Loralle, Her Journey Chapter 7 part1

CHAPTER 7 (Part one)

The Metal Tribe

While Loralle was lost, dramatic changes occurred in the Water Tribe.

They had been defeated to their last line of defence! And even though they were in their own territory, the Fire Tribe withstood against them.

What stunned them was that they had planned this for so long!

The magma bridge had only been the first stop in their plan! The second step was building a trench to lead magma towards the water village, which had already been complete before the war had begun!

The third step included the advance and the magma bridges. Before the news of Daniel’s third powerful child being born, they had already continued the magma trench beyond the bridges and onto the Water Tribe’s land!

After they advance yet again, they continued the trench again!

Now that the Water Tribe had been forced back into their own village, they were all distraught. Their leader was gone! Their protector's were gone! The news of the Fire Tribe's next generation being more powerful could be true!

…Just outside, there was magma. Magma so close to them!

They had lost half of their population and most of what was left was women and children…

Never…Would they have thought that they would be stuck like this!

The people were scared, even knowing about the deep lakes that they could escape in…

But, in the next few days…Even escaping into the lakes became something that couldn’t be done!

The magma grew and grew and the Water Tribesmen watched as people even in puddles were burnt alive! The Fire Tribe were completely ruthless!

Of course, this needed a lot of magma, so the Fire Tribesmen, along the long trench line, would spend hours constantly adding into the trench to keep it hot and flowing. Sadly, for the Water Tribe, that was all they had to do now.

There were no more fights, just magma slowly swallowing up one lake at a time.

As the days went by, more and more lakes were consumed and magma reached towards the inner lakes.

One choice was made by a noble , and that was to vacate the Water Tribe.

Once one person ran, others followed…Those who stayed behind either killed themselves or died because of the magma entering their lakes.

Several days later…The Water Tribe…No longer existed…

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One year later

The Fire Tribe relished in the Water Tribe’s defeat. They felt like the rulers of Mondal and that they had no adversary that could match them!

With their arrogance, they continued to be lazy and without a care. Some had even taken residence on were the Water Tribe used to be, but many still resided back in the Fire Tribe village, knowing that what they wanted in life was already there.

Daniel and Emily was looked upon as very important people within the Fire Tribe. It was already known that Daniel, if his child is still young in age, was to be the next leader. His brother hadn't cared beforehand, as he had been the first born and he had thought leadership of the Fire Tribe would undoubtedly go to him. But, upon seeing this taken from him, he became quite bitter. He led those who were loyal to him, to where the Water Tribe used to be located  and decided to become the leader there instead. Their father thought it was a good idea and let him do what he wanted.

With all this news, there seemed to always be some sort of thing happening within the people. Whether it be a festival or sparring, games for the children or a night full of older people drinking merrily.

Daniel was exhilarated to know that he had so much power now. What he obviously preferred, like many of his tribal members, was to have a male leader instead of female.

It had taken him quite a bit more time then Loralle, to understand why his daughter with Emily was so powerful, but once he figured it out, he spent a lot more time with Emily. And due to Emily becoming so wholly favoured by Daniel, she became the head wife of Daniel and was respected everywhere she went. When Daniel told Emily about their child being powerful was most likely because they were both accepted by the fire power, she was quite happy again about having been in relation to Loralle in the past. The pain had subsided long ago, and there was no longer regret inside her now. Daniel, not caring if others didn’t want to be accepted by fire, had his eyes set on Emily baring him the most powerful male child and barely left her alone at night!

That wasn’t their only connection, Daniel had, all this time, continued to bathe in warm water with Emily. With this, Rick had finally come out of prison, knowing he had nowhere to go, and become a servant for Daniel, to supply him with water.

It was a most agonizing task to one who used to be a protector! But, he found that he could work for Daniel, unknowingly because Daniel had been accepted by the fire power. On the rare occasion, where he would be bullied, hatred would come into his eyes when their fire powers were used. Hence, Rick only followed Daniel, as he was the only one he could tolerate.

While Daniel was in the sky, and Rick was in hell…Loralle had finally overcome her stay outside of the Metal Tribe.

For a very long time, she had done nothing. But as time moved on, she finally put more effort into obtaining the metal power, simply because of the fact that she was already there.

Mostly, her decision was based on food, even though she was able to expand her diet to include birds now because of learning how the Air Tribe had eaten, she was still running out of food. But, as she started to gain the metal power, she stated to feel again.

It wasn’t a good feeling, it was painful! But this pain seemed to have slowly woken her up and she searched for it hungrily, her survival instincts surfacing as it seemed to be something to get her to start living again.

Quickly after that, Loralle obtained what she could by being that far away from the tribe.

Now, she was trying to think of a way in, of course, there were things she wasn’t thinking of, but she was finally thinking of something!

The Metal Tribe was different again, their personalities also. They lived in caves overcome by light flashes and were able to have a light in those caves, that wasn’t done by fire. This is when she realizes that their population wasn't as small as she had thought. They had all been hiding in caves!

Slowly, her curiosity grew.

But what troubles Loralle, was how they would not seem to like an outsider.

They were very tough, hard as rocks!

They could also make weapons that were big or small but seemed to be very sharp. Loralle watched them and saw them fight each other up close. She wasn’t used to seeing this type of combat, normally enemies would be further apart, but the Metal Tribe got up closer and slashed their weapons!

And with their hard as rock, solid bodies, they use their fists and feet with their weapons.

It was easy to get excited about their different techniques, but Loralle was worried about entering their territory.

The field she wanted to go into at some stage was right in the middle, but how could she get there when she has so much trouble just getting into the village!

Sighing, Loralle continued to ponder, not brave enough to just walk in on them.

Daniel would have laughed at her for a long time, hearing this news. She is the most powerful person on the continent of Mondal and she was scared. He would have called her pathetic!

But Loralle seemed unable to depend on her power like that. If she were just to kill everyone, she should have done that a long time ago, back when she became the leader of the Water Tribe.

Loralle didn't consider herself the almighty powerful one...She did have some strange want to obtain different powers but it wasn't to be powerful...It was more closer to obtaining it for collection. To be precise, she has the complete fire, air, water and earth powers, then half of the metal.

But...In her 'collection', she thinks she has about ten...For instance, one is 'The House Power' and another is 'The Pretty Power'.

But yes, she is going to the Metal Tribe and she'll figure out a way!

It took a while to come up with an idea, because she had been on purposely not thinking of other things, but she remembered about her being about to fly!

Unable to go under the ground, because that was where the Metal Tribesmen were, she had the idea, then, to try going above them instead! Haha! She couldn't help but think she was smart!

All this time, she hadn’t used much of her other powers and Loralle had to spend even more time to get back into it for it had been a whole year or so that they had been dormant.

As she finally got off the ground, using a strong force of wind below her feet, she smiled in wonder. It was the first smile in a long time and it made her look human again.

She was still currently weak, but finally, she looked like she was finally alive again!

Flying short distances for a time, Loralle happily got used to turning and spinning while off the ground. It was so amazing that she wanted to fly forever! Such an amazing power!

When she was sure that she could control her speed and not fall, Loralle flew towards the Metal Tribe village.

As she got closer, the pain from the metal power became stronger. Stopping, Loralle hovered in the air, as she took a deep breath in.

Not able to go further, she took a sitting position, making sure that she continued the air power beneath her, so she wouldn’t fall.

While she tried to obtain more metal power, a Metal Tribal member had found her and ran off to tell another.

Not long after that, that person came back with others of the tribe. Soon, ten people were looking up at her.

“Shoot er down!” One said.

A few of them got out a weapon and Loralle opened her eyes curiously.

Not only because they were going to use something against her but...Had they said 'her'?

She wasn't used to people knowing her gender, it was quite a surprise!

What she couldn't see was, she really did look like a woman now, just that her clothes were a bit shabby...

The weapon pointed at her and she found something fly towards her. It was very quick, but now that she had been approved by the air power…So was she!

Her new agility quickly helped her fly to the side, making the air move her, she watched as the weapon continued and went beyond were she used to be.

These people can do long distance after all, she thought.

But she wasn’t surprised to their aggressiveness. When she looked back down at the people, they were shooting more at her.

Loralle got a big angry, she wasn’t really here to kill anyone but...It was a strange feeling, being angry at them for only the reason that they shot at her, as it wasn't something that normally made her this upset. But what she was feeling wasn’t because of these people at all. She was still upset about…The past.

Sighing, she flew off to think of another idea.

Chapter end