Drabbles: Signs and Wonders (PG; AtLA)

[jedibuttercup]

PG; Avatar: the Last Airbender. Reaction drabbles #10. Through 3.4 "Sokka's Master".

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Painted Lady's Legacy

General Mung is not looking forward to reporting the day's events. Goods taken, a factory destroyed, and the benefiting village left unpunished?

They'll call him coward, and failure. But that does not change what he saw. Mist, wind and wave, beyond what five Firebenders could oppose: such power is the province only of spirits. Or Avatars.

He has heard about the returned Prince's triumph: the bridge to the Spirit World is dead. At Fire Nation hands. Small wonder the spirits are waking.

Mung is no fool. Let his superiors handle Jung Hui now, if they choose not to believe him.

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Balancing the Scales

Piandao watches his newest student leave with a pensive frown.

It does not take a Grand Lotus to read the signs stalking his country. The imbalance Sozin's line imposed upon the world is turning inward-- not least among Sozin's descendants themselves.

He loves the Fire Nation, and prays it will endure the times that are to come. But Ozai's reign must end, lest the imbalance become permanent. Small wonder, then, that such potential has appeared in one born to Fire's opposite! If only Piandao had more time to train him.

Agni willing, Sokka will survive to spar with him again.

Comments

[anotherdreamer5.livejournal.com]

I like the reflections of two men whose faith is so paramount. And I like that Sokka was honored. (This episode, to be honest, was prob one of my least faves)

[jedibuttercup]

I had a hard time exploring any of the main characters' storylines in this sequence; it wasn't my fave, either. But I had to wonder how things might look from a Fire Nation perspective, with the Gaang tromping all over their turf.