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Title: In This Game You Either Bend Or Break
Author: redbrunja
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Rating: R
Characters: Suki, Sokka, Azula, Ty Lee.
Author’s Note: One possible sequel to “Where No Roads Are Marked” Written for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bentfire. his was started in December, based purely on speculation, unrelated to “The Burning Rock.” CONTAINS NO SPOILERS, AND THE AUTHOR IS SPOILER FREE.
Summary: "She threw herself across the floor and Sokka could see the point where the two women would meet even before Suki lunged out of her roll, moving as sleek and predatory as a lynx-wolf." This is how it ends.
Sokka swore, scooped up his sword with his left hand and chased after the pink and green figures that were Suki and Ty Lee.
The Fire Palace was three steps away from rubble at this point, chunks of marble littering the floor, dark columns whose symmetry was hacked apart. Sokka shook his right arm, trying to get the feeling back, and succeeded just as he ducked into an antechamber.
Ty Lee and Suki were fighting in between the colonnades.
“You really should just give up,” the perky, bendy psycho was saying “You’re not pretty enough to beat us. Especially not now,” she smirked, knocking Suki into one of columns.
Sokka ran towards them as Suki slashed at the girl, her fans bright streaks of gold. Ty Lee leaped away, tumbling through the air like a child’s ball. Her body inscribed an bright pink arch across the room, hair twisting and outfit fluttering.
Suki lunged after her, and she didn’t bother with gymnastics - she went for speed. She threw herself across the floor and Sokka could see the point where the two women would meet even before Suki lunged out of her roll, moving as sleek and predatory as a lynx-wolf. Ty Lee’s toes touched the floor, Suki blocked the girl’s jabbing fingers with her closed fans, the fwap-fwap-fwap of metal against flesh and his frantic footsteps the only sound in the room.
And then Suki snapped her fan open and slashed. Ty Lee’s throat opened like a glorious flower, bright blood spraying out, and then she was dropping to the floor like a discarded puppet.
“You couldn’t have waited for me?” Sokka asked. Suki half-laughed, turning to him, blood vibrant dots decorating her bone white face paint and her eyes bright with triumph.
Sokka had enough time to see that expression shift, her eyes widen with horror, and then she shoved him aside.
He saw lightning swoop down and clutch at her, twining about her like a tangled skein of wire.
Suki screamed.
Sokka lunged for her, the lightning vanishing as he got his arms around her.
She swayed in his arms, managed to keep her feet under her, and for a second he thought she was okay, that she was going to be fine, and then she was crumbling, her fans hitting the stone floor with a sharp sound like ice breaking.
Sokka whacked his knee against the floor as they fell together, desperate not to let her hit the hard ground
“Do you have any idea how hard it will be to find another Ty Lee?” Azula asked, stepping out from behind a pillar, her voice taut. “Loyalty doesn’t just grown on trees, you know.”
Sokka glared at her. “You damned Fire Nation bitch-rhino,” he snarled.
Azula mimed a yawn, as in his arms, Suki choked, a bubble of blood growing and then bursting on her lips.
Sokka snarled, and reached for his boomerang. He felt the smooth bone under his fingers and threw it at her, his wrist snapping.
She stepped aside, the weapon rotating past her.
“You people are truly pathetic,” she commentated. “I’m amazed you even managed to–”
On the return arc, his boomerang sank into the back of her skull with a thud like a melon cracking.
She swayed for a minute, looked confused, and then fell forward, face down, arms and legs askew.
Sokka wasn’t even looking at her. He was staring at Suki, rocking back and forth while she coughed up too-dark blood. It was even darker than her lipstick, and brilliantly visible when it trickled out of her mouth to stain her face paint.
“Why did you do something so stupid?” he breathed, voice sounding choked. He really had to stop spending time in the Fire Nation. It wrecked havoc on his vocal cords. Made him sound all upset and watery. “You don’t even remember me.”
Suki tried to smile, her lips curving ironically instead of in the wide grin he still expected to see. She was breathing hard, trying to say something, and he make shushing sounds, running his fingers along the L-shaped scar she’d outlined in the gray Water Tribe pigment he’d given her, unwilling to hid her scars behind a warrior’ paint.
She coughed, her breath sounding like rusty metal grinding together.
“But,” Suki said, still trying to smile, revealing teeth rimmed with blood, “you remembered us. You remembered....”
Author: redbrunja
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Rating: R
Characters: Suki, Sokka, Azula, Ty Lee.
Author’s Note: One possible sequel to “Where No Roads Are Marked” Written for
bentfire. his was started in December, based purely on speculation, unrelated to “The Burning Rock.” CONTAINS NO SPOILERS, AND THE AUTHOR IS SPOILER FREE.Summary: "She threw herself across the floor and Sokka could see the point where the two women would meet even before Suki lunged out of her roll, moving as sleek and predatory as a lynx-wolf." This is how it ends.
Sokka swore, scooped up his sword with his left hand and chased after the pink and green figures that were Suki and Ty Lee.
The Fire Palace was three steps away from rubble at this point, chunks of marble littering the floor, dark columns whose symmetry was hacked apart. Sokka shook his right arm, trying to get the feeling back, and succeeded just as he ducked into an antechamber.
Ty Lee and Suki were fighting in between the colonnades.
“You really should just give up,” the perky, bendy psycho was saying “You’re not pretty enough to beat us. Especially not now,” she smirked, knocking Suki into one of columns.
Sokka ran towards them as Suki slashed at the girl, her fans bright streaks of gold. Ty Lee leaped away, tumbling through the air like a child’s ball. Her body inscribed an bright pink arch across the room, hair twisting and outfit fluttering.
Suki lunged after her, and she didn’t bother with gymnastics - she went for speed. She threw herself across the floor and Sokka could see the point where the two women would meet even before Suki lunged out of her roll, moving as sleek and predatory as a lynx-wolf. Ty Lee’s toes touched the floor, Suki blocked the girl’s jabbing fingers with her closed fans, the fwap-fwap-fwap of metal against flesh and his frantic footsteps the only sound in the room.
And then Suki snapped her fan open and slashed. Ty Lee’s throat opened like a glorious flower, bright blood spraying out, and then she was dropping to the floor like a discarded puppet.
“You couldn’t have waited for me?” Sokka asked. Suki half-laughed, turning to him, blood vibrant dots decorating her bone white face paint and her eyes bright with triumph.
Sokka had enough time to see that expression shift, her eyes widen with horror, and then she shoved him aside.
He saw lightning swoop down and clutch at her, twining about her like a tangled skein of wire.
Suki screamed.
Sokka lunged for her, the lightning vanishing as he got his arms around her.
She swayed in his arms, managed to keep her feet under her, and for a second he thought she was okay, that she was going to be fine, and then she was crumbling, her fans hitting the stone floor with a sharp sound like ice breaking.
Sokka whacked his knee against the floor as they fell together, desperate not to let her hit the hard ground
“Do you have any idea how hard it will be to find another Ty Lee?” Azula asked, stepping out from behind a pillar, her voice taut. “Loyalty doesn’t just grown on trees, you know.”
Sokka glared at her. “You damned Fire Nation bitch-rhino,” he snarled.
Azula mimed a yawn, as in his arms, Suki choked, a bubble of blood growing and then bursting on her lips.
Sokka snarled, and reached for his boomerang. He felt the smooth bone under his fingers and threw it at her, his wrist snapping.
She stepped aside, the weapon rotating past her.
“You people are truly pathetic,” she commentated. “I’m amazed you even managed to–”
On the return arc, his boomerang sank into the back of her skull with a thud like a melon cracking.
She swayed for a minute, looked confused, and then fell forward, face down, arms and legs askew.
Sokka wasn’t even looking at her. He was staring at Suki, rocking back and forth while she coughed up too-dark blood. It was even darker than her lipstick, and brilliantly visible when it trickled out of her mouth to stain her face paint.
“Why did you do something so stupid?” he breathed, voice sounding choked. He really had to stop spending time in the Fire Nation. It wrecked havoc on his vocal cords. Made him sound all upset and watery. “You don’t even remember me.”
Suki tried to smile, her lips curving ironically instead of in the wide grin he still expected to see. She was breathing hard, trying to say something, and he make shushing sounds, running his fingers along the L-shaped scar she’d outlined in the gray Water Tribe pigment he’d given her, unwilling to hid her scars behind a warrior’ paint.
She coughed, her breath sounding like rusty metal grinding together.
“But,” Suki said, still trying to smile, revealing teeth rimmed with blood, “you remembered us. You remembered....”
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And that's why Zuko wore a helmet!
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It gets a lot of love from me too.
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And Azula was over confident. That'll get yoiu killed ever time.
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I felt so bad for Suki though! ;_______;
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And I'm finally getting the icon up! It turned out that I couldn't decide on how I wanted to do it, so you get a few options to choose from. I'm going to post them on avatar_fans in a few minutes with some other icons I have.
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Great news about that icon! Would you mind giving me a link? I'm not going to avatar_fans for spoiler reasons.
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I'm so sick of spoilers. Why can't we just have the episodes? Then we wouldn't need spoilers... So, yes, I completely understand about the spoiler issue. Here's the link:
http://community.livejournal.com/avatar_fans/2290746.html
And I apologize again for taking so long in getting these to you...
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You're really lucky that you've managed to avoid the spoilers so far.
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All I have to do is keep telling myself that I'd rather be surprised when the episodes come out. It makes the reactions that much better.
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Avatar was the first show I watched totally unspoiled (up through Firebending Masters) in a long, long time, and it was way more fun than knowing what was coming would have been.
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