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Escaping the Prison
Huang and Max started walking across the lake. Though Max froze the entire lake, the water changed phase in a matter of seconds, and was soon boiling again. Max kept the section they were walking on frozen, letting the ice behind them melt as they walked, but he was having a difficult time keeping the ice from thawing.
"We have to hurry Huang! I'm… ung… not sure how much longer I can keep it iced…" Max and Huang walked faster, but not enough to overdrive Max's rate of freezing the water. Just as they were about half way to the rock wall, Huang yelled.
"Look out! The guards are attacking again!" A fireball shot towards them was aimed right at Max. Before Max did anything however, Huang leaped in front of him and parried the blast. He then countered with a fireball of his own.
"I didn't know you could firebend!" Max yelled.
"Well, now you do! Keep going, lead the way! I'll cover you!"
Huang managed to block every fireball that came their way, but it was greatly impeding their speed. Max meanwhile was doing his job, but the fear of being hit in the back made concentrating a burden. Suddenly, a fireball landed right in front of Max, who nearly jumped out of his skin from tense surprise.
"What the-?" he looked up and saw the gondola linking the prison and the wall with four firebenders in it. They started shooting a flurry of fireballs at the two. Taking defensive action, Max created a shell of ice and blocked the fireballs. Wow… not bad for a first day of waterbend- but Max's feet suddenly started burning. "Uhaaa!" the water supporting him and Huang started to melt, but Max refroze it. Unfortunately, this distracted him from the ice shell and it was immediately blown apart.
"We have to make a run for it!" Max yelled, "I'm going to have to freeze less ice on the surface!" Huang looked back and replied,
"I'll still do my best to cover you!" Max slowly began to accelerate, not to fast for fear of slipping, and eventually broke into a run. And, because he was freezing a lesser quantity, the ice almost immediately melted after it was frozen. They had almost twelve feet of ice to run on, just barely enough. "We're almost there…" Max said to himself. This thought may have jinxed his efforts, however, for he slipped and fell. Huang, who had been running right behind him, tripped over Max and stumbled. Max looked up only to see Huang about to fall into the water. He froze the water just milliseconds before Huang fell in, but he hit the ice with such a thud, it knocked all of the breath out of him. Huang rolled on his back, gasping like a fish out of water. Max took his hand and dragged him across the ice, one hand holding Huang while the other froze the water ahead of him. All these complications, in addition to dodging the raining fireballs, made running a very awkward process.
Meanwhile, the Admiral and the Fire Nation ship were getting closer to the volcano.
"Look, do you hear it? There are sirens going off! Something is definitely wrong…"
"It could be just a drill. Maybe they're practicing where they're supposed… to… go?" The Lieutenant fell silent at the look on the Admiral's face. "Admiral Chan, I don't think that we are supposed to break off from-" but Admiral Chan started laughing.
"I remember back when my uniform was so tight I couldn't see straight." The Lieutenant looked confused. "I'm sure we should go and check that everything is all right." Chan said.
Max hurried on as fast as possible, as slow as that may be. He thanked the universe for blessing the firebenders with such poor aim as he walked on. He had to take a turn away from the gondola in order to decrease the passengers' accuracy, so the distance to the wall increased.
"Okay, okay, I'm fine now. You can let go." Huang stood up as Max turned back around.
"All right let's start running agAAAAAA!!" Max was hit across his chest with a ball of fire.
"Max!" Huang turned around.
"No, no, turn back around, I'm fine! But their aim is improving…" The fire only nicked his chest, he hadn't gotten hit full blast. Max suddenly felt his feet get hot again. He grunted and refroze the water. "Come on, lets go!" Max started to begin his slow acceleration again but stopped when he saw Huang wasn't moving.
"They stopped." He said. "They stopped shooting at us. And the sirens got turned off."
"Are you sure the Warden told us to stop shooting?" One of the guards asked back at the prison.
"Yeah," the other guard responded, "I'm not sure why though. He said something about a ship."
Meanwhile, on top of the main tower, the Warden gazed nervously at the oncoming Fire Navy ship. A chief guard went up and joined him.
"That's Admiral Chan's ship!" the chief said.
"Admiral Chan?" the Warden asked, "Isn't he supposed to be on shore leave on Ember Island?"
"Well, his leave had to end some time." The chief said. The Warden faced palmed himself.
"No one ever tells me these things! You!" He pointed to a guard walking around him. "Tell all the other guards to go back to their regular stations!" the guard left. The warden and the chief guard were silent. Then the chief spoke.
"What should we tell the Admiral?" the chief inquired, "Warden?" the Warden had his fingers to his chin, the gears of thoughts no doubt churning vigorously.
"We tell the Admiral nothing! Let the prisoners go, it's too late now. No one will know about this incident. Our reputation would be ruined!"
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