[Before Norrak and Toph fought...]
"Are you ready? And I don't want an excuse as to why you can't bend flames anymore," Azula asked with crossed arms, facing Katara.
"Yeah, I think I can do it now. Besides, I started bending flames like a week ago," Katara said with a nod, her expression relaxed even though she was talking with Azula.
After their little episode a week ago, the two actually became closer, though not exactly friends in their eyes. But now neither of them throws a curse at each other after every few words.
Of course, Azula would not admit to something like this, but knowing that Katara was motherless aided in her acceptance of Katara, which is fucked up.
"Yeah, well, being able to firebend and being able to firebend in combat is different. Did the dragon not tell you that?" Azula said with a smirk, taking a stance as her heart started to beat loudly in her chest.
"No, but I do know I will beat you today~," Katara also got into her Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist style, her hands coated in four different Chi natures. This increased her strength massively from the buff.
"Flame Armour," Azula muttered under her breath as her body was covered in a layer of blue light, exciting every part of her body, and increasing her speed, strength and durability all at once.
Azula also covered her fists with her unique Chi nature. This nature could explode on contact, creating precise and piercing bursts of power and flames on contact with anything she punches.
"One!"
"Two!"
"Three!"
"Go!"
The two dragons in the sky counted down, and the moment they said the word "Go," the two sprang into action with all their might. Azula creates two flame thrusts from her back, while Katara uses wind as a push, and then a sharp thrust from the ground under her.
Boom!
Katara started flying, using the sharp push to increase her speed without friction as the air resisting her vanished. Azula and Katara drew their fists back before each punched forward.
Boom!
As if a bomb had gone off, the ground in tens of meters cracked and broke apart into small pieces of earth. The shockwave surged forward, ruffling their hair as they groaned in pain.
Azula's fist landed straight on Katara's right shoulder, and a precise burst of sharp impact shot through her, causing Katara to groan in pain as she felt some of her muscles snap.
Katara, on the other hand, punched Azula in the right cheek, grazing her slightly. Azula managed to dodge slightly, using her superior combat skills and experience in her arsenal.
Azula felt a shock go through her head from the graze, and she groaned as she felt blood flow down from the wound on her cheek. The two powered through it and began to fight as their life depended on it.
Boom!
Crack!
Swoosh!
Azula and Katara turned into blurs as they cracked and plitsered the ground in hundreds of meters. The sound of their bodies getting hit, or blocking strikes, was like gunshots and bombs, the shockwaves constant and undeding.
Boom!
Katara groaned as she was pushed back with a sarrtong punch, blood flying from her busted lip, while Azula only took a step back.
"Looks like I beat you in hand-to-hand, now it's time to get serious~," Azula taunted Katara with a grin as she threw a wink at her. Using her Exploding Heart Release Fist in conjunction with her Chi nature, Azula beat Katara slightly in hand-to-hand.
"Fine, let's get serious. Though no deadly attacks, or Norrak will lecture me again, which I know you don't wanna be lectured either," Katara said as she wiped the blood from her face, her eyes trembling as she recalled how Norrak lectured her for an hour.
"I wouldn't mind being lectured by him~," Azula replied, and Katara glared at her as the two vanished in two streaks. Their fists punched forward, and Katara grinned.
She was the freaking avatar; she could control the four elements like nothing, especially now that she has experience after fighting with someone like Azula for almost two weeks.
Plus, she learned from the Dragons.
Shhhhh!
Steam erupted from Katara's nose and lips as the heat around her climbed. Her right open palm, shaped like a claw, was surrounded by a cyclone, while her left hand was thrust forward.
Boom!
A beam of fire erupted from the palm, shooting towards Azula, who responded with an axe kick, sending a sharp arc of blue flames to meet the beam of fire.
"Not over yet!" Katara grinned as she used her speciality, thrusting her right hand out and fusing the fire and flame to form a massive cyclone beam of flames that deflected Azula's attack.
Boom!
The two attacks collided with a massive shockwave, and the ground under the attacks melted into magma before a shockwave erupted for hundreds of meters.
Boom!
A lightning bolt pierced through both attacks, and Katara clicked her tognue as she stomped the ground, erecting multiple walls while pushing her out of the way.
Boom!
The bolt of lightning pierced the earth walls like they were butter. The bolt dissipated into thin silver streaks while Azula and Katara were about to collide again, only to pause.
BOOOOM!
A massive fireball appeared in the distance, and the shockwave reached them in seconds. Katara stepped forward and split the shockwave down the middle, her eyes wide with shock at the massive ball in the distance.
"What the hell is that?!" Katara questioned, while Azula, behind her, narrowed her eyes at the sight of the massive fireball.
[5 minutes later...]
Cough!
Cough!
The sound of Toph's coughs resonates in the area. A barrier that was condensed into a ball with multiple barriers was shattered by the shockwaves that shot into the sky.
Toph gripped the ground, pushing her onto her feet with a groan. Toph was scratched and bruised all over her body, but it was only superficial; the real injury was the organic damage inside her form from the strongest point of the shockwaves.
If not for the multiple dust walls stronger than steel, she would have been on the verge of dying already.
"Looks like I can't use this without being far enough from it," Toph muttered with a smirk on her face, nonetheless. After all, she has a trump card like this in her sleeve, and she could easily do it with dust and Lavabending.
"Yeah, I don't recommend using something like this in a city unless you want to tear it down," Norrak's voice drifted out from the middle of the massive crater, floating in the same spot he used to stand, with the ground under him bottomless.
"Damn! What's with the amount of dust?" Norrak complained, annoyed as he patted the dust from his shoulders. Toph listened with a chuckle when Norrak teleported next to her.
"Let's go, the others must be worried," Norrka said with a smile, and Toph nodded before the two vanished.
[Meanwhile...]
"Is everyone ready?" Zuko asked with a serious face, and the nine thousand troops in front of him responded with a nod. Zadan and the other generals each stood in front of their respective battalions, their hands clasped behind their backs.
"Good, we will march towards your assigned location today, and reach it by tomorrow. Take rests throughout the way," Zuko responded with a satisfied tone.
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The war is near, boys!
By the way, do you guys want the war to be gory and stuff? Cause if I am being honest, I wanna write some horrid shit.
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