Talho-Earthbender.
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With her father and childhood friend supposidly dead, Talho's mind has rejected the truth and she developed amnesia.
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I woke up to see some strangers looking at me, "Who are you guys?" I asked. They just looked at eachother. Then they all came closer and one of them I could have swore I met before.
"How are you feeling?" he asked. I thought that this was a strange question.
"Uhh, fine, I guess." I said in return. I tried to stand up but my stung in pain. "Aah," I growned as I gripped my leg. as I moved my arm I felt an agonizing pain in that too. "Damn, what happened?" I asked. They looked at eachother again, then back at me. "And dont look at me like that, I dont need a peanut gallery." I tried to stand up again this time it was a success.
"Hey, wats your name?" another of them asked me. I groaned.
"It's Talho, I'm a blacksmith."I said.
"Perfect." He responded. I looked up at him, he had a smile on his face.
"What a really strange group of people." I thought,
"I have a job for you." He said. Just the word job sparked my memory a little.
"Job! I havent gotten asked that in.." I slowed down in my thoughts, trying to remember something but gave up and looked over to the guy I could vaguely remember now. "Ph!.... Uh... Its you, ummm..." I said. I just had it on the tip of my mind.
"Fang." He replied.
"Anyway," The other guy had redirected my attention to him, "have you ever heard of Chakrams?"
"Chakrams?" I asked, "Yes, there unique throwing weapons, usually just a flat disc." Oddly, I could fully remember the details of this strange weapon. "Did I use these weapons before? How come I never knew about these before this?" I thought to myself.
"Yeah, except I have some special modifications for you two do,". He said, interupting my thoughts. He told me about this bizzar design and I was sceptical,"Why am I taking orders from this guy? I dont even know his name?? I'll have to ask him" I said to myself. But then I suddenly got an urge to bui;d this masterpiece weapon, I thought of some crazy designs for it. "So let me get this straight," I siad, "you want a pair of Chakrams
with 1 and a half foot daggers, six of them, attatched on the edges?"
"Yeah" He responded. I was really getting into it now! I actually wanted to build this for him.
"I suppose I'll have to ask him for SOME money. Wait.. what was our currency system again? Why am I forgetting all of this stuff!?!?!" I asked myself. I looked around and noticed Fang playing around with a gold coin. Flipping it back and forth and spinning it in the air. "What is that dunce doing?" I asked myself, "He looks like he's having fun!". Looking at the big smile on his face as he played with the coin some more. He flipped it into the air, he positioned his head to have the coin land on his forehead as he leanded back, the coin came bown and smacked him on the head, he slipped and landed on his but. I almost laughed out loud. To make sure I diddent, I mechanically and smoothly waved my head back to the person taking the order. "One gold coin please." I was almost about to burst out laughing. The guy handed the coin to me and I said, "Alright, everything seems to be in order.". Then I thought to myself, "Oh wait, I need his name," I asked for his name.
"Scorch," He said. The girl went up to his side and wispered something in his ear. Then he looked to the door as a short kid walked in (Orinth) with what I was assuming was his friend (Willy Woo). I was just about to tell the short one that I diddent sell stuff to minors and that he should go look at a novice shop but then his pall spoke up and yelled something at Scorch.
"Oh, not even customers..." I thought to myself. I wrote down the specifacations of the weapon on a sheet of paper.
"A fight!" The boy (Orinth) shouted out. I stoped.
"These people arent gonna fight in THIS shop." I said to myself. I heard a comment about the boys height and saw him give a nasty glare. I instinctively pulled up a large spiked mace and slammed it against the table, "Boys, take it outside." I said. The other guy (Willy Woo) widened his eyes.
"Right," said the other guy, "well, come on you two." He waved to Scorch and the girl and they began to walk outside.
"Rin, stay in here," said Scorch to the girl, "this is my fight." She agreed and stood there.
"Hmm, a worriers honor, as it seems." I thought to myself as he walked out the door. Fang walked up to Rin.
"What's that all about?" he asked her.
"I don't know," said Rin, "boys will be boys." I knew what he was talking about. I seemed to know alot about the ways of a worrier and Blacksmithing and stuff but I just couldent figure out where I had learnt all this stuff. Come to think of it, most of the stuff I had been just doing was all by reflex.... as if I was ready to do this...
Fang said something to Rin and then walked over to the couch and layed down. Rin ran over to him.
"Is he just gonna lay there on my couch and get his dirty cloths all over it?? Who does he think he is?" I asked myself. I stood up and pulled off the mace from the table. (Spiked ball hooked to a chain.).
"Wait, aren't you going to help him? He's beat up worse than any of
us", Rin said, pleading to him, "Please, it's two on one. Please help him out for me Fang". I looked at the man on my couch. I looked over his body, he has bruises and cuts all along his skin and looked like he just escaped from war. He open up his eyes and took a look at the people fighting.
'Okay. But you're gonna owe me later, I'm pretty beat up from fighting you." He said as he got up. Rin certainly looked pleased.
"I suppose when it comes down to it, you have your honor as well." I thought to myself, turning around.
I looked at the guy fighting Scorch as the guy raised an earth wall at him. "Oh, another EarthBender." I thought to myself. "This certainly has gotten boring quickly," I looked over to the two other people fighting. I had just caught Fang pointing his hand at the short guy. "Oh, he bends too?" I said to myself quietly. The short one was launched backward and I stood. "Wait, I diddent see any bending, what's going on?" The little guy fell to the ground and fang went out of sight. I saw the boy rush in ffangs direction, then fang came down and touched the earth with something. The boy got blasted away as soon as he did that. I looked at the object.
Suddenly all these words started flowing, everything was shaking and I saw words as you would read in a text, flaoting a nd switching around me, I looked over to where the boy was and he was floating in the air, everything looked still, yet it wasent. Everything was shaking. The words changed randomly and everything turned a dark brown. The words where still there. I could recognise them as words ive dealt with every day, but as they switched around, I couldent remember what word was before that, it started looking like the words where surrounding me, attacking me. I couldent move. "Was I in a stroke? Having a heart attack?". the words got closer and closer and more of them came, they where all around me now really close, I still couldent move, more came, they now blocked out the people fighting in the street. Then all went dark.
I blinked, the boy came to the ground, and there was a crash of debris. I looked over at the sword again. That's a Tai-Chi sword with unique carvings in it for there to be air easily channeled through it, it was more flexible than most Tai-Chi swords and because of that the user had more stability and controll over it whith proper Air Bending, it was sharp and strong enough to cut through the thickest of swords in the middle, block up to a ton of weight closer to the halter, and cut anything with flesh to ribbons with the flexable tip and that I was going to charge him exactally 100 gold peices for it. I knew all this because I made it. "I haddent even remembered making it before! Why am I remembering all these new things as if I did them?" I asked myself. the boy diddent have time to get up before I noticed Fang launch a gust of air at him. "That man, he's an AirBender I met!" I said almost blurting it out, I mumbled it.
I looked outside and saw the four men still fighting. I left the main shop and went up the stairs, and to the bathroom, "I need a shower, I'll figure this out later," I said to myself. I got undressed and looked at my leg, "Now, what happened here? I guess I cut myself after burning my arm in the fire. Probably wile I was making that Fang guy's sword... That ass pisses me off. I bet he stole it." I said to myself. I had a breif flashback of when he was laying on the couch and had agreed to fight for Scorch. "Maby he just needed it, I guess I shouldent be so hard on him." I blushed a little, then shook my head. I stepped into the shower and washed myself off, I had blood all over my leg and some of it was hard to get off. "How long ago did I do this?" looking at my wound. It had already healed off. I scrubbed the dirt from my body, "I really needed a shower." I thought. I finished up, then went to my room to get a shirt, "Now where did I keep my shirts?" I opened a drawr and found it littered full of undrwear. I looked down at my naked body, "I guess I will need these. Wow I really am out of it." I thought to myself. stretching on a pair of green paties and bra, I looked into the seccond droor, luckilly I found the shirts. They where all green sweaters and smithing shirts. "Green it is then." I pulle dover the shirt and looked for some pants, there where only shirts in the remaining drawers, I looked in the closet and pulled out some smith-ers pants and put then down, next I pulled out some green cargo-pants and decided to try those, they went all the way down to the floor and then some. "I guess I'll be needing some soes too." I put on some large smith-ers boots. "There, well, it's better than socks, especially in these pants. I pulled out an arm glove fith the fingers cut-out, "Hmmm, looks good, I can hide my burn with this" I said to myself. I pinned my hair back and looked at myself in the mirror, looks good, I walked away but I noticed something weird.
I moved but the reflection in the mirror stayed. I steped back, I looked close to the mirror. My reflection smiled at me, "What the-" I thought. Suddenly eveything began to shake again, but the words come in faster and everything got darker, but this time, I diddent even recognize them, They where symbols and letters I've never even seen before, The image walked towards me, smileing, out of the mirror it walked, it got right up to me, I couldent move. everything had disapeard now and there where only words just like before exept her, she placed her hand on my cheek and rubbed it, I couldent move, she got really close to my face, eyes looking into mine, her hand now on my chin, her eyes turned a think black, still couldent move. Her face got so close to mine it felt like it was touching me, still getting closer, now it felt as if she where going into me, forcing into me. Controlling me.
I blinked. Everything back to normal. I blinked a few more times to make sure I wasent imagining things again, I looked at myself in the mirror again, yep, it follows me, I shruged it off and took another look at my hair, hmm, "Would that AirBender guy think this lookes nice?" I thought to myself. I shook my head then I took the pins out, "What ever. It doesent matter." I said to myself. I felt the thump of two large men in my house comming from the back door. "Wait, arent those people in front at the shop? Then there is someone in my home, and damn did they come at the wrong time," I was a little pissed at myself for even thinking of a total stranger like that. I rushed down stairs and noticed that the peolpe where fighting someone new! And two of those someones where in my house...
I went over a grabbed the mace I had set on the floor, It had left a large hole in the wood when I looked at it, "Damnit!" I blurted out. Looking at the ruined floorboard. The two men came into the room.
"Wow, I diddent expect to find a little girl living here!" One of the men said elbowing the other in the gut, the seccond man diddent seem to particularily like it but he shrugged it off and smiled.
"Yea, I guess we can have some fun with her till the boss is done with the others." The seccond said.
The two men stood there the first was just a little taller than myself wile the seccond was massive, I believed he was close to as tall as Scorch. Both men were masculant.
"Oh, so you guys have a boss, I suppose he's not one of the all-loving EarthBenders you may have met here." I said snickering at them.
"You could say that." the short man snapped his fingers and fire rose from it.
"Fire Nation, ooh that makes this even more fun to deal with. I'll take you guys on. But this is'nt verry fair, you have two men and all I have is a flail." I drop the flail to the ground and it makes a big cruntch into the wood. "There now where even." I smircked a seccond time.
"Cocky are we?" The smaller one said, "You will soon regret that!" He now sounded annoyed.
"Oh, but it's true, I hardly doubt you'll stand a chance against me with just the two of you." I told him. "Where was I getting this from? This over confidence of myself winning." I asked myself.
"You dont know who your dealing with!" The little man shouted now totally annoyed by me.
"Your right, I dont know you, but I still bet I can take you both down. especially if you keep getting mad like that." I told him. He calmed down and stood straight.
"My name is glide, and my big bro here is Tank. Tank is more than enough to deal with you." He said. Tank nodded.
"Then bring it on!" I told him, I stood there as tank walked up. Cracking his neck and muscles he came up close, he towered over me.
"You can stop at anytime, we'll just have our way with you and it'll be all over. I'd hate to have to see you as a bloody mess when we have our fun." Tank gave a really un-comfortable grin. "Now why dont you just be a good little girl and play nicely." He reached down to me, I swooped low to the ground and he almost fell forward, I spun and kicked his leg out and he fell face first into the spiked mace. I stood up. He got up right away clutching his face. He looked at me angrilly and swung a punch, I dodged it and jumped into the air kicking the back of his head he ended up leaning forward. I steped on the ground and kicked out his leg again, and again he fell face first into the mace. This time he diddent get up so quick. He rolled around gripping his face once more. he swiped for my foot but I jumped, he got up and he swung again, this time I caught his punch. He swung with the other arm, I caught that one too. The brute tried to push me down but I easily twarted his strength. His partner said to him something about how disgracefull it is to loose to a little girl and he pushed harder. This time, matching my strength, his muscles flexed as pushed with all his might. We where dead even. He gritted his teeth in frustration. I decided to end our match, so I kicked up into hs stomach, all of his strength quickly left as he let go and reached for his stomach. I grabbed his head and I fell backwards he leaned and I kicked his stomach, I rolled backwards adn then launched him into the wall, then through the wall, and a couple of trees. I rolled back up and on to my feet. I looked at where Glide was supposed to be, but he was gone. I heard a creek and I looked up, I saw Glide comming down on top of me, I quickly dodged and slammed my foot against the floorboard, the end launched up and pegged the guy in the crotch, then launched him into the roof, he fell down back onto the floorboard and canned himself again. He fell to the floor, unconciuose, I walked over to him.
"Man when you do anything, you guys always do it twice! Thats a bad habbit you know." I told Glide. I picked up the man and I through him out the hole in my wall, I clapped my fist and hand together and bowed, I lifted my hands up and a rock jutted out of the ground and launched the two bodies somewhere to the right of the house. "Cleanup done" I said, then I looked at the hole in the wall, "Well, mostly."
(To BE CONTINUED)
Edited on 11/27/2006 12:39pm
