Chapter 26.3- And so the Dragons Danced

He traced the man that had tossed the spear to the far end of the compound. Quite a distance away from them. The fact that he had even been able to toss the spear with enough strength to bury it into the ground from that distance was already a bad sign. The fact that he was running at them so quickly that The Boulder was struggling to follow was another bad sign. Pulling on that power in his gut, he stomped his foot into the ground and forced the earth to bend, shifting the ground behind them into a very loose mud that was guaranteed to slow that one down for a bit. And then next, he lifted a massive wall of pure stone behind them.

Turning back around, he was unsurprised that the others had kept moving. He ran even faster to catch up to them. The alarm within the compound had already been sourced so there was no need for stealth. They just had to be quick enough to make it out and into the city’s wider tunnel system where there was virtually no chance of them being located by this lot. Of course, he still had fears about what would happen even if they did manage to succeed with the kidnapping, but he shut off that part of his brain since it was offering little in the way of useful help right now.

With the fire bender on his shoulder, Xin Fu struggled to move as quickly as the rest, and they were being forced to slow down for his benefit more oft than not. The alleyway they could disappear down was only a few meters away, but they were quickly beginning to be surrounded by firebenders in all directions.

“Give him to me” He said and Xin Fu wasted no time to toss the limp body over in his direction. Stronger than the old man by quite some margin, The Boulder was able to handle the fire bender’s heft with ease. Skinny little bugger, isn’t he? A warm one as well, He thought to himself with a chuckle as they ran across the straightaway. They were going to make it, he thought. So focused on the glimmer of victory, he was that he never even noticed the body on his shoulder’s heating up every few seconds.

He never noticed it until the body got to the level where it hot to touch, and just like a child that had picked something hot up, his body obeyed his instincts without thinking, and he dropped the package. All their eyes snapped down to their intended victim, and The Boulder could have sworn that they all sucked in a collective breath once his eyes snapped open and those coal black orbs regarded them almost absently.

He struggled to narrate what happened next. In a second, Gecko was on the floor and their victim had a chained foot on his colleagues neck. How? Xin Fu moved quickly, trying to close the the distance between them.

A/N; Proof of life

A/N; Dan dan dannnnnnnn