I'm back! I've been having some severe writer's block, but my best friend and I hung out today and the block fell away, so I wrote and published! Enjoy. Lots of twists and turns to come. Read and Review please!

Gyatso and Kara: Prodigies of An Avatar

Chapter 40- Come With Us

Kyoshi never would've guessed that pushing her sword into human flesh would feel so good. Every time a Dai Li agent came towards her, thinking, of course, that because she couldn't bend, that she would be helpless, she would show them how helpless she was by stabbing them in the arm. She made a point not to give them any fatal injuries, but spill some blood, enough to show on her sword anyways, and press her fingers on the wound roughly until the blood clotted.

Li, on the other hand, could only manage to distract agents with his boomerang. He felt so emasculated every time he saw his girlfriend, or whatever she was to him now, slash an agent while all he could do was duck under the rocks thrown at him and hit somebody in the head with his stupid boomerang. She walked around, looking like a warrior goddess with her auburn hair down to her shoulders; it had grown over the course of the journey, sweat dripping down her cheeks and mouth, causing her lips to stand out dangerously-even her blood stained finger made her attractive! Li was just . . . Li.

"One down," Kyoshi whispered, punching a guard that ran towards her in the face effortlessly. He fell down to ground right in front of her, his head hitting her legs before the guard held his nose.

She looked up, seeing six agents watching her in awe. Her eyes wandered down to the knuckle that she had punched the agent with and dragged it against her leg, wiping the excess blood on her thigh. During the course of fighting, she had managed to rip her right pants-leg and cut the rest of it off with her sword, leaving the leg bare until her upper thigh.

"Six to go." Kyoshi sighed, blinking before she turned to look at Li. He stood next to her holding his boomerang readily awaiting an opponent. His bright blue eyes stared at the three agents before them and turned to Kyoshi.

She cocked her head over slightly, holding her sword behind her back. Her mouth bowed down in a small frown and she walked closer to the boy next to her.

"Hey, what's up with you?" She asked, brushing a lock of her hair out of her face. He shook his head and looked down for a moment, then back at the approaching agents.

"Nothing . . . let's just smoke these guys and find everybody else, alright?" Li sighed, tracing the perimeter of his boomerang as he started to walk towards the Dai Li agents.

"Oh . . . okay." Kyoshi said quietly, wondering if she had said something wrong. Ever since they had gotten to the dance, things had been weird between the two of them for; it seemed like, no reason at all. They talked less than they usually did and were very distant.

Kyoshi brought her sword out in fighting position and before she could even move, a large boulder, the size of her head, came flying in her direction. It hit her smack-dab in her stomach, knocking her down to the ground. Her head hit the dirt and her eyes closed as she winced in pain.

"Kyoshi!" Li cried, bending down to help her. He started to slide his arms under her back to carry her, but she stopped him with her hand.

"Get the agents, Li! Take care of me later, I'll be fine!" She spat, using all of her strength to push him away from her. It felt like somebody was dragging a knife all over her stomach, but she had to focus on the task at hand.

"Ky-"

"Li! Do it!" She yelled, wincing afterwards. She knew now that after being hit by that boulder, she would only be able to whisper for the next couple of weeks. Every time she took a breath, the sharp pain came back to her stomach down from her diaphragm.

"Do it before they hurt you, too!" She said, rolling her eyes over to him. She picked her head up, but then brought it back down, closing her eyes once more.

No sooner than she spoke did an even bigger boulder come flying at Li. He jumped back, just missing the rock by a couple of inches. Sliding out his boomerang from his pocket, Li jumped up and brought his weapon up. His hands were clammy against the cool texture of the bone that made up the knife aspect of the boomerang. It sent a cool sensation down his spine. . . Is this how adrenaline feels? He thought as he began to move the hand that contained the boomerang in a windmill fashion and, letting it go on a curve, threw it to the farthest away Dai Li Agent that he could see. Within seconds, the agent went down to the ground.

Splat! Blood dripped down from the agent's cheek in the spot when the boomerang hit his face. The other guards automatically snapped into action, running towards Li in record speed. The closest one got to him in about ten seconds with an attempted left jab to the face. Li ducked fast, knocking the agent over with a sweep kick. After kicking him in the stomach, causing him to fall out, Li looked around at the rest of the agents. There were . . . five in all surrounding him. He was fresh meat, and they were hungry lions. Oh crap.

The agents closed in on him, raising their hands slowly. Li closed his eyes, ready to be beaten to a pulp, but felt nothing but a strong breeze pass his arms. His blue eyes blinked over and saw every Dai Li Agent that was about to attack him on the ground, dazed and winded. He looked to the right and saw Gyatso and Kara standing next to each other. They were both dirty, looked tired, and were running on pure adrenaline. Gyatso held Kyoshi in his arms as she looked on with a small, sad smile painted on her face. Li was at a loss for words.

"Come with us." Was all that Gyatso said as he kicked any guards that he thought may still be awake.