I would be lying if I said I wasn't afraid. I was terrified. The fact that Equalists were surrounding my school, full body armor, and armor and cloaks vehicles killed me. I was frozen, I had never seen a deployment of Equalist soldiers as big as this one. They surrounded the school, side by side they stood there black robes acting as a wall of shadows. I couldn't see the bottom of the buildings that had been on the other side. Most had been blocked by the armored vehicles. John had still been talking to.. whatever was in his hand. Anyway I could telling he was serious he was practically yelling into it.
"Look Christian, how far away are you?", John said. I heard muttering from the other end of the small radio, it was quick but it seemed to get to the point with John. "Alright fine, I don't give a fuck how you get here, just do it. Oh and report to the others to take out any Equalists who attack civilians", said John who seemed to be folding his radio in his hand. The three of us stood near the table next to the tree.
"Porter...or John sorry, what the hell is going on, and who is Christian?", I asked. I hadn't been looking at him, I had been more focused on my surroundings. "What type of name is Christian anyway, are you colonists?", asked Ruan acting the way I was.
There had been no way out Equalists had slowly started to approach the school, some armored vans had even pulled up onto the grass. "Look Khai, I really love to give you a history lesson, but we've got bigger problems as you may have noticed", replied John in a sarcastic tone. I couldn't take it anymore, I lashed out towards John putting my hand around his throat, Ruan was shocked, what the hell happened between these two? he thought. "Hey Khai, man just calm down", he said. John hadn't been expecting me this time, however he did come prepared.
"Listen to me you bastard, tell me who are you and where are you from!", I shouted. I glared at him, my eyes piercing into his, but he didn't give me the satisfaction I wanted, although he was a little frustrated. He choked and sputtered a bit, trying to talk but my grip only got tighter. He had returned the favor my removing a weapon that had been tucked underneath his shirt, one I had never seen.
I lightened my grip, the black weapon he had in his hand was now at my head, a hole in the center barrel was aimed directly at my temple. "Y-you, like l-living right/", muttered John trying to get control of the situation. I don't know it seemed like he could have easily broken my grip, he probably doesn't want to make a scene with the Equalists around, play it safe. I didn't want to loose control, unknowing of his weapon I let go, giving him a little push as doing so.
He stepped back a bit, rubbing his throat, he looked around a bit at the Equalists who were still trying to organize themselves. Then he angrily fixed his attention back on me, I didn't blame him. "Fuck.. Khai listen I-", John had begun to say. He was cut off by an armored van that had been driving backwards. Dirt and dust had filled the air, the vehicle had smashed itself through the chain link fence, and the back doors were thrown open.
All our attention was on the Equalist who had now full entered school grounds. That goes for other students as well. Things started to get uglier, "Praise Equalism!", each soldier shouted. The three of us were shocked, our eyes widened in horror, this will signal the beginning of the historical battle which will be known forever, maybe even more then the great war, with Avatar Aang.
Some soldiers had charged hopped over the fences they hadn't broken down. Screaming could be heard all over the school, quakes of fear roaming the campus. Lee, the obnoxious fire bender who had beaten Khai, earlier had fought back, flames rose from his hands, launching out a stream of fire at them. Other students with different elements had done the same. Rocks had been thrown, pillars appearing from the ground striking the Equalists. Water used as whips and turned into frozen spikes shot from the step of the tower, and the fire benders attacked, engorging the energy from the sun.
Equalists using palms and knuckles to strike the benders blocking their chi paths. Some of the bender limbs had gone numb, making them collapse to the ground, incapacitated. What really got my attention was Lee's sudden victory over the Equalists that he had attacked. As Lee lashed his arm out, emitting flames, the Equalist immediately used the edge of his hand to swipe, away Lee's arms hitting his wrist sending it out and making him wide open for any kind of attack, Equalists choice.
However, the Equalists was dropped. Out of nowhere, in the middle of his attack which could have been the end for Lee, was stopped by an unknown force. Lee looked in extreme confusion as the soldier crumpled to the ground. "What the hell Khai, I'm the son of a detective, not a fucking general, we can't take them let's get out of here!", Ruan shouted. John looked at him in disgust, and was thinking of an insult as an other guy ran over to us shouting.
"John, I'm glad I found you, sorry it took me awhile this hippie in the park kept offering me seeds. So how was class?", said the man. He looked about 17, he had tan skin, black hair, and brown, near-black eyes.
"Fun story Christian, and yes, I have made some friends.. but that's not the point look we need get to the lockers", John said changing the subject. Ruan and Khai, looked at each other with sheer confusion. Two soldiers ran through the mowed down fence and towards all four of them. John could see Khai and Ruan getting eager to defend themselves, however John had another plan.
John's drew his other-worldly weapon, and aimed at the Equalists. Two loud bangs, erupted from the weapon. Ruan and Khai, had not been expecting it. Streams of blood flood out of the soldiers head, as they fell to the ground motionless. They slammed their hands over their ears, in pain. Other attention was soon drawn by the noise. The man named Christian urged them to follow. "Fuck, man my ears! Their still ringing", shouted Ruan as he ran with them towards the back of the school. Khai, completely agreed, it was the most noisiest hand held weapon he'd ever heard and it caused a piercing ringing in his ears.
"Stop bitching, been here 5 minutes and their already complaining. It's like they never seen a gun before", said Christian panting as he ran towards the back doors of the school. John rolled his eyes.
"Tell me about it..", replied John. They both laughed a bit as they tried to avoid fights and getting into crossfires between bender and Equalist. Soldiers charged them, wielding swords, scimitars to be exact. Others carried hand bombs and dagger, while some just used their chi blocking skills. However John and Christian just used their "guns" as they called them to shoot more of their oncoming attackers. More streams of blood shot out from their exit wound.
John kicked down the door, revealing the long hallways of lockers. He them continued to kicked open his locker, which had been down a ways. John removed larger weapons, that seemed to be a lot bigger then their usually hand guns. He also tossed Christian a thick vest, which could seem useful in blocking the strikes of Equalist. Large crashes and roars of flames could be heard from around the campus.
"Khai, Ruan this is where we part ways, we would bring you along, no offense but you both would only slow us down", said john slapping on his vest.
"What!, you can't at least just give me a weapon, you have plenty in their.. which is amazing consider the fact you weren't caught by the hall inspector", said Khai
(Somewhere in the school lays the hall inspector, unconscious in a closet)
"Uh..yea, anyway here take this sword, I managed to swipe from some metal bending police, they have plenty of them, I don't think they'll mind", said John suspiciously. He handed me the sword. It had the insignia of the metal bending police, and it was double bladed on both sides. It was good weight considering it wasn't a scimitar, and it was long..(pause for "that's what she said" joke).
After we were done admiring the swords Ruan looked up "So, I'm going under the protection of this guy or do i get some cool?", he said. When he looked up he could see John and Christian rounding the corner of the hallway. "Guess we're on our own, c'mon let's see what we could do", I said. (To see what happens to Johnathon Porter and his past adventures see "Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted" by mastermind123...If you hadn't noticed yet our stories go coincide, however some details might be altered and some events might be added, John and Christian belong to him as well)
We rounded the opposite corner that John and Christian went. We jogged up the stairs revealing half burned tapestries hanging from the wall with the school's initials on it. The artistic colors now mixed with the burnt black color of where flames had been... or bombs. Some had still been slightly on fire and smoking. On the second floor horrific things had been seen. First out the window we could see Equalists arresting anybody who tried to find a way around them.
Anybody we attacked them had slightly more fatal consequences. Slabs of stone could been seen down the hallway of the second floor. Some impaled into walls, others into lockers of the students. The two of them walked slowly around each pillar and climbing over the one that been used to block off hallways but destroyed by the Equalist hand bombs.
A horrific scene of bodies scattered throughout the other side of the half damaged wall that had block are sight of them, laid bloodied and bruised on the floor. Some had dried blood smeared across their face, while other still had some dripping from their mouths, I wanted to vomit. "Shit Khai...", Ruan muttered to himself. I turned around, I didn't notice that Ruan had wandered off into another classroom, for reason I didn't know.
I was almost convinced not to enter the classroom, but my curiosity got the best of me. I gagged at the site of a teacher, pinned to the wall, with two blade coming out of her chest and stomach. The worst part was, she was off of her feet, pinned in mid air. As each second went by the teacher slightly lowered to the round her body weight overcoming the swords, blood rushed down he dress. Her face emotionless and she starred emptily at nothing.
Ruan's gawked at the sight of her. He almost left immediately as I entered the room. He stood in the doorway next to me as we starred. Desks, were tipped, some smashed by rocks, ice shards impaled other desks and walls. Some actually had dried blood on them, hoping to be Equalist blood. "Let's go Ruan I can't see any more", I said.
In fact we heard screaming, a girl. We got out of the room and quickly made our way around the stone slabs, and giant shards of ice. Bodies had not made this moment any better for the both of them, but they were determined to save this girl...somewhat. We left the first hallway, and rounded into the second. Their were only five rooms in this one, the other hand eight.
The same scenery of burnt tapestries, boulders smashed into the floors and walls, and bodies were everywhere. What was I suppose to see, Equalist soldiers waiting patiently in classroom, eager to learn? Even the thought of that couldn't make things seem better. There had been one wall that had been completely torn down and the boulder that done it was smashed into the one parallel to it.
Ruan and I advanced down the hallway towards the room with the screaming. However when we approached the locked door, a wave of water crashed through the doors, turning into ice shards and piercing the wall behind the bender. I drew my sword, ready for attack. To my surprise, after the rush of water ended and frozen into thin ice slivers in the floor, Kya could be seen kneeling on the ground, panting, sweating, and in pain.
Her straight black hair had been messed up, her beautiful dress ripped, and she was badly cut. she looked at me, she was surprised, but it was a surprise of excitement hoping to see someone to help her. "Khai", she said panting as hard as she could. She propped both her arms down to hold her up, I was both terrified and nervous. The girl I was in love with was right there, in pain, yet I couldn't even say anything back.
I bit my tongue, I had to do something. Even if this was my only chance to talk to her, I had to do something..kind of a sick way to think of it. I shook my head, to get my head back to reality. I raced to her and knelt down, Ruan went to the other side and did the same. "K-kya, whats wrong, who did this to you?", I said. I starred at her wounds, cuts along her legs and arms. They were deep, I needed to act quickly. "Khai", she said still panting heavily. I looked into her eyes and she looked into mine, I nervous thought but I didn't look away.
"Ruan, there's the janitors office, down the hall see if you can find bandages, or anything needed to stop the bleeding I can help now but we need to act fas-", I stopped talking. Footsteps could be heard across the hallway, from the room where Kya flew from. I turned and starred in horror for Kya's safety.
This soldier was very muscular, wielding two swords in each hand. Blood had been dripping from each one. However, his uniform had been very unusual for an Equalist. He wore a sleeveless metal chest place, metal fingerless hand guards, and metal studded black pants. The studs were on the inside, however I could tell the difference. It made him look more of a threat.
His pants were slashed, I had guessed that Kya was responsible for that, and blood ran from his shoulders, probably courtesy from Kya as well. He was a bald, well fit, Juggernaut of a sort. He pointed one of his blades at Kya.
"Move out of the way, she dies by my blade Khai", he said towering over all of us.