Fire In The Sky [Closed]

Tsoi Lok wasn't sure how many he had killed already. In less than a minute, he was able to get off nearly 30 powerful shots with his combustion bending to the city below him. Pillars of smoke rose from all over the city. Sure, Tsoi had to admit it was a bit depressing of a sight, but he had no other option but to carry out this duty, it was absolutely necessary...

Tsoi was in a Zeppelin that was one of three that the Xuri had controlled that was flying above the Fire Nation Capital at the moment. Of course however, he was the only combustion bender around, so the bombardment for now was entirely his job. Should Zhong fail to assassinate the Fire Lord, the other two Zeppelins were carrying bombs that would be dropped on the Fire Nation Palace hopefully ensuring his death.

Tsoi couldn't help but chuckle to himself, this invasion was going way easier than he had expected. The Fire Nation military had nothing that could hurt him while he was this high in the sky. They had tried to send a couple of attack Airships into the sky after him and the other Xuri airships, but he simply shot them out of the sky with his combustion bending.

Tsoi wasn't paying attention toward Tarek's location as he was building up chi for a powerful lightning attack. Tsoi did notice however, when Tarek's lightning attack suddenly blew up one of the rotors on his side of the ship.

It was a loud, powerful explosion, one that had completely caught the combustion bender off guard and caused his ears to ring. Looking at the damage, Tsoi saw that one of the two rotors on his side of the airship had been obliterated. The Zeppelin was also now flying at a bit of an angle, leaning more to the side Tsoi was standing on.

"Our right front engine is crippled, hang on! I'm going to have trouble keeping the ship steady." Yelled the pilot from the front of the ship.

The ship began to level out again, though smoke still continued to billow from the one destroyed engine. Even though Tsoi didn't see who was the cause of such an attack, he had a pretty good idea.

"Tarek" He muttered to himself. Perhaps this invasion would be more interesting than he thought. Tsoi was unsure of Tarek's exact location, but the attack came from the direction of the Fire Nation Palace, so Tsoi released a barrage of three shots toward the palace. He didn't expect to hit Tarek with those random shots however, just simply provide suppression.

"We're going to star gaining altitude to avoid more ground to air damage!" The pilot yelled back toward Tsoi. Tsoi simply nodded, a higher altitude would mean a huge loss of accuracy in his bombing attacks, but at least he wouldn't be immediately blown out of the sky.

He was about to continue firing on the palace, but he suddenly saw a small orange ball of flame approaching him. He fired off one shot toward the approaching ball of flame but missed, the rough ride of the Airship thorwing his aim off. Tsoi didn't continue firing upon the approaching ball of flame, because he now saw it was not simply flame, but instead, a man rocketing toward him inhumanely fast.

Tsoi managed to roll out of the way of the opening of the airship just as the man had come rocketing in, smashing the empty space Tsoi had just been standing in moments ago into the wall. Tsoi got to his feet and saw this newcomer was indeed Firelord Tarek.
Well, Tsoi thought to himself, So much for having the easiest job.

Tsoi could have, at that instance, used his combustion bending on Tarek, but the blast would surely wound and possibly kill himself too. Still it was indeed an option (Though more of a martyrdom one and he would like to not die) and would leave the two in a standoff inside of the airship.

"It's good to meet you Firelord Tarek." Tsoi humbly told him.

Tsoi faked a smile, he admitted he was in a pretty bad spot now. His mind was put to ease when he saw through a window behind Tarek, an ally Zepplin approaching their airship.

"It's too late too back down really," Tsoi casually replied, "Even if I surrender, my allies won't. A series of events have begun to avelanche down a hill, an avelanche that has grown too large to stop."

"I have nothing against you really," Tsoi said reassuringly, "It's just a new dawn is starting, one that you won't be here to experience."

Before he explained what he meant, Tsoi suddenly lept for the opening in the side of the Airship Tarek had come through, and jumped right out of the ship. As if on cue, another Xuri Zepplin that had come closer fired a volley of explosive Massive Arrow Ballista Explosive volts at the ship Tarek was still on immediately after Tsoi had jumped out. The large bolts impacted the airship all over, and exploded critically damaging the ship and possibly all who were inside.

The allied airship had come close enough to the airship Tsoi jumped out that he managed to catch on to a long rope ladder hanging from below. Tsoi quickly looked back at the airship he was once on and fired shot off three of his combustion shots back at the opening of the Airship that he jumped out of and Tarek flew through.

Off in the distance, he saw the third and last allied Zeppelin approaching his position to support them against their battle with Tarek.

This is bad. Tsoi thought to himself. Most of the Xuri Air Fleet was now destroyed, only Tsoi himself and one Zeppelin remained. At this rate though, the entire Air Fleet was going to be destroyed by Tarek, and Tsoi would not survive the encounter.

Tsoi let go of the rope ladder when Tarek launched his fire attack toward Tsoi. The Combustion bender decided that the best course of action was to not stick close by to the third Zeppelin, it would only allow Tarek to take both him and the Airship out at once.

Tsoi was plummeting toward the earth now, quickly greatening the distance between him and the battle above. He couldn't see the fight going on behind him, the wind was too intense.

The final Zepplin did however put itself to full throttle, trying to escape Tarek's attack range. The Explosive Arrow Ballista's continued their barrage toward Tarek as well.

Tsoi had saw that the Fire Lord had had fallen off of the Zeppelin and was plummeting toward the Earth with him. Tarek had entered earshot of Tsoi and was offering the combustion bender help.

"No thanks!" The combustion bender called back, "I'm good."

Truth was, Tsoi was actually wearing a parachute as it was generally a good idea to do so when one is high up in the air on a zeppelin when one is a position where it is really easy to fall off the airship. Tsoi would activate the parachute when he is a safe distance from the ground. First though, the combustion bender had to put some space between him and the Fire Lord, Tarek could easily shoot down Tsoi if he were descending slowly by parachute.

With that, Tsoi position his body so that his free fall would move him toward the left, away from Tarek. The third zeppelin was still fine up in the sky and continued its path toward the Fire Nation Palace, ignoring both Tarek and Tsoi.

Once Tsoi, had pulled his parachute, his decent was greatly slowed, but now also stabilized. Tsoi had seen where Tarek had landed and kept an eye on him. The fight would only be tougher now, when both him and the Fire Lord would be fighting on the ground, Tsoi would have no where to run like he did back on the Zeppelin.

Tsoi landed on the top of a two story building and quickly cut the lines on his parachute in order to not be tied down. The top of the building would hopefully provide Tsoi good cover behind the building. Tsoi poked his head out from around his cover on top of the building and fired three consecutive combustion blasts directly toward Tarek.

Tsoi took behind the cover of the roof as Tarek fired the Fire Bolts were shot toward him. The Fire Bolts impacted the side of the building and exploded and did not touch Tsoi.

As Tsoi looked over the edge of the building, Tarek had suddenly launched himself onto the rooftops next to Tsoi, completely catching the combustion bender off guard. Tarek landed within arms reach of Tsoi. Tsoi had no time to react, his combustion bending would be suicidal at this range.

Tarek fingers had impacted Tsoi's chest and lightning shot through the combustion benders sending him flying backwards. Tsoi landed and skidded across the roof of the building. Tsoi wasn't launched far enough to be knocked off of the building however.

The pain was great and Tsoi's vision was blacking out. He touched the center of the pain on the center of his chest and saw much blood erupting from the wound caused by the lightning bolt. Tsoi coughed painfully as the world around him seemed to get darker and darker. He watched as the last Xuri zeppelin began to flee the battle, as it would only be obliterated should it attempt to take out the entire Fire Nation Air Fleet on it's own. Tsoi knew his allies would probably flee the battle as well if they saw the last xuri zeppelin leaving.

Still on his back, Tsoi looked over at Tarek and grinned, "Not bad...." He struggled to say, "A-a-as expected of the Fire Lord..."
Tsoi coughed painfully, splattering blood from his lungs to the side of him.
He then continued, "You've handled the attack well... much better than anyone had anticipated..."

"B-b-but you've seen nothing yet... the Xuri lives on (Note this is the first time Tarek probably would have heard of the Xuri)..."

"Even so... I'll part this world with one last gift to you... a piece of knowledge you may find helpful..." Tsoi said through gasps of air.

"Our leader..." Tsoi said painfully, "Is more God than man... I've chosen to follow his decisions to the end... no matter what he wants..."
Tsoi didn't continue on explaining what exactly the Xuri were and what their intentions were, but instead, moved on to what he really wanted to tell the Fire Lord.

Tsoi coughed up more blood as he pulled up his shirt. There was a huge burn/penetration wound on Tsoi's center chest from Tarek's lightning attack. His skin was scorched and black in that entire area. Just too the right of the wound, there was tattoos and markings over where his heart would be. The tattoos looked very similar to the Third Eye on his forhead, but was roughly twice the size. Also different from the third eye on his forehead, the one on his chest didn't have an 'eye' in the center, but instead was blank.

"Let me tell you... The Avatar... Is next..."

Tsoi grinned as he revealed this piece of information to Tarek. Why? Simply because he thought it was funny. Funny that even Tarek knew this useful piece of knowledge, Tsoi was convinced that it wouldn't matter in a few seconds. Tsoi believed he was about to succeed in killing the Firelord.

The Third Eye markings on Tsoi's chest began to burn bright yellow. Tsoi laughed chaotically as the markings began to get ever so brighter. Soon the bright light was blinding and began to cover everything around Tsoi in white. The light grew and grew, consuming Tsoi and everything around him...

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The markings on Tsoi's chest was actually Tsoi's final effort attack. It was a martyrdom type ability, using a similar Chi gathering method used to fire things from the third eye on his forehead. Unlike the one on his forehead, the chi gathered in his chest wouldn't be released at a single point, but instead, his whole body. Such an attack is a very powerful, highly destructive attack, but in the end would kill its user.

Tsoi died in this final attack. His self-destruction however was an enormous explosion, one that echoed throughout the entire city. Tsoi's body no longer existed, completely obliterated from the blast. 50 meters in all directions of where Tsoi exploded, all buildings and such were reduced to mere rubble. The entire block was leveled from the blast. It would take immense skill for anyone within the blast range to survive such an attack...

[OOC: Yea, please let me know if this isn't allowed, If so, then I'll change it.]