Chapter 4
The Battle for Loaka
Now I was what I hated most a fire bender and had no ally just my own abilities and skills and my two swords with which I would use to get vengance. The Earth Nation soldiers had stopped in their tracks while I was flying in the air atleast momentarily until I landed on a roof the smoke screen I created had gone away by now. I quickly sprang up and ran off the roof to the streets below where I found fire benders pillaging homes and killing innocent people. I jumped off the roof and came down on a fire bender with my left sword stabbing it into his helmet. The others looked at me and their commander said "Get him".
Three fire benders took their stances and shot fireballs at me, I smirked "Pathetic" I let the fireballs hit my chest and feeling no pain I held out my hands and let out a barrage of flames which completley melted the three fire benders' armor. Their dead corpses still in the melted armor fell to the ground lifeless and still smoking from the intense heat. "So you're a fire bender eh?" said the commander as he looked at me with a smile across his face. I replied with a simple "Yes" then sheathed my swords and he came towards me peacefully and said "Well if you are truly a fire bender then join our ranks and help us defeat this pitiful town of the Earth Nation" I became very angry, but didn't show it at all and held out my hand and with a blast of fire his skin was completley melted leaving only his smoking armor and blackened skelton which soon collapsed to the ground.
"No deal" I said to his remains then ran down the street at alarming speed using my mastery of fire bending to pull all the fire with me. I ran through the streets of Loaka with a pillar of fire at my rear turning every fire nation soldier into a pile of smoking melted armor on the ground. Once I made it to the doors of the castle in the center of the city I took my stance and with a hard blow cracked the solid stone doors in half. I could tell the castle was already taken by the fire benders due to the Fire Nation flag flying over it. Almost as soon as I had cracked the doors open Fire benders ran through the halls towards the front door hoping to stop me, but I quickly focused and with an exhale a breath of flames shot into the castle each flame in the shape of a dragon.
By the time the assualt of flames was over every fire bender in the castle was dead and all of the dragon flames had escaped the castle through the top most windows all meeting in the center of sky above the castle and exploding causing the fire nation flag to burn. Throughout the city people were cheering as the invading force of the fire nation was now gone. I stood up and from behind me voices sounded "You there! Fire bender stay where you are!" as I turned around speartips and swords were all pointed at me as Earth Nation soldiers surrounded me. I gulped a bit as they disarmed me and bound my wrists and feet "Please I mean you no harm. I drove out the fire nation soldiers! I am Zack the last of Eqotoa! You must believe me! I-" I was cut off as they wrapped a cloth around my mouth.
"Silence you are a fire bender that I am sure of!" spoke the captain of the guard to me. I tried to struggle and get out of my chains, but failed apparently my powers were not working."Wait a minute!" I thought "The necklace!" I had noticed the necklace I found earlier was gone from my neck. They took me through many long corridors which became confusing until they brought me to a room filled with gold and jewels and in the center of this room sat a king surrounded by guards. "Who is this?" the king spoke to the captain of the guard.