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

[noblerworld]

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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[lonewolflives]

"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.

[giftless]

Edmund did not like this plan too much, and the look on this face said as much, but he took the swords anyway and didn't voice any protest because he knew it was the best plan. Arya could take care of herself, even unarmed.

"Be careful," he said regardless. Just because they didn't die for real in this world didn't mean Edmund wanted to watch her die.

[noblerworld]

"Go, kick some ass," Seifer whispered to her, with an encouraging smile. "It's bout time you made yourself useful."

[lonewolflives]

She gave him the finger, smirking, and then flexed her hands, closed her eyes

[giftless]

"Fuck," Edmund breathed as he surged forward and sprinted down the path Arya had just taken. Two guards down and every other one condensing on Arya with weapons drawn. Great execution of a plan.

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.

[noblerworld]

The scouting party had only been eight men strong and between them Arya and Edmund had taken down five within seconds. The other three had decided to take Edmund out first and were charging at him as a group, when Seifer arrived like a charging train, swinging his gunblade with relish and shouting his joy to the world

[lonewolflives]

She was still buttoning her sword back on and making sure the first few soldiers were down and staying down before she realized what Seifer was doing, and then she just stared for a moment as the soldier gasped out a barely coherent direction, with no elaboration on security or rhinos.

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.

[giftless]

Edmund had made the mistake of pausing to roughly clean Arya's second blade against the fabric of his trousers. It had only been a few seconds' care, but that was enough time for Seifer to do his damage. Edmund stood, horrified and shocked at the display before him. For the brutality of it, yes, but also the stupidity of it. What exactly was the man going to tell them with no incentive to talk and, indeed, no ability giving the rapid rush of blood from his brain and out his severed limbs.

He stepped forward as well, but not to disrupt Arya's path. "Are you insane?" he demanded of the other boy.

[noblerworld]

This wasn't working quite as well as it could have done, Seifer had to admit. He knew how dangerous a seemingly cornered firebender could be from his spar with Zuko so the removal of the hands seemed the only way to capture one safely. Unfortunately, it meant his attempt to interrogate him was all but useless, the man in no fit state to answer him properly.

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."

[lonewolflives]

"It wasn't," Arya said, stepping backwards and cleaning her knife, ignoring the body entirely in favour of directing a hard glare Seifer's way.

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.

[giftless]

Edmund stepped closer to Arya to return her second sword as she went about her business, his eyes on Seifer and wary. It wouldn't do much good now, of course, so he gave it up as a bad job, something to watch out for in the future but not something that could be fixed with dark looks now.

"At least we know it's not impossible," Edmund said, briefly rolling his eyes. "I suppose we could take on another group."

[noblerworld]

"And we've won ourselves eight uniforms," Seifer added.

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.

[lonewolflives]

"What if we say we're survivors, and that someone killed the rest of our patrol?" she said, rifling through the patrols things, pulling out a piece of paper triumphantly. "We even have dead soldiers to prove it."

Then, as she unfurled the piece of paper, she said, "Fuck!"

Apparently no one here wrote in a language she understood.

[giftless]

"That would be a great way of getting everyone on the defensive right quick," Edmund pointed out with dry enthusiasm. "Someone's out there and already killed five of our men!"

[noblerworld]

"And if we're lucky," Seifer added as he stripped a uniform off one of the men, "they'll take us to their leader."