Murder, battle and other things I did on my weekend - By Seifer Almasy 19 years and 1/4
With Cassie missing, Zuko was setting off to face his sister, the Avatar was setting off to fight the Fire Lord and Seifer, who wasn't going with either of them, felt rather like he'd been invited to the worlds biggest birthday party and then told he couldn't have any cake
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A moment later she opened them and dashed down onto the path, hurtling towards the scouting party with alarm in her eyes, throwing looks back over her shoulder.
"Help," she gasped, as she reached them, the question forming on one of the scout's lips as she cut him off, "you have to help, there's, I think they're bandits..."
She waved behind her, turning, even as he took a couple of steps past her to peer down the road.
"I don't see any-" he began.
Arya rammed the knife she'd swiped from his belt as she'd brushed past into the back of his neck.
"What-" one of the soldiers said from behind her, and she heard the sound of a weapon clearing its scabbard over the incoherent gurgling from the soldier she'd stabbed.
She swung the still upright man in front of her around as a human shield and shoved him into the swing. As they collided, she was a step behind, and then kicked off his back to flip over the pair of them, pulling the knife clear, landing behind the still entangled second soldier, who didn't have time to complete his turn before she'd swiped it across his throat.
That was two. But now she didn't have the advantage of surprise, and only the one knife.
"Now would be good!" she shouted, backing away, as the rest of the scouts started to close.
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Spying his approach, two soldiers broke off from their attack on Arya to confront him. Before the first could draw him weapon, Edmund punched him in the face with the back of his fist as he drew the larger of Arya's swords. He swung around, pivoting on his foot and dropping to his knee as the next man raised his sword, shoving the blade deep into the man's gut where his shield plate lifted.
"Arya!" Spinning away again, still kneeling, Edmund tossed the still undrawn sword to the girl as she dispatched another soldier. The man he'd punched grabbed him from behind now, and Edmund had to stab him in the thigh before wrestling free and sliding the blade across his throat.
He gulped down a breath and drew his own sword as more men beat a path to him.
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He was on them before they knew what was happening and decapitated one with one blow, before running through the second. The third was a fire bender and fired a quick blast which Seifer had to duck under before reaching him. After a second's thought, he decided that this one was worth keeping alive, and instead of slitting his throat, bought his blade up to cut off the soldier's right hand instead and then, while the shock of that was hitting him, his left. And then he grabbed him by the front of his uniform and lifted up off the ground, his bloody stumps spilling blood everywhere.
"Now," Seifer said with a little, satisfied, smile, "tell me where your commanding officer is, what security he has and where you keep your rhinos and you'll get to die fast."
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He wasn't in much of a state for something so complex. Is there gold hidden in the village?
She flicked the knife she'd obtained back out and strode intently for the pair of them, fully intent on giving the soldier a mercifully quick death before Seifer could go any further.
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He stepped forward as well, but not to disrupt Arya's path. "Are you insane?" he demanded of the other boy.
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He let go of the man, annoyed that a little blood had dripped onto his uniform, and then Arya stuck a knife into the soldiers throat and the whole incident was entirely finished.
"It was worth a try," he replied casually, before getting a good luck at the expressions on their faces.
"Fine, it won't happen again."
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She wasn't inclined to make threats about it, but she was clearly going to have to remember to keep an eye on him. She wondered if this was anything like what Edmund felt when they argued about what was justifiable.
Surely not. She wasn't as errantly stupid as that. And she was practical, not cruel.
She held the look a moment, then crouched by the nearest body. "I'm going to see if one of them has a map or something," she said.
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"At least we know it's not impossible," Edmund said, briefly rolling his eyes. "I suppose we could take on another group."
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They couldn't pass as an eight man scouting party, even if Edmund was right about them being able to pass as Fair Nation, but it might make things easier if they looked native from a distance at least.
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Then, as she unfurled the piece of paper, she said, "Fuck!"
Apparently no one here wrote in a language she understood.
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