Chapter two- The escape, the supplies, and an ally

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At last the Day of Black Sun arrived. I couldn't wait for it. It was morning, and the sun had just risen, when my breakfast was brought in.

Two fire navy soldiers came in and spit in my face as they untied me and secured temporary chains to me. "Here's your food peasant! Dance like a monkey if you want it!" He held up a bowl containing four pieces of moldy bread and a small, and I mean small, jug of water. I hated having to dance and make a fool of myself to get food.

I danced and jumped like a monkey. The fire navy soldiers laughed and threw the bowl across the room. I went to get it, and they pulled on my chains and picked up the bowl. One of the fire navy men slapped me across the face painfully.

"Just cause you want it, doesn't mean you'll get it!" "But that's not fair!" I finally yelled. The man took out a whip and whipped me five times before saying. "Shut up. Prisoners are things to be abused and tortured. Nothing more and nothing less. I suggest you get that through your head."

I allowed the soldiers to chain me once again to the wall. The one with the whip whipped me twelve more times before opening the jug with the water and spilling it all over the bread. He then threw the bread at me and said "Enjoy your food!" before leaving. The second soldier followed him to the door.

When he got to the door however, he turned and said to me "You could have been a major asset in the war. You still could. Please join us." I looked directly at him.

"I could never be apart of a war if I have to fight side by side with people like you!" He seemed to frown before walking out the door and shutting it.

It seemed like I waited an eternity, when it was probably only a few hours, before I heard siren like sound. I knew then that the invasion had begun.

I closed my eyes and focused light and darkness into my legs and arms. I forced them to combine, forming a huge amount of balanced radiation. I sent a huge wave of it threw my boy and the chains shattered. This caused me to fall forward onto the cold stone floor.

I stood up and shook my head a little before walking to the door. It was made of lightning proof metal. I focused light and darkness to my arms and formed a ball of balanced radiation in my hands. I pushed it into the door and it was blasted back into the wall five yards behind it.

I went threw the now empty doorway and looked around. I saw no guards, so I ran down the hall to left where I found a door that led outside. I took a breath and opened it. By that I mean I turned the handle, and did not push balanced radiation into it.

I walked out and saw an apparently empty street in front of me. I grinned and went next door to a house and knocked on the door. To my surprise, someone answered.

She was and elderly woman, no younger then 50. She took one look at me and fainted. I sighed and used balanced radiation to open the door.

Inside the house I saw a map of the town, or so it looked like, on the table. I picked it up and checked the locations of the places I would need, and cursed immediately.

The nearest zoo was all the way at the other side of the town. I needed more stuff then I could carry, so I had no choice but to use a very special technique.

I focused light, dark and lightning energy in very specific amounts into my shadow. Instantly 10 copies of myself appeared out of it. This technique was called the soul clone. It is made by focusing light and dark to make a physical body. A touch of life lightning (which basically looks like yellow lightning and has many properties) was all that was needed to power the clones. The clones last for 12 hours unless I destroy them.

Me and my clones left the house and headed two blocks north to the closes place, which happened to be a clothing shop thankfully enough.

We entered the shop and saw no one in it. I quickly noted the clothing and picked out a pair of dark blue pants, a silver colored shirt, a black belt, three pairs of purple socks, 4 pairs of red underwear, and a pair of scarlet red boots.

Me and my clones were just about to leave when I noticed a selection of hats next to a red box. I took a black one and put it on and opened the box. It was full of gold coins. I gave it to one of my clones to hold and grabbed a black jacket next to door and put it on. I looked at the map of the town and noticed there was a weapons shop just 4 blocks away. Me and my clones ran there as fast as possible.

My clones opened the door and I looked inside. I almost fainted. There was everything I could want. Swords, boomerangs, armor, everything. I noticed they also had a selection of 30 back packs. I told nine of my clones to start packing everything the could, and to be sure to cover the basics first. As I was walking out the door, I noticed a rack of what had to be fighting style scrolls. I told my clones to grab them all, and noticed the got right on it. I also told the clone who had the money to put it in one of the backpacks.

I looked at the map and noticed we had actually moved most of the way threw the town, the zoo was now only 2 blocks away, and the library was only 3 blocks away and was next to a traveler's store. I told my clones to go and get the bags in the store and to fill them with as many useful scrolls as possible.

I ran the two blocks to the zoo. When I got there I saw a map that showed the animals they had the zoo. There were three animals that interested me the most.

According to the zoo map, locked in a cage was a dragon. He would be very handy indeed.

I also noticed that in another area of the zoo was a giant falcon that was big enough for one person to ride and have a little room left over. Very useful for transportation also.

The final animal that caught my attention was one I didn't notice until I walked past it's cage. I was on my way to the dragon cage when I saw a caged in lake.

I noticed something was moving beneath the surface and, being the person I was, jumped in the lake. The creature I found shocked me.

It was blue, had enormous wings, and looked incredible. It was another dragon, but this one looked hurt. I swam to it and noticed it was asleep and seemed to have the hilt of something in it. I grabbed the hilt and heaved with all my might.

What I pulled out was a huge sword. It was nine feet long and looked very deadly. I didn't have time to appreciate it very much, however. As soon as I pulled out the sword, the dragon woke up. As soon as its eyes opened, it tuned to face and roared tyrannically. I stared it down and put the sword under my arm and closed my eyes to show I was friendly. What happened next would change me forever.

The dragon reached out it's had and jumped out of the water, grabbing me with it's tongue. I was terrified to say the least.

It used its tongue and suddenly I heard a voice in my head. "Thank you for releasing the Blerion sword from me." "Who are you and where are you?" I heard laughing in my head, and the dragon looked at me with kind eyes. Using it's tongue it placed me on its head and took off, breaking the cage and landing on the path of the zoo. "I am Bleria my silly friend. Cobra, you have been threw a lot of pain, and now is not the time to talk. I will help you so we may escape and we will talk later."

I jumped off and thought back to the dragon. "Stay here, I need to go release one of your friends and a giant falcon before we leave this place." I suddenly heard a boom sound, and saw fire over the rim of the volcano. The battle was getting closer. I had to hurry. I entered the cage and the dragon immediately noticed me.

It roared a huge breath of fire. I placed the Blerion sword down in front of me and backed up a few steps to show I was friendly. It just roared again and tried to bite me.

"They tend to respond to a strong person who is selfless." I turned to find the source of the voice and saw the source.

He was an elderly man with a long beard. Though he was wearing heavy clothing I could tell he was strong. I lifted the sword and pointed at him. "Who are you? I won't let you take me prisoner again!" He looked shocked before smiling and saying. "My name is Iroh. Please forgive me. I am not your enemy. I am leaving the fire nation to help the avatar. Please believe me."

I looked more closely at him and saw signs of abuse like the marks that were on me. The marks of someone who has been held prisoner. I suddenly felt something hit my and looked up to see Bleria smiling. "That is the hilt to the Blerion sword, please sheathe it." I obeyed and heard Iroh laughing.

"What's so funny about a dragon?!" He stopped. "Nothing, it's just I'm amazed you don't realize what that sword is. Why don't we leave together? We have only 16 more minutes before the eclipse ends." I realized he was right. "Fine. I will trust you for now. But once we clear the city, we need to talk Iroh. I'm Cobra by the way."

Suddenly I heard an odd squealing sound and turned to see the dragon bowing before Bleria. She thought to me. "He says he will help." I nodded.

I turned to Iroh and said. "Come on, we need to rob some major stores if were going to be out of here in time." He followed me to the falcon cage. The falcon flew to our side as Iroh opened the cage. It rubbed it's beak against Iroh and I knew it was a good animal.

I jumped on to Bleria and Iroh onto the falcon. The other dragon followed as Bleria flew back to the armory. As soon as we arrived my clones came out and proceeded to load the dragons with the filled backpacks. "Will we really need all this Cobra?" I glared at Iroh.

"Of course we do and we are not even halfway done! Clones get on! We have some stuff to get!" Iroh smiled when we got to the library. He quickly rushed in as my clones came out. "Iroh, we got everything!" One of my clones showed me that he had filled four backpacks with the rugs in the library. We could definitely sell those.

Iroh came out five minutes later with 12 scrolls in his hands, which he stuffed into one of the extra backpacks we had and tied it to the falcon. "What'd you get Iroh?" He grinned and said simply. "Something you should never forget." I would have argued, but we had very little time left. I took out my map and saw that 10 blocks away was an apothecary, a medical center, and a shop all next to each other.

We hopped onto our creatures and flew as fast as we could, the second dragon following closely behind. We made it there in four minutes. "Iroh, go into the store and get some stuff. Take two of my clones with you, and be ready to leave in six minutes. We need to get out soon!" He nodded and entered the shop with my clones carrying 12 empty backpacks.

I quickly entered the apothecary with the other ten of my clones. I grinned as I saw row upon row of seeled boxes with herbs in them. I told four clones to grab every box and book and coin they could find and put it into the backpacks and onto the dragons.

Me and the other six clones entered the medical shop. I smiled again. There were at least 20 cabinets full of supplies and there was even a bookshelf lined with medical dictionaries. I also noted a stretcher on the ground near the bookshelf. I picked up the stretcher and tied it to Bleria before I went back into the shop.

In four minutes we had everything from the apothecary and medical shop onto the dragons. As soon as we had finished securing the gear I looked around for Iroh.

Iroh was instantly visible coming out of the store in his new clothes, followed by the two clones who went with him. All twelve backpacks were full. Iroh's new look was nice. He had on a red jacket, silver pants, black boots, a purple belt, orange socks, which I vowed to beurn, a tan colored shirt, a green hat and I don't wanna know what underwear.

"How much stuff did you get?" He grinned. "Don't worry. I just got what we needed. I can't believe you forgot to get tents and games." I badly wanted to yell at him, but resited the urge. "Are games really necessary?" "Absolutely. If you don't relieve tension, you will never be in good shape." I looked to my right and saw a dried food store.

Iroh and I nodded to each other before going in with five clones and 4 backpacks. I stuffed 15 kinds of dried food and meets into some packs, as well as 30 large jugs of water. I finally put the Blerios sword on my belt and turned to tell Iroh I was done. I saw him finishing putting a green jar of something in his pack and he faced me.

"I'm done." He said simply. I had to ask. "What was in that jar?" He smiled. "Why tea of course! You never travel without tea." I resisted the urge to smack him in the face.

"We have everything I can think of. Did you get anything uselful from the shop?" "Yes. I got a tea cup and pot set, some other pots and pans, and some silverware. Also, two full tents, a sowing kit, some musical instruments, some fabric, a pi-show board. A deck of cards and finally a large atlas." I grinned. "Good job Iroh. Now let's go."

We left the store. I jumped onto Bleria while the clones tied the final backpacks to the other dragon. Iroh tied another backpack to his falcon while my clones put the rest on the other dragon. "Ready Iroh?" "Ready Cobra!"

With that we kicked off the ground and I dispelled my clones. As flew higher and into the clouds, I caught sight of fireballs hitting the shore. I looked down and saw retreating water tribe men and wondered how on earth they hadn't seen us. I though I saw a white creature followed by a balloon fly east, and so it was in that direction we flew.

I looked down and caught one final look at the city I hated so much. I thanked god. I knew I was finally free. Bleria begun flying, with Iroh on his falcon at our right, and the other dragon with the gear on the left. I couldn't wait to meet the avatar.

End Chapter 2

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