Post by xvmuratvx on Dec 13, 2006 13:18:35 GMT -6
[OOC: Please note that the "Darkest days" whatever will probably happen right at the end of my post.
To Doku Yugami - feel free to enter. But please don't interrupt our Agni Kai.
This was all written with Kouun last night. This took so long to write, you have no idea.]
She smiled happily, looking down at the ground.
"I-It was the least I could do."
She looked at Selece's happy face.. and smiled genuinely for a moment.. seemingly on cloud nine, finally turning her back and looking towards Kouun.
Kouun looked up at Kenta who had walked over to him asking if he had witnessed the fight.
"You should have won Kenta. Her only water source was that well. You could have easily plugged it up and made it much harder for her to fight you. I guess you don't think that far."
Kouun slowly got up and shook his head in a disappointed fashion towards Kenta. He then noticed Amatria had fallen asleep, after a few minutes she woke up with tears building in her eyes. She asked if they could leave. Kouun walked over to her and bent down to her level and placed his large hand on her shoulder.
"We will leave as soon as I and Yue settle things, okay Amatria?"
Kouun stood up and walked over to Selece and Yue.
"I'm ready if you are, Yue."
She nodded to him to signal her readiness, motioning him to follow her slightly as the walked a bit aways from the others.. about 30 feet or so. They were still visible, but a ways enough away that they wouldn't be hit by backlash.
She ruffled around in her sleeves a moment, then smiled slowly, looking at him.
"We'll fight. Whoever gets knocked out the first is the loser. Understand? If I win, I get to go free. But if you win, I'll follow you all the way to Ba Sing Se with no more problems on my part. Agreed?"
She waited for the answer, and then.. "I'm sorry I don't have the ceremonial robes. But then again, you're not a Firebender.. so.."
She smiled, a little at first, her smile growing.
"Agni Kai.. begin."
She clasped her hands behind her back, walking towards him slowly, a cheshire smile painting her face.
Kouun was slightly confused on her strange demeanor. She was simply walking up to him as if he would do nothing.
"You sure seem lax for the situation!"
He then stomped on the ground with his right foot, and punched his arm forward, sending an earth spike traveling through the ground toward Yue, trying to break her cool. He quickly shifted to a defensive stance, and waited for her next move. He predicted she would dodge and fire a blast in return. He would just have to wait and see.
She saw it coming, following it along the ground with just her eyes. She would have to time this just right. Right as she saw it puncture the smooth, supple ground.. she slid to the side on the balls of her feet.. feeling it just barely graze the edges of her shirt. She looked back to him with a smile, continuing to walk forward. She was slowly but surely closing the distance with each slow, taunting step.
Kouun thought to himself:
*Damn it. She is just gonna keep advancing and try to choke off my bending. OK. Well, lets see her dodge this!*
Kouun bent low to the ground so that the palms of his hands could touch the dirt which was so vital to him. He then quickly raised both his hands into the air and raised a large wall about 6 feet tall and 7 feet wide . He then stomped on the ground near the base of the wall and gave the wall a strong push. The wall then began to streak toward Yue rather quickly.
She laughed. He actually heard her laugh. It took her about two seconds to sidestep the required seven feet.
Yue thought, *I'll tease him a little bit. Let him graze me. Touch the tips of my hair. A few inches.. one inch. He'll think he's so close..*
She let the wall breeze by her face as she made a surprised expression, then grinned to him to show she was faking shock. She saw him growing irritated at this little game, and she ran forward to him. Within a few seconds, she had pressed her chest to his, standing nose to nose with him, the tips of her toes touching his toes. She was panting from having run that far in such a short distance of time. Her breath caressed his lips - she was THAT close.
"Hello there." She grinned wider, her eyes sparkling with malevolence. She was mocking him.
Kouun was surprised of how quckly she had closed the gap between them, She then greeted him in a mocking matter. His blood began to simmer as frustration reared it's ugly head. He managed to suppress the irratation and tried to give Yue a right hook to the body to knock her away.
She slid along his left side, just outside of his reach as she slammed her left shoulder into the gap between his sternum and his abdomen, pushing forward as he pushed forward.. the net result being a shoulder slammed into his solar plexus with all of his own weight behind it. She continued sliding along his left as his right hook - literally - came within millimeters of her body. She smiled to him with a wide, cocky smile. She toe-stomped his foot, sitting it on fire. He felt her two fingers jabbing his body, setting various pieces of his clothes aflame. This was a battle of attrition.
Kouun felt the air in his lungs escape him when she struck him in the solar plexus, before he could even catch his breath he felt his feet getting extremely hot and some patches of his skin began to sting from the burns that were being caused by the flames that Yue had ignited on his clothing. He instinctively stomped on the dirt under neath his feet to make it cover his body and smother the flames. After going through that process which took a whole 3 seconds he quickly tried to find Yue, when he spotted her only a few inches away from his left shoulder, he swept his foot in a counter clock wise spin trying to knock her off balance.
She followed her pattern of stepping within his spins to knock him off his rhythm. So, he was sweeping her, yes? She stepped in closer, so she was closer to the axis of rotation - his other foot... which she kicked at the ankle as hard as she could. That could have one of many effects. She could break the joint.. or just knock him horrible off balance so he'd fall face forward - and depending on where his arms, hands, and fingers were - maybe mess up some of those, too. She stomped her toe into the ground, and kicked some flame onto his slowly-collapsing form.
Kouun fell to the ground hard, his right hand which he was using to brace himself gave out a loud snapping sound, as some of his fingers had bent to far back and broke. Kouun winced in agony but had to once more react quickly to the flames which had once again began to eat away at his clothes. He slammed his right hand onto the dirt which brought up a blanket of loose dirt to smother out the flames. He arose from the dirt as quickly as he could, his breathing was now heavy and his head was beginning to be clouded by frustration, he was fighting the exact same way he had in their last fight, but she managed to counter each attack this time around, he had to think up of a new strategy before he lost this fight..
He was on the ground in front of her, struggling to think - struggled to move. He had no defenses ready. She smiled - now seemed a good time to use it as any. She made the motions of Lightning-bending.. slowling dragging her fingers in the air in opposite, concentric circles.. drawing her fist back and punching it forward as she widened her stance, bracing her lower body as she breathed in deeply, and punched. The air around her fist exploded with a loud CRACK ripping through the air. It was a gigantic explosion caused by failed lightning-bending.. and it echoed across the ground and into the forest like a crack of thunder. A huge cloud of dust and smoke erupted from contact with the Earth. Had she vaporized him, too? Her hand was a little numb.
She spoke quietly, her hands once again behind her back.
"That was my Thunder Punch. It brings instant death."
As soon as Kouun recognized the motions of Yue's arms he stomped the ground and raised his left arm raising a thick wall of earth, then suddenly the wall shattered and the force of the blow sent Kouun flying back into a nearby tree. His back and head slammed into the thick trunk of the large tree. His vision was blurry and he could see two blurry figures of Yue in front of him. They slowly began to become in focus and joined as a single entity. His ears where also ringing and he could only see Yue's lips wording something.
"Damn.. I'm going to die in this stupid fight." he thought out loud.
She walked up to him slowly, bending down at the waist to leer into his face, grinning from ear to ear like some sort of sicko. She said - her voice dripping with arrogance.
"Is that all you've got? The Stone Wolf and the Earth Kingdom are nothing to me."
She kicked her foot forward, kicking a gout of flame all over his slumped form.
"Isn't it sad? Now that I'm fighting calmly and rationally, you can't even land a hit on me."
She laughed sickly, her eyes looking down at him - piercing him. Those monsterous eyes.
"PATHETIC!"
She kicked more fire onto him.
"PATHETIC PATHETIC PATHETIC!"
She kicked three more gouts of flame onto him, giggling through her teeth as she watched him writhe, pinned against the tree trunk.
"Is that all you've got?!"
Kouun had barely managed to avoid the flames by rolling to the side.
When he got back up to his feet, he noticed that his wolf pelt had caught aflame. He put out the flames by bending some dirt around his hand, and patting out the flames. He stared at the burnt pelt which was given to him by his grand father.
He thought of what his grandfather might have done against this kind of enemy. She obviously already knew all of his normal techniques. She also had a devastating close-range attack, but it required time to pull off. He then tried to calm himself, he knew that anger would only hinder his fighting abilities.
*OK Kouun... No more brute strength...it's time to see what you can come up with using that thick head of yours. She seems to just be countering all your close range swings, but now you have some distance on her...think of an attack she hasn't seen...one she can't predict...Got it!*
Kouun stood up straight and then helded out his left hand away from his body, and opened his hand - palm facing upwards.
"I think it's time I show you the Fangs of the Stone Wolf, Yue..."
He then jumped a few inches off the ground, and when he landed a small tremor could be felt. As soon as he slammed his feet on the ground a large dust cloud surrounded the area that he and Yue where in. He could still sense where she was by feeling her movement through the dirt. He pinpointed her location and made a fist. The dust around her began to solidify and started to ensnare her in a stone cocoon. He could only use this attack once, after that most of his higher-level bending was out of his reach, due to the lack of energy. The best he could do after this attack was probably launch a few boulders at her, or put out a few fires. This attack was Kouun's last gambit.
She thrust her hands, palm down as she exhaled, long and slow.. superheating the air around her as she saw the dustcloud coming in. No, she had never seen an attack like this, certainly! But she could guess at what he was aiming at as she started to see stone chunks starting to form from the dust. He was aiming to entrap her - it was cute. He never attacked her in any sort of lethal way.. he always tried to stop her from attacking him. That would be his death, this day.
As the rock settled around her, it was already superheated.. and very thin due to how much dust it took to make even a centimeter of rock. She thrust her right and left elbows forward, breaking holes in the weak sarcophogus. She closed her eyes and headbutted the rock in front of her, drawing a little blood from her forehead. She had broken out of his 'final' attack with little to no effort. She slowly walked up to him, smiling.
"Your fangs are dull, Wolf."
She went threw the motions of lightning bending. He knew it was coming - her Thunder Punch. She pulled her hand back, and punched forward, her eyes suddenly looking away from him as she looked at something in the distance. She shifted at the last second, the explosion blowing a hole in the ground next to him.
"GET DOW-" She said, as she grabbed him by the shoudler, and threw him sideways - sprawled out on the ground.
She never finished that sentence. An arrow pierced her throat from the front.. shooting out the other side of her neck. She gurgled on her own blood for a mere moment before a second arrow plunged directly through her chest - more importantly, directly through her heart. Blood quite literally spurted out her front and covered him.. blood gushing from her now punctured heart as she started to sink to her knees.
It was funny, too. She could've just hit him with the attack, and dodged the arrows. Or she could've just not attacked, and let him get pierced by the arrows.
But no. She had spared him the attack, and threw him out of the way. First she spared his life, then she saved his life. And now she had paid for it with her own life.
As if this wasn't enough, a third arrow - this one a flaming arrow.. plunging into her stomach.. setting her robes on fire as she fell like a broken bird. She landed on her side with a splat.. the light already gone from her eyes. Blood was pooling around her. Attached to the arrow buried in her neck was a tiny note. She felt so cold, all warmth leaving her body.
She had an arrow through her throat so she couldn't breathe. She had an arrow through her heart so she was losing all blood in her body, and the ability to pump it through her body. And she had an arrow in her gut, and was on fire. Not very good situation.
Far, far off.. an archer retreated along the treetops.
No one had noticed the growing shadows creeping along the ground. Perhaps they thought it was a cloud passing by.
If they looked up.. they would notice all was dark. All was black.
The sun was completely obscured by the moon. The Day of Black Sun.
She was but one of many casualities that would occur this day.
[ OOC: Don't try to pursue the archer. He's retreating, on trees (so you can't sense him through Earthbender) from over 500 meters away. You'll never catch him. Lastly.. her Firebending is gone for the duration. Also, since the Full moon is out.. that should mean that all Waterbenders have their powers at max, shouldn't they?
Also, give Kouun a chance to reply before anybody is all "OMG heal her" or "OMG bury her." Okays? -looks at Kenta-mun and Amatria-mun- ]