CHAPTER 11

Wan Shi Tong's Campaign

Wan Shi Tong was going to war. After thousands of years of existence he had decided that

humans were too much trouble and had to be gotten rid of. "They're always fighting" he told

himself. "They are the greatest threat to peace and tranquility" The war would be started with the

destruction of those insolent humans who had most recently invaded the peace of his library. He

had been nice, he let them in, let them learn his knowledge. They had abused his generosity, they

were not interested in learning. They were only interested in finding out their enemies weakness

and exploiting it. This would stop here and now. He would destroy the humans, stop their war and

then at last there would be peace. He knew where they would be he was just waiting for the

perfect time to strike. After much waiting he was ready to attack. It was late almost midnight they

were sleeping, it was the perfect opportunity.

He struck swiftly, but fortunately Zuko was still awake. He could not sleep after what had

happened today. He was brooding when it happened. Zuko was a man without fear, yet he knew

that something horrible was happening. He didn't know what was happening but he knew that

what ever it was it wasn't good. Zuko quickly woke everyone in the camp. Wan Shi Tong's

element of surprise was gone but he was not going to quit. He flew around the sky screeching

horribly, "What in the name of heaven is that thing" yelled Hakoda in horror. "It's Wan Shi Tong"

Said Aang in miserable surprise. "The Spirit of Knowledge." "I Thought he was trapped

underground in his library" said Sokka in shock. "We all did" Said Kattara miserably. "I'm here to

get my revenge on you after you abused my generosity to learn how to exploit and destroy your

enemies."

"What is he talking about?" Hakoda asked. "There's no time to explain now" yelled Aang. "Were

sorry that we abused your library, but we had no choice we needed to find a way to stop the Fire

Nation's conquest and destruction of the other nations." Aang said again. "Like I said last time

your not the first to believe that they are justified in fighting a war." Said Wan Shi Tong, and then

he struck. He stretched out his neck and jabbed at them. But Aang and the rest were ready. They

struck back with all the force of their combined bending powers and sent Wan Shi Tong retreating

a bit. "Please" Aang begged we don't want to fight you. "The Fire Nation started this war, we just

want to end it." "I will end this war" said Wan Shi Tong and then he attacked again. Aang and his

friends held their ground, and forced Wan Shi Tong to retreat again. After the second retreat Wan

Shi Tong began to flap his wings he began flapping them so hard that he was creating a violent

wind. Aang and the others knew that they would be blown to their doom if they didn't do

something soon. Aang had an idea, he ran around creating a whirlwind "Toph" he yelled "throw

some rocks into the whirlwind" Toph did as she was told and then Aang launched them at Wan

Shi Tong. The rocks hit their mark and Wan Shi Tong fell screeching into the blackness.

After the battle Hakoda asked them what Wan Shi Tong was talking about. The others were

ashamed that they had forgotten to mention it, after all what they had learned was a great piece of

information that could help them defeat the Fire Nation. They told Hakoda everything about how

they found the library buried under sand in an impassable desert, how they learned about the

"darkest day" a solar eclipse that would temporarily strip all Fire Benders of their powers. After

they had told Hakoda everything that they knew Hakoda asked "Why didn't you tell me sooner."

"This solar eclipse will appear very soon and we don't have a plan about what we are going to

do." "Meeting you again put it out of our minds" said Kattara sadly. "We just forgot." Aang spoke

next saying "it is not too late, we still have time to make our plans." "Then lets not waste anymore

time!" said Zuko who had not spoken since the attack. "I want to see my father and sister again."

He said vengefully. They spent the rest of the night making plans. They would soon bring the war

to the Fire Nation's own shores.