Part 2.
The new weapon had many names, some called it Ozai's Wrath, others called it fire works gone badly, and the firebenders called it a cannon.
I could see it from where I was. It seemed to be rotating on its platform, and there was a crew working it. I stayed behind a building, hoping the crew wouldn't see me, but that didn't save my finger from someone else.
I was standing there, waiting to move away from where I was, when a fire soldiers came, swinging his sword at my head. I caught the movement fast enough, to move, but my hand was still in the way. I could feel my pointer finger on my left hand come off, and saw my tip fall to the ground. I quickly reacted, by putting my sword in his neck, and I went to find something to bind this with. When I didn't find any cloth, I brought out my bending water that I was saving. Waterbending healed it, but wouldn't put my finger back on my hand.
I met up with Jet, who was also hiding from the cannon.
"How are we supposed to get rid of that? None of our earthbenders can get close enough to take it out." He was yelling at Zuko, who was across the street.
"I don't know. I haven't even heard of these things." Zuko yelled back.
We were spending the night in the camp. Zuko's army barely got into the city, while from what I heard the Earth Kingdom was still in the earthworks, trying to get up the trench. I couldn't sleep that night. The cannons, there were two, were constantly going off in the night. Then it rained. It was hot, and humid and raining
I woke up in the early morning, from Jet yelling at me to get up. I slowly got up, and we started towards the cannons. The cannons weren't firing at us, but at the Earth Kingdom, that had moved further into the camp. We had a chance to move up on them, and Zuko made sure of that. He wanted one of those cannons.
By the end of the week, the camp had been cleared. It would take another month for us to clear the whole swamp. Zuko was happy to be studying the new weapon for new ideas. While he was talking with the Earth Kingdom, I was talking with Hue over the Water Tribe. His people couldn't stay for the oil in the water. Their food was dieing, and they had to move. Zuko said that once he was the ruler of the Earth Kingdom, the Tribe would be given any place of land they wanted. The Tribe had to ponder this. When I was talking with them, Hue said that the Tribe agreed, and would start looking for a place. Zuko was happy.
After saying goodbye to Hue, I walked over to Hiro. He was enjoying the swamp men's accent. He would laugh, and say how funny they sounded. Then he bugged me about the boomerang.
"Alright, but you can't throw this at anything or anyone. It can hurt someone." I said, taking the boomerang in my hand.
"Yeah, it does." Zuko said, walking by and laughing.
I showed him how to hold it and how to throw it. I was lucky that Sokka had showed me how to use it once.
The Earth Kingdom joined Zuko's group. Eventually, all the Earth Kingdom's armies would.
Zuko got word that the Fire Nation was pulling all of its troops back to the Nation. Either the Fire Nation was ready to surrender, or someone powerful escaped, and they were sacred.
Zuko made us travel to Ba Sing Sei. There, many wonderful things were about to happen.