Avatar the Last Air Bender: Alterations

Ghosts of the Mountain

"Aang!" Ty Lee shrieked as a bag went over her head. She felt two gruff hands grab her shoulders in an attempt to put her arms behind her back. She did a forwards flip flair, kicking the man, whoever it was in the jaw on the way up. Landing on her feet, she ripped the bag from her head to see a large balded man holding his jaw as red dripped down it a little. He was in a sleeveless greenish grey tunic, one with a symbol of what looked like a skull of the creature they had seen when they first crashed on the mountain. She moved her head to the side just in time to by chance miss a dart headed for her face, she felt it graze her cheek and she turned around, seeing a man in a hood covering his face coming more from behind a rock. His cloth was grayish green too, matching the rock of the canyon walls, and also had a symbol of a creature scull embroidered on it. He had a blow dart looking tube raised to his lips and she did a back flip bending backwards into it as she watched another dart sail over her past her face.

She landed skillfully on her hands then sprang off of them as someone tried to sweep them from underneath her. She was on her feet now, crouched atop a rock, getting a better view of who was attacking them.

She only got a little time to do this for she saw a man severely pissed at being kicked in the jaw, a hooded figure who threw down his dart gun in frustration, and several other hooded, or ragged men that seemed to appear out of nowhere, among them and a fit looking man in what looked like rags also, high kicking and stomping the ground as he approached from the side. He was doing an earth bending kata set.

Sure enough he sprung off his legs and kicked, sending a slab of rock her way, she picked her feet up and made her body straight with her arms and feet out as the rock soared underneath her. She spun in the air to land on her hands and toes like a crab, as a second rock sped over her head this time. Suddenly she heard another growl from above her and she spun out of the way in time for a rock to streak by her shoulder and land on the ground she'd been standing on, denting it from its force. They were all around her, camouflaged and bending with a mountain worth of element to use against her, she had to get away…

Well a good defense is a quick offense, as Chip always had told her… she ran at the man that was just now recovering from his eyes being watered. He growled at her seeing her approach, and swung his broad muscle toned arms at her in a savage jab, which she side stepped mid charge, grabbed onto, and polted herself over, sending her sailing over his head. As she flipped all the way over, she clapped the flat bottom of her foot on his face where his nose was making him grab his face again howling, she kicked off of his back on the other side of him, sending him into the path of a rock slab heading her way, breaking the impact for her. She rolled out of the leap and took off running again.

"After her!" The one in the hood shouted, pointing. She dodged several other rock slabs, all the while looking for Aang, he was nowhere in sight. "Aang where are you!" She called out, landing on a boulder high up above their heads. She dodged another slab of earth, "AANG!" she called, "CAN YOU HEAR ME?" nothing, suddenly she felt a whip hit her arm and she recoiled. It had only JUST grazed her, but it still stung.

She flipped off of the rock, and saw a limber looking earth bender, a bit taller than her…a few years older by some, with long hair reaching his shoulders, and a goatee. His lips were in a cruel smile and he lashed his whip again over his head. She glared at him narrowing her eyes, and waited, this was JUST like in the circus with her and Chip…only in this one the ring master meant to kill or mame her…had help, and knew the act…she didn't.

With another –SLASH- the whip sliced through the air, landing on the rock she had been on, splitting it…..great…he used earth bending with his whip…

The others were attempting to get to the higher ground she and he were on, trying to cut off her escape.

She jumped to the left, faked him out…she thought and lunged to the right in an aerial spin that should have taken her without encumbrances to the next level of rocks, but surprisingly it lashed in mid air and cut into the cloth of her tunic, exposing her shoulder and leaving a welt she recoiled from.

"AGH!" She screamed, and reached out, grabbing a tree branch, or root that had been sticking out of the rock wall above her, she held on fast and swung herself onto it, she felt another slash near her hip and back side from the whip, missing it but taking off the remainder of her back sash.

She glared at t the young man with the whip, he winked at her twirling the whip back to his arm with the torn piece of her sash at the end. He plucked it off the tip of his whip head and stuffed it in his belt like a keep sake, grinning still at her, she wanted to Puke. He spun his whip over his head again but she had guessed that it was a distraction and was expecting another move.

She jumped off the branch in a mid air split to avoid another rock slab to her legs from the side, then still keeping her balance perfectly on the branch, bent back to avoid the whips lashing…but it again was close….UGH she wanted to break every bone in his purvey face….but now she had to be alert. Ready for another….

-BOOM- Suddenly another member of their group popped out of the rock wall she was next too like a badger mole, grabbing her waist as he dove downwards, meaning to break his fall with her. Remembering how Aang had acted mid air in the face of her claw flyer, she spun herself around in his arms so she was facing him now, clapped his ears, then planted her feet on his shoulders once he released her from pain. She kicked off of the shoulders of the man right before he hit the ground, breaking his fall with his chin with an OOF. She landed on an unsteady ledge of the opposite wall, and again jumped off as it was shattered by another LASH of that blasted whip. But she had jumped upwards and was now making her way towards the pool of water she'd discovered. She saw another "mole-man" pop out of the rock wall behind her, so thats how they kept appearing out of no-where...she tapped the knife her and Aang had found behind her belt...she may have to need it after all...

Attackers POV

The men growled chasing after her, they had the boy safely away, they thought since they'd taken care of the bender, the none bender wouldn't be any trouble. But she was jumpier then a rabbit-squirrel, and three times as quick.

Larce lashed his whip again, at least he was getting somewhere with her…he had called dibs on her anyway when he saw her swimming. But not it seemed like she wasn't having as much trouble as she had dodging him….but still her edge was off…and she couldn't lose them…not here….

She bounded at incredible speed from rock to rock, sometimes off her hands, or just one foot, they did their best to chase after her, using bending to climb, and crawl after her, as well as slow her down by raising up barriers, but she just found a way around it…over it or through it…

Final they came to a high portion of one of the rock spires, where a ledge was…overlooking quite a drop, but on the other side of the divide, was where the pool of water was she had been in before.
They had little worry she could make the jump, even for her… there was no way she could do it in a back flip… Larce bounded again onto her ledge and lashed his whip again, she backed away…not out of fear, but just that she was daring him to do it again or she'd fall of the edge…she knew they wanted her alive.

Larce just smiled back in his cruel way and twitched his finger on his whip….Ruok growled impatiently and sent a rock slab at the girl, "NO" his hooded comrade yelled but it was too late, she lifted her knee's up to her chest so the rock went under her, sent both feet back down on it, then let it carry her across the void between the two ledges, then when it had lost its' momentum, she kicked off of it… sending her directly over the pool as she felt, getting ready to dive.

Larce growled and sliced his whip again, aggravated at Rouk had just give her a way to make the distance across the precipice by his impatience.

Fortunately the whip was mid air, and flawlessly looped around her leg as she twirled…then suddenly, right before it went taught, she turned without warning and sliced it in mid air….with the Generals' Ransom antique knife?…..How did she get that?

She winked back at Larce who stood on the opposite side in disbelief, before falling in the pool in a perfect dive. He turned back to his comrades, "COME ON!" he growled fiercely, lashing his whip again, and used Earth bending to make a bridge as best he could until some friends of his helped him making it more secure with their own bending. They reached the other side just in time to see her shaking the water out of her hair…with a stick in hand…it was long…oddly designed….and looked a bit bent, but it also looked hard.

Didn't matter, they had REAL weapons.

She ran again and ducked the rocks they threw at her, and made around a bend of a corner….foolish girl…there was a dead end there. They had her now…no one escaped the Chi-Ko Rah.

She was there alright, looking out over the abyss….they all stopped when they saw her, "Come on….Rouk said, "There's no were to run…." Pat was holding his nose and face, growling in pain at her as he breathed.

She looked them all, then smiled at them…glaring and tipped over…. "NO!" Larce and a few others said. But before they could earth bend a barrier for her, or latch her with their already nubbed whip… she had already disappeared with her stick….bellow the clouds….

"Damn…" Larce said… Rouk scratched his head, "Stupid girl…." He huffed, he was hit across the head by Larce, who was much smaller than Rouk. "YOU'RE the idiot Rouk…" he said angrily… "She was a looker…probably would have got us double…" They began to turn back.

Ty's POV

Meanwhile bellow them, Ty had already used the glider of Aangs' to flutter down like a parachute to catch some of the wind as she floated down out of sight of the benders and attackers.

She was now hanging on to a ledge with one hand, with the open glider in the other. Hoping that the men would give up the chase believing her to have killed herself then rather be in their hands….which wasn't that far from the truth with the exception she had to save Aang at the end of all of this…wherever he was….

"She would've gotten us at least double…" came a voice of the long haired young one with the whip. So…they were slavers apparently.

"Aww you just wanted her for yourself…." Another one said above her, she grumbled to herself, thinking "EWWWW" at the thought.

She heard a smack that apparently meant the whip toting purve had hit the speaker of the last accusation.

She heard someone say, "Well at least we got that bald kid…." Her eyes enlarged.

"Yeah…" she strained as the voices got more distant, "…..I recognize his tattoo-…." They were now out of range, she could no longer hear them.

She glared down at the glider in her right hand, then back at the clouds as she hung on by her left to the ledge…she was going to get Aang back….she didn't care how many of those guys were up here….besides…it was her duty to "Find" and "Secure" the avatar….right?