Stones barreled into the Fire Nation troops, knocking them aside like Pai Sho tiles from an overturned board.
Lu Ten’s komodo-rhino surged forward to the new hole in the wall, picking its way through the debris. “No!” he shouted, but no one heard him over the thunder booms of the battle. He rounded in front of the charging soldiers, hand up. “Father, General Iroh, doesn’t want you to charge yet! The hole’s too small still. It’s a bottleneck.”
“Stupid boy!” One of the officers swept hard at him with a spear and Lu Ten leaned back far in the saddle to let it pass over him. “Get to the back of the army!”
But Lu Ten didn’t budge. When they pushed their way past them, he followed, still yelling his father’s wishes, but the soldiers were charge-happy. The city, they knew, was theirs.
As they jockeyed and jostled with each other for a place in line, two of the strange, robed benders from inside the city slid down the face of the walls and landed crouching on the ground. When the soldiers were in just the right place, they opened the ground up wide and slammed it closed over them. The tail end of the fissure trailed its way under Lu Ten’s feet, and he stared down at it trying to comprehend...
He saw the shadow on the ground around him just before the stone hit and he rolled... But the broken pieces ripped through his body completely.
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The story of Lu Ten’s death
Date: 2010-02-22 05:55 am (UTC)Stones flew from the ground.
Stones barreled into the Fire Nation troops, knocking them aside like Pai Sho tiles from an overturned board.
Lu Ten’s komodo-rhino surged forward to the new hole in the wall, picking its way through the debris. “No!” he shouted, but no one heard him over the thunder booms of the battle. He rounded in front of the charging soldiers, hand up. “Father, General Iroh, doesn’t want you to charge yet! The hole’s too small still. It’s a bottleneck.”
“Stupid boy!” One of the officers swept hard at him with a spear and Lu Ten leaned back far in the saddle to let it pass over him. “Get to the back of the army!”
But Lu Ten didn’t budge. When they pushed their way past them, he followed, still yelling his father’s wishes, but the soldiers were charge-happy. The city, they knew, was theirs.
As they jockeyed and jostled with each other for a place in line, two of the strange, robed benders from inside the city slid down the face of the walls and landed crouching on the ground. When the soldiers were in just the right place, they opened the ground up wide and slammed it closed over them. The tail end of the fissure trailed its way under Lu Ten’s feet, and he stared down at it trying to comprehend...
He saw the shadow on the ground around him just before the stone hit and he rolled... But the broken pieces ripped through his body completely.