Avatar: Cry for Rebellion
Chapter 2
A loud bang sounded on the metal ceiling above her. Rye jumped up in the darkness, crashing into a pile of boxes. She toppled over them and slowly got up. She was dazed from her sleep. Another bang completely awoke her. Her eyes shoot up and looked at the little light shining through a new hole in the ceiling.
Rye climbed on top of a large crate and then a box on top of it. She felt the hole with her hand, it wasn't hot so it couldn't have been a fire bender. She flicked her hand to hold a ball of fire, lighting up a small area. She peered closer at the hole, exposing its steel sprawled out and curling over.
Another bang from above and she found herself falling off of the box. The hard landing left her there for a second before she realized she had to get up. The ship was creaking and moaning, sounding like it would give way any second now.
Rye rushed towards the door, stumbling over many of the crates. The door's handle was in her hand just as it flew open. She crouched below the metal stairs leading to the door as a fire bender fell to the round inside the hold. He laid sprawled on the ground, twitching his hand. She gasped, then covered her mouth. the man on the ground was dazed, and didn't look up when Rye had jumped onto the metal platform.
She walked down the hallway, cautiously taking in the noises around her.
Footsteps, then another bang. Another fire bender came into view. He was running down the hallway. After he turned the corner, a ball of air hit the wall and exploded. The fire bender skidded on the ground, regaining balance then continued running. "Get out of here!" he grabbed Rye's arm and started to pull her with him.
Rye knocked him off of his arm out of his confusion and ran the other way towards where the ball of air exploded. There were no more air benders, but who did this?
By the time she turned the hallway, she saw the light of day and a little kid flying around on an old-designed air temple stick. It's wings were spread out, sheeted in a darker orange and it was in perfect shape for being so old.
It hit her. The little kid's appearance looked like the one in her book when she was a kid. The blue arrow tattoos along his body, the Air Temple's style, his bending. It was the avatar.
Behind the avatar were two other people. From the looks of which, both of the Water Tribe. The older boy was obviously clumsy and not a real bender, but a warrior. The girl too, looked not of a bender, but a lowly peasant. She watched from beyond, yelling at the avatar, but nothing bad.
On the other side of the ship, fire benders. They didn't look like the normal benders. In fact, Rye couldn't even recognize the one who was leading them. She had never seen him in the Fire Nation. His left side of his face was scarred, leaving Rye with a disgusted face. How could anyone get scarred like that?
The Avatar fell to the ground, but flipped over and deflected the fire. He kicked the air as he flipped and it knocked back all of the fire benders. The girl shouted at the avatar something, but Rye couldn't make it out.
Something hit her. She fell to the ground seeing a fire nation warrior collapse beyond her.
"Aang! Right there, another one!" the girl called to the avatar, who Rye caught was Aang. Aang turned and caught sight of Rye and flipped over making a ball of air hit her. She felt herself being pushed backwards.
A hand grabbed her, "Get up warrior, I don't pay you watch the fight!" The scarred man stood over her, looking at the avatar in rage. He thought she was one of his Fire Nation warriors.
Rye decided to join in the hit after being forced up into the battlefield. The Water Tribe girl flung a short trail of water, just falling before Rye. "I guess she was a bender.." she laughed a little, jumping to the side.
Feeling her body move for her, she gracefully moved forward, launching fire at the avatar.
"Watch out Katara!" said the boy holding the boomerang behind the girl. He flung the boomerang forward, missing Rye. She smiled a little, thinking this was going to be easy.
"YES!" the boy yelled, "Fire Bender down!" he laughed and caught his boomerang while dancing around. "Sokka, stop that!" the girl yelled at him, as she tried to bend again, but failed.
Rye was on the ground, from being hit in the back where he cut was with the boomerang. She could feel it reopen and burn. Out of her short temper, she jumped up and spun around, kicking fire at the two Water Tribe members. The fell back onto the ground, trying to put out the fire.
Aang stopped short and looked at who shot the fire. His eyes were glowing harder than before and he unleashed winds. Rye moved back a little, then heard someone talking to her. "HIT HIM!" the man yelled, the same one who told her to get up, the same one who had the scars.
On command, she responded back with a fire ball that hit Aang, making him fall to the ground. Aang got up, his eyes fixed on her. She could she him do some fancy trick, throwing out the air. She jumped up, missing on of them. As she fell to the ground on her feet again, she saw another out of the corner of her eye. "Seriously!" she whispered as she jumped out of the way. While jumping, she could feel the wind being knocked out of her body.
Rye feel to the ground, her cloak was laying on the ground a few feet away. "A girl!" the man hissed as he tried to hit the avatar with his fire.
Close to her, two men stood frozen as Aang jumped onto the glaciers and onto the bison.
The ship creaked as Rye slowly got up, then shook violently as it ran into the ice. Rye fell back down and landed on her side. She tried to get up but her arms didn't let her.
"Go after the Avatar!" one person yelled, followed by the comforting voice of an elderly man. "But Zuko, we're stuck and two of your men are frozen."
"Fine," the man muttered, "You two, go unfreeze them," he pointed to the two frozen warriors. Two fire benders got to work on that while she heard footsteps coming closer.
"Who are you!" a voice said, but she didn't see who said it. Rye felt herself being helped to a sitting position. It was the man with the scarred face. He backed up a little, his eyes were wide and fixed on his hand. Her fingers were covered with blood from Rye' back.
"Nevermind, we need to stop the bleeding," he said. Rye nodded still not knowing who this man was.