Final Showdown Chapter 2
Ok I know there were numerous spelling and grammatical errors in the first chapter but I will fix them once I have posted this chapter. I have a few friends going to read over this chapter for spelling errors. So now continue our story. But first a necessary disclaimer: I don't own Avatar: The Last Air Bender some rich guy at Nick does, lucky bastard.
Aang stared is shock at the scene that lay before him in the house. A family of four was laying on the floor barely breathing. Aang could sense something drawing their life energy away. Tears flooded Aang's eyes as he reached down and picked up the frail looking woman.
"What happened? Who did this to you?" Aang asked in a kind voice as Katara slipped through the door. She knelt beside Aang and touched his shoulder.
The woman looked at him weakly and breathed, "...Ozia...Avatar...save my daughter...Ri...Rihanna..." with that the woman's spirit was pulled from her body. Her eyes closed and she let out her last breath. Tear's clouded Aang vision as he stood up. Katara looked at him as his eyes began to burn with anger. He walked out the door and through the members of the four nations that formed a mob around the house. He stopped in the center of them.
"Ozai must die, we fight to his throne room." He walked towards the palace surrounded by a blue glow.
Zuko stared at Aang as he walked to the place where Zuko had grown up. Katara grabbed his hand and pulled him into the door.
"Zuko, this has to be done. Look at those people... something is happening to them. I think Aang might know, but we need to try and save them." Zuko looked at the frail girl, about Aang's age, and picked her up. She lifter her head whispered something, then her head fell again. Zuko carried her into a room and laid her down on a bed. Katara watched him silently. Zuko stood and walked over to Katara. She embraced him in a hug and then walked out the door of the house, closing it, leaving the scene behind them. They followed the Avatar with Suki and Sokka in tow. The group of warriors and benders followed their icons as they led he way to the palace, afraid to look inside any other house, afraid of what they might find.
Aang walked into the palace grounds to a garden full of dead plants.
Zuko looked at the gardens and said "These were my mother's favorite flower. The fire lily is supposed to be the most pure red in the world." cradling the now black lily in his hands. They had long ago lost their color and faded from the earth. Zuko stood up when the heard the chinking of armor. "The royal guard are here, Aang," Sokka said from beside him. Aang took off staff in hand at the leader of the now present enemy. The leader threw a flaming punch as Aang neared. He dodged easily and used air bending to send him flying into the air. Aang stomped his foot bringing up a jagged blade of rock from the floor and the man came falling down. Aang again used air bending to bring him down hard onto the rock. The man screamed as he hit the rock, getting impaled through the gut. His arms moved around, then he hung still. A battle ensued as the rest of the guard surged forth. Aang did a quick count; they were outnumbered four to one. The five fire benders that Zuko had deemed his guard ran up next to him and fought along side him. A fire bender ran forward towards Aang. Aang swung with staff creating a slicing wind, the charging gasped as he was cut in two. His torso fell forward, and as he died, tried to crawl back to his lower half. All around Aang there was death. It pained him to have to do this, but it needed to be done.
Suki looked at Sokka before back into battle. He has painted himself in the standard of the water tribe. He had on the armor that Suki gave him back on Kyoshi. He had tied the skirt into legs and had his club and his boomerang in hand. He threw it into a mass of fire nation soldiers, and his boomerang didn't return. She assumed that it was stuck in something so Sokka changed forward smashing a soldier's helmet in with his club. She bowed her head and prayed that he would be all right as she ran back into the fray with her fans slicing as she went. Blood stained the once smooth ground. It mixed with sweat and tears and began to have a foul order. Battle raged around them as Suki felt a sharp pain in her side. She turned and found a snarling man pull a bloody sword tip from her side. The wound was not deep but flowed freely. The man started to swing again but Sokka's club smashed into his face the man crumple into a bloody mess. He made a gurgling sound then lay still. Sokka knealt next to Suki.
"SUKI are you alright?" Suki pressed the wound and nodded. Sokka was not convinced. A screaming man fell towards them as an airbender sent him flying. Sokka connected his club with the side of the man's head as he came at them. He flew to the side and rolled like a rag doll. An arrow went through Sokka's left shoulder. He screamed and threw his boomerang with his good arm. It cut through the archers that had taken up a position on the wall. its came back and impaled itself in the back of a charging guard as he was about to hit them. Sokka pulled the arrow from his shoulder with a grunt. he yanked to weapon from the fallen man and replaced it on his back. He had Suki lean against his injured shoulder as he held his club in his good and they walked away from the battle. Sokka killed two more guards as he exit the gardens to find a place to tend their wounds.
Katara heard Sokka's scream, she tuned to see Suki and Sokka leaving the battlefield. Katara turned back to throw a few more ice spikes into the surging guards. Zuko pulled a guard down next to her and stabbed him through the temple with his knife. All around them the battle raged; nothing could stop it. It was the unity of elements against the balance of power and death. The guards began to retreat as their numbers thinned. They fell back behind a pair of heavy ornate steel doors. They quickly did a scan for wounded among those on the floor. The less wounded helped those who were too wounded to fight from the field. Suki and Sokka were no where be seen. Katara found one of Aang's guards with a spear in his side and helped him remove it and another person helped him from the field. Katara looked at the dead and started to cry. Zuko wrapped her in a warm embrace. She returned it and saw that he had a small cut on the left side of his face over his scar. she began to wipe the dried blood from his scar, them he kissed her cheek.
"One more fight, then this war will end. I want your GranGran at our wedding." Katara began to cry even more. She saw Aang be hoisted up onto a platform that archers had used. Aang looked at his friends and spoke.
"People, we are not yet done, we have one more fight. Once we break the doors will will begin the battle that will stop the war, bring back the balance of the elements, and restore the life of this city." Aang jumped down and landed hard bringing up a boulder the size of Appa. he turned on the spot and threw it at the doors. The doors broke open sending bits of steel and stone into the room beyond. Katara and Zuko ran with the rest of the tired group into the throne room to face Ozai. They ran into a group of guards surrounding them standing at attention. Zuko noticed Zhao among them his face turned to utter hatred when he saw Katara next to him. They rushed into the waiting guards. Zuko was thrown to the side when he blocked a fire blast from Zhao. Katara was beside him with her back turned as as she sent a ice spike into a guard, nailing him to the wall. Zhoa grabbed her shoulder and turned her around. He brought a flaming fist into her stomach. Zuko watched in horror as Zhao sent her flying with a kick to her stomach. She hit the floor screaming and did not stop after she hit the wall. Zuko got up and Zhao turned around. Zhao sent a punch wide of Zuko and Zuko was in a stance ready for the next blow. Hatred for Zhao now boiled hotter than the sun. Zuko turned his head. A pillar was falling towards him. He tried to jump out of the way, but was pinned underneath it by his legs. Zhao walked over to the screaming Katara and picked her up by the neck. His other hand glowed with fire as Zuko screamed. "KATARA! NO!"
END CHAPTER 2
Ok I fixed the Errors in Chapter 1. Find ony in this chapter e-mail them to me. I won't up date untillI have 10 reviews. AGAIN CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM IS WELCOME IF YOU'RE GONNA BE AN ASS DON'T REVIEW. Now then, I hope you like this stroy so far i i know you'll like Ozai's enterance. Sorry about makeing every chapter a cliffy but oh well.