Today was a good day to post this chapter. I received my order from a website and managed to do all my work at my job by myself. I also finished a page of my comic book with help of course. I hope the next chapter makes fans squeal in joy.

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An earthbending bandit put on a brown coat with only one of them who had metal squeezed around his arms. They had hats that looked like umbrella's, had green eyes mostly with a few having blue eyes, and sandals on. The one who could metal bend didn't wear a hat, he just had brown hair with lighter blue eyes.

Isla walked in front of two guards at the entrance. She did a little spin around like a top that blew air out at the two guards. They were pushed against the wall, the perfect spot for Lim to throw water around their arms he solidified into ice.

"You were right, your way was better than my way." Lim said.

"It's good when you can admit I'm right," she said holding back a real smile until after they free the prisoners.

Lim checked the two guards but neither of them had any keys. He hoped one of the guards would yell for help but he was still as a statue. Lim could think of many stone jokes for rock benders if he didn't have an idea.

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Three guards were waiting around the corner with their arms and legs in position to earth bend. Their leader Ei said there was always a chance the front door would be compromised by a well-versed bender so they had to give them the element of surprise.

Someone stepped around the corner. To their relief, it was only one of theirs walking in with a donkey giraffe. They had to think for a second though if they ever allowed teenage looking members in their ruins. Before they could remember where the soldier howled.

"Now Cheesewire!"

The donkey giraffe put its head down and charged into one of the soldiers. From a canteen of water the soldier bended a long intangible piece of water he splashed at the earth benders. Before they could bend earth, they were trapped in a pillow sheet looking piece of ice.

Lim didn't need help from Isla that time. She stepped out of the corner seeing one soldier down and two calling for help. She knew where they were more earthbenders would find them and she was right. Two earthbenders appeared out of a wall by hitting it open. They moved their arms and were sliding their feet apart to attack her with rocks. She stopped them by jumping and shooting air from her feet. The air pushed their rocks into the ceiling. The three continued unleashing rocks on her, but their onslaught was stopped by her breaking the rocks with her airbending.

Lim entered the fray spilling water on the ground. Thanks to Isla he had the concentration and time he needed to change the puddle of water into giant pairs of lobster claws interconnected. He pushed the lobster claws towards them and moved his body for preparations of more bending. His lobster claws became ice that pinned the three earthbenders into the wall.

"I've never seen a waterbender try something so…bizarre before." Isla said.

"Spend hours in a pond bending whatever comes to your mind and you'll find ways to change water that way as well. Although you're an airbender and not the Avatar so maybe we'll never see how you do it."

Lim was very close to the prison cells. He knew the more guards he knocked down the closer he came to their cells. He managed to knock out an earthbender by trapping him in a big ball of water before letting him down and letting Isla hit him with wind. He lost consciousness after dealing with her blow.

Lim eagerly ran down the stairs to the prison cells. Even without the keys he heard airbenders could open lock doors with the right air bending. That plan was changed when he saw a man he could see was a metal bender from the things on his sleeves.

"I heard about you waterbender." The man bended two of his metal off his shirt and propelled them towards Lim. Lim used water Isla brought for him to create a watery tentacle he used to smack the metal away. "My leader Ei heard about you without any knowledge I was listening through the door. The person talking to him said he had the most well guarded prison for slaves and you somehow walked away with every slave there." He raised his hands to raise a sheet of metal on the ground. He stomped his foot and punched the sheet sending it rocketing forward towards Lim. Lim managed to get through it by his bended tentacle turning into ice fast enough to slice through the sheet. "You haven't gotten these prisoners out, and if your trying to become the Avatar's favorite person just know she only cares about the balance not the underdogs."

The man kneeled down to grab the metal sheets before raising his hands to send all the sheets flying. With his bending, he created a spiraling twister of metal sheets at Lim. The water bender grabbed his foot to spread the water he had on there. His next move was jumping where he punched the sheets with his fists while slashing them in half with his new foot.

The man could also earthbend rocks out since he took out the metal. His earthbender prisoners could also bend earth but they were too afraid to try it; the guard outside their cells was a master of combat.

Isla walked in doing another spin of air mistaken for a break dance pushing away the sheets that tried hitting Lim from his backside. It was like they were a couple now the way Lim pulled apart his water for giant icicles he hurled at the metal sheets, followed by turning the icicles into raindrops to cleave through when water on his hand turned into an ice axe. Isla shot the sheets with only one hand. She used her second hand to create a ball of air swirling in the ceiling. All the severed pieces of metal flew into the air and were shot out from the entrance of the cells.

The man was about to trap them both in a mountain of rocks before throwing a rock that would crush their heads. His plans came from his ego and his ego underestimated his opponents. From Lim's side Cheesewire the donkey giraffe charged in to hit him with his head that grew in size since they entered, hence where the giraffe part of his name came in.

Before he could make it up Lim bended water around his arms before freezing them in ice. He wriggled his legs violently trying to kick Lim with all the strength he could muster through them. Lim sighed before going through the same steps of his bending, moving a wave of water around his feet, and freezing them in ice.

"Well it was nice meeting you. If you ever decide your done with this bandit business join me on an adventure. Someday I'll need an earthbenders help." Lim said trying his best to make his heart warm with his smile.

The man just turned red in the face from all the anger and shame he felt losing. Lim was just glad he didn't spit at him like others would having their hands and legs trapped like him. To be on the safe side he stole the keys from behind his armor by waterbending a puddle of water into the armor and retracting the water so the keys slipped through his armpit hole.

Isla used her airbending to open one door. One door at a time was all she could manage with her airbending and Lim opened the doors on the other side with his keys. The prisoners were whispering to each other to some and hugging their love ones or friends with others. When they were done all of them stood in a line, put one palm out with a fist touching their hand, and they bowed to Lim and Isla.

"You have our gratitude," the most wizen elder of the prisoners said while he still bowed to them. "We are forever in your thanks for freeing us from those horrible earthbenders."

Lim respected their bow by putting his hands the same way they did and bow to them. Isla interrupted him tapping on his arm while pointing to the exit. Lim glanced at where she pointed seeing a person his eyes could not believe, Avatar Korra.

"Are you freeing these prisoners to distract me so you can escape?" Korra asked him moving her fists around.

Lim knew someone messed with her head. Knowing his luck, it was probably that firebender who was the son of that bandit base boss getting revenge for what happened with his father.

"I don't know who told you I was here, but you have been lied to. I am Lim, I was raised from birth to help people from oppressors. You're a smart girl I'm sure you can help people and appreciate when others step in."

While Lim was trying to reason with Korra, Isla felt her feet getting hot. She looked under her feet to see lava growing in the ground.

'If we don't leave soon this thing is going to burn us until we are nothing but bone.' She broke in from Lim and Korra's talk to say one word. "Run!"

All the prisoners ran through the ground feeling hot in their feet. They were lucky the lava hadn't completely gotten through the ground or they would be burned alive by it. Even the smell of lava could cause a person to pass out. Lim, knowing that the prison cell would be swallowed by lava growing much faster than a tree soon, jumped over the lava to pick up the earthbender trapped in ice before running across the hot ground.

"You know…" Lim couldn't help make a dumb joke to someone who had no choice but to listen to it—his new girl who was kinda a friend never did. "People actually pay lots of money to have something like that. It helps with foot fungus."

He was laughing and for a moment Lim thought he enjoyed the joke. It wasn't until he simmered down from laughing that he told Lim the true meaning behind his laughter.

"Ei my leader is here. He shall destroy you all. These ruins are a last resort tomb for anyone who manages to free his prisoners."