Subject: Meetings and Oranges Mon Aug 25, 2014 7:14 pm
Tylia Allemoore
The elderly woman (to whom Tylia had just brought a package from Omashu) had been so grateful that the young teenager left Chin Village loaded down with food. Oranges, peaches... even a small squishy bag of berries that the woman grew herself. It was a nice treat, and so Tylia couldn't help but to start peeling one of the fragrant fruits as she walked down the road, intending on heading back home to pick up her next delivery.
Unfortunately, it seemed that her father's influence was waning, this far from the main roads of Ba Sing Se; Tylia didn't even realize that she'd been ambushed until she literally bumped right into the large man blocking her path. A little noise of shock escaped her as she came to a sudden stop, and was forced to take a few steps backward... It was then that she noticed the seven scruffy individuals that had apparently just emerged from nowhere.
"...Let me pass, please," She spoke with a confidence that she didn't really possess at the moment. Though a small girl, Tylia could probably handle one of these guys - maybe two - but seven? No, she was going to have to run, or else turn over what little she had in her bag.
Posts : 10 EXP : 305 Birthday : 1995-01-20 Join date : 2014-08-07 Age : 29 Location : Okinawa, Japan
Subject: Re: Meetings and Oranges Mon Aug 25, 2014 7:50 pm
Destruction
There was really nothing that could be done about this situation that Tylia had gotten herself into. Shiroaki was avoiding the main road for this exact reason. People had been getting robbed around Omashu these days, and skinny teenage girls made perfect prey for the predators. Shiroaki wanted to leave, he was on his way out of Omashu, traveled through the night, and this is what happens. You don't owe anything to her. A part of him whispered to himself, and he shook his head, getting set to attack.
Shiroaki leaped out of the bushes in a whirl of flame, with no plan of attack in mind. There was one thing he could do. He engaged one of them briefly, a few passing blows were exchanged between the two of them, before Shiroaki closed the distance between the two of them, swept the man onto his back, knelt over him, delivering a blast of flame to the man's chest, causing him to scream, and when he opened his mouth, with a cold and calculating maneuver, he placed both his hands together, and shot another ball of flame into the man's face, the screaming stopping abruptly. Shiroaki turned his head towards Tylia.
"Run!" He managed to shout, before five of the now dead man's friends descended upon Shiroaki, who struggled to defend himself against the onslaught. He had a fleeting thought, chiding himself on not thinking this through, before he caught his footing, and had enough of a break to take a breath, and dodge under a boulder thrown towards him. "Get out of here!" He said, urging the girl to run, before starting his own counter attack, using a whip of fire to kind-of hold them at bay.
Subject: Re: Meetings and Oranges Mon Aug 25, 2014 8:21 pm
Tylia Allemoore
To say the least, Tylia was a bit startled by the appearance of a flying, flaming teenage boy from - again - nowhere. Eyes widening, she was rooted to the spot, watching him brutally dispatch the men which had been menacing her (two of them, anyway).
His shout of 'run' brought her to her senses slightly, though running was not really on her mind. It wasn't like her to leave someone else to fight her battles. Stomping the ground with one foot, Tylia loosed a large chunk of rock from the path, lifting it into the air, preparing to attack. Twirling around as quickly as she could manage, using all the centrifugal force at her disposal, she kicked the rock hard, launching it at high speed toward one of the remaining ruffians.
Caught in the side by a flying boulder, the man was slammed into the ground a good five feet away, rolling head over heels from the impact. Though it was about the only fighting move Tylia had in her arsenal, it was rather effective, it seemed.
Posts : 10 EXP : 305 Birthday : 1995-01-20 Join date : 2014-08-07 Age : 29 Location : Okinawa, Japan
Subject: Re: Meetings and Oranges Tue Aug 26, 2014 4:55 am
Destruction
Oh, she was a bender. That helped things. She clearly wasn't retreating, as she made plainly obvious. As she hit the man in the back with a boulder, he engaged three of the benders, his face remaining passive as he exchanged blows with them, he kicked a blast of fire towards one of them, and stretched himself in the opposite direction of his kick. As he landed, the ground moved underneath him, spinning him so he landed on his back.
As this happened, he felt the ground soften underneath him, realizing that the ground was moving in a circle, he rolled onto his feet and leaped into the air, to avoid being swallowed up by the earth. He landed on the ground and rolled, standing close to Tylia. "I told you to run, not to fight, but if you're going to fight, we're going to need to work together. I'll defend, you attack." He said.
With this short break, another onslaught began, in which Shiroaki stepped in front, reaching out and snatching two of the rocks out of the air, and guiding them away from himself and Tylia, and kicked another one out of the air, going into full defensive mode. He stepped back, so he and Tylia were on level ground again, he was breathing heavily, panting almost. The fight, as short as it had been, was starting to take it's toll on him already. This needs to be ended, soon. He thought, realizing that there were still four guys left for them to fight.
Subject: Re: Meetings and Oranges Tue Aug 26, 2014 12:33 pm
Tylia Allemoore
Though Tylia probably would have been better off defending, given her background in earthbending, there was really no choice, at the moment. Stomping the ground once again, another boulder was lifted into the air, as if preparing for the same sort of attack. However, rather than launching it immediately, Tylia found the one opponent of theirs who didn't seem to be using the earth against them.
That particular unfortunate man would find the ground beneath his feet opening up rather suddenly, dropping him into a hole. Before his shout of surprise had even ended, the boulder was thrown and slammed down on top of the tunnel, blocking him in. That was another one down, but three still to go.
Panting herself, at this point, the young teenage girl brought up another huge chunk of rock - this time, instead of leaving it round as a boulder, she broke it into three pieces, letting them twirl through the air around her and her currently unnamed defender. The first piece shot out at one of the three remaining men, hopefully to take him by surprise and floor him, similarly to the man laying unconscious ten feet away.
