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shadowsong26) wrote2008-06-28 07:13 pm
shadowsong26) wrote2008-06-28 07:13 pm
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Title: Important Things (Tentative)
Rating: PG-13 (I think)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Summary: When given time, people think too much. When thinking gives way to action, the consequences may be explosive.
Warning: Takes place after Boiling Rock. And this was intended to be a one-shot. It changed its mind halfway though. I'm playing this entirely by ear (hence the only tentative title and rating).
Rating: PG-13 (I think)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Summary: When given time, people think too much. When thinking gives way to action, the consequences may be explosive.
Warning: Takes place after Boiling Rock. And this was intended to be a one-shot. It changed its mind halfway though. I'm playing this entirely by ear (hence the only tentative title and rating).
Akio didn't plan the escape.
He was the only guard on the hall where Mai and Ty Lee were kept that night, three days after he'd made his decision to break them out, and, rather on the spur of the moment, decided to take advantage of the opportunity. He wasn't ready--but when will you ever be really ready for this sort of thing? he asked himself.
He slipped into Ty Lee's cell, and swore internally to find her sleeping. He shook her awake, gently as he could.
"Wha...?"
"Time to go. Hurry." She nodded, understanding, and stood up to follow him next door to Mai's cell.
The older noblewoman wasn't sleeping; she was sitting curled up on her bed, hugging her knees to her chest, staring at nothing.
"Mai," Ty Lee whispered.
She looked up. "Time?"
"We need to hurry, I don't know how long we have," Akio answered.
The older girl nodded, uncurled herself, and followed the other two out of the prison.
The walk through the building itself was nerve-wrackingly silent. All three of them kept jumping at shadows--but the shadows were all they encountered to make them jump.
Until they reached the prison's outer wall. There they paused for a minute.
"Come with us," Ty Lee whispered, tugging at his sleeve.
Akio hesitated, considering. He could go with them. It would be easy. And he wasn't entirely willing to say goodbye to Ty Lee yet. But if they were caught...
He shook his head. "If one of you could just--"
As if on cue, eight of the other guards found them.
Ty Lee reacted immediately, quickly disabling three of them. Mai hung back a little--she had none of her weapons, and didn't have her friend's near-freakish speed and flexibility to keep her intact fighting armed guards. Akio pressed a knife into her hand--it was heavier than the ones she liked, but it would do. Smiling slightly, she dove into the fray, slipping between two more guards, hamstringing one and trying to avoid the other's sword.
She wasn't as lucky as she'd hoped, judging by the sudden line of pain on her back.
Akio, meanwhile, was showing exactly why he'd been trusted guarding two prisoners of such importance, though he wasn't much older than Mai: with his katana, he was nearly as fast as Ty Lee, and had neatly dispatched three of the remaining guards. Ty Lee quickly disabled the last, and grabbed his and Mai's hands. "Come on!" she said, dragging them to the wall. Together, the three of them ran, ran, ran into the forest, where the darkness between the trees would swallow them before they could be found.
He was the only guard on the hall where Mai and Ty Lee were kept that night, three days after he'd made his decision to break them out, and, rather on the spur of the moment, decided to take advantage of the opportunity. He wasn't ready--but when will you ever be really ready for this sort of thing? he asked himself.
He slipped into Ty Lee's cell, and swore internally to find her sleeping. He shook her awake, gently as he could.
"Wha...?"
"Time to go. Hurry." She nodded, understanding, and stood up to follow him next door to Mai's cell.
The older noblewoman wasn't sleeping; she was sitting curled up on her bed, hugging her knees to her chest, staring at nothing.
"Mai," Ty Lee whispered.
She looked up. "Time?"
"We need to hurry, I don't know how long we have," Akio answered.
The older girl nodded, uncurled herself, and followed the other two out of the prison.
The walk through the building itself was nerve-wrackingly silent. All three of them kept jumping at shadows--but the shadows were all they encountered to make them jump.
Until they reached the prison's outer wall. There they paused for a minute.
"Come with us," Ty Lee whispered, tugging at his sleeve.
Akio hesitated, considering. He could go with them. It would be easy. And he wasn't entirely willing to say goodbye to Ty Lee yet. But if they were caught...
He shook his head. "If one of you could just--"
As if on cue, eight of the other guards found them.
Ty Lee reacted immediately, quickly disabling three of them. Mai hung back a little--she had none of her weapons, and didn't have her friend's near-freakish speed and flexibility to keep her intact fighting armed guards. Akio pressed a knife into her hand--it was heavier than the ones she liked, but it would do. Smiling slightly, she dove into the fray, slipping between two more guards, hamstringing one and trying to avoid the other's sword.
She wasn't as lucky as she'd hoped, judging by the sudden line of pain on her back.
Akio, meanwhile, was showing exactly why he'd been trusted guarding two prisoners of such importance, though he wasn't much older than Mai: with his katana, he was nearly as fast as Ty Lee, and had neatly dispatched three of the remaining guards. Ty Lee quickly disabled the last, and grabbed his and Mai's hands. "Come on!" she said, dragging them to the wall. Together, the three of them ran, ran, ran into the forest, where the darkness between the trees would swallow them before they could be found.