Chapter 53.2- And so the Dragons Danced

I took a breath as the next attack came. Once again, I had fallen into the familiar dance that was battle. The ebbs and flows of the tides as the battle moved in a constant series of transitions from attack, to defense and back again. At least it would have, if this was not the day the Comet granted me its power. I gave up on defence almost entirely as I felt the heat around me reach new levels. A set of icicles were sent my way and turned into vapor before they could reach me.

Good. I shot out into the group. The man managed to react on time, sending a whip of water in my direction. I allowed the attack to come as it boiled and evaporated against my heat shield. He himself did not fair well when placed against the heat that followed and clung to me like a second skin., He took a step backward, necessarily, but the wrong move. It allowed me to follow his step into close combat, and in a matter of seconds, the head of what had to have been a Waterbending master— or at least hat passed as one in these parts.

The next person to step to me did so with water rushing at me from all directions bar one, I turned to the likely culprit right before the approaching water closed in one me. I saw the smug smile on his face and took great pleasure in the way the smile died out as he felt my hand in the space where his heart had been nary a second earlier. Survival of the fittest, indeed, and that was just the beginning. I pushed the body off my arm, allowing it to fall into the tightly packed snow-covered ground with no fanfare.