An Avatar: The Last Airbender AU RWBY Story
Extinguished
by: RandomReaderThatWrites
Chapter 2: A Burning Flame
THUMP THUMP
Her head was hurting. She felt as if a rock had fallen upon her. Trying to move her hand, she realized that something was keeping her entire body in place. They were cold... like chains.
The young teen started to mumble words, but no one was there to hear her. Her back was against the cold ground. Or was it the cold wall? She couldn't tell.
CLICK CLICK
Footsteps? Or more chains clicking with each-other?
Ruby's entire body was hurting. \she was cold, occasional shivers passing every now and again.
She was scared...
"10 men were beaten up from a kid?!" voices started to get near. "You must be kidding!"
"We found them all out cold." another voice.
"Someone must have attacked them all and then left." the first voice again. "There is noway a kid could have done that."
"Believe what you want." the other voice again.
"Whatever."
Ruby's ears started to hurt. The clicking and the voices were killing her... she just wanted to sleep.
She wanted a quiet place... a warm place.
"Get the kid!" the first voice said. "The General wants to see all new slaves."
"Roger that." Ruby wanted to shut the voices, but it seemed impossible.
"Get up slave!" a man in red armor yelled. Ruby didn't make a move. "I said: Get up!" repeating himself, the man kicked Ruby's chest, the girl gasping, breathless. "Peasant!" the man continued his attack. "Useless scum!" Ruby rolled on the ground and started to cough. Her lungs were burning and her ribs hurting. "G-"
Ruby balled up, hands covering her head, knees protecting her rib cage. She awaited the attack, teeth gritted.
But it never came. Slowly opening her eyes, Ruby saw that a new persona had arrived.
"I told you to get me the slaves!" the newcomer yelled to the man. It was a female... "Not beat them!"
"B-But G-General! They wouldn't g-" the man started to stuter, bowing low to the General.
"Enough with your excuses!" Ruby saw the man being send flying by a punch coated in flames. Another Firebender... "If you want a work done, do it yourself." the General muttered, grabbing Ruby by the back of her clothes. "Move peasant!"
"S-Stop..." Ruby pleaded, unable to breath.
Exposed before the people of the Fire Nation, the slaves were treated like animals. Many were sold, many were beaten, and few were back into their cells.
Ruby was one of them. Her eyes were blurry and she could hardly breath.
The General would soon decide their fate...
'Zwei, where are you?' Ruby was tired, cold, hurting, hungry, thirsty... Most of her wounds were bandaged before she was exposed, but they were still present...
The heavy footsteps of the Fire Nation's soldiers echoed inside the dungeon. One of the men, one that seemed to have the authority said: "Get the slaves from the last cell! The General wants them all burned!"
'What?!' Ruby screamed in her head, eyes starting to tear up. It wasn't her cell, but no matter, no one deserved such fate.
"Get that kid too!" the man talked again. Ruby had seen other children among the slaves, yet she was sure the voice was directed at her.
'No! Please...' Ruby started to cry. 'I don't want to... die!'
The solders followed the orders they were given. One of them dragged Ruby out of her cell to join the rest of the slaves.
"You stop!" the commander ordered. The man that was holding Ruby stopped. "The General wants to meet the peasant in her chamber!"
"Yes sir!" the soldier saluted. "Move peasant!" he ordered Ruby, pushing her off of the ground, pointing his spear at her. Ruby had no way to counter attack, so she obliged.
"You are the child that beat 10 of my men singlehandedly?" a young woman, a few years older than her asked.
Ruby spit on the ground before answered. "So I have heard." she said, looking at the General with eyes filled with disgust. 'She is pretty though...' Ruby mentally slapped herself. The General was wearing a red trench-coat, with black pants. On her trench-coat there were multiple flame imprints, and under it was a golden shirt. On top of all this, there was little armor, only for her forearms and shoulders. Metal boots protected her feet up to the knee.
"Brave." the General smirked, her red eyes seeming amused.
More heavy footsteps joined the previous. Another group of soldiers arrived at the cliff, only to see the fallen 11 people. Ten of them where soldiers, while the last was a young teen.
"Open my way!" their General yelled, sounding irritated. "What is going on here?!" she asked, but understood the answer upon looking at the sight. "What the-? Are you soldiers so useless a kid can defeat you?!" she yelled.
"Ma'am..." one of the downed soldiers tried to speak. "There w-wa-"
"Shut up!" the General yelled, kicking the air and sending a giant fire ball at he man. Said soldier started to scream in pain. "May villagers escaped! I want them all caught!"
"Yes ma'am!" the rest of the soldiers saluted, each returning back to their previous job: Chasing the rest of the villagers. The General turned her back to the downed men, giving order to a few soldiers to pick them up. She walked back into the forest, but something stopped her. There was a tug on her pants leg.
"Bark!" Zwei growled, biting on the General's leg.
"A dog?" she raised an eyebrow, amused. A moment later, she kicked the small dog away from her. The Corgi rolled on the ground, but he was not giving up. "Bark! Bark!" the dog ran to bite her again, and the General kicked him again.
"Zwei..." the girl on the ground lowly called, having heard her dog's barks.
"Zwei...?" the general repeated, confused...
The General smirked. "You are in a pretty bad shape, though." she added, circling around Ruby.
"Your soldiers aren't very welcoming." Ruby replied, her voice full of spite.
"Hn. You are right." the older female chuckled. "You don't need kindness when you have power!" she added, balling her fist in front of her face as if to strengthen her point.
"You people are just scum!" Ruby yelled, having had enough. "You just treat others like animals!"
POW!
Ruby's head was punched so hard, she was shocked her neck hadn't snapped.
"Hehe! That's what all you peasants say!" The attacker chuckled. "Because you have no power! You don't understand power!"
"And you don't understand kindness!" Ruby yelled with all the power she had left.
"Prove it to me." the Firebender order.
"Huh?" Ruby stepped back.
"Prove to me that you were the one who beat my men!" The General repeated, lunging at Ruby. The girl ducked under her punch, but was unable to predict the elbow that would follow.
"Agh!" Ruby's nose was now hurting. Yang brought her knee to Ruby's abdomen, but the younger girl was able to dodge in time.
"Come on!" the general said. "I know my soldiers aren't this weak!"
The Firebender sent a barrage of punched at Ruby, most of them connecting with her body. Ruby was helpless. She didn't how she had 'defeated' the soldiers before, but she knew she wasn't a hand-to-hand combatant. The older girl kicked Ruby in her abdomen, sending the girl flying against the wall, and then flat on the ground. Sitting on top of said girls abdomen, the general started to punch her in the face. Ruby rose her arms in try to defens herself.
"Come on! Show me!" the attacker yelled, ordering more than requesting.
"Stop it!" Ruby yelled on top of her lungs. A gust of wind blew from her body, sending the General flying in the air. She hit the ceiling of her chambers, next ending flat on the ground.
"What?!" The General yelled in shock. "A... A-an Airbender?!"
Ruby slowly rose to her feet. Balling her fists, she started to punch the air, each empty attack ending in a gust of wind being send at the General.
Said young woman's smirk returned, having passed her shock. "Oh, now I see... Show me what you got, Air Bender!"
The Fire Bender dodged every attack from the Air Bender with ease. She spun in the air, sending a flame coated kick at her opponent. Ruby ducked just in time, raising her own leg to kick the General's chin.
It hit. "Nice." she commented, smirk growing wider.
The General got in close again. She send an uppercut and Ruby was unable to dodge. The following attack was a flame coated punch to her ribs, which send Ruby flying against the wall.
"Gah!" Ruby was sure she had broken a rib or two... "What are *Cough* you?"
"General of the Fire Nation's third unit army." the fellow bender answered, closing the distance between the two.
"You are a monster." Ruby coughed again. This time blood.
"You could be right." was her response. Ruby widened her eyes as yet another powerful punch connected with her cheek. "What about you? What are you?"
"I'm..." Ruby suddenly found strength inside herself. "... Ruby!" she added, punching the General in the nose, a gust of wind sending her a few meters away from Ruby.
"So that's your name, huh?" the general smirked, fists balled by her side. "Then I shall make sure to write it down on your grave!" she added. The temperature in the room started to grow. The body of the General started to coat itself in flames. First her arms, then her feet, then her hair and lastly her-
"Don't you think that's enough," a masculine voice called from behind the door. "General Xiao Long?"
Said General turned ot face the newcomer, the flames dissipating. Ruby wasn't sure how to feel. Relieved or even more terrified?
"Father." the General said, looking at the blonde man smirking by the door.
A/N: Ye... ah... I did this... 'cause I'm on a brake from GoW till 14th...
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