Murder, battle and other things I did on my weekend - By Seifer Almasy 19 years and 1/4

Mar 07, 2011 02:30

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 ( Read more... )

azula, edmund, arya, zuko, cassie

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lonewolflives March 7 2011, 08:08:42 UTC
"Sounds like a riot," Arya said, putting a grim half-smile on her face. Throwing herself into something like that seemed just the thing, actually; none of this was real, so she might as well get some action and excitement out of it, really.

Maybe it'd help Zuko, if he was able to accomplish something, even just in a kind of dream, and that was good, too. But mostly, she wanted to tear something down.

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giftless March 9 2011, 04:29:15 UTC
It was as good of a plan as any, especially given that Edmund didn't think they would last nearly as long against people throwing fire. While it didn't matter if they died here or not, he knew, it seemed wisest to stay alive as long as possible, if only to have more of an effect.

"Excellent distraction," Edmund said agreeably but grim faced. "Let's do it."

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noblerworld March 9 2011, 11:14:08 UTC
"Good," he replied.

"Way I see it, we need to get hold of something that's more important than the road. A general, or a stronghold or something, and then all the little soldiers will come running after us rather than after Zuko," Seifer didn't bothet to hide how much that propsect cheered him.

"So let's get going."

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lonewolflives March 10 2011, 05:06:50 UTC
"Find someone important," Arya agreed, checking her gear and stretching, slightly. "We could get into a stronghold, I don't know what we'd do once we were in it."

That had been Theon's trick, and she wasn't minded to take any pages from his book.

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giftless March 11 2011, 03:46:06 UTC
"It's a stronghold," Edmund reasoned. Having only his sword already strapped to his belt, he needn't check anything but hesitated only for the sake of making a plan. "You turn the weapons in there against them and they'll never be able to get at us with the doors shut. Or we set it on fire. That would get attention."

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noblerworld March 11 2011, 07:16:11 UTC
"We can worry about the details later," Seifer replied as he started walking, assuming the other two would follow. Now he was close to a battle again, he was practically bursting with anticipation. "We don't even know what's out there, yet."

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lonewolflives March 12 2011, 04:23:27 UTC
"All right, but if we get stuck trying to hold a fortress with three people, it's Edmund's fault," Arya said, catching up with Seifer. "So we find out what we're distracting, then we can work out how we do it."

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giftless March 22 2011, 07:18:56 UTC
"It's a fortress," Edmund repeated. Holding it with a limited number was sort of the point of a fortress in his mind. Regardless though, Arya did like to be difficult. Maybe Edmund should just have taken it as a good sign if she were back to old tricks.

He fell into pace with the other two, a slight frown of worry appearing. "They can't all do that thing with the fire, right?"

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noblerworld March 22 2011, 14:14:31 UTC
Seifer shrugged.

"We could always ask them," he added with a smirk. "If either of you want someone else to bicker with, anyhow."

He could have added more about that but Arya didn't seem to take that sort of teasing well. He still had the bruises from the last time he'd gone a bit too far on commenting on her mood, after all.

So he left it at that as he led them away from the main path and up a side track to some higher ground. They wanted to be able to get a good view on the road and see what Fire nation forces were around.

It was probably best that they had kept silent for this anyway, he thought, as he crouched down, on a hillside crag, a half hour later and peered at the view of the plain before him. As eager as he was for battle and as much as he wouldn't exactly mind if the Fire Nation found him, it would be better if they still had the element of the surprise.

"See any obvious targets?" he asked in a whisper.

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lonewolflives March 28 2011, 07:03:22 UTC
"I don't know about obvious," Arya said, eyes flicking over the landscape spread out before them. "Too obvious and they'd see us coming. It's really a pity none of us could pass for Fire Nation, we could kill some scouts and slip in in their uniforms. As it is, we either need them to chase us, or to make it to a general. And then let them chase us."

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giftless April 1 2011, 20:28:32 UTC
"Everyone else took Zuko's lie that we were from the Fire Nation," Edmund pointed out, but not without a telling tightness to his mouth. He hadn't liked going along with that lie at all, even if it probably saved them some time, trouble and explanation. "Maybe, if we're careful, we could disarm and tie up some scouts," he said, making a point of changing Arya's plan slightly, "take their clothes and sneak by. We'd just need to get in. Or maybe we try and upset some of those rhinos. Those would be a good distraction."

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noblerworld April 1 2011, 20:46:34 UTC
Urghh planning, talking, listening to people's opinions, Seifer had almost forgotten how annoying the bits of combat that didn't involve him actually slitting someone's throat open really were ( ... )

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lonewolflives April 2 2011, 03:49:23 UTC
"Or we could not get ourselves killed," she said. She was cocky, certainly, and she knew what she could do... which extended to knowing what happened when small groups went up against large ones head-on. Stealth and cleverness, that was the way, that was the only way. "If we don't find an opportunity to do something clever, we look harder, we don't just do something dumb instead. Attack a smaller camp so they call to the big one for reinforcements or something. Upset some rhinos."

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giftless April 2 2011, 20:47:53 UTC
Edmund frowned and gave Seifer a very long look, wondering what kind of battles he had ever gotten into. That made absolutely no sense and, even if they had an army that outnumbered the Fire Nation, arrogant. He shook his head and actively considered Arya's suggestions.

"Rhinos can be hard to upset, but I do think they would do the most damage," Edmund said. "We could get a lot done before anyone even realizes we're there."

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noblerworld April 2 2011, 22:54:28 UTC
"Fine," Seifer, with some annoyance, as he set off, "we'll look for rhinos as well as scouts and generals."

Forcing a direct confrontation was always his preferred plan, no matter how outnumbered he was but he wasn't going to press the point. Not now, anyway.

Strange as it seemed, the most important thing wasn't that they listened to him but rather that they moved fast, or else they'd be too late to do any good whatsoever. And if Seifer missed his chance at a battle, he wouldn't be remotely pleased.

To that end, he didn't say anything else until they were approaching the main Fire Nation camp and saw a scouting party ahead of them.

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lonewolflives April 3 2011, 01:57:36 UTC
Arya sized them up, thinking. Then she unbuttoned her swordbelts and held them out to Edmund.

"Stay out of sight, and when they start going down, come in," she said.

She could play the harmless girl long enough to take them by surprise, but not if she was wearing a pair of weapons.

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