"You want to fight?" Smirked, Azula getting into a battle stance.
"Love too" snarled Irma
They stood taking in each other's stances. Irma couldn't concentrate.
Cornelia…she can't be dead? It just can't be true.
She glared at the girl in front of her. She hated her right now yet deep down she felt some emotion of…pity?
She could only be about fifteen. Why is she filled with so much hate?
Azula kicked up her foot letting lose a deadly blast of blue flames.
Irma's natural reactions kicked in as she managed to dodge the blast and lifted out her arms summoning up her power.
"WATER!" She screamed hurled large quantities of blue liquid at Azula.
The Fire Nation Princess was hurled off her feet and landed a few yards away.
Irma seized this chance to make her feelings perfectly understood.
"You're outmatched! I can control water! Summon Tidal waves! Breath in it! You can't beat me little Princess! Just give in!" She yelled.
Azula stood up snarling in rage as her body began to glow in the blue flames making her face seem twisted and inhumane.
Unleashing another blast of lightening that missed Irma by inches.
The battle was furious, Water versus Fire. Complete opposites. Ying and Yang.
"C'mon you can do better than that!" Cried Irma with insane laughter as another blow missed her.
They'd battled past the Kyoshi warriors. Past the grassy hillside until they stood on the top of a cliff overseeing a lake.
"Water!" Shouted Irma as Azula was squirted in her face.
Irma knew that if she wanted to she could have beaten Azula within minutes. Truth was if she had killed Cornelia Irma wanted her to suffer.
In the centre of Infinity other beings watched the furious battle.
"Oracle! We must intervene for Irma's humanity" protested Yan Lin.
"The time for interference is not yet at hand Honourable Yan Lin" said the oracle calmly.
Irma thinks that her friend is dead. She wants revenge but she's letting her emotions get in control of her fighting. Irma will have to learn but I have faith that she wont turn into a killer added the Oracle as he watched the Fire Princess aim another blow at Irma who parried it with water.
"Is that the best you can do?" Taunted Irma.
The oracle shook his head in sorrow. He'd read the girls heart and knew she wanted Azula to suffer. To feel the pain that she now felt.
Irma…come back to the light…
Irma was now inches away from the cliff edge. She didn't care as heights had never bothered her.
"Azula!" Cried a voice.
Irma's heart leapt as Ty Lee and Mai entered the ring.
She allowed her thoughts to wander briefly to the Kyoshi warriors before quickly letting of a blast at Mai who landed with a sickening thump against a tree.
"You Witch!" Shouted Ty Lee angrily as she back flipped towards Irma.
Witch…that's what I was, I was a part of WITCH…
Will. Irma. Taranee. Cornelia. Hay Lin. All of us united.
A wave of grief hit Irma as never before. Her heart was breaking and tears flowed from her eye's as she remember all the good times.
Finding out about her powers.
Turning Andrew into a toad.
A watery chuckle escaped her lips as she thought of the last incident.
Freeing Meridian.
The beach holiday.
Cornelia…Why? She thought in despair.
Suddenly out of her thoughts she felt her arm sag. Then another jet of pain in her other arm.
Ty Lee.
She swayed slowly before falling off the Cliffside into the lake below.
Cornelia…the blonde who she'd always fought with but deep down had treasured her friendship.
The wind sailed past her ears as she fell.
Will, her trusting companion, her fellow guardian, her leader.
She wasn't aware of falling now. It had seemed an age since Heatherfield.
Taranee. Warm and kind always understood.
Finally before she hit the waves one last figure.
Hay Lin.
She was more than a friend. She was my soul sister.
"I'm sorry guy's."
Now she was hurling to the depths of the ocean unable to move.
She wasn't in the water now. She was back a year ago to that fateful day that had changed her life.
"Irma you are Water! Untameable".
That moment she looked into the heart she had known.
"Irma…come to the light!"
She was blinking now as she saw a bright light. This was it, The end.
A calming voice echoed in the dim.
"No my child. Death isn't the end and nor is it you're fate yet."
"Irma. You must come to the light. Remember who you are!"
Will…The heart.
Irma…Water.
Taranee…Fire.
Cornelia…Earth.
Hay Lin Air.
Irma…water…
Suddenly the vision ended as she was much more aware of her underwater surroundings. She could breath again!
Slowly a bubble formed around the water guardian and her blue eyes flashed open. She was ready!
Ty Lee gazed as the being fell. She looked like a fairy. A pretty fairy.
She hadn't meant to make her fall. Only to injure her…not make her fall.
Part of Ty Lee wanted to save her. She knew she couldn't though. Azula would go mad.
"Thank you Ty Lee" said Azula coldly.
She gazed over the edge again to see the ripple in the water as the guilt hit her.
I'm sorry whoever you were.
"Right so what of those so called warriors?" Said Azula.
Suddenly a giant coil of water emerged over the top of the cliff.
No wait. Not a coil. A giant hand!
She watched in awe as a huge and beautiful watery being stood up.
It was amazing. It was a huge watery image of the fairy! It reminded her of the spirit attack she'd heard that the avatar had launched. He'd used some of the Ocean spirit's power.
She glanced at Azula who seemed at lose for words about what to do about the latest turn of events.
The water fairy however wasn't as the figure evaporated and all the water was launched into a massive tidal wave that swept agile Ty Lee off her feet.
Wow…she's really a spirit.
Irma watched and the water cleansed the valley.
Now she was left with Azula who was pinned up against a tree with the still flowing waves.
"I'm not going to kill you. You're in my dept now Princess and one day you'll have to repay it. A life for a life" said Irma coldly.
As for you two she said glancing at the two other girls.
"Why do you follow her? You're afraid of her but you're going to have to break free at some point."
The gloomy one widened her eye's at this statement.
Now Irma was going to see the Kyoshi warriors and help them.
It took her some time before she found them but she was relieved to see most of them were okay.
"I think Linea has a broken arm and Rika a fractured ankle but apart from that we're fine" assured Suki.
Irma gazed at three of the warriors who seemed to be missing uniforms.
"Why are you're clothes gone?" Asked Irma.
"The acrobat hit us with some jabs. Then she stole out clothes" said one.
"Right. Well I think you should all come with me" said Irma.
"Were are you going?" Asked Suki.
"With Appa to Ba Sing Sei. I think it would be a good idea if you could come with me" said Irma.
"If you're sure?"
"Positive" said Irma as she helped Linea on top of Appa.
"Thank you spirit" said Linea.
Irma looked taken aback.
"I'm not a spirit. I'm just a girl. In fact I'm only fifteen" said Irma as she transformed herself into her normal clothes.
A few of them looked amazed.
"Yeah. More of that later right now it's time I got to see my friends. Appa Yip Yip!"
It was many hours before they landed at a huge temple.
"This isn't Ba Sing Sei" said Mikio puzzled.
"This is the abandoned Eastern Air Temple" said Suki stepping off Appa.
"We'll rest here. We'll continue tommorw."
Irma crept around the eerie abandoned temple.
Slowly she crept up to the statue of an old man.
She jumped when she saw the man was not a statue but in fact an old man.
"Hello?"
No answer.
"My names Irma. I'm here with Appa and the Kyoshi Warriors?"
"You have the avatars air bison?" Said the man.
"Yes. I'm returning him to the avatar. Who are you?"
Guru Pathik. When you return to the avatar give him this from me said Guru Pathik handing Irma a scroll.
"Um…okay bye Guru."
The next day they set off at dawn and finally the entered the City.
Taranee…Taranee! Called Irma telepathically.
Finally at dusk they landed in a posh area of housing.
"Well…now what?" Asked Irma.
"Now you ladies answer some questions!" Came a silky voice.
Before Irma could react earth like fists bound the Kyoshi warriors.
"Listen bud I've had a rough time lately!" Shouted Irma as she transformed herself into her guardians uniform.
"Yes…water spirit" said the man holding up a poster of Irma.
"Now…spirit the Earth King invites you to Lake Laogai."
"Huh?"
Irma shrieked as binding bound her from nowhere
She was in a dimly lit room with a single man in the middle. She was bound to a chair.
"There is no war within the walls."
Irma felt sleepy…
"There is no war within the walls. Here we are safe."
C'mon Irma…stay awake.
"We are safe."
"We are safe" chanted Irma.
Is Irma really brain washed? What about the Kyoshi warriors?
Next chapter Lake Laogai...
Cornelia has a run in with Lee
And Taranee sorts out Jet!
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