Here's Part 2. Hopefully Part 3 will be up by tomorrow!

The Avatar's Redemption

Book 1: Awakening

Chapter 5: Siege of the North: Part 2

Part 2: Terran

Terran tried to loosen the cold tenseness in his body. This time he wasn't looking out the window nor was he looking at the Dai Lee Elite who watched him with judgmental eyes. He wasn't sure if they trusted him or not but that didn't matter to him right now. He only had one image fixated in his mind. He closed his eyes and placed himself back at that moment, on top of the wall he created, looking down at his defeated and demoralized enemies, the rush of power that flowed through him, and the scream that he let out. He opened his eyes. He was ready.

The flight train landed thirty miles away from the battle sight in the dead of night so as not to be detected by the enemy nations. Terran and his team tunneled through the earth while Toshi activated the radar reflector that would protect them if the fire nation had planted scanners underground. Terran and his team pushed their way through further and further forward until he had finally picked up something on his seismic sense. He felt land mines all around them; they were definitely in enemy territory.

Terran placed his hands against the tunnel and stomped the ground to enhance his seismic sense. He could see the battle field clearly now. He saw five main photon cannons stationed at the front line. He asked Toshi if his team was ready; Toshi responded with a nervous nod. Terran dug five more tunnels under each of the photon cannons. He told the Dai Lee Elite the location of the soldiers stationed around the Photon Cannons and had them take them out.

The Dai Lee moved through the gritty dirt like badger moles and pulled each one of their victims down with silent ease. The soldiers were quickly silenced by the Dai Lee and had their weaponry removed. Terran shot up Toshi and his team. Toshi quickly examined the cannon and recognized his father's design. It was made of some of the purest metals and glowed in the night as it hummed an eerie sound. Toshi opened up the control panel and showed the Dai Lee that by removing the photon source and by rigging only certain wires they could easily shut them down. The Dai Lee moved to the other four photon cannons and shut them down as they had been instructed. Toshi begins to set some detonators on each of the canons to prepare for the frontal attack.

They are able to shut down at least a quarter of the main weaponry. Terran begins to feel that this will be an easy victory, that is, until he feels something uncalled for with his seismic sense. Fire Nation troops must have noticed their men weren't responding and were making a move through the weaponry, surely they would notice what they had done.

Terran tells the General to get ready and signals Toshi to activate the bombs he had placed. *BOOM* Even deep underground they could feel the heat of the explosions. The General launched himself and the Dai Lee out of the ground. Terran made sure to watch everything that was happening with his seismic sense.

The General was launched by the Dai Lee up into the air. He landed and caused five sinkholes that destroyed five more cannons. The Dai Lee gracefully moved through the earth as they took down various enemies with their signature tombstone technique. The Fire Benders began to shoot out flames to light the area. A few more fire benders covered themselves in fire and launched themselves upward performing the Dragons of the West technique. The flames that engulfed them made the shape of dragon and they flew down at various Dai Lee agents. They would then burst into flames that would engulf huge masses of area. Terran was beginning to get worried.

The General split the earth causing more soldiers to fall. He metal bends their machinery and rigs them to blow as he chucks them at various soldiers. The Dai Lee leap through the air as the form jagged rocks to overturn soldiers. The Dai Lee begin to gather pieces of metal and rock to form a golem that they unleash upon the enemy. The General unleashes a fury of fissures through the earth as he prepares to move even further ahead. Toshi leaps out of the earth to further shut down any more weaponry. Terran yells out in a desperate plea, "Wait! It's not safe yet!"

A huge flash appeared in the clouds above them. Toshi recognized that flash as his father's aerial cannons. Toshi cursed under his breath, he didn't see any when they checked the area. Toshi called out to the Dai Lee to head back down but they couldn't hear him over the explosions the Fire Nation began to set off. The blast hit the ground in a wonderful array of light.

Terran felt it. A huge surge of energy had just hit and caused a massive ripple through the earth. He launched himself out to witness his greatest fear. The blast must've spread throughout and flattened a fourth of the battle field. Terran could see hundreds of Dai Lee lying motionless at the center of the blast. Many others were knocked off their feet and were struggling to get up. He saw fire benders move forward and begin to either inflame or shoot anyone they saw. Terran's heart began to thump out of his chest. Sweat was rolling down his neck. He began to get increasingly clammy. What was this feeling? Fear?

Terran had found Toshi a few feet away from where he last felt him. He had substantial burns and injuries. Terran clenched his fist and slammed at the ground. He felt tears starting to roll down his face. "No," he thought. "This can't be…happening." Terran could feel his blood boiling. He almost felt like he was about to explode with energy but nothing happened. His eyes were burning and his skin was tingling. Ah! What was this feeling?

The General had moved underground before the impact happened and was getting ready to unleash himself. The General jumped out and began to slam down fire benders left and right. He crushed soldiers, buried them, and created miniature earth quakes throughout the area. Terran used air bending to lift himself higher than he had gone before. He saw the canon that had done this and immediately slammed his fists against it as he distorted the metal and pushed himself down with fire out of his feet. He was burning up as he began to be filled with an unquenchable rage. He slammed the cannon down and began to form a flaming tornado as he ripped through the earth.

The General knows this isn't going to work. He already saw four smaller cannons get blasted into the air. He began to see a few fire benders come out of a base wearing mech suits that enhanced their abilities and that had advanced weaponry. They weren't going to win. Terran was beginning to see it too. The General called out to Terran and told him to gather any remaining Dai Lee while he stalled.

The General moved forward in a blind fury as he threw out all his bombs and attached them on a wall he created. He pushed the wall forward and slammed into a few mechs. *BOOM.* Another flurry of explosions go off. Terran moves as fast as he can and begins to gather as many Dai Lee as he can. He takes them to Toshi's location and forms a dome to surround them. Toshi wakes up and immediately takes notice of what's happening. He orders Terran to reach for a few disks he has in his side pouch. Terran understands and begins placing them around the dome causing a secondary dome made of energy to form around them.

Terran feels another blast. His eyes open wide and his lips began to dry up. He can't feel him anymore. Terran tries to open his mouth but all he can do is stutter, "Where's the General? He can't be…no…no…it's not possible" Terran begins to feel a wave of soldiers coming towards the dome and seems to feel a truck carrying reinforcements.

Terran is burning up but nothing is happening; all he can do is whisper…"no…no…no"


Part 2: Calais

Calais can feel that he is getting close now, but as he traveled forward his eyes began to water and he could also smell something. It smelled like a combination of ash and smoke. As he flew higher up he could see it. A tower of flames.

Calais began to remember that day again. The smell of smoke, the burning of his eyes, the wails of his mother, and the sound of the continuous explosion. Those men…those men with dead eyes and with souls that were even more dead...with hearts as black as charcoal. Those men took his parents away from him. They didn't need to kill him to make him dead. He was dead from that day forward.

Calais shook his head and tried to clear his mind. He understood that there was a battle going on but for what? He pulled on the winds and drew in his glider closer. He was almost certain the Avatar would be here. Wherever there was destruction that's where the Avatar was, at least in the case of the recent Avatars. Calais flew up higher and landed atop a skyscraper with a flame logo on it.

"Now I see why the monks didn't want us to come back…" Calais could see the lifeless bodies of so many men. He could see the charred remains of young soldiers who didn't need to die. This was what the Avatar wrought now. "No more," Calais said with vengeance. He was going to save this Avatar and help him change the world.

*BOOM BOOOM BOOOOM* The skyscraper Calais was on top of shook and began to crumble. Calais struggled to get a foot hold as the glass underneath him shattered. Smoke began to surround him and he could feel his lungs getting chopped up by the glass and ash. He coughed blood as he tried to jump but his glider snapped and he fell.

Calais fell…and fell…and fell…