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Chapter 9
I groaned. We'd nearly landed face first into the sand. But luckily we didn't. Unfortunately, there were more to come.
Explosions—more and more, until everything around us was blown up in a wisp of sand. When all of it cleared, we were surrounded by people who looked familiar.
Then I saw Kelvin, and I realized these were his followers. But something was different. His eyes were now a startlingly bright green.
He's absorbed the Earth! He's absorbed the Earth! a voice inside my head screamed. I knew it was Aang. Who else would freak out like that?
Kelvin frowned. "Why does the Avatar have a non-bender boy with her?"
"Because she just does." Trevor frowned back.
The similarity was starting to creep me out. They had the same knitted brow, the same nose ridge, and the same taut lips. All you had to do was put a wig and contacts on Trevor and you could pass them off as brothers.
"I suppose we will have to annihilate the boy too. It's such a shame. He reminds me of me, but he cannot let the rest of the world know of our plans," Kelvin sighed.
And that's when Kelvin got into an earthbending position and hardened the whole area for miles into pure, earthen terrain. He acknowledged the look of horror upon our faces. His lips tightened into an undersized smile that almost seemed innocent on his face.
"The Avatar knows what has happened, don't you?" Kelvin nodded at my features, which were more distorted than Trevor's. "This boy has probably never experienced earthbending!"
"Yes I have. Your magic's called bending. You people can bend all four elements." Although Trevor's voiced appeared to shine with confidence, his body was tense next to mine.
Kelvin just simpered.
Unexpectedly, his thugs backed away. I knew it wasn't me because I didn't feel any different. Trevor? Very unlikely, unless he'd managed to strangle a weapon out of one of Kelvin's soldiers.
Then it dawned on me. Kelvin was ready to destroy us with his earthbending. That was why he had solidified the sand into earth. I was starting to become dimmer these days.
"Quick! Run!" I hissed.
"Why?" Trevor whispered back.
"Because he's going to murder us until all our bones are crushed and all our blood is seeping out." I knew the gory scene wasn't necessary, but it gave Trevor the idea.
"What about you?" That was nice. He was actually worrying.
"I'll make my stand here. You go—"
That's when the first rock hit us. Nearly. This was just our luck. When we're making our escape plan, Kelvin has to start his earthbending rampage.
"That was just a pebble, my friends! Next time, you'll get a real rock!" called Kelvin.
Things started becoming muddled and all I remember doing after that is running away with Trevor, dodging the boulders and formations that Kelvin launched at us.
"Can't you use your mag—I mean airbending?" asked Trevor.
"How'd you know?"
His answer was cut off by a blast. Great. Now Kelvin's goons were starting to join the fight too. But that also triggered the moment I had told Trevor about the real world.
"Just get us out of here!" We were shot up in the air, caused by the impact of the detonation. "At first, I thought Kelvin would be easy to fight. You didn't tell me he was my identical twin brother! Now I have to battle a face that looks exactly like mine!" he wailed.
"Fine," I grunted.
I fished Kyoshi's fan from my pocket and slashed the air with it. I think it worked, judging by the screams piercing through the thick desert dust. I felt awful though. Why was I hurting this group?
We alighted onto the ground (not very fun) and suddenly I appreciated the shifty sand we had before. I hastily stuffed the fan into my pocket again, but Trevor gripped my wrist.
"Don't. It's our only chance."
He was right.
So I waited, ignoring Trevor's protests to attack now, at a farther distance. What he didn't know was that I barely knew how to airbend, therefore having to overcome them nearer.
When they came into sight, I began.
Lunge and push your arms toward them! Aang said in my head.
Following Aang's suggestion, my hands somehow generated a stream of air, which blew the invaders away like hair. When they touched the ground, it turned to sand again. The intruders had suddenly disappeared.
So I copied all of Aang's moves from his program, which were pretty effective.
Where'd you learn that? Aang squealed excitedly in my head when I let loose an individual of air that whizzed to meet an attacker.
"You have a show, you know. It features you and your friends traveling across the earth to defeat Firelord Ozai." I told Aang. Trevor must have thought I was crazy, talking to myself.
It's about time someone has appreciated my work on Earth, he beamed.
I wasn't paying any attention to Trevor, most likely because I assumed he was protected by me and my airbending. But someone had breached my defenses.
It was that firebender who'd eliminated Gramps. It was too late now. When I finally noticed him, the man had already unleashed the fiery, yet breathtaking flames, and they scorched Trevor's back. And he fell, insensible.
Even though I hadn't known him long, my heart heaved, and for a moment, Trevor reminded me of Gramps when he died.
It was enough to activate the Avatar state.
My eyes seemed to blink open and see a new world. I could barely perceive my feet lifting off the ground. And I felt so powerful…and sad.
Want help? I could see Aang and his mournful smile, and I extended my hand toward him in the spirit world. Afterward, we became one.
"You do not deserve to live in this world." Aang's mouth and mine's were moving in sync, two spirits in one body. And united, we were almighty.
Together, we struck.
My eyes fluttered open and my body jolted up. Where was I? Then all those memories came flooding back to me.
The Avatar state—I'd managed to drive back Kelvin and his forces. Most of his cohorts were lost in the earth, which was now sand. My heart gave a sudden pang of sorrow. I'd slain all those people… What kind of monster was I?
Then I remembered about Trevor's fallen body and I spotted an arm sticking out of the sand. Was it Trevor?
I dug and dug until I'd unearthed the thing. His broken remains… I was ready to break down and sob for all those people when I felt a hand on my shoulder.
I turned to find myself face to face with Trevor. I couldn't help but embrace him, until he moaned. I let him go, and I recalled the wound the firebender had made.
But his face remained impassive as he stared at the corpse. Then he pulled the arm out. Wires and circuits fizzed as we beheld the limb. My stomach all of sudden felt queasy.
"Don't worry Ellie. It's a robot."
"They're robots? Then how could they bend? Or how could they look so—" I was cut off.
"Whatever they are, we know that Kelvin is now more dangerous than ever if he can figure out this kind of technology," stated Trevor.
I nodded. It was true. If Kelvin could make these, he could build entire armies to help him wipe out all those non-benders. Emotionless soldiers awaiting his orders to slaughter.
"But some of them are real." Trevor continued. "I could tell. While you were bending, some had real blood coming out of them."
Something sucked the color out of my face. "Then I really killed all those people."
"Not kill, hurt."
So far, there were no complaints about his back. I guessed he was okay then.
But then something caught both our eyes. There was a figure limping toward us in the distance. I don't know how, but somehow, I knew.
Wesley was back from the dead.
