One With Nature

Reflecting

Finding Yang wasn't really hard since Yu already told me where she was. Also, a red haired girl with purple horns and holding a giant katana isn't really so hard to find when she's walking through the empty fields of the land.

"Hey, Yang!" I called out, making her stop before I landed in front of her and turned back to my wood element. "It's been a while."

It sure has. Its been a few years and now Yang was a woman. She was a bit taller than Yu now and her body developed well. Her hair was longer and it was tied into a braided ponytail. I guess she picked that up from Yu. She was wearing a chest plate and armor on her right shoulder while leaving her stomach and left arm bare. She developed quite a bit of muscle. She was wearing baggy pants that opened near her feet and wooden sandals.

"Hello, Zack," Yang greeted back as she looked at me.

"Listen, Yu said you started fighting humans. What's up with that?" I asked straight to the point.

Yang scoffed. "Those fools had no desire to live. If they had wanted to, they should have fought harder."

"So... you just killed them because they didn't fight back?" I asked. (Please let there be another reason) I wanted to beg.

"Some tried picking a fight, and some couldn't keep their mouth shut," Yang replied and I felt relieved. This is somewhat salvageable.

"Okay, why are you headed to the capital?" I asked the big question.

"To declare war."

I swear that anyone can hear my thoughts just freezing. "What?"

"I'm going to declare war on this nation," Yu repeated what she said.

"Why?"

"To give them a reason to be strong," Yang replied.

"I'm sorry, but you'll have to explain in more details," I requested, really not seeing a connection.

"Humanity only bother getting stronger if they're faced with danger. If that's what it takes for them to stop wasting their time, then I'll gladly be that danger so these weaklings have a reason to become stronger," Yang explained without her expression changing even a bit.

"That's just wrong!"

Yang tilted her head. "Are you saying humans will just roll over and accept their deaths?"

"No! But you can't just torture humans because you want them to be stronger!" I yelled back at her.

She wasn't technically wrong from a logical standpoint but that doesn't mean she's right! This the kind of logic the Beasts of Humanity use!

Wait a second. I realised something. "Where's Bolin?" I asked.

Yang narrowed her eyes. "What does it matter? He has nothing to do with this."

"Call me curious. Where is he?" I asked again.

"I told you. It doesn't-

"Where. Is. He?" This time, I put far more firmness in my question.

Yang looked at me for a few seconds before speaking again. "Around two weeks ago he found out what I was planning and tried to stop me... So I killed him."

"... I see," I mumbled as my gaze turned to the ground.

Third POV:

Suddenly, the entire area was engulfed by an explosion of flames. Yang flew out of the flames and flipped in the air to correct herself before landing on the ground.

As soon as she landed, Yang jumped away as Zack in his rock element at where she was just a second ago. Stabbing his hands into the ground as he landed, Zack tore a chunk of earth and sent it at Yang.