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             ”Ruff! Ruff!”  

       Joyous wonder fulfilling her pup intrigue, as barks radiated forth from her maw in a welcoming sight. Confining fleeces stringed by the carmine markings which darted here and there, against her snowy fur. Transcending in travelling muses, that which the good Kami had so basked in. Paws masking beneath the dwelling flora which sprouted up forth, cleansing all wrong which came about. Where fleeting reveries met accord, as orient scents illuminated the air once again. Sprouts of flora peeking outwards  from their mother’s nestled ivory coat. Obsidian eyes cast sight upon a fair young one— a boy monk as her sights captured so. Had she come across a sacred temple within her musing? Summoned warmth set radiant upon ancient flares which swirled across the wolf’s form so. Tilting an alabasterine crown to ease, query barks soon too vibrated out in both a excitement and oddity.  

The cadency of soft pattering of footballs was perceived simultaneously to the contact it made with the impeccable surface of the floor as twin iridescent shades of effulgent celestine gazed upon the enshrouded horizon, wholly and evidently enthralled by the paradisiac spectacle of verdant, lush vegetation alongside the lucidity of crystalline waters trickling downward from the lacunas in a quiescent manner preceding his location. Dissevering incandescent tinged folds apart, a reminiscent exhalation of warm breath departed from the confines of his mouth and obnubilated in a cloak of haze before him, and bestowing the mobility of an ascension entailing naked digits attached to a manus, the tips slightly grazed the agglomeration of crimson flora protruding from the interstices of the rocky surface. Truly, ‘twas such a picturesque and beauteous sight that was deserving of its title and there was no other places in which the umbrageous prince had had the opportune moment to see that would compare to the aforementioned.

"You won't find them here. They're forest animals. If you want to seek it out I'll travel the woods with you." Seriously set features froze for a moment, as the boy thought and just as quickly as the stern gaze had come it had been replaced by a wide smile and one hand lifted quickly to rub the back of his head, fingers dusting over the bright blue marking that distinguished him as an Airbender. "I am the Avatar after all. It's my duty to help."

  [ ;The folly of such prudence, her transgression had not gone unnoticed and although she had bested a few who dared to claim the mantle of a superior breed upon over shoulders, and through her tenacity had set herself up to be made a fool of by the likes of the one who had truly wielded the mighty splendor of god within but a single strike that made all of creation tremble—

       Satsuki Kiryuin. 

  Merely the name alone carried a venomous power that threatened to annihilate those unworthy to speak the name,

  And surely the very fiber of her existence would have been consumed and ceased to be under the weight of a dame who ruled from her domain in the heavens had she stayed for a moment more before her presence in their brief battle.

  T’was another day which the answers had been within grasp, only to elude her.

  Another day more,          That she had failed to avenge her father.

  …

  This day would not be forgotten so easily,          by either the Vagabond or the Queen.          by either Ryuko Matoi or Satsuki Kiryuin.

  This day of defiance would be remembered by both for an eternity,          or till they had crossed their blades again. ]

      < T >hese mere thoughts plagued her as teeth snatched and devoured her meal, bitter citrus was as sour as the intensifying reign of defeatism looming over the locks of obsidian and the streak of red defining her appearance; Pride subsided as embitterment became dominant. Heedful of dancing about the line as she came in reach of her opposite, the other scissor-bladed woman who evaded her tireless hunt. But, as it had seemed, when she had drew closer, the farther she actually was from her true adversary.

  A misstep however, one that she would eventually get over.

  She’d achieve her goal in the end, she knew—in her possession was  the power to win and to crush those who seemed to be of a higher caliber than her once, now reduced to mere obstacles in her way.

  She’ll obliterate them.

  [ ;She’ll obliterate them with Senketsu. ]

  With a final, sickening crunch.; Teeth had clashed against each other like sabers colliding upon one and another, rendering the meal in hand prior to her ravenous maw and satisfying the appetite brought by the cost of wielding that formidable power. Without further sparing the allowance of a moment of needless idleness as she finished diddling about, soles arose as stature in kind took a vertical posture and began to make way back to the domicile she dwelled in for now, the only home here for the vagabond to retire for now.

  And again, a delay had been presented through her heedlessness for as soon as her feet had taken off, they met the ground again in full force as the collision came unexpected with that of another.

Nightfall had come quickly, he'd settled in to camp and rendezvoused with the group of companions that accompanied him -- the two young Water Tribe members conversed and laughed over dinner with him and soon all had settled in for a few hours of restless sleep. If one could call pitching camp just outside the borders of the Fire Nation rest in the first place. Sleep eluded the Avatar incarnate, many hours of the day were dedicated to pondering over the nature of his mission to unite the nations and even while fully immersed in any sort of bending practice still his mind wandered back to the descendants before him and how they managed to cope with seemingly hopeless situations.

Youth kept him optimistic enough, despite somewhat frail feelings and a hasty nature Aang managed to hold everything in his head together with a naive dream of saving the world, such as any boy would build into his imagination from a young age. He traveled far and wide, helped those in need along the way even if it meant taking a detour from his ultimate goal to seek out great teachers of the three elemental disciplines he had yet to exude mastery over.

Finally the throes of sleep consumed the young Airbender, darkness clawed at the back of his eyes and for a while the young monk swam through a sea of nightmare until bolting awake with a start, suddenly surrounded on all sides by shabby wooden buildings and filthy people. He'd woken up in a daze, a place entirely unknown and very quickly did panic descend with talons spread to sink deep into his mind. A chill ran down his spine as one hand gingerly reached back and caressed the smooth wood of the gliderstaff suspended from his back.

Air padded his feet as he ran, kicking up a small cloud of dust and allowing him to sift seamlessly through the tattered clusters of people in attempt to seek a higher vantage point in order to take in the strange surroundings. Being twelve or not, this was a place he knew he'd never seen -- the infinite wisdom of those already transcended couldn't fill in the gap that expanded rapidly as he hurried through the buildings.

Finally a collision ground the youth to a halt as frantic orbs brimming with terror and desperation found themselves locked on to the fortress like construct suspended high above the rest of the town. Simply because of that one moment of awe he'd crashed into another, the voice dug into his ears like knives and it registered quickly that his aggressor was a female.

"There’s no hope now, it’s over.”