Post by Waving Pickle on Nov 11, 2007 18:12:45 GMT -5
Title: Crush
Rating:
Warnings:Violence, Slight Language
Pairings: .....
Summary: Under a some-what warped impression that Azula had been cruel enough to abandon them, Mai and Ty Lee find themselves fighting the enemy, and than, themselves. Can a quest for survival open thier eyes to the true pain of the war?
“Blindfold me,” she ordered, her polished hands gripping needles. “I wanna feel my target. If there’s smoke, I want to be able to see.” Ty Lee complied, with a uncertain look in her face. Before she could see it, it was over. The blades were flipped from Mai's practiced hands and implanted themselves in her target. The acrobat watched the wood split into pitiful chunks, tiny flakes spattering the grass.
“Perfect.” Ty Lee complemented her friend with glee. It was never a doubt in her mind that Mai would hit her aim- it was very rarely that she did miss. However, that didn't seem to ever put Ty Lee at ease. Maybe it was because she was never sure if Mai would chose that moment to get back at her for annoying the noble girl.
"Yeah." Mai said, sending a half-hearted smirk her comrades way. "I usually am."
* * *
She hadn’t expected it to turn out the way it was. Just beyond the waterfall came the telltale slithering of bodies moving through brush, the almost-crack of twigs and stone drawing closer. They’d managed a retreat thus far, bodies of their fallen soldiers strewn like black confetti behind them.
Ty Lee caught her arm, deliberately turning her gaze from her partner, not wishing to she her mattered face. “This mission is a failure.” Her response had been instantaneous and precise. They had gone to find the renegades whom were blowing up Fire Nation supply holders, when they were caught off guard by the enemy themselves.
“We’ll never make it back together if we run. You’re faster, and someone’s going to have to tell Azula know what’s going on some how.” she finished, hissing between her teeth in an out of character tone. It was Mai's turn to reply. "Don't you understand, we've been set up. That's why we were sent. Azula knew. Or, at least, she had an idea. She sent us as her test bunnies. To see how strong they were. It was never a matter of destroying them. We were her guinea pigs. You'd have saw that if you weren't always being such a brown nosing fool."
“You’re no better.” She was right, Mai was as bad as Ty Lee. They were Azula's dolls. So she decided to drop it. "This would have never happened if Zuko had stayed." The hurt warrior mumbled. Ty Lee frowned. "Mai- stop beating yourself up over that. It's what was in his heart. I can't blame some one for following their heart." The pink clad fighter put her hand over her chest. " At the moment, we need a plan. I can't take them all, I'm too weak right now. And, you are running out of arsenal."
“Blindfold me.”
“Mai,” she began, speaking quietly near her ear, ignoring the shaking tree limbs at the very edges of his field of vision. “Let me be your eyes.”
“You better get moving.” Mai resorted.
For another full minute she stood and stared, posture still despite the weariness settling into her bones. With a sick, hopeless fascination she watched an earth bender burst from the shadow of an oak, watched her arms straighten and fist clench, and the earth bender fall back slightly for what should have been a fatal blow. She really had lost a lot of strength.
She was running with the woman fighting with a blind fervor, forcing spent legs to churn against the ground. Not fast enough. A low hanging branch caught at her arm, tearing a long red line across it. Too weak and too stupid to not have seen this coming, Ty Lee wondered if there was a chance of survival.
Rating:
Warnings:Violence, Slight Language
Pairings: .....
Summary: Under a some-what warped impression that Azula had been cruel enough to abandon them, Mai and Ty Lee find themselves fighting the enemy, and than, themselves. Can a quest for survival open thier eyes to the true pain of the war?
“Blindfold me,” she ordered, her polished hands gripping needles. “I wanna feel my target. If there’s smoke, I want to be able to see.” Ty Lee complied, with a uncertain look in her face. Before she could see it, it was over. The blades were flipped from Mai's practiced hands and implanted themselves in her target. The acrobat watched the wood split into pitiful chunks, tiny flakes spattering the grass.
“Perfect.” Ty Lee complemented her friend with glee. It was never a doubt in her mind that Mai would hit her aim- it was very rarely that she did miss. However, that didn't seem to ever put Ty Lee at ease. Maybe it was because she was never sure if Mai would chose that moment to get back at her for annoying the noble girl.
"Yeah." Mai said, sending a half-hearted smirk her comrades way. "I usually am."
* * *
She hadn’t expected it to turn out the way it was. Just beyond the waterfall came the telltale slithering of bodies moving through brush, the almost-crack of twigs and stone drawing closer. They’d managed a retreat thus far, bodies of their fallen soldiers strewn like black confetti behind them.
Ty Lee caught her arm, deliberately turning her gaze from her partner, not wishing to she her mattered face. “This mission is a failure.” Her response had been instantaneous and precise. They had gone to find the renegades whom were blowing up Fire Nation supply holders, when they were caught off guard by the enemy themselves.
“We’ll never make it back together if we run. You’re faster, and someone’s going to have to tell Azula know what’s going on some how.” she finished, hissing between her teeth in an out of character tone. It was Mai's turn to reply. "Don't you understand, we've been set up. That's why we were sent. Azula knew. Or, at least, she had an idea. She sent us as her test bunnies. To see how strong they were. It was never a matter of destroying them. We were her guinea pigs. You'd have saw that if you weren't always being such a brown nosing fool."
“You’re no better.” She was right, Mai was as bad as Ty Lee. They were Azula's dolls. So she decided to drop it. "This would have never happened if Zuko had stayed." The hurt warrior mumbled. Ty Lee frowned. "Mai- stop beating yourself up over that. It's what was in his heart. I can't blame some one for following their heart." The pink clad fighter put her hand over her chest. " At the moment, we need a plan. I can't take them all, I'm too weak right now. And, you are running out of arsenal."
“Blindfold me.”
“Mai,” she began, speaking quietly near her ear, ignoring the shaking tree limbs at the very edges of his field of vision. “Let me be your eyes.”
“You better get moving.” Mai resorted.
For another full minute she stood and stared, posture still despite the weariness settling into her bones. With a sick, hopeless fascination she watched an earth bender burst from the shadow of an oak, watched her arms straighten and fist clench, and the earth bender fall back slightly for what should have been a fatal blow. She really had lost a lot of strength.
She was running with the woman fighting with a blind fervor, forcing spent legs to churn against the ground. Not fast enough. A low hanging branch caught at her arm, tearing a long red line across it. Too weak and too stupid to not have seen this coming, Ty Lee wondered if there was a chance of survival.