Chapter 29

Chapter 29:

On the ground lies the brave man's crimson covered body. His torso was riddled with burn marks while the rest was painted with brown spikes of earth.

He was dead. But he achieved his goal; and that was to buy his wife and son time to escape.

"Mom, continue running, I'll go and help dad!" Unaware of what's already been done, Kenshi said bravely.

"No Kenshi, that is too dangerous!" Her mother disuades him but he remained adamant

"Please, Mom, dad needs my help!

"and did you already forget I'm an earthbender, I'll be fine" Kenshi reassured and didn't wait for further response as he strode along in speed.

"Kenshi!" His mother tried to stop him but her voice was far too weak to reach him.

She could only watch as his dissapearing figure slowly fade in the night fire.

Kenshi ran with his all, his feet disappearing in blur; in rush and eventually he reached his house. But he didn't hear any sound of clash of weapons but rather complete silence.

'Huh, what's going on?' He lowered his pace and walked in silence controlling the sound of his footsteps.

He slowly opened the door, his eyes ready and his hands extended.

Creak

The door creaked in an eerie noise. His gaze scanned the floor and suddenly his pupils grew wide.

Red liquid splattered the floor like a red messy flower, some of its branches even dripping down to form a river; its source originating from the body of a man.

Eyes gray wandering through the empty vast, body cold as if freshly out of the ice land, burned torso, spiked holes riddled, blood gushing out.

A dead man.

A dead father.

"D-Dad…" Kenshi's voice quivered. He slowly walked towards his father's body. Tears dripped down from his eyes as his heart palpitated.

"N-no… please… don't be real…" His mind was still refusing to acknowledge the reality before him.

And soon sadness, regret, and anger rushed through him.

"RAAAAHHH!!" He roared. His emotion gushing forth as a furious river. He was so angry that he stomped his foot into the ground causing the entire village to shake.

"Oh he's angry HAHAHAHA!" He turned his head around and saw two bandits behind laughing their ass out.

Without even any hesitation his fist moves immediately and earthbended a small stone debris on the ground.

It traveled as fast as a bullet.

"Shit!" The bandit was caught off surprise but he was a veteran for a reason. His shoulder slanted and dodged the stone bullet and in response his fist slashed and an arc of flame whipped.

Instinctively Kenshi raised his hands and the ground bulged in a formation of earthen walls blocking the fire.

Then he kicked the wall and it sprung forward to strike.

"Hup!" It was going to be a sure strike however the other bandit was an earthbender so a simple swipe of his feet rendered the attack useless.

"An earthbender huh? And instinctively skilled at that,I think I finally know the reason why 'He' hired us" The firebender bandit muttered softly; barely inaudible.

"Let's end this before he adapts to our attack" The earthbender bandit said.

Strangely enough for a bandit he seems quite competent.

Well the reason for that was he was an exiled Earth Kingdom Military Officer, he was removed from service for bad conduct.

Because despite being part of the military he used an unethical earthbending attack that causes painful damages instead of subduing moves.

Without giving time for Kenshi to adapt the two bandits spread out and bombarded Kenshi from both sides with fireballs and earth spikes.

Eventually Kenshi's defiance lay futile and he was eventually subdued.

"Bring him to the village square," He said. Then the firebender bandit grabbed Kenshi's body and hung it around his shoulder.

In the village square was all of the children of the village. No adult was spared as all of them were brutally killed by the bandits.

"Where am I?" Kenshi opened his grogilly, his mind was still in daze but soon what happened before started to sink in.

His eyes landed on the kids tied around in the square, with bandits circling around them as if waiting for someone to retrieve the kids.

"When is that guy coming?" One of the bandits asked impatiently.

"Soon." The leader, a bandit that wears a fairly clean robe said.

"And don't worry even if he doesn't come, we've already been paid" he smiled.

The bandits waited while Kenshi waited too. Nothing happened for the next thirty minutes except for some children's wail and bandit's annoyance.

The bandits were running out of patience, they started fiddling around with their weapon and kept holding themselves back from killing the kids and just being over with it.

However once the 40 minute mark a sudden chilling wave passed over them.

They didn't know why but their hairs stood on one end as if something ominous was about to unfold.

Then suddenly a whistling sound was heard and swish.

One of the bandits fell with a huge gash on his back as if a giant blade was swung on his back.

"Shit!" A curse was heard coming from the bandits.

"KYAAAAA!" The children screamed in terror at the gory sight but that was not the end of it.

A small spear-like wind came from the dark and impaled one bandit.

"Earthbenders! Form a barrier!" The leader shouted and all the bandit's huddled.

Then the earth benders simultaneously raised their fist in unison in a hung - gar kung fu stance. From their action the earthen wall rose up from the ground to protect them.

"What was that!?" One of the bandits asked in confusion and a bit of fear.

"I don't know. Was it an arrow?" Another one answered.

"It's not, if it was an arrow the flames from the burning house would've illuminated it" The bandit leader answered decisively.

"Then an air? We've been attacked by an airbender? Ridiculous! The only remaining airbenders could be counted with one hand and they're always at their temple; they would not be capable of doing that" another one said, pointing at the gory corpse of his comrade.

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