Dark Avatar: How do you catch a Flame?
Brock dodged the onslaught of blue and red fireballs that came crashing his way. "Looks like you are a little rusty Princess!" Takara yelled over the roar of the flames.
Azula shot two more fireballs at Brock who simply earth bended a wall to shield himself. "Really? Am I the one that was smacked with a large chunk of earth?"
Takara just smiled as he turned his attention back to Brock. At the last moment he was able to escape two large circular disks of earth. Brock had raised four pillars from the ground using them as ammo for his flying disk.
"Maybe you two should be more focus on me?" Brock sent another disk toward Takara who was still in the mist of dodging the first two. This one would have slammed into his chest if not for him using his air bending as a shield. He was propelled backwards through the air from the force of the attack. As he begin to come down, he earth bended the ground beneath him to cushion the fall.
"Nice save, you do have the ability to bend more than one element but when it comes to earth, there is no one better!" Brock lifted one of the pillars reshaping its top into a point and sending it towards Takara.
"I am not the only one attacking you." Takara sent blades of wind towards the pillar spike cutting it up into piece. Brock looked on impressed by what he just saw. He proved he was still on his guard when he ducked a flaming back chop from Azula. He dropped down rolling away from her and with quick hand movements, he cause the other three pillars to smash together in an attempt to crush her in the middle.
Nearly identical to Brock's roll, Azula did the same thing escaping her death with only a few second to spare. She stretched both of her arms behind her and swung them forward releasing two separate waves of fire. They whipped around the mashed up pillars closing Brock in from all sides. Brock looked towards the sky for his escape but instead he was met with Takara above releasing a wave of flames of his own. Brock remained trapped as both attacks collided causing the two different colored flames to mix and rise into the air.
Takara landed a few feet behind Azula as the flames rained down around them. "We are not doing this beautiful land any justice with all this fire." Takara joked which only upset Azula.
"Did we get him?" She asked not seeing any remains of his body once the flames cleared. Her question was soon answered when the earth opened up beneath her forming a mouth with bear trap like teeth. They were just about to close onto Azula, splitting her in half when two solid earth blocks came up and stopped them from closing fully. Quick on her feet, Azula jumped out of the trap landing next to Takara who released his hold on the block as they were crushed between the teeth.
"You can thank me later for saving your life." Azula ignored his annoying comment and kept her guard up. "We need to end this fast." Takara said in a more serious tone, one that Azula was glad to hear for once. Takara opened up his own hole in the earth and shot a gust of wind into the hole. Azula looked on in confusion as the boy continued to pour air into the hole.
"What are you doing?" She yelled.
"Just be ready for him!" Takara yelled back. Azula would never admit it but, when she saw the look in his eyes, she felt something she hadn't felt in long time. Before she could finish her thoughts the ground beneath them started to break a part as the air Takara was forcing into it tried to find a way to escape. "Now!" He screamed
Right before her eyes, Brock popped from the ground. Azula quickly closed the gap between the two and before Brock could react the tips of Azula's two fingers were press against his temple.
"Looks like you will be the one buried in this earth"
~Toph and Zuko~
"Are you sure she went this way Fire Breath?" Toph asked as she surfed along the earth beside Zuko who was using his fire bending to jet him across the land.
"This is the only path that she could have taken without being seen. I can feel her, as if she was right next to me." Zuko explained somewhat.
"You got some real sister issues going on there." Toph joked awkwardly. "What do you plan on doing once we find her?" She asked.
"I don't know. I guess we'll cross that road when we come to it." That was the best answer he had. He never gave the idea much thought. He knew the right thing to do was to capture her and return her to prison, but life has taught him that the right thing was not always the easiest.
"Ahh!" Zuko came to a halt when Toph's body went crashing into the ground hard.
"What happened? Are you okay?" He asked dropping from the sky.
Toph sat up slowly rubbing the back of her head. "Well it looks like we are about to cross that road sooner than you thought. I just felt a large disturbance in the earth." Zuko failed to see what she was talking about as he helped her up.
"What does that have to do with anything?" He asked in annoyance.
"If you let me finish I'll tell you. That disturbance is being cause by three people and one of them is Azula!" Toph finished.
"Where at?" Zuko asked readying to get back on the move.
"We are heading in the right direction, but it would take us an hour and a half to get there." Toph pointed in the direction they were heading in.
"We can make it there in less time if we pick up the pace." Zuko was just about to jet off when Toph grabbed him by the back of his shirt.
"Yeah about that…" She smiled shyly.
~Two and a half hours later~
Zuko had just arrived with Toph on his back to the scene of what look like a major battle. The land was crumbled from underneath while other areas showed fire damage. Zuko let Toph down slowly as he observed the battlefield. One thing that he noticed was a burnt spot that could only be created by lightening. He ran over to the patch of burnt ground making sure that what he saw was true.
"She was here!" Out of anger he punch the spot where the lightening hit. Toph sat on the ground trying to find any trace of where Azula might have gone.
"It's not much, but I can feel slight vibration coming from that direction, but I cannot tell if it's Azula or not." Her face showed signs of disappointment.
"Damn it! We were almost there if only…"He stopped when he saw Toph face.
"Yeah I know this is my fault with me twisting my ankle and all." He heard the hurt in her voice, which made him take a few steps back to get his self in check.
"No, because of you, we now know that we are not on a wild goose chase." The next part he choked out. "I am sorry for even thinking about blaming you. Let's go, we can't let her get too far." He bent down allowing for Toph to climb back onto his back.
As she gripped her arms around his shoulders she could hear his heart beating. It was loud and fast no doubt from him being tried from using all his energy to carry her along with him while using his fire bending in such a way. She could feel her heart beating just as fast, but for a completely different reason than his, a reason she did not want to admit to herself.
