A/N: Finally, just under a year and a month old, this finally comes to a close at 100. I'm finishing this drabble collection off, at least for now, so I can focus on Rain and a new AU fic I have started. Enjoy, and thanks to all the readers and reviewers who stuck it out to 100.
Title: One Hundred Years, Two Wars
Word Count: 182
Warnings: Weird, Brainwashing, Torture, Warfare, Ba Sing Se stuffs
Characters: Just the Avatar world in general
Challenge: Based off a 100-theme, as per request
For a hundred years, a vicious war raged. Chaos reigned supreme on the west coast of the Earth Kingdom; the Fire Nation terrorized and took hold of small villages and towns, claiming more and more of the land. People died by the thousands. Mothers and daughters and wives waved goodbye to the men, never to see them return.
Inside Ba Sing Se, all was peaceful. It appeared so on the surface; but underneath the lies and the masked faces was a horrible, heinous truth, another kind of vicious war that raged inside the minds of thousands. People went missing during the night and didn't show up until a week later. Wives bid farewell to their husbands going off to work, sometimes never seeing them again. The Dai Li lurked in every corner and nook and shadow, taking control of the city from the inside.
A system that had lasted for a hundred years was not one to be taken down. So, it was only the natural thing to do, to invite the Avatar to Lake Laogai on behalf of the Earth King.