almost didn't dodge it and only a few hair strands got burnt. His eyes narrowed at the smirking princess.
"Playing dirty, hm. Not dirty enough if you ask me.", Deidara said with a smirk.
Deidara formed and threw several clay spiders at Azula. Azula sent a fire blast at them, causing them to detonate prematurely. The explosion was enough to make Azula take a step back and shield her face.
"So you love blowing things up. It's such a shame such talent was wasted.", Azula said.
Deidara's eyebrow twitched in anger. He could feel his own blood heating up as soon as the word 'shame' left the princess's lips.
'She didn't just say that!', Deidara thought.
"Shut up!", Deidara yelled.
Azula smirked and shot another blast of blue fire at Deidara. He dodged it with slightly better ease. He studied Azula briefly. She was really hard to read and gave more chills than relief in the short analyzation. Azula's movements held a deadly grace as another round of blue fire emerged from her finger tips. The blast came right for Deidara. He dodged again.
'She's trying to keep me on the defensive. I need to make an opening and fast.', Deidara thought.
Deidara quickly shoved his right hand into a clay pouch. At that moment, Azula shot another blast of fire at him. He dodged, managing to not lose his focus. He quickly used the clay he got, and made a snake. He threw it at Azula. Azula narrowly dodged the snake and shot another blast of fire.
Just as the fire left her fingertips, she felt something slithering up her left leg. She looked down to see the clay snake crawling up her leg. She was not expecting that. Her eyes widened slightly, and she began to try to pry the snake off.
A few seconds before Deidara could say 'Katsu', Azula did a quick last ditch effort in getting rid of the snake. She generated a small bit of lightning and slammed her hand into the snake's head. The snake then became still and fell off.
Deidara's eyes widened and took a few steps back. Azula had just found his weakness...
'Dang it! I jinxed myself! Looks like the lightning here still has an effect on my art!', Deidara thought.
Azula smirked at Deidara's facial expression. She now had the upper hand for sure.
"So that's your little trick's weakness. You should be thankful very few Firebenders have the ability to make lightning.", Azula said as the tips of her fingers sparked with lightning.
As soon as he saw the lightning dancing around Azula's fingers, he jumped into the air, narrowly missing the lightning attack that was being whipped around. A few more singed hair strands.
"Well this is getting boring... Now excuse me, I will see if the Avatar has more of a backbone than you.", Azula said and used Firebending to propel herself towards where Aang and Katara were..
Deidara fumed. He was not amused by this at all.
"I AM NOT FINISHED WITH YOU YET, HM!", Deidara yelled as rage surged though him, "COME BACK HERE!"
At that moment, Dai Li Agents began to pour in. Deidara knew Azula could wait, he had a more dangerous and oppressing force that was running right at him right now.
'I will get even with you, you little witch!', Deidara thought bitterly, 'Just you wait!'
Ten Dai Li Agents surrounded Deidara. All with rock gloves extended towards him. Deidara slammed both hands into his pouches and dashed around the cavern, dodging the rock gloves at every turn. He formed about four snakes and threw them at the Ten Dai Li Agents that were chasing him. Four of them were unlucky to be constricted by the clay cobras and began to hyperventilate for air as the clay cobras began to crush the four. The remaining six glared at Deidara, who smirked and made a hand sign.
"Attack me, and your comrades die. And from the looks of it, they will still die even if you don't attack, hm.", Deidara said.
The six Dai Li Agents frowned and threw their rock gloves at Deidara.
"KATSU!", Deidara shouted.
All four clay snakes blew up with a shock wave strong enough to make the other six stagger. What was left of the four trapped by the clay snakes could no longer be recognizable. Their bodies were thoroughly scorched and burnt to the point that all of their skin has turned black with some bleeding. A nasty case of third degree burns covered the victims' bodies while the other six got burns ranging in the first and second degrees.
Once more, the Dai Li attacked Deidara. The ones with third degree burns found themselves lucky enough to retreat. Deidara dodged rock after rock, glove after glove. One glove managed to slam Deidara on to the ground. He tried to pull himself off the ground, but found himself not going anywhere time soon. He actually felt the rock glove trying to smear and squish Deidara into the ground. It hurt like heck for the terrorist bomber.
More rock gloves piled up on him. Adding more and more pressure to his back and shoulders. For a brief second he saw black spots and blurs. There were rock gloves on his neck too. They were trying to make him pass out in a brutal way. He struggled to keep himself awake. He coughed a bit as the pressure continued to build. With the remaining strength he had, he managed to create a hand sign underneath himself and sunk into the ground. The rock gloves slammed into the ground, creating cracks in the surface.
A few meters away, Deidara came up out of the ground coughing violently. Gasping for the needed air that he had been deprived from. The Dai Li rushed over the where Deidara was, ready to strike him again. Deidara quickly formed a bird and hopped on it. Due to the limited space in the cavern, he couldn't fly high up as he wanted to. The aerial advantage he now had allowed him to avoid the rock hands with more ease.
Azula, being the jerk she was, shot lightning at Deidara's bird, causing Deidara to fall to the ground. He managed to land properly on the ground. Next to him, laid his now unanimated bird. He flipped a bird in Azula's direction, but Azula couldn't see it.
Now things were getting too much to handle for the trio. Katara was surrounded on all sides, and Deidara was dodging the massive amount of rock hands that were trying to make him pass out, or worse, kill him. Aang over looked the whole area, horrified at what was happening.
"There's way too many of them...", Aang said to himself, "I am sorry Katara."
Aang created a tent made of the glowing crystals. Deidara turned to where the tent was and groaned.
"Coward, hm!", Deidara said and dodged another rock glove.
Suddenly, the tent began to glow eerily. It was enough to catch everyone's attention. At that moment, the top flew off the tent with Aang rising out of it in the Avatar State. Katara smiled, glad that there was now some hope in getting out of the cavern alive.
"Oh...", Deidara said then realized something and began to yell, "COULDN'T HAVE YOU PULLED THAT OUT SOONER, HM?!"
Just as when hope seemed to be definite, a very high voltage of lightning surged into Aang's back. Aang was being electrocuted. Katara was horrified by the cruel trick while Deidara was shocked at the nasty twist in events. Azula smirked as her lightning slowly killed Aang. As soon as the lightning was done, Aang's lifeless body dropped towards the ground. Katara made a huge wave, drowning several Dai Li Agents, as she rushed to Aang's falling body. She grasped him bridal style and began to tend to her friend's nearly dead body. She cried silently over Aang's body.
Deidara quickly rushed to Aang's side. He may never originally had morals, but this world was bringing some to him. He was not sure if he should be glad or down right ticked off, but all he knew was that they needed to get out of the cavern fast.
Azula and Zuko were about to close in with a final blow when Iroh jumped in between the trio and royal siblings. He looked very determined.
"You have to get out of here! I will hold them off for as long as I can!", Iroh said and Firebended at his own niece and nephew.
Katara nodded and wrapped a large tendril of water around herself and Deidara as she held Aang's body. The tendril lifted them to the surface. Unfortunetly, at that moment, Aang's heart stopped.
Aang was dead.
In the air at nightfall...
All of Team Avatar and the Earth King were on Appa's back. Appa moaned in sorrow as he felt the grieve of Aang's friends. Sokka and Toph, just like Katara, was hurt by the news of Aang's passing. It wrenched their hearts so hard, it felt as if their own hearts stopped beating. Aang was their best friend, and now he was gone.
Deidara never was the one to show sympathy, so he kept silent with a bored look. He didn't know how to show sympathy because he was taught that sympathy meant weakness just like any other emotion like it. So this was a new experience for him. It made him feel conflicted inside. His mentor, Onoki always told him 'Never grow too attached to anything, brat'. Of course, Deidara never really listened to him in the first place, and now here he was, with conflicted emotions and inner turmoil for someone who he could consider a friend in some way. That's if you could consider their current relationship friendship.
Katara held Aang's body close. She grabbed a blue vial from around her neck and bended a small amount of water from it. The water glowed as it swirled above her palm. She held the water against Aang's back and it sunk into the wound where the lightning entered.
After a few moments of nothing happening, Katara hugged Aang and cried out loud. At that moment, Aang's tattoos glowed and he began to move slightly. Katara felt his cold body warm up as Aang's heart started up again. She gasped as she saw Aang's smiling face. Everyone was astonished.
Deidara knew of rumors of Reanimation Jutsus, but none as simple as what Katara has just done. They all involved some sort of sacrifice and a bunch of other preparations. But none required a small vile of water. And from the look in Aang's eyes, he was clearly still in control of himself and not like the zombie like reanimation depicted in the rumors. This sorta fried poor Deidara's brain a bit.
Just as Aang came into the world from the land of the dead, he went to sleep. Katara nudged Aang, but he would not wake up. Aang was generally a light sleeper, and this was not looking good. However, anything was better than Aang being dead at this point.
"The Earth Kingdom... Has fallen...", The Earth King said sadly.
Katara looked to the sky with a concerned look as she cradled Aang's sleeping form. She hoped everything woould turn out all right.
