Chapter 119 - Chapter 121

A year had yet to pass, but Amell opened his eyes and looked toward the south. His eyes cross miles upon miles and he stood up in a hurry. "Orlando, we are going to the southern water tribe. Something is happening." He walked towards the edge of the temple and looked back at Orlando.

"Try and keep up!" He suddenly shot off the ground so fast that Orlando was blown back by the pressure from his takeoff. He had already disappeared and Orlando screamed out loud for his abrupt decision to leave like that. But he spread his wings apart and took off with a sonic boom following him.

Amell crossed the ocean at an unbelievable speed, he could already see the landmass that he recognized as the Southern Water Tribe's home. He felt the life signatures of many people, but he felt evil killing intent spread around the village. So he increased his speed.

Among the village, there was great distress because it was currently being raided by the Fire Nation.

And this village had no fighters left inside its walls. All the capable warriors were out fighting what the world had come to know as the hundred-year war. So it was to be expected that no one inside this village stood a chance against the raid.

Inside one of the huts of the village, there was a water tribe village woman being questioned by a Fire Nation soldier. "I know there is one left, so don't lie to me." The man in the Fire Nation outfit said while smiling sadistically.

"There are no more, you people took everyone already. Haven't you had enough already!" The woman on the ground said while desperately trying to stay alive, and also protect her family.

"Our sources say you have one left. So tell me, or do you want me to go out there and take care of it, one person at a time?" He said with his sadistic smile plastered on his face.

"No please! ... It's me! I am the last Water Bender. Take me prisoner, and leave my people alone." She said and stared him in the eyes.

"I'm sorry, I'm not taking prisoners today." He said and threw a punch at her that summoned a wave of fire to consume her. But a massive fist came and gripped the soldier's hand and caused the fire to blowback into the man's face. "AAAAAHH!" With parts of his face burnt, he stumbled out of the hut and fell down on the snowy ground.

"Sit tight, I will be right back." Amell that had appeared from nowhere said while smiling. He was still hurting on the inside, but just because he was hurting, didn't mean he was gonna let other people experience it too.

"AAAH! Men inside, KILL HIM!" The commander of this raiding party yelled at his subordinates. His name was Yon Rha, and he was in unbelievable pain from his burnt face. Amell came walking out, covered from head to toe by a cloak and a hood. He fit perfectly into the category of mysterious saviours.

"Commander, what happened!?" A soldier came running over but stopped when he saw the giant step outside the hut. "You brats have made a big mistake raiding this village." Amell came walking out so that both soldiers and the villagers being held down could see him. And everyone noted his extreme height.

"KILL HIM!" Yon Rha yelled frantically to his subordinates, and his voice finally jolted them awake. The soldier that ran over first took a stance against Amell. "Surrender, giant!" He said, a little too nervous to actually attack this strange man,

"What are you doing!? Kill him!" Yon Rha said while on his knees and glaring at the soldier. "All of you, KILL HIM!" He yelled towards all of them. And finally the hesitating soldier attacked, but a tentacle made out of snow shot up from the ground underneath his feet. It latched itself onto his attacking arm and yanked him down towards the ground, and he was knocked out from the blow to his head.

"Don't hesitate in battle," Amell moved his finger and behind each soldier appeared a tentacle of snow and wrapped themselves around the soldier's necks. And as with the first soldier, they were all knocked out,

and more tentacles appeared and wrapped around their bodies, and locked them in place. Amell turned to the commander and saw how pitiful he looked down there on the ground. "Here is what's going to happen." He bowed down and put on finger on their forehead. And simultaneously the tentacles holding down the soldiers touched their foreheads as well, and Amell then entered the mind of every Fire Nation soldier here.

'Your mission was a success. You took care of the last water bender, there is nothing left in the Southern Water Tribe.' Amell let go and the tentacles also released their prisoners from their iron tight grip. The soldiers, and the commander, almost like zombies started standing up and walk towards their ship.

"What did you do?" The woman in the hut now stood behinds him and looked at the back of his hood. No one here had seen his face yet, so they were more than curious as to who he was.

"Mom!" Two kids yelled at the same time and ran up and hugged the woman. She bowed down and embraced them, truly glad to still be alive so she could hug her children again. She felt immense gratitude towards this unknown stranger.

"Your village is safe. They will not return again, that I can promise." Amell said while feeling the familiar stares on him. They felt the same as when Connor and the three siblings lived here. He felt Connor and Cassie's spirit's looming around the woman he saved, so he suspected that Connor and his family was gone.

"KAAA!" Right at this moment, Orlando with his massive body flew passed the village and did a circle before landing close to Amell. His approach caused a little snowstorm inside the village, and all the villagers looked up both scared and in awe at the sight of his majestic body.

"O-Orlando?" The woman said slowly, and both Amell and Orlando turned to look at her. Amell smiled and laughed a little at the thought that he might have become a local legend during the years of his absence.

"I'm gonna assume that you are Cassie's daughter?" Amell said and turned around while taking off his hood. Under the hood was the face that hadn't aged a day in about a hundred years. He looked just like before, like a slightly older adult Gildarts look. The slicked-back dark brown hair with his silver eyes that almost sparkled like jewels. If Gildarts and Amell stood next to each other, it was clear as day that they were father and son.

"Mother used to tell me stories about you, while we were standing in front of your statue. To this day I don't even know if they were true or not." She said and laughed a little trying to recall the memory of her mother.

"Knowing the Cassie I knew, they were probably wildly exaggerated." Amell smiled and waved Orlando over. He came walking and the two kids slowly hid behind their mother, Orlando was after all forty meters tall.

"I don't know, seeing that display earlier, I am starting to believe it." She said while slowly walking towards Orlando. "Is it okay if I pet him?" She asked Amell.

"Ask him yourself, he is almost more intelligent than me. So as long as you don't treat him like a normal house cat then it should be fine."

"Is it okay, Orlando?" She asked, and Orlando nodded. He could also sense Cassie on her, so he didn't mind. She brought her two kids along and Orlando bowed down enough so they could also pet him.

"WOW SO SOFT!!" The little girl yelled, and in just a second she became a complete child, no fear or hesitation. She started to fiercely pet Orlando while stars were shimmering in her eyes.

"What is your name?" Amell asked the woman standing behind her kids.

"Kya. And this is Katara and Sokka. It is nice to meet a living legend," She said and smiled. Amell said nothing and just closed his eyes while reminiscing on Connor and Cassie.

"I would like to stay and talk more. But now that I know how aggressive the Fire Nation is, I have to go and make sure of something. I have a student of sorts that I need to make sure is safe where she is." Amell said, and he jumped ontop Orlando with a simple skip. And Sokka had stars in his eyes as he saw Amell easily clear that height without any difficulty.

"I understand. But you are welcome here any time, Grand Master Amell." She finally used the title he was known by in this village. Orlando silently scoffed at being left out so much. But none the less, he took flight while knocking most villagers back from his takeoff.

"Hope we meet again." Amell said and waved while smiling at the family of three.

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