Chapter 15:

I darted down the streets. The White Lotus soldiers were on high alert since the attack on the production facility. I came across a group of them battling resistance fighters. I dodged a blast on fire.

The firebender came closer to me, and readied another blast. Before he could use it on me, a rock flew at him, and he intercepted it. The firebender came closer, and his grin became familiar. He was the man who stole my home.

I threw a bola and lunged at him. He knocked the bola out of the air, but I got closer to him. I swiped with my shock glove, but he dodged. "Aww that little thing is cute" he mockingly sneered.

He pulled back his arm, and lighting climbed all around it. He then reeled when a rock hit his back. He turned around sending the lightning at the earthbender who had a wall up. I swiped again, but he turned back to me and grabbed my wrist.

With my free hand I swung punches, but they came short of him. I flung myself down as I saw a fist of flame coming at me. My hand pulled free from his grip and I tried to tackle him. A few icicles came at me, but they missed.

My shock glove came close to him, but another icicle came straight at me. I jerked to the side and it just missed. The firebender sneered, and prepared another blast. Quickly I dropped and bola and kicked it across the ground.

The bola wrapped itself around one of the firebender's legs. I looked at my comrades and saw them begin to retreat. I threw another one towards the firebender and joined them. The earthbender threw behind thick clouds of dust to disorient and blind the pursuers.

The cloud of dust quickly vanished into the distance as we dashed down the street. We took a few corners. When we ran into more soldiers, the earthbenders pulled rocks down from the buildings and proceeded in the opposite direction.

Seeing some of them still following I dropped a gas grenade behind us. A couple blasts of fire came at us, but they missed by a lot. We dove into an alley and soon came across a building. "This will keep us safe for a bit." said one of the resistance fighters.

We waited down in the basement for hours. We discussed our uncertain future, congratulating ourselves for our success, but also wondering what to do in the future. We considered whether our safe house would be compromised, but it seemed that they were unable to locate it

A few days went on, and we did little but eat what supplies we had and sleep when we could. We tried to plan and discuss, but we had little to go on and we did not want to risk exposing ourselves.

Suddenly one day the door flew open, and a resistance member barged in. "What are you guys doing down here!" he shouted.

"Trying to lay low." replied a resistance member.

"The city is going to be invaded."

"What! By Who?" I asked

"Visola"

"And who might that be."

As Visola grew closer to Republic City the nostalgia grew stronger. She liked the city quite a lot, they're was so many opportunities for fun and games. The only thing she did not like was her family.

The way her father spoke of bloodbending infuriated her. Her bloodbending made her special and unique, and he could never take that away from her. Then they're was her brother Kinto who was so scared of his bloodbending.

Whenever Visola would hurt someone with bloodbending her father would blame Kinto, who would always be too scared to defend himself. Visola loved to see her father take off his belt and flog Kinto for what she did.

It took awhile for father to catch on. An occasional peek at Visola's grin must have made him suspicious. The sweet little girl act wouldn't work as well as she grew older. Perhaps father must have concluded that if he had birthed one bloodbender, he could birth another.

But the worst was mother. She was so weak, pathetic and helpless. Visola would regularly torment her, causing her various accidents and mishaps. It was all so funny, and Kinto would take the blame for it.

Eventually Visola killed her mother, and father exiled both Visola and Kinto to keep it under wraps. But now Visola was back, and she was going to make things worse for her father.

One of Visola's soldiers approached her. He awkwardly edged towards her, looking towards the ground. "Visola I wasn't sure I should say this, but I..."

Before he could finish Tsume approached the man, who cowered immediately. "It's okay I got this one." Visola said.

The man took a deep breath. "I am not sure it's the best idea to attack your father." as soon as he said that he immediately regretted it.

"And why would that be?"

The terrified man looked down at his feet. He slowly lifted up his head, "I don't think you should risk so much for a petty..."

Visola reached out her hands and felt for the man's blood. His head craned up, and his limbs stiffened. He let out a faint moan of pain. "Did you just say the word petty!" Visola snarled.

The man of course could not reply. Visola let out a chuckle as she saw the pain in his eyes. She casually circled him, then threw him to the ground. "He's yours Tsume."

Visola watched as Tsume closed in on the terrified man, then lost interest and began to walk away. She heard the crunch as he finished him off.

The resistance fighters walked down the street. It was strange to be operating this openly, but there seemed to be no White Lotus soldiers in sight. We meet with a larger group, lead by Kuma. Among them we're fighters wearing Water Tribe clothing.

Kuma approached our leader. "We are evacuating the city right now." she told him. "We need to get the civilians to the safehouses."

Among the resistance fighters I saw a familiar face. I remembered him from the pro bending matches."Arata?" I said, "You're the Avatar?"

"Do I know you?" he replied.

"I'm a new recruit," I explained. "I joined when my parents were falsely imprisoned.

"That's too bad." he said, "I never knew mine."

"Anway, I've heard all about you," I said. "I really wanted to meet you."

"Well thanks."

We spread out throughout the city, looking for our contacts. I approached a door and knocked. The resident opened the door. "The city is going to be invaded, get alert all of your neighbors.

He stepped out and went to the next door. Soon residents stepped out and began to alert more neighbors. The streets packed up, and we directed them towards the nearest safehouse.

As we walked a young boy suddenly tripped. His father reached for him, but suddenly grabbed his neck. The man's eye went wide with terror, as if he was shocked by what he was doing. "Kinto!" Arata shouted. "Get over here."

I saw Arata run by and wanted to help, but my foot shot out right in front of him, and he fell to the ground. My foot then lifted up and slammed into his back.

Suddenly I took a punch to the back of the head. I turned around and a man swung at me. He had the same look in his eyes, the look of fear. A voice called out. "Leaving so soon."