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Sledgehammer
2
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Screams echoed through the air and the woods surrounding a small town, startling the birds nesting in the trees. They fled high into the skies while below them it seemed as if the ground had begun to shake.
Suddenly hundreds of animals all various in types burst out from through the trees. Predators and prey alike, ignoring each other and instead just trying to run.
Run from what?
Unadulterated fear. Fear that came from those screams and an unimaginable pressure in the air. The smell of death and blood. The feeling of a predator far stronger and far more dangerous than anything they had ever known before.
In the distance the screams cut off.
All was silent, but far from peaceful.
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A lean teenager,close to being a man, with brown hair pulled back into a tight ponytail, who wore blue clothes with a sword at his side. Stood with his mouth slightly open and his eyes wide stared at the streets of a small village surrounded with trees.
The dusty roads where littered with clothes strown in ways that showed they were being worn not long ago. Inside the clothes and slightly on the outside of them was white ash. Ash of the bodies that once inhabited the items surrounding them.
"Who could have done something like this?" A horrified voice caught his attention and he turned to face its owner. To eager to get his eyes off of the horror scenes in front of him.
It was his sister. A beautiful woman with brown hair that reached her waist, and shining blue eyes that were filled with horror and slight tears. She also wore blue closed and had a slender bottle like canister at her waist.
"I don't know. I'm not sure if I want to know." He uttered, swallowing hard before looking down. His eyes unwillingly trailed back to the Ash covered clothes and he grit his teeth. "Katara, we can't do anything here now. This is the third incident. We need to go get Aang before another one happens." He spoke in a rush as he turned around, his hand on his sword, and walked back the way him and Katara had come.
"But Sokka-!" Katara said as she spun her head around towards him with wide eyes, only for her brother to cut her off.
"No Katara. I hate it too, but there isn't anything we can do." He had stopped in his tracks as he spoke and glared down at the ground in front of him.
Katara breathed out a gulp of air and her eyes drifted back to the clothes. Her eyes automatically spotted a smaller set, with a little cloth doll laying beside the left sleeve. She swallowed hard and forced her eyes to the ground. She nodded heavily and turned to follow her brother.
Sokka started to walk ahead when he heard his sister move. Heading towards the huge fluffy snot monster, named Appa, so they could go back home to get the Avatar.
Probably the only one that'd be able to find out what did this, how, and why.
Why someone would turn innocent people into ash.