CHAPTER FIVE: WE PART WAYS

DAI LEE COMMANDER

I joined the Dai Lee seven years was hard work, guarding prisoners and doing dirty work, until I was finally made commander. I hope that I would have the chance to heighten Her Majesty's expectations of me.

Capturing the Avatar and her friends was that chance.

But without Sato Mobiles, I'm not sure my comrades and I were going to make it.

For transportation, the secret police has to raise an earth platform, and thrust it in the direction desired. No problems, except for the fact it makes you sweat a bath trying to maintain the position and accuracy it takes to perform...moving.

It is hard, and the more tired you get, the less effective the method is.

And soon, you collapse and-

I had got to stop thinking like this.

I glanced around me feverishly, hoping for a flash of tiredness from my comrades. None. I guess it came with old age, something that I wasn't lacking.

I know Her Majesty wished to have me retired, and I had to stop that from happening. If I could just stop the avatar from escaping, I would be appointed new commander. I savoured the thought of that dream, hoping it would become a reality. But in my present reality, the trees surrounding me were like cloaked figures drenched in mist. The fog was everywhere, a fact of the chase. My legs were burning, and I could already feel exhaustion coursing through my body. No, I couldn't stop now.

I decided to study the trees around me, hoping it would take my mind off the thought of missing the avatar. I squinted, noticing something coming closer to our cleared part of the forest. It was getting closer every second, and I frowned in puzzlement. When we were travelling past the rings, we had no interruptions, so I powered through, thinking that it wouldn't start now. After a couple of seconds, I couldn't take it, so I looked back and saw that it had come from being a dot in the distance from being a figure thirty metres from us. I was tempted to keep on going and forget about stopping. The avatar. The avatar. The avat-

I couldn't take it anymore.

I stretched out my hands, pushing them back slowly. My platform stopped. Or atleast, I hoped it did. It started to brake, digging into the ground and chipping out chunks of rock from the ground, tearing up dirt. I signaled my comrades to do the same. They did, no questions. That's one benefit that comes with old age, no questions. We stopped just in time, because the figure was threee metres from us. I pushed my hands down, my platform following my hands movement. When my platform was close enough to the ground, I jumped off and landed gracefully. I squinted at the what had been a dot in the distance three seconds ago.

"What is it, sir?" asked Yujaya, one of our newest recruits. I make it my business to know who is on my squad. I squinted harder.

"A...girl?!" I exclaimed, shocked at my new discovery.

But before any objections were made, the girl was swept away by a torrent of rocks, pushing her figure far into the air and into the middle of the forest.

After a solid thirty awkward seconds, I turned around and-

"WHO IN THE NAME OF THE BLUE SPIRIT DID THAT!"

Nobody answered. Until one of our comrades in the front asked: "Did what? Sir," he added experimentally. He was obviously new.

"YOU KNOW! THE GIRL! WHO,WHO-THREW-HER AWAY?"

"Um, sir?" Replied a confused agent.

"UGHHH! Stay here," I commanded, my voice trembling with anger.

I trudged into the forest, muttering and ignoring the cries of preotest rising from my comrades, headin towards the direction I thought the girl had landed.

Halfway through the forest, I felt something tap my shoulder. Looking up, I saw a girl looking down at me, her hand clasped to a tree branch.

"I'm just irresistible, right?"

Then I felt something slam into my chest, knocking me to the ground.

Before I blacked out, I heard a feminine voice saying:

"Phase one complete. Bolin, I hope your time spent in the mover business wasn't a waste of time."

I heard Future Industries was hiring.

ASAMI APPROVES!

I'm really sorry about short chapter, I was halfway done but then I decided to update it just for the sake of letting you guys know I'm not dead. I think I probably (which means there's a 4% chance I will) update every Monday and Friday...I think... or just one of those. PM me which day!