The End (part 2)
It had been a few days since my talk with Armadais. It was lunch time and I was in the courtyard by myself. I was worrying about the exams that were coming up in a couple of weeks. I saw Soara standing by herself and I was going to walk up to her but than I saw Iggy walk over to her. Their fevers went away the day before and now they were back to their normal selves. I ducked away behind a pole that held up the roof to the cafeteria. I saw Iggy pull something out of his pocket.
"I made this in art class," he told Soara. She grabbed the stone object and felt it with her finger tips. She smiled slightly as she rubbed past something that was engraved into it.
"It's my name," Soara stated. Iggy nodded nervously and started to fiddle with his fingers.
"I just wanted to show how beautiful your name truly is," he told her. Soara started to blush and her smile became larger. There was a long pause that seemed peaceful to me but Iggy thought differently. "Do you like it?" he asked nervously. Soara wrapped her hands around Iggy's neck and started to hug him. Iggy hugged her back. While Soara was in his embraces a small tear ran down her eye. She pulled away a bit just so he could look her in the face.
"I love it," she said. Iggy smiled and wiped the tear from her face. They looked so happy together; even I didn't want this moment to end. I notice many of the people in the courtyard were looking up at the watch tower. I looked up to see the flags of the four nations being pulled down. I was confused and a frightened feeling came over me as I remembered Armadais's words. I saw another flag being flown in their places. It was a white flag and it had the Fire Nation insignia on it but it was a blue flame. My jaw dropped when I realized what it was. The followers of Azula had gotten into the academy. Another flag rose on the pole as well. It was grey for the most part but I recognized the symbol in the middle of the flag. It was the ominous eye I drew. I franticly looked over at Soara and Iggy. They were still talking to each other.
"I accidentally cut myself when I was carving your name," Iggy sated. He showed her the hand that I had healed the day before when I saw Iggy come in my room with a bloody hand. She held that hand.
"Do you want me to kiss it better?" she asked. Iggy nodded with a smile on his face. Soara pressed her lips against the palm of his hand. I didn't want to ruin the moment but I had to. I ran up to them and grabbed their wrist and started to pull them to the entrance of the school. In my peripheral vision I saw Armadais run up to us with items in his hands.
"What's happening?" Iggy asked confused. Aramdais handed him his swords and pointed to the flag pole on the top of the watch tower. Iggy looked up and his face was filled with terror. "What the fuck are they doing here?" Iggy exclaimed. Soara looked around frantically but saw nothing.
"What? I don't understand what's going on," she told everyone. I looked at Armadais. His face was filled with disappointment and fear. My grip became stronger when I remembered that he told me he would take care of everything. He handed me Katara's waterbending pouch. I let go of Soara's wrist and snatched it out of his hands. I wrapped it around myself.
"You lied," I commented. He stumbled a bit when I said that but he still kept our pave as we tried to escape from the school. I saw Ali jump over the wall and run up beside us. Gyo appeared from no where and we all started to head for the door. I looked over at Armadais for a response.
"I'm sorry Kara, it all happened so fast," he said. Right now I didn't really car about that, we just needed to get out of here safely. The door was now just a few metres away. We were so close when someone jumped out of nowhere and landed in front of us stopping us dead in our tracks. He looked at all of us. The three scars that ran through his eye made me distinguish who he was.
"Zeon! What are you doing!" I yelled still holding onto Iggy so he wouldn't touch him. Zeon started to smile. He wasn't wearing his earth Kingdom outfit. He was shirtless and had black pants on that were rolled to his knees. His other eye was painted to match the one on the flag. He was a Sakuran. Suddenly more men appeared beside him.
"Get the Water Tribe girl," he told the men. They grabbed me and pulled me into Zeon. I struggled to try and get away from their grip but nothing worked. Iggy tried to fight them but one batted him away. Armadais started to charge at him when a blast of fire blocked his path. The general that he was with when Iggy was being beaten by the Fire Nation boys appeared. I still struggled while the others fought and argued.
"What are you doing?" Armadais asked the Fire Nation general. The Man started to laugh and walk beside Zeon.
"I am a follower of Azula you naive bastard and I have made a deal with the Sakuran clan, we get him into the academy he gets us the Wing-Fang," he stated with a devilish tone. Armadais clenched his fist and punched the general in the face. The man fell backwards and more Fire Nation soldiers appeared and seized Armadais. Rage ran through my body and suddenly I had enough strength to punch one of the guards in the face. My right side was free and it was much easier to struggle until Zeon seized me.
"She can see death! The ritual can begin!" Zeon yelled over the screaming. The men cheered and started to pull me to the centre of the courtyard. Ali blew a few soldiers over, Soara shot earth knocking other men down. Iggy ran to my side and punched Zeon in the face. His face pointed skyward but he didn't fall or stumble. He looked down at Iggy with enraged eyes. He handed me over to one of his minions. He lifted Iggy up and threw him a far distance. Iggy came crashing down. I struggled to get free and try to help him. I saw the men capture Soara and Ali. Gyo tried to help them as he swung his katana around at the men but a few moments later he was captured as well. I went back to Iggy and Zeon.
"No!" I yelled as I saw Zeon kick Iggy in the stomach as he struggled to crawl to his feet. He glanced at me a second than turned back to Iggy. As I was pulled farther and farther away the last thing I heard from them was Zeon.
"Wretched boy, not even you father could defeat me!" he yelled at Iggy. After that I heard Iggy yell in pain but than there was silence when all of us turned to corner to certain doom. I tear ran down my eye when I thought that was the last time I would ever see my cousin again.
