GAH!!! MY COUSIN MESSED UP THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Muahaha! I foudn the paper that he left with his account name and password. I'll erase the few posts he added and what not. Sound good? This is r3173mpt10n btw...

reset his password and I'll change his sig right now.

All right, been a little since I've posted. But good news everyone! *strikes dramatic pose and falls* Since I'm out of school now, I should be able to post more regularly (assuming I don't get plagued with writer's block again, which is what delayed this post). So, without further ado, I present another chapter in Thanatos' and Savage's tale. BTW, I'm kinda upset that no one has tried to figure out what memento mori means, yet. If you have the time, you should. It has a lot of relevance to Thanatos.

Thanatos (Memento Mori)
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Just fought Obsidian, Savage, Argus, and the mysterious Kore. Due to an unexpected reaction from the Hami Blade, Thanatos was forced through the roof and landed in a small town next to the palace
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Upon hitting the ground, Thanatos became unconscious. All the while, he still held a hunger for the blood of Savage, Obsidian, Argus, and Kore. How could his prey have escaped him!? Images of the fight flashed through his mind. Thanatos awoke with a hard jolt, crushing the earth around him. He stood, a throbbing pain present in his lower stomach and his back. Another image flashed through Thanatos' mind: the Hami Blade.

Thanatos stomped on the ground in anger and looked around. He had landed in a back alley between a few homes. The sky was in total darkness, the new moon blending perfectly with the cloudless air. Thanatos could no longer sense his prey, and because of this, his anger and thirst for blood swelled tremendously. Thanatos heard a shriek pierce the air and his head turned. He stepped out of the alley and into a town square, hearing voices.

"Come on, just give us the bag, the necklace, your rings, and we'll be on our way," said a man.

"No!" cried a woman. "Help!"

Thanatos walked toward the voices, his breathing becoming labored. He saw a gang of men forcing a young woman into an alley, each with a weapon of sorts. One of them smacked her across the face.

"Who do you think is going to come and help you?" he asked.

The woman stepped back and tried to hit one of the men, but he kicked her further back into the alley. Thanatos watched this display and drank in the many scents coming from the scene. Fear. Excitement. Anger. It was all there. He stepped toward the men and gripped his katana with one hand, waiting for his moment to strike. One of the men turned and looked right at Thanatos, sizing him up.

"Well, well, well, who do we got here? A hero?"

One of the men lunged at the woman and took her in his arms, holding a blade to her throat. "Now, you weren't thinking of saving this pretty little thing, now where you?"

Save? Thanatos had no knowledge of such a word or its meaning.

The men moved toward him, each holding their weapons at the ready. Thanatos waited, allowing his thirst for battle and blood to consume him. Finally, a small voice chimed in the back of his head.

"Go on."

A gang member stepped right up to Thanatos and tapped him in the chest. "Are you gonna-" Thanatos drew his katana and sliced the man in half, using two of his coffins to send each half to another end of the square. His heart raced as he charged the men. To the one with a mace, Thanatos delivered a crushing blow to his stomach, stomping a hole in his back when he fell to his knees. When a man with daggers came at him, Thanatos beat him down with a coffin and forced his hand through the man's chest, pulling out his heart. Thanatos moved forward, bringing his katana across the neck of a man with a sword. He grabbed the head before the rest of the body fell, and crushed it in his palm. With only two living people left-the man holding the young woman hostage and the young woman herself-Thanatos roared.

The man behind the young woman released her and ran away, but Thanatos would not let his prey escape him. No; not again. He stomped on the ground, a earth spike jumping up in front of the man and impaling him. The young woman looked at Thanatos in awe, and smiled, tears rolling down her cheeks.

"T-Thank you, sir. Thank you ??? for your kindness."

The woman walked toward Thanatos, but Thanatos' thirst had yet to be quelled. He lunged at the woman, his breathing hard and limbs tense from adrenaline. She screamed as Thanatos started grasping her flesh and pulling it from her body. He broke her arms after stripping them bare, throwing them to join the other corpses. He then placed both hands on her ribcage, digging his fingers into her stomach and pulling her apart. The woman was long dead, but Thanatos needed to do so much more to make up for the loss of his prey. He removed her organs with quick and shaky hands, pounding them into the street. He then took his katana and started to skin her legs, throwing the flesh behind him and into the fountain. He held her delicate face in his hands, and crushed it between them, his breathing slowing down and his thirst satisfied ??? for now.

Savage (metal claws)
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With the help of Argus and Kore, Savage and Obsidian barely escaped Thanatos
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Savage helped Argus get Obsidian out of the palace. They heard several crashes come from the throne room on their way out, but none of them looked back. They had to escape while Kore bought them some time.

"Gah, let me go," said Obsidian. "I can walk on my own." Savage and Argus complied, and Obsidian cracked his neck.

"We need to get out of here," said Argus. "Kore and I made some friends with a resistance camp a few miles south from here. We should be safe there."

"I don't think so," said Obsidian. "If I went there, then they try to start a fight."

Savage laughed. "I bet they don't even know what you look like. When was the last time you were on the front line?"

Obsidian groaned. "That would be the incident. But that doesn't matter."

Another loud crash echoed through the hall. "No, it doesn't," said Argus. "What matters is that thing back there."

"I can't believe that keeping Thanatos alive would come back to bite us in the butt," said Obsidian.

They took off in a sprint towards the palace's exit and made their way through the courtyard. An explosion rang through the air and everyone stopped in their tracks, turning toward the palace. Towards the throne room, a blue cloud rose from a hole in the roof.

"What in the world?" asked Savage.

"The Hami Blade," said Obsidian. "Something's not right, though ??? it shouldn't be a cloud like that. It should be a solid wave."

Argus looked at the palace and turned around. "Kore will catch up soon. We need to get to that resistance camp before soldiers come here."

After walking in the dark and in silence for about a few hours, Argus, Obsidian, and Savage reached the resistance camp. "This is hardly a camp," said Savage. "But, I gotta admit it's a hell of a lot better than my jail cell."

Obsidian hissed and grabbed the arm that he had used for the Komodo. "I knew this would happen."

Argus looked at Obsidian. "Knew what would happen?"

"I didn't perform the Komodo correctly and broke my friggen arm."

"How do you know it's broken?" asked Savage.

Obsidian glared at Savage. "With a technique such as the Komodo, extreme concentration, precision, and performance are needed. It's all or nothing."

"I should take you to the medic tent," said Argus. "Savage, would you mind staying by the entrance and waiting for Kore? I don't want him to move on to another camp without us."

"Us?" asked Savage. "Since when did we become a group?"

"Since you became a fugitive of the fire nation and since he became injured," said Argus.

"How can I trust you to not turn me in?" said Savage.

Argus looked at Savage and then back to Obsidian. "It's a long story. When you can give me a good reason to turn you in for the whole three copper piece reward, then maybe I'll think about it."

Savage grunted and Argus took Obsidian to the medical tent. Savage leaned against a pole in the camp and watched the entrance, thinking about Kore.

Suddenly, Savage found an arrow being held at his throat. "It's good to see you again, sidekick."
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Oh dear me, what do we have here? Kore is missing, Obsidian is injured, and Argus is hiding something from Savage, who at the moment has an arrow to his throat. What's more is that they don't know Thanatos is still out there, searching for his prey. Will Savage's confrontation be that of friendship, or an old rivalry? Does Thanatos find his prey and finish them off? Did Kore survive the fight with the Hami Blade intact? Come around, all that enjoy stories.

V.

Wow, lots of people are returning.

Alas, I am not. Really, there's nothing left to do on this site for me. 'Cept this thing. I'll check in once or twice a week until Avatar airs on the 14th or whenever and my interest is piqued again. By then, I'm hoping we'll be nearer to our volcano posts, since I've basically already written them while I was cringing through the filler.

I don't even get my daily PM anymore. Maybe she doesn't like me for some reason...

*dives headfirst into videogames again*

P.S. Eman, you've had writers block since I joined a year and some months ago.

Alright...Here is the new character...I didn't put a lot of time in the history, so if you don't get it, I'll try and specify anything if you ask...

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Name: Genesis F??ng also known as the Fire Nation's "Grim Reaper".

Gender: Male

Age: 21

Height: 6'2"

Hair: Dark-blueish, gray hair that is slightly stuck up at the back and it also falls along the sides of his face.

Eye Color: Its natural color is crimson. It changes to neon red when entering combat. The eyes can't be turned on and off voluntarily. The name for these cold-blooded eyes is "M??ng Y??n", which literally translates to "Fate" or "Destiny".

Other Noticeable Features: He has a scar on his chest that looks like an "X" and also has a tattoo of a dragon on his back. He also has a tattoo on each forearm. On the left it says "Death", and on the right it says "Life" all in Traditional Chinese.

Occupation: Airbending prodigy, master of swords, and leader of a secret three man squad that hunts down targets for the Fire Nation called the Crusaders. The Crusaders are only known to the Fire Lord's most trusted admirals because they are the ones that made the team. The Fire Lord knows nothing of them. He is also a high ranking member of the Order of the White Lotus.

Special Moves: Silhouette is an ability where shadows of his movement appear behind him to make an illusion of quick feet and to catch the enemy off guard with multiple images of the fighter. Other than that, he uses basic Airbending techniques and much more advanced ones. He also combines them with fighting movements used by other element benders. He can combine Firebending forms with Airbending (He can fight like a Firebender, but instead of fire he uses air.).

Weapons: Unlike other Airbenders, he used a sword instead of a glider. Since he didn't master the art of flying completely, he decided to forget it and make a weapon that he could use and perfect. He hired an expert sword smith in the Earth Kingdom to create it for him. It was about five feet long but a little shorter, two-and-a-half inches wide, and was an inch thick. It was inscribed with the phrase "All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity." in Traditional Chinese, the hilt was custom made to look like a dragon made out of gold, the blade extended from the opening of the mouth, and the eyes were encrusted with rare, red crystals found in the old Ba Sing Se. It was dubbed "Shōu Gē Zhě", which means "Reaper" in Traditional Chinese.

Armor/Clothes: He wears a long, black, and short-sleeved coat that has its collars propped up, a black, short-sleeved shirt, a pair of long, black pants, a pair of black, leather gloves, a pair of black, leather boots with a thin sheet of metal on the toes, and a black sheathe on his waist. The sheathe doesn't point down but points horizontally across like a flat line.

Personality: He is very reserved, anti-social, and pessimistic. But he is strategic, a perfectionist, and a quick learner. In battle he shows no mercy to his enemies and is very ruthless, fierce, and uncaring. He can be very emotionless most of the times due to his troubling past. He believes that emotions are useless objects that interfere with everything. He also follows orders as they are told with 100% accuracy and success. He can be very deceiving at times and most people don't even know it.

History: He was born into a rich family, but was cared for in secret. His dad was an Airbender and his mother was just another person. They lived in a quiet and peaceful village hidden in a thick forest. He was just about two years old when his village was found and attacked by the Fire Nation. They wiped out the entire village and found him crying in one of the burning buildings.

A Firebender ran in and saved him and raised him like her own. When he turned five, she sent him to a Fire Nation School. He was caught Airbending and taken away. Instead of being killed, he was put into a training program with two other children in a secret facility underneath a school.

One was a male Earthbender named Giro (He has brown, spiky hair and has a scar across the bridge of his nose. He has green eyes and wears the same thing that Genesis wears.), and the other was a female Waterbender named Katsumi (She has long, black hair and has part of it coming down and covering he right eye. She has the most beautiful eyes and a charm that makes almost any man fall head over heels. She wears the same stuff that Genesis and Giro wears except instead of a long, black coat, she wears a short, sleeveless jacket.) . They were also five years old and taken away from other Fire Nation Schools across the Fire Nation cities. They lived there as if it were their home and trained and learned. They were kept from other people until they grew up and started to perfect their elements. Genesis perfected his long before the other two and had spent his time mastering the art of sword fighting.

He learned many things during his time in there until they decided it was time to put them into action. The Fire Nation admirals voted Genesis to be the leader and to name the three man group the Crusaders. They were designed specifically to take out targets in the name of the Fire Nation army. No one knew about them except for the admirals and a few other smart soldiers that helped build the team. Not even the Fire Lord had any knowledge of the secret hunting team.

The first mission was a failure because Genesis strayed from the mission to help out Katsumi who was accidentally captured by the enemy. He was severely punished and was whipped. Two strong lashes gave him his "X" shaped scar on his chest. From that day on, he decided to let go of emotions and put them aside. Their missions were always successful from that day on and were done with the utmost precision and accuracy. They were so good that they were believed to be just rumors and that the deaths were just random happenings. They roam about the public looking for their next target and just to look about the city.