Zuko looked around the seating for Earth Rumble and noticed the first seven or eight rows where empty. "Why are those seats empty, uncle?"
Sephiroth laughs and pats Zuko's back. "Nobody wants to sit their because of the rocks." Zuko looks up at his brother confused and Sephiroth sighs. "Think about it brother. You have two powerful earth benders fighting with large rocks, repealing and launching at each other."
Zuko thinks for a second and then his eyes widen. "Oh." Zuko looked down at two large earth benders sparring in the arena and frowned. "So, do we know what the Blind Bandit looks like?"
Iroh shrugs and sits down. "Nope, but we will see her when she goes into the arena," Sephiroth sits next to Iroh and Zuko frowns again.
"I'm going to get some snacks. You want anything?" Zuko offers.
"Fireflakes." Iroh replies.
"Make that two orders of flakes." Sephiroth pipes in.
"Do they even serve fireflakes here?"
"Look around, Lee. Their are fire and earth benders here. Gaoling is one of the few neutral territories." Zuko nods and goes to get the snacks.
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Koe, the face stealer was slithering through his cave, humming to himself. He made his way to a hidden chamber. In it was a prison with five creatures. One was on older lizard-like creature, from the world of Asgard. He had two younger Asgardians with him. One was a young human female, with long brown hair. She was from the southern water tribe on earth. The last was an owl anthropromorph. He was from the world of Furcadia. Koe smiled as he saw their hardened faces. "What, no smiles for me today?"
The older lizard-like creature looked Koe in the eyes. "No, face stealer, none of us have given up on life. We will escape your prison."
Koe laughed at the bold statement. "You will never escape. No one can escape from me, let alone the spirit world." Koe looked around the prison and saw a sixth figure sleeping in the corner. "Wake up, Kitsa. You are needed today." when she didn't move he growled. "Fine,I will come and get you, worthless anthro." Koe opened the cage and slithered over to the sleeping form. He grabbed the robe and found it empty. He looked around and let out a piercing scream. "WHERE IS SHE!?!"
The old asgardian looked at Koe. "She escaped, oh dishonorable spirit. And by now she is probably in the human's world. You lose."
Koe screamed in rage and left to recapture Kitsa.
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Kalo and Jun were rushing everyone from the ship, when he noticed that Mai was missing. "Where is Mai?" he asked Jee.
"I think she went to town earlier to get supplies. But right now we need to worry about the fleet of pirate ships coming at us."
Kalo sighed. "I know. I need you guys to get a hotel room. Me and Jun will handle the ships."
Jee looked at Kalo with disbelief in his eyes. "Umm, are you sure? We can help, you know?"
Kalo smiled. "Just get a messenger hawk and send this message to the nearest fire port. They will know what to do." Jee tooked the lettert and ran off. Kalo looked over at Jun and smiled. "Time to get captured."
Jun frowned. "Captured?"
"Yes, I have it all planned out."
"Like, half way planned, or an actual plan?" Jun asks sceptically.
"I have it all planned out... at least until we escape. Then we will play it by ear." Jun sighed as the two made their way to the Emerald Fire, now docked in the spot their ship used to be.
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Zuko returned about a half an hour later, carrying a try with snacks and drinks. He sat next to Sephiroth and handed him a drink and a bag of fireflakes. Seph passed them to Iroh and took another drink and bag. "What took you so long?"
"There was a long line. Did I miss anything?"
"Ya, a couple of matches between some small time guys. The main event starts in a couple of seconds."
Zuko looks out and sees a large earth kingdom man step onto the stage. "Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, fire and earth people. You have come here to see large men throw rocks at each other, am I right?" the crown exploded in agreement. "Then may I introduce to you this years line up." he stomped the ground and seven people appeared on stage. Six of them where large men, but to everyone's surprise their was also a little girl.
Iroh frowns. "Is she blind?" he asks surprised. Zuko and Seph shrug.
"First we have earth rumble familiars, The Boulder and The Big Bad Hippo. unfortunately Fire Nation Man and Wild Man where incapacitated during training. Fire Nation Man may never have kids." the announcer says pointing at a large, well built tan earth bender, then to a rather fat bender. "Next we have five newcomers. First up is The Avalanche," he says pointing to a large, dark skinned man. "Then we have The Guardian," he points to a large brown haired man. "Then there is The Returner," he pointed at smaller blond man. "And then there is The Monk Supreme," he pointed to a much smaller, almost bald man with a pony tail. "And finally, we have The Blind Bandit." he screams as he points at the little girl.
Sephiroth smiles. "We found our girl." Zuko nodded and watched as the seven fighters prepared for the fight. The tournament was a single elimination, survival tournament. The first two fighters out where the Avalanche and the Guardian. Everyone else left the ring and the two faced each other. Avalanche coated his arms in rock. Guardian stomped the ground and created a large, blunt sword out of rock. The two charged at each other and clashed in the middle of the arena. Guardian's sword shattered, and Avalanche kicked him in the chest, sending him flying out of the arena. The crowd cheered, and Zuko even found himself enjoying the fight.
The next match was between the Avalanche and the Boulder. Avalanche smiled and charged at the Boulder, but was caught off guard by Boulder dodging to the side. Avalanche hit the ground and suddenly found himself being lifted off the ground. "The Avalanche actually thought he could hit the Boulder. The Boulder laughs at his poor attempts at fighting." Boulder then threw Avalanche out of the arena.
The crowd cheered and the Boulder took in the attention. "Pitiful man." Zuko mumbled under his breath at the Boulder's pride. The Monk Supreme entered the arena and smiled. Boulder turned and faced his opponent.
"I see you are full of yourself. I guess I just need to give you a dose of humility," The Monk surrounded his feet in rock and launched himself into the air. The Boulder launched three large rocks at the Monk, but they where easily deflected. The Monk laughed and kicked the rocks on his feet at the Boulder. The rocks hit the Boulder square in the chest, knocking him to the ground. The Monk landed and surrounded his arms in rocks. The boulder stood up, rubbing his head, when suddenly the Monk was on top of him. The Monk punched out and the rocks hit the Boulder. The Boulder let out a scream and stood up quickly, sending the Monk flying. The Monk landed on his feet and smiled. The Boulder stomped the ground and caused half of the arena to collapse, knocking the Monk out of the arena. The audience exploded in cheers at the show of power.
"He's kinda scary, don't you two agree?" Iroh says looking over at his nephews. They nod, eyes wide open.
The Boulder fixes the arena and the Returner steps in. He backs away as the Boulder walks forward. "Why do you run from the Boulder? Are you that big of a wimp?" The Returner stops backing away and stomps the ground. Nothing happens. "HA, are you even an earth bender?"
The Returner smiles and turns around. "Yup. And I win."
"What are you talking ab..." suddenly, the Boulder is launched into the audience. "What did you do to the Boulder?" he shouts.
"Look at where you where standing." The Boulder looks down and sees a catapult sitting on the ground. The Returner stomps and the catapult disappears.
The crowd cheers. Iroh looks over and sees Zuko standing and cheering with the rest of the audience. Iroh turns to Sephiroth and smiles. Seph smiles back and the two stand and applaud the Returner. The Returner basks in the cheering and doesn't notice the Blind Bandit entering the arena. "Are you going to stand their all day, or are we going to fight?"
The Returner turns and smiles. "Now for a rematch. I will be victorious this time."
"You wish." she replies. The Returner stomps and creates a catapult under the Bandit. She smiles and stomps on the catapult, completely destroying it. "Did you really think you where going to win with that again?" The Returner backs away. The Bandit yawns and kicks the ground, summoning a large pillar of earth. She then punches it in rapid movement, throwing five pieces at the Returner. They send him flying out of the arena.
Zuko loved watching the tournament. It was now time for the final match between The Blind Bandit and The Big Bad Hippo. Hippo stomped the ground and gathered a few large rocks. He shoved the rocks into his mouth, chewed them, and started spitting them at the Bandit. She smiled and dodged the rocks gracefully. "Hippo getting angry!" the Hippo shouted, causing everyone to cheer. The Bandit laughed and stomped the ground, burying the Hippo up to his neck. She then stomped the ground, launching the Hippo into the wall above Zuko, Seph, and Iroh.
Zuko applauded the Bandits performance, and started looking around. He saw a couple of people standing near the exit. One was a blond male, in a white cloak, with a red cross on the sleeves. The other was a girl with short, white hair. The blond was talking. "So, we need to get her out of here tonight. Raijin managed to wake up early, and now he has gathered a posse to ambush us. I figure we can fight our way through them and escape the city."
The girl looked at him and frowned. "And where do we go after that?"
The boy sighs. "I'm not sure, We need to go meet the Bandit now, and leave."
Zuko smiles and looks at Sephiroth. "You here that?" Seph nods. "I think we might be able to help them."
Seph smiles. "Yes we can, but I think we might want some disguises. We don't need to be discovered."
"True, and I think I have exactly what we need." Zuko says reaching into a bag next to him. He pulls out a pair of masks.
Here is the eleventh cahpter of my story for you people. What did you think of the tournament, I kinda suck at fighting sceans, so please be honest.