Chapter 47.3- And so the Dragons Danced

He lurched to the side to avoid another blast of combustive power, and I took the chance to angle my jets to fly right at him. A gust of hurricane class winds plucked me from the air and sent me flying into the distance. At the same time, he was forced to turn away from me to dodge out of the way of Toji’s spear. Toji rolled underneath the arc of water the Avatar sent in his direction, picked up the spear from the ground and tried to use it to stab him through the brain.

Aang dodged around the stab, and kicked his feet out from under him. Toji dropped his spear again and rolled with the attack. When he rose, two knives hidden in his sleeves buried themselves in a wall of earth Aang managed to raise in time. The wall shot out at him as Toph seized control from him, forcing him to jump above the attack and take a few steps backwards.

With a war cry, I announced my return to the fight. He dodged underneath my roundhouse kick. A spear of stone almost shot through my stomach but I channeled explosive flames to my fist and broke through. Another blast of combustionbending sent him reeling. The shield he maintained around his body was already beginning to show weakness.

He screamed again, rising into the air. I felt the power in the air try to freeze me in place. As if. I feared no man. I kicked at Toji’s discarded spear, bringing it up to my grip and tossed it back in his direction. I didn’t need to check to no he caught it. Aang slammed one foot into the ground and multiple blocks of earth rose around him. He lifted his arms before flinging them at us.

One fire whip in each hand, I cut through the man-sized blocks that were in danger of hitting me. Maki blew up a few of them, and Toji hunkered down with Toph under a shield.

That wasn’t all, it seemed. He’d been busy while we were busy. He had a sphere of distorted air between his hands. He shot said sphere straight down at the ground below him. I didn’t even get a chance to figure out what the attack had been before I was suddenly flung off my feet and far into the distance.

When I came to, I found myself on the floor. I was somewhere in the palace. In what remained of it, I amended. Aang’s attack had devastated it. Half of it was just gone. I pushed myself to my feet and tried to look for the others. Aang was still there, floating above the mess, regarding me with cold eyes. I couldn’t find anyone. I just had to hope they’d done a better job of hunkering down than I had. Everything hurt.

I took my stance again as Aang shot at me like a bullet. I took a deep breath, allowing the heat to fill me. This time, when I struck, my flames were a brilliant green.