Disclaimer: ...I own Avatar when pigs fly. /Waits ...Aw, no flying pigs.
Title: Defeat(What? I thought it
was better than "Don't let our deaths be in vain.")
Author: renuki( AKA me at LJ)
Word Count: 265(I like being
wordy. :P)
Warnings: None... unless mention
of blood make you cringe. .
Challenge: #43: Sacrifice
A/N: I wrote Iroh yet again! Weeeeee! Take a guess when this take place!
A general with blood all over him was kneeling on the ground with his hands holding up his body from falling to the ground, he stared sadly at the bloody dirt. Soldiers were fighting for their lives against the enemy soldiers, many were dying in the heat of the battle. A soldier of the general glanced at him and yelled, "General! Please, run! You have to get away before the enemy kills you!"
The general laughed bitterly and said to his soldiers, "We lost against the famous city, we must pay for our failure... I shall go down with my army."
The soldier shook his head and let the other soldiers fight as he tried to talk with the general. "Sir, we are giving our lives so you can leave! Don't make our deaths be in vain!"
The general lifted his head up and stared at the soldier, undeceived, the soldier tried again, "General, leave! Stay alive, please, you must live! There is still reason for you to live, live for your family! If not for your family, then live to find a way to end this war before more of the young and the old die to no purpose!"
The general made up his mind and got up from the ground, he nodded his head to the soldier. "Good bye."
The soldier smiled and went back to the fight, the general ran as far as his legs would let him from the bloody battlefield.
All those soldiers died that day, but the Dragon of the West shall not forget them and their deaths.