Whoa, a long time since I updated this... But I'm getting on it people! This story still has more chapters to come.
Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar: The Last Airbender.
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1,000 Suns Will Set and Rise (Homecoming)
-Faust-
Back…. Back to where I had killed.. You.
The black marble room of the governors building was silent. Sealed off. A perfect place to keep you.
I lay Jet and Toph on a marble table in the center of the room. They'd stay here while I collected the things I needed to bring my friend and the girl I loved back from the enigmatic grip of death.
Birth by sleep.
Sleep now Toph, then you'll wake up and see as I do. Hunger for death like I do. Have the need to feed your mind with knowledge to stop the ever present questions of all like I do.
Be with me again.
But I don't love you.
I love Mirra.
The only woman to be able to compete with my skills. If she didn't hold back, she could beat me sometimes...
But... You'll come back. Because you deserve it.
Everyone deserves it.
To feel the way I do. It's better than being human. You feel so much more... powerful against life.
"Faust?"
I turned away from staring at the blind girl, Mirra stood with her hands at her chest by the door. I walked toward her and she didn't flinch. "Would you like to come with me?" I asked in a soft voice.
She smiled weakly, "where to?"
"I-I need to bring them back. I need more than I have now." I explained.
She smiled again and nodded, "I'd go anywhere with you. Faust."
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-Fey-
"That uh, that, hee hee, tickles..." I squirmed on the back of the ostrich-like animal as Ty Lee giggled and loosened her grip a little. This girl was REALLY flirty. And really cute to go along with it.
I could see Zuko shaking his head from beside us. It really didn't help my concentration on the task at hand when Ty Lee's body (which was very warm and soft pressed against mine) would bounce from the bumpy ground below.
"Okay," Zuko interrupted my 'happy thoughts' to point at the capitol building.
We were about to dismount when an all too familiar weapon stabbed into the ground a few feet away from us.
We looked up on top of the building to see Faust and Mirra standing there with their hair billowing in the wind.
"I swear, you want to die Zuko." Faust glared down on us. Ty Lee fidgeted a little behind me. Was she scared of Faust?
Zuko lashed out and his hand was used like a flamethrower to shower the roof in flames.
When his fire stopped, Faust stood in the same spot with his hand extended out and Mirra shielded behind him.
"What if you hit her?!" I shouted at him. He mumbled an apology and sneered at Faust.
"Mirra!" I shouted up to the two, "Why are you going along with him?"
She appeared from behind the stoic ice bender that I once knew as my best friend. "Just go! I'm fine!"
Faust smiled, but not in the way I knew him for, "Fey, it's changed. Everything. You need to die to know what living really is like my friend."
I glared at him, "You're a fool. I hate what you've become and I don't know how Mirra can stand your presence!"
Faust glared with hatred in his eyes. I had touched a sensitive area by talking about Mirra to him and I knew it. Ty Lee grabbed my shoulder and gulped, "D-don't make him madder!"
"I died when I left Fey," Faust's expression had changed back to emotionless and his voice sounded like it almost held sadness.
"The night I left, I went to a town in the Earth nation. I killed everyone... so many. And as I looked at the dead town and Einree walked through the rows of bodies, a knife pierced my back." Faust recounted this tale with his eyes unfocused.
"The knife was held by a little boy that was crying silently. As I died I could only think one thing: I had died at the hands of a child after killing so many warriors. Then everything was gray... In the grayness I heard a voice, it told me to get up, so I opened my eyes and looked up to see Einree's purple eyes. They filled me with rage and hatred for anything that wasn't myself... I got up and killed the child that had stabbed me. I killed him slowly as he cried out for his father. His screams made me hate him. His screams made me hate humans. His screams made me smile. Then I knew that I was alive."
Zuko looked disgusted by his story. "Filth! I'll kill you!" he shot more fire at the roof. This time when the fire dispersed, Faust and Mirra were gone.
"Damn." I pulled on the reigns ad ran toward the exit of the town. Zuko followed and Ty Lee grabbed tightly onto me again. She was shivering.
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-Faust-
Back in the village where we grew up. The thing about this place was that it was day for only a short time of the year. The island of almost eternal night. And the moon was always full. Einree hated the place and had to hide while I was left slightly weaker from the moon's glare.
Mirra ran her hands through my hair softly and hummed a tune that was familiar to me. We were still outside of our village, under a willow tree as the moon did it's damage to me and the snow fell softly around us.
I lay now with my head in Mirra's lap, coughing a little blood and silent tears running down my cheeks.
It hurt...
"We have to-to go to my old house..." I whispered. Mirra kept humming and stroking my hair to keep it out of my face and the blood.
I looked at her face, such a beautiful face. faint freckles on the nose, pale perfect lips, light purple eyes (very much unlike Einree's piercing dark purple ones) and a serene expression outlined by her silky black hair.
But now, like me, silent tears made their way down her cheeks.
"Why do you do this to yourself Faust?" she whispered as she looked at the moon. I shook my head.
"Why do you do this to me?" she asked again and closed her eyes.
I reached up slowly and brushed the tears away from her. Then I did the same for mine and the blood from my mouth.
She sniffled a little and I felt things I hadn't felt since I was a child.
Sadness. Love.
True sadness from seeing her like this when she was usually so strong. And love. I loved her.
I didn't know why, but I kissed her.
I touched her lips with mine, they were cold. Perfect.
She opened her eyes in shock and made a small surprised noise. But then she closed her eyes, pulled my head closer and her surprised squeak turned into a low moan.
When I pulled back she pushed forward in protest.
She smiled weakly when I pulled away. Now there were tears of joy forming in her eyes. She radiated melancholy beauty and I held an aura of death.
"Let's go home, Mirra."
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Sorry that chap was so short after such a long break.
Hopefully the next one will come out sooner.
Thanks for reading!