book II: war chapter 7: just the start

Summery of chapter 6

Yin wasn't able to do the airbending move but was able to stop his training because Republic city is under attack and its mayor got captured

Scene 1

Location: the southern water tribe, Nova's house

Yin: so, do you have a plan?

Hiroku: well not really, Nova got lazy with her ideas this time

Nova: your mom's thoughts are unpredictable, for all I know, she may literally have a new device that no one has ever seen before, so the best thing to do is wait for the attack and deal with it then and there, preparations won't help

Hiroku: *sights deeply then turns to Yin* can we finish our training now?

*Yin nods and they both go out*

Hiroku: there's something I've been hiding from you *reaches into his inner pocket and takes 2 scrolls folded into each other*

Hiroku: these 2 are the waterbending master scrolls (that you can see on Wattpad) , they're the only ones left.

*Yin was fascinated by the moves that were shown, he really admired them*

Hiroku: I'm sorry I hid them, but I would've never let anyone touch them unless I'm dead, and don't think for a second I'm going to let you either. Just showing them to you is a great honor in itself. To master waterbending you need to master all moves of the scrolls. I can do all, without moving my hands or body a single bit, and to all waterbenders know, I'm the only master that can actually do that. Why? I don't know. But what I do know is that if you know these, mom wouldn't be able to do anything to you. The move I wanted you to start working on is this one *points to one of the moves*

It's a hard one, but it's a strong one as well. Let me do a demonstration

*steps back a bit then stands still and all of a sudden, without any hint that anything was going to happen, water started appearing out of air, and that water turned around hiroku into an egg shape, then it broke to tails, as seen in the picture, then the tails headed toward Yin and turned around him then grabbed him close, Hiroku still not moving, and finally, the water stopped moving. Yin stood there speechless for a second then spoke*

Yin: how, in the world, did you do that?

Hiroku: were you not listening earlier? Did you not hear the "I don't know"? *waterbends at Yin and pushes him down* Now let's train on it and stop questioning stuff that will add nothing to our lives

Yin: ok jeez no need for aggression. So, where do I start *airbender himself back up*

Hiroku: watch closely, here's the move slowed down step by step. *the water started accumulating from all sides and circling around Hirokuin a big circle, then the circle got smaller until it was close to him. After that, the sphere broke into 8 parts and those parts bent down and became thick from Hiroku's side and thin at their ends* it's not hard, but it's effective, if you know how to use them. Now go on, I'm watching

*Yin succeeded in doing the move*

Hiroku: now the best way to use them is to imagine yourself as an octopus, they use their legs so well and dominate their territory with them, from my observations of them I was able to master the technique, imagine these legs as a part of you, an extension of your body. And to help you understand me more, we're going to fight with these, and whoever drops to the ground first, loses

*Hiroku started walking toward Yin, with the water moving just like an octopus. Yin barely had any control over his legs, it was hard to keep up with all 8. Nonetheless, he still took a fighting position. Hiroku bended the first leg at him which he responded to by bending another one in front of himself to stop it then he started to walk back to create space between himself and his teacher. Then, Hiroku grabbed all legs from their end tips and combined them all then put them into Yin's direction causing him to fall*

Hiroku: with this poor performance you wouldn't last a minute against mom

Yin: have you ever heard of moral support, Hiroku?

Hiroku: no

*he then bended one of his legs to hit Yin again making him feel a lot of pain, then another leg a split second after, then a third hit, and it went on*

Yin: hey hey hey stop! I'm done with this training you're taking it too far

Hiroku: (screaming) mom could literally be an hour away right now, don't expect me to go easy on you, or to stop *he bended the legs at him more*

Yin: Hiroku stop, I barely got any sleep, I stayed up training on an airbending move

Hiroku: if you want me to stop, do something about it *hits him again*

Yin: listen you're going to make me enter the avatar state, and you don't want that to happen because the fire ring makes me do things I can't control

*Hiroku kept going, he didn't care, the fire ring eventually came out of Yin's body and onto his finger, when that happens it always means he's about to enter the avatar state*

Yin: you don't want me to try the new airbending move on you now do you?

Hiroku: I would love to see you try

*he hit him again, that last hit made Yin's eyes glow, and the fire ring to glow red as well, air surrounded the avatar, it lifted him up, and hiroku's water dropped down, then an air sphere was created around him, and it spinned him until it made him dizzy then it stopped. Yin then made the airbending move, but after doing the second throw he didn't create a tornado, he went up to where Hiroku was, opened his mouth and started throwing flames at him like a dragon. Luckily Hiroku was still concious, he waterbended around himself and dropped down. Yin charged at him from up top but he created a giant wave to slow the avatar down. The tornado did its job, and Hiroku hended it with Yin inside and threw it down. Yin airbended to slow his fall then earthbended around Hiroku, he creating an egg that he put him in. The egg had 2 halves cut horizontally, one half started to turn clockwise and the other one turned the opposite way, and they started to get smaller with each second of them turning. It's the earth egg, the move yin tried to do on Zei but failed, he's doing it now to his frenemy. Hiroku bended the bit of water that was in the air inside of the egg then bended it into the egg's walls which he then tried to break with. He got out and moved his hands like he was bloodbending, and Yin was magically put to sleep.

Hiroku then heard a noise, it sounded like a ship, a big one. He turned around and to his surprise, it wasn't only 1 ship, it was a whole crew. His mom just launched her attack after he put the avatar to a deep sleep, one of the worst timings ever. He stood in front of the ocean, inhaled and exhaled deeply, then started moving his hands forward and backwards multiple times, amd with each move the wave he was creating got bigger, and bigger, and bigger, until it was easily noticeable by the ships. Hiroku then sent it their way then waterbended himself and the avatar to warn the tribe. He busted the door open*

Hiroku: *screaming* she's here

Nova: *quietly got up from her seat*oh boi, here we go again *bended water out of air and pressed a button with it, that button set an alarm that was heard by the whole tribe*

Scene 2

Location: the ocean

*most tribe citizens came out, one stayed with Yin to heal him and others stayed as a backup, some couldnt come because they had children, or were sick, etc. The wave was about to hit the ships*

Nova: well that wave looks unnatural

Hiroku: I made it before coming to warn you guys

Nova: we'll see what it does

*the ships stopped, and split open into 2 halves revealing 3 planes inside each ship, the planes swiftly took off and headed toward Nova and everyone else*

Hiroku: nova you idiot! I told you we needed to prepare more for that snake

Nova: don't worry, she might be a snake, but we're snakes as well, venomous ones *creates a water tornado and lifts herself up then made a water sphere around her that she immediately turned into ice when the plane went inside of it ad threw it on a hill. The other planes, however, passed them and started bombing the tribe, destroying houses and injuring, maybe even killing people. Then someone jumped down from one of the planes holding a microphone, so did someone in Republic city, they both said: dear citizens, the spiritual disturbance in republic city and the aerial attack in the southern water tribe are both from our leader, katsumi. And they would not stop until both nations and the avatar surrender and agree to close their spirit world portals. Republic city Mayor wu, Nova, Niko and Yin, the choice is yours, and remember, you will suffer the consequences of your actions.

Then they both threw a gas bomb that blurred the area and escaped. After hearing that, everyone was in shock, one person was able to disturb 2 cities*

Hiroku: (in shock and disbelief) we, are, done for.

A/N

A HUGE thank you to @ seizure_arts

On Instagram for allowing to use their amazing waterbending scrolls, they also have air, fire and earthbending scrolls that I will not be using, but you should definitely check them and the person's shop out!