Chapter 42.1- And so the Dragons Danced
Added 2025-01-22 18:26:43 +0000 UTCThere was so much chaos around them that she couldn’t even make heads or tails of what was going on. Everything had begun according to plan. Masters Pakku, Jeong-Jeong, Piandao, and Zuko’s Uncle had left to the Earth Kingdom to free Ba Sing Se while she, Sokka, Aang, Bato and their allies went towards the Fire Nation. While their friends attacked the Gates of Azulon, it was her, Sokka, and Aang that had gotten on Appa to make the journey to the volcano that the Royal Family had retreated to.
It was when they arrived at the smaller palace that all hell had broken loose. They’d arrived to the sight of fire nation soldiers fighting other fire nation soldiers as chaos reigned. And then they’d been spotted and been forced into the middle of all that. At that time, the eclipse only had five minutes left so they didn’t have a choice. No one had been able to give them a clear picture of what was going on so they fought their way down to the center of the palace.
Even there, it was more chaos, with so much screaming and fighting, and shouting that she was beginning to wonder if this whole thing wasn’t some sort of twisted trap and mindgame to waste their time. When they arrived at the throne room, it was to seeing some old men surrounded by Fire Nation soldiers with the old men being protected by soldiers of their own. Unlike those outside, these ones hadn’t decided that it was necessary for them to pick up whatever they could find and try to kill each other with it, and seemed to be waiting for the eclipse to come to an end.
