GW: Here it is. The second-to-last chapter. Enjoy!
Wrath of the Ohmu
People were scrambling like crazy, trying to get to higher ground.
"Running is fun, huh guys?" Ed laughed as he and his two friends ran past people.
"Ed, less talking and more running!" Eddy snapped as Edd panted, "Stitch! I have a stitch!"
"Sig, we're going to die anyway; we should die in the Valley," Misty said sadly.
"No; as long as the princess and the others haven't given up, we can't either," Sig told her.
Meanwhile, Azula was on a tank as she told her troops along with Ichimaru, "Hold the Ohmu off as long as possible. I'll be back with help!" she told them.
"Your Highness, don't do it!" Ichimaru objected. "The Warrior isn't ready yet!"
Azula just looked smug, saying to him, "If not now, Ichimaru, then when? Move out!" she yelled and she took off.
With our heroes, they were swerving from the Amestrian shots.
"Don't shoot!" Katara shouted at the Amestrians. "Listen to me, please!"
"Take her advice, please," Winter added, though it was futile.
The Amestrians kept shooting until Katara flew behind them, then they released bombs from behind to attack. Luckily, the missiles didn't reach their target.
"I should've written my will this morning," Glowworm gulped as Katara circled around the ship.
"She flies like the wind!" one of the Amestrians, Basque Grande, snarled.
"I think she's trying to tell us something. Maybe we shouldn't shoot her," the one shooting, Fuery, said.
"Anyone who interferes with the plan is an enemy," Grande said darkly. "Besides, if we don't release this baby Ohmu in the Valley soon, we'll be the ones in trouble."
The möwe was flying towards the ship again, only this time Glowworm and Katara switched places.
"Here they come," Grande said as Fuery got ready to shoot again. "Wait 'til they get closer than fire."
As the möwe got closer, Fuery gasped. Katara was standing out with her arms stretched wide while GW got closer to the ground as she continued flying. The others just held on tightly.
Fuery was shocked as the girl was in range of fire.
"She's in range. Shoot her!" Grande ordered. Fuery backed off, protesting, "I can't it! It's Winry."
He was pushed out of the way as Grande took the gun, ready to fire. When the möwe was closer to the gunship, she jumped off, with GW flying out of harm's way.
Grande then fired, shooting Katara in the shoulder and leg before the girl pounced on him and overtook the ship.
"Katara!" Jason called as the möwe was steered to where the plane drifted down to an island. As soon as the Ohmu landed gently on the ground, it thrusted the plane into the island, knocking Katara and Momo out of it roughly.
The möwe landed on the island and the group rushed to check Katara out.
"Katara! Are you alright?" Monkeyboy asked. Katara, with Momo still on her shoulder, mumbled a 'yes' and managed to lift herself up.
She spotted the Ohmu, muttered, "Ohmu," and tried getting up, only to clutch her hurt shoulder in pain.
"Here, we'll help you up," GW said as she and the group lifted the injured girl up gently.
"Thank you," Katara said as she and her friends made their ways over to the baby Ohmu.
As they got closer, the insect's eyes flickered and turned red in rage, fearing that they might hurt it. "Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you. I'm not your enemy," Katara told the bug.
When the bug's eyes were still red with rage, Katara sobbed, "I'm sorry. Is their anyway you can forgive us when we treated you so badly?"
The Ohmu tried to move away, only to spurt out blue blood. Katara gasped, and tried stopping it, "No! You'll bleed to death!"
"I don't think it understands," Jason sighed, but he and the hybrids tried helping Katara stopping the insect.
"Please be a good boy, hold still!" Katara begged until GW gasped, "Katara, look who it's trying to get to!"
The kids turned and gasped to see that the herd of angry Ohmu were rushing towards the baby.
"They're coming this way!" Fuery said as he and Grande hid behind the ship.
"No! You can't go out there with wounds like that!" Katara begged as Winter said to the bug, "This is bad water! It's full of acid!"
Sure enough, the kids' feet touched the river and started to burn. They screamed in pain, but continued to hold the Ohmu back. Just then, the insects' eyes were flickering from red to blue, realizing what the kids were doing to protect it and moved back, so they can move onto the land.
They fell to the ground, clutching their feet in pain. "This really hurts, sis," MB hissed in pain, for he had no shoes and was suffering the most.
The Ohmu moved slightly towards the injured kids as yellow tentacles came out of it and they started to tend to the kids' injured feet, its eyes no longer red.
Katara, now with blue blood over her outfit making it bluer, was shocked as the Ohmu comforted her with the yellow tentacles. "Ohmu…" she said then started to cry as the kids were getting healed.
When she was strong enough, Katara moved closer to the Ohmu and said to it, "You're so kind." The others followed suit as Winter patted it and GW told it, "Good Ohmu!"
"It's going to be alright. Soon, they'll be here and take you home," Katara told it gently.
Unfortunately, the Ohmu weren't going this way; they were going straight to the Valley.
"Why are they going that way!?" Katara shouted. "Ohmu, come here! You're going the wrong way!" Unluckily, the Ohmu didn't listen.
"They must be blind with rage," the princess realized. "If I can't find a way to calm them…"
A loud boom in the distance made the kids turn to see what it was. Sure enough, the Fire Nation were shooting at them, making them angrier.
"Those idiots!" Grande laughed. "They're drawing in the Ohmu by their fire!"
"We're going to live," Fuery sighed in relief.
"C'mon; help me tip this over," Grande ordered, beginning to turn the ship over.
Just then, Katara had the broken off gun from the ship while GW had her katana out and the others were in fighting stances.
"W-wait, don't shoot!" Grande pleaded.
"You're going to fly us back to the herd! And we're going to give them their baby back!"
"What about the möwe?" Jason asked, though he knew they could always come back for it later, for right now was more important.
"There's no reason to pull a stunt like that," Grande reasoned. "It's too late. The herd won't stop." When he said that, Katara fired at them, making the two men jump.
"You'll take us there and set us down in front of the herd. Savvy?" GW growled, ready to attack. "Let's get going," Katara ordered them.
"But the odds are you won't survive," Fuery told her.
Meanwhile, the troops kept on attacking the herd while the villagers watched in fear.
"Gran-Gran, are we all going to die?" Sophie asked.
A pause, then, "If that is to be our fate, we must wait and see."
Ichimaru, who was taking control in Azula's absence, watched and said sarcastically, "They don't even flinch."
Caboose lifted his helmet and asked, "Should we retreat, sir?"
"You idiot, there's nowhere to retreat to," Ichimaru told him as he shut Caboose's helmet on him again.
Some of the troops, who were becoming discouraged, backed up before they bolted away.
Ichimaru turned and shouted, "Hey! Get back here in your positions!" Soon, all the troops fled with Gin calling out in futile, "Wait! Stand your ground until Her Highness has returned." He looked to the pitch-black sky and groaned, "Where is that brat when you need her?" Then, "Your Highness!"
The fleeing troops stopped and looked to see Azula arriving with reinforcements. To be more specific, she had the Giant Warrior right behind her! It was red and gooey, but it was still formidable.
It rose up from the ground, two green eyes staring at the view in front of it, its sharp teeth pointing out while it emitted a low groan.
The troops gasped in shock at seeing the Giant Warrior before they bursted out into cheers. Only Ichimaru looked concerned. He knew the monster wasn't ready yet and still she brings it out.
The villagers were also nervous as Ed shouted in excitement, "Whoa! This is awesome! I want to touch it!"
"Stay in here, Ed!" Henry said as he, Eddy, TB, and the rest of her OCs held him back. "Big oaf," Aeta grumbled.
The Warrior started to move towards to follow Azula when it fell apart in half.
"Ugh! It's falling apart!" Ichimaru said in disgust. "I knew it was too soon."
Azula's tank stopped as she gazed out on the advancing herd. She ordered the Warrior, "Incinerate them!" When it didn't do it, she yelled at it, "What are you waiting for!? Were you not designed to be the most evil creature on the face of the Earth!?"
The monster turned towards the insects and opened wide before shooting out a giant blast, causing an explosion that made the troops' faces light up. The villagers all screamed as Nekozawa screamed, "The light! It burns!"
Azula didn't hesitate as she watched the giant fire area, thinking that destroyed the Ohmu.
"Amazing," Ichimaru said. "No wonder the Earth was incinerated in just seven days." The troops cheered, thinking they were safe from the bugs.
Although many bugs were killed, the herd kept pressing onward, still strong.
Azula, frustrated, said to the Warrior, "Hit them again! Listen to me, Warrior; fire on my command!" The Giant Warrior began to fire once more, but, when it did fire, the gooeyness started to melt off it, revealing a skeleton. The Ohmu, although under attack, kept pressing on.
That's when the Warrior melted, Azula and a few of her troops that came with her darted out of the tank to safety as the Warrior was once again defeated.
The troops all shouted, "It's dead! We're doomed! RUN!!" And so, they did run to the safety of the Valley ship.
The villagers watched in shock as Chiyo-chan said in awe, "The Giant Warrior died."
"That's the way it should be," Gran-Gran said, utterly relieved that the deadly monster was through. "The anger of the Ohmu reflects the anger of the Earth."
The villagers watched as the Ohmu came closer as the old woman continued, "The Earth knows its wrong for us to survive if we have to depend on a monster like that."
"Look; the princess!" Nina shouted. Like she said, Katara and her gang were holding onto the roped that supported the baby Ohmu while the two Amestrians flew them to the herd.
The ship lowered them to the ground and took off. Now, our heroes were standing right in front of the oncoming Ohmu herd.
The villagers all started to scream as Sokka yelled, "Katara! What are you guys doing! You'll be killed!"
"Jason, if you die, I'll kill you!" Paige screamed as Peter yelled, "GW, MB, and Winter, get my brother and the princess out of harm's way!!"
The heroes didn't listen as the herd came closer, they just stood there. "Well, this is the end, huh?" GW said. All her friends nodded, so she sighed with a smile, "Hello, beasties."
The Ohmu ran directly into them, sending them hurling into the air and right back into the raging mass.
The villagers gasped in fear as Sokka shouted, "Katara!!"
The Ohmu ran into the tanks and gunship Sig came in as Ichimaru ran for his life. The bugs crashed into the ship, making debris fall and the villagers all hiding from the falling debris.
The Fire Nation soldiers were hiding as well when suddenly bricks fell on top of them. After the debris settled, Edward Platypus, Rygog, Crocker, and the Boogeyman all lifted their thumbs up meekly and mumbled, "We're okay."
The Ohmu still raged on, avoiding the dead Warrior.
Morning had approached as a familiar Amestrian ship flew through the air.
Edward, his friends, and Izumi looked out of the window to see the red glow of the Ohmu's eyes.
"The glow reminds Rolf of the angry bats found in Nana's sock drawer," Rolf said as Electra, Al, and Alice, because Edward and Izumi were too focused on the scene below, asked, "What!?"
That's when a miraculous thing happened. The herd's eyes were now turning blue, for they had their baby back and were no longer raging, but resting peacefully.
"The color is changing," Izumi said as they looked in awe below.
"The rage is subsiding," Edward said, relieved that the insects were settling down.
As the Ohmu stood still and looked serene, Ichimaru looked up from under one of them. "I am never going to be in one of Glowworm's stories again if this means I end up like this."
The villagers settled as well as Gran-Gran said, "The rage. It's left the atmosphere. Luckily, no one was hurt as they got up from the now destroyed hiding place.
"We're alright," Sig said in a relieved tone. "The Ohmu have stopped running."
It turns out the Ohmu were all gathered around something. Unfortunately, that something were the still bodies of Katara and her friends, the baby Ohmu moving closer to them than the rest.
"There's the princess and the others!" Chiyo-chan said in despair. The baby insect had its tentacles out as it began to examine the bodies.
The villagers started to shake and cry as Sophie, with tears and Chairo whimpering, said, "They're dead. Gran-Gran, they're dead!"
"They risked their lives to quiet the rage of the Ohmu." Paige was sobbing in Peter's jacket as he looked down in sorrow while Sokka looked upset.
Their bodies laid there as Momo silently comforted them. The wind gently tussled their hair as the Ohmu watched them before performing a miracle.
Sokka: Since GW can't answer, I'm going to do this. Things look bad, but watch out for the last chapter, where things will get brighter. Remember to read & review!