The World is Round

Chapter six: Mess

"Maroooooo... Where are you, oh, dear Marooo?" came mum's voice while Maro hid under a bush. She contracted herself into a little ball in the water as she heard footsteps around her. Ora was right there next to her, undercover. They both exchanged looks of brilliant mischief as the adults walked around them.

"If you don't come out now, you'll be punished" said dad. She wallowed in silence for a short while, but the the bush started to shrivel up around her, turning brown and broken up, and Ora now nowhere to be seen. She got out to find herself in the pool she had often treasured so much. She turned around to see Tik and Wik standing on the bank.

"Wha..." she began to say, as they lifted their hands up into the air causing a huge wave that violently washed Maro away. She shut her eyes tight while she could not breathe, and was then hastily thrown onto a set of rocks. The water disappeared and she found herself in the mines of Forgaway, still unable to breathe and this time unable to move either, try as she might. Scared to her wits, she shook herself and tried urgently to fight the force that was pushing her down so hard. The force turned into a large man that she recognised as Takip.

"Why couldn't you be my daughter? Huh?" He said, nearly angrily "You could've a least said bye..."

Maro's eyes widened with a new found fear and she snapped around to see Fay.

"Yeah Maro, whyyy..."

But as Fay said that a bright light came which caused Maro to squint. She she finally regained her vision, she found herself in a circus, illuminated by great flames surrounded by joyous music. Everyone was dancing around and flying around. And then from the side, a great lizard appeared that was bigger than Maro herself. It interrupted the merriment, although it made Maro feel more uneasy than gay and walked along to where Maro was.

"I couldn't save her! I... I..." it said in a croaky low pitched voice as Maro fell back on the ground.

It opened its mouth to reveal three rows of long pointy teeth and instantly brought its supper jawn down to the young traveler. She closed her eyes, the fear now overwhelming her, she felt the piercing the one of the teeth go into her hip. It was agnosing. She opened her eyes to see Heathah pull her sword out from the young travelers hip; her eyes glowing white like the Avatar.

The young traveller now looked up to see the sky, although she was not on the ground but on a bed. Ichi and Neren both leaned over on top of her.

"HeloOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO" They both said at once. They were now in Hei Bai Forrest and everyone from before including Maro's family were now dancing to wild lights and music while the young lady still lay in the hospital bed. They all had the most strange expressions on their faces. As though someone was forcing them to be forry and joyful and was threatening them to continue on. Maro looked over her body to find a great sword lodged in her left hip. And the shaking started all over again as she grabbed it with her hands that now started bleeding. She tried to get up the sword had seemed to have nailed her to the bed. But Maro was now standing up, Heatha in front of her.

"Save yourself" she said as she turned around and run off through the Fire Nation colony while the music and lights went on with the dancing. Maro ran after her, struggling to breathe, she tripped over Neren who simply said "Whoops" as Maro flew full speed into the ground which had quickly turned into a black void as she hit it.

The void reassembled itself into a sky and Maro quickly flew up as she sat down the hard sandy ground. She started breathing extremely heavily, as she seemed to be so short of breath. Her body felt heavy as if there was a net under her skin keeping everything tight and hard to move. It was slowly dissipating. On Top of all that, her bad hip was throbbing now.